The Nateland Podcast - #128 Texas

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Starting point is 00:01:33 There we go. Welcome, everybody. Excited to be here. You know, we're all here. Aaron, you're back. It's good to be back, man. You got your passport? Yeah. all here aaron you're back it's good to be back man yeah your passport yeah i had a corporate gig

Starting point is 00:01:45 in cancun mexico that's been on the calendar for 11 months so of course i didn't think to get a passport until two weeks ago yeah um plenty of time i applied online i paid for the expedited shipping i paid for the expedited processing it was scheduled to get in the day before i left and then i get a notification that my picture has been rejected because i'm they say you're not allowed to wear a military uniform yeah in the picture you're wearing camo i mean look at the picture this is the picture they go yeah that looks straight military that's crazy dude there's some other reasons i should have been rejected.

Starting point is 00:02:26 Camo's the least of the problems. So I called and I'm like, this is not a military uniform. I'm just wearing it. It's an active shooter uniform. They're just like, how unhappy are you? Come talk to us. Well, they tell you not to smile in these pictures, right? They say a neutral expression. And I remember asking the guy.

Starting point is 00:02:41 That's less than neutral. You went the other way. Yeah. Turn that smile upside down smile that is enough yeah i asked the guy should i take this off and he was like nah you're good so that guy rejected so i missed the podcast at the gas station they took the picture hey you think this is gonna get through he's like ah it's fine dude you guy doesn't care at all if it gets through. I don't. Like, he's like, I don't. You're fine. So I had to fly to a passport agency and get a passport in person. And the only appointment available in the entire country was Buffalo, New York. So during the podcast last week, I was flying to Buffalo to get a passport.

Starting point is 00:03:20 Got it in in the nick of time. And now I'm back. Look at you. That's. Look at you. That's, yeah, I mean, I think it shows some life in your picture. You're not allowed to smile, though. You shouldn't frown. You think that's a frown? I mean, honestly, when I said act, like if they showed that,

Starting point is 00:03:40 we are on the look for this man. No one would bat an eye. They would be like typical. They would be like typical. They would be like, how did they let him out? Yeah. That is the picture they use for a missing person every time. Well, yeah, but the other person's missing. We know this man.

Starting point is 00:03:57 This man took the. Oh, yes. If they posted that and said, we're missing this guy, no one's looking for that guy. Right there. There they go. That guy knows what he's doing. He's out. Yeah. He wants to be be missing he's drinking at a motel six yeah

Starting point is 00:04:08 yeah he chose it uh well i'm glad you got it thanks man uh we uh i was in your town montgomery last night gump town dude gump town we. Cause I, it was, it's only like four hours home. And so I didn't realize that until like last night. And then it was like, Oh wait, I was like, all right. Cause usually I wake up on the bus and then I get out and we do the podcast.

Starting point is 00:04:37 But then we, I could get home last night. I got home like one 45, but it was like, we left. I don't ever leave immediately, but I mean, I walked off stage and walked to the bus,

Starting point is 00:04:48 and we had the bus pointed to the street and just was gone. It was pretty nice. Do you want to hang in Montgomery for the night? I mean, we were going to because I thought it was – if it shows at 8, if it gets pushed – I don't want to get home at like 4. Yeah. I'd rather just sleep on the bus and get home at like 4 yeah I'd rather just sleep on the bus

Starting point is 00:05:06 and get home at like 9.30 or 10 or something but last night I was like oh we'll get home at like 1.45 so we

Starting point is 00:05:15 yeah I walked straight right on and just left it's pretty they said Mick Jagger does it pretty cool

Starting point is 00:05:22 yeah that's a real Mick Jagger move yeah yeah just get right out of there Mick Jagger Montgomery yeah I was about to say, that's a real Mick Jagger move, yeah. Yeah. Just get right out of there. Mick Jagger, Montgomery. Yeah, I was going to say, what does he do?

Starting point is 00:05:29 He just walks right on the bus? They said Mick Jagger. I've never left. I don't like, I would normally not leave like this, but I was just like, realized we could get home, and it was like, oh. But Mick Jagger will, like, he says goodnight. The band keeps playing. He walks off stage, walks to a car, and then once the car gets out,

Starting point is 00:05:51 they turn the lights up, shows over, and then the people leave. And he's already long gone. Oh, he's already a few blocks away. I mean, there's people that probably, he might be back, he might be at a restaurant before you're even out of the building. He's on a helicopter out of there, for sure. I always heard there was like Carlin would do it and then Cosby. I heard like they would have a – they might have been in Seinfeld.

Starting point is 00:06:14 I heard that too. I don't know what that – I think it's a movie comedian. They talk about it. I don't know. Maybe it was somewhere else, but they would leave. I mean, they have a car waiting. And so when they say goodnight, they walk to the car.

Starting point is 00:06:30 And they would have like a bet between the two. Like who could get out there the fastest. Who could get out there fastest. I feel like Ryan Hamilton and Mark Norman told us that Seinfeld's kind of like that. He's out of there pretty quick. Yeah. Yeah, I think I've heard, too, like Seinfeld has kind of like that. He's out of there pretty quick. Yeah. Yeah, I think I've heard, too, like Seinfeld has done one where he's got a plane.

Starting point is 00:06:49 Yeah. And, like, as you're taking off, you can still see people leaving the building. Wow. Yeah, it feels abrupt. I mean, I guess I get, like, if you're touring for 40 years, you know, you could be like, all right, let's get out of here. I used to work with this guy who managed the Buffalo Bills stadium, not the team, but the stadium. And he said in the off season, they would bring in big acts.

Starting point is 00:07:12 And this was probably, I don't know, 70s. And they brought in the Rolling Stones and said they wanted all their money in cash. And they took the cash to a helicopter pad. And the moment the show was over they got they got their money and got on the helicopter i just flew right out with like you know thousands in cash oh it might be maybe millions yeah yeah like hundreds of thousands at least a lot of money yeah yeah that's yeah that's weird how do you know that guy story like that's got to be true

Starting point is 00:07:43 well he was he played for the Buffalo Bills in the 60s, and I worked with him for a long time. He was in retirement age. OJ? He said he was around when OJ was there, but he played football when Jack Kemp, who was Bob Dole's running mate, was quarterback at the Buffalo Bills. But he was my boss. as stew barber is his name he was my boss as a pesticide guy yeah he was great yeah yeah that's

Starting point is 00:08:13 fun yeah we did uh uh yeah you always know more football stuff than i you look like i know you always surprise me yeah i mean i like football I don't like a lot of sports. Yeah. But I do like football. Yeah. It's always just like I don't think you're ever going to know who these people are. Oh, yeah. But it's got to be a weird way like that.

Starting point is 00:08:35 It's not just from watching SportsCenter. Well, I used to love SportsCenter, but it is not fun anymore. You know what I mean? It is like a sports podcast. I want to see highlights. Yeah. That's all I want, a sports podcast. I want to see highlights. That's all I want. Some sports highlights. Sports Center's got it.

Starting point is 00:08:51 I don't watch it much anymore. It's just too much. It's when they started standing up. Oh, yeah. That's when it went downhill for me. Stay behind the desk. Everyone started doing that. Yeah, what are you standing around for? They started getting... They are the behind the desk oh yeah everyone started doing your role yeah why are you standing well they

Starting point is 00:09:05 started getting well that's that's they started getting like they are the celebrity and so like that's what i always think with uh media journalism some of that is like once they want to be the celebrity then you're kind of it's kind of not going to go good because you're uh you know it's like i mean they're famous i like i have trouble watching it like i want to see just the highlights i then they also throw too many stories in it's like too many like i see you'd be at midnight and then it's like some sad video and you're like dude i'm i'm just trying to see who won what game and i gotta watch a 25 minute video of some team game and I got to watch a 25 minute video of some team.

Starting point is 00:09:48 It's very contrived. Yeah. All reality shows. When I did Last Comic Standing, they were like, what would this mean to you to win this? What would this mean? I was like, I don't know. It'd be great to headline clubs all over the place. You know, they said it like your heart and souls in this, right? I'm like, no, I just would like to be the funniest.

Starting point is 00:10:04 What would it mean to look your parents in the eye and say, mom and dad, I did it. like your heart and souls in this right i'm like no i just would like to be the funniest what would it mean to look your parents in the eye yeah and say mom and dad i did it they would go my parents would go what what'd you do yeah i told my dad i was on netflix he goes oh that's great and then he goes what's netflix again yeah they're uh i think that stuff's going away like people don't want you just like you just like just to have the competition i don't need the drama yeah like you i think i mean laura watches survivor she's watched it forever and but i think she even could fast forward some of the drama of it because it's like i want to just see the compete and maybe a tiny bit of it, but I don't need. You ever watch The Great British Bake Off?

Starting point is 00:10:49 No. On Netflix? Uh-uh. It's a competition show, and it's British. Sounds like it. I get to say that. It's British, but it's fascinating the difference between American television and British television

Starting point is 00:11:01 because it's a competition show. But you know nothing about these people. They give you like a five-second look into their their life and then it's all just about it's fun it's encouraging there's it's not overly dramatic it's totally the opposite of what you're talking oh yeah yeah it's fun yeah i like that and you get to see some nice cakes yeah you like that i like cake week i'll tell you that much yeah Yeah. Biscuit week, not so much, but I'm into the cakes. Why don't you like biscuit? Oh, like the cookie biscuits? Cookie.

Starting point is 00:11:29 Yeah, they call them biscuits. You don't like cookies? If there were regular biscuits, I'd be into them. That would be fun. Regular biscuits? Yeah. But cookies. You're the judge of that, and you're like, well, I'm just disappointed how loosely y'all

Starting point is 00:11:42 used the word biscuit over here. You know you had a nice Montgomery Alabama young boy come judge this yeah and I expected this is not what I expected chocolate chip biscuit I don't like this and they'd go you don't know nothing about cookies you don't like cookies no I'm into cookies too yeah yeah but I prefer a biscuit yeah cakes are I think I've uh I enjoy cakes more now than I ever did. Why is that? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:12:09 You eating less of them than you ever did? I don't think I ever was on a stretch of them where I was just on a run of eating cakes. But I think I just like, you know, nice cake is nice. You just appreciate them. In a certain age? In a certain age it's their age you feel like you're healthier now you eat less junk food that maybe you appreciate it more because it's kind of a rare i love it a treat you feel like you've earned it in a way uh yeah i mean i don't know if i've earned it but it's uh it's it's yeah it is nice we have a cake

Starting point is 00:12:41 like someone's birthday on the road and it's's always nice. Yeah. It's always nice. A little slice. I mean, I could eat so – cake and ice cream, I've liked. It's fun. Yeah, that's very fun. It's a good time. Yeah. It is fun.

Starting point is 00:12:55 You get a little bit of each and a forkful. It's really good. I like ice cream and pie, too. I'm a big pie fan. All pies? I like pecan pie, but I don't know. I like apple pie, berry pie. Yeah. Berry pie.

Starting point is 00:13:10 Like a blackberry, blueberry. Okay. You got to be a little more specific. Yeah. Not raspberry. Fruit pie. Yeah. Yeah. This podcast is off to a good start. I mean, I don't know. We listed our pies. Anyway, we had great weekends.

Starting point is 00:13:27 I met Dean Ripa's sister from the Cape Fear Serpentarium. So this is the brochure from the Cape Fear Serpentarium. She brought me some stuff. And I got some other stuff. They sent me some facts and stuff for you to look at. I didn't really get to look at them yet, but I'll look at them when we talk about them one day. But pretty fun. It's still going?

Starting point is 00:13:52 No, no, no. Now it's like a bizarro, weird place. Like it was before? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But now it's that that they were very sweet and uh uh they were they were nice and they said they loved it and i you know i always like felt like even though it's crazy he's like i don't ever feel like i'm making fun of someone and uh but they were like nice

Starting point is 00:14:16 they're like no no he would have loved it uh so uh you know that's good and his and his his sister they they they have a son now. Like, it's a – they were very nice, very nice. It was really cool to get to meet them. But that was in – we were in Charlotte three nights, and then it's like Macon, Georgia. There's something else, something in the middle. Little Rock? No, that was last week.

Starting point is 00:14:47 Macon, Montgomery, and somewhere else. Mobile? Three. Augusta? It was Friday and Saturday and Sunday. No, maybe that was it. Macon and Montgomery. Mobile was the other day.

Starting point is 00:15:00 That's a good run. Sounds like a Jamie Johnson song. Yeah. I was in Birmingham last night. I'm sorry. I siphoned some of your ticket sales, dude. That's where they were. They said they were short-staffed.

Starting point is 00:15:12 That's probably what happened. Where were y'all? I was in Mattoon, Illinois. This is really the Hollywood of the South. We're really rocking it out. I got Hollywood of the South We're really rocking it out I got out of the South I went to the Midwest

Starting point is 00:15:29 Mattoon, Illinois Oh, Mattoon The Fields Church Did a show there They gave me this Titans Nice Titans Oh, nice Titans aren't doing too well right now

Starting point is 00:15:38 But I still wanted to wear the shirt And think over that Titans Combine Training Well, they're not too far from Indianapolis So Oh, yeah I'm guessing that's why they gave me that um so yeah i was in my tomb all right i went to the liberty funny bone or or the cincinnati funny bone and it was great hot shows i managed to get out of there without eating skyline chili again still not had it uh i don't know if people

Starting point is 00:16:03 have ever talked to you about Skyline Chili, but the shows were great. The shows were really great. But everybody's like, you got to try it. And then there's also the other half of everybody that's like, don't do it. They're like, oh, it's like chili, but over spaghetti. And they put little chocolate flakes in there. And then I'm like, just keep adding ingredients to where I'm like,

Starting point is 00:16:24 I don't think so yeah i don't think i'm gonna do it i don't know if you guys have experienced sky i think i've had it uh but yeah i'm not yeah i think i've had it i mean up until the chocolate flakes it just seems like spaghetti yeah but you don't have to get that stuff on there you just i don't know i mean i don't even know like everybody people are like do it do it and then they're like don't have to get that stuff on there. You just. I don't know. I mean, I don't even know. Like everybody, people are like, do it, do it. And then they're like, don't do it. And then I'm like, the people that don't do it scare you really out of it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:53 Why do they say not do it? I think they just think it's gross. Oh, no. I think all your digestive problems, you don't need to be digging in the skyline. That's probably, that's probably true. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I would try.

Starting point is 00:17:05 Maybe one day I'll get in there and I'll try it a. Yeah. Well, I would try. Maybe one day. I'll get in there and I'll try it a little bit. All right. All right. Keep us posted. It's been a big eating podcast. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:15 Well, I think everybody would like to know when you do try it, so keep it. But the shows were great, though. Oh. What a great place. The club really takes care of you.

Starting point is 00:17:23 They put me in a nice hotel. The audiences were great. So friendly. Nice people. Yeah. Great. Yeah, that's a great place. The club really takes care of you. They put me in a nice hotel. The audiences were great. So friendly. Nice people. Yeah. Great. Yeah, that's a good place. All right, let's start with the comments.

Starting point is 00:17:32 I'm trying to get something rolling off top. Sheldon Larson, thanks for this wonderful podcast that keeps me laughing and smiling on my daily work commute. I am so happy that all of the World War II topics that are out there, everyone is focused on the bats. It had me laughing so hard I had to pull over so I wouldn't crash while listening. Yeah, those bats with bombs on them. Bats with bombs on them. It's hard not to talk about them. Yeah, I mean, and there's a lot of unfunny things about World War II, so it's nice to focus on the bats.

Starting point is 00:18:05 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Justin knew a lot, and once we got done with the air, he told me a lot of stuff about how Hitler wasn't all bad, and he had some really strong opinions. It's a little disturbing. I was gone by then. Well, I mean, if you want to know, email Justin. He'll tell you about it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:22 He'll get into it. Yeah. A lot of people are writing in that they have to pull over while listening. That's really nice. I want one of you to just keep going. See what happens. You know? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:31 That'd be a much better story. I was in a wreck in my cars total. Yeah, push through. Brian Gregory. Hello, folks, and hey, bear. I thought, oh, boy, when I saw today's topics. Mostly because last week was on holiday shopping. What's next?

Starting point is 00:18:45 Electric cars followed by War of 1812, perhaps. Love the randomness this podcast brings, but more so the needed laughs in the middle of a busy work week. All right. We love that. Yeah. Kayla Bell. The fact that Breakfast says,

Starting point is 00:19:00 I watched a history movie called Godzilla vs. King Kong, and no one even knowledged the absurdity of the joke he made. Makes me think everyone rolled with it because this is a comedy podcast, or no one knew that it's not a historical movie, both of which would be on point for this podcast. I believe that it is. I mean, they very well could be, you know, who knows? It could have been a giant.

Starting point is 00:19:23 I mean, Godzilla is essentially a dinosaur yeah right i mean come on yeah but we already 50 50 on that yeah but yeah so it could be yeah but if you're but if there are dinosaurs we hope that they were godzilla and yeah absolutely lived in the ocean yeah yeah right before they turned into birds. Yeah. They were on their way. Yeah. Who could fly? Could Godzilla fly? Some of the, no, but some of the ones they fought could. Yeah, that was another. Moth, Mothman, Moth, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:19:54 Mothman. He could fly. Yeah. I can't remember. Michael Mitchell, Dusty being on computer duty is like Nate being on reading comments duty. I have to wonder if someone wouldn't be better. He Googled like two things and the whole time being wrong about the Godzilla vs. King

Starting point is 00:20:10 Kong movie when he had an answer five seconds away. I love them all, but Aaron does bring some useful skills and perspective that is missed in this episode. Alright, I'll take that. Well, there's no question about that. I mean, whenever I'm asked to do the computer, I'm like, I'll do it.

Starting point is 00:20:26 But it's not going to be as good. It's tough Googling when somebody's looking over your shoulder. Yeah. You know, seeing what you're doing. Yes, it is. It's a lot of stress. Yeah. I mean, I think I should go back to doing it.

Starting point is 00:20:37 Okay. Yeah, you should. Let's see if the people want that. Yeah. They bring a typewriter out, you got to pass it to Laura, and she has to Google it. You just... And then you rip it, hand it. They run it like the old news.

Starting point is 00:20:54 Oh, yeah. Would y'all pass on new stuff like that? Tap it on? No. Read the story. Would you ever rip paper and run it on there and go... And they go, oh, my gosh. You have the tube like at the bank?

Starting point is 00:21:07 Ladies and gentlemen, we have Godzilla King Kong. Apparently in the Gulf of Mexico. Breaking news. No, we just tell them they're at peace. Yeah. That's got to be a – that's something to really learn how to do. To be good at that. To be able to listen to someone talk to you while you're talking

Starting point is 00:21:24 and not lose your train of thought. yeah that is tough i think that's real tough yeah because new i mean these people have to be like oh yeah and then it could just be like bam man because they're not just telling you just anything they're telling you something so dramatic that they have to interrupt you yeah and you have to keep talking yeah like godzilla and king kong just spotted like would you just say hey you'd be like hey brian godzilla and king kong we they have been spotted and that's where the person goes well if there were two anchors up there then i would always wait obviously till the other one's talking to tell the person but if it's just

Starting point is 00:22:01 one person up there you got to tell them while they're talking. You just try to do it the best you can. They're trying to do the news and they just hear... It's just whistles. What is that? Did you ever leave it on and you're just talking? It just flipped up and I'm just blasting the...

Starting point is 00:22:21 I got to get out of this job. He's up there like, you know. This guy's terrible. Tornado came through. He goes, it's Tornado. They keep saying Tornado.

Starting point is 00:22:37 You give them some Lebanon news that you think's big. Like breaking news. New Golden Corral. Well, I'm kind of upset because a couple weeks ago we talked about famous people from Lebanon. My buddy Nick,

Starting point is 00:22:49 who I go to the Titans games with for years, up until this year, we sit together. Lebanon just had their annual Christmas parade and he was the Grand Marshal. Oh, wow. He's lived there for like a year. Wow. What does he do? He's on the news. So, local newsman that lives in Lebanon

Starting point is 00:23:06 Grand Marshal Lebanon Christmas Parade Yeah That should be me That should be you What happened that you guys don't sit together anymore? Did you talk about this? Well, we didn't renew our tickets this year Okay

Starting point is 00:23:15 But, yeah, but you're on the podcast Yeah You're moving and shaking Yeah, absolutely So, yeah, you could have been the Grand Marshal I should have been Did you go to the parade? No I was too upset, I protested I wouldn't. So, yeah, you could have been the Grand Marshal. I should have been. Did you go to the parade? No.

Starting point is 00:23:27 I was too upset. I protested. I wouldn't have went. Yeah, I wouldn't have went. This parade looks pretty crazy, man. Is that now? That was this weekend? That's for 2012.

Starting point is 00:23:36 2012. Yeah, things have changed since then. I can't imagine it's much different now. Yeah. How often did you go? Did you go every year? Growing up, I did. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:44 One year, our Cub Scout troop got to ride in the parade. Oh, wow. I was very excited about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I went downtown. Were you like 40? Yeah. I went downtown Lebanon, and they had this little.

Starting point is 00:23:57 It's not Lebanon. Come on, dude. Come correct. Lebanon. You better come correct. Lebanon. Sorry. And they have the square.

Starting point is 00:24:04 Yeah. And it's beautiful. Yeah. But you get outside that square. That's it. Oh better come correct me. I'm in Lebanon. Sorry. And they have the square. Yeah. And it's beautiful. Yeah. But you get outside that square. That's it. Oh, come on. No, I'm just saying. I mean, I was in there, and I was like, whoa, we're always making fun of Lebanon.

Starting point is 00:24:14 And I thought, well, this is great. Yeah. And then I drove just out of there, and I was like, oh, that is the downtown. Well, any place that has a square, there's not much around it. Is this the square we're looking at right here? Yeah. The parade? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:24:27 So the parade is just the school bus is coming through? Well, yeah, it's a parade. It looks like a clown bus. I don't know what that is right off hand, but maybe Bozo's on there. I'm not making fun of Lebanon. I'm just saying. Yeah. West Main Street's nice.

Starting point is 00:24:43 There's a, just off to the left there, there's the statue of General Hatton. He's a Civil War soldier that everyone wants torn down, except if you live in Lebanon. They're like, nah, he stayed. He's our guy. Is he from Lebanon? No, but we just like him. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:24:57 Y'all just picked one. I really don't know the story behind. Maybe he is from Lebanon. Y'all just picked a guy, and you're like, that guy feels like us. Never to leavening if you can meet that guy he's like i didn't really i wasn't like really in the thick of it you know and they're like no no you're right what we wanted to be leavening we're not in the thick of it we were there we were around we can tell you all about it but i was pretty far back from the cannons. Michael Mitchell. Oh, no. Jerry

Starting point is 00:25:31 Cannot. Cannotty. Jerry Cannotty. Listen to Nate explain how to stay warm when you're camping exactly while listening to this podcast. After saying you should lay on the leaves to stay warm, he caps it off by saying it's possible nothing he said is true. Love you guys.

Starting point is 00:25:48 Keep up the great work. Is that true? I think you do lay on the leaves, though. I'm going back. I do think you want to stay off the ground. Yeah. Like, if you want to stay warm. I think the ground takes heat from you.

Starting point is 00:26:00 Yeah, I wouldn't get in the dirt. I think you'd dig a hole in the ground, and then the walls would insulate you. That's what I would do. Well, I mean, eventually you're going to have to lay down if you're out there in the woods. But I mean, I would lay in a tree or something. Yeah. On a limb.

Starting point is 00:26:15 You'd lay something on a limb. Richard Kimball just put some leaves over him. I believe him. Okay. Dr. Richard Kimball. From the fugitive? Mm-hmm. Oh.

Starting point is 00:26:24 Okay. Michael Clay. Michael Clay. Sam Quesada. As a military history major, this episode is a world collides moment for me. There was a missed opportunity to talk about Mad Jack Churchill, though, the last guy with a confirmed longbow kill. His life was truly insane, and he stormed the beaches with a sword and longbow That's crazy. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:26:54 Here he is. I mean, just getting after him. So what did he do? Well, I guess he didn't take a rifle. He took a sword and a longbow. This guy must be who Hawkeye from the Avengers is based off of. Look at that guy. Mad Jack.

Starting point is 00:27:13 Well, that's got to be fresh. Even if you're on the other side and you get killed by that arrow, you're like, I mean, you're like, how much slower? You're like, of course I'm the one that has to get of course they have to notify that guy's family yeah and you're like is he's dead he will be it's just gonna be long it's gonna be long and painful he got shot by an arrow and they're like what and he goes no no he got this one guy we got we got one guy we got one guy that would run out of rifles no he prefers no no he got the long you know you know like that would be just the i mean just the shock of just an arrow like

Starting point is 00:27:55 i'm the guy that dies from an arrow uh and that guy did he probably really would have to think. It figures. Figures. Yep. Kelly Russell. I was so excited to see the theme was World War II because I literally just finished reading Unbroken, Olympic runner Louis Zamperini's pretty good biography. Y'all dug into specific athletes and never, ever mentioned the Deliquent.

Starting point is 00:28:27 What? I had trouble with that one. Delinquent. I used all my powers on Zamparini. Mentioned the Deliquent-turned-Olympic runner-turned-Army-Bombardier. Bombardier. Is that it? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:28:45 Bombardier. Bombardier. Is that it? I don't know. Bombardier. Bombardier turned army. Bombardier turned POW. War hero turned evangelist and humanitarian. Humanitarian. Humanitarian. That was a wild ride. That covered a lot going on there.

Starting point is 00:29:01 I thought I made through. I thought I got through the weeds. That's like you're like, I see land over here. After Zamperini, I go, no, no, no. I thought I made through. I thought I got through the weeds. That's like you're like, I see land over here. After Zamparini, I go, no, no, no. I can see the ocean. Yeah. And then I don't see the. Feels like Kelly put words in there just to trip you up.

Starting point is 00:29:13 I know. Yeah. The Zamparini was a trap. I know. You felt so good after that. Yeah. I remember this movie from a few years ago, Unbroken. I think Angelina Jolie directed it.

Starting point is 00:29:28 And this guy had an incredible life. He was like, I mean, basically just what she said. What's a humanitarian? Like somewhere like a zoo, you look at humans? Studies humans. Like a terrarium for humans. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:29:48 What do they do? Just do good things. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like I think Jimmy Carter. It's a good word to use for somebody that doesn't, there's nothing really we can nail down. Yeah. But he was just doing some stuff.

Starting point is 00:30:01 He was just a good guy. He was a good guy. He was a good guy. Humanitarian. Yeah. Philanthropy. Yeah, we don't really know what he was up to john wiling regarding operation mincemeat the movie on netflix is decent

Starting point is 00:30:13 however i would recommend the documentary on youtube over the movie the fantastic documentary answers many of the questions the guy asked also Also, the guy's ask. Also, the person credited with coming up with the idea for the operation is none other than Ian Fleming, who would go on to create James Bond, Keep Up the Good Work. Yeah, a YouTube documentary, at least used to be, was always superior to the Netflix documentary. That's where you get the real info. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:30:41 You know what I mean? I feel like I mentioned Ian Fleming last week. Yeah, i felt so too um well i'm just gonna watch the netflix movie well if you want the lies you have to go look at youtube and uh you look at like yeah like that yeah documentaries are you kind of don't i don't know if i trust a ton of new ones yeah that's what i'm saying yeah because it's like it's like after like making a murder like where it was like you know it was all super fun and you know or you know you're like oh this guy did and then there's stuff they left out that you're like i mean there's no way he didn't do it

Starting point is 00:31:20 and then you're like i always feel bad for the, you know, it's like, is that family? You know, and you're just making a movie and you're, it's a crazy story, but it's crazy because you left out the part that he did it. And then that's the part that's like. And then you're like, well, that was 12 hours of my life. You just completely misled me the whole time. Yeah. Well, and if you don't look into it more, then you still think.

Starting point is 00:31:49 But then if you start reading stuff about it, you're like, oh, oh, oh, wow. For sure. Even movies like Michael Orr talked about the blind side being like, yeah, that wasn't it at all. Yeah. You know? It's like, so you just basically make a lie of that guy's life. Right. But it is how interesting could a, like that was a movie.

Starting point is 00:32:14 It was a great movie. It was very fun. I think they got the majority of it right. Yeah. I don't think he said that wasn't. He wasn't just some rich kid that they made up about living in the projects and adopted by a white family. Yeah, and I think a movie's a little different just because it's like, well, it's got to be watchable. Based on true events.

Starting point is 00:32:29 But if something's a documentary, then you think, oh, I can trust this. And then it's, you know. Yeah. Yeah, if it's a documentary, for sure. You're supposed to be able to trust it. Do you know the difference? Well, it depends on the subject yeah movies are called undocumented documentaries exactly well like uh the kennedy one with oliver stone that

Starting point is 00:32:52 supposedly was like that's a movie but jfk jfk he got i think uh was like he's like way into jfk so i thought that i think that was supposed to be like some true stuff. Does the Kennedy family agree? I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. You haven't talked to him yet? Not yet.

Starting point is 00:33:15 I just watched a three-part series on Shaq. Maybe there's more to come. I don't know. On HBO about his life. And, you know, he takes some shots at carlos groves i don't appreciate that yeah and i'd like carlos grows to be able to respond yeah carlos grows my hero i got his autograph in high school okay i don't know him he uh no one does okay well if carlos grows wants to come on here and yeah and and uh defend himself defend himself

Starting point is 00:33:42 we'll let him all right yeah but he hard- fouled Shaq in the SEC tournament to the point where Dale Jones said Shaq should just go pro because these guys are going to hurt him before he gets his money. Oh, wow. Yeah. Because he couldn't hit free throws, so... Dale Jones, the comedian? Yep. Sorry, Dale Brown.

Starting point is 00:34:01 Oh, okay. I got it. I'm glad you said that. Yeah. People are like, what? No, Dale Brown. Sorry, Del Brown. I'm glad you said that. Yeah. People are like, what? No, Del Brown, sorry. Christina Marshall. The book The German Wife is based on the true story of high-ranking Nazis being brought to the United States first as prisoners, but then mostly granted full citizenship.

Starting point is 00:34:23 Yeah, some people told me to look up Operation Paperclip, which is kind of the same as the book. Apparently, people like Von Braun, they were Nazis, and then they came here, and then they're like, well, you could do some good stuff for us. So then they got their citizenship. Yeah. Yeah, why don't you just go ahead and start NASA for us?

Starting point is 00:34:43 Yeah. Go ahead and get that going. Yeah, why don't you just go ahead and start NASA for us? Yeah. Go ahead and get that going. Yeah. I mean, that's what happened. Yeah, the world's a crazy world. It is. That is crazy. It really is.

Starting point is 00:34:58 Stuff is crazy. It is crazy. It goes in your, you're like, there's really no answer. You know, you're like, I don't even know what to say. But just, yeah. She always. Just know that Nate just recently headlined the Ron Braun Center, so he clearly supports it.

Starting point is 00:35:17 I mean, yeah. I did a guess at, but that doesn't count. That's true. It's worse. He has to be on. Yeah. That's true. He goes, these are my to be on. Yeah, that's true. He goes, these are my people.

Starting point is 00:35:26 It's literally word for word. He really had options. Yeah, yeah. I'm not even going to pay for this. I just want to do it. CC Morgan. I always thought it was silly when listeners got irritated at you guys for getting facts wrong, but as a professional musician with a master's degree in music, I finally feel their pain.

Starting point is 00:35:42 The big band slash swing era began in the 30s and was at its height when World War II began. Some of the most enduring jazz and Broadway hits were composed during the Great Depression and World War II. The nasally tenor music Justin described was more popular during the previous era. Yeah, I'll be honest. Justin was wrong. I didn't know a lot about what Justin was saying at that time about the music that plays during World War II or World War I. I didn't. Yeah, there's a chance Justin didn't either.

Starting point is 00:36:13 Yeah. Good chance. So, but I like when Justin's on here, we don't defend him. We're like, yeah, well, Justin's an idiot. Well, this guy was very upset about it, C.C. Morgan here. But I like Big Bandit Swing. Yeah. Do you?

Starting point is 00:36:29 I mean, I don't have a lot of albums. You jamming out to that in the car on the way here? But I don't mind it. When was the last time you listened to it, do you think? I don't know. Captain America? Yeah, I mean, I don't have any. But you'll hear it, and it's got an upbeat

Starting point is 00:36:45 tune to it. I don't know the instruments, but you know. Where are you hearing it? Upright bass, probably. Where do you go where big band music is being played?

Starting point is 00:36:52 You know, like, who was the, it was kind of coming back popular in like the late 90s. The, you know, the. Ska music? Like the jump job and then you got a jump job.

Starting point is 00:37:02 Yeah, yeah, the big bad voodoo dad, Eddie? Yeah, stuff like that. It was kind of coming back around a little bit street cats cc morgan right back and see if that's the same thing yeah he's like no just i like big man i listened to mighty mighty boss tones back in the day yeah totally mighty mighty boss stones yeah that kind of stuff brian's behind seltzer orchestra something like that yeah okay uh My only Big Bang experience

Starting point is 00:37:26 Is Elaine Yeah Going to Big Bang I'm Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang That's another thing That's a whole other thing

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Starting point is 00:38:02 Is that what he's saying? Oh, okay, I guess so. I don't even know that I used that word, but maybe I did. But yeah, I mean that the guy, the government did not care about that guy. Gave him rat poison, killed him, and then used his body. Yeah. Okay. So he was invaluable.

Starting point is 00:38:18 Yeah. I mean, I thought invaluable, but I guess invaluable could mean, oh, just the height of value. What would be, yeah, what's not valuable? I guess you just have to say not valuable. Worthless. Oh, really? Disposable. Unvaluable?

Starting point is 00:38:34 Unvaluable. Expendable. Invaluable, I think, means you cannot assign a value to it. Okay. It's priceless. Oh, yeah. So the homeless guy was priceless and i mean let's i mean let's be honest though for the work he did in the end it really was it was priceless yeah so good for that guy and that's it they go it's priceless and i go man he goes but i just

Starting point is 00:38:59 got it for free they say that yeah but i mean it's a human being Yeah they're like What'd you pay this guy It's not a price We can put on it You couldn't Couldn't even assign it a price We killed him Justin Coffee

Starting point is 00:39:14 Most of the time I'm just listening to podcasts While driving However Basketballs And expression When Nate says So the Nazis

Starting point is 00:39:22 Started fighting Started fighting Germany is priceless. I'll be watching the show a whole lot more in the future. That's funny. What it's all about. What it's all about, invaluable, of inestimable

Starting point is 00:39:38 value. Priceless. Inestimable? Inestimable? Yeah uh it's a lot that seems yeah that that doesn't seem like a real word it seems like a college person that goes yeah what's the definition invaluable and they go i don't know but i'll throw in another crazy word it's like don't put another in in front of a different word to define a word with an in in front of it like what's invaluable mean inestimable inestimable and that definition is incalculable yeah it's like yeah it's like come on guys now do you think that the way they break down the pronunciation do you think

Starting point is 00:40:18 does that help you inestimable sounds like uh spanish i don't know why the E's are upside down. Yeah, I forget what that means. I don't know. I don't know why that's necessary. You don't even need that when you can just press play. I think it was... Inestimable. Inestimable.

Starting point is 00:40:34 I've never even heard that word. Really? No. Then go to college where you speak right to the... Talk right to the source. Yeah, we go, that ain't worth nothing, man. Yeah. Yeah.

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Starting point is 00:41:30 I'm going to do. I love doing that. This is my, I get one bottle of real Fiji water, and then I'll never have Fiji water in this bottle ever again. Oh, wow. All right. That's the real stuff. This is the real stuff.

Starting point is 00:41:43 I bring it out for nice occasions. The bar gets a hold of it, and it becomes garden hose water. All right. That's the real stuff. This is the real stuff. I bring it out for nice occasions. Mark gets a hold of it, and it becomes garden hose water. All right. All right. This week, we're talking about Texas. Texas. State of Texas. I'm going there.

Starting point is 00:41:58 I'll be there. This week? Yeah. Yeah. I thought that's why you chose it. I'll be in Midland, El Paso, Lubbock, and Amarillo. Oh. The western part of Texas, it looks like. I looked up – oh, sorry, go ahead.

Starting point is 00:42:16 It's next to Odessa, which is from their – Friday Night Lights. Oh, yeah, I don't even know that. But I never watch Friday Night Lights. Really? Yeah. You know what's funny? Ted Alexandlexandro comedian very funny comedian yeah texted me uh once and he goes have you watched friday night lights and i go no and he goes i think you really would like it

Starting point is 00:42:35 this was like and i was like okay and then i still never watched it the movie or the show which one was he talking i thought he was talking about the show. The movie was great. I never watched the show. Yeah. Yeah. The movie is based on a true story. Yeah. And it takes place in Odessa, Texas. Yes.

Starting point is 00:42:54 The television show is in a fictional town of Dillon, Texas. Yeah. And it's loosely based on the book and the movie. Yeah. You like both of them, I think. Yeah. But I'll be... I was thinking uh no country for old men i was about to say you're going to where some of the coolest movies are no country for old men hell and hell

Starting point is 00:43:12 or high water which i loved um sicario oh yeah all those movies happen around the border el paso yeah uh midland things like that Those last two Were done by Same guy The guy who does Yellowstone I'm drawing a blank On his name

Starting point is 00:43:30 But he's Killing it right now Yeah Taylor Sheridan I think is his name Anyway Yeah you're going to The cool places

Starting point is 00:43:37 The record for Largest High school football Tennis We're talking about Odessa Was Over 50,000 For a high school Football game State championship're talking about Odessa, was over 50,000

Starting point is 00:43:45 for a high school football game. State championship game, I'm guessing? I think so, at Cowboy Stadium. I sent you a link to that. They've had a few that have been right around there,

Starting point is 00:43:54 but I think now they do it at Cowboy Stadium and they can really pack it in. There's, I mean... Oh my goodness, 54,000 people in 2013. Wow wow is that a lot or not a lot i don't know it's a pretty good amount people always go what's the population and i go i don't know what is this that you're even this is high school football attendance oh

Starting point is 00:44:18 oh i thought you're talking about the the population of the town okay okay for a game, yeah. Why are y'all blown away by a town of 54,000 people? You go, wow. Imagine living in the city like that. Yeah. Yeah, and that's a ton. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:44:38 For high school football. I mean, this is, Vandy doesn't have some. No. No. It doesn't even hold that many. Yeah. Even if Vandy wanted to sell it out, they couldn't beat it. So Texas is the second largest state in the country in size and population.

Starting point is 00:44:55 Alaska won. Alaska for size. Oh, population of California. Yeah. Yeah, Alaska's way bigger than it. Way bigger. I think. I think it's like three times the size of texas three times i think so we talked about in the alaska episode it's crazy it's like takes up like a third of the country almost yeah yeah but everything's bigger in texas

Starting point is 00:45:18 yeah what is that all about uh don't mess with it. Just because everything's, yeah, I imagine the trucks are big, women. You know that slogan, don't mess with Texas? Man, I don't know. Yeah. The don't mess with Texas, that's, I thought that had been around forever. That's a fairly new slogan. It was a litter campaign and really kind of took off in the 90s. Oh, they kind of spin it the other way.

Starting point is 00:45:44 It was like, don't mess with it because they don't litter yeah and it but the statement would be like if someone said don't mess with texas like if someone said don't litter you'd be like don't mess with texas don't tell us what to do that's what i take it oh yeah like don't you don't want to i think that's kind of what's become yeah but to start off as an anti-litter campaign. Really? Got rid of that quick. Yeah. Moved on. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:46:08 So I looked up the largest cities in the United States. Five of the 13 largest cities in the United States are in Texas. Wow. That's pretty crazy. Yeah. Wow. Houston is like third, fourth largest in the country. Fourth.

Starting point is 00:46:20 Yeah. The one that always surprised me is San Antonio. Because I base city size off of sports teams. Right. That's how I think they're big. It's like the seventh largest city in the U.S. I had no idea. Never gets talked about.

Starting point is 00:46:33 No. Slides under the radar. Well, they're a small fish in a big pond. Oh, yeah. And so they would need to go. You move them to any other state. I mean, they're a small fish in a big pond. Oh, yeah. And so they would need to go. You move them to any other state. I mean, they're just. Yeah, just move them over to Mississippi.

Starting point is 00:46:50 Yeah. Move them to Mississippi. I mean, you're, yeah, you're New York. You're right. But they're still bigger than Dallas. And you hear all about Dallas. San Antonio's bigger than Dallas. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:47:01 I don't believe you. But Dallas-Fort Worth together is probably bigger. Yeah. Than San Antonio, right? Yeah. I don't believe you. But Dallas-Fort Worth together is probably bigger than San Antonio, right? Yeah. So they kind of split their city up. Yeah, the DFW metro population is 7.5 million people. Yeah, that'd probably be number two. It would be second if you counted them combined. Yeah, San Antonio's metro is 2.6 million.

Starting point is 00:47:25 So we're not even, I mean, not even seeing a ballpark here. What is just straight up Dallas, though? I don't know. We'll look it up. Yeah, that's what you got to look up. You're cheating. You counted another city. Well, Fort Worth is like what?

Starting point is 00:47:37 Yeah, that is because it's. 1.3 million in the actual city. And then, wow, San Antonio, 1.4 million in the actual city. You're right, Brian. You did your research. But sometimes it's like, what are they all counting there? It's like, I was talking to somebody about that. Like Columbus, Ohio is one of the like, I don't know, maybe fifth largest.

Starting point is 00:47:57 I mean, or something. It's gotten way up there. It's huge, yeah. But it's like, you know, somebody was saying that St. Louis would be bigger, but St. Louis only counts the metro area, whereas Columbus would count all of the suburban areas around it. Well, I mean, Nashville is bigger than Memphis, but Memphis only counts city limits, and Nashville counts the whole county of Davidson County. Yeah. But for the metro area, you and I talked about – you said murfreesboro was going to be bigger than memphis and um based on nothing just gut feeling yeah you were wrong but uh i mean maybe someday it would be but we talk about the national metro

Starting point is 00:48:37 area they count murfreesboro they count every county they count franklin brookwood so that dallas fort worth seven and a half million that, that's more than just those two cities. That's the whole area around it. But that means there's probably more people that live up there than right around it. It's the second busiest airport in the country next to Atlanta. But you're right. If San Antonio were in Mississippi, it would be a huge deal. Oh, yeah. There'd be an be a huge deal. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:49:05 There'd be an NCIS San Antonio. Oh, yeah. They're bigger than us. Where are we? A million? Yeah. We're not even spitting distance. We're 21st, I think, in size.

Starting point is 00:49:16 Talking about Nashville. Weak. The Astrodome in Houston was the first dome stadium in the U.S. Oh. I remember it was a big deal back in my day. Yeah. I remember talking about the Astrodome in a time where it was like it did i didn't know it was the only one but it would be like people would be like yeah the astrodome it's a dome yeah you know i mean like we would talk

Starting point is 00:49:35 about it like they call it in it they go astro yeah they called it the eighth wonder of the world because it was is that where the term astro turf comes from yep oh really yep it was because they played on artificial turf so they called astro turf so this was the first ever fake grass yep whoa at least in the united states okay i think we probably did it first what other country would have done it before i don't know i just the way it according to this it was the first dome stadium in the country. Makes me think maybe somewhere there was somewhere else. I don't know. Yeah, you call everything AstroTurf. Mm-hmm.

Starting point is 00:50:11 I don't feel like as much now. What do you call it now? Artificial turf. Artificial turf. I don't think so. I think I call it AstroTurf. Yeah, me too. It's so commonplace now, though.

Starting point is 00:50:22 Yeah. You think like sports broadcasters and stuff still call it AstroTurf? No, I mean, I think, you know, they try to talk better, you know. Yeah. But I mean, I think, yeah. Now they say synthetic. Yeah, now there's like synthetic. Like now it's like trying to sound like it's this special thing.

Starting point is 00:50:42 Yeah. Just so they can lie to you and make you spend money on it. Yeah. You go, so it's AstroTurf? They go, eh. Yeah. Yeah. I mean.

Starting point is 00:50:53 Yeah, like all the, I mean, not all, but most, I feel like most of the stadiums are AstroTurf now. Professional. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Or some type of synthetic kind of thing where it's like a hybrid gmo i mean sometimes you'll see them there'll be a tackle you just see like dirt fly up for just a second like oh yeah or dust or whatever would you what if you so you play a sport and uh they use some

Starting point is 00:51:19 turf that's got you're like i don't trust what's in this. Well, I mean, I guess I would still – Yeah, I'd still have to do it, I guess. But you have to play infield. Well, maybe, yeah. Could you go, I would like to be infield on dirt on – Yeah, I mean – On the baseball? Depending on what's going on with it, yeah.

Starting point is 00:51:32 I mean, or how much they're paying me, you know what I mean? You weigh the risk. And then – because I like the idea of a ball right on the fringe of outfield and dirt, and you just – You won't run into the outfield. You won't go and have to get it. Yeah, don't dive for it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:51:47 No dive. I don't think you're even going to go get it. You're like, I tried. And then the announcer's out to go, well, everybody I think knows Dusty Slay as a... Doesn't really trust the turf. I don't know why they keep playing him

Starting point is 00:51:59 in that position. Let him be the catcher. Yeah. Or it's all dirt. Now, if you were an outfielder on grass you'd play with no shoes because you like to yeah do some ground yeah you could be like the kairi ervin like that he can't travel to games but you do it because it's like well you know dusty's out this week because uh there's you got some new turf over at the toronto blue jay stadium and uh so big missing

Starting point is 00:52:23 hole at old shortstop. That's the thickest part of the dirt in the infield, so he has to play that position. I like that. I like that kind of controversy. First base would be a good one. First base would be a good one. I always felt like first base, I mean, I guess catcher too,

Starting point is 00:52:38 is like one of the hardest because people are just throwing at you all the time. You know? Like you're not really getting thrown to all the time at third. But you don't got to run that. Yeah, but third, you get some rockets. Third's the hot corner. That's what they call it. You just get rocked over at third base.

Starting point is 00:52:52 Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then you got to throw it the farthest. That's true. You got to have a real gun for that. And then first, you got to be able to do the splits. Yeah. And just kind of stand there.

Starting point is 00:53:02 And you're right in front of the opposing team's dugout, which I think never gets talked about, but it's pretty nerve-wracking. Probably a lot of trash talk. I used to get people say some mean stuff to me back in the day. What was some stuff they would say about you? Oh, would they? Oh, it was ruthless back in the day, man. You played third base?

Starting point is 00:53:19 Oh, yeah. East Montgomery baseball, you're standing in front of the opposing team's dugout. We'd be yelling stuff at each other. It was fun. They would make oink sounds. Sometimes, yeah. You were at third base? Played third base, pitched.

Starting point is 00:53:29 Oh, I think about first base. Third base feels like – Well, first base too, I guess, depending on if you're home or away. Third base used to feel like a big guy position, though. You'd be a big guy. Like Terry Pendleton used to be the Atlanta Braves third baseman. He's kind of a bigger guy. Third, I would think – yeah, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:53:46 Bob Horner before him? Were you a big guy? You were just like a football player. Not that big. I was getting there. I was on my way. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:53:54 It was like, you would go. He's going to win one day. Like, if there had been one more year of high school baseball, you'd went to first or coached one of the bases? Be a third base coach. You're just slightly removed from that. Yeah. You could do a little wave around.

Starting point is 00:54:11 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just get hit by the ball. Comes your way, you're like, he ain't moving. Third base coach would be the best. Yeah. Wave them every time. If they get out,

Starting point is 00:54:21 go, hey, I thought you'd be faster. You think catching, would you go up or would you stay down? What do you mean? Like, you know, they got to hop up on their legs. Yeah. Oh, I'll just stay down on the ground. You just stay.

Starting point is 00:54:34 I'll just sit down Indian style on the ground and catch it. Like, is that a footstep behind the catcher? I did catch a little bit. I got bad knees, though, man. It is tough. Yeah, how's the catcher? It's tough to squat down like that. Do you have the knee savers in behind the catcher? I did catch a little bit. I got bad knees, though, man. It is tough. Yeah, I was a catcher. It's tough to squat down like that. Did you have the knee savers in behind the knees?

Starting point is 00:54:49 No, we didn't have that stuff back then. Are you serious? What? I don't know. We don't have money like you did. I never heard of a knee saver, yeah. I had used whatever equipment. Nothing was ever – Harper's catching now,

Starting point is 00:55:05 which makes me very excited in softball. But, I mean, when I caught, this is – I mean, 89, dude. Like, there's no – that wasn't invented. You're using a regular glove as the catcher. You were – I mean, you had the stuff. You had a helmet, and you had the stuff. But, I mean, you had the stuff, but you had nothing that was protective. No frills.

Starting point is 00:55:28 Yeah. The frills was you get to wear the uniform. I loved putting on the catcher's uniform. It was so fun. Yeah, it's like you're going to battle. Yeah. It does feel like that. It was great.

Starting point is 00:55:40 Then when I went to 13-year-old league, it was the last year I played, but then the catcher's equipment was too big for me. It would droop, and that's when I went to 13-year-old league, it was the last year I played, but then the catch equipment was too big for me. Like it would droop, and that's when I stopped because it was like, well, I'm going to get – I'm not even protected. It was too small or too big? Too big. So it wouldn't – I would feel like it would be like – I don't know.

Starting point is 00:56:00 I never wore the catcher gear. Well, it would be very loopy, and I remember the front would come way down. Oh, okay. It was like because it would – like I couldn't get. I never wore the catcher gear. Well, it would be very loopy, and I remember the front would come way down. Oh, okay. It was like because I couldn't get the straps enough. Just your sternums just exposed right there. Yeah. I remember they'd tell you to go catch. Like, well, just go catch and don't have the equipment on while the catcher's getting in.

Starting point is 00:56:16 You're like, I don't want to do that. Yeah. I don't want to take equipment. Yeah. I loved it. Yeah. Harper does it now. It's fun.

Starting point is 00:56:23 She plays slow pitch softball? No, no, no. Fast pitch? Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, selling an insult. I'm just impressed.

Starting point is 00:56:36 I mean, they're not throwing super fast, Brian, but they're still – Yeah. Some girls throw it. Really? I mean, there's always a couple because she's 10, so it's like some girls are maybe a little bit older, and then they – I mean, some of them start throw it. Really? I mean, there's always a couple because she's 10. So it's like some girls are maybe a little bit older. I mean, some of them start humming it, but she does it. She loves it.

Starting point is 00:56:52 That's great. Yeah. She's got a game ball. That's what a game ball is. All right. The King Ranch in Texas is the largest ranch in the United States. It's bigger than the state of Rhode Island. Oh.

Starting point is 00:57:07 So it's one Rhode Island. Well, it's more than one. It's bigger. So it's 125,000 acres. Wow. So who owns the King's Ranch? I tried to figure that out. It started off as Mr. King back in the day but i'm not quite sure now they mainly

Starting point is 00:57:26 cattle there they did produce a triple crown winning racehorse though wow that's good that's impressive yeah and now it's a national historic landmark oh okay it might not even be privately owned anymore there you go they got it yeah the government took it of course what's the uh got it yeah the government took it of course what's the uh always do 825 000 acres 25 000 acres did that what you just said i thought so you said 120 did you say 100 uh if i did i meant to say 825 000 yeah i don't know i thought you said 125 but either way it's impressive it's impressive. Yeah. Either way, pretty big. One time we went on... Pretty big difference, though. It is a big difference.

Starting point is 00:58:08 Quite a big difference, but I don't... One time the Bates family went on vacation to Alabama, and we asked... We stopped at a gas station and asked where Randy Owen's house was from the group Alabama. Oh, yeah. He went to Fort. Fort Payne.

Starting point is 00:58:27 Yeah. Fort Payne. And we drove by his house. That was our vacation, driving by Randy Owen's house. And you can't see it, but they said he had 1,600 acres. And we thought that, I mean, we still do. That was just unbelievable that someone would own that much land. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:58:46 Well, let me ask, though. Your vacation was to go to Fort Payne, and you didn't know where the house was at until you got there. It wasn't just that, but we took a road trip, family vacation to Alabama. That was a day on that. That was one of the stops. Okay. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:59:00 And we stopped at the gas station and asked where Randy Owen's house was. Go to Fort Payne. We'll ask around. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. But I still remember. They said he owned 1,600 acres. Wow.

Starting point is 00:59:11 Wow. That is crazy. There it is. There's the land. It's got a pool. It looks nice. Yeah, I couldn't see it from the road. It's just a gate.

Starting point is 00:59:19 Oh, he's right. Yeah, it's right there. Y'all didn't see it? He took a picture in front of the gate. Did y'all take a picture? Probably. Yeah. I just remember there was a lot of trees and a lot of land.

Starting point is 00:59:29 I mean, was Randy Owen even like, what are you doing, dude? He's got a real core memory there, Brian. Pictures of security going, get out of here, guys. Well, I was younger. It was my sister who was five years older than I am. She was the one really into Alabama at the time. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:59:43 Were they like a teen heartthrob band at one point like young no but they were in the country music my mom didn't like them because these young boys were stealing all the awards from Oak Ridge boys oh really yeah she didn't like these young Alabama's young guns coming in yeah they were really trying to make them like the Beatles they said at one point that's why they because it was just the three of them were the cousins and then they kept putting the drummer in the pictures on all the,

Starting point is 01:00:07 because they wanted them to be like the Beatles. They wanted to have a group of four. The blonde guy there is not really part of the original group. Well, this is,

Starting point is 01:00:16 if I were to remove one of these from the band, I'd definitely pick that guy. Yeah. And the rest are all cousins. Which one just died? I think the guy on the left, the far left yeah okay

Starting point is 01:00:27 yeah all right we went to that yeah the hank williams senior uh his museum he did uh it was it was crazy he was he died uh he was 29 yeah like so and we were saying like when you see video of him you're like he's probably 25 and he looks like he's 40. Yeah. Hank Williams died at 29? Yeah. I actually thought he was younger than that. But I knew he was very young.

Starting point is 01:00:53 Yeah. I mean, that guy was, I mean, so young and just was like, he went hard. Yeah, they said he had a lot of back problems, and that he always had pain. Yeah, they were saying he had the thing that Abraham Lincoln had. Okay. Whatever, some. I just heard someone say that.

Starting point is 01:01:15 Julian said, he goes, oh, that's what Abraham Lincoln had. Some being tall. Like, if you're too tall, you have. Abraham Lincoln had other health problems, too. But what was it? He got shot in the head. Oh, yeah. COVID. But what was it? He got shot in the head. Oh, yeah. COVID.

Starting point is 01:01:27 That'll do it. So Hank Williams was tall? I don't know. But there's something that Lincoln had that's called whatever. So average? It's whatever they're born with it. And I think it's, and Lincoln had it. Maybe it's the Williams, you know.

Starting point is 01:01:48 Yeah, maybe it's that Williams syndrome. Uh-huh. Yeah. I don't know. That's cool. Yeah. Maybe it was named after him. No, because Lincoln had it.

Starting point is 01:02:00 I figured they would have done him. Yeah. Yeah, they'd probably lead with him. Well, Buddy Holly. Marfan. Mar done him. Yeah. Yeah, they'd probably lead with him. Well, Buddy Holly. Marfan. Marfan syndrome? Yeah. Oh, Liam Nelson, the comedian Liam Nelson, who's seven foot tall, has Marfan syndrome.

Starting point is 01:02:13 Oh. Yeah. Yeah, I thought you said Liam. Liam Nelson. The comedian. Yeah. Yeah. Not Liam.

Starting point is 01:02:19 Yeah. Yeah, very close, though. Yeah. Buddy Holly from Lubbock, Texas, was 22 when he died. How did he die? Plane crash. close, though. Yeah. Buddy Holly from Lubbock, Texas was 22 when he died. How did he die? Plane crash. Oh, yeah. Waylon Jennings was supposed to be on that plane.

Starting point is 01:02:33 Really? Did he know something? I don't know. They said something. I guess they needed somebody to get off or something like that. It had too many people. He got off. That's crazy.

Starting point is 01:02:43 That's got to be crazy. Yeah, apparently Waylon Jennings made a joke as he was getting off like i hope your plane goes down yeah and then it did uh that's gotta yeah but i would imagine even you say that you're there has to be a point you're like yeah dude i don't i mean you gotta yeah i was just making a joke bad yeah but it would imagine even you say that you're there has to be a point you're like yeah dude i don't i mean you gotta yeah i was just making a joke bad yeah but it's i didn't do it yeah yeah you do go i didn't no y'all don't think i did it right and they go i don't know it's kind of tough man uh nobody that does it makes that joke you know Unless you're a smart thing to do. Really a forward thinker, yeah.

Starting point is 01:03:26 Yeah. Yeah, I mean, plane crashes, they've gotten a lot better. Because, I mean, think about, they went down, Patsy Cline. The great Leonard Skinner. Leonard Skinner, Roberto Clemente. A lot of people back in the 60s died in plane crashes. Jim Croce, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:03:45 John Denver. Yeah. John Denver. Yeah. Golly, that's a lot. I just said that. Yeah, he died in a plane crash, right? But he was self-piloting, right? Yeah, well, still a plane. Yeah, but I mean, I'm just saying.

Starting point is 01:03:56 I think a lot of those were private planes that were not, like they, like I think Leonard Skinner's plane, they were like. Oh, they said they were going to fix it. Yeah. After this trip. Right, it had some problems. It had problems. Yeah. think leonard skinner's plane they were like oh they said they were gonna fix it yeah after this trip right it had some problems it had problems yeah and it's crazy to think that they were that then they were just like we'll be all right yeah you just figure it out that's what i always think when i'm on a plane and they come over the overhead and they go oh we got some repairs we

Starting point is 01:04:19 gotta do i'm always like just let's just go man but then i'm also like nah i don't want to go down but you know what i mean it's so inconvenienced by it that i'm just like let's just go man but then i'm also like no i don't want to go down but you know what i mean it's so inconvenienced by it that i'm just like let's just go well it's the it's the idea that uh you're like the planes back then like just the careless they're like yeah it almost could show you how safe planes are now is that even back then they were flying and you're like they probably weren't fixed and ready and whatever and you know yeah i mean it's annoying when they they come over the overhead and tell you that there's going to be a delay because they're fixing something but also it's like yeah it's nice that you're not running the plane with the check engine light on yeah yeah so there are three power grids in the united states one east of the

Starting point is 01:05:07 rockies one west of the rockies and then texas has its own wow wow so a couple years ago there was a big bad snowstorm ice storm and most of texas got knocked out for a few days so their power grid's not great. Well, then they use wind turbines, and they froze, right? Or something. I think there was something to that, yeah. Yeah, people almost got real bad. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Starting point is 01:05:38 So in Midland, Texas, where you're going, In Midland, Texas, where you're going, they found the remains of the oldest known human in North America. They call it the Midland Man. Anywhere from 9,000 to 11,000 years old. Turns out it was a woman, but they still call it the Midland Man. Yeah. And it was found in the 50s, but there's a there's a monument there that still uh you google midland man you just see it's just a bunch of mug shots yeah this is not what you're talking about people coming to nate show this weekend

Starting point is 01:06:16 that's just like that's passport photos uh maybe midland man Monument or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. But anyway, yeah, they think it's like the, well, that's still not it. But anyway, it's there, and they think it's the original. I mean, obviously, there's probably older. I think maybe even since then they found older, but at the time they were like, this is the oldest known. How did they know how old you was? They cut a leg open, count the rings?

Starting point is 01:06:43 Yep. Carbon dating. Yeah. Yeah, they did some carbon dating. What is that? There it is. Well, it's pretty flawed. Right there.

Starting point is 01:06:52 This one? Yes. Historic plaque? Yes. It was a plaque, yeah. Oh, look at that. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:06:58 How old is he? Oh, 9,095. Found in 1953 on the ranch near here by pipeline welder Keith Glasscock. Fossilized skull, rib, and hand bones have been exposed by weather conditions. Tests indicated these were bones of a woman who lived as long as 9,095 BC. So tests. Oh, BC. Yes, they don't go into a lot of detail about what those tests are.

Starting point is 01:07:22 Yeah, indicated. They don't go into a lot of detail about what those tests are. Yeah. Indicated. Yeah, we figure. We ran a couple of tests on them, and we figure at least 9,000 BC on these things. I mean. Well, they think it was found next to bones of extinct species of horses, camels, mammoths.

Starting point is 01:07:37 Yeah. So they can use context clues. Yeah. Must have been around the same time, you know? Yeah. You don't run into a lot of camels these days that's for sure over here yeah they're all they've all been caught yeah also in midland the childhood home with the bushes oh you can go tour it um really is it a big home um i don't think it's too big but it's the only home in the world where two presidents lived,

Starting point is 01:08:08 two governors, a first lady, ambassador, and a CIA director. Yeah. I thought, did they come from money? I think they did come from money, yeah. They're like an oil family, I think. I think so. But a relatively modest home it looks like unless it goes super deep and it's like yeah a bit of a compound but from the

Starting point is 01:08:31 outside it looks like pretty modest home where's that at midland oh you gotta go by there when you're there yeah midland's the one where it's like the old they said it was uh i don't know i might have talked before but like when uh like but when oil is striking there when it's good, hotels are like $500 a night. Whoa. When I went there, I did a show at Billing Ball there once, and it was like a red roof inn. And I want to say it was $300 a night then. And they said they would go to McDonald's and just tell them,

Starting point is 01:09:05 if you quit right now, come work at a soul food. I'll give you a hundred thousand dollars. Wow. And like, cause it's just, it's, they need,

Starting point is 01:09:13 they need, they need to work right then. And then people go there and stay there to work. And so they know you're going to go and make a ton of money. So they charge $500 a night at Red Roof Inn. And so like, it would be, there's a lot of like

Starting point is 01:09:25 you're super rich to super poor because then some of these guys would get a ton of money but they don't know how to like spend it and they would buy you know you just see them they're poor and the next thing you know they have a helicopter and a hummer and then they're and they're living in some crazy house and then they all goes away and then they're back to right back to mcdonald's yeah but they're like i had a good run they had fun drove that lamborghini for a while man yeah they had fun yeah i think a lot of people are happy to have that fun like they're almost like if you told them if it went away they're like yeah i'm okay with it going away like it was i don't want to do that anymore it It was, they like, people like telling stories.

Starting point is 01:10:07 Yeah. And so you don't get to tell stories if you, you know, if you still have it. Right. If you make the money, put it in the bank, you spend it wisely. There's not a lot of stories. Yeah, exactly. Not a lot of stories. I'd rather have a Hummer for a month or a Honda Civic for 20 years.

Starting point is 01:10:27 Right. Give me the Hummer, dude. Yeah. Let's ride it out. Yeah. Well, here's a fun oil story. So in Wichita Falls, Texas. Fun what story?

Starting point is 01:10:36 Oil. Yeah, oil. I can't say it very well either. OIL story. They struck oil, and a lot of people became millionaires overnight. So all these oil companies were coming in. They struck oil and a lot of people became millionaires overnight. So all these oil companies were coming in. So this – I think you're going to Wichita Falls too.

Starting point is 01:10:51 Yeah. Not this time, but I am. Coming up. This promoter came in and said, you guys need to build a skyscraper because you need offices now and all this stuff. So if you guys give us $200,000, we'll build you a skyscraper here in town. So they got the money, gave this guy $200,000. And what they didn't notice is the scale, the blueprint he showed us, showed him was in inches and not feet.

Starting point is 01:11:21 Wow. So he tricked them into building the world's littlest skyscraper. Oh, wow. It's called the world's littlest skyscraper. Oh, wow. It's called the world's littlest skyscraper. It's 40 feet tall, and it's 11 feet by 19 feet. You really got to give it up to that guy, though. That's a good scheme.

Starting point is 01:11:38 That's amazing. Yeah. They tried to track him down, but he was already gone. What goes on in there? Did they use it? I mean, the building's still there it's been through tornadoes they said and floods and it still exists it's in the middle of a thriving area it looks like yeah you can tell like it's a legit building though it held up yeah it's a legit building that's like an you know that could be an apartment you know like a you know like one of those retro refitted apartments? Yeah, you got your bedroom on the top. Yep.

Starting point is 01:12:06 I think they said 25% of it's just stairwell. But everybody was so busy with oil that no one paid attention to the construction. Yeah. And then they're like, wait a second, this isn't what we thought. But by then he was gone. I wonder, yeah, I guess did he do it on, I i mean i guess he did it on purpose but what if he was like he didn't mean to do it and then it's like you know you're like dude are we you just already started and you're like i'll just i guess he took the money before he built it yeah but you know

Starting point is 01:12:41 people try somebody tried to do that to my dad. They brought some gravel and they were like, we'll build you a driveway here. We'll charge you so much for square foot. And he goes, okay, that sounds good. And they put it all down. And then when they were done, they gave him this price and the price was way higher. And they were like, yeah, it's about cubic feet. And he said, well, you said square feet. And they were like, oh, no, it's cubic feet. And then they were like oh no it's cubic feet and then

Starting point is 01:13:06 they were like he hit the price they gave him was like hundreds versus the new price which was thousands and my dad was like well you're talking thousands i'm talking hundreds you can just take all this gravel up and just take it back with you is that what he did and they uh apparently were running a scam and my dad and and they got, I don't know if they got caught, but my dad was like, well, I'll just call the city and talk to them about it. And they just took off. And so he got a free road.

Starting point is 01:13:34 Oh, wow. Yeah, it worked out. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I thought that story was going to go. Yeah, you don't give the money away first. My dad would not let them have built a little tiny skyscraper. Yeah, you watch it.

Starting point is 01:13:45 Yeah. But I do think when the town is, I mean, that old money is legit. So these things, they don't even care. Right. And you're thinking like, all right. They're just sitting around somewhere going, we about to get a skyscraper. They got a little coffee, or they got something there. Yeah, Dave Elrod's going to get reelected there.

Starting point is 01:14:07 Hello Apparel. Yeah, it's a consignment store right next to it. Oh, all right. That's storage now. Going up to the fourth floor, get the rest of those bed frames. Is there an elevator? No, no, no, but there's a... It's a lot of stairs.

Starting point is 01:14:24 You got a lot of room on those stairs. Yeah. It's like the big roads that Kramer made. Yeah, the wide lines. Yeah, it is crazy. 25% of that is stairs. That's not a... That's not a little amount, is it?

Starting point is 01:14:38 Yeah. And how do you track a guy down like that in the 20s? I mean, you just can't. No, you're gone. You're just, you're gone. You're gone. You're gone. Yeah. I mean, he would have to really leave, though.

Starting point is 01:14:50 You have to. But, yeah, you're gone. You're gone. Too bad he doesn't get to see his work. You probably heard about it. Yeah. He never got to really take it in. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:15:01 Yeah. So it's bowl season. The one on right now, the oldest bowl is the Rose Bowl. Probably knew that. Second oldest. Anyone want to guess? Peach Bowl. Based on Texas.

Starting point is 01:15:15 Cotton Bowl. That's a good guess. Sun Bowl. Sun Bowl. In El Paso. You're going to El Paso? El Paso. I spent a month there one night.

Starting point is 01:15:24 Yeah. Have you been there? No, that's Kramer's. Yeah, yeah. Is that what he says? Yeah. El Paso El Paso I spent a month there one night yeah have you been there no that's Kramer's yeah yeah oh is that what he says yeah El Paso yeah spent a month there

Starting point is 01:15:31 one night I've heard road comics do that joke a few times oh yeah actually in a gig me and Aaron did in Michigan

Starting point is 01:15:38 that casino that host a radio DJ did a joke like that boat man no no no at that other one where the guy the guy with the with the messed up arm and the guy had one eye. It was in the casino in Michigan.

Starting point is 01:15:52 Way up. Sault Ste. Marie? That casino? No. Did we talk about Boatman's intro? No, I don't think so. Do you want to talk about it? Yeah, sure.

Starting point is 01:16:01 It's one of the funniest things I've ever. It's one of my first times on the road with Dusty. it's this local radio guy hosted the show so he gets all of dusty's credits and your credits at the time were jimmy kimmel you just done jimmy kimmel tmz yeah and you're from nashville yeah and that's what you asked him to say yeah it's up there he goes all right guys ready for the last comic anybody here watch tmz and this no he goes, all right, guys, ready for the last comic? Anybody here watch TMZ? And this, no. And he goes, well, about Jimmy Kimmel Live?

Starting point is 01:16:33 Jimmy Kimmel? Nobody? Nobody? What about that show Nashville, huh? Like a couple people? Well, he wasn't on that. He's from Nashville. So Dusty Slay.

Starting point is 01:16:44 Yeah. I mean, surprisingly, it was a good gig. Yeah. But that Dusty Slay. Yeah. I mean, surprisingly, it was a good gig, but that guy was the worst. Yeah. Yeah. He's just setting you up for – Dusty Slay goes, all right, riding that energy on that intro. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but this other one was the Island Resort and Casino.

Starting point is 01:17:00 I forget the part. It was Upper Peninsula, Michigan. It's the last one we did on that run it's where we both bombed really bad i mean and there was people you could smoke in there it was still daylight there was skylights in there you could just see it was on mother's day too yeah it was on yeah they had people you know people older people in wheelchairs in there smoking big biker gang right up front a lot of injuries to their bodies like one guy was missing an arm and and like a guy was

Starting point is 01:17:26 missing an eye and the leader kept yelling at us the whole time and i was like i was like it's clear i told him i said listen it's clear no one's gonna make you be quiet yeah but you're you're ruining the show i'm not gonna tell you to be quiet but if you did that'd be okay yeah and the quad do uh nah yeah He did buy a shirt. Oh, yeah? Yeah. But he was the only one because the rest of the people did not enjoy the show. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:17:52 And no one was going to do anything to that guy. Yeah. They were terrified of him. I wasn't terrified, but I didn't want to fight him. Yeah. I grew up with around guys like that. Yeah. He's fine.

Starting point is 01:18:05 Yeah, you have to... How old was he? It's tough to say. Probably 50s. He could have been 40. It was a free-for-all in that show. I don't think there was a single employee of the casino in the room with us. Huge room, but off to the side

Starting point is 01:18:20 of the casino. So they go, hey, it's Mother's Day. Everybody's there for the Mother's Day buffet. So we're going to pop over and see the show it was just chaos in there i bombed so bad i saw the video of that yeah that particular set it's fun and it's quiet but you can hear dusty laughing in the back the whole time about how bad i'm doing nothing funnier than to me than my friends bombing yeah you got a lot of that it is yeah that's always fun yeah uh yeah that's crazy mother's day buffet that's like where you're like why are we doing a show they just need something i know they have to offer something and it's like i'll just give

Starting point is 01:18:56 they give you whatever and they had this beautiful like theater room that people performed in but i was not at that level i was doing the side room where you could where you could smoke in yeah i've done uh i think i did that somewhere i'm not did it at like a lot of the connecticut casinos coming up like yeah where you're just you would go and i remember going to one and i I mean, it's just, it's very sporadic. It looks like people are just, there's six people in there, and everybody's at a different, their own table. Oh, yeah. And it's just, and you got to go up. I did one just north of Texas in Oklahoma.

Starting point is 01:19:38 I stayed in Texas. That's how close it was. My hotel was in Texas, and I drove over to do, uh, Kiowa, Oklahoma, a lot of Native American people in there and in the show watching. And they had the, you know, just no laughs. I mean, barely laughs the whole time. And afterwards, these very, you know, mean, stern looking guys come up and they go, Hey, great show, man. We really loved it. stern looking guys come up and they go hey great show man we really loved it yeah i was like wow you did not laugh one time yeah i was afraid of you yeah they're like yeah thanks for coming out here yeah it feels good to laugh like that

Starting point is 01:20:15 yeah haven't cut loose like that in a few years this is the place i really appreciate this is the same casino we were at but this is not where we were at. Yeah, Harris, Michigan, and I don't remember it looking like that. This place looks very nice. Yeah. Yeah. We were nowhere near this.

Starting point is 01:20:33 They wouldn't let us near this. No. Yeah. Sage Run Golf Course. That golf course looks awesome. Yeah. Six Flags started in Texas because there are six flags that fought over texas uh one time texas was his own country its own nation oh wow it was under how did they lose that

Starting point is 01:20:53 well they agreed to come over to the united states but they were with mexico and then they fought mexico for independence that's when the alamo happened and all that. And so for about 10 years, Texas was its own country, which sounds crazy, but it's bigger than a lot of countries. Yeah, when was the Alamo? Like 1830s. I love that. That sounds awesome. Yeah, you would think they would have just stayed their own.

Starting point is 01:21:20 I mean, they're all, I feel like that's kind of their thing is like. The lone star state. Yeah, it's like the, and the threat of like, we can do our own thing. Yeah, I don't know why they decided to join the United States, but then soon after they did it, the Civil War broke out. So then they joined the Confederate States. So that's one of their six flags that's flown over them. But yeah, they were their own country there.

Starting point is 01:21:42 And Sam Houston, where the city of Houston is named after, was their president, one of them. And also a former governor of Tennessee. Oh, he was? Yeah. I wonder why they didn't call anything Houston for him. I went to Macon when I was in Macon, Georgia, or this weekend. So they said Nathan Macon.

Starting point is 01:22:03 All the Macons and a lot of the Macons in the country are named after him. So if you go to a Macon town in the U.S. Or it's a Macon County, Tennessee. Yeah. Or it's a Houston County, Tennessee. There's a lot of it's Macon. Nathan Macon. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:22:19 I like to think that he just walked around and talked to everybody and they're doing it. He's like, why don't you call it Macon? And they're like, oh, that's a good idea. You idea you know it's like is this to be other people do that he goes nobody's doing he goes where would i how am i getting to these other places and telling them to do it and now there's a bunch of macons yeah there he was yep nathaniel macon nathaniel good looking dude 25 in that picture. Yeah. Might have been.

Starting point is 01:22:49 Might have been. Amarillo is the helium capital of the world. We talked about helium. What does that mean? 90% of the world's recoverable helium supply comes from Amarillo. Why? Because that's where it's at. Because they have helium fields. Helium fields?

Starting point is 01:23:05 They grow it? There's a lot of floating stuff out there. I guess. High-pitched floating stuff out there. A bunch of those wobbly, inflatable dudes just in fields, just going back and forth. No gravity out here. Yeah, a helium plant.

Starting point is 01:23:24 There you go. I thought you were joking about global helium production was centered near Amarillo with the production of almost all the world's supply for over a decade prior to World War II.

Starting point is 01:23:34 Wow. I don't joke about my helium. I'm sorry. So, I guess that started 1868. On the 100th, 100 year anniversary of the helium

Starting point is 01:23:44 being discovered they did a planet a time capsule so in 1968 they put this time capsule in helium and they put in a past book i don't know quite that what that is but i think it's just a book that tells you where to find the account for a ten dollar bill that they put in a bank account so it's supposed to be open in 1 000 years in the year 2968. And based on 4% interest, that $10 is going to be worth a quadrillion dollars when they open it. Wow. Whoa. Wow.

Starting point is 01:24:12 Well, by then, what will a quadrillion really be worth? I mean, honestly. What does that always mean when they're with interest? When you put in money and they're like, well, over time, your interest alone, it'll be worth more or something. How's that going to be worth a quadrillion dollars? Maybe it's compound interest, which means

Starting point is 01:24:34 it would just build on itself. Yeah, but that's where I don't... There's a $10 bill in a bank account. So that means who's putting more money into that i think the bank uses your money when you put money in the bank the bank is using the money to invest in stuff yeah and they make money and so you generate interest from yeah okay it's pretty small amounts like one percent i think is really good so it just naturally they give you like so so 1%, is that even a penny on the $10?

Starting point is 01:25:07 1% of $10 is, yeah, it's more than a penny. And you get that every day? Yeah. You get it every day? No, this is a year. Oh, a year. It's like your annual yield is 1%. Oh, so in one year you get a penny.

Starting point is 01:25:21 10 cents, I guess they say. If you have $1. If you have one. Oh, you get 10 cents with ten dollars. Yeah. So the bank. So you could go. If you put ten dollars in,

Starting point is 01:25:34 and then you go close in a year, you would get back ten dollars and ten cents. You would have ten dollars and ten cents. And they'd like it. Okay. If it was one percent interest. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:25:44 So in this case, it was. And the banks can't go out of business. Well, it's insured. I think it's all insured. Yeah. But that could go all the way. Remember FDIC? Remember It's a Wonderful Life.

Starting point is 01:25:55 That's what happened. Oh. Yeah. Oh, and A Wonderful Life. Yeah. It was a run on the banks. What's that? That's what they called it, a run on the banks.

Starting point is 01:26:04 Right, right, right. It's a wonderful life. So they take everyone's money out of their accounts in the whole town. Yeah, yeah. Scary. Scary. a run on the banks what's that that's what they called it a run on the back on the right right right it's a wonderful take everyone's money out of their accounts in the whole town yeah yeah scary and that uh yeah because everybody took their monies out of the bank we'd be in big trouble yes yeah because a lot of the money is just like a promise right like there there is in a lot of ways there's not really the amount of money that exists so if we all tried to take it at one time there wouldn't be enough yeah yeah they don't have that amount in cash at the bank yeah so if everybody went to withdraw it'd be a real big problem yeah for sure yeah something to think about yeah the mattress looks better yeah that's what i'm saying the banks is only as good as the trust yeah bank of trust bank of trust well that's in the name yeah look at that well it would be like

Starting point is 01:26:50 you could uh yeah i don't think i've ever understood how they made like because they always say that compound interest but then you're like if it's part of the quadrillion who's going to pay that like if it's in that bank yeah they're gonna be in trouble that yeah that bank's gonna pay it like you know it's like you just gotta it's like yeah it'll be worth that but good luck getting good luck cashing that out yeah bank's gonna be like just because some bozo put this in 900 years ago a thousand years a thousand years ago like you think i'm gonna give you a quadrillion dollars and it's gonna be like kramer and the bank going like, they didn't say, hey.

Starting point is 01:27:27 Or hello. Hello. Yeah. Like, you know, it's like there's a point where you go, you got to really trust that that's going to stay in there and that these people are going to give it. Yeah. In this case, I don't think anyone really believes that's going to happen.

Starting point is 01:27:42 It's more just a fun fact. But to your point, yeah, anybody who invests their money over a period of time, you've got to hope that the bank doesn't close. You've got to get it out before the bank closes and everybody else wants to get their money out. I feel like you've always got to be on the watch. Yeah, yeah. Where would you put your money if you don't believe in banks like Dusty?

Starting point is 01:28:07 Well, a lot of people put it in metal, like precious metals, like gold, silver. Yeah. Or assets. Bitcoin. Yeah. Yeah, but Bitcoins. I just found when I was born, people in my family, I got two U.S. savings bonds for like 50 bucks. And they just matured to the, they're worth 100 bucks each now.

Starting point is 01:28:30 All right. They doubled in value. Took 30 years, but they doubled. Yeah, but like the Bitcoin, like the FTX and all that stuff is like, that's just gone. So it's, yeah, that is crazy yeah where do you put your money but silver and gold you just go buy silver and gold yeah you just buy and like literally you just have gold in your house you can do it that way or you actually physically have it yeah that way if like the money went away like if somehow the u.s dollar went out of circulation you would still have something of value. Something tangible. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:29:12 I learned in history class, FDR, after the depression, the New Deal, it was all these new policies and programs. One of them was insuring. This was brand new at the time. Insuring the banks. For me? Yeah. Yeah, this was in real time. I read this in the newspaper.

Starting point is 01:29:21 It was current events class. My current events class. Things are going to happen in the future. He insured in the newspaper. It was current events class. Current events class. Things are going to happen in the future. He insured all the banks. FDIC, which you'll see, I hear on radio, member of FDIC, Federal Department of Insurance and Commerce, I think, and up to $100,000. So your money was insured up to $100,000,

Starting point is 01:29:39 which back then was pretty much all you're ever going to need. And I think banks still do that. I mean, I think they probably raised the rate. You better hope so. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's, you know, yeah, it seems it is crazy. That's the thing.

Starting point is 01:29:53 You got to have a lot of trust in a lot of things. I think we talked about this on the, maybe on a previous, the TV episode from two years ago, but there's a town in Texas that agreed to change its name to Dish so they got free basic TV and DVRs

Starting point is 01:30:10 for 10 years from Dish Network oh wow who agrees to that well 200 people live there so

Starting point is 01:30:18 oh they probably just all agreed to it yeah they were like listen you guys want free TV yeah change the name

Starting point is 01:30:24 what was the name before? They don't get it anymore? I don't know. I think they're still called Dish, but I think the, whatever free they got's ran out. What was the town called before? Clark.

Starting point is 01:30:35 Oh, so Clark's not a bad name to give up. And Dish is in all caps. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. Yeah. I hope they get to renegotiate. We're called Dish as long as you give us free stuff, but once you're not, then we're not going to do it.

Starting point is 01:30:54 Yeah, they're like, we'll call ourselves Comcast Texas, okay? Wouldn't fund the deal. Direct TV Texas. Yeah. What, go back down? Yeah. Oh, Texas. Yeah. Yeah. What, go back down? Yeah. Oh, we'll go. So Amarillo, Texas, and farmers, cattlemen in Amarillo, Texas, sued Oprah back in 1998

Starting point is 01:31:17 because she did an episode on mad cow disease, and she said something about, I'm not going to want to eat beef anymore after this. And they said it really hurt their business. So they sued Oprah for defamation and it went to trial in Amarillo so much so that she had to move her show to Amarillo for a few weeks while this trial was going on. Oh, wow. So for like six weeks, she did a show from. So she wasn't really worried about it. It seems. She was like, yeah, I just moved my show to Texas. She seemed pretty... I mean, this is a picture of her. It says Oprah Vindicated.

Starting point is 01:31:52 She seems pretty excited that she won. How could you even sue her for that? I mean, I guess if you said it's hurt... I mean, it's not like a criminal thing, but just like defamation hurt our business, and she didn't have any... know they said she's just saying stuff that's not true and at the time her show was probably i mean her word was yeah oprah says it she's getting people to read books

Starting point is 01:32:16 exactly you know what i mean yeah so people are gonna listen she'd be around now that wouldn't even make the yeah yeah we're so far the opposite way now that you're like, even if she said it, you're like, I don't believe either. I don't believe you. I don't believe the meat. I don't believe banks. Right, exactly. You're just like, I don't trust anybody.

Starting point is 01:32:33 Oh, I said for six weeks, nearly a year, she relocated to Amarillo's Little Theater. Wow. And during the trial, she hired Dallas-based jury consultant Phil McGraw to aid her in selecting... Tim McGraw's brother. Well, Dr. Phil. Are they related? But they had a strong mustache game.

Starting point is 01:32:52 Yeah. Both Tim and Phil. I bet they've met. They probably met. That's pretty big. Phil McGraw. I mean, she like helped that town out probably. Amarillo? Yeah. Who do you guys think is the most famous celebrity from Texas? Who do you think of when you think of Texas?

Starting point is 01:33:09 Matthew McConaughey. That's kind of what I think, too. I do think of him. Yeah, he's the first guy. I mean, I think of a lot of country singers, too. Willie Nelson? Willie Nelson, yeah. I think Billy Joe Shaver, George Strait.

Starting point is 01:33:22 George Strait, for sure. Amarillo by morning? Yeah. Up from San by morning? Yeah. Up from San Antone. Yeah. It's a helium reference possibly. Think of Rogan now too. I think Texas.

Starting point is 01:33:31 I'm just thinking of the names that jump in when I say Texas. Yeah, but would you say Rogan, he's not from Texas. But he's Texas. Yeah. That's so weird, but I don't think front. You're talking about born and raised like Texas born. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think if you're like, I live in Texas now.

Starting point is 01:33:47 Like, yes, Rogan's in Texas, so everybody knows he's in Texas. I mean, Elon Musk is in Texas. Didn't he move his country? I don't know if he lives there. They're in Austin, yeah. Waylon Jennings says, it don't matter who's in Austin. Bob Wills is still the king. That's what he says.

Starting point is 01:34:03 Who's that? Bob Wills was a Texas and the Texas Playboys. He had the swing band. During World War II. A Western swing band. Yeah. Okay. So Bob Wills was pretty big at one time.

Starting point is 01:34:17 Yeah. I don't know if you guys think about Bob Wills when you think about Texas. I haven't thought about him much, no. I think of Nolan Ryan. Yeah. George Strait. the Bushes. The Bushes, for sure.

Starting point is 01:34:28 Yeah, the Bushes might be. That might be. Beyonce is up there, too, probably. Right? She's from Houston. I don't know. I feel like I wouldn't even know. Yeah, there's a lot I would not know where she's from. Okay.

Starting point is 01:34:37 So it'd be like, where do you know they're from? The Bushes are probably right. Matthew Connery just now because you see him out. So it's kind of just who you think you could probably go Emmitt Smith or Troy Emmitt just because of the Cowboys but they kind of relocated there yeah but you just

Starting point is 01:34:55 they did but you might think if someone said it Johnny Manziel Johnny Football I mean at one point his last name was Football Texas that's a big deal Johnny Manziel. Johnny Football. I mean, at one point, his last name was Football. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Starting point is 01:35:08 Texas. That's a big deal. It is. Yeah. Is there a right answer to this? Is there some way to quantify? No, I just wanted to. I think of the Bushes and George Strait and Matthew McConaughey.

Starting point is 01:35:23 I had an aunt, a great aunt, that lived in Texas. I don't think she's in consideration. Well, that's who I think about, though. Really, East Texas. Her name was Aunt Pud. And we had, they all had nicknames. My grandmother's nickname was Boozy. And I don't even think she drank. I don't know where that came from.

Starting point is 01:35:37 But we would go out. We would drive out to Texas. Go across Mississippi, across Louisiana, out to Texas and hang out with Aunt Pud. And she had all these rabbits in her backyard, just wild rabbits. And we didn't have rabbits in Alabama. So I loved it. And then when I got older, we would go out there and Aunt Pud told me that the rabbits were like eating all our garden up and she wanted me to shoot them. And she had a BB gun. So I remember these rabbits that I used to love as a kid, now I'm like a teenager and I shot one of the rabbits and it didn't die right away, but I didn't want it to suffer.

Starting point is 01:36:11 So I had to like shoot it a bunch of times. It was traumatic for me. And then I don't know that we ever went back out there after that, but I liked my ant pod. Rest in peace. It was traumatic for me. I was like, jeez, I love these rabbits. My uncle, they live in Houston.

Starting point is 01:36:34 But I lived in Del Rio, Texas. You did? Yeah, when I was five. Oh. I ran away. And now we moved there. My dad was a teacher at saint james episcopal school and so i remember we drove there uh i you know i remember been to be i remember horned toads

Starting point is 01:36:55 they were in texas and i remember catching them crawl dads same as horned frogs like tcu i think so yeah yeah yeah yeah and then uh so we yeah we lived there uh when i was uh yeah when i was five we lived there for one year it snowed i remember that kind of remember that uh but yeah i lived there and then i went back and did a show like i remember did a college run and it was like along the border and uh i remember we went in this lady the girl that booked me was like she was she was over it was all community colleges so she like booked me at this school and she was like from georgia so she was like this was this is i mean years like eight years ago ten years ago and she like see me and she liked me and she was like oh i wanted to

Starting point is 01:37:43 bring a you know comedian here well we go i go do these shows i mean nobody speaks english at these schools really i mean it's a second language it's at best like it's and so i'm like down there and i'm like think it's gonna be like oh i'm about to do a big run like it was a big deal to do those community colleges do a big run all during the day yeah and then you then you go do it, and you're like, these people are not going to get any of these jokes. And it ended up being great. She was great. And then I remember we went to an Applebee's to go eat.

Starting point is 01:38:14 And they were playing Mexican music. Is that what you say? Mm-hmm. And then they were playing Mexican music in the Applebee's. We walk in, and then they started playing Garth Brooks andoks and regular and i swear i saw you walk in i think they did it like it was almost like it was all like it was so many people that were like yeah we're just listening to our the music we want to listen to and then like one white person walks in they're like and then they just went like garth brooks and like oh yeah and i remember thinking did that music

Starting point is 01:38:45 just change like mid-song yeah it was just it was just like all right well we got to make it normal and that was uh what was that i uh i don't know maybe near del rio i was in del rio they might have thought you were a secret delper. Del Rio is on the border. So I remember we went over to Mexico once. We got one of those chess boards that was like the marble chess. Oh, yeah. You know, you can buy them at like, do you see Del Rio? Yeah, there's Del Rio.

Starting point is 01:39:17 Yeah, yeah. Del Rio is on the border. So we lived there, and you could walk over there. The Rio Grande right there. I mean, a few blocks. Yeah. We thought about going the other way that's awesome yeah we were there i mean this is it had to be 1985 when we were there did you ever run away from home when you were a kid no you never did that not even like you know i wouldn't have ever no i wouldn't have done it I'm trying to think if Harper tried to run like

Starting point is 01:39:46 I feel I don't know if I'm making like I can't remember if she might have or said something one day

Starting point is 01:39:54 of like did she I don't know it doesn't feel like she she wouldn't do that I mean I know she's 10 I'm acting like she's

Starting point is 01:40:01 50 I'm trying to remember but I for some reason in my head something pops up about a kid, you know, going to do it, and you watch them just kind of walk, and then you just sit up there and watch them, and then they come back. Like, you know, I want to say when she was real little, like something,

Starting point is 01:40:16 like, you know, it's cute. Yeah, because you know they're coming right back, right? Yeah, it's the best. I ran away for hours, I mean, multiple times. Really? I'm done with this, you know, or whatever. Enough. Yeah, I just get on my bike and ride like a mile away,

Starting point is 01:40:31 and then I get hungry. Yeah. So I have to turn around and come back, tail between my legs, act like nothing happened. Look at that. Why'd you run away? I don't know. You know, as a kid.

Starting point is 01:40:41 You don't want to carry on the Notre Dame legacy? Did you tell them you were running away, or did you just do it? i think i'd probably leave a note okay yeah do they ever know or you were i think yeah they know but they know me well enough to do i'm coming right back you know he'll get over it he's just steaming a little bit yeah yeah you're really zero what's the zero threat 30 what's the movie zero dark 30 no the office his movie from oh uh yeah uh michael scott's movie that he made i can't remember yeah i thought it was something like threat level midnight i don't know that doesn't really make sense but i was thinking you go zero to like you're like everything's cool to like i'm running it out yeah zero to 60 yeah yeah you would just Gone in 60 seconds.

Starting point is 01:41:25 Yeah. There you go. Yeah. 310 to you. Yeah. I don't know if any of these. Yeah, 310 to you. Texas has more guns than any state.

Starting point is 01:41:36 More than a million registered firearms. Wow. I thought it was. I really thought it was like Wisconsin or Minnesota. I thought it was something like that you wouldn't expect. You didn't think it was our wisconsin or minnesota i thought it was something like that you wouldn't expect you didn't think it was our biggest state i i thought somebody had said something like it was wisconsin or minnesota who knows if any of this is right yeah it would make sense to be it makes sense that it was texas yeah for sure there's a conspiracy theory

Starting point is 01:41:58 from a few years ago uh jade helm 15. Oh, yeah. You know this? Dusty's eyes lit up. Oh, yeah. Would you like to walk out of the room? Do you know Jade Helm 15? No. It was a military training exercise. This is in 2015 that all the armed forces were participating in,

Starting point is 01:42:20 training exercise. But the word got out. People were starting to say that it was really U.S. government was about to try to take over Texas. They were shutting down a lot of Walmarts and operating out of the Walmarts. Yeah, and they thought they were going to try to do martial law and round up. In fact, a lot of people was saying like Walmart was like some kind of like wall backwards is law.

Starting point is 01:42:44 You know what I mean? People were really drawing. Tram law? Yeah. Well, they were taking off the T. It was like M-A-R, like martial law. They were really drawing some string. I'm not saying I was in.

Starting point is 01:42:58 I watched some videos on it. I mean, I'll watch anything. I'm not. That's not on Netflix. Yeah. That's a YouTube documentary. It's not even, I'll watch anything. I'm not. That's not on Netflix. Yeah. That's a YouTube documentary. It's not even on YouTube anymore, probably. It's not now.

Starting point is 01:43:10 But that's why YouTube's the best, though. It used to be. Now they got it off. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah, I mean, even the governor of Texas. When was this? 2015.

Starting point is 01:43:19 Oh. So they were just like, we're going to take over. Well, people were starting to think that the federal government was going to institute martial law come in take over texas try to take away guns right yeah and there was something about walmart and even china i think well people think a lot of people think that walmart's are like secret military like they can be they can become a military base at any point walmart's yeah a lot of people believe. Walmart's king? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:43:45 Why is that? Because they say they have the ordering system already built into place to where they can order whatever they need. They have secret entrances underneath. The shipping infrastructure, they already have all that in place? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:43:59 Well, that's like if there's a hurricane or something like that, some of these big companies have, I guess, the ability to help and get stuff. But I think that would just be like, yeah, you're a big company. Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying I believe it, but I did watch the stuff. I mean, it was a bunch of people that would drive around the parking lots of Walmart, and they would film different things, and people would film the garden center, and they would go, you know, they'd say, there's barbed wire around the top of this.

Starting point is 01:44:25 This is like a prison out here. That kind of stuff. And you're looking at it and you're like, well, it doesn't look like a prison. It's probably to keep people from shoplifting, but yeah, it does look like a prison. You could kind of get into it, right? Yeah, I mean, I can get into it. I mean, I got time to kill.

Starting point is 01:44:41 I'm in hotels a lot. Yeah. Some conspiracy theorists have connected the Jade Helm 15 military exercise with an apocalypse caused by a comet or asteroid striking the Earth because the exercise had an ending date of September 15th, which is the same month identified by some conspiracy theorists for the catastrophic impact of a comet or asteroid, which didn't happen.

Starting point is 01:45:02 Yeah. But it's not a crazy leap. What do conspiracy people say about when stuff doesn't happen yeah but it's not a crazy what are conspiracy people say about uh when stuff doesn't happen well i think a lot of people you know they just move on right they don't to the next there's not really i mean with anything though there's never really much acknowledgement yeah you know they just just kind of move on and yeah they just kind of go all right well that was we tried that yeah i mean people will fade away i mean there's been people that that have predicted things and then it doesn't happen and then they just kind of fade away because now they you know nobody's listening

Starting point is 01:45:34 to them now but couldn't you argue that because you guys are because they uncovered it that that's why it got stopped well that's interesting i have heard people say stuff like that too they were like oh they get caught on to us. I have heard that before too. That would be a great, that's the angle you would need to go. Yeah. And then you're like, I'm 100% on stopping all this. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:45:54 Yeah, you're welcome. I stopped it from happening. And then you'd be like, well, you need to let one happen. You're like, well, the next one you don't want to happen. Right. Because they're taking over a Walmart. Walmart. Tram law. Tram law or another another way to go we go it did happen and you just didn't even realize it yeah the world

Starting point is 01:46:14 did end you know yeah i mean that's what some people will say stuff like that you know with uh like biblical predictions and stuff people will say well you don't think it's happening because it's not on the news but it did happen you know people will say, well, you don't think it's happening because it's not on the news, but it did happen. You know, people will say things like that. I've heard that before. I mean, I'm just into watching it all. I'm into seeing what's happening. I mean, it's a lot of fun for me.

Starting point is 01:46:36 Were you into Y2K or were you too young? No, I was too young then. I was. But you would have got swept up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, oh, yeah. That would have been.

Starting point is 01:46:44 I mean, yeah, that would have been yeah that would have been incredible for me yeah yeah yeah i mean we were a little worried about it i mean that's the year i graduated high school you know so i was about eight i mean and it's like uh you know we were worried about it a little bit but but not i think i remember being a little like you're like it was a crazy thing that you're like something's gonna happen what did people think was gonna happen uh well they just said that like all the computer systems were just programmed for like at 99 it would just reset right and then everything would be all the banking systems would be messed missile defense systems probably power grids go down power grid even my grandmother came to our house that

Starting point is 01:47:22 night just uh oh so y'all were worried my mom my mom my mom told me my grandmother came to our house that night just to- Oh, so y'all were worried about it a little bit. My mom told me my grandmother came. I don't even remember her coming, but she would never come to our house. Yeah, because, I mean, you would- Then you're just- Now people are talking so much about- There's so much. Every day is the craziest thing ever to happen in the history of Earth is every day.

Starting point is 01:47:45 Right. Oh, yeah. So it's now, I think, you know. But then you're like, it was. I think that's the example, though. It was borderline unifying. Yeah. Because it was everybody was kind of on board like, oh.

Starting point is 01:47:59 I was about to say a little bit of the opposite. I feel like, because nothing really happened, obviously. I think people thought some stuff would blow up, too but then the when nothing happened people said see i told you all while nothing was going to happen it's just a bunch of media blowing whoop whatever but i feel like because i feel like this is an example of they got on top of it not the media but just anybody they fixed the problems yeah i think if they had just ignored it there would have been some major problems because they worked on this for a long time leading up to it. Yeah, it didn't sneak up on them.

Starting point is 01:48:30 No. Y2K, it's like they saw it coming on the calendar. Yeah. Right, so they got on top of it. Yeah. I don't think anything really happened. That might be a good place to stop. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:48:40 All right. I feel great. All right, everybody. I will be in Texas this week. Midland, El Paso, Lubbock, Amarillo. Come out. Yeah, and then New Year's Eve, Toronto. And my special.

Starting point is 01:48:59 I did not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We didn't talk about that at all. I'm surprised. Talking about it at the very end. You want to save that for next week? I have some questions about the title and stuff We didn't talk about that at all. I'm surprised. Talking about it at the very end. You want to save that for next week? I have some questions about the title and stuff. We can talk about that.

Starting point is 01:49:09 Yeah, we can talk more about it next week. But it is at Amazon and all that. So we'll talk about it next week because I forgot to say it. But yeah, January 31st, Amazon. Yeah. This Friday, I'm with Henry Cho at the shills theater in florence alabama january 7th asw whiskey exchange in atlanta and january 28th at fox river church in waukesha wisconsin nice man i'm uh san diego california this weekend mic drop comedy club pretty excited

Starting point is 01:49:41 friday and saturday three shows come on out wow that's amazing i had no idea i am also in san diego at american comedy oh are you really yeah that's crazy i had no idea oh my god we're in san diego at the same time that's gonna be great well it's like it'd be great for my ticket sales it's gonna be fun to see you out there. I had no idea. Where are you going? Where are you at? I'm at Mic Drop Comedy Club. I think it's all that stuff's very close to each other. I don't know for sure, but I know like the club and a lot of that's right there.

Starting point is 01:50:15 But I mean, people can go see both this week. That's right. Okay. Well, yeah, let's do that. That's right. Yeah. Let's spin it that way. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:50:20 Wow. That's pretty cool. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Nice. San Diego. Go see that. Yeah. Look at that. Aaron and Dusty. Aaron and Dusty. You go see them. That's pretty cool. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Nice. San Diego. Go see the ad. Yeah. Look at that.

Starting point is 01:50:27 Aaron and Dusty. Aaron and Dusty. You go see them. That's pretty fun. You go see. Yeah. I think so. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:50:32 All right. Look at that. That's fun. Yeah. That's going to be great. All right. You guys want to guess how many states we've done now? Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:50:44 I don't know. 12. 13. 15. 16. I don't know 12 13 15 16 this is our 16th oh wow we'll make it through it's a milestone

Starting point is 01:50:52 yep yeah we'll do some more alright we didn't cover nothing of Texas yeah we did but

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