The Nateland Podcast - #112 College Pt. 1

Episode Date: August 24, 2022

This week the guys are talking about college so naturally they discuss Brian getting lost in the woods at night, whether the earth is shaped like a triangle, and the temperature of Aaron's urine. Ther...e's so much to talk about, they agree to come back next week for a college part two.      Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - Nateland@NateBargatze.com Babbel  - Babbel.com/Nate   Right now, save up to 60% off your subscription when you go to BABBEL.com/NATE.  That’s BABBEL.com/ NATE for up to 60% off your subscription. Babbel—Language for life.   Better Help  - BetterHelp.com/Nate   Our listeners get 10% off their first month at BetterHelp.com/nate.  Athletic Greens - AthleticGreens.com/Nate Right now, it’s time to reclaim your health and arm your immune system with convenient, daily nutrition — especially heading into the flu and cold season!  It’s just one scoop in a cup of water every day. That’s it! No need for a million different pills and supplements to look out for your health.  To make it easy, Athletic Greens Is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase.  All you have to do is visit ATHLETIC GREENS.com/NATE. Again, that is ATHLETIC GREENS.com/NATE to take ownership over your health and pick up the ultimate daily nutritional insurance!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 hello folks and hey bear welcome to the nateland podcast i'm here with brian bates aaron weber dusty slay there we go uh Welcome. See? Hello, folks. Hey, bear up top. I think I like it at the beginning. And then we just ease into it after that. And ease into it. We're done. You can throw let's go folks in there. Let's go folks is... I still get yelled let's go
Starting point is 00:00:38 folks. Hey, bears. Hey, bears on fire. It's taken off. I have a lot of adrenaline after reading an ad. And it feels in my chest it feels good yeah yeah oh you like it i feel fired up yeah i can see it yeah you could kind of you feel like you're switching uh to kind of support the man yeah oh yeah i mean i'm yeah i'm leaning right in i'm getting pro-government fast yeah yeah yeah just completely changes and then that that's what i think everybody wants to see is eventually you're just like you i don't know how he didn't land on the moon so yeah
Starting point is 00:01:12 and it's like i just really came around yeah yeah and then we're switched yeah i'm gonna switch and go the other way and be like well i don't know the earth's flat uh i always think it's funny when people yeah we might talk about people get mad because the Earth's flat. They're like, you can't be saying that. You're like, is any... They take it like people are just stupid, and you're like, no one just... Who cares? Right, right.
Starting point is 00:01:35 It's always like a random... I might have talked about this once. Like, Kyrie Irving, when he was yelling out Earth's flat, they're like, hey, you can't be yelling that stuff. You're like, are you... It's your fault if your children are you it didn't it's your fault if your children are like well he's my professor right like you're like if he were the head of nasa that would be of concern probably but he's a basketball player but even then what's
Starting point is 00:01:56 it gonna do for your safety if you believe that it was flat are you gonna be okay yeah yeah you will we're saying do whatever you want you won't fly a rocket into the dome if you believe it's flat. Yeah. Well, that's his point, though. He probably shouldn't be president of NASA if you're not going to. Well, if he doesn't want to keep crashing his spaceships. Yeah. He's putting up a facade in NASA.
Starting point is 00:02:20 That's all NASA's doing. They're lying about it all. He goes, it's like Hollywood Studios over there. No. Guys, do whatever you want to do. Earth is whatever you want it to be. I like to appeal to everybody. You like to what?
Starting point is 00:02:37 Appeal. Oh, appeal to everybody. Appeal to everybody. Yeah. Just let everybody in. Yeah. Who's to say it's got to be round or flat what if it's a different shape altogether triangle you know triangle could be could be that's where the
Starting point is 00:02:51 pyramid symbolism comes from we're a triangle planet yeah right like the pyramids that makes much more sense yeah that's what if flat earth people should go triangle they go look i'll give you i'll give you the no it's not flat it's a triangle which is flat three flaps yeah that's the they go all right i'll give you i'm not flat they go thank you they go i think it's triangle actually three flights then you're doubling up so you think there's three flat now you go yeah yeah and that's what the egyptian pyramids are the ancient globes ancient globes essentially. Yeah. Nothing on the bottom. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:26 Yeah, you know, the ancient pyramids are actually, how is it, six-sided. Really? They look like pyramids, but they're actually, each side of it is. Like a cube almost. Yeah, well. Maybe not that ancient of the pyramids. Okay. Maybe just the four sides.
Starting point is 00:03:42 The vast pro-triangle. We're talking about a triangle here. Right. You see, each of these faces of the triangle is actually two, because you can't tell from the distance, but each of them go in a little bit. Like the ones below
Starting point is 00:03:58 it, in that one picture. See the little ones? The little baby ones? Below it? Yeah, kind of. But you're saying this way. Maybe that's how they got built. Yeah, instead of a flat surface like this, they're kind of bent in. Yeah. I don't know how much I care.
Starting point is 00:04:16 That's a good point. Yeah. I guess it doesn't matter. See, if I get to them, I'll be like, oh, I don't know. Maybe those are baby pyramids. That's how they get started. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Just trying to solve history here. There's a lot of vandalism at the top of those pyramids because you used to be able to just climb them if you're a tourist. You could just climb all the way up to the top. And I watched a video of a guy hang gliding over, and he tried to get as close as he can. There's just all kinds of graffiti at the top. People carved in messages. All different languages bizarre climb the pyramids you used
Starting point is 00:04:50 to be able to back in 70s and 80s back when there was freedom yeah you know i mean but like with equipment no you can just walk up you can i mean yeah it's pretty steep but it's just there's guys that climb up a side of a skyscraper i know but with special equipment some of them i mean some of those dudes are climbing like well that's true but those i'm not i thought he was saying like just the average person could go and just walk up i think you i mean i think you it's like steps it would be it'd be difficult it's hard to tell from far away but close up it is just like yeah it's very very narrow steep steps that's interesting the best it really the pyramids take better pictures from far away yeah yeah it's like a lot of hosts
Starting point is 00:05:30 up there's like a lot of people yeah yeah it's like no no no it's like close the pyramids go back up yeah it's like one of those magnifying mirrors you know what i mean they do one sideways and straight and you go yeah yeah get the phone higher. Yeah. And you're like, all right, pyramid. We were talking beforehand, Dusty, not a fan of thriller movies. He likes to be bored. Well, I just feel like everything's got to be a thriller now. Like, why we got to be so afraid all the time, you know? Oh, yeah, like scared.
Starting point is 00:05:58 Because thriller can also mean, well, that's suspenseful, I guess. Yeah, it's like, just give me a good old conversation movie oh yeah you know it's a lot of talking yeah you okay uh uh i think i like the thriller but i'm just kind of trying to like i don't want to i don't want to be emotionally attached yeah i don't want i'm watching some uh netflix it's like a bodyguard it's a british show that it just said like six years everybody uh in british where in england a lot of people would say england i say say British. Yeah. And so everybody in British, we're all obsessed with this show. Okay. And I started watching it.
Starting point is 00:06:48 It's pretty good. But then it's like there's a storyline with a guy with his family. And I'm not giving him anything because I just started. But he's like divorced or they're split up. And there's part of me that's like, I'm like, I just want, I don't care. Like, just show me the bodyguard stuff. I don't need to hear the phone. But it's like, do people really are like, could you not watch something that doesn't have that, like, oh, he's going through a divorce?
Starting point is 00:07:17 Am I supposed to imagine? When I'm watching something, I've thought about it. Am I supposed to, what am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to enjoy the movie? Well, I think if they humanize that person in that way if they give them a backstory they give you a reason to have an interest in this person and that raises the stakes for everything if you don't care whether this guy lives or dies then who cares what happens but i do if he's like a hero like and he's protecting he's the bodyguard he's protecting he does he does a very heroic thing at the beginning so he's a guy
Starting point is 00:07:44 that protects but did they get divorced did he abandon his family because if he abandons his family i almost want the guy to die no no he didn't he didn't but you're going to make one of them look bad yeah and so it's to me is like well what why can't he just be a protector and i don't need to see his family like i just need just be i'm i like uh the action and the excitement, and everything's real tense. And then you're like, his failure would be if he didn't protect what he's supposed to protect. I don't want to have to watch.
Starting point is 00:08:15 It's like I've got to listen to your phone calls with your wife, and you're like, all right, dude. There's definitely a balance to strike. But ideally, those things do nothing but raise the stakes and make you more invested. You're like watching him write child support checks yeah what's this 30 minutes he goes to the grocery store like oh i got when they show it they go oh they show it they show it for sure he walks around not a banana fan you're fine i don't want to ruin it, but you're fine with that. I watched Unforgiven last night.
Starting point is 00:08:46 Have you seen that movie? No. Great movie. A lot of talking in that. Yeah. 30-year-old Clint Eastwood, Western, won Best Picture. But the premise of the movie, this woman gets her face cut up at the very beginning, and then there's a bounty out to, or a reward out to kill the guy who cut her face up.
Starting point is 00:09:02 But throughout the movie, they just act like it's so like, she was mutilated. She was just, and she just, I mean, she kind of has scratches. She's still pretty attractive. It looked like that would heal in two or three weeks. And throughout the movie, they're just, can you show her? Is this her right here? No.
Starting point is 00:09:22 She's still pretty attractive. But there she is right there. I mean, that looks pretty messed up. That's a bike wreck, really. Yeah. But I mean, I think this is a long time ago when people didn't cut people's faces like they do regularly now. Like so.
Starting point is 00:09:38 Yeah, Clay. You're just coming off watching local news where you're like, you got one ear, all right? Like, hit me up when you lose both of them i mean give me a break it just seemed like they were just like oh my gosh and i think that'll be healed in two but i'm saying but i think when this movie came out you would have thought that was crazy they they've they're just ramping up to being like you know look at where you get your now horror movies become saw. Yeah. Where you're like, well,
Starting point is 00:10:05 I got to show the inside of a body. And you're like, all right. Yeah. I think it's too much. You're probably right. And Clint Eastwood
Starting point is 00:10:11 has COVID most of the movie in that. Like if they remade it now, that's what it would be. I mean, he gets sick. He's sick the whole movie. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:18 Might have been the first one. Yeah. The other movie I just, Rounders. Yeah. That's a great movie. Yeah. I've seen it many times.
Starting point is 00:10:24 Have you seen rounders poker movie ed norton but i mean brian koppelman he's a comedy they wrote it yeah oh he uh it's a 25 year old movie so i had to remind myself of this but the money he has to get it raised at the end to not get killed i guess is fifteen thousand. And it just kind of seemed like a little low because he's going to these professional poker... Like, $15,000? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he goes to his law professor
Starting point is 00:10:51 and he's like, $15,000? I could give you $10,000. But he's got to get it in a week. There was no GoFundMe back then. Or something two weeks. Yeah, he's got to get it in a short amount of time. It seemed like somebody could have had that money to loan him. But I haven't realized it. So what we're saying is you if you had to get fifteen thousand dollars in a week
Starting point is 00:11:09 you're like i wouldn't even break a sweat i have that on me right now yeah yeah yeah well you know just for some context i have a step-niece who just bought a car step stuff yeah just bought a car that was too expensive for her and she borrowed money from my sister to make the first payment. Yeah. So she didn't like get behind. She started behind. Yeah, started behind. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:31 So $15,000 for her. She would, whatever the penalty was, she'd be receiving it. I think if you think about how do you, if you're, you can't go into your, you have no savings and you need $15,000 dollars you got to be like that's going to be pretty hard to figure out how to go get yeah it's not you know i guess i just thought
Starting point is 00:11:51 the people he was asking somebody would have had that and in terms of the plot for a movie it doesn't seem super high like now it would be you got to write 15 million dollars in one week yeah yeah yeah i do understand that like why does someone just like if a rich person you think would be like yeah i'll give you 15 grand it's not a big deal but yeah but back then yeah but i don't know that's a gettable that's a if you really think about it that would be if you said go get 15 000 right now this week let's see let's see if you can do it by next podcast can you walk in here with 15 000 that's the new crispy green you're like these guys yeah these guys jumped the shark it made in one week not just pulled it out yeah yeah okay yeah because he did go ask for money and they said no but i guess there's so what's the storyline with that that guy
Starting point is 00:12:42 he's dating that girl and it's like she's fed up with this stuff so i guess there's, so what's the storyline with that guy? He's dating that girl, and it's like she's fed up with this stuff. So I guess there's a storyline there. I don't know. I could also not know how to watch movies. So I'm not a good, I am a dumb animal that just wants flashes in front of my face. And I don't want to have to. Just want colors and yeah shapes yeah you and eleanor should watch shows together oh we would crush it you want a kaleidoscope yeah you're like
Starting point is 00:13:12 i want to watch the dog channel and it's just like i uh i because i feel like i want to watch something that's why i just go back to these old movies i just don't want to have to get involved go back to these old movies i just don't want to have to get involved and uh and then so and then like end of a new movie like that's why jason statham is like that's my guy because i mean that his movies are just he did a couple that were like you know it's like he's trying to get more serious and you're like i don't you're like dude if you do not fight someone yeah i want you to flip a car unrealistically in the air. You should be in a fight every five to ten minutes of these hour and a half.
Starting point is 00:13:51 Yeah. I mean, it should just be that. And that kind of stuff is, I'm way into. Like very, you know, dumbed down. Those movies are great, but they're just, they are what they are. Someone posted that The Rock is overrated because he's
Starting point is 00:14:08 so big that he takes you out of every movie because you're just thinking about how big he is. And I've seen movies where there's no reason he would be that big for the role he's playing. You mean physically big or his stardom is so big? Physically big. He's so physically huge. I like the old Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone stuff.
Starting point is 00:14:23 I like the muscle action guy but they usually had a reason that that helped them out or why they i mean the rock plays you know sometimes roles where why would you be he's like a first grade teacher and he's and i don't have that 400 pounds of muscle yeah but but i could see what they're saying sometimes he's so big that you just think about how big he is in the whole movie well people are getting so big now that it's like it's you can't really it's so unrelatable i mean it's like the rock is like cartoonish and you almost can't believe he exists and then you see it with the sports i mean sports they're getting like you basically have to be born something crazy or you are you don't have a chance or you got to do what Steph Curry does and who's still 6'3 and you got to master another
Starting point is 00:15:14 aspect of the game that's that and that's why it's very impressive you look LeBron I mean 6'9 230 or something you can run that run that fast. You're beyond. You're your own. Yeah. Not everyone can be Barry Sanders out here. That's true. Barry Sanders had to be, he had to juke everyone.
Starting point is 00:15:36 The linemen are getting so big. Yeah, they're crazy. There was something Deion Sanders thought about playing Alabama, and he was like, no. He goes, the problem is the alignment. It's not quarterback, receiver. It's not the skill players.
Starting point is 00:15:51 He goes, we got to give us time to get these lines. The alignment are so big, and that's a problem always with Vanderbilt. Like, you're playing against, I mean, they're basically five guys that are just waiting to go drafted in the first round. Like, so then it's just like, I'm going to stay here for three years, and then I'll get bigger, and then I'll go. I did a show with Burt Kreischer and South Bend, and some of the Notre Dame offensive line came out,
Starting point is 00:16:18 and just look how big these guys are compared to me. Yeah. I mean, I look like a child next to these guys. Yeah, that is funny. That is unreal. And I'm not a small guy you're one of the bigger guys and you're closer than them to the camera that's unreal dude yeah oh my gosh at first i thought well they're not that and then you see you yeah that is i mean this guy at the
Starting point is 00:16:39 end here uh and these are uh it's like two of you. Yeah. Yeah, they're big, and they're younger than me, and they're just like, y'all are just built different, man. You're just built different. They hold their drinks better than you. They do. You need two hands. That's a very weak... That is true.
Starting point is 00:16:59 That was a very, like, I submit to this group. You're hugging that drink. I'm trying to keep this thing cold. Yeah, golly, dude. I'm actually pretty blown away. Yeah, because how tall are you? I'm about six feet. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:14 Yeah. And they're 6'4", 6'5". Yeah. Some of them taller than that. But just, I mean. And they're all in great shape too. Yeah. Well, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:29 Man, that's crazy. That's pretty crazy uh-huh yeah that's the difference and that's i mean there's just not there's there's not that many of those guys no no i mean they're you know spread out everywhere you're like rudy in there you know well there's another name that They could carry you off there. Yeah. I think Rudy was like 5'9 or something. I mean, imagine how much smaller he was. Just think, the average person, if you walk around and they thought, I got to fight you, they would be like, oh. Like, you know, like nervous to fight you
Starting point is 00:17:57 because you're like, it's kind of a big dude. Like, he's going to probably kill you. And then you look at, if they saw that picture, they would be like, I will murder that guy i mean little buddy yeah just on the way i'm holding that drink just uh yeah yeah is that the best picture y'all could get you only took one yeah we only took one that shirt seems really long you're wearing it is i just got that it seems like you got a really long torso it does you know i'm not happy with the way most of my shirts fit thanks dusty well i just mean too. It is. I just got that shirt. It seems like you got a really long torso.
Starting point is 00:18:25 It does. I'm not happy with the way most of my shirts fit. Thanks, Dusty. Look at the jeans, though. It almost looks like that is where the belt line for the jeans is. Look, you got a real long torso. Well, I think whoever designed that shirt would like me to be the ratio of my
Starting point is 00:18:41 width to height to be a little different. That's what we're dealing with. Yeah, it's like, what do you want us to do, man? And he goes, you see what I'm working with? You're not miracle working. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:55 I went to, which is, I don't know when this comes out, Nick Novicki is turning 40 this week and uh our buddy doug brown who does the music did the music uh we had his 40th birthday happy birthday both those guys and they uh so i was like he did a thing where it's like you wanted like you had to kind of dress up like uh his wife put a great like kind of golf themed event together. And it was like, oh, wear something nice or whatever. And so I had a suit that I had when I did the Grammys.
Starting point is 00:19:35 And like, so you got fitted for that suit. And I put it on. I mean, I can't even wear it. It's gotten that wild. That's cool, isn't it? It's very cool. It's very cool yeah it's very cool and it's very like i just had to wear like jeans and like a button-down shirt and like a found like a jack and i was just trying to piece stuff together because i can't wear i mean i'm losing i mean this
Starting point is 00:19:57 is a good thing so i don't want to try to sound like it's but it's i've never done this in my life i've never lost like that yeah so that is very exciting because i've never i this in my life. I've never lost like that. Yeah. So that is very exciting because I don't know what that feels like. You know, I've gone down in sizes. Like I've been 36, and then you go to like a 34. I'd always be like 35, like in there. And I mean, I think I have jeans that are 31, and I think I'd be a 30 or 29 now. And you put these clothes on, you're're like i don't want to buy any more
Starting point is 00:20:27 clothes right now because you're just like well i don't know what's going to happen i can't even wear this this stuff was from whenever the grammys were yeah and it's already that's awesome man yeah it's fun i had one cool moment like that when i got fitted for my wedding tux you got i got fitted a few months out and and then they said, come in the week of and get fitted. Yeah. And that was when I had just started to kind of lose weight. And when I showed up for the second fitting, the guy measured me,
Starting point is 00:20:55 and then he was looking at the form. He said, I think they wrote this down. I think I got somebody else's. It was so much smaller. He was like, something. They messed up something on here. I was like, oh, that feels good. That feels good.
Starting point is 00:21:06 Yeah. He comes back. This this is right it's bigger and he goes i must had a woman well i'm in between belt holes so wide and i thought what like i'm looking at this guy he's not hip this guy's not a big long torso he's got a long torso i'd say no hips long torso and what And what I'm reading here, giant hips. Birthing hips. Birthing hips. I'm kind of confused. I feel like you look thinner even when Sprung came out, which was a year ago we shot that.
Starting point is 00:21:36 Oh, you look a lot thinner. Than I did in the show? I think so. The show's great, by the way. The show's out now. The show's great. Yeah. Greg Garcia, if you haven't seen it, it's on Freebie.
Starting point is 00:21:46 You can go to Amazon. Sprung. Bates and Aaron, acting TV debuts. Yeah, yeah. Both very funny. I watch both episodes. They come out every Friday. And yeah, y'all are great in it.
Starting point is 00:22:02 Thanks, man. And it's such a good show greg is uh and we're hoping i greg should i think uh we're gonna hopefully get him on here soon uh but greg's the best he's uh normal of a guy that you could be and for someone to be as successful as he is uh and have done as much as he's done, there's just nothing. There's no one like him. I mean, he's a special person.
Starting point is 00:22:34 You know, he listens to the podcast. Yeah. And so I'm sure he's hearing this now and rewinded it and hearing it again. But no, I'm joking. He wouldn't want to listen he got it he only listens with good things about himself uh but this show is so great and so yeah make sure you go check that show out we're in a future episode as well yeah y'all be back in it too uh you know if you're here for clean reasons it's not super super dirty, but it just don't
Starting point is 00:23:06 you know, just let you know. I gotta watch. I had no idea that it was out. Greg Garcia is someone that is will go to hell, but in hell, they will be like, are you a Christian? Like he's
Starting point is 00:23:21 out of that group. So down in hell, they would go, are you a Christian, Greg? They would assume he's a Christian. group yeah so down in hell they would go are you are you a christian greg they would assume he's a christian he wouldn't fit in in hell there's your yeah he wouldn't fit in there's your clean dirty where it's not it's not like obviously it's like yeah he i mean he's definitely going i don't know where else he would go but uh but yeah he'll be he'll be nice down there if you if you're you're, you know, if you end up down there, I, I,
Starting point is 00:23:45 I look him up. Uh, so let's start. Uh, you say you're between belt holes. Oh yeah. I mean, well,
Starting point is 00:23:56 we're just talking about our weight loss journey here. And I don't think I'm losing weight, but I'm in between belt holes. So I'm at a place where it's like either my pants are falling or I'm cutting off the blood circulation to my legs. You know what I mean? Yeah. That probably would have worked better if you got it in before we did this.
Starting point is 00:24:13 Well, I tried to get it in, but I appreciate Brian bringing it back around. It was kind of over. You were ready to move on. It was. My bad. But I thought, well, hey, we're already on the spot. I'll bring it back up. We can edit it back in there.
Starting point is 00:24:25 Brian can always smell when something's not going to be fun. So he's got a keen… I sensed it. He sensed it. He goes, wait a second, Dusty, go ahead. If you want to bomb real fast. Yeah, so I'll cut up the clip, add some laughs. It'll be a lot of fun.
Starting point is 00:24:41 Oh, yeah. Put a little laugh track in. Yeah. Make it a thriller almost. Where is this going? Yeah, it'll be Dusty of fun. Oh, yeah. Put a little laugh track in. Yeah. Yeah. Make it a thriller almost. Where is this going? Yeah. It'll be Dusty's coming out party. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:48 You're like, man, he brought in that belt. I'll show the belt. It's got my name on it. It's got it in between. Yeah. It does. You know, my dad said, my dad had a Bible class, I think he said today. So Adam, the word Adam's name means man.
Starting point is 00:25:04 But the root word for the name is means man but we were the real uh the root word for the name man is actually dusty well did you know that oh i did not know that yeah but because he came from dust well that makes a lot of sense because i am what people think about when they think about me yeah a real man yeah yeah long hair kind of confused exactly i think nowadays for sure digging around in the dirt you know weed eating i think cutting lawnmower i think in 10 years you're exactly what people are going to think of a man is just somebody can't really tell what it is yeah i mean you talk to him you go no that was a man yeah you walk away but when you walk up to it you're like i don't know what's happening just well you know i don't want and then you leave i. But when you walk up to it, you're like, I don't know what's happening.
Starting point is 00:25:45 Just, you know, I don't want, and then you leave. I don't want you to think you know everything about me as you're walking up. You know what I mean? Right.
Starting point is 00:25:51 I don't want you to feel like making any real assumptions about me. Someone's going to come try to rob you. They're like, we don't know what could happen. Do you believe the earth is flat?
Starting point is 00:25:59 No, I believe it's a triangle. I believe it's a triangle. Yeah. But you hadn't heard that before. Yeah. That sort of thing. I like that. Yeah. All ryan sarpa leas sir pellis huh yeah sarpa leas i love the dusty nose driving with the windows down creates drag but also thinks he can safely
Starting point is 00:26:18 toothpick jump into the ocean from 600 feet please do a physics episode. Physics could be fun. Physics could be fun. We talked a little bit about that. My high school physics teacher listens to this podcast. Oh. Mr. Diamond. Great teacher, cool guy. Good name.
Starting point is 00:26:33 So we might have to consult him. Yeah. Well, I don't think that I said that I know that you could safely do it. I wondered if that would be the safest way to jump. And I'm still not sure that Ryan knows just because he's made a comment. Does that mean that he knows? He's spelled please, so all capitals. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:52 So I bet he knows. He's, well. Ryan just said, as a guy that has done both of these things, drive with my windows down and jump. Yeah, let's see the toothpick. I want to see it be done. I agree that if you're in this situation, give it a go. Try the toothpick.
Starting point is 00:27:10 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's the way to go. Yeah. You want to cover the ears like this so you don't pop the ears. Oh. Yeah, ears are probably the last you're going to worry about. If you can survive that and you're like, we can't hear it, it's going to be there.
Starting point is 00:27:27 And you still go, should have covered the ears. That's what you still do. You sign it to them. Yeah. Should have covered the ears. Save all your body parts, you know, best you can. Best you can. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:38 Raz 75 Reb, R-A-Z 75 R-E-B. Completely agree with Aaron when it comes to sharing a hotel room. My buddies thought I was crazy when I brought this up two months ago. Another hotel etiquette. I love your take on when checking out. I take the sheets and pillowcases off the bed and pillow. Paying it
Starting point is 00:27:58 forward to make sure the next guest gets clean bedding. I don't do that. Absolutely not. Yeah. Never heard of that. It's the thinking that if you don't do that. Absolutely not. Yeah. Never heard of that. It's the thinking that if you don't do that, they're just going to leave the sheets and pillowcases on. It sounds like he might work at this hotel. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:13 He's trying to get this going. Yeah. He goes, do you guys do that? Would you all start it maybe? And then I don't have to do much. I like to think that the maid comes in, just puts those sheets right back on. Right back on.
Starting point is 00:28:24 He's annoyed. I would assume that they would think, well, something went wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's covering up a crime. Yeah. Why do you already? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:35 I'll leave a tip. Dusty got me doing that. Yeah. I didn't even know you could do that or that was something you should do. Now I always try to. Yeah. I don't know what it is. Probably was a dollar a day, $5, you know, just a whatever, just there.
Starting point is 00:28:49 I think anything probably helps. Yeah. Yeah. I like to make it look, I feel like if you're going to tip, it like should look good. Like they come in and they go, oh, I appreciate this. And not think, oh, this guy forgot this dollar. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:01 You know? Yeah, because it can look like that. To want it up. yeah yeah yeah fibers are not bad yeah you're i mean you're getting the point now oh dude where did i have a tip i had a tip at uh like uh uh it's not hudson news it was a different one in denver airport i was at denver airport a lot of stuff went down yeah yeah i heard a lot of noise underground they were moving day yep and so uh it's it's like a hudson news like one of those little convenience stores but it wasn't hudson news
Starting point is 00:29:36 and so it's a i go and get all my stuff and wait in line and then uh she scans it and then i'm like pressing thing and it had a spot for she goes they'll ask you if you want to leave a tip there or not whoa and i'm like and i and if i get i get if i if i get so caught off guard then i mean i just left the tip because it's like i'm just i don't even know what's happening. And so then I leave and then I walk out. I mean, it's pure insanity. You go, I'm just at a grocery store, basically. I mean, you're doing, I went and grabbed it. Like even the yogurt thing, I don't know. I think this might've been my most frustrated one.
Starting point is 00:30:19 Did they bag it for you at least? No, no, no, no. It's you, I mean, you know, the Hudson News. Yeah, yeah. no no no no it's it's you you i mean you know hudson news yeah it's that it's that place you go i grabbed i forget what i grabbed or you know man and then then you sit there i might have even held the bottle to ring it it's i mean it's a gas station yeah it's going to a gas station they said you want tip and you i don't even know what this could possibly because it's a point where it's now you're like well i blame the companies to bigger y'all not paying anybody anymore how are you not like or how do you let their way to give them a raise yeah company doesn't
Starting point is 00:30:55 want to give them a raise everything is on you oh everything's that yeah that's the charity stuff yeah all that it's like they get they force you to do all their work and you're like are you not pay these people dude i went to a mariners game in seattle and i got food at the concession stand and the employee turns the ipad around you know and the tip comes up she goes just hit zero because we don't get any of the tips it all goes to the stadium wow really and she was telling everybody hit zero because we don't get any of these tips. I was like, well, that's insane. I would have left a tip if I thought it was going to you.
Starting point is 00:31:30 Yeah. I love that she's doing that. I love that she said that. I want to give her cash just because. I know. I was like, I love this protest. Everybody's like, they're taking all the tips? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:40 Crazy. I love it, too. So go to a marriage game. Tip cash to the people. And someone comes from the back and takes that money. Yeah. They're watching on a camera. They're like, saw you get a little cash today.
Starting point is 00:31:53 Yeah. Mariner's are going to, yeah, it's going to be, like those concession workers, it's going to get to the point of the guy. Thanks. Yeah. Hot dog here. If you sign that, do not tip. They're going to move their mouth.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Don't tip. They're watching. We're being watched right now. Keep your money. Give it to me in the car, at my car. I'll meet you at a hotel. Here's my Venmo. Ryan
Starting point is 00:32:17 Schick. I bet that's tough. Yeah. Dusty not knowing sports is such a welcome addition to the podcast. Love all the sports talk, but being a subject that the three hosts actually knew about didn't fit. So Dusty's cluelessness on sports in general fits perfectly. To get in the wheelhouse, though, I'd love a NASCAR episode. Well, I feel like you guys are talking about local baseball.
Starting point is 00:32:44 Yeah. Like Mike Trout? I don't know NASCAR episode. Well, I feel like you guys are talking about local baseball. Yeah. Like Mike Trout? Yeah, I don't know who that is. I don't know the names of them. Yeah, yeah. You know the idea of what the game is. Yes. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:55 So you know nothing about sports. I can talk about 90s sports. Give me the 90s NASCAR, the 90s baseball. Yeah. But I don't know what's going on these days. One time Dust dusty was on a sports talk radio show where they were going to make their picks bet on the point spread and he called me or texted me and said how does this work and i tried it you remember this yeah i have no
Starting point is 00:33:17 idea i could not explain to me and i was like all right so if alabama's 28 points favored over alcorn state or something like that that means if you bet on Alabama, they got a win by more than 28. And I just don't think you could ever quite – I don't gamble, so it doesn't make sense to me. Yeah. Yeah. I don't sports gamble either.
Starting point is 00:33:37 And I know what it is, but I still always have to go like – I don't like when it's like minus 10 or plus. But that I don't – That stuff I don't know and then over under i would never i do get it but it's like it's enough that i go like it feels complicated then you're like i don't know well fantasy football is confusing to me because people will say they'll go do you want to join the fantasy football league and i'm like nah and they go they go i like it because it helps make the games interesting. Yeah. And I'm like, well, if the games aren't interesting,
Starting point is 00:34:06 maybe you don't like football. Yeah. But you could bet on, they should do like betting on if you win or lose. Like it's like almost that simple. I think with gambling sites, a lot of it is the numbers are, it's very intimidating where you're like, I can't get into it. And you need to have one that's like win or lose. you're like i can't get into and you need to have one that's like win or lose i you're like i think uh atlanta braves are gonna win
Starting point is 00:34:29 you can do that you can bet the money line and even calling it the money line no one knows what that means i don't know what like the money line is enough to scare me off yeah it's like it's almost like dumb it down to go i want them to win that's it i want to be done with it i don't want to go they got to win by 10 i don't know there's people that want them to win. That's it. I want to be done with it. I don't want to go, they got to win by 10. There's people that want to like that complication of it, but I would be more willing to bet if it was like, because if I ever do, I don't really ever do it, but if I ever did it, it's like I would do the money line.
Starting point is 00:34:58 And I have to ask, is that what that means? But it's like, it should just be like the winner and then pick them. The money line sounds like a good pickup line. You might get... That's the money line right there. They would just never do that because there's one team
Starting point is 00:35:13 always is going to be better, unless it's a pick-em like in college football where... Yeah, do a pick-em. They can only do that for teams that are truly even matched up. If it was Alabama against some like vanderbilt nobody's gonna everybody's just gonna bet on alabama yeah but you would say you yeah i do get but if you say if i bet on vanderbilt like if you bet a dollar i mean i'm basically described i'm
Starting point is 00:35:38 i don't think it can look as intimidating as well basically i'd be and like you feel like you go to gambling stuff and they just act like you're all been gambling for hundreds of years and there's no there there needs to be you're trying to get new people and there you need to be like let's make it simple and you know that's i went to the dog track one time and there was this guy there named butch and he had suspenders on and he was walking around like helping people pick dogs and then if they won he took a percentage he was just like hanging out at the unofficially like he didn't work for the track just walking around missing some teeth suspenders i mean he lived at the dog track and he would help he helped my friend and my friend won a bunch of money and then he took a he helped my friend and my friend won a bunch of money and
Starting point is 00:36:25 then he took a percentage but my friend would not have won without butch yeah is it like 10% or something yeah something like that yeah and then we thought we'd get robbed on the way to the parking lot we didn't but yeah yeah I'd be thinking that too yeah yeah but that that's great yeah I would talk to that guy yeah I've ever I've gone like I've gone to horse you know and you go and you're like yeah I, I don't know. You know. Yes. I'm not studying these horses.
Starting point is 00:36:48 Yeah. And so it is, you get someone that talks to them. Yeah. That'd be good. David Oakley. Oh, from the Oakley Sunglasses. Surveyors have used trigonometry to, golly, accurately calculate. I mean, what a, out of the gate. sentence is wild yeah that's a big one that's really parts what's just mean uh yeah that's like someone that's like
Starting point is 00:37:14 he's gonna get tired out yeah you're only about halfway done by the way halfway done have you seen the sentence of the senate yeah it a big pair. Surveyors have used trigonometry to accurately calculate the altitude of mountains for hundreds of years. In the 1830s, a young Indian man was hired to work for George Everest, who was the Surveyor General of India. So he's who Everest is. General of India. So he's who Everest is. When they got to the Himalaya Mountains, the government of Nepal wouldn't allow them to enter the country.
Starting point is 00:37:53 So when it came time to calculate the height of Mount Everest, they had to do it from 100 miles away. Using trigonometry, he calculated the altitude of Mount Everest to be 29,002 feet. In 1999, scientists used a GPS transmitter to measure the height of errors they found to be 29,035 feet he was only off by 33 feet pretty incredible yeah was it incredible enough to read all that yeah i mean you could have said it probably i like that they they put accurately calculate because it's like if it's not accurate then you're not really calculating not much of a calculation yeah yeah you're you just so this is we talked about on i think one
Starting point is 00:38:29 of the last podcasts how do they know the heights of these and last week's colorado yeah this is basic trigonometry here if you know how far away you are from it and you know the angle at which you're looking at the peak you can determine the height yeah yeah using trigonometry, you can determine the height using trigonometry. You can get close. You can get pretty close. Probably like the golf thing, right? Yeah, yeah, range finder. But I was saying, that's what I would take from him. So you didn't get it right. No, but I was like 30.
Starting point is 00:38:56 I was off by 33 feet. He goes, all right, but I'm just saying. It's over 10 yards. From 100 miles away. Yeah, yeah, 100 miles away, you're off by 33 feet. So you didn't get it feet. You're right. So he didn't get it right. Someone didn't prepare the right stuff.
Starting point is 00:39:11 Yeah, I mean, get your trigonometry straight. First guy goes up, and he goes, I got to 20,002 feet. And I was like, are you kidding me? There's more. And I mentally. Well, at least he underbid. So when Price is right, he would have probably won. Maybe that little tail on the B is what threw him off.
Starting point is 00:39:26 What are you talking about? A little tail on the B is what threw him off. What are you talking about? A little tail on the B. At the bottom of the B? Whoever wrote that B. That threw him off. A little bit extra. It looked like when they wrote that B, someone goes, stop, stop. And he goes, what?
Starting point is 00:39:37 And he goes, what are you doing with the B? And he goes, what did you want to do with the B? And then he did the A, and they go, all right, that's enough. That's enough. Just stop. Just stop. You're making it too long. Brian Houston.
Starting point is 00:39:54 In New York, it's Houston Street. That's their first big thing, Houston. Really? Yeah, Houston Street is said Houston. The prison that Martha Stewart went to was a women's prison, FPC Alderson in West Virginia. After she went there, it became known as Camp Cupcake, partly because it was Martha Stewart's
Starting point is 00:40:13 and partly because if you had to go to prison, it is the one you'd want to go to. Oh, that's it? It's like you could walk right out the gate. Yeah. And it looks pretty low security yeah i would think martha stewart i wouldn't think she would be in like a real hard prison no but i mean like yeah you still have to go you're still not at your house yeah you're still like it's still
Starting point is 00:40:38 there's a lot of stuff it's not like it's like she was like i enjoyed it she's like i preferred but she became friends with Snoop Dogg thereafter, and they're like buddies now. Oh, was he in there too? I don't think he was in there, but she had a little street cred now. Oh, okay. And Camp Cupcake. Yeah, he's trying to get some cupcakes too.
Starting point is 00:41:00 Some financial thing. Snoop Dogg, what'd you do? He's like, I've murdered a lot of people before I started really rap. Kind of all caught up to me. It turns out, shouldn't have talked about it in my songs.
Starting point is 00:41:12 What do a lot of rappers think that? I tell you what, if I could go back, I wouldn't have described how I killed all these people in my songs. In great detail. In great detail.
Starting point is 00:41:21 Because that's the, that's what I give advice to the younger kids. I go, maybe don't. Don't use your own name. Don't use your own name and have a blueprint for any detective. Ricardo Mute.
Starting point is 00:41:34 Nate Bates' Cellmates is 100% a TV show that has to be made. That sounds good. I mean, I'm already on a TV show where I'm inmate. I don't want to be typecast. Come on, guys. Yeah, there you go. Solid take. But maybe this one, they'll show your face.
Starting point is 00:41:55 Fair point. Yeah, it was a little like, you know, Ruth and I watching it, and she finally sees it, and I got a mask on. That's fun. It is fun. That was funny. Bates already complaining. He's on a hit TV show, and he goes, ah. When Greg comes, you can let him know you're a fuck.
Starting point is 00:42:22 Well, he listens to this podcast,. He's going to hell, apparently. He might have other things to think about. Yeah, he knows that. Matt Goodale. I tell him every day. That's why I always think it's fun to tell someone. I say, I'm glad we're friends now because after we die, we're never going to see each other again.
Starting point is 00:42:42 So let's live it up now. That's a fun one to let people know what's up uh matt goodell everyone but aaron might want to reconsider their opinion on prison roommates at age 18 i went to prison for three years during my stay i had two stints in the hole one for 48 hours and one for five days. The five days of isolation felt like it changed me permanently. Humans were definitely not meant to be isolated like that. It also must be mentioned, Colorado Supermax, the one hour you get out of your cell is in isolation. Wow. Well, I want to say that that day we talked about that, I did say, I don't mean the hole. I don't want to be in the whole.
Starting point is 00:43:25 Yeah. But if we're in a cell where you can talk to people from your cell, like if the cells are next to each other and you could communicate, have a little mirror that you stick out of the thing and look at each other. That's what I meant. I did clarify that I did not mean the whole. Here's a picture of the cell doors. It doesn't look like there's a lot
Starting point is 00:43:45 of opportunity yeah to have a conversation with the guy next door well see this information this information was not presented to us on the day we had that's true that's true you know now i'm seeing the doors and i'm like wow well this that does change now you'd rather have somebody in there i don't know i mean i'm still i don't know it It's a lot. It's a big... I mean, you have someone to talk to, but did they not open them, let them go hang out in the... Not according to... This guy's saying your one hour outside of that cell is also by yourself. Yeah, in Colorado.
Starting point is 00:44:17 Yeah, at this particular prison. Yeah. Matt, I mean, Matt lived a life. Yeah. Went to 18. Yeah. I feel like when he was in prison, Matt wouldn't have been a, he lived a life. Yeah. Went to 18, yeah. I feel like when he was in prison, Matt wouldn't have been a fan of this podcast, but now, hell, he is. But I'm also going to say, I'd like to not go to prison, just for the record.
Starting point is 00:44:35 You know what I mean? Like, I'm not pushing for prison to be- People have their own opinions. It's an alone time. Tyler Green. You know what I mean? I do know what you mean I'm not trying to go either man
Starting point is 00:44:47 yeah I mean this felt like we had auditioned for prison and this guy's like ooh you might want to reconsider yeah it's cause well you wear the
Starting point is 00:44:54 you're wearing the uniform so yeah you wouldn't they would go we're gonna give you these same clothes you have on but orange
Starting point is 00:45:02 that's what I think yeah I mean I'm ready I like to be uniform ready yeah I can go to work you the same clothes you have on, but orange. That's what I think. Yeah. I mean, I'm ready. I like to be uniform ready. Yeah. I can go to work at any time. Yeah. Or to prison, anywhere.
Starting point is 00:45:11 You could go manual labor, anything. If it's like, we need you now, you can. Yeah, and I can jump right in with complaints about any job. You know what I mean? I can roll right in and start complaining about management, and it'll be accurate. Oh, wow. Yeah. I like that. I'm ready at any time yeah tyler green the cfl still plays with the goal post on the field all right i didn't know that i guess i've never watched now that i think
Starting point is 00:45:39 about it i did yeah yeah yeah their their end zone is enormous. Isn't the field 110 yards? Yeah, well, yeah. I mean, their end zones are like two end zones. Did they just decide that we're going to do everything a little bit wrong? It's like, we'll make the field a little longer. We'll keep the goalposts up there. They're keeping it original, though, with the goalposts up there. Can't you catch it off the ground, too?
Starting point is 00:46:04 Or is that arena football? It's rugby. What are you talking about? I've never heard that. There was one branch of professional football where you could catch the ball off a hop. Really? I don't know if that's true. What hopper?
Starting point is 00:46:16 I don't know if that's true. I mean, you might be right, but I remember that. Yeah. It's kind of a big one to blame on all the Canadians. What do they do up there? You don't have to have a ball or Canadians. What do they do up there? You don't have to have a ball or something? They don't use a ball?
Starting point is 00:46:29 Is that what it is? Don't tell me they can get it. It's my church basketball joke. It's just all honest. He goes, no, that one, he went yard with it. They're like, what? I think you can get a running start, too, before the snap. There's a lot of weird stuff. But you can do some of that. I mean, we have going sideways. I don't think it's that different. You can get like a running start too before the snap. There's a lot of weird stuff. But you can do some of that.
Starting point is 00:46:45 I mean, we have gone sideways. I don't think it's that different. You can't get a vertical. I don't think it's that. But it's not like Doug Flutie didn't come from Canada Football League and go to American Football, and then he's like, he goes, what's this ball? Who's this?
Starting point is 00:46:57 What are these men doing near me? Like it's the same sport. I'm not saying you wouldn't recognize it, but I'm saying it's a lot of weird differences. They do the thing where they run, but I almost think you could... Could you do that? No. But you can go sideways.
Starting point is 00:47:10 You can go side to side. Yeah. Yeah. You can't run vertically. Yeah. They do that. That's kind of fun. It is fun.
Starting point is 00:47:20 Yeah. Yeah. It's just different. Lindell Chambers. There was an elevator accident at the hospital where I worked. The elevator fell three floors. One girl jumped. The other two did nothing and had significant back and leg injuries.
Starting point is 00:47:34 The girl who jumped was fine. Ooh. Jump. All right. Good thing they were at a hospital. That's a good point. No one laid down, though, I guess, huh? Well, yeah, the other person did nothing.
Starting point is 00:47:47 Did nothing. She jumped. No, she jumped. The other two did nothing. No, I'm saying the person that did nothing. The other two did nothing. I was never suggesting you do nothing. I see.
Starting point is 00:47:56 I'm saying you get down on the ground. I got you. That's just cocky. But that seems like, oh, the elevator's falling. I'll just stay. But I think they would say, instead of getting on the ground, they would go, well, then your second thing should be do nothing. And I go, but when do you lay on the ground flat out?
Starting point is 00:48:12 They go, like if you, I guess we're like, I'm going to commit suicide in this moment. And he goes, I don't, there's no reason for you to. Do you want to die faster? Yeah. Get down on the ground. Sounds like they wanted some workman's comp. The girl who jumped, I mean, I like to hear that.
Starting point is 00:48:29 Yeah. Three floors, though. I think if it's 20 floors up, it's a different story. Three floors is about how far that guy was off in Mount Everest. Yeah. Yeah, it's true. That is true. It all circles back around.
Starting point is 00:48:43 Yeah. Trigonometry. Yeah. Yeah, it all circles back around. Yeah. Trigonometry. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So this week, look at that. Yeah. Beautiful.
Starting point is 00:48:54 We did it. That's why we brought Dusty in, just to get the fist bumps out of him. Give somebody the fist bumps. Yeah. My gosh. I mean, I love reading that. Hey, Nate, cheers, dude. Yeah, cheers.
Starting point is 00:49:05 I'd like to put another penguin in the penguin cage. This penguin was getting lonely, so we threw another one in there. I appreciate it. It's nice to have this side of the table. There's a real brotherhood over here. I don't know what's going on on the other side of this table, but we're together. Yeah, that's nice.
Starting point is 00:49:22 Between the two of us outfits wise we could you know work at a garage and do some hunting oh y'all look ready to go yeah and neither one of you can do maybe either one of those i definitely yeah i could probably do the hunting uh yeah well i've hunted a little bit yeah i i'm some i i think i want to hunt i don't know what i think i do i've hunted a bit i like to shoot skeet you know the clay pigeons i like that that's a lot of fun yeah okay so you're not hunting i've killed a dove i've killed a squirrel you know i've shot some things yeah yeah you know i mean uh i for some reason i don't i but i don't know if i want to do it like i've always was like grossed out by
Starting point is 00:50:01 like having you know the idea of like having to cut them open or whatever like i was like this seems so insane dress them got them yeah it's like uh but i've been talking to eric uh about it because he does he hunts and uh you know the two you always feel bad with the animal it's like i'm not you know but it's like this i don't't know. It's, I love being out in the wild. But some of it's like, I could also probably just be fine. I'm trying to go spot these things. Yeah. So it's like, I don't need to hunt, but I would like to go, like, you know, see some real wildlife.
Starting point is 00:50:36 How do I get quiet to see the real wildlife? You can go hiking, like you've been doing. But you could get some fresh meat this way too. I mean, you get some fresh meat. But that's, you can But you eat off the land. You learn how to hunt. It's something else to learn to know when all of it goes down, which could be happening, already happened.
Starting point is 00:50:55 Yeah, you never know. You never know. You want to be ready. Yeah, you want to be ready. And I don't want to be like, I can go show you where the animals are. Right. But I'm not going to. Yeah. I can't do anything are, but I'm not going to. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:05 I can't do anything with them. I'm not going to do anything with them. You're like a tracker almost. You can take people out there. Maybe I'm just a tracker. Yeah. Maybe I'm a good tracker. You have to bring somebody else in to do the work.
Starting point is 00:51:18 That's true. Yeah. Yeah, it's tough. Let's see what happens. So this week. This week we're talking about college. Opposite of living on the land. Yeah. Yeah, it's tough. We'll see what happens. So this week. This week we're talking about college. Opposite of living on the land. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:31 It's the people that will make everything go wrong bad. That's where it starts. Yeah, I mean, we get to make things like Tootsie Pop liquors and stuff like that. The opposite of pure survival. It's the direction of just, it's not going to work out. The only time I ever hunted was in college. I had some buddies that were into coon hunting. And they had these dogs.
Starting point is 00:51:58 Raccoon hunting? Yeah, but they call it coon hunting. Yeah, you probably call it raccoon now. Okay, raccoon hunting. I trapped a raccoon. I told you that before. They are. I let it out, and I was standing up on this thing because I didn't want it to get me.
Starting point is 00:52:15 And if it wanted to get me, it would have. I mean, it was so fast. Yeah, they're crazy. So fast. Well, anyway, I had this mutt dog, and they had these great hunting dogs, and I would hang out with these guys. Just keep calling every animal just a brutal name. You have no respect for any animal.
Starting point is 00:52:31 You got to get this dumb mutt dog. So then I go, you're like, golly, where did you go to college? You sure? Ben TSU was a different thing back then. Yeah, it really was. But one night, I mean, you do it at night yeah and uh one night i wanted to just practice with my dog by myself so i was in the woods behind my house and i got lost in the woods at night for some time wow and just wandering around the woods and got turned
Starting point is 00:52:59 around and i finally like came out the back end of these woods and recognized someone we knew's house pretty far away. And this is before cell phones or anything. I had to knock on their door at three in the morning and get them up. And the guy drove me home. Wow. How did you lose them? Oh, I was by myself. I was just with my dog back there practicing did the dog run off and leave
Starting point is 00:53:26 you no dog stayed with me did you have a gun no because we would even usually just tree the tree them and then and then let them go yeah this is for a class this is just in the summer when i was just for fun you get some real jerry clower jokes working here. Yeah. Yeah. Marcel Ledbetter. But I got lost in the woods at night. Did you have an accomplice or anything, or would you have done that? So you kind of just fill it out? And I mean, Interstate 40 runs pretty close to our house. So my whole life, you could hear cars from the interstate, even far away.
Starting point is 00:54:00 But we got down in a valley, and I couldn't hear anything, and just got turned around. You have a flashlight on? had a flashlight okay yeah flashlight in the woods is almost scarier though yeah because you can just see a little bit yeah and your eyes would be better your eyes might be better like you just like i'd rather not have it because you could see the moon stuff like that i'd rather not bold why did you go out there by yourself to practice because my dog they had these great dogs that knew what they were doing my dog was whatever the politically correct word is now from for mutt and i wanted there's not i'm joking i don't know i don't know maybe there is maybe it's uh what is it uh or what do they say like mixed breed muddy challenge blood no no i mean uh rescue oh is that not a skill yeah
Starting point is 00:54:46 rescue yeah i mean i mean he was any dog there was it rehomed yeah yeah get rehomed yeah all right and but i don't know who's rescued you are the you know yeah we rescued each other it's a but i'm joking i don't care so i wanted to not with those guys wanted to go practice with my dog so he could get better so i could try try to impress my friends with their great dogs. But I got lost and my dog had to. Do you think you were single so long because you try to impress men a lot? All your stuff is, you did all these things that got you, your biggest blunders have never involved women. They've all been you trying to impress another, a man, a real, a dusty.
Starting point is 00:55:35 Yeah. I mean, I got plenty of women blunders too. This had to have made you better though, right? Did you come out of this as a better woodsman? He knows how to get from his house to his friend's house but i couldn't do it again or i'd have just turned around and went back to my house but you didn't feel a little bit more confident in the woods i felt much worse much much worse i mean they still bring it up when i see them and we're yeah i mean how big were these
Starting point is 00:56:00 woods it's a lot it's a lot many acres because there's different farms that connect to each other. So occasionally I would come up to a fence and I'm like, all right, some man's been here before. So just somebody's been here. Someone's been here. Would you say you're less confident with cigars? Oh, yeah. Okay. Definitely that.
Starting point is 00:56:18 It's almost like you need to stop practicing. Like practicing ruins it for you. I may have told this story on here but with women i would be on online dating and usually online dating you have the first name and a picture of her and then maybe whatever you know they share but there's not a lot and but i would always find them online there you go i would search them out because in my mind the more i knew about them the more i could impress them on the first yeah the more ammo you'd have and hit them with the money it would always backfire on me though i remember this one i may have told this on here this girl and she
Starting point is 00:56:53 said uh yeah i went to uh smith college it's a tiny all-girls school up in upstate whatever and i said uh wow yes and then where julia And she goes, yeah, how would you know that? And then I started thinking, how would I know that? And it backfired on me because I looked so weird that I would know something about that. But I'd done all this research on her. Yeah. You'd done a bunch of research about Smith College. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:17 It's like serial killer without killing. Yeah. I mean. Well, it's what I want to do with honey. It's basically, I would like to be bait. He's a tracker. Yeah. i want to do with honey yeah it's basically i would like to be bait tracker yeah i want to be a tracker i don't know what happened to this girl so yeah she actually questions me uh yeah this is exactly what i want to do yeah yeah i'd like to look up the animal and know about stuff. But I think,
Starting point is 00:57:45 aren't everybody probably looking stuff up about each other? Oh, yeah. But maybe not as detailed as you are. It's crazy now. It's not easy if you don't have their full name. You're like,
Starting point is 00:57:54 yeah, you went there from 1982 to 1984. Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it never worked out better for the age group. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:58:03 I don't know what's going on. You didn't even give him a good. A chair. Did you say 82 to 84? Yeah. He goes, my goodness. I would make her 70 now. I mean, I was born at, yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:15 70 age group. You don't know how old Brian is. And you're probably trying to be polite. You go, you know what? I'll give him a good number. Don't give him late 70s. Give him early 80s. What did you do, class of 79?
Starting point is 00:58:31 Yeah, I saw you. I looked you up. 1982 to 84. I mean, I was born in 79. When were you born? 82. That number's always fresh in my head. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:44 So you just go with it it and went to school for two years maybe 24 college not you but her oh yes she's a you know she's gets her education quick yeah graduated early yeah i would think with this online dating is the theory you would think is the man doesn't need to look up the woman but the woman if she's like i looked everything up with you you would think that's okay it'd almost be reckless not to you know you got for a woman yeah that's what i mean that's what i mean for safety reasons see what this guy's all about yeah and if the yeah the woman you could maybe be like if she had but they don't give her her whole name correct just her first how do you even find this stuff it takes some work yeah that is crazy
Starting point is 00:59:22 they even that's what they do now? So no one knows anybody's real names? I mean, I'm not as active on dating sites now as I once was, but last I checked, it's just first name. Not as active. You should be. Well, I'm joking. You're like, if you act like I should, I wouldn't know now, though.
Starting point is 00:59:40 Well, I know, but that was just funny. If you actually get to the date in online dating, you already know all the info. She's telling you things about her life. You're like, oh, yeah. Yeah, I know that. I know about that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:52 Yeah. Yeah, I would think the woman would be, it's like, go do your best to figure it out. But on this podcast, we always say, let's don't talk about anything beforehand, because it's better just to learn in the moment. Yeah. And that's what I should have been doing, even on these dates, we always say, let's don't talk about anything beforehand because it's better just to learn in the moment. Yeah. And that's what I should have been doing even on these dates instead of trying to research and come up with made-up answers. Is it your news background, you think? Oh, man.
Starting point is 01:00:15 He's got a little journalistic instinct. Journalistic that makes you go back, you know. Or maybe that's why you got into the news. Or maybe I just worry for my safety. You're like, I need better resources. Yeah. What if she says, I like the woods? I can't be doing that.
Starting point is 01:00:33 Not at night, right? Yeah. At night, are we together? No, I think we should walk separately and find each other. Because, oh, will you go meet me at my friend's house? I can get us there. I've got a dog. So obviously you went to college at Notre Dame.
Starting point is 01:00:50 I did, yeah. I went to Southern Union State Community College for a couple of days. Oh, yeah? A couple of days. For real, a couple of days. The Opelika campus? Yeah, I signed up for classes, two classes, and then I went to each one one time and then i was like i don't want to
Starting point is 01:01:06 do this what were the classes i think it was math and english you know i was trying i didn't know what i wanted to do i was just trying to hang out with people yeah you know you have to pay already or did they let you like go well i got i was able to get what they call like a pell grant so i got it was only it was like a thousand bucks. So I got half of it paid. And so I had to pay 500. And then I also took, what are they? There's some like class for the enrollment or what is it called?
Starting point is 01:01:36 Something. Yeah. Like with a meet and greet. Well, you, you're supposed to watch a video. Initiation? Orientation. Orientation. Orientation.
Starting point is 01:01:43 I didn't do that. uh and then cut some costs you know i just went and talked to them i was like you know i'd like to just you know take some classes i'll get oriented out there when i'm ready when i'm good and ready and they were like well you need a a major what do you want to major in and i was like oh i just want to take classes and they were like well you got to have a major and i was like okay business and then and then they were like okay yeah you know i was just trying i was just hanging out you know i wasn't doing a lot i was delivering pizzas i was just like let me try to i didn't want the degree i was just trying to meet people yeah i did i delivered pizzas too and then uh yeah mine was mine was I went to volunteer state community college
Starting point is 01:02:26 for one year and I had to take remedial classes because I got the 17 on my AC. You got a golden dome too, Dusty. Yeah, that's the golden dome of, well, I have always said Southern Union is the Notre Dame of Alabama. Yeah. Got the golden dome. Well, that's what it's known as. I mean, it is
Starting point is 01:02:42 top notch education there. Sounds like a bank. It's like it used to be like a tech. I went to Southern Union. I banked there too. Yeah. Community college. Oh, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:02:52 It used to be a tech school and a community college, and they combined them. Open like a tech. I love it. I like it. Even the school photo, the flags at half-staff. Yeah. What just happened? That's like, yeah. I mean, it's always just half-st Yeah. What just happened?
Starting point is 01:03:05 That's like, yeah. I mean, it's always just half staff. That was the day I dropped out. Yeah. It's a gun at the Western Center. Yeah, at a community college, you're like, I mean, we're losing people
Starting point is 01:03:13 left and right. Like, I mean, he goes, it's every day something. Something's going on. They go, oh, did something nationally happen? Nationally?
Starting point is 01:03:22 No. It's just our straight up college. Yeah, we don't even look that far out. Yeah. He goes, you go to community college, you're going to see dead bodies. Just wrap your head around that. You're at our community college. Be prepared.
Starting point is 01:03:35 Yeah, I did that right before I joined. Boundary State might have got a little bit nicer. Oh, yeah, that looks good. I don't know if you're looking. Oh, there, that is it. Yeah. Did y'all meet in that circle a lot? Yeah, I don't think I ever went into most of those buildings.
Starting point is 01:03:51 Is that solar panels? I went into, we didn't back then, but I went into a couple buildings. Mine were on the outskirts. I was never in the thick of it. Like in a trailer, kind of off campus. No, they were real buildings, but you could always park nearby. They were trying to make it. We're like, we're probably not going to keep going.
Starting point is 01:04:13 And a lot of people in my class were older. What made you go for a full year and then not go back? Well, the 17 on the ACT didn't help, which is unreal. I don't know anything about those numbers. I don't even know. Oh, yeah. Which we took. An 18 is like you're pretty dumb, and a 17 is like I don't even know what's your existence.
Starting point is 01:04:33 What's the point of you? What's good? 36. Okay. 36 is perfect. 36 is perfect. So an 18 is the national average. Oh, really?
Starting point is 01:04:41 Yeah. Really? That's how they calculate what an 18 is. So it's 36 is oh what'd you get perfect i don't remember what i got oh he knows you do the sats or act uh i took them both but the act was the one that went better so that's the one that 30 no i go high 34 34 no no yeah i think i got like a 32 on it. Wow. That's great. Which was.
Starting point is 01:05:08 And we're in the same spot right now. Yeah. How does that feel? You're doing much better. That's true. Well, I had a big go at it because I knew immediately nothing was going to work out. Well, that's what I said. And I'm old and my peak is over. I'm on the way down.
Starting point is 01:05:20 Yeah. Well, that's what I said. I was like, there's not one single girl in either of these classes. And I don't even know what I'm doing here. This is not what I thought it would be. Yeah what I said. I was like, there's not one single girl in either of these classes, and I don't even know what I'm doing here. This was not what I thought it would be. Yeah, I did. It was, yeah, the 17 was not good. I remember it being very embarrassing just because it was like,
Starting point is 01:05:37 it was like the first, like, God, dude, you're just so dumb. And then I go to class. No, I didn't have classes with any friends. All my classes were like 40-year-olds going back to school. And then after that, we went to Western. But I had a great time. And after that, we went to Western Kentucky. My buddies were going to go there.
Starting point is 01:06:00 And so I transferred. I was going to go with them. And I did the orientation and all that stuff. That stuff is super fun. I love the idea of college is like the greatest. Like that's my favorite thing is like your parents drive you up there, you go eat, you go to your dorm room, your, you know, Pete was with me. And so we're and then we go in there and you're like, he's on this sleep on that side. I mean, it's the idea of what it is, which is the hang. And that's the great thing about a regular college is like you would have stayed longer for the hang.
Starting point is 01:06:32 Because the hang is, that's everything. And there's people to hang with at Southern Union, but just not in my classes. Yeah, but the hang's different though because you're going home. Yeah. Right. Like it's that when you're all like – I mean I love like the idea and setting it up and getting – well, I'm going to need this drawer to pull out and I'm going to need like that kind of stuff, dude. I could do that all day long.
Starting point is 01:06:55 I love – I could go – I think I could go pick stuff out for people. Yeah. Just because I love the idea of like setting your room up and be like, you got a little – here, you put all your keys and stuff here. And like I do it with – I get – I got so many backpacks and duffel bag like because i i always i like being like oh i'll go there i'll i like knowing where i'm going to organize my stuff and that's as far as i go and then it's like we gotta go to class you're like well that's insane dude why would i do yeah you go but you put i mean i'll give you a whole speech where i would do
Starting point is 01:07:23 my homework i'd have it all set up to go, this is perfect. I'll do it. And then I wouldn't. I failed bowling. Yeah. So, yeah, I failed bowling. I missed. Yeah, it was like.
Starting point is 01:07:35 Oh, you didn't even go to bowling? I feel like bowling would be fun to. It was. And then he's like showing you how to really keep score. And you're like, all right. I'm not. I didn't have the right mindset of go it clearly was not going to be my thing yeah you i i have that's the only thing i wish when i was younger is like i would have i'd have liked to been more aware
Starting point is 01:07:57 of be aware of what i'm doing and i don't think which is maybe not a bad thing i think i was very much always just kind of in the moment what did did you think your thing was going to be? When you were like, I'm not going to do college. I'm going to get into this. Well, that's when I ended up, I did this, like just whatever. I did this one job where we drove around. I told that job, right? The neon drunk driving simulator.
Starting point is 01:08:21 Yep. And so I did this drunk, it it was a simulator white neon that would drive drunk and you go to schools all over the country and uh wait i don't you it was a drive drunk it's uh we get the kids drunk they're at high school and we have them we drive they drive sober and then uh and then we go all right give them a few shots take them out to some bars and then we let them drive us back home. We go, see how much harder this is? And we're all laughing.
Starting point is 01:08:49 It's kind of fun. It's a good time. It's a good time. And some of them were like, you're actually better at it. We do the opposite. We go, I'm going to be honest with you, dude. You need some drinks. I would say have some drinks.
Starting point is 01:09:02 Yeah, you're less nervous behind the wheel. Loosen yourself up yeah a little get off 10 and 2 put a hand up here turn the radio up did i tell the story about old country club or when i went there like i don't know uh it i remember i'm still confused though about what this job is that sounds like a blast yeah i'll go back to it okay and then uh i remember one time this time at the country club, one of old hickory country clubs. It doesn't matter if I say it.
Starting point is 01:09:30 And this was a while. This was a while. But I remember this man was driving home, and he goes, all right, I'll take a double vodka, whatever, soda, whatever he's drinking. And he goes, I'll take a to-go cup. And it was like a new way, like bartender or something that's like, he goes, well, we can go cup and it was like a new way like bartender or something that's like i he goes well we can't he has a to-go cup he goes yeah yeah i'm i gotta go
Starting point is 01:09:50 home and he's i mean he's saying it this is not not like it was a long time ago it's it wasn't that long ago in the past 10 years but it was it was so i kind of liked it yeah i'm not i don't you shouldn't drink and drive obviously but that guy's mindset is like he was so, I kind of liked it. I'm not, I don't, you shouldn't drink and drive, obviously. But that guy's mindset is like, he was so confused to be like, what do you not understand what's happening right now? I need, what am I going to drink when I go home? And so he's like, so I drink this drink and I drive home. I've been doing it for 50, like it's this mentality.
Starting point is 01:10:23 And it's like a younger person that's like, I don't even know how to respond to 50. It's this mentality. It's like a younger person that's like, I don't even know how to respond to this. It's so crazy. And I enjoyed seeing that. Yeah. That guy hit a pole on the way home. No, don't drink and drop. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:41 Earth's flat, everybody. A lot of mixed advice here. Earth's triangle, but don't drink and drive. So we would go to these places, and the car would be, it drives like a normal car. But it is a real car. It's a real car. It's a neon, white neon. Okay.
Starting point is 01:11:01 And you'd build up a little track. Kids would come out you guys send the passenger seat i drive they drive in a circle and then uh i type in their weight and say they had seven drinks or something and their uh blood alcohol level is like two point four like something crazy and so then when they go to make the turn the steering wheel won't turn and then it turns so it's showing you like you're how delayed your response would be oh okay so then you're hitting they're hitting like cones and it's showing you like this is how delayed you are sounds like a tootsie pop licking machine to me i mean i'm like let me be the judge of who's hitting the cones here yeah you know what i mean
Starting point is 01:11:40 yeah well this was i'm gonna i didn't make the car. Right, right, right. You know. Yeah. You get mad at me. Like, I'm the guy that brought in the Tootsie Roll Pops. Look, I just delivered Tootsie Roll Pops. I don't know what to do. Like, no, but this was like a high school. It was like to go to school. It's a program to show people, you know, teaching kids not to drink and drive.
Starting point is 01:11:59 Yeah. And so, and then I did that. And then, and it was awesome. That job was great. I like to think about the kid, though, that's like, I then I did that and then, uh, and it was awesome. That job was great. I like to think about the kid though. That's like, I was going to drink and drive, but then I took that class. Yeah. I mean, but I'm saying, I don't think it's bad to be that kid that thing like that.
Starting point is 01:12:15 Like I wish I would have been, instead of being like, this is funny or whatever it is, even how I was processing it just to be the kid to be like, no, no, that no, that's like, it's, you know, to be like, it is correct. Right. You know, technically, it's a lot of, Aaron, technically. Theoretically. Yeah, there's like, there's fun, there's like a balloon, a fun balloon floating up the air. And right before it gets out of reach, Aaron just pulls it down with a gun. Technically.
Starting point is 01:12:43 And then he lets the balloon go. Yes. But he's always kind of grounded a little bit. He just kind of grabs it and goes, before this goes away, and you all start cheering the balloon, this is how it works. And then Aaron, Aaron's still fun, lets it go. Still lets it go. Bates will not let his up.
Starting point is 01:13:00 He holds it down. The string is below it, and his fist is touching the balloon. And we go, but just let it go. Everybody wants to see it. You know, let everybody see the balloon. That's accurate.
Starting point is 01:13:11 I think that's correct. Dusty, I don't know. At one point, mine didn't even have a string. Yours doesn't have a string and you go, I don't know where this balloon's going.
Starting point is 01:13:18 Dusty popped his along the way. Yeah. Show me where it goes. Yeah. You'd want to know where the balloon goes. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:24 And if the balloon had a good time, then I'd like to know where the balloon goes. Yeah, and if the balloon had a good time, then I'd like to do what the balloon's doing. So I did that job. My parents were fine wasting their time for Vol State. Not fine, but they don't mind. I think it was $1,200 or something. And I'm sure I got some kind of something, you know, not a scholarship. I got, like, you know.
Starting point is 01:13:52 Financial aid? Yeah. Oh, yeah, probably financial aid or just, yeah, like, you know, you're an idiot. A grant, like a scholarship for being poor. Yeah. Yeah. There had to be something like that. And then,
Starting point is 01:14:05 and yeah, it wasn't like, I'm, my parents are, I'm like an old car that you're like, I'm not going to put a bunch of money into this. Like,
Starting point is 01:14:11 it's not, it's not going to be around much longer. It's not going to be, yeah. It's like, they kind of, so the writing was on the wall
Starting point is 01:14:17 to be like, $1,200. It's not even worth $1,200. Yeah. I don't think I can get, sell it for $1,200. Yeah. Like, and then, so when I went to Western, it was this semester. Because I don't think I can sell it for $1,200. Yeah. And then so when I went to Western, it was a semester, and it just wasn't.
Starting point is 01:14:28 And that one, though, that's a real college. And they're like, well, you can't go up there, and you're wasting everybody's time. But I had a very fun time there for the semester I went, the Hilltoppers. And Nappy Roots went there when I went to there. All right. So then I did that. Then I came back here, and I worked, you know, delivered stuff. And then I worked for the water company.
Starting point is 01:14:51 I would have just done that. I would have done, you know. Well, I'd probably still be at the West Wilson Water Company. Like, because it was, like, a good, solid job. And, like, you could have just, you know. Yeah. Moved on. I had a similar moment at Western Kentucky.
Starting point is 01:15:04 You're talking about where you just kind of realized maybe this isn't for me. I had that moment with athletics. I went to a lineman camp at Western Kentucky when I was in high school. And I remember the strength and conditioning coach of Western Kentucky. He kept walking up to people and asking, how hot is your urine? And these big guys would scream back, steaming hot. And I remember him asking that to me, and I'm like, I just not, I can't do this, man.
Starting point is 01:15:31 I don't want to scream how hot my urine is. It's the mentality. I go, I admire these guys. These guys are just built different for me. I'm not going to succeed. Did you ever yell, steaming hot? I think, babe, I mean, you get swept up in it, man. You start screaming. You scream whatever they want going to succeed. Did you ever yell steaming hot? I think maybe. I mean, you get swept up in it, man. You start screaming.
Starting point is 01:15:47 You scream whatever they want you to scream. In the beginning, you're like, what? Yeah, yeah, steaming hot. I should have yelled normal. I hope normal. I hope it's like whatever the average temperature is. I hope that's what I'm putting out. What should it be, sir?
Starting point is 01:16:01 What should it be? Yeah, yeah, 80, whatever my body temperature is. It is funny. You need that warrior mentality. Totally. And if you have any of that kind of like, I don't want to yell out. I feel uncomfortable. Yeah, and I respect the people that do have it.
Starting point is 01:16:15 And I just remember thinking, this just isn't for me. Like, I can't. I'm just not that guy who can scream about his urine to other guys. What about hot urine makes you tough? It was just sort of a rallying cry. You got a kidney that works fast. How hot is your urine? And they were going nuts about it.
Starting point is 01:16:35 Yeah. I don't know. I'm tapping out. When y'all go to the locker room and you take your pads off, you're sitting next to the guy and you just go, a lot of urine talk, huh? You just say that. Just trying to get a gauge on, you know, just to see if the other,
Starting point is 01:16:55 he goes, and then he's like, I don't think there's enough urine talk. All right, I think I'm not in the right spot. It's good to meet you, dude. Yeah, it's good to meet you. I'm going to be rooting for you guys so much, but this is insane. This is insane. I don't even want my urine to be ruined for you guys so much. But this is insane. This is insane. I don't even want my urine to be that hot. Yeah. I go, and who's filling it?
Starting point is 01:17:11 How would you know? That's a good point. Who's, yeah. I guess if it's steaming hot, you can see it, but, you know. That's what you should have said. When they go steaming hot, and he comes to you, how hot's your urine? You go, I don't touch it like all of you do. So I don't know
Starting point is 01:17:25 and a real and then you probably play quarterback yeah then they probably trimmed you down you're like dad i don't want to play football anymore and he's like why and they're like every they're just talking about urine in there all night all night long it's like what what? Is it cold? Mine's on the colder side. I run cold. Ice cold. Ice cold. Yeah. Yeah, maybe it is like more tough to be. Mine's cold.
Starting point is 01:17:53 You're like, because I don't feel anything inside. Oh, yeah. I could have spun it on him. Yeah. I could have spun it on him. I got ice in my veins. I don't even have urine. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:01 I haven't urinated in years. Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. I haven't urinated in years. Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. College. The reason college was created, at least in the United States,
Starting point is 01:18:16 was to train ministers. It was a thing. Training ministers to go out and spread the word. Well, it took a turn from there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean. Well, you took a turn from there. Yeah. At Harvard. Yeah. I mean.
Starting point is 01:18:26 Well, you don't even know that. At Harvard, their rules were to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, and it's the only foundation for all sound knowledge and learning. That was at Harvard. At Yale, if you didn't believe in the Bible, it was a campus crime. So yeah, things have changed. I think it's the exact opposite. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:44 But I believe in the Bible. This ain't your place. So there's a difference between college and university. Maybe I got an old rule book. Yeah. If you go on, yeah, that would be to question it and go like,
Starting point is 01:18:58 yeah, I think I'm meant for an earlier time with Yale. Maybe a little bit late. A little bit late. And I thought Yale was spelled Y-E-L-L. I've been lost in the woods. Yale University.
Starting point is 01:19:13 Yee-yee. That would have been, if you're smart enough to go to Yale and they had to fill out some great thing, you got to be super smart where it's brilliant.
Starting point is 01:19:25 You should spell it Y-E-L-L-T. It's this thing, the professor, whatever, however they do, they're weeping, this is so good. And then it's spelled Yale, and you're like, how can he be that? Just throw them off to be like, I don't know. That blows me away. There was a guy who faked his way through Harvard.
Starting point is 01:19:46 He faked his entry, whatever you got to do to fill out, and he got all the scholarship money because they thought he was so great. And he just kept getting other scholarships, and he made it to a senior year at Harvard, and then he applied for the Rhodes Scholarship, which is like the biggest one there is. At Harvard, and then he applied for the Rhodes Scholarship, which is like the biggest one there is. And finally, somebody noticed something that wasn't right and called him out on it.
Starting point is 01:20:13 And then he left Harvard, just bolted. But he didn't stop. Then he tried to get some scholarships at some other schools. And he finally got caught, and I think they made him pay back all the scholarship money that he found. But he was a senior at Harvard and just faked the whole thing. Was he able to,
Starting point is 01:20:31 he had to take tests, or he cheated or something? I guess he just lied about what he got on his ACT or SAT, all that stuff. He just faked it. His name's Adam Wheeler. And I think there's books about him. I think there may be a movie about him.
Starting point is 01:20:45 I love that they're not checking. He said, what'd you get on your ACT? Oh, 36. Yeah. Ooh. Oh, very good. Yeah. 37.
Starting point is 01:20:51 Yeah. They go, wow. Yeah, I think he just, it was so convincing. And he had letters of recommendation. And they were really excited to have him. And apparently he was smart enough to make it senior year at Harvard. Yeah, he was succeeding after college. He just had to they
Starting point is 01:21:06 weren't gonna let him in i guess seems like this is the guy you want it's yeah i look i'm i'm it's a weird balance of like i don't know if i'm totally against i'm not saying you do that but like if i was at harvard and that guy did it and if he could if he was legit like A's in classes and stuff you're like this is a guy you want on your he thinks outside he's thinking outside the box like he's you know it's like he's not just a robot that's like doing stuff what's he up to these days is he a success or did he a lot of drinking and driving I don't know what he's doing these days but i mean he was definitely smart enough to fool a lot of people for a long time he just kept going too much um so there's a difference between college and university college is usually one particular field
Starting point is 01:21:59 where universities are more widespread at least in in the United States, different. Like there's the college business and things like that. But in England, they call college university. I'm going to uni. Uni. Uni. Uni. And there, college is like a preparatory for uni. It's more like what, kind of like what we'd call high school.
Starting point is 01:22:22 I think they do like two years. And then when they're 16, they go to college, and then they go to uni. And college, or uni, is three years there. Yeah. Crazy how wrong they are, you know? Uni seems like the least cool thing to say what you're up to. Yeah, but to go to uni. That sounds like what we would say.
Starting point is 01:22:42 Yeah. For our experiences. Yeah. Like, yeah, uni one or two days one or two days called community yeah yeah community yeah it's a community yeah and i spent a lot of time there you've been arrested no it's a college what percentage of americans you guys would think has a college degree uh 25 like a bachelor's degree yeah no one knows what that means well i was about to do this four years it's a four-year degree associates is two-year 25. Like a bachelor's degree? Yeah. No one knows what that means.
Starting point is 01:23:06 Well, I was about to do the degree. It's a four-year degree. Associates is two-year, then bachelor, then master's, then doctorate. I'm going third. Master's is another two. Master's is after bachelor. Yeah, how many years is that? Yeah, I think it is usually two, right? It can be one year. It depends on the
Starting point is 01:23:22 program. That kind of speeds up. I would think to go get a master's sounds so good. I didn't know they were just handing them out in a year. Go from a bachelor to a master. Four years to go. I got a bachelor. Then you want a master?
Starting point is 01:23:37 Just come over in about 15 minutes. Just hang around. I mean, that's Vecchione's night college. Yeah. That he went to. I'm guessing, yeah, 30% is a good, I think. I'm guessing. The exact number, I'll say. 35.
Starting point is 01:23:52 27. Go a little higher. 27. I'm sticking with 30. 38. Wow. I almost said 38. I thought that was low.
Starting point is 01:24:01 What? I thought it would have been higher than that. I bet a lot of people go, but just actually complete. To finish, yeah, I bet it's different. Well, it's even got that. So 90% graduate high school. That's good. Wow. Or get a GED.
Starting point is 01:24:15 You threw that little one in. Yeah. They got to get the number up to 90. 90% or should have. 61% go to some college uh yeah about 37 get a college degree bachelor's degree and then 13 get a master's and one to two percent get a doctorate and what's a doctor and doctorate means you're like you can put doctor in front of your thing it's a phd can you get it in anything? I think so, yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:45 You could be, you know, you go get a doctorate in... Bowling? Yeah. Or like, you have to, in one of the, in business. Yeah, yeah. That's an MBA.
Starting point is 01:24:54 Well, that's a, no, that's the master's MBA. Yeah. Oh. Master's of business. But you can be called a doctor without being a doctor, right? Without being a medical doctor.
Starting point is 01:25:04 That's a doctrine? Yeah, like, that's a doctrine yeah like that's a phd and not md and then you just go around correcting people all the time you go no it's doctor and what are they doing they're just like holding some information back they don't tell the masters people yeah that's like scientology you pay a little bit more will reveal the real secrets yeah and then there's a post-doctorate a post-doc post-doctorate what are they doing just people not trying to live with their parents for as long as they're just trying to yeah let me just spend my entire life learning about something yeah pretty what else do you keep learning when do you learn when do you go that's enough i you learn? When do you go, that's enough? I don't think it's about like there's more,
Starting point is 01:25:49 like there's still more to uncover. It's pursuing it more. You write these theses and you do your own work and try to contribute to the field in some way. And then you earn your post-doctorate degree. To me, it feels like college might be dragged out more than it should be. It can be. It can be a lot. Yeah, because it feels like college might be dragged out more than it should be. It can be. It can be a lot. Yeah, because it's so much money now, so it's in their best interest to do that.
Starting point is 01:26:12 I would think experience is, I think, the greatest thing. So I could see you going to, let's say going to what's the other schools called? The trade school or something like that. They're probably like, hey, we're showing you how to do all this stuff and then you got to go figure it out. It's like, that should be like that in regular college. Yeah, you go learn to weld and then you become a welder
Starting point is 01:26:34 and then you're better at welding. And then you go get a welding job. Like they should do that with college. That's a lot of, people do do a lot of that with internships and things. You have real world experience. Like Cole. Cole started college at Auburn, with college. That's a lot of, people do do a lot of that with internships and things. Yeah. You have real world experience. Like Cole.
Starting point is 01:26:48 Cole started college at Auburn, but he has an internship here. That's true. He's going to be prepared. Cole will be prepared. We prepared a young man for college. To go. Cole's going to be here next year.
Starting point is 01:26:57 He goes, that's college. I'm stupid. I don't believe in it. He goes, all right. He goes, you know the Earth Triangle?
Starting point is 01:27:04 All right. that's the message i'm trying to get across yes yeah the most common major since 1980 is business yeah yeah it's the easiest to say yeah it's the yeah there's a lot of under pressure you go i don't know what to say it's like you may not know that any other field exists but you know business is happening i don't know if i've even been that broad like you know not know that any other field exists, but you know business is happening out there. I don't know if I would have even been that broad. Like, you know, they're like, what do you want to major in? I'd be like, basketball. And they go, okay, okay.
Starting point is 01:27:34 I should have asked what some options were. I think I did communications. Communications is nice. But I just, I did not know what that meant. Yeah. But I just, I think I was like, I guess maybe I could talk about sports radio. Yeah. But I looked at it as I was interviewing to be a sports radio guy.
Starting point is 01:27:53 Like that's in my head. George Costanza. Yeah. I took speech. I got an A. Oh, yeah. I got an A in speech. A in speech, F in bowling.
Starting point is 01:28:01 Is speech a college class? I minored in speech. You took, your class was called speech? Different types of speech, yeah. What was the title? Did you go in and go, welcome to speech? There was one that was like. Mine was called speech.
Starting point is 01:28:21 It was spelled speech. I went to speech. I don't know if it was just speech i feel like there was always another word attached to it i don't remember now but my minor wasn't i mean you aren't that different i majored in mass communications because i wanted to be a sports broadcaster and yeah but i never even i know but as far as what our goal was it was similar i had no goal and that was the problem that's the thing college is if you don't have a goal that's probably a good i've never had a goal yeah if you don't have a goal like it's like then don't then don't waste your time like my dad went to college late which was good like he was like
Starting point is 01:28:55 25 or something whatever it was 26 and uh i was born and uh that's the oh the picture of me and him up there is Trevecca. He went to Trevecca. Derek went to Trevecca. And they – so – but I would think, yeah, if you don't have a – if you don't, like, know what you want to go do, it's, you know, you should at least have an idea. Like, to be like, no, I kind of – at the end of high school, I think that's what I would have liked to have been like. Maybe i would have liked to know what i was going to go do more i think most people don't really know when they start to college i don't even know if i knew the general
Starting point is 01:29:32 area yeah like there was not even uh because you'll have to declare a major till much later yeah and but in england from what i read you have to declare a major when you pick your college yeah yeah i would think if think if you're out there, like if you're like, I know what I want to, and it could change. You're always going to be open to like, that's the fun part I think about life is like, you got to go, I want to do this,
Starting point is 01:29:56 but I'm also open that I might end up hating this and then I'll end up doing the opposite of this. Yeah. Because that's a lot of times happens. But like I would say, if you don't know anything, if you don't have a goal to go to it's like then just go don't go and then just be like i'm gonna go work some odd jobs and i want to kind of just see what i'm like into and then you know and then you just see from there you might i mean if i would have known how many jobs there were i think that's the thing too you don't known how many jobs there were, I think that's the thing, too. You don't know how many jobs there are.
Starting point is 01:30:25 Like, you don't know shooting, y'all shooting this stuff here. Like, that's a job. Like, so you don't think, I did it. I'm sure smart people do. I had no idea. But you don't think of, like, anything. Like, people that make commercials, people that do the music and song, you know, and movies or whatever.
Starting point is 01:30:46 I don't know, being a ref. Whatever it could be. Building a stadium. Get a degree in basketball. You can get on that. City planning. Architect. I'd like to plan a city.
Starting point is 01:31:02 I would like to plan a city. I think you will. It'll be your own city. You're going to play SimCity? Yeah. I think it was you who got me back into SimCity a couple years ago. Yeah, I mean, I had to delete it off my phone so I could retake my life back. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:31:15 Just took over? I haven't. Where do you do it, on the phone? Just on my phone? Yeah, it's like, I don't know what happens. I just get into it. You come in, you collect all your money, and you set things up, and then you can't come back for you know several hours and then my wife kept catching me
Starting point is 01:31:29 uh collected my money she hates video games now finding myself late at night in a hotel room rearranging the city yeah i'm like what's going on here? Lowering the taxes, see what happens. Yeah. Yeah, all that kind of stuff. It's fun. The oldest college in the United States is Harvard, 1636. Wow. Wow. But in other countries, like Oxford University started in 1096. And there's some even older than that.
Starting point is 01:32:02 1096. How's it doing? I bet we could relate to the 10 people with being a 2000 people. Like it's a weird. What do you mean? Like 2030, 2037, 20, like it sounds weird. Like to them, they're like, it's 1018. It's 10, no? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:32:21 I don't know if I get what you mean. I guess they went to. The date or like the year. The year. Year 1036. Yeah. And we're like if I get what you mean. I guess they went to- The date or like the year. The year. Year 1036. Yeah. We're like 10- We're like 21, 22.
Starting point is 01:32:30 It's like 20, like when it was like 1904 always sounds like right. But when you're the zero, 2124 is when Columbus came know when columbus came from the mars to jupiter that's the new columbus and and then so uh but like back then 10 if you were like you know when you go to school uh 10 31 you're like yeah that's weird yeah and that's like you know we're not like i graduated in 2020 2022. And that's like, you know, we're not like, I graduated in 2020. 2022 sounds good. But, you know, when you get to 2028 and you're like, that's weird. It was especially big for the 10s, though, because they just came from when the date was only three numbers.
Starting point is 01:33:16 You know what I mean? It was like not the 1900s. That was crazy. The 900s. Four digits. Yeah. My God. We've been around a while.
Starting point is 01:33:22 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You were born back in the 900s? Dude, you're old. Yeah. Yeah. My God, we've been around a while. Yeah. You were born back in the 900s? Dude, you're old. Yeah. Yeah. So, Harper's...
Starting point is 01:33:30 That would be to have to say, when were you born? But I used to also could say 99. But then it would be like, you could be born in 99, and then it's 1099, which is probably where the tax thing came from that year. That's right. That's when they started doing taxes. That's when they started doing taxes. And then you're like, no, 999. Right, right.
Starting point is 01:33:57 You're like, that's going to be our prices for a good deal. If you went back and talked to someone that was... I was born in 999. You go, I never not buy anything that's born in 999. I'll take you right now. I think they bought people back then too. Well, most of the oldest colleges in the U.S. are in the Ivy League. Although William & Mary is second oldest. And Penn claims to be the oldest
Starting point is 01:34:22 because they said they were the first university. Harvard was a college. But most people say it's Harvard. The largest university, just on actual size. Texas. It's close. Ohio State? I think it's third. Talking about in terms of the number of kids that go there?
Starting point is 01:34:40 Enrolled there, yeah. Michigan. UCF. UCF was number one for a long time. It just dropped to two. USA. I'll just tell you. Texas A&M.
Starting point is 01:34:51 Ooh. They have 73,000 students last year. And Central Florida has 70,000. That's so many kids. Yeah. So the big thing now a lot of kids do is the gap year. Malia Obama took a gap year before she went to Harvard. And now it's a little bit what you were saying about getting out and seeing the world first.
Starting point is 01:35:12 Now they go to Europe or something crazy. But it's kind of encouraged at these big schools. We go work at McDonald's for a year. The real world. My gap year would have been a little different from malia obama's yeah our gap year is like man i should get into college yeah you get my yeah i had a gap year because they wouldn't let me go to college right so they made me wait it out and go just look dude just go deliver pizzas see the county and then decide. See the county.
Starting point is 01:35:50 Get out there and see the county. Get out there, dude. You don't know what is in Davidson County. Go check it all out. Maybe hop over to Wilson, see what they're doing. I'm about to go to Wilson, see Wilson County Fair So yeah gap years have really Increased since the pandemic More and more students are doing that
Starting point is 01:36:11 And some people take a gap year After college before they get out in the working world Just it's their last time to live it up I would think Before I guess you gotta have some money I mean like that's the thing That's the thing that frustrates frustrates me with uh i even like people that could write this or suggest this this is the thing that makes me the most mad is you want to go no one can afford to do this
Starting point is 01:36:36 what are you talking about like to be like it's good to go take a gap year of course it would be if your parents have the money that you can go to Europe or you can go travel. And I'm not even saying those people can't do it. They should go do that. But don't then go tell other people this is what you should do. Be like, well, we can't afford it. I don't get to fly there. And then they take out massive loans that just for decades.
Starting point is 01:37:01 That's my biggest problem with almost the world. Not that there's a lot of problems, but like the talking is the people that can afford to do stuff. They just act like they don't remember. And it's not like my parents did awesome. They did. They did everything, sacrificed everything to get me to even where I'm at even today, but even back then. But, you know, just as when I was their their age i couldn't afford to send my daughter anywhere but it's like you don't just act like every boy you should all be doing this and you're like yeah that sounds amazing we should all be going to harvard we should yeah
Starting point is 01:37:35 we should all go to harvard you're right but they're not gonna let us all go to harvard like that kind of stuff is that's that i have the biggest problem with that. Yeah, it's annoying. It's a very disconnect of just going like, did you not grow up – like I know she didn't because you're – Malia? Yeah. But like Obama, like I don't think that he grew up with anything. But you want to go – and it's like – and they're not saying this. So I'm not saying he's saying it.
Starting point is 01:38:01 But it's like the idea though is a lot of like elite. Like they tell – they just – and that's the thing. They're saying he's saying that. But it's like the idea, though, is a lot of elite. And that's the thing they're saying on podcasts. They say it on commercials, on TV shows. They're like, well, kids should be doing this. I don't think you should go get married until you're in your 30s. You're like, yeah, dude, that's you. Right, right. There's other people that don't, that want to get married at 24,
Starting point is 01:38:19 and that's when they should get married. And maybe they do whatever they want to go do. Don't act like you figured life out, and then you're like, well, everybody should do it this way or we'd have a great life. You're like, well, there's a lot of circumstances. Yeah. And majority of them. Yeah, just being out of touch with reality. Yes.
Starting point is 01:38:37 Yeah, I mean, people act like if they have a lot of money that they don't think that they have a lot of money. They just think this is how everyone is yeah they i mean they don't even yeah it doesn't even meaning right to them to go like well why don't you do that i mean that they had that with covet where it was like you know why are you gonna shut everything down you're like yeah dude you don't see these small businesses like that's a person's as a dry cleaners like celebrities are like just stay home yeah it's like well some of us have to how is your covid you make sourdough it's like no i was working i had an actual job worked the whole time yeah they had with like howard stern does it where he goes so crazy about covid and you're like
Starting point is 01:39:17 you have to live you live in a house that everybody in america would be like hey you got to go live in that house and you can't leave it and we'd all be like okay yeah yeah thank you sounds great it's that and then it's like why are we going back and you're like i mean do do you not think about i always think those people can't they either think they're they're so rich that the only thing they can think of is like homeless on the street poor and that's the only poor that they know they don't know like a single mom trying to make it by they only know like well he's on the street and then you're like yeah but i mean the most everybody else is trying to barely stay off the street are those people that are making just enough to like all their money is being used they're not
Starting point is 01:40:03 you know they don't feel like they're poor or anything but like all their money is being used they're not you know they don't feel like they're poor or anything but like all their money's being used they're not you know they're trying to barely put some way like no one thinks about which is would be the middle class there but but it's like that kind of thing is what's crazy to me is like they do but they just think homeless and they say well i just stay home and you're like no one can stay home dude no one can do like just have some normalcy no one can take a gap year they call they're calling it they get a name for it the gap year how do you have a name for it the gap year was we were not allowed to go to school right right or your parents couldn't afford it or whatever it is whatever reason it's not it's not on your it's not your parents fault either it's like what do
Starting point is 01:40:38 you have to take all the loans my parents and my dad went out to do all that stuff like everybody has to do that so you don't get to go. I took it. There's no name for it. It's like I- Yeah, either you go to college and work or you just work. Yeah. Yeah. It's like calling it a vacation. They have a name for it.
Starting point is 01:40:56 It's a gap year. It's like, oh, I took a gap year. Then other people, other well-off people are like, well, that's a great idea. You should take a gap year. You want to go, I'm actually fine with all them having that conversation and that person taking the gap here and i think that's great and you should yeah you know what you should take a gap here but and be like that's fine you do all that stuff but at least let's acknowledge or you should acknowledge that you're able to choose when and where you want to go to college, which is insane.
Starting point is 01:41:28 And enough to go, I don't need to go right now. Everybody's good enough to go. I don't need. I'm not trashing those people. I just, the idea that it's like, let's not forget us that are like, we're driving to Vol State. If you're wealthy enough to take the gap year and not be a big deal, you probably don't even need to go to college.
Starting point is 01:41:51 Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're just doing it for fun. But I mean, I bet people do it that are not wealthy enough. Like, it's not. Those people, I don't mind. Some people, I think, backpack somewhere, and their goal is to find cheap ways just to live. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:42:06 Like hostels. Yeah. I'll be honest with you. This whole argument now could be, cause it could be actually people that don't have money or don't come from something and they're like, no, I just,
Starting point is 01:42:16 but they were smart enough to know to, or they thought outside the box enough to go, I want to go do this. I've enjoyed it. It felt very passionate and it felt like we all accomplished something. That's true. It felt good. Oh,
Starting point is 01:42:27 you like this. Yeah. Yeah. It felt like this, this, this part of the podcast, we were like, yes,
Starting point is 01:42:32 this is making sense. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I felt good about it. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of times when we do that,
Starting point is 01:42:37 people are like, that's. Yeah. Well, Nate just changed his mind in the last second. Yeah. At the end, I just,
Starting point is 01:42:41 well, I, then I think about it. I'm like, well, it is true. I bet people do think about it. But I think people do it.
Starting point is 01:42:47 Because I'll end up blaming it on, I think it's like, well, that's all the rich people. And that's exactly what they're doing. So I'm trying to remind myself not to do that and go there's going to be levels of everywhere because I'm saying that. So I don't need to just go attack the top. So I need to remind myself to go down. It's always in the middle. It's always in the middle. It's right. To top. So I need to remind myself to go down.
Starting point is 01:43:05 It's always in the middle. It's always in the middle. It's always in the middle. He could just take some time and drink for a year. You know, I did that. That's what Dusty did. I dragged it out for 10. Gap decade.
Starting point is 01:43:15 Yeah, gap decade. Lost a lot of memories. Spent a week in there one month. Yeah, exactly. Is that right? Yeah. First college football game was in 1869. Princeton versus Rutgers.
Starting point is 01:43:29 Rutgers won six to four. Barn burner. Yeah. I didn't realize just how different college football was at the turn of the century. Like early 1900s, it was basically kind of like rugby. Let the ball bounce back then. Yeah. There was no forward pass, so they just lined up.
Starting point is 01:43:47 There was no pads, no helmets. This was before even leather helmets. And they just locked arms and just tried to push the ball ahead like a battering ram. Red Rover, Red Rover. And it was five yards for a first down. It got so bad that in 1905, there were 19 deaths and 159 serious injuries in college football wow and
Starting point is 01:44:08 theodore roosevelt uh whose son played at harvard and got hurt uh said we got to do something about this so they formed what was eventually the ncaa to kind of come up with some rules for safety in the next year that's when the the Ford Pass came in to play. And where was that invented? Notre Dame. University of Notre Dame. All right. The Ford Pass.
Starting point is 01:44:31 Y'all were so smart. We were the first people to think, let's throw it. Let's throw it forward. Golly, that's why it's so expensive to go there. Because you guys, you know, all these gorillas throwing a ball backwards and the Notre Dame comes popping up and then they start and their dresses throw it forward. But, I mean, even the rules were passes that crossed the goal line
Starting point is 01:44:54 resulted in a touchback to the other team. The pass went out of bounds. The other team gets the ball there. If the pass hits the ground without being touched, it's a turnover. And they were still having deaths, like the next year, 11 deaths. I mean, the guys were just dying. So they finally kept changing the rules to spread it out where passing became a real thing.
Starting point is 01:45:14 It's amazing that football is safer now. I mean, I don't know. You just would think back then. Well, there's a mix. I don't know if it's safe. Well, you're not dying, but you're like. They're not dying on the field, but they're getting. It's a slow death.
Starting point is 01:45:28 Yeah. It's like you could, I don't know. It's like a mix. But there's so much bigger now. But I think there was probably, there was a somewhat sweet spot of like where they had leather helmets and they had this kind of thing. And it seemed like there was like people didn't get, because you wouldn't hit with your head. Like not wearing a helmet. Right. It's like people are not just line driving yeah the irony of it is the
Starting point is 01:45:48 safest thing to do for your head would be to get rid of the helmets completely almost it really would like it would be if you got rid of your helmet yeah then it could be uh because you wouldn't be using it as a weapon yeah you wouldn't be hitting people i mean you wouldn't dive with your helmet you know i'm sure someone would, but you would tackle. I think the pessimist in me thinks football will not be around in 15 years. 15? 15, 20 years. I think it's going to be, if it is still around,
Starting point is 01:46:16 it's going to be drastically different than it is now. It's going to be some sort of watered-down version of it. I'm trying to enjoy it while I can. I just think the more we learn about what it does to people, of yeah some sort of watered down version of it yeah i'm trying to enjoy it while i can i just think the more we learn about what it does to people it's it's it's not good it's not good for you well it's like but yeah there's a mix of that though i mean these guys are going off to war but you have to like in a war and the fact of what the sport they're playing yeah and but if you ask them if they want to play then you're like they're going to play like that totally that's the thing
Starting point is 01:46:44 that it's kind of gonna look you keep trying to make it be safe but you also got to be like these guys want to play i so i don't know what to you know it's not like we're you're forcing people into this world no of course not you're you're doing it and they're continuing to find a better way to do it uh i hope you're right. I hope they find a way. I hope they do. I understand that it could be the – I could see it where it gets – I don't think it will go away. It could be very different. I bet what kills it more than anything is these conferences all coming together.
Starting point is 01:47:21 And I think it's going to just become not fun. And you're going to just see where it's going to be your there's five teams that are great who are you know there'll be five but there will be 10 to 20 and the other ones are going to just be like i mean what are we doing like there's no end goal that you could even what are you striving why am i even wasting my time to watch yeah that would be the fear. And on top of it, they could throw in people getting hurt, blah, blah, and all this kind of stuff. But it could end up becoming that.
Starting point is 01:47:52 But maybe the NFL then just become, you know, that's what college. But maybe the NFL, you know, it ends up, I don't know. Up until 1936, there was no polls. So teams, schools could just claim a national championship. So Vanderbilt has two national championships. All right. I remember that. 1921, 1922.
Starting point is 01:48:10 We went undefeated? Yep. I think there was a tie each year. Oh. Legit. No one calls it. It's legit. One of the years, the game they dedicated Dudley Field,
Starting point is 01:48:23 that was one of their ties, 0-0. Not an exciting game. I've been to a few of those at Vanderbilt. Since the poll era from 1936, Alabama has the most national championships. Notre Dame's second. All right, so some people have lied on their college resume and been called about it. The most memorable is one of Notre Dame's coaches.
Starting point is 01:48:47 George O'Leary. George O'Leary was hired at Notre Dame in 2001, lied about his college background. They did a story on him where I think he said he went to the University of New Hampshire to play football. They called his old school. They were like, he never played here. Five days later, he had to resign or got fired.
Starting point is 01:49:03 Oh, that was like recent? 2001. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Do you remember this? I do remember. I was young, but I remember it being a big deal.
Starting point is 01:49:11 And then Charlie Weiss came after that. No, Ty Willingham came after him. Okay. Oh, yeah. I think. Yeah, yeah. It was crazy. I remember that.
Starting point is 01:49:17 I've faked my resume, too. I grew up next to Auburn, right? So I know a lot about Auburn, or I used to know, I would know buildings and bars and camp. And I was hanging out in Charleston and I was at this party and there were all these girls there. And I was like in this circle of people and they were all these very attractive women. And it was, you know, my game was on, I was hitting the money lines and you know, and they were like talking about where they went to college. And then they looked at me and they were like, where did you go?
Starting point is 01:49:48 And I was like, Auburn, you know, because I'm like, I'm not gonna, you don't drop the, oh, actually I didn't go to college line in that moment. So I lied and they were like, oh, great. My cousin went there and I was able to roll with the conversation. It was really great. And I kept, they were my neighbors. I kept this going for months. And then finally it got too much for me to where I was like,
Starting point is 01:50:10 I got to tell you, I never went to college. And they instantly stopped being my friend. Wow. It changed. Good for them. Yeah, yeah. Because they were like, this guy's a known liar down here. Yeah, I agree with them.
Starting point is 01:50:23 Yeah, the lie was way worse than never having gone to college. Well, who knows, though? In the moment, maybe if I'd have been, I didn't ever went to college, maybe we would have stopped being friends right then. Yeah. We would have been like, who's this? I bet they would have stayed with you. But I think still you're like, oh, you told them the truth.
Starting point is 01:50:40 Yeah, it wasn't premeditated. I mean, we saw each other here and there. I don't mean they you know burned the building down and rode out but it was yeah it was very awkward for you but it was a noticeable change i confessed i was like listen you guys are my friends i gotta let you know and then it it really changed the whole relationship yeah and you lost them all as friends yeah i mean what are they doing it was inevitable i don't. I was drinking a lot. I mean, I would lose them anyway. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:51:05 It was going to happen. It was like, this wasn't going to be. Nothing to do with them. I lost lots of friends. Yeah. And I was good at making them, good at losing them. It was a real. Would you lie a lot?
Starting point is 01:51:15 I wouldn't lie. I almost never lied. But, you know, I was in a situation where I was like, oh, man. You were crushing. These girls are very attractive, and I'm having a good time here. I had a thought about lying this weekend like i was sick of this that it's like the biggest form of laziness is lying because it's like so instead of actually having to go do the thing that you want to go do it's easier just to lie yeah and then so once you start doing it and it can come easier
Starting point is 01:51:40 it's like you're almost like your lying problem is like you're like you're lazy now lying can be and actually it's extremely it's extremely not lazy yes because you have to keep up with so much but it starts for a lazy reason yeah and then you get so like you know your life would be easier if you just told the truth even if just by telling the truth you'd have to explain more then that's lazy to just be like i'll just lie i'll just don't have to explain yeah it's like you are you want to be this thing that you want to appear as this thing and instead of being like well i'm saying i didn't go to college and having to go like it just wasn't for me or whatever that kind of thing is yeah it's you could just go i'll just say this and you kind of like almost hope it stops i I guess there. Yeah. And then that's the easiest thing.
Starting point is 01:52:25 And it's being super lazy or you're, or you're creating instead of going to be the greatest, you know, uh, I don't know, baseball player of all time or, or one of the best, whatever you want to make it up to believe.
Starting point is 01:52:39 And then you're like, well, I'll just tell people I did it. Cause I don't want to do the work to actually make myself get, I guess a lot of people I think could actually have the talent to go do it. But it's so hard to go every day and the obsession you have to have to become great at whatever you want to become that the laser route is to lie, which then becomes the actually –
Starting point is 01:53:02 It's much worse. It becomes much harder. It becomes much harder i that's like everything it's drinking that's it like everything becomes a point that you think the easiest route eating bad the easiest route is to eat bad that's the easiest thing to do it's it's just i'm not thinking about it whatever and the hardest part is flipping that because you think your life is a lot easier when you actually don't eat that because you are not tired constantly and you're not miserable and you're not you don't realize how
Starting point is 01:53:30 much your mood is your food but it's hard to like you know well that's where stand-up helped me because i was like i was insecure for a long time about not going to college right because when you just work in a regular, but you also didn't go to college, you're like, I don't know. I always felt weird about it. So then I grew up in a trailer and then I didn't go to college and now I'm selling pesticides. So I'm like, when I started doing comedy and then I'm like, oh, now it's almost like a prideful thing that I didn't go to college. But in that moment, I was hit with insecurity and i was like oh no i got to keep this rolling yeah and yeah but i never liked it i was like this is not fun it was fun to you
Starting point is 01:54:12 know i was cool i was being cool and it was that was a lot of fun but auburn you go war he's a young war eagle oh yeah i mean i'll still do that and i know you're an alabama fan too yeah i'll roll war eagle but i know more more about Auburn than I do Alabama. Lying, you felt better. Yes. Yeah. Because I know the campus. I know the restaurants, at least at that time.
Starting point is 01:54:30 Yeah, yeah. So you'd be good. Yeah. I like saying at that time, like now. I haven't been there long. You're like, I might still try to lie, but stuff will be outdated. Yeah, right, right, right. Naming restaurants that have been gone for years.
Starting point is 01:54:43 Yeah, Auburn. Oh, I went down to the old Zoomer hot dogs. He goes, what? That was my grandfather's Zoomer hot dog. Your grandfather did Zoomer hot dogs over at Auburn. He ran it? Yeah, he ran it. He goes, yeah, I used to eat there all the time.
Starting point is 01:55:01 I did one other time. I was at an Auburn party, and this girl asked me uh and i said i went to the college and then i she was like what are you majoring in i think i said fashion and she goes oh uh no no she said she does fashion i had a cousin going to college doing fashion so i lied and then she knew my cousin and i just started talking to her about my cousin and the lie fell apart immediately it was never going to happen but i was like oh at least we got something to talk about i never was good at lying that's why i don't like to do it wait so you were going to school for fashion no i i i think i was talking to her i told her i was going i'm pretty sure i lied and said business she said fashion but my cousin was
Starting point is 01:55:39 going to auburn for fashion i was like oh do you know my cousin and then we talked and she did she did so then you're like, she's going to see through it going, so does he go to college? I think then I just had an end of conversation and then I didn't care. So this is a regular story and not a lie story. I lied for a moment.
Starting point is 01:55:58 But nothing came from it. What was the moment you lied? I said I was going to college there. And then once I found out... Oh, you're saying you're going to college. What was the moment you lied? I said I was going to college there. And then once I found out. Oh, you were saying you were going to college. Yeah. There's the lie. All right.
Starting point is 01:56:09 It was just, I was drunk. Yeah, yeah. And I was like. Yeah, yeah. Having a good time? Yeah, just having a good time out here. You know what I mean? All right.
Starting point is 01:56:18 I have to run. And I don't think we really got into. No. We barely scratched the surface. We got a lot more. So we will do a college too, I think. Yeah. And so college, do we record next week?
Starting point is 01:56:31 Yeah. We'll do it next week. So we'll come right back after this. We'll do the master's. This was the bachelor's episode. We'll do the master's episode. This was like the community. This was community college.
Starting point is 01:56:41 This was me and Dusty's career at college. That's how little we got into it. Yeah. So we're getting to all the other ins and outs of it next week. And yeah, so as always, I'll be out. I'm out somewhere. New Hampton Beach, Toledo, Ohio this week. New Hampton Beach, Massachusetts. uh new hampton beach toledo ohio this week new hampton beach massachusetts uh also uh remember
Starting point is 01:57:07 so i'm uh doing another special with greg warren everybody remembers greg warren on here oh yeah and uh so it's at lexington uh at the what's the comedy comedy off broadway i've performed there multiple it's a great great club really so october i want to say it's like first october first is a saturday yeah yeah so this saturday we're taping but he's there that weekend awesome uh so but october 1st is the night of the taping saturday night two shows i'll be there with 800 pound gorilla producing it i'll be directing it i got a little fun little idea i thought of uh with him uh and you're greg warren's the most fun as you've seen it on this podcast. So if you come out, Lexington, come out to that. It's going to be a great time.
Starting point is 01:57:49 And we appreciate all the support that you guys do for us as well. I'm with Henry Cho at the Palace Theater in Crossville, Tennessee on Saturday. I hope to check out the Buc-ee's. It's the first one there. And then I'm at New Vision Church in Murfreesboro on Sunday. Awesome. This weekend, I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Looney Bin. Tonight, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Starting point is 01:58:12 Tonight, I'll be at Zany's Comedy Club. And then this weekend, Naples, Florida, Off the Hook Comedy Club. Off the Hook. Yeah. Yeah, I've been there. Naples is awesome. Yeah. All right.
Starting point is 01:58:22 We love you as always. And we will see you next week. Bye. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the All Things Comedy Network. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media.
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