The Nateland Podcast - 12: #12 | Mississippi with Landon Bryant

Episode Date: April 22, 2026

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Welcome in, everybody, to another episode of the Public Figures podcast. I'm being told I'm leading the episode to drive engagement because the most people hate me more than the other. Let's let Aaron lead in episodes that we get a lot of bad comments. Oh, I'm happy to serve my role, whatever that is, and do what I can for the Nate Land Universe at large. Welcome in to the Public Figures podcast alongside Dusty Slay. There he is. Ryan Bates. Oh, I almost got it in.

All right. Okay. Yeah, good to be here. It's been a while. We are here recording live and studio in Nashville, Tennessee at Zanese Comedy Club. We are just finished off a long Nashville comedy festival. There are shows every night. I did a spot every night of the festival, except for last night.

I've been pretty busy. But we were rolling. We had a good time. Yeah, I wanted to ask you guys about because you did you do a spot every night? Not every night. I did a couple, I did a few things. I did, you know, I did my show on Tuesday. No, no, definitely not every night. I did Hugh Hauser show. I did my show on Tuesday. I did a Michael J. Fox charity event. Yeah, well, you guys both did that. I wanted to ask you guys about that. We both did it. That wasn't technically part of the festival, but it was going on during it.

Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Yeah, we met Michael J. Fox. Eric Church was there A little big town was there A bunch of other Just random celebrities I don't know her name But the red-headed girl From that 70 show

Yes Was that the girl that was in One of the group photos Yeah yeah I couldn't figure out who that was I didn't meet her But I don't even think I was supposed to be on the show

But I showed up And they put me on Well I wasn't on the poster Can we tell the story About that? Yeah. You were a featured guest at this event last year.

Yeah, I was. You did a full set. Last year I was the only comic. So then this year, I was reading the run of show, and it was Aaron Weber doing 10 minutes, Maggie Hughes-Depalo doing 10 minutes. Before that, it was a two-minute spot from Dusty Slay to introduce the comics. Yeah, and I said to my management, I was like, I don't want to go down there just to do two minutes. They go, no, you're doing a full set. So I said, okay. And then later, Aaron messages me. He goes,

you're only doing two minutes? And it freaked me out. So I message again. I go, are you sure I'm doing 10 minutes? They go, yes, you're for sure doing 10 minutes. Yeah. And then I show up. My name's not on any of the flyers or people had no idea I was on it. They were already doing the red carpet when I got there. I got there on time. And everybody was already doing everything. I just jump in a picture. I go, Hey, I'm on the show. Let me in. And then the stage manager comes back there and goes, all right, there's a clock on the stage. You're doing two minutes. I go, no, I'm doing 10. They go, we were told two. And then they were trying to like make it fun. Oh, I love it. You finally put your foot down. You were like, I'm doing my time.

Well, I told my manager, Matt was there and he goes, no, you're doing 10. And he goes, he seemed irritated that it happened. And he goes, let me go talk to somebody. And then he came back and he goes, all right, you're doing 10. He goes, you are always doing 10? I don't know why this is happening. Yeah. So me and Maggie did two and Dusty did the full. He did an hour.

Dusty did his full 10 minutes. Actually ran the light a little bit. I probably did 12 because the clock wasn't working when I got out there. So I had to joke about that. It's like when the clock doesn't work right away, you're like, oh, I can do as much time as I want. Exactly. Yeah. We're going to blame me.

Your clock was broken. Yeah. But it was great. It was cool to perform. I mean, 10 yards from Michael J. Fox. Here we are. I pulled it up, picture of us on the red carpet there.

Oh, yeah. You got Michael J. Fox doing the hand wave. Yeah. Having a good time. That's Maggie Hughes-Dapollo, who's very funny. She's open for Nate, and she's done a ton of shows here.

Yeah, yeah. She's open for me before, too, guys. Showing for me most recently. I open for her. So she's doing well. Well, that was really cool. You met Michael J. Fox last year. Yeah.

Did he remember you? He did remember him immediately. Yeah. I got a little more time to talk to him last time. I didn't get much. Because these guys were going to. Chris Stapleton wasn't talking to him. No.

I didn't talk to him at all. Did you not? I said, hey, thanks for letting me. Well, you know, interesting. You know, there's a bit of an age difference between me and Aaron. and, you know, Aaron was like, you know, he just has a different take on Michael J. Fops. Like, I don't mean, I don't mean. I want to hear this because I grew up.

Hold on. That's an interesting way to frame. Well, I wanted to let you explain it in your own way because it's not a bad tag. Right. What's your take? But, well, I'll say, like, growing up, like, I grew up watching Back to the Future. I grew up watching Doc Hollywood. I grew up watching Teen Wolf. And then Aaron was saying that I was saying that I was saying, that I was saying, like, I was saying,

I grew up really only knowing him as an advocate for Parkinson's research. Because I didn't, I'm not old enough. Yeah. That's what I was true. What'd you do before this? Mr. Park is like an actor or something? Yeah.

That's crazy. No, I just, I didn't know him before Parkinson's. I'm just, I'm not old enough to have really known him for the star that he was before. that. But I have seen a lot of his stuff, but I watched it knowing he would later become what he is today. I thought you were going to say Spin City, but even that was probably before your time. Yeah, I don't even know what that is. Was he on Spin City? Yeah, that was his

sitcom. Okay, from 96 to 2002. What? Well, that was family ties. But I'm saying that Aaron might know. Spin City was his last sitcom, yeah. Okay. I was five when the show came out. I've never heard of it. Yeah, I know Alex P. Keaton, family ties. That was huge when I was a kid. And then those movies, Dusty just mentioned, was right in my heyday. So, yeah. I would love to have met him.

Dog Hollywood, nobody ever talks about it. But that's a great movie. It is a great movie. It was a cool event. And then, you know, we did the shows at Zanis. There's just stuff going on. There's a lot of energy just around Nashville comedy for the last few days. So that'll die down.

Well, I was home all week. Sit on the couch. You guys hosted the Jimmy Fallon auditions, right? Yeah. We did. Yeah. How'd that go? They were great, honestly.

The show that I hosted was really good. I didn't see any of yours. I thought they were good. I mean, I messed around. I got a new joke that I probably can't even talk about on the podcast. You could talk about it. Too dirty? Well, it's not dirty, but it could, you know, you could see how it could be taken as a dirty joke.

But I'm just talking about a few of the lines from. the John Mellon camp song, Jack and Diane, how they enjoy their chili dogs. And I cannot stop talking about the joke. I cannot stop doing it. He talked about it for like three hours backstage of the Michael J. Fox thing. He just went out there and talked about it on stage for eight minutes of your 10 minutes set, honestly.

And then I have just been doing it. Any set I get, I'm just doing that joke. And I think it went really well on my show, really well on Michael J. Fox. I don't know how well it went on either of these Tonight Show shows. But it's a good thing I'm already pretty well established with the Tonight Show. I will say that because I got to mess around and it was fun. Yeah. Yeah.

That's cool. But I use some of the riffs that we riffed. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I'm looking forward to seeing it. Yeah. Are you doing the show tonight? You're going to do it?

Yeah. All right. Yeah, I made you do my whole sets. Just about chilly dogs. It's so funny to me, and I don't know why. I was watching on stage at the thing. You were like, it was doing well with the crowd,

but you were really killing to you. That's what's so great about it. I can't wait to see it. I enjoy the joke. Well, that's a big part of it. Yeah. That's why I can't wait to see it. Well, it was fun watching you guys have a great week of comedy.

I enjoyed getting updates every night. You could have hit us up. Congratulations. For tickets? You could have come to the spot on my show if you wanted to. You sold it out every show, right? There's two shows. Well, I was just going to say every show.

The whole weekend. You did. You did. You did. It was great, man. And now you're training for Missouri wrestling. Well, I got this. I also did as part of the National Comedy Festival.

I was the most recent guest on the Consumers. Podcast. We taped a live episode here on Google. clusters. I think that'll come out fairly soon. But I was gifted this from Greg Warren himself. With the hoodie, you look like you're going to run some bleachers to get down to. Do I actually look like that? Yeah. Get down to wait. I'm about to run. Day one. Day one. Day one. This looks like the start of a training. I get that. I did go to, I was home most of the week. I I did go with Angela Johnson to McAllen, Texas to do a corporate.

McAllen's about as far south as you can go. You know McAllen. I was about to say that. All the way down there. Yeah, they have an airport there. I mean, it is down on the southern tip of Texas right on the Mexico border. So, fun time with her. And, yeah, that was just a quick trip down and back the next day.

So it was a good time. I haven't seen Angela a while. Is that where this shirt's around? Oh, so no. then Saturday, no, it's not come from the Mexican border. Well, you know, a lot of Mexicans are farmers and they keep it country too. Well, it says keep it country. It doesn't say keep out of the country.

Yeah, no, Mexicans are farmers and they keep it country, man. Come on. Well, this Saturday. That's the motto for McAllen, Texas, keep it country. I went to visit my mom and took Eleanor with me. And there was this event going on where they had bouncy houses and stuff for kids to play out. But it was like a political type of rally where back where I grew up in the country, eastern side of Wilson County. And they're trying to keep it country out there.

All these people, they want to redevelop. And Bill Gates wants to buy up all the land. Yeah, it does. They want to keep it agriculture. Don't. So they had candidates. How time you're getting on board with us? Candidates come and speak.

Jeez. Talk about how they're going to keep it country. Yeah. Good. So it was fun. I went to that. Saw a lot of people I grew up with. Is there like a rival movement going?

There is. Stop it for being country? I don't know. Make it city. Make it city? There was, they've already stopped the big thing. There was an industrial park that was bought up a ton of land and was going to.

Industrial Park is so funny because this is just not, park makes it sound like it's like a fun thing. There's slides and stuff going through it. It's just a collection of office buildings. Yeah, yeah. But it was, it was. And factories. Yeah, all that kind of stuff.

And they fought it and stopped it. Good. And stop it. And now they'll get a data center. Yeah, they're trying to stop all that stuff. They use Mount Juliet as the example of what's become of West Wilson County, where it's just dense. Oh, wow. We don't want to become Mount Julia.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I love Mount Juliet. Keep it. I like Mount Juliet, too. But, yeah, I mean, I could see if you're, if you're country, I mean, I just was at the public. So Mount Juliet today. And it's, it, it is dense.

You're right by my house. Yeah. And come by and say, I should. I should have. But I had my whole family. And it is, you know, there's always one person crying now. It might be me. It might be, but there's always one person crying at any time.

Wait, way, we're trying to keep it country, not just a persona that sell tickets. I'm legitimately trying to keep it country. Yeah. I say Colorado like Colorado. Colorado. Colorado Rockies. So. Colorado.

That's what I did. I love that. Did you do stand up for their event? No. Hey, you were just there. Just there. It was just the day watching my daughter playing the bouncy houses.

Oh, that's big time. Eating some. I got a ballpark hamburger. Man, there's nothing better. You're unwrapped out of aluminum foil? Oh, I do like those. It's so good. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. A hot dog. Some pork in it. You know, I like a. Hebrew National. But I try to stay away from hot dogs in general, even the all-beef ones. Why is that?

I don't know. Because they're objectively bad for you. Yeah, just nothing feels good about a hot dog. Like, I'll eat them and I'll go, dang, that was good. You know what's big right now, the 9-99 challenge. Everybody's doing it now. A lot of these ballparks are even offering it. Like, you can buy the 9-99 challenge and try to do it.

Okay. Do you know what the 9-99 challenges? Nine innings of Bay. baseball. Okay. Nine beers, nine hot dogs. Okay. Wow.

That's the challenge. Wow. And what happens if you win, you're going to lose. You just, you do it, I guess. It's just a... But it's like a TikTok thing? It was, people were doing it unofficially for a long time. People would just go to the game and try to do one, you know, you'd buy it.

Nine hot dogs is tough. The nine beers, that's not a big deal at all. I was thinking the opposite. Oh, okay. See, when I, I used to go to the... The Charleston River Dogs, minor league team, and you go thirsty Thursday where they had dollar beers. But, you know, they wouldn't give you a tray.

So it was just however many you could hold. Right. And, you know, you'd have them in the arm, fingers in the glass. Yeah. See, the trouble with buying, like, this is an example of, like, what some of these ballparks offer. You buy, like, the whole thing all at once. The problem of that is, I mean, those beers are.

Bears getting warm, hot dogs getting cold. I'm going to sit there and get flat in the heat and everything. It's almost, you've got to go buy the beers individually. I think the trick would be to do two per inning and then just be. Oh, two beers per inning? Two beers or. And two hot dogs? Two hot dogs.

I mean, I think the beers, if you got down to the ninth inning and you had two left, you could chug them. Right, right. That sounds disgusting. Yeah. What is disgusting? Just the whole thing. The hot dogs is disgusting. Yeah.

Well, I mean, all of it for me to think about, consider. that much out in the hot. Like, if I were drinking, I could do nine beers during this podcast. How would you describe eating these? Well, John Mellencamp might have a special way to say they were eating. You know, they were, I don't want to say it. But, I mean, I want to. If I come up with some of these challenges, they would be so, like, I would probably do be the, I'd do the 2-2.

No, I do the 9-2-2. Would that be nine innings? And then two hot dogs and two beers would be your challenge? Go home feeling good. I've done that accidentally every game of everything. If it were the burgers, though, burger might be different. A burger, nine burgers is that's substantial.

But they're, you know, they're not huge burgers, maybe sliders. Nine sliders? Oh, it's too easy. You got to have something in the middle. Yeah. Nine hot dogs. That's a lot of dog. Yeah.

It's too much. A lot of bond, but just the, also a ballpark hot dog what's in those things i mean what i mean hopefully part of the challenge is not asking questions yeah yeah nobody's doing it for their health and an extra bonus if you eat the box when you're done or a frame is the perfect mother's day gift to capture the chaos you put her through and the memories that came with it our house is pure chaos right now we just had a baby and we have two toddlers. That is true. It's been wild, but it's fun to get the photos we can during this time of our lives and be able to look back one day and think about how

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Today was, I think, the Boston Marathon. Okay. How, if we all run out there right now, how far could you go? How far is a marathon? 26.2 miles. 26.2 miles. I think I can do the 0.2. Honestly, I don't even think I can run.

Yeah, but even walking, how far you think you could do? I could walk the whole thing. When was the last time I could walk it too? I've walked that far in one. Yeah, I don't believe it. One sitting. I've been, yes, the sitting part, I believe. I've been.

I think you've drove a car 26.2 miles. I've been wheelbarrowing mulch all around my garden all week. When was the last time you sprinted? Like really sprinted? I kind of ran. There was a guy. They were grinding up this truck. mulching it at my neighbor's house, and I wanted him to dump the mulch over on my yard.

And I kind of ran over there. What? Just to, like, flag them down? Yeah. That's last. And I was like, as I was doing it, I'll go, oh, no, I can do this. It's not too bad. And then I got in the truck, and I was like, jeez, yeah, it's really hit you after.

I think airports, when that's a tight connection. But a sprint, a full, yeah, like a full sprint, like four years. life. Years. Mine was that 40-yard dash. 40-yard dash was probably the last time I really tried to run as fast as I could. Try to really, yeah. Before that, it was when Nate and I were in San Antonio and somebody started firing a gun and we took

off running. Yeah. Yeah, that'll do it too. Yeah, I wish you were there that day for that 40-yard dash, Dusty. I'm glad I wasn't. Could have took some heat off me. Well, yeah. Well, I don't know that I look bad running.

and for 40 yards I might be able to do it, but I don't want to do it. I don't like running. I used to have a joke about it. Matter of fact, if you see me running, I'd appreciate it. If you'd stop and try to pick me up, I'm probably in some kind of trouble. We've got a guest coming here in a few minutes. You want to get through this comments? Yeah.

Let's start it off with the comments. They come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast reviews, and Mail at Nateland. Do we have our own email yet? Or is that still the email? No, I mean, mail. I don't know what these guys do. At Nateley.

Not much. Just giggling back there. Just giggling. Well, she's even gone now, so who knows. The first comment, this can't be right. The first comment comes from Shannon Sharp. I think it is. He's a listener.

Yep. Got rid of the E. Shannon Sharp, I am loving public figures. You guys seem to be having such a good time. I think Aaron's idea for Dusty to do book reviews is phenomenal. Thank you, Shannon. We're also a big fan of Club Shea-She-She. Okay, so.

When my special comes out, I'm going on there. Yeah, you should. Yeah. Yeah, really, spill the beans. Yeah. Was that what they say? Spill the beans? Spill the tea.

Who's that? Yeah, spill the tea. Sip the tea. I think sip the tea is to enjoy the gossip. Spilled the tea would be to divulge it. So just get on there and just. I bet our guests will know today. I bet so.

I will ask about it. Well, oh, book reviews for kids. Yeah, we're talking about doing it. children's but you know i should do that i want a full in-depth review a lot of comedians now are doing these uh the getting on book talk and talking about all the books they've read and stuff so i'd like you to hop on there and talk about the ox cartman must be terrible comedians yeah i want to talk about it's successful ones we'll talk about it later uh but i'd like to hear about the wonky donkey i want to hear about the little blue truck i want to hear you know because i'm

not as big of a fan of the wonky donkey when we talked about it in here you were a big fan of it and i just think it's funny it's funny to yeah say out loud Yeah. I don't think it imparts like a good message to children or anything like that. Yeah. It's just a funny collection. I like the Little Blue Truck. Have you read that one? I know the Little Blue Truck. I love the Little Blue Truck. I tear up a little bit when I read the Little Blue Truck. Really?

Yeah. I like that kind of hero's journey. Next comment comes from Caleb Wilson. I can't help but chuckle when people are legitimately angry at you all for slightly changing up the format or being playfully sarcastic with the fan. We get a free two-hour podcast every week. It's always funny and entertaining. It is clear that you all care a lot about the fans. And for that, I am very thankful. Appreciate y'all.

Come on, Caleb. Come on, Caleb. What do you know? I'm not, I'm not. An idiot. Yeah. Caleb. I care about the fans.

I don't care about that comment. Next comment. Now, we appreciate it, Caleb. That's very nice. Thank you. Thank you. next comment comes for Max goodness. Oh, the most goodness you can have.

Maximum goodness. Yeah. How about that? Two weeks in a row, I haven't clicked on the new release because the thumbnail made me think it was a different podcast being only the guests with their name. Well. But you did, though. You ended up doing it. Yeah.

And you went ahead and read the title. Max goodness, min smartness. Because the... I don't want to say two weeks in a row, somebody behind the scenes do something to screw up a perfect podcast that I put together. It's either the phantom gigglers or whoever decided to change the thumbnail, which is what you were texting about when you had a baby when I couldn't reach you. I thought something happened.

Then you're like, hey, guys, how about this thumbnail? What do you think about that? Oh, yeah. So Max, Blame Dusty. Well, yeah, I guess so. My goodness. We're trying things, guys. You know, we're just trying, we're trying to highlight our guest when they're on here, you know.

It's the Wild West out here, dude. We're throwing stuff at the wall. Yeah. We're seeing what sticks. Well, now everybody's mad that we're not highlighting this behind the scenes crew here. Yeah, we couldn't be less involved with the editing of this. So y'all blame everybody else but us. Well, you know, you need to take it up a notch.

We're on it. Yeah. Aaron Cores. Aaron Coors. Coors brewing. Yeah. Mountains are blue. Yeah. Coors Field and Colorado.

If you want to fix taxes, we need. Colorado. If you want to fix taxes, well, here we go. This is a drunk guy at a bar. You know what they need to do. If you want to fix taxes, we need to stop having businesses, take them out of our checks before we receive the money. If we had to actually make a payment ourselves from the money our accounts, we would start to notice how much it actually is. We would question where it was going

and how it was being used. Instead, it gets swept under the rug. I would also add that we get to pick what our taxes go to when we pay them. Yeah, for sure. That's so much different than the first point. Well, that's the idea, though. The idea is like, yeah, just take it out of the check. And then when you get a refund later, you think, oh, I love tax season because I get a little money back. But you're Right. That's what happened to me. I started to have to pay my own taxes because I didn't have a job where it was getting taken out. And I was like, geez. So the strategy is make taxes more inconvenient to pay so that people will revolt more. Well, make people notice how much money is actually coming. How do you not look at your, I would see it on my paycheck every time I got one? I think people get direct deposit and a lot of people don't even look at it. Direct deposit might complicate things. I remember getting a check and it would say, this is how much you made and then minus. Social Security and Medicare and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, FICA.

Who's this FICA? Where's taking all my money? Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah. I go on and on about taxes. Well, we're still more confidence about it. You'll like this next one, Dusty.

Jenna Obie on Canobee. Jenna Obie, property tax is just a way for the government to own all the land. You don't pay taxes on your property. cool. It's ours now. That's insane to me. That needs to be abolished completely. Well, 100%, but you talk about, I go, I talk about this on X and then people go, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they justify it. But it's like, you don't own something if they can take it from you. Like if you go, all right, I bought this land, this land's mine now. But if you don't pay your taxes on it, they can take it. So how is it yours if they can take it? and then they can also arbitrarily just raise your taxes.

Oh, yeah. It's insane. Property tax is the most insane thing that I've ever seen. So here's, I had never looked into this. And I've been looking at moon landing footage. Do you see the iPhone shot through the, yeah, yeah, yeah, you didn't like it? They're calling it the most incredible, I mean, video ever taken. I don't think I know what you're talking about.

The shot from one of the astronauts from his iPhone. He's just like, let me just get an iPhone shot. Yeah, just release. At least it now. You know, it's like, I mean, I'm talking about if I got that shot, the moment we land, the moment I got signal, upload. What do you do? Like a day or two after? I mean, it's been weeks.

You got to Photoshop it, right? I just saw it today. But why do you think you would wait to post that? I don't know. Why would he? To Photoshop it, right? Well, I don't know. I'm saying, why would he?

Well, you're the one making an inference for it. So, like, what I'm saying is, though, why would he? Like, I would do it right away. Give me one reason why he would. why he would wait? Yeah. Well, I don't know. Why would you hang on to the greatest shot ever taken?

Why would you? I mean... Well, he's not the one calling it that. Other people are. Right, but why would you hang on to it? You're like, because this is what we all been asking for. Everybody's been like, where's the cool footage at? And then days later, week later, they're like, oh, here's something.

Forgot this. I don't think they ever made that claim. I forgot about that. Oh, my bad. Let me air drop you something real quick. Kimberle. That's what I'm saying. You guys want to keep believing it. But it's, where's the stars at is all I'm saying? Where's the stars at? I think, Dusty, this is starting to be, this is a more and more common thing. And I think you're going to find it

less and less interesting as time goes by. And I think you're going to come around. Because this is not even, this is like all over social media now. So many people think it's fake and stuff. Yeah, but I've been on the tip for a long time. I know, but I'm saying it used to be interesting. It's not that, it's not interesting. It's not a matter. of interesting. It's like, it really is like, when I look up in the sky, I see lots of stars. Right. But this guy is in space and you don't see any. Why is that? Because the way photography works, like with the light and exposure and stuff, it's the same way, same way when you're in the back of a comedy club and you are taking a picture of the person on stage and, you know, you click on the person on stage. where did all the people in the crowd go?

It's because... Well, they're still there. They didn't disappear. They may be blurred, but they're still there. They may be out of focus, but they're still there. Okay. So if I... There obviously is a answer to this question.

Do you want to know the answer and would the answer persuade you at all? Well, that's always the thing, right? Instead of just answering the question, it always has to be followed. Would the answer persuade you? Just give me the answer. and then we'll say. I gave you the answer. It's the way, it's the way light works and exposure and how photography works. Well, I don't, I don't believe the answer. Can I see the photo? There you go. Can I see the photo? We're not talking about the photo. Just because you answer a question

doesn't mean that it's right. I understand, but you have to stop up operating under this. If you say what's in this cup and I tell you it's Coke, that's an answer, but it's not right. It's water in there. But I would go, well, why won't you tell me what's in the cup? And you go, I did tell you what's in the cup and I go, well, yeah, I'm just asking questions. But I, but I, but I lied to you about what was in there. But I'm losing track of what we're even talking about. This analogy, I don't like it all. But, but I lied to you about what was in there. I gave you an answer, but it was the wrong answer. And then, and then I'm saying, well, if you don't believe it, then, well, I can't do anything about it. Well, you're saying, I'm just asking questions.

And there's an answer for every question. It's just like when people go, it's like when atheists are like, They act like they have this truth bomb that they drop. And, like, people have been, they have had answers for this for thousands of years. There's answers for all these, why can't you see stars in the picture? There's an answer for that. Why can't you do that, blah, blah, blah. And then you go, you're never satisfied. So the iPhone shot behind the moon seeing the earth, the earth being about the,

you can't see any stars. And that's my question. And I get it. You're saying, well, it's photography and this is how this works. Well, I haven't seen it yet, but I'm going to guess it's so bright that it's going to keep the stars from being seen. The earth. Well, let me just look at it. Pulling it up here on.

I mean, hey, it's a cool video. Oh, it's a video. I'm not saying it's not a cool video. This is taken. It's a little blurry. Okay. This one. That's not the one you saw.

No, no, those aren't stars. That's the blast there. Okay. Yeah, yeah, okay. Wow. But see, it's focused on, it's almost like he clicked on the earth. So then the light and the exposure and I don't know all the technical terminology, but it focused on that. So then the stars.

Yeah, I mean, they completely disappeared. That's incredible. It's just so boring. I'm just saying it's incredible that they completely disappeared. I mean, what an amazing feat of photography. Wow. I blame Jenna Obie for this one. Yeah, I mean, it is an amazing feat of photography.

You can see the details on the moon like that, but not a single star. That's pretty unbelievable. Do you think you're the first person to ask this? And do you think it's never been addressed by somebody smart enough to answer it? I'm sure people talk about it. But, I mean, I just think that's amazing. I mean, you can't, I mean, you wouldn't say that's an amazing photographer. feet?

To do what? To be behind the moon? To get some. Yeah. But all the stars completely disappear. I'd say that's pretty incredible.

No, I don't think it's incredible at all. I think it's the way photography works. Okay. Light works. There's a little aperture inside of every camera

and the aperture will close when there's so much light and there's too much light that the earth is giving off or reflecting or whatever. So the aperture is closed. We've gotten to Tristan too. I know it's amazing.

It goes deeper and I thought. It's amazing. I think it's wonderful. I think it's wonderful. Well, this next person we expose, Dusty. Michael Edwards. I generally think Dusty is the smartest guy on the panel by far. But his Willie Nelson take is a bridge too far.

Say what you want about the moon, but don't question Willie's greatness. Well, I don't think I question Willie's greatness. I just said, you know, my kind of top country singers, Willie's not really in I like him. He has a lot of songs that are really, really like. But I don't know. I don't even remember. What did you say that was controversial?

He needed Willie Nelson. There's several others. A lot of people would say the Willie Nelson's on their Mount Rushmore of, but I would say there's many other before I get to Willie Nelson. And I love Willie Nelson. But I'm saying there's just a ton of country singers that I like more. That's what I said about Randy Travis. That's what I said about Elvis.

We all are allowed to have opinions. I mean, I like Willie Nelson. But, yeah, I mean, I don't know. There's just a lot I like before I get to Willie Nelson. I think it's perfectly fair. I mean, I said he has a great album with Leon Russell that I really like. I don't know. Sounds like the craziest thing you've ever said on this podcast.

Yes. But. Nuclear spinach. But I get it. I mean, people love Willie Nelson. Nuclear spinach. Aaron is the whole package. That's what I'm talking about.

It's about time. It's about time. What a name for you. I get a little respect. Nuclear spinach. These are my people. Nuclear spinach. Aaron is the whole package.

He's knowledgeable about a wide variety of topics. He asks deep questions. Never heard him. Quick on the uptake. And he has a radio voice. I love the signature disc special. Keep it up, Aaron. I mean, what a comment.

The last few things. Let's just wrap it up there. He has a radio voice, a good special. Yeah, I agree. You don't think I'm quick on the update? Quick on the uptake, yeah. You don't think I ask deep questions? I don't know that you ask any deep questions.

He's a package. I'll give him that. You are a whole package. I'll say, yeah, you know, I agree with all this, except... Knowledgeable about what? Except he asked deep questions. That's the only one I'm going to take away from you. Okay.

Andrea Raoul horse. Thank you, Nuclear Spanish, by the way. Andrea Raoul horse. Love you three, but Dusty has the best laugh. It's infectious. Thanks for the laughs every week. That's true. Thank you, Andrew.

Yeah. That's really nice. I never heard Brian laugh, I don't think. Nah. Too busy to laugh. Too busy doing what? The world's a mess out here, Dusty. Maybe if you would open your eyes a little bit, you can see that. Listen, you got to laugh. You got to let it out.

You got to let it out. Maddie Pryor. I vote that Brian should be meaner to us. Well, you would with a name like that. Maddie. The stupid name. Yeah. Maddie. Maddie, yeah.

Well, be careful what you wish for. One of these days, Brian's going to be unleashed. It's going to be a problem. You're right. Get to this next one. Okay. Timothy Petranco. Speaking of names.

Timothy. Timothy Patranco. Seems like Brian is tired of it all and gets short with the other guys when they interrupt. Or when Dusty starts going off tangent, Aaron and Dusty seem to take it all. less seriously while Brian is too serious at times. Well, that is true. This is what Dusty and I've been saying.

Yeah. Yep, that is true. Day one. Yeah, take it easy, bud. When we started to do this podcast, you remember the three of us had lunch and we sat down and we said, let's talk about the vision. And Dusty and I had had private conversations before this, but we said, we said, Brian, I don't want this to feel like an intervention, but we need to have a conversation.

You got to let us have fun. Yeah. What? He just spit up all that water. It's about to do the spit tank. I'm not going to do that to you. All over the laptop. Yeah.

Yeah. He's right. Timothy. Timothy. Little Timothy. Little Timothy. No, we're all, look, at the end of the day, we're all having a good time. We are having a good time.

And we're all professional. I play the straight man, Timothy. And you don't get it. It'd be hard to have an actual sincere moment with a guy named Timothy. Listen, hey, Timothy, you got to stop. You sound like you have a speech impediment each time you talk to in. Jessica Young, Dusty, I am 43, and I love your comedy. All right, I'm 43 too.

Thanks, Jessica. I wanted to let you know that I asked my 19-year-old son to sit down and watch a comedy show with me. As soon as I turned on wet heat, he said, Oh, Dusty Slay. I love his style of calm comedy. Yeah. How about that? I really don't know what calm comedy is,

but I just wanted you to know that your comedy style has hooked both the older and the younger of our family. Yeah. Well, thank you, Jessica, and your son. Yeah, calm comedy. It's when you don't shove it down the throat of the audience, remember? You just, you bring them into you. You're telling comedy, you bring them in. Invite them into your world.

world, you know, you have, and then you tell them some jokes. You don't just go out there and beat them to death with it. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Jessica's parents are watching Brian's special in the next thing. I would leave if it wasn't for Tim. I don't want Timothy to be right. Okay. Yeah. You got to prove Timothy. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Can I, before we bring our guests, Can I share some Nateland news with you guys? No. Yeah. Okay.

I'll be the deciding vote. Okay. Yes, we will. Okay. Is that how we work? Are we a democracy? Yes. You think we all have an equal vote? I don't think so.

I don't even get a vote. Oh, really? Yeah. I think I have the most vote, but. Yeah. The most vote. I have the least. I think I have the least vote.

I think as long as you guys vote the way I like, I pretend like I'm one of you, but if you don't, then I supersede you. Okay, I'm happy with that. Yeah. No. You guys have voted for some stuff I didn't want to do. Like what? Like what? Like Andrew Stanley?

I didn't care for that guy. Well, listen, Aaron brought him up. I just said yeah to it. No, I love Andrew. Of course, of course. We're joking. That was a hot episode. It was a hot episode.

It was. Sorry if he didn't click on it because his picture was on it. Yeah, yeah. Can you imagine that? God forbid we highlight. Can you imagine like you're Andrew, you're reading it? They go, well, I almost didn't click on it because I didn't know who this guy was. I was going to watch the episode.

It was just some idiot on the thumbnail. Well, somebody said, why would I listen to this guy talk about taxes? That looks terrible. Somebody said they thought it was his dad. They were like, pass. Oh, I get that. Okay, if you saw Andy Stanley. Yeah.

Okay. That makes sense. Nate Land presents the showcase season four. Last week, Peter Wong premiered on the showcase set. This Thursday, we've got Will Wright. Very funny. Well, it's super funny. He was on my show that I hosted. Super, super funny. So check that out. We have a new comic every week. Nate Land presents Graham Kay's Pete and Me. I've watched this. It's so good. It's, uh, I feel closer with, with Graham. I didn't know about his family history and his brother. And it's just, it's really, really good. So check that out. It's a humorous and heartfelt special about Graham and his autistic brother.

What was the show Pete, Pete, Pete, Pete, Pete and me and Pete or something? the Adventures of Pete It was a Nickelodeon show What was it called? Yeah I'm combining it with Ed and Eddie The Adventures of Pete and Pete and Pete Me and Pete and Pete and Pete

I don't know But Graham's gonna be here saying How many times can we say Pete today? Dusty's book We're having a good time It's on pre-order How many times we're gonna read this? I don't know but I like it

I mean it's on the Nate Land News Who cares I mean that's what I got going on right now Grab a copy anywhere you buy books I got books I got boots too I got Lugs Boots. Dusty, my own, do you know about that? I saw you post something.

Yeah. This guy will sell out to anybody. I got my own, I got my own, I got my own boot now. Look at that. Whoa. Lugs boots. That's a good looking boot. That is a nice looking boot.

Says we're having a good time on the song. For a working man. That's awesome. Exactly. How about that? So they got a professional artist to model them. Yeah. What's your dad say about that?

You know, I don't know that he's seen it. I don't know. Working man. He's got on doing that. Well, yeah. In terms of a dream, a dream product or thing to have your face name brand on. I mean, a work boot for you's got to be up there, right? Yeah, I like a boot.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What would you say is yours, Brian? What would you have? What would your equivalent of this? C-PAP. This first thing came to mine. Coffs?

Cough drop. No, I'm saying the CPAP cough. Oh, coughs for me? I don't know, guys. I would like a cigar, my own cigar. There you go. But I also sometimes I feel like I've heard this. I don't know if this is true.

So I'm not trying to slander people. But I've heard sometimes that like when a celebrity gets a like a liquor or something, that it's technically not a good liquor. And so they put the celebrity on there to try to help sell that. It's all the marketing game. Yeah. Right. So I wouldn't want that to be the.

case with my cigar. Jim Gaffkin. I would want it to be a, I'm not, you know, like, I always think about like a Dan Aykroyd was really like a, has a vodka. And I just, I don't know, for some reason, I feel like Dan Aykroyd would take it serious. I think his was patron. Okay. Wow. Yeah, which is a pretty successful one. Yeah, absolutely. So I would feel, to me, it feels like he would take it serious. So I would want a good cigar, you know. Yeah. What would yours be? I would never sell out to a company like this. So nothing. Okay.

I sold my soul to Thumbs pretty easily. A guy hates money. You know what I mean? Good for him. I would never abandon my principles to make money. But if Tom's, if you would like to do another campaign, please let me know. I'm happy to do that. Well, Nate's Big Dumb Eyes tour this weekend is in Fargo, North Dakota, 23rd.

That would be Thursday, I believe. I feel like he was just up there. He was in Canada last weekend. Okay. Des Moines, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska. So he's making his way around the Midwest. That's Nate land out there, man. That is.

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I think I maybe have known you the longest. I think so. We did a show together, this is Landon Bright by the way. We did a show, that is your name, right? It is. That's me. What was that, two, three years ago?

Two or three years ago. My very first show I ever did was with you. Wow, we're at. In Columbia, Tennessee at the Mule House. Heather Land. The Mule House? Yeah, did you ever do that? God.

And you saw Brian go up and you thought, and I can do this. Yeah, he was just in the crowd. I was like, give me a shot. You know, like, let me try this. No, actually, I got there and I had no idea what I was getting into. And you and Heather were both, Heather Land was the lady that, the other comic. And they both were like looking at their notes very seriously.

And it was my very first time to do this. So I was kind of just riding on vibes of it, you know? Yeah. And they were like, I've been, I've been like looking at this for three weeks. Like looking at my new stuff for like three weeks. Heather was. And I was like, me too. Oh, yeah.

I also am very prepared. Three weeks? She's been looking at her notes. She's very serious about it. Wow. Yeah, maybe if you took it a little more serious. Yeah, maybe I should. You got to step it up.

Yeah. Well, I felt sorry. Your book would already be out. Yeah, I'm still riding vibes. Right. Like, that's what I was doing. I was just like doing vibes here. Yeah.

Yeah. I. A mule house. Yeah. Mouletown. Columbia's Mule town. Oh, okay. Why do they call it that?

I assume there was a lot of mules at some point, but I don't know. A mule is a horse and a donkey bred together. And they're sterile. They can't have children. Yeah, so maybe they're... Guys, it's a clean podcast. So maybe they're what used to be a mule breeding grout there. They were making mules.

Well, I know they have mule day every year. They do. Mule capital of the world. Self-proclaimed mule capital of the world. It's a lot of places. Trying to grab that. It's up for grabs. I spent a lot of time running for mules as a small child

because my family obviously had a family meal. I know y'all also, you also had a family meal, I'm sure. We had a donkey for a little while. Oh, that's even more fresh. We never had a mule. We had a donkey, though. My dad did. So you could have made a mule.

My dad, yeah, we could have because we had some horses. My dad's wife bought him a donkey for his anniversary one time. And then it chased one of the cows through a bar-wark-fax. to read donkey. I've never considered it. Never considered it. Now I am. Keep it contrary. So do you make mule, well, some of this history on Columbia Tennessee, Wikipedia, pretty brutal. I'm going to exit out of that. Do you make... Are mules just like an accident, or do you breed them intentionally? I think they're... Do they serve some benefit that a horse or a dog site? Yeah, it started that way, then they fell in love. Strong as a...

They're harder workers and they listen better. Oh, okay. A horse. Donkeys are real Onry Kind of thing And they're like Bight you Yeah, yeah They're stubborn

But I feel like in like old Westerns There's always the mule Like come on Bitsy Let's get it! I literally have plowed Like with a mule Like literally

Quite literally Wow Unfortunately Well see You know I always say My grandfather has done that But you know He was like

He was like He was born in 1900 Yeah no We had You were doing it They feel like You were being punished No, it was just like a regular thing to be doing that day in South Mississippi, you know?

Like, just got to plow with the mule. The second iteration of this family mule, there was Joe Mule, and then there was Joe Mettor. Wow. So you really grew up, so when you were like in the Mule Capital, you're like, take it easy. I was like, y'all come, y'all don't know about meals. You got a few mules where I'm from. Talk to me about mules when you've been hiding in a tree from one all day. Well, I felt sorry for Landon because I knew it was one of your first shows.

It was a really long show. Heather went out, did a set, full set. Then I did a set. And then she did this thing where she would do Q&A. Yeah. So the show had probably been two hours. Don't get Dusty any ideas. Yeah, two hours before Landon even came up.

Wow. But what a better way to start. I feel like it would have been like really bad for my career if I'd started out at like the most ideal show. You know, like I think it was good. That was the most ideal show for me. So for how long did you do? I did it 30, 45 minutes.

You already had internet success at this time. I had internet success at this time. So they were there to see you. They were. Okay, okay. But who knew? I didn't know what I was going to do. You know, like, I mean, I had an idea, but, you know, you never know what's going to happen.

Yeah. So it was nerve-wracking, but exciting. Yeah. They walked me through it very nicely. Yeah. I felt very good about it. And it was like, this guy's a glass. I was thinking.

This is going to be bad. He's doing 30 minutes. Good luck, brother. Let me get some popcorn. And now I've done so many since then because I loved it that night. And we did a show together. Yes, I was so glad that you did that. It was the coolest thing.

Yeah. People have said we look alike on the internet. It's just the hair. Yeah. I brought you this. If you want to do that. Excellent. Yes.

If you want to complete the look here. Yeah, that's it. There we go. For sure. All right. There we go. We're having a good job. All right.

My goodness. This is like my worst. nightmare. Two Dusties, rabbit. Yeah, how do you feel about the moon landing?

That's what I'm trying to get into. I need a little backup on here. Wow. Well, happy to have you here. I'm so glad to be here. So,

I'm sorry to jump in, but you, I was not familiar with you until we did that show together, but I'm like, who is Landin Bryant? And then...

Brian just got the internet. Yeah, yeah. Who's, yeah. But you blew up three years ago? I did. I blew up like, really kind of right before that.

It just blew up and it hasn't stopped since then. And I feel like I've been like launched and it hasn't stopped launching since. All right. Don't brag. I've been doing comedy in 19 years and I've not left the ground. Well, I don't know if I feel like I've launched in comedy, but the internet launch was like very serious. All because Walmart high school. I know.

I was about to bring that up. He went to high school. at a former Walmart. I literally went to Walmart for high school. I would love to tell that to you now. Yeah, yeah, I'm interested in that. So, first of all, I was camping in the woods, and it was my eighth grade year, and it was spring break.

So no one was heard in the story, so if you're listening, you can laugh about it, it's fine. Okay. And our school got blown down by a tornado, which sort of speaks to how we feel about tornadoes in South Mississippi because I was very much in a tent in the woods, and no one came, you know? Didn't know that was a tornado, no idea of the tornado.

Wait, you were camping? In the woods. And a tornado happened. Okay, all right. So no sirens, anything like that. No, I mean, the sirens. are kind of far away. Yeah.

Just the guy yelling, there's a squall coming. And as a person that grew up in Alabama, sometimes you hear this iron, you go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we don't really, it's actually I've gotten in trouble with the National Weather Service

about this, actually. This very thing, I got in trouble with them. They called me and texted me and emailed me about tornadoes. Oh, you, Dusty have more in common I realize. Yeah, I get in trouble with them about twice a year and I block them and then I'll unblock them every now

and then I'll be like, don't go to the porch, look at the tornado. Because that's what I said we do. I was like, The truth is, like, we're not paying attention until, first of all, the weatherman's sleeves get rolled up. Yeah, yeah. And then when that happens, we're going on the porch to look for the tornado, and they were like, take this note.

So I just blocked the National Weather Service. I like that. I got into it with our local Nashville Severe Weather Acts. We're cool again. They sent me some hats. We're friends here. Well, I recently accepted a collab from the National Weather Service. They asked me to redo a PSA.

So I had to unblock, do the collab, and now they're back on. The sellout brothers. That's what I'm saying. Can Nassette's some T-shirts or something? Come on. For the right price. But yes. So our school got blown down by a tornado, literally blown down.

And it was Tom, you know, like it was Tom. It was old school. Yeah. And no one was there, so it was fun. But the best and brightest minds in our town got together. And we had just gotten a new Super Walmart. And I'm actually like, I thought we had really moved up. I was like, we are fancy.

Super Walmart's a big deal. It was a big deal. Yeah. It's not a Kmart. I mean, it's the real. Exactly. Yeah. We had a brick, windy.

and a super Walmart. It was like really, you know, it moved up. Wow. But that meant that the Walmart was available, the Walmart next to the Kroger's. So where do you put a 7th through 12th grade, but the Walmart? And this was a Walmart that was closed for like two weeks, so it was very much still a Walmart. They pulled the shelves out of this Walmart. All the signs were still there.

And they built a plywood cubicle maze in that Walmart and were like, good luck, you know. And so we went to, I literally went to Walmart high school. Wow. And our principals, in Mississippi. In Mississippi, our principals greeted us wearing Walmart vests every day. They loved that joke, and then they continued that for the rest of the school year. And I would have to. They did do that?

They did do that. They greeted you every day, we're in Walmart vests? Every day, we're in Walmart vests. That's great. I love that you do that joke one time, and then you're like, nah, no, this is a good. They were like, this is good. But I understand it because we learned, because those plowed cubicles don't have ceiling, so it's one giant room.

We learned quickly on that you could clap on one side of the building, and it would spread all the way across. And that was a good joke. So we got that in three or four times a day. So it was like things going on. It was very fun. I was upset that we were in the baby section as eighth graders that hurt a little bit. Seventh grade got sports.

Yeah. And we got babies. I had like show car and layaway for real. I had our cafeteria was the garden center, which was fancy because it had a little piazza, like the outdoor area. Oh, yeah. I guess the garden center has a roof over it. Yeah, except it's raining. That was a roof in one part of it.

And then I had to take the Algebra 1 state test in that Walmart, and it was required for graduation by the state of Mississippi. It was the first year it was required. And you take it the year you take Algebra 1. So they built it. They were like, fine, we'll build you all bigger auditorium. So they built a bigger cubicle in the middle of the Walmart. People cheering and clapping the whole time.

And we, like, laid on the floor and took that algebra one required for graduation test on the floor. And they were like so serious about it. And we were like so serious. And then, like, six weeks later, the governor of Mississippi pardoned. from that exam. And pardon was the language he chose to use. So I am pardoned from math. Well, that's interesting.

On certain sides of the internet, people say that Walmart will be, when the society collapses, Walmart will be camps that will all be put in, and they'll transform them into the prisons. So I've got a preview. I think this is a trial run. It's a good time, honestly, like it's a good time at the Walmart. So you, those Walmarts are so big. I mean, there's room for a gym in there. I mean, you could do it.

It's a great idea, actually. Yeah. And you just use your time. Especially when we get super duper Walmart. Imagine what we can do in the old super Walmart. We'll get a K through 12. Yeah. Got the whole school system.

Yeah. Go to college at Sam's Club. Yeah. So you just use the bathrooms of the Walmart. Those were just your bathrooms. We had the Walmart bathrooms and they built a bunch of like. Port-a-Jon's outside. I guess they were flushable.

Like they were flushable. Did you have the bathrooms in the front and the back? There was this old Walmart just in the back. Old Walmart just in the back through customer service, and that's where the office was. So everybody had it lock on you. But there was an Arby's in the parking lot. Tough to smoke in there, huh?

It was tough to smoke in there, but you could dip a lot of people who had a lot of dip in there. There was a lot of tobacco in the Walmart. It was encouraged. But you could go to the Arby's. There was an Arby's. I actually got in trouble because one time my dad came to get me, and they gave up on the intercom because it was the Walmart intercom,

you know. And so they were like, good luck, go get him. And I was in the Arbys for lunch, and the police found me there because that was not where I was supposed to be. Wow. You know. Got arrested in the Arbys.

Taking back to the Walmart. When you graduate, do you have to sign out like Gail Lewis? Remember that? Oh, yeah. Yeah, everybody has to make an announcement on the intercom. Some people did graduate. She, like, worked at Walmart for like 20 years or something. It was kind of a sweet moment.

It was. And then when her last day, she did a sign off on the intercom. This is Gail Lewis signing out. I'm going to bet Gail goes in there. until we. Yeah, of course, of course.

I mean, I don't mean to shop. She's in there visiting with, yeah. And you know, they're like, Gail's back. Yeah,

she's gone. You got, be able to handle it without me? So you, uh, started posting, let's talk about.

Yeah. And it just kind of went viral. Literally the Walmart story. I'd post the Walmart story. And in the Walmart story, I said regular people, things like Mike could and fixing two.

Yeah. And people, the comment, and I need to go back and find who did this, because this started the whole thing. Somebody was like, what do you mean fix into? And I was like, what do you mean?

What do you mean fixing to? Like, what are you talking about fixing to? And so I was like, let's discuss fixing two. And then we just continued to discuss things. For a while, I was like, I'm going to run out of topics. Yeah. But then I don't run out of topics. You know, where they walk up to me.

In Opelike, Alabama, I feel like we took Fixintu all the way down to Finno. We're finna. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And won't Opelike do it do it, you know? Yeah. Yeah.

Yes, it will. Yes, it will. I wanted to mention the one you posted today. How do you get your news? Dusty, I think you'll like this. Okay. Used to be police scanners. He has a very funny thing about police scanners and how, you know.

My father-in-law got convicted about it. He said it was gossiping and listening to it too much. So we had to turn the police scanner off after a while. Come on. Come on. When you start to recognize all the names on there, you go. You get in people's business. I guess that's true.

There's more than I wanted to know. If it's people in your time. Right. Yeah. Yeah. My neighbor, I got a neighbor in McMinnville that I think he has a police scanner and he was telling me something. And I go, oh, that sounds. But don't every time you see cop cars somewhere, don't you want to know what's going on there? Wouldn't it be great to be able to listen? I want to be as far away as possible. Yeah. I like how I'm not allowed to text and drive, but they have a laptop in the computer. They sure do. Sometimes I hop on like, you know, you can access all these police scanners online for free. Sometimes I like to hop in. What's going on in Des Moines right now? Wild. What are they dealing with? at 2 a.m. on a Friday night.

You know, just go checking in. I love that. I actually, like, love that. Maybe that's what I'm doing now this weekend. I love that. Weekend plans. Chime is finally changing the way that people bank. We've been banking one way for a long time.

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They weren't even like, they weren't even passionate about Carl's Jr. So I don't know what they're doing out there. You know, like I'm not sure what they're doing. My dad still meets some friends. It's important. The 6 a.m. Hardys men are running the town. My dad likes to tell me this, that when he goes, yeah, when we first started meeting, there was about 18 of us, but they keep dying and we're down to, we're down to four. Wow.

Not funny, but. It might be the Hardys. It might be the Hardys every day. It could be. It could be. A lot goes on in that Hardy's, a lot of December. decisions are made. Mm-hmm.

Everything that's ever been said about you was said in the Hardee's as well. Yeah, we, in Opelika, we, you know, I used to, you know, we had to drive by a Hardee's every day to and from school. And I, we ate there a lot. Breakfast and then Monster burgers in the after. You remember where the thick burger came out, that was kind of, it was a big deal. Yeah. Yeah, you kind of look at my life as before and after that.

And we were like, what is this? Mm-hmm. A thick burger from Hardees? Yeah. And the commercials were pretty hot. Yeah, they were pretty great. Yeah. Yeah, and then they had a, they had the low carb thick burger, which was just no bun, but it's just the same burger.

It was like lettuce on either side of it. Remember the KFC double down where it was two pieces of chicken and with some cheese in the middle? That's wild. That's wild. That's wild. You remember the Fresno burger? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, Hardy's had what was called a Frisco burger, but I went to Fresno, California to do a show, and I kept talking about the Fresno, Burger. Amazing. And I could not understand why it was not connected. Y'all, why is this not hitting? You know, why are y'all not talking about this nonstop? This is your claim to fame as a city.

Yeah. Yeah, some of this Hardy stuff. I met a guy who worked at the Hardy's Test Kitchen. Wow. I think it's in Franklin, Tennessee. How big was it? Betty can make some good biscuits. He said, he told us if we ever want to go by and check out.

the test kitchen we can i said dusty probably won't want to but uh i'll do it but me and brian can go yeah you're happy i mean you can come along if you want i figure you're not going to sample stuff i you know i i got to tell you guys this i ate at a wendies the other day oh what hippie i like it yeah wait was it a brick wendys or a regular uh vanderbilt oh okay oh yeah that one's been there forever yeah for brick and more yeah well i don't eat fast food and my wife for you i had a baby and they was like late late at night and they were like, all right, she can eat now. So I was like, all right, I'm going to go find this food.

And there was nothing open. Yeah. But I found a Wendy's. I got a burger and some chicken fingers. That Wendy's has been there as long as I can remember. Even as a kid, I would go to Vanderbilt sporting events. You go over that Wendy's. Oh, yeah.

Right there in front of the football stadium. Yeah, yeah. West End. I know the Wendy's you're talking about. I ordered chicken strips. They go, we got to drop those. It's going to take about eight minutes. I go, what about some nuggets?

They go, okay, we got that. Yeah. Something that's been sitting out for a while. Yeah. Well, we've talked about probably, I didn't do the math, but I think 30, probably 33, 34 states so far over six years. Right. But we've never done Mississippi. Yeah, we've been waiting for the perfect guests.

And I think we have that today. There you are. And here we go. So we're going to talk a little bit of books. And you're from Mississippi. Born and raised. College in Mississippi. Actually, went to all the colleges in Mississippi.

Your wife went to college in Mississippi. my friend Vince Fabra went to the same college as you in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg. In Hattiesburg, yep. Southern Miss to the top. Yeah. Hub City. The only school I could graduate from, they were like, you have ADHD.

I was like, oh. All right. Okay. So that's what it is. But you also know Toby, who's the mayor. The mayor, who I've met Toby. I've met Tosby. Just Vince's roommate.

Vince's roommate. Yep. So that's fun. So it's a small town, you know. Everybody knows everybody. Yeah. It's the whole thing. I like Haddysburg. I'm very much from Mississippi, and Hattisburg is definitely a big place down there. Well, where you're from, if you actually are plowing with a mule, Hattiesburg is the big city. It was the big city. Hazzberg got a target.

Yeah, exactly. Like, we got a super Walmart, but they got a target. It's not even a school. It's not even a school. There's never been a school. It's just a target. It's just just a target. It's just a target. I'll start with you and then we'll go this way because I know you'll know that. or what's the capital of Mississippi? Stonewall. It's also the largest city in Mississippi. Jackson. Yeah.

Jackson, Mississippi. I'm going to Jackson. That's what I always think. Yeah. Yeah. Is that Jackson, Mississippi or Jackson, Tennessee, they're talking about? I got to think Jackson, Mississippi. I've been to Jackson, Tennessee.

I like it just fine, but I can't imagine. I don't think people are writing songs. That's what I'm saying. In Mississippi, we at least believe it is about us. I don't know if it is or not. I think it's about Mississippi. I've never considered it being anywhere else. There's a lot of Jackson's out there.

But we learned on this podcast, you know the song Country Roads by John Denver is not actually about West Virginia. They just claimed it. It's about a guy on the way to Virginia and he's in West Virginia. I'm almost home. I'm almost in heaven. I'm in West Virginia. At least that's the way a lot of people interpret it. But we know now that's West Virginia.

Virginia's song. They've kind of, you know, whatever. Pretty low down of John Denver, to be honest with you. If you're like, I'm almost to heaven right now in West Virginia, though. Right now, though, I'm in West Virginia. I think that's what a lot of people think. But my point is it almost doesn't matter if it's embraced so much by a people in a town and stuff.

It's about that. But you know, it's about West Virginia now. The football across the ocean, the UK, it's one of their main songs. that song. Country roads? Yes. It's like Manchester United or one of, I'm going to say the wrong team, but one of their teams is like their big songs.

So you see all these like British people singing that in the huge stadiums and arenas. That's fun. And even something recently, somebody played that song at like the Olympics or something and it got all over the British people. They were like, this is our song. We were like, no, it's literally about West Virginia. Wow. Yeah, they're very serious about it.

Wow. John, you know, when John Denver won, a country music award, Charlie Rich lit the announcement on fire, on stage. They were very upset about John Denver back then. I didn't think it was real country. Really? Yeah.

Okay. How times have changed. And, you know, I think now it's confirmed, though, because, you know, the British are singing it. The British are singing it. How real country is it? It's both. Both Jackson, Tennessee and Jackson.

There was a lot of speculation regarding which city of Jackson the song is about, but the writer said, I didn't have a specific Jackson in mind. just like the sharp consonant sound as opposed to saying like, I'm going to Nashville. And then Charlie Daniels said, I ain't talking about Jackson, Mississippi. I'm talking about Jackson, Tennessee.

So how about that? I'm shook. And Johnny Cash said he was going to see Carl Perkins in Jackson, Tennessee. I'm shook. We didn't know this. This is new. I'm not going to take this back home. This is going to stay here in Tennessee.

I, you know, I've never been to Jackson, Mississippi. But like I said, I've been to Jackson, Tennessee. You don't need to. I think Jackson, Tennessee is fine. But there is, they used to be a comedy club there called South Street. And I liked it, but it was a tough room. It was a tough room. I went there one time, Harvey texted me.

He goes, I was doing a weekend. He goes, ticket sales are pretty good for Saturday, not looking too good for Friday. And I show up and on the marquee that they have, only Saturday is listed. I wonder why. Maybe go ahead and put both nights up there. Yeah. I could do it. That could do it.

The state gets his name from the Mississippi River, which is a Native American word for Great River. A few weeks ago, we were talking about that, and you said, I think Missouri is... I think it's the longest river. And you were right. I looked it up. Yeah. It's very close.

I mean, incredibly close with the Mississippi, but Missouri is slightly longer. I think Mississippi maybe has more total volume. All the rivers flow to me. Mississippi. Yeah. They all, I think, I don't know, maybe not all. It's the river basin. Yeah.

We're talking about 20 miles in difference. Wow. They're that close. 200 miles. I actually don't know anything about the Missouri River. Well, I did a deep dive on the Mississippi River one time, not literally, but I studied up on it. And I've forgotten most of it, but I was in Biloxi.

And I was just kind of looking out at the water. And the water was not looking. looking great. Yeah. And then I realized that that's where the Mississippi River comes out. So this river that runs through the entire country, and it has at least seven other rivers that connect to it, that pool from all over the country. So all of that water is coming together and dumping right there in the ocean.

That's not going to make great ocean water. Well, if you get the right hurricane, it can't. Okay. Blow some of that away. If you, well, the hurricane's always changed our barrier islands. And if you cut the right barrier island in half, the water clears up. Oh, amazing. After Camille, it's something happened.

And now all the river water just sits right there in the Mississippi Sound. Oh, yeah. So the right hurricane taking out one of those islands will be clear again. It'll be nice. But for now, you probably shouldn't get in there because of bacteria and stuff. Yeah. I love Biloxi, by the way. I had never been.

I had never been. And I did a show. I forget what theater I did, what casino. theater I did, but it was, it was great. I loved it. According to this, before Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi was the second largest gambling state because all the casinos down Alexi, I guess Katrina wiped them out. But they're back now. They're back. They're back. They're back. And it's, I mean, I had no idea what was going on down there, but it is pretty impressive. They're throwing a party on the coast, for sure. It's a totally different group of people on the coast.

Like there must be got so many different sections of different folks. And the coast folks are a different thing. I'm pretty sure there was a waffle house just down the street. There was. Yes, we've talked about that. And they both stayed open through Katrina, I'm sure. Yeah. If they did close, we would be panicked.

I think I saw three waffle houses on that strip right there. Yeah. Guys, everything in life is to upgrade. Dusty's always saying the world's never been better. But our phone's now a supercomputer. Our car basically drives itself. Spaceships. Yeah, your headphones cancel noise like magic.

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there's like a bunch of famous people, just from our one town. Like the Napiers have their HGGV show, Parker Posey. What's your town? Laurel, Mississippi. Laurel Mississippi. It has HGTV hometown. It's like a hometown show.

I've heard that. So you can come buy a house for nothing. Lance Bass. Lance Bass, yep. We really claimed him from Laurel specifically. Marsha Blackburn. Do you know who that is? I know that name.

I believe she's more on the political side of things. Yeah, she's a Tennessee politician. From Mississippi? From Laurel. Oh, wow. Here's a few others, not from Laurel, but from Mississippi. Jimmy Buffett? Yep.

Went to Southern. Okay, wow. Elvis was born in Tupelo. We claimed him in Tennessee, but he was born in Tupelo. Oprah was born in Mississippi. We claimed her in Tennessee. But that's kind of funny, like, two of our big, famous people that we claim are actually from Mississippi. But they're getting out of here.

But they're, like, careers where, you know, with y'all, I feel like, I feel like. Yeah. I feel like they escaped. We forget Memphis. Memphis is from is part of Tennessee. I feel like it's more Mississippi. Memphis is so Mississippi, like the vibes of Memphis, that whole area is very Mississippi. B.B. King, Morgan Freeman.

Yeah, yeah. B.B. King also feels like a Tennessee guy. Really? I feel like he feels like Memphis. I mean, I don't know. I mean, that area. That's the whole thing. Or New Orleans. His band played. Oh, New Orleans. Yeah, maybe that, yeah. Brittany Spears does not feel in Mississippi.

Oh, it does, though, if you really think about it. What she's going through now? Her whole, the whole, the whole Britney Spears package is very from Mississippi. I can see it, too. One of my first encounters with fame, a kid in my elementary school transferred in from a different elementary school. And his yearbook had Britney Spears in the yearbook. And we were like, you know, this guy is really famous, actually. He like knows Britney Spears, you know.

Wow. Did he know her? He didn't. They just went to school together. She was older. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Jim Henson. Yeah, Pubmuppets.

There's a Muppet Museum or at least a Kermit Museum in Leland. Mississippi. James Earl Jones was born to. Two of the great voice actors all time, Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones, both from Mississippi. And then football, Jerry Rice, played Mississippi Valley State. Yeah, tough to beat.

Walter Payton. Okay. Played it Jackson. I mean, two of the greatest of all times. It's wild. Brett Farr, Southern Miss, Archie Manning, Steve McNair, Dach Prescott,

Marcus Dupree. There was a bunch of them. Mm-hmm. Charles Dupree from Philadelphia. That's right. Philadelphia, Mississippi. Charles Crosby, his team just won the Super Bowl, and he was my wife student even in Laurel. Really?

There's a bunch of them. All those people. He plays for the Seahawks? I don't know. How did you say he just won the Super Bowl? Yes. Okay. Well, they probably played for the Seahawks.

I don't know who won the Super Bowl. I don't know either. I quit watching it. I just know we were so excited for Charles. Dussie just tuned in for the halftime show. It doesn't even worry about the game. Same. I was like so excited for Charles and for Bad Bunny. Yeah.

Some country singers from Mississippi. Jimmy Rogers, known as the father of country music. There's a lot of fathers of country music. Yeah, I'm going to debate that one. Yeah, I was going to say... I was going to be a lot of fathers of country music. I mean, Montgomery, Alabama has a claim to that, too, right? I'm going Hank Williams.

Yeah. Hank Williams. That's where I'm going. Tammy Wynette's the first lady of country music. She's from Mississippi. Charlie Pride. Conway Twitty. I thought Conway Twitty was from Arkansas.

Louisiana woman, Mississippi man? I know that's the song, but I thought he was from... You thought he was a fraud? Well, I... I used to live right next to Twittyland, whatever it was called. Twitty City. Wow. Twitty City, yeah.

Somebody said that... Twittanyland. When Conway Twitty is not his name, but he picked the name, he looked at a map of Arkansas and just picked two cities. Wow. He picked Conway, Arkansas? Yeah. And Twitty, Arkansas? I think so.

It worked. Not a bad, too, to pick. It feels good coming out, Conway Twitty. Conway Twitty. That feels good. Yeah. I mean. It's better at Murfreesboro, Memphis.

Right. Well, that's what he said. There's also a city in Arkansas called Toad Suck, Arkansas. They asked him why he picked Conway Twitty, and he said, because it sounds better than Toad Suck. And he was right. Yeah. Toad Suck Comedy Festival. He was right.

Yeah, I did that, yeah. Yeah, me and Will O'Donnell. You have any chili dogs? I didn't. And Justin Smith, we all did that together. Toadsock Festival? Yeah. Hardy is from Mississippi.

You know what's a crazy Mississippi fact I saw the other day? You know if England, the country of England, were to become a United States state. Let's say it becomes our 51st state. Where do you think it would rank in terms of economic output? Apparently close to Mississippi. I would have said hi before now. Yeah, but the way you're framing it, yeah. You think it would be like California is like the fourth biggest economy in the world.

So it's below, it's below California. But like, where do you think it would rank out of 50 states? I'm going to say 51. 51st. Yeah. Mississippi's economy. Go ahead. GDP is bigger than England.

Yeah, like, look at this good. This is like the, it's so funny. It's the, you know, land is meant in no respect. Mississippi's 50? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. In terms of... I mean, I'm sure.

I mean, everybody's like, yeah, guys, that's obvious. I wasn't going to go there. We've been moving up and stuff lately, but yeah, that sounds right. Well, I didn't want to mention that. GDP is, like, definitely, like, low. This depends on, I got to find the exact... There's all kinds of different measurements here. This is the...

But we're, like, really high in education now. I was about to meet... The Mississippi Miracle. Yeah, I did it myself. All right. I brought that to y'all. You and Walmart. Brought it.

I was a public school teacher for, a long time. I was a teacher of the year even. Really? I was the art element elementary art educator of the year of the year for Mississippi and the teacher of the year for my school and stuff like that. Wow. How about that? This is way more fun though. Yeah. Gave it all gave all that success up for you for your own self. Just for it. That's what we do, right? We go, I was helping the kids, but you know what? I was a public servant, but it's way more fun to serve like me. Come on. I get it. Aaron, the Mississippi miracle refers to the rapid significant improvement of K-12 education in Mississippi, particularly in fourth grade reading where the state rose from last place in the

nation to average or above average ranking by 24. Look, that's great. But it's very funny, hey, our kids can read the way they're supposed to now. What a miracle. Yeah. It was a miracle. And it was a miracle. And you know what?

The miracle was. What's that? Phonics. All it was. We just started teaching phonics again. Everybody had gotten away from phonics education all across the United States. It was like vibes. based.

It was vibes based, yeah. And so then we started teaching phonics again, and it immediately skyrocketed the whole situation. And we did it with the least, the lowest paid teachers, the lowest paid, like, there's no money. So it was all just like scraping and scrap and through. So the word miracle is appropriate. It was like really, really such a surprise. Yeah, you feel funny now, big man?

We're from Alabama. Where do we rank on this? I think we're 49. I think, well, Vince has a joke who says he moved from South Carolina to Alabama. And he says, you know, I'm because of education. I'm big on it. I went from 40. I went from 50 to 49.

Yeah. So, I think. But also one thing about like the miracle of it, like, I'm moving up that far. It's like, it's pretty easy to go up when you're on the very bottom. And somebody's always going to be at the bottom. That's what I say. No matter how great everybody does, somebody's still going to be 50th. Somebody's got to do it.

Somebody's got to do it. We've stepped up for so long. William Faulkner is from Mississippi. John Grisham. I think what, in the 90s, John Grisham was just cracking out the bestsellers. And then became the best movies. The movies, yeah. So many.

Rainmaker. Just watched that recently. Oh, what's some John Grisham movies that I should get? The Firm. A Time to Kill. A Time to Kill. I've seen that. Rainmaker.

You like the Rainmaker. The firm I've seen. The firm I watched recently. It takes place in Memphis. I did too. Yeah, it's a good one. I'm going to be honest, I don't 100% get it. What do you mean?

They're at the end, what he's doing. It's been too long for me. I don't 100% understand what happened. Isn't there one like called the witness or something with John Cusack? Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Is that what it's called? Usually any movie like that just says like one word name like that, that's probably a John Grisham book. Let me see, because that movie was great.

I don't think the future day. I know. Well, you don't know what happened in the firm? So the firm is their laundering money for the mob. Okay. And Tom Cruise's character learns that. Yeah. And tries to expose them and get them.

He turns against the firm to. But at the end, the mafia bosses come to town and he meets with them. And he shows them some bookkeeping. It's been a while since I've seen it too. And then they kind of like, like he finds a way out of it, right? I think so. He becomes an informant. In the end.

Oh, yeah. John Gisham. The runaway jury. Yeah. Incredible movie. Who's in that? John Cusack. Gosh.

Gene Hackman, who's also in the firm, Dustin Hoffman. Oh, yeah, yeah. What a cast. Jeremy Piven. Rachel Wise. Big fan of Rachel Wise. I think that's how you say it. Weiss.

There's good storytellers in Mississippi. I think that's like where it all comes from. There's nothing else to do, you know. Some can... Oh, oh. Oh. Um, uh, uh, uh, Jerry Clower. Very famous Jerry Clower.

Oh, gosh. Yazoo, Mississippi. Yeah. Gosh, I love Jerry Clower. Tommy Davidson is from Mississippi. Tignito. Dick. Linden Bryant.

Me. Mary Ryan Brown. Yeah. A whole crew on us. Uh, Casey Jones is from Jackson, Tennessee. But he crashed. his train in Mississippi. So that's something.

All right. So there's Ole Miss and Mississippi State are big rivals. The Egg Bowl. The Egg Bowl. Yep. Why is it called the Egg Bowl? I'm not sure, but it's what everybody does on Thanksgiving. They watch it?

Because it's on Thanksgiving Day, right? Some kind of egg trophy. Yeah. And if you're especially, Ole Miss and Mississippi State are both really good places to tailgate in the Grove or the Junction. and that one is particularly excessive. It's like very catered. It's very chandeliers.

I heard that Ole Miss is a real party. A real party. It's like what it's far. Right here it's beautiful. I've never been. It's very literary. Like that's where Faulkner and all them are from. So it's like a very academic type of a place.

But it is very beautiful. It's like a very quaint, perfect little small town. If you're going to be a good writer, you've got to be an alcoholic. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's the way. I guess is the general vibe of Oxford, Mississippi. Probably a lot of, what do you have a lot of?

lot of those like Savannah, Georgia, the trees with the moss that hangs down out of them? We don't have the Spanish moss in North Mississippi. It doesn't make it all the way up there, but we do have it in other places and it is important. But it's that vibe. The vibe that you're describing minus the moss, it's that vibe. This is kind of interesting. You know why it's called the Egg Bowl? It's because there was a trophy made that was supposed to look like the ball. And the footballs used in American football in the 1920s were looked basically like eggs. They look more like the ball is used in rugby. Now, so the trophy just looked like an egg.

I think that lines up, actually, for how we'll name things in Mississippi for sure. I didn't know if there was like are eggs of any special significance? Look, it's an egg. Yeah, it looks like an egg. Well, that's how Auburn, Alabama became the Iron Bowl. They used to always play in Birmingham, which is the Iron City. Yeah. So they're going to at the Iron Bowl.

I never knew. Aaron, O'Niss won the National Championship in football three out of four years, 1959, 1960, 1962. I mean, that's a dynasty. They take it very seriously. And Mississippi State beat Vanderbilt in the 2021 College Baseball World Series. No, they do baseball really well. They, like, love baseball at Mississippi State.

It's like got an incredible stadium, a little left-field lounge. I think the cowbells come from. You think they had, they just back in the day, everybody just, you know, they had a lot of cowbells because they had a lot of cows. It was an agricultural school. Like, it was like a, you know, whatever those are called, like agricultural type of a school first. So there were cows, and there are cows in Mississippi very much. But I don't know where it came from, but I can tell you, be ready if you're going to a Mississippi State game

because they're going to be ringing those cowbells the whole time. It sounds like the worst. I never loved it when I was there. Yeah. If you're not as familiar with college football as some of us, Mississippi State, the fans have. have cowbells in the crowd. And they ring them incessantly the entire, entire game. And it's a very cool tradition because it's so unique. No other school does that.

But I imagine it. And don't they set rules for when you can ring them? I think that there are all kinds of stipulations. Yeah, because it's such a like a outside source of noise that they had to put some there is a quote unquote ring responsibly pledge by fans. Okay. So they can't, whatever that means. People get really fancy decorated ones.

It began in the 1930s when reportedly a cow wandered onto the field during a game against Old Miss, leading to the cowbell becoming a good luck charm for the school. Did they win after the cow came? Yeah, yeah. That's why it's why it came a good luck charm. Lines up. They always say that. I feel like none of those are true.

I feel like Auburn has one where they're like, say, that an eagle flew over the stadium before the game, and they won. and then they go to a eagle. I just feel like, I mean, it all sounds like a nice tradition, but I just feel like deep down, none of those are true. You know what I mean? So Ole Miss's mascot, it was forever Colonel Red. Then they were like, oh, it's controversial.

So then they had a contest to pick the new mascot. And I remember there was a push for Admiral Akbar from Star Wars. Yeah, I like that. I was behind that. And that didn't happen. So then they decided on a Black Bear, the Ole Miss Black Bear. And then they did Landshark. And then they switched in 2018 or, yeah, I think to Landshark.

What is that? I thought that was like a joke or it was tongue and cheek or like the defense was called Landshark. But then they made it that. I think it became a thing. But then I read on Wikipedia that they're like, since 2021, they've tried to phase it out. And now there's just not a mascot. Like, no.

There's General Agbar. I'm not a big story. Star Wars guy, but he was... Admiral, act barble. Admiral, yeah, they were saying he was, you know, he was fighting for the rebel forces. Yeah. So it fit the Ole Miss Rebels.

Okay. I think, I think it's cool. You know? I just know he goes, It's a trap. Yeah, it's a trap. That's all I know he does. That's a great mascot.

Yeah, I mean, that would have been terrible. I think it's great. I feel like the Landshark things was like a popularity thing. Like everybody was like saying that for a second. And then by the time they like made themselves to land sharks, the joke was old, you know? Yes. So that didn't stick around.

there was a guy on defense who came up with it, did the Landshark, and he just kind of took off. Imagine if there's a trick play, and Admiral Akbar is the guy, you go, it's a trap! And you, I think it's great. That's brilliant. Yeah, I'm not even a Star Wars guy, but I like that.

You should be an old Mrs. PR team. That's a great idea. I mean, let's have some fun with it, you know what I mean? Yeah, they've got them. I don't even know where the shark comes. I mean, I know that you guys said the Finn thing. Tony the Landshark. That's who that is right there.

That's bizarre. Yeah. Yeah. You got to get, you got to be, it's got to be an L. Larry the Landshark. Oh, yeah. Tony the Landshark. That is so, like what?

You already got Tony the Tiger. It's got to be Larry the Land shark. Yep. So the Teddy bad, Teddy bad, Titty, Teddy, oh, I'm having a little. Teddy bear. Teddy bear is. Theodore Roosevelt. We claim that.

Correct. That would happen in Mississippi. Mm-hmm. What happened? Yeah, I don't know. I thought you knew the rest. I thought you were going to finish it off. No, no, no, no, I want to hear about it.

He was on a honey expedition and everybody had killed an animal. What's a honey expedition? Hunting. Oh, hunting. I'm sorry. I did disrespect. You're going to run into some bears on a honey expedition. I have been.

I did misunderstand. I have been on a honey expedition before. Okay. Phonics haven't been talked. Okay. No, I just misunderstood. Hunting expedition. Yeah.

Okay. I'm not making, I did just misunderstand. There wasn't a lot going on. The president was on a honey expedition, trying to get some sweets. Let me get some of that local hunting annual. You want to check this? That's from wet heat, which you can see on Netflix. Hunting Expedition, and he hadn't killed anything yet. So they tied a black bear to like a tree or something, basically let him kill it.

And he's like, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to kill this bear. And the story got out, and they were like, oh, that's a sweet story. And they made stuffed animal and called it the teddy bear. And now we have teddy bears. Yeah. But shout out to the crew. You're welcome.

You're welcome. You're strong enough to tie a black bear. I think it was a baby. It was a little. Oh, okay. Yeah. So he's really not that good of a guy in that story. Because he was still trying to kill a bear, but he's like, now I want to kill it the right way.

I guess, yeah. He needed a rug. You want to kill. Yeah. You don't want to kill one tied up. It would be so sad. That would be. Some medical first come from Mississippi.

Mississippi's... Oh, yeah, we got hearts. Yeah. We got some hearts. The first human lung transplant and the first heart transplant from a chimpanzee. Same doctor did it. Yeah. You have the first people that needed them.

Yeah, and we still do. So they took a lung and hearts out of a chimpanzee? The lung transplant, I think, was just from a human. Oh, okay. Chimpanzee was from a chimpanzee. Let me ask you this. If they said... Wait, wait.

The heart was from a chimpanzee? Yeah. And they gave it to a human? Yeah. And it worked. And then a pig. No, it didn't work, but they were able to do it. They tried it.

And then they made the first artificial one. Oh, is that right? And then it worked. Wow. The guy stayed alive. The guy stayed alive for like two months. Wow. The heartbeat for a lot.

We're looking for a little longer than that. Then he started smoking again. The heartbeat for approximately one hour And then the guy died Because they said Chimpanzee's heart too small Did they tell the guy that's what they were doing? If they said you'll live

30 more years Before you'll die today But you'll have some characteristics Of a chimpanzee Would you do it? I could use a little bit of Yeah, go What are the characteristics?

Can I climb real good? Or if it's You'll occasionally throw poop at people Because we do have some monkeys That get loose every now And then in Mississippi That just happened last year For medical purposes

is right. The Tulane monkeys, for some reason, as they're coming through there, they always escape. Like, it's like four or five times in my life. The very diseased monkeys escape. It feels like trying to get a virus spread throughout the country. It does. It feels like that.

And Theo Vaughn has a story about these same monkeys. Like, they got loose in his town in Louisiana. And then they also got loose in our town. It just is like not good. If you're a monkey trying to get loose from a medical program, don't do it in Mississippi. I know a million people who are like ready at a moment's notice to hunt monkeys. So yeah. Oh, yeah.

I have friends who were like, they were like, excuse me, there's diseased monkeys in the woods. I've been waiting my whole life. I'm ready for that. They were ready. They were ready. The monkeys lasted exactly 12 hours. Wow. A truck was carrying Reese's monkeys in Jasper County, Mississippi, and the truck crashed.

The primates posed a threat to humans. They were aggressive. They had hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID. Because if you're going to have a disaster, have a disaster, you know. Oh my God. What a nightmare. Well, what a life those monkeys had leading up to this, though. What was funny is like, when that story broke, the rest of the nation was like,

the disease monkeys. And everybody in Mississippi was like, let's go. Yeah, yeah, let's get these monkeys. Those monkeys were having a party. They did. They had a party. It sounded like they were at Panama City Beach. They had a party.

But the thing about it is that's not the first time. Like, that's happened a few times. Yeah, what do you think is going on there? I guess the two-lane. Tulane needs to get its trucks together because, like, you know. But they're wrecking in Mississippi. They are. Two-lane was very clear that they were not being transported by Tulane.

So the Tulane Highway. Boom. Well, Tulane, y'all's monkeys are here, whether y'all transported them or not. Yeah, maybe start transporting your own monkey. Maybe get your own truck, dude. Don't trust Fed. It was a fly-em. They caught all but three.

Three were just, three were gone. There's three out there. You made it, man. There's actually, like, a lot of animals like that in my life. They're, like, still out there after being let loose at various points. Wow. What do you? What if those monkeys have made a life for themselves?

I hope they have. I hope they're doing well, you know, like, made a family. They probably found some organic herbs and started curing their own things. And, you know, COVID wears off naturally. And then you get, you know, there's herbs. There's always videos out there where people, you post a video and then people are in the comments going, oh, Dr. So-and-so cured my herb. piece, you know, and you go, what? This is a weird, like a weird targeted ad. Yeah.

You know? So if we see like a cure for hepatitis coming from like random place in Mississippi, somebody called a monkey. Yeah. Somewhere. I want to ask you about a couple of Mississippi dishes. Yes. Mississippi mud pie. Is that a big thing? It is. It's a big thing. It's delicious. It's delicious. We're proud that it's named after us. So we like that. Sounds like a Mississippi mud pie. Yeah, it's like a chocolate dream. Sounds euphemistic. Dream pie, you know, very good. It's. You would think with the name like mud pie, though, it wouldn't have the white icing on the top, that it would be chocolate all the way. I agree. And I made many mud pies that we were not allowed to eat, and nobody appreciated.

Yeah. As a small child. And what about the dipping condomit comeback sauce? That's us? According to this. I don't know. Everywhere had comeback sauce. Yeah, that's good.

You never heard of that. What is that? I haven't either. What? What is comeback sauce? Wait a second. I call this like chicken finger sauce. Yeah.

Everybody's got, it's like special sauce. It's like special sauce. Yeah, special sauce. Actually, my whole life it was special sauce. And then when Keynes came about it, became comeback.

Or somebody, like, I forgot if it was Keynes or who it was. Sometimes I make it at home. And my wife is very impressed by it. Yeah. Why did you do that when you make it? I don't know. But yeah,

it feels like I'm done so like magic going on. I used to make it at Jim Bob's chicken fingers. It's typically mayonnaise, ketchup, chili sauce, hot sauce, Worc sauce, worst sire. lemon juice. A little garlic salt.

A little spices. Yeah. It's good. For a complex flavor profile. I am so proud of us for that. I didn't know we did comeback sauce. Good for us. Well, this is the Mississippi comeback sauce.

There's probably one for every state. But it says comeback sauce is from Mississippi up there in the description. Yeah, but in Alabama, we have an Alabama comeback sauce. It was created in Jackson, Mississippi, at a restaurant called the rotisserie. Maybe that's why Johnny Cash was headed down there. I'm going to get it. some comeback songs. I'm going to Jackson

ain't never coming back. Sorry, I didn't mean to yell that. You are miced up. I'm fired up. That makes sense that we have a lot of like cabbage trailers and that kind of thing. Food historian Robert St. John called Comeback Sauce,

the queen mother of all Mississippi condiments. Wow. He's a great guy. You know Robert St. John? Yeah, he's like our main restaurateur. kind of a guy and he does a lot of really good stuff and he does a lot of charity work in Mississippi as well and he's really fun. A guy, he's got a lot of very good restaurants.

That's a different Robert St. John. My first time I've probably ever thought of Mississippi was when I was a kid, we would play backyard football. It was one Mississippi, two Mississippi. Yeah, I know. I always felt good that we had that. At least y'all, at least other people are saying her name every now and then. Everywhere they do that, right?

Even in Alabama, we did that, whereas Alabama is about the same amount of syllables. There's really no need to Mississippi, Alabama. Yeah, we could have did one Alabama, two Alabama, but we were still doing Mississippi. One Alabama, two Alabama, three Alabama. Yeah. Did y'all, y'all probably didn't do this. This is dumb, but did y'all learn how to spell Mississippi with the song? M. I, Crooked letter, crooked letter, I, crooket letter, I, humpback, ah, yeah. I was just in Kentucky, and I don't know how I ended up synced.

doing that song and they were like really shook by it like yeah they were like crooked letter crooked letter humpback humpback what yeah yeah it's a pee right what is that all and then even yeah that's how you count i mean you count like they would say when it when it lightnings you say one mississippi two mississippi and then however far you get before it thunders they say that's how many miles away it is exactly Yeah, it's essentially one second To say one Mississippi takes one second So you could just say that I don't take the magic out on it

Well, we always drop that second ISS, it's just Mississippi and Mississippi Mississippi, yeah Mississippi, usually Mississippi. Until you got phonics And then yeah, now we have phonics I don't know what the next generation will be doing Hookett on Pahons

I used to be the most well-spoken person in the whole state so I don't know what will happen next All right, some movies set in Mississippi. Good. Mississippi Burning. A time to kill. Oh, brother, War Art, though. Mississippi's burning was actually filmed in Lafette, Alabama.

Yeah, boom, that's where my dad lives. I met Gene Hackman that day. I was a little kid. No way. Yeah. Wow. But a lot of it was filmed in Mississippi, too. It was, but the town was set in...

Town was in Lafette, Alabama. Yeah, they couldn't find a good town in Mississippi. I believe that could be difficult. My dog skip. What's a classic? Devastating. What was that? Oh, you weren't tortured with my dog skip?

No. I never saw that. What was that? Like homeward bound, but he never gets home at the end? Just like that. General pets, you know. He was bound to get there. General good dog.

Is there a comedy club in Mississippi? I'm sure there is, and I'm ashamed that I'm not real familiar with it. I think there's some on the coast as well. But there's not a huge one. Now that I say this, they're going to be like, there is. We're here, you know, but I have not encountered them yet. I don't think so.

So there was supposed to be whatever one, there was one in Memphis, and they were supposed to open that brand in Jackson. Okay. Because I was set to do that club when COVID hit. And then I don't know what happened to the club. But I never did comedy in Mississippi until I got to theater levels because there is no club. Yeah. There may be. I've only done theaters.

Yeah. There may be a small one. Brian, it's just, Brian just taking it in person. I'd done a church there. Yeah. Yeah, it helps. Yeah. But, no, I'd never done, I never did comedy in Mississippi until I did the Hattiesburg

Theater and then I did Biloxi. And I will say Hattisburg's trying to, like, develop a little scene down there. Yeah, I'm really proud of it. Yeah. So maybe in the future, we'll get it there. I would love to. I'm new to comedy. I feel like I'm new to, that was my literal first show just a few years ago.

So I feel like I'm like still learning the world. So every time you do stand up, it's like on a real show. Like, you haven't had, like, a chance to go do open mics and stuff like that. No. Why torture yourself at an open mic when you can just jump right to theater? Well, in a selfish way, like, I would rather it be my audience, you know? Yeah. Really?

Yeah. I thought of that. Never thought about it like that. Because I have a great, like, audience. It's all these ladies, and they're so much fun. So I love for the ladies to come. Are you like a celebrity? I'm sure you are, at least in Laurel.

I mean, I don't know. I don't pay attention. I'm really bad at paying attention stuff. And honestly, being from a small town of Mississippi, you already are celebrity. So, like, I've already spent my whole life knowing, like, wherever I'm going. Somebody's reporting back to my dad that I was at that liquor store, you know. So that's, like, that's, like, that's like. If everybody knows everybody, then everybody's celebrity. Right. Everybody's celebrity. Now I just have to like. And then, you know, probably more people in your hometown are talking trash than, you know, because they're like, they grew up with you. Yeah, for sure. You have success elsewhere, but they're like, for sure. We have to climb that cringe hill, you know.

We start doing online stuff. Like, it's cringy. It's so cringy to think about the people that know you, like, seeing you say dumb stuff on the internet every day. Yeah. But once you climb the hill, then it's not cringy anymore. Yeah. And you just stop caring, you know?

Yes. So now I just treat everywhere like the small town. But it is confusing because people in the South, we smile at each other. And, like, you agree to a stranger. Yeah. So when I'm walking around, I never can tell, like, if you know who I am Or if you're just Southern and smiling. So I just treat everybody like we're all friends.

That's why a wave and saying, all right, all right, works so well. Because even, it doesn't matter. Actually, I was at the airport and somebody waved at me and I go, all right. And then they go, oh, we thought you were somebody else. And I go, well, I hope you're having a good day anyway. All right. All right. They must have thought you were Lyndon Bryant.

I guess. I guess. But I go, hey, well, either way. It's good to see you and nice to say hey. Well, we've got like five minutes before we need to wrap and I wanted to talk about you've got a big week ahead. I do. It's wild. So tell us about what you're doing. This comes out on Wednesday.

Great. Well, on Monday this week, I'm doing this with y'all, which is a huge deal. I'm stoked on it. And then last night when this comes out, I will, me and Andy Marie Tillman, and I'm sure you all are familiar with her people listening. She's incredible. Nashville. Incredible, Nashville, Comet. And so we have a show tomorrow night here in the lab.

and then Wednesday night had a debut at the Grand Ole Opry. Wow. Big time. And that sentence alone is wild. It is wild. We've all done the opera here, so that's awesome. Great. Okay.

I need the tips. First of all, what are we wearing to the opera? Well, probably. Don't want to ask me that. Or probably any of us actually. Yeah, I was going to say,

we're probably the three worst people to ask. Okay, I dress like this every time I go. Basically, I dress like this every day. I mean, you don't have to wear a suit. But does dress something nice? that you might wear it at a theater show. If you feel, if you're feeling flashy, though, you know, go for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, if you could.

I mean, they're well known for Rhinestones. That's the place to do it if you have. I feel like it's the chance. It's my shot, yeah. That's true, but I'm just saying you don't have to. And the people are the people. They really are so far. They have the nicest people.

It's really wild to be back there. I went, Molly's. Lemonade and, uh, popcorn. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, her name lemonade. Lemonade the lady. Oh, okay. There's a guy that they're named popcorn? Sweet tea.

There is lemonade. It's so good. Her name's lemonade. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I was just saying about Milo's, and Milo's Sweet Tea has lemonade as well. So I was like, okay, you know about Milos. Because they took me to the Opry, like, on a brand trip last year or whatever.

They're a really great brand to work with, by the way. Milos? Milos. I love Milos. They're the best. And they took me there, and it was super cool. And I didn't know comedians did the, like, I didn't know it was part of the opera. I knew the opera, but didn't know comedians did it.

And it was so fun. Like, see the circle. all the stuff. And that was less than a year ago. Here we are doing it. Was there a comic there that night? There was. Do you remember who it was? I don't remember who it was.

It was Brian. That makes sense. It was pretty forgettable. But I'm excited. I get to go step in the circle and do that whole song and dance. Yeah. That's going to be great. Yeah.

Bizarre. You got your set down or you're just going to wing it? I think I've got the set down because it's just 12 minutes. So down from an hour to 12 minutes. That's studying. I just went through three weeks. It's so funny. But you went from, the typical path is, let me work up to 12 minutes.

And you're like, we try to get down from an hour to 12 minutes. I talk too much. I'm talking too much all the time. No, it's a great, it's a great problem to have. Yeah. I've got, I already got the second, I've got a second hour written that I'm ready to, like, play with. But I have never, I haven't filmed this. The only actual, practical piece of advice I'll give you is that you can coordinate with the keyboard player to give you, essentially give you a light when you have a minute left.

They hit a note. They can hit them. Yeah, if you talk to them, they can hit a note for you and you'll hear it behind you. Then you'll know I have one minute left. Okay. And this is what I like to do. The, uh, because the audience can also hear the note. Yeah.

I go, you hear that? That's letting me know, it's time to wrap it up. Address it. Yeah, I go. I was going to get a lot. I got the last time I go, I was going to get a lot more time, but based on how the audience has reacted to me, they're cutting a chore. How does the audience react?

They're great. They do such a good job of, uh, setting you up. especially when it's your first time. Yes. They really make a big deal out of it. And you think it's going to be a little awkward because it's all music and then there's a comedy, but they do such a good job of like letting the crowd know it's a little something different and they set you up and they build it up to be a big thing.

And then they feel like they're a part of something special because it is. It is. It's your first time. It'll be great. You know, this happened to me the last time. It's usually an older crowd. I do well with that. Yeah.

See, I prepare. I do well to. and I prepared material for the older crowd. And then I'm out there and they go, yeah, there's like four high schools out there to die. And I go, ah, the worst demographic for me. Yeah. High school would be very intimidating. Did you say all that on stage?

No, I just rolled with it. There are four high schools here? I was talking about cars and you remember this on a car. Some of John Mellencamp's songs. Yeah. You have a lot of family and friends coming in for the opera? I do. My parents, my wife's family.

family and her aunt-uncle and sister and niece. My son's come in. So I'm excited to show them all that because they don't really see what I do. And like, I'm just a silly goose to them. So it's nice to. They came to your show. That's the other show they came to, the one that I did with you. Yeah.

And then now this one. So we'll see. We're good. See if they approve. Yeah. They're like, we hear him all the time. He talks. Well, that's the great thing about not having to do the open mic route.

Because what we all do is you start doing open mics and you burn all your friend you go hey come see this open mic you burn all that before you ever actually have any time and by the time you have a show worth that's worth people coming to those people aren't in your life anymore

well that is true yeah anything else this weekend you need to want to promote I think that's it this week it's tough to beat that man it's a big week I'm very very excited about it it's just so hard to believe all this stuff is so hard it was hard to believe I'm sitting here with y'all now

and then doing that later this week. Any last words about the state of Mississippi? I just, I love it there. I love Mississippi. It's a great place. If you love, like, nature, if you love, like, sitting on a porch, like, if that's enough for you to sit on a porch and, like, enjoy the sunset and enjoy the pine trees. And you also, like, can deal with the most allergies, then Mississippi's a place for you, you know?

Like, if you don't want to have much going on and just enjoy life in a very slow pace, I think I'll always be, that'll always be my home base because that's what I imagine. And when I think of what life is, like, that is what life is. So even when we're doing other stuff, I'll always end up back there. I love when people are proud of where they're from. I am proud of it. It's a place to be proud. I mean, there's a lot.

But I feel like it's sort of a place where all of our nastiness is, like, out for everybody to see. And we're all actively, like, working on that constantly. So it's almost a really honest place to be from. Oh, yeah. You know, I did some air, I did an Air Force base in Mississippi. And I drove, maybe it was, I don't know, I had to drive all the, way through Mississippi. Woods.

And I, yeah, and I stopped at some gas stations and stuff along the way in the middle of nowhere. And it was great. The people were so nice. It was always a mix of people hanging out together, country folks, just hanging out, having fun. And I loved it. I love it. You know, this is from Mississippi Killer Bees.

Yeah, I knew that. You think about Alabama because he's lived there, but he's from Jackson. I did a show there with him one time. I was like, we brought Killer Bees. I did not. Yeah. You said killer bee the person. Killer bees.

Yeah. Killer bees, the comic. Not the bees. No, no, no. No. No. No. Because I do end up on bee expeditions, like I said, early.

Yeah. I've ended up in the swamp looking for bees. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, this guy, he may kill you, but he's a nice guy, very funny guy. Yeah, very funny. He's been around forever. He is a sharpshooter, I think. Okay.

I think he is. Yeah, I think he is like a trained marksman. Yeah, I don't know that. Winns competitions and stuff. Really? Yeah. I had no idea. Well, May 20th through 23rd, I'll be in Denver, Greeley, and then...

Hit it. Where are those cities at? Denver, Colorado. Colorado. Tell Landon how you said it last week. Colorado. Colorado. Sounds right, right?

Sounds good to me. Colorado. Yeah, exactly. I like it too, and I said that to you last week. These guys are a Southern name on. Or Sinoes. We're saying the O very seriously. Well, we say, you know, Colorado.

And he just caught me off guard last week. I just said Denver, Colorado, Green, Colorado. Denver, Colorado. And I just was, it made me laugh. I'm not, I like it. You remember when I was on your podcast and I was talking about my uncle, Uncle David Earl? Everybody I grew up with has two names. My dad was Denver Donald.

Yeah. And my uncle was David Earl. But I just called Uncle David Earl. Uncle David Earl. I like it when the second name is just a letter, like, you know, Willie D. Yeah, or ML. Yeah, I literally have Uncle ML. Wait, way, I'm in Denver Greeley.

I had an Uncle R.L. Two nights in Casper. R.L. Stein. Bridebatescombe.com. Great. Aaron? I'm going to be in Salt Lake City at Wise Guys Comedy Club, May 1st and 2nd. May 3rd.

I'm going to be in Washington, D.C. at the D.C. Improv. Later that month, I'm going to be in Fort Laugh. Waterdale, Florida. So I'm going to be all over. I just put a bunch of dates out. I got dates through the end of the year. So go to Aaronwebercom. All my dates are listed on there. I'll see you guys on the road. This is Aaron, by the way. Okay. May 1st, Dallas, Texas, May 2nd, Houston, Texas. And then, you know, I still have a small baby at home. So I am taking as much time as I can to be at home. And so.

Slack. Yeah, so... Could be working. Yeah, it could be... What's that? Are you doing the improvs? No, I'm doing the... Majestic Theater in Dallas,

and I don't... Not sure the theater in Houston, but gonna be very good. Nice. And we're excited. Well, I didn't know we were listing shows, but I have a lot next month. I have Tampa and Orlando in May

and then a whole, like, Appalachian tour of like Boone and Appalachian Theater. And what's your Instagram handle? What's your... Landon Talks all across the platform. and Landon Talks.com is my website, and you can find there's like 10 shows next month, so please come and do the dessert showdown. If you go to my website, we are picking the best dessert.

All right. Very funny guy, very nice guy. Thanks for coming. Thanks for being. So much for having me. I'm so honored. Yeah. Aaron, you want to wrap it up? That's it.

Another edition of Public Figures. Thank you all for tuning in in case I don't see you. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. And that's it. And none of this is, we appreciate it. I'm glad you did that thing, though, because people do criticize you sometimes. They're saying that. It's one of the best movies of all time. It is, but they're saying, you know, that you're stealing that.

I mean, I'm not claiming that created it. A lot of people think about it. I mean, what's the line between stealing and giving an homage to something? I don't know, but I like it for the engagement. Okay. Well, Luke, I am your father. James R. Jones from Mississippi. All right, there are.

All right. Thanks. Thank you.