The Nateland Podcast - 13: #13 | Man-Made Disasters with Kathleen Madigan

Episode Date: April 29, 2026

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everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Public Figures podcast. So excited to be with you guys today. As always, we have Dusty Slay. All right. Aaron Weber. Good morning, everybody. And join us a little bit later. The one, the only Catholic Madigan, we're very excited to have her. Yeah, it's a big get for us. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. We've been wanting to get her and today we got her. So we're excited to have her. That was a great intro, Brian. Thank you. Very good. You didn't insult anyone. I know. I'm trying not to. I want to. I want to. Yeah, but it came in positive. Yep, yep. And I appreciate it.

Well, you're welcome. I want to call some people some boards and things like that. I was hoping you just double down each and every week. And then by the end of it, you're just screaming upset at these. No, every week people threaten to leave or say they are leaving because of me being too mean. So I'm going to cut that stick and try to be nice. Kill them with kindness, they say. Absolutely.

Absolutely. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Is that true? I don't know if it's actually true, but I think the metaphors. More flies will come around with honey. But do you catch them? But I think honey's pretty sticky. Yeah.

You're going to get caught in there. Vinegar is not sticky, right? Yeah. So you can get vinegar and get out of there. But honey. My vinegar probably kills them. That's true. Enough honey will kill you, too.

Yeah. How much? I'm going to find out. Okay. Well, did you guys have a good weekend? I'll go first. Yeah, go ahead. I want to hear about it.

I had some hot shows this weekend. Hot shows. Okay. Friday night, I was in Decatur, Alabama. Oh, Decatur. Yeah. First Baptist Church, Decatur. My sister met her husband in Decatur.

Yeah. At First Baptist Church? No. Just walking around? No, at a hotel. Okay. Well. Was she working at the hotel?

My family was there staying and my brother-in-law was visiting. And they met at the hotel. What's going on with your hat, by the way? What do you mean? Oh, okay. It was just a little high, I guess. Oh, okay. It seemed like a, I thought you were trying to be funny.

It was out of the shot probably. That's how I like a hat. The higher, the better. Okay, all right. I like my hat's like Willie Nelson out here, you know what I mean? Closer to God, right? Yeah. How many modern day couples met at hotels?

I mean, that feels like a, I mean, it is from a different era. They met so old time. And would write each other letters. Oh, man. Was he in war somewhere? No, at war. He was living in Michigan. Michigan. Okay, so close. Maybe had a war trying to get down to the south, but, uh, wait, they

met a hotel. How did they meet? Uh, just, you know, he was visiting. He was vacationing in Decatur. Well, that's how your dad and stepmom met, right? Yeah, that's true. Hotels have been big for your favorite. Yeah, Panama City Beach. Hotel? Yeah. Old country came to town. Yeah. You know that song, Mark Chestnut. Yeah. Uh, anyway, I was at First Baptist Church, Decatur, you know, Decatur's where they, uh, Alabama White Soceau started. Really? Supposedly. Alabama quiet sauce.

Big Don Gibson's barbecue place. Don Gibson. Or Bob Gibson. Yeah. Well, what about your show, though? Yeah. Show was great. Show was great.

It was a marriage conference. So I listened to a marriage counselor, give some people some marriage advice. And then I got up there. Was your wife there with you? Debunked everything he just said. All right. I got up there and talked about my wife for an hour. No.

My wife was not with me. It's just a quick drive down and drive back. But great time. Easier to drive. That's right. Yeah. I had a great time. And then Saturday I was in Sykeston, Missouri.

Sykestone, the big show, the big show for the Christian Academy there. How was the pasta? Pasta was delicious. They made me to go order that I ate after the show, and it was great. They wouldn't even let you eat there. They were like, get out of here. How was the show? The show is the show.

Every time I do an event like that, they go, we have a dinner. Do you want a dinner? I got it. Don't even worry about it. I'll just show up for the show. And I always regret it. Yeah. I always like to be walking out of there with the meal.

Yeah. Take the dinner. You mean, I have like, take it with you? To go box is the move. Yes. But I don't want to, I never want to get there early and eat dinner with everybody. Yes. You never eat with everybody.

They always suggest that. But I'm like, I don't know who these comedians are that can just have dinner. And just hold court at the table. With the people they're about to. perform for it? I don't want them going. Why is he so quiet? I feel like if you, if I had dinner with them before, they would cancel the show. Yeah. They'd be like, this is, no, I think we're good. Yeah. Well, I've done it plenty of times where they just, it's a mistake, insist that I sit with them. But in this case, the hotel was right next to the event center, which was perfect. Like,

just walked back and forth. It was at a drury hotel. The Drury Hotel left me a gift bag. They said they heard us mention them on the podcast. Is that real? Yeah. Oh my goodness. Yeah. And we talked about how Sykeston had the first Drury Hotel. Yeah. And I got my room and there was a gift bag from Drury Hotel. That's amazing. Wow. Okay. Well, I'm pretty sure I brought up Drury two times. I'm the one that brought it up. Negative stuff about that. You said it sounds like dreary. I said the name sounds dreary, but the hotels are great. I don't think you said that second. My mom used to say it the drurries all the time and I liked them. Yeah, I think you did say that. That's ridiculous. us. I'm a Marriott guy anyway. Yeah. Hilton guy. Hilton, reach out. Let's make something

happen. I'm a Marriott guy. I'm Marriott Platinum Elite. Okay. So, well, Hilton Silver. Okay. Yeah. You've got to stay 200 nights a year to get gold or anything. Yeah. And I'm not doing that. I had a great time. Some folks came out to the show. Awesome. And it was great to meet them. What about you guys? I was off this weekend. I was also off this weekend. Could have been working. Could have been working. but I was off. It could have been working for sure. She went down to McMinville and ate at that brewery down there.

I did go to McMinville and I did go to a brewery, I think. Oh, okay. What was the brewery called? Fork. Grand Fork. Oh, I guess I didn't go to that one. No, I got it wrong with it. It's something.

Somebody emailed the podcast saying, oh, okay, okay, because I was like, that's weird. I was like, I did go. Yeah, what was it called? Yeah, I went. The guy that's supposed to be cutting my grass there that never cuts it, uh, uh, recommended it to me.

He's, he's very nice guy. He did cut it one time, but he's always like, I'm gonna get to it this week. Well, his uncle guy. No,

not that guy, not that guy. No, barren fork brews. There you go. Is what it's called. Barren fork. It was good.

Yeah, we liked it. But, you know, I'll tell you this. They had all this stuff that supposedly had all this stuff for kids to play with. You know, so I took my kids. They had a little,

nice little area that had, uh, cornhole and like, a big Connect 4 thing and then, I don't know, some other stuff, but they were like, I had to give them my ID to get the bags for the cornhole because they said people kept stealing the bags. The bags. And they said all the Connect 4 pieces have been stolen.

I go, what are people doing around here with this stuff? I had to give them my ID. I go, I just want one bean bag so my daughter can throw it. I'm not going to be responsible for six bean bags. What are you going to do? Not give me my ID back? If you want to play pool, you need a co-signer. Yeah.

Yeah. That's crazy. But the food was good. Yeah. And they were, you know, they were nice. They were pretty friendly. And that's about all you can ask for these days. And a restaurant is pretty friendly.

But there was a couple people that came up to me. They were very nice. But pretty friendly is about all you can ask for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. As long as they're not openly annoyed that you're there, that's a real win. Yeah. If the food's good.

and you're pretty friendly. Well, let me share some Nateland news with you guys. Last week, Will Wright premiered his showcase set on the Nateland Presents season four. This Thursday, we've got Johnny Beiner. All right. Johnny used to live, for a short time, lived here in Nashville. Oh, yeah, years ago. Very funny.

Yeah, he's very funny. Baseball player? No. Okay. Sounds like a baseball player. It does. It does. It does.

It does. It sounds like a pitcher. It's a great comedy name, though, too. Yeah. That'd be, yeah, Johnny Beamer. Oh, but you bean somebody in the head. I think you beam them with an M, B-E-A-M. I feel like I've always said bean, too.

I don't know that I'm right, but I feel like I've always said that. That's so funny. We call it a hit by pitch. I've also always said wheelbarrel. Yeah. It's wheel-bear-o. How about that? In the context of baseball, the correct term is beamed, B-E-A-N.

Yeah. Using beamed is incorrect. Yeah, you were thinking about it with a laser. Yeah, I guess so. Well, the way I throw. I'm glad we got the bottom of that. Because it came out your way. That's why you're happy.

We got to the bottom of it. Well, yeah, because you always correct me on saying things. I correct you with an open mind. Hey, I'm happy to be wrong. But I think for the sake of our listeners, let's get to the bottom of it. Nate Lamb, that is true. Well, that is true. Nate Land presents Graham Case, Pete and me.

April is National Autism Acceptance Month. And Graham's joining us next week. to talk about his special. It is great. So I look forward to seeing Greg. Graham's so funny. And he is funny. He, uh, he's known your wife longer than you have. Yeah. Well, they lived in the same city. I mean, there's no need to say it like that. But they, they were on the same comedy scene in Toronto. Might be some things you don't know. Yeah. We're going to get to the bottom. Next week. There might be, but I don't ask. The topic is Anna on the next. And Dusty's book, we're having a good time is on pre-order. Grab a copy anywhere. You buy your books.

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Yeah, let's do it. Let's get into it. We got Kathleen coming in a few minutes. Madison Jones, been waiting since the first state episode from Mississippi. It didn't disappoint. Well, thank you, Madison. I love that, but you probably knew it'd be a while before we got to Mississippi. Yeah, I mean, you thought it might be 50.

It's not going New York, California, Mississippi. But in fairness, that's not how we do it. I know, but Mississippi, you got to think. They know. They know what it is. That was what I liked about a real, like, self-awareness and like embracing and kind of leaning into what people think about the state, but also being proud of it. Landon?

Yeah, yeah. I really like that. It's nothing worse than people trash in their own home state all the time. Yep. I agree. Aubrey Minick, I think that's right. Meenik. Meenak.

Excited to hear Dusty's joke about Jack and Ian. I've always felt so uncomfortable about how they eat chili dogs. Me too. Me too. It's a weird way to say it. Yeah. Thank you, All right. How long is that bit now? About 30 minutes. Well, I've not been able to do a lot of stage time, but I kind of wonder if the corporate event in McKinney, Texas on Thursday is going to get that. I don't know. I may save it for Dallas and Houston, but I don't know. Corporate event. It feels like the place.

They say they don't want it to be edgy, but I feel like sometimes you want a little something at a corporate event. Just tip your toe in the water and see if they respond. Jack and Diane's a filthy song. If you really listen to the lyrics, I mean, they're 16. Hold on a 16 long as you can. I mean, take it easy. Well, some changes are coming around real soon. Yeah. So they're going to make women and men.

Riley Patterson. Aaron, you could not be more wrong about country roads. He says, almost heaven, West Virginia. He did not say Western Virginia. Love the show, but I couldn't let this go. Also, the moon landing was fake. That's what I'm talking about. I think he said everything he needed to say in that.

Come on, Riley. You think Riley is a guy? The way he spelled it, I bet it's a woman. Yeah, that's what I was saying. Yeah. R-I-L-E-I-G-H. Yeah, you said, I thought you said he, though. But...

I might have. But yeah, totally. I googled this, and it appears you're correct. When you go to Google, the writers the song, it was not about West Virginia. It was about Western Virginia. Well, just because... Riley I is that it doesn't matter anymore. because it's been so embraced by the state of West Virginia.

They're singing at all the games. It's like, however the original intention, whatever the original intention of the song was, it doesn't matter. It's West Virginia's song. I'm thinking about West Virginia. All that matters, Riley, is that the moon landing was fake. Yeah. I mean, that's what matters. Somebody sent me this.

I'm just going to tell you. We don't have a lot of time. It'll be real quick. But this is what they said that according to Google AI, it says Google AI says that our government has spent $200 billion. on NASA in the last 10 years. So all I'm saying, $200 billion. $20 billion a year. Yeah, get me a good picture.

That's all I want. A good picture with some stars in the background. Find me a camera that can make it happen. That's all I want. I never look at the names when I'm picking comments. That's all I want. And I'm going through the comments and there's one that said, with all we're paying in taxes,

you think we would have enough money for NASA to get a better camera. And I'm like, I'm going to put this in. so we can play into this idiot. And then I looked at the name that was Dusty Slay. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I mean, put it in.

That shouldn't stop yet. Yeah, put it out. We don't have time today, unfortunately. Yeah. We'll move on. Connor Metzger. I like how the camera cut to a single shot on Brian

just to show him cough. I think the crew is trying to give us subliminal cues that Brian would not be around much longer. I like edits like that. I like edits like that. Tristan? Truss are just like cheers.

We should do more of those. Yeah. We get some shots at his hat before it hits the ceiling. Yeah, when my hat's up, you know. Yeah. Oh, perfect timing. And to Sarah. It's jarring to see Andy.

What I say? And I think Sarah threw you. You go, with a name like Sarah, this can't be an Andy. Yeah. This needs to be an on to Sarah. That's what I think. I got some new contacts that I put in this morning, and I cannot see very well. We can't add them in the wrong eyes. Maybe. Maybe.

Did contacts have a left or right? Well, it's, yeah, based on your prescription. Do they really? Yeah. My left eye has got a more powerful prescription than my... Really? That's interesting. So, yeah, when you have glasses, they're built that way? Like, the left one is different? Depends on your prescription. Yeah, pretty good. Do you ever having a contact roll back on your eyeball? Yeah. It's devastating.

Andy Sara. Is that right? Yeah. It's jarring to see Dusty in a more modern hat. Looks good on him, but I don't think people realize how precisely curated his style is. He deserves more credit for sure. It's a good look. Thank you, Andy.

People don't get it. People don't get it. They give me a lot of – I appreciate people giving me hats, but they give me a lot of modern hats. I want hats that you feel like your grandfather threw away. That's what I want. Like your grandfather got. a free hat with a box of chewing tobacco in 1980. Yeah.

That's kind of hat I'm looking. You want a hat hanging up at a gas station that kind of scares you a little bit. Mission accomplished. Yeah. Yeah. Dathan Raider. A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and female horse. The inverse of that is called a hemmy.

There are other hybrid crosses. I skipped a head a little bit. Oh, okay. I thought you, yeah, okay. Sounds like being in your context. Because it was a Nathan. It was a Nathan. And I heard you say Dathan and it made me laugh.

But that is this guy's name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. The inverse of that is called a henny. There are other hybrid crosses within the equine, equine, equine, I should know. Equine, I think. Equine realm, I don't know. Such as a zonky, a cross between a male zebra and a female donkey, as well as a zedonk, a cross between a male donkey and a female zebra.

There's also such a such a thing as a Norse, Zorse, excuse me. I'm really struggling today. Cross between a male zebra and a female horse. A Zadonk. Well, yeah, that sounds like a song performed by Trace Atkins. Written by Jamie Johnson. Yeah. All right, Dathan.

Well, that's good information, but pretty scary that you know all this. I'd never heard this in my whole life. Maybe he's in the equine business. Dathan's a tough name. Yeah. Your whole, how many times a day do you think he has to go? Like Nathan with a D. Yeah, every time.

Every time he says it. They go, excuse me? Dathan? What about Jathan? Yeah. Matt Taylor drove. Yeah. Mike Mooney.

The 999 challenge that are sold as a set at stadiums now are a smaller version of the actual challenge. The hot dogs are smaller and the beers are smaller. I believe I read it is less than two tall boys to fill up all nine cups. So it isn't a true 999 challenge. Yeah, but I'm sure they charge you for the equivalent. Oh, it's 180 bucks. Yeah, of course. Yeah.

So you could you do this? I could do it. Two tall boys. No desire. Yeah, two tall boys. No, I think he means a real 999. Oh,

okay. No, I meant, I don't know, they didn't specify if the hot dogs are smaller, but. Hot dogs are smaller.

Well, I guess how small? I can specify like the proportion, like the tall boys. Are we talking pigs in a blanket here or what? No, I think there's,

yeah. They're not foot long. Nine pigs and a blanket and two tall boys. Yeah, I'd do that in an, That's a Thursday snack right there. All right.

You guys ready to get Kathleen in here? Let's get her in here, huh? All right. Like nothing ever happened. We're right back. We have a very special guest, as we mentioned on the podcast today, longtime friend of all of us. An unbelievable stand-up comedian, wonderful person,

excited that I ever hear. Kathleen Madigan, everybody. All right. I've been pushing to have you on for a while. What a reason these guys were hesitant? Why? I'm always home on Mondays. Yeah.

I have nothing. He's got free beer in there. I'm going to raid that. This is the nicest intro that Aaron's ever given to anyone. What do you mean? I've seen some episodes. I've seen enough. I love the idea that every week, Brian's like,

guys, can we please have Kathleen on this week? And we're like, nah, I don't think she's ready. I don't think she's proven herself. I've been holding on to this comment for a while whenever you came on. We have a lot of bathroom talk about public restrooms and whether there should be signs on the door and things like that. This woman, Margaret Dosina, wrote in. I don't.

Yeah, okay, go ahead. You're the one that. Well, I just don't know. The way you frame it. You made it sound like that's the theme of the podcast. I think it's a big part of it. But you make it also seem like you go whether there should be signs on the door. Like, do people not know where they're at?

Guess one of those unmarked doors over there. You say it's a frequent, it frequently comes up bathroom etiquette and things like that. I'd say 30% of the podcast. Wow, yeah. Dudes are weird about where they go to the bathroom. Yeah. Well, Dusty wants a timer. Public figures slash public restrooms.

Yeah. Dusty was a timer on the door where you got to get in and get out. Yes. Or you have to pay. You can't be playing on your phone in there. Oh, is that what's bothering you the plan on the phone? Well, you know, if you go to the airport here in Nashville and, you know, the men, we have several urinals and then only a few stalls.

Right. And you go in and all the dudes are lined up at the stalls because, you know, you know, you know what they all have to do. Yes. And guys are in there just, you know, checking emails. And it's like, let's move it along. All right, a clock and then it buzzes or what happens? You get buzzed off the toilet.

Maybe the door springs open. Oh, okay. I think that. All right. Good? Yeah. You know, I just flew through, so Kansas City has upgraded its airport from the old tornado shelter slash bus station it was.

It's really wonderful. It's gorgeous. But of all the places, like I would get this if it was in Seattle or Portland or somewhere, like quote progressive. Kansas City who has tons of farmers, like all the farmer people fly out of there. A lot of people that are not experienced travels. The bathroom is all

gender. And so this farmer guy in overalls, and like his John Deer hat is not an affectation. Like he got that with the last tractor he bought. This is a real far. And he's old. He's probably 75. And he walks up, we both were colliding and he looks at the all gender. He has no

idea what is going on. And he looked at me to see where I'm going to and then he's going to go the other way. Grandpa doesn't know. We're going to meet right here in three more seconds, Grandpa. We're just going around. But there's twice as many stalls. So maybe that's the answer, all gender for the men, if that's what you want.

I don't want you guys in there. Not because I'm afraid, because honestly, it's gross. Yeah. Men are gross. Yeah, of course. Nobody puts a seat down. These old men are just peeing anywhere. I mean, walls, floors.

Like, what? So go to a proctologist. What is going on, Grandpa? So everybody's going to the... Women aren't like. that. The same bathroom in the Kansas City Airport? Yes, and it's freaking everyone out. Yeah. It's confusion. I'm set in a Home Depot bathroom. I know what's going on. It's gross. Yeah. Yeah, at least I feel like women will kind of, I mean, we can be pigs too,

but there's more of a running speed of what we're all doing here. Yeah. Yeah. And I just don't. Is there a graphic, like an illustration of a man and a woman in a wheelchair? Like everything. No, that's the problem. It just is a graphic of a person without hands or feet. Just a ball is ahead. And then there's no definition to what that is. And Pee Paul over here was really, and then he sees me again in the middle. I'm like, yeah, it's going to keep happening, Pete Paul. Just pick a stall.

Go ahead. Old men are now waiting to pee on the plane. That feels like what's going to happen. That's gross too. Yeah. Well, you don't want that. Well, we got to go somewhere, guys. Come on.

Don't ever walk around in your socks on a plane. Because if you go in the bathroom, all that stuff from the guy, old man, is on the floor. Never thought about that. I'm pretty against taking your shoes off on the plane in general. Well, if it's a long flight, though, I mean, six hours. I say take the socks off too. Put your shoes back on before you go to the bathroom. How about that?

You're going to get a pulmonary embolism. I'm telling you, I've seen this happen before. You've been thrombosis, Aaron, you're going to die because you wouldn't take your shoes off. You got to let your ankles breathe, everything. It's true. Yeah. I didn't know you guys really obsessed with bathrooms. I probably have more bathroom stories.

Well, that's a good lead in then. So this is from Margar. DOSina. Okay. She says, for my embarrassing public figure story, Kathleen Madigan

accidentally walked in on me while I was using the restroom at a small comedy club in or near the Silver Lake California area in

2015, 2016. I didn't lock the door quite right, so it was my bad. She was workshoping material for a new album.

I can have anything with it. Yeah. So anyway, do you recall this at all? I do not. It was probably, if you're going to say

still really probably the ice house, which is not Pasadena, but there's no other clubs over there. And I don't know that I would be practicing. And probably countless incidents since then. Yeah, I mean, you want to go back that far, 2015? I mean, I've walked in on so many other people since then. But that's nice. She recognized me at a club if I wouldn't even know. What a relief this is for her.

She's probably been worried about this for a while. And then you're like, I don't remember it at all. And it's a good lesson. I think a lot of like the most embarrassing thing. in my life. Like the other, nobody else remembers them except me, right? It's just, no, I remember them. Okay. Yeah. Well, what, it depends on what they were. I bet other people know. Yeah. But if it's something as simple as that. Well, yeah. Yeah. And also depends on what was going on in the bathroom. If you just sitting there, that's not that embarrassing. It's like, oh, sorry.

But if you're, you got a whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, that's memorable. I was at the Nashville airport and the lock on the door didn't work, which is gradually. as you open up slowly. So every 30 seconds, I've just got to get up and pull it back together. You know who's got the bathrooms down is Buckees. Yeah. Because especially for the women,

green light, red light, the lights. And I took a video of it, and I was severely reprimanded on social media because you're not supposed to take videos and bathrooms. I'm like, look, I'm not taking a video of anyone going to the bathroom, by showing you the future. Let's learn from it.

I know nothing about this. I don't think this is in the men's restroom. Oh, someone. No, of somebody online. social media because I posted the video. No, I don't know. I've had men tell me it is in the men's. You're probably not the busiest.

I think it is. So above each saw, there's a green light or a red light. And if it's open, it's green. Because, like, I don't understand, like, in the Delta lounge, why does the door and the women's go all the way to the bottom? I can't look for feet now. You just blocked me from looking for feet. Aaron's too busy trying to get a song queued up for his time in the stall.

I like to play music. A book on tape. He has a specific song he plays. Oh, how, ah, you have like a walk-on song for the bathroom, like a baseball player? That's, wow. It's an epidemic. Well, the reason I think I've never seen that at a Bucky's bathroom is they're so efficient. This has never been an issue for me.

Like, there's no, I've never seen a line in there. Nope. There seems to be just a full-time guy cleaning it who's just always in there. So it's great. But I think there's an epidemic of quiet bathrooms. all over the world where you're like, somebody gets some music or something going in here. Let's get some white noise machine. Yeah.

So I always play. You and my brother. He doesn't like it. Oh my God. He'll go like 17 floors away on a hotel. I found a good bathroom. What are you talking about? We're in the lobby.

There's one. Ah, too crowded. Too crowded. I'm like, I don't know what you're doing. But it's weird that I feel like dudes are more fast. You got to have the right situation. Yeah, yeah. You got have a good situation.

So I play horse with no name by America. Oh. It just kind of splits, I think generationally it's going to appease everybody. You know, rather than playing. And we're trying to get that trend going. That way we can recognize who listens to the podcast. We walk into a restroom. If you hear it.

We go, ah, podcast listeners. And then I'll go, hello folks. And they'll go, is that Brian Bates? Well, you used to, it's your day job. You used to hang out in the men's restaurant. Well, that's how you kill time on the clock. Yeah, that's where most of the employees. I bet you heard some wild stuff in there.

Well, a Home Depot or Lowe's bathroom is, I don't know what people eat that go in there. I mean, it is pretty insane. I know exactly what they eat. It's the guys that go into the gas station at 7 a.m. and get three roller dogs and Mountain Dew. Yeah. I mean, I've been in there, you know, pretty hungover and I'm just killing time. And then a guy will come in there.

And I go, jeez. I go, I got to get back to work. The women's is bad at Lowe's. because it's old people. A lot of old ladies. And they, I mean, it could be days before they come out. Yeah, just, I don't even, and I don't even think they have a phone. I don't know what they're thinking about.

I don't know what they're doing, but it could go on for, because twice I've almost went into the workroom to ask if I could use theirs. Because I can tell by their shoes and these are old people. And something's gone wrong. They shouldn't have left the house. Real thick soles on the shoes. Yeah, or maybe they took something to go to that to me. all kicking in now. Crocheting in there.

A great time. A ball of yarn rolling across the floor. All of a sudden her cat comes out of her purse. Well, it's interesting you're talking about the airline stuff in the airports because I think one of, at least to me, one of your more well-known bits from recent history is talking about the Malaysian airplane crash, which I think it's fair to say you became obsessed with it. And still am. Okay. I care more than the families. I'm serious. And I'm not accepting settlements in case anybody is wondering if you should offer me something. Yeah. No, you don't off. Don't take

that money. So what's going on? I haven't heard about this in years, but there's still, people are still litigating it? Well, no. Most of them sadly took this out. My dad was a lawyer. He said, don't ever except insures people's money. It's blood money. But they're poor. A lot of them are super poor. So here's 50 grand. Sounds like 20 million.

And I get it. But they shouldn't have done that. Right now there's a company, I think it's called Oceana, Oceana. And they're going to spend 70 million to go look for it. If they find it, that money will be repaid. But if they don't, they're just out 70 million. But this guy thinks he's really nailed it.

The problem is it's most likely in the Indian ocean, which is I did not know till this flight crashed how crazy the Indian Ocean is. What's crazy? Rogue waves, 40 feet tall. Oh, my gosh. It just go missing. It's insane. And it's so deep.

And the currents are so insane that even if you knew where the plane crashed, it could be 500 miles away from here now. So they accept now that it crashed in the ocean. No, no, nobody accepts anything. No, if you talk to my brother, I think it's like lost, man. I think they're like drinking margaritas. You think it's still flying around? No, he thinks they're on an island. They made up new names for themselves, like the show lost.

Oh, like the show lost. Oh, yeah. Patrick, no, no, there's a million. Maybe the show was a documentary about Malaysian Airlines. Before it happened. Yeah. Yeah, because we're living in that age now. Who will pay them 70 million if they find it?

Well, that was my question. And the, apparently the Malaysian government, but I don't believe that. Yeah. I don't think they're going to give them. I'm interested in the Indian Ocean. I want to look into that. It is crazy. Like, you couldn't pay me to ever get on.

Well, why would I? But I'm not a cargo ship lady. But those boats, I mean, no. No, no. It's insane. I've seen these videos where I didn't know what ocean it was, but like, yeah. It's that usually. Yeah.

So, no one, that guy totally took the plane down, in my opinion. He had simulators at home. He already, he did all the flight patterns and crashed it on the simulators. Okay. So they found this all out. later. Yeah, well, not that much later. Six months later.

And we're like, oh, okay, but they don't want to admit. I think this is footage from the Nateland cruise. It felt like that for a while. I mean, there's just not enough drama mean in the world to cover that kind of seasickness. Look at those waves. Yeah, it's crazy. So I don't know. Is Malaysian Airlines still going?

Yeah, yeah, the next day. I went online to see. I'm like, oh, what if you can still fly on these guys? Oh, it's like Southwest. Hey, how about Singapore today for $89? Yeah, I'm like, of course it's $80. For a good deal, though, you'd probably still trust it. You're like, I don't know, it's a direct flight.

I just could not believe in whatever year that was, 2015 or something, that a plane, an airplane could go missing. Like, I understand that statement about a ship in 1649. I don't know, Queen Elizabeth. They were here and they're not. I don't know. Never showed up. I don't know.

No, they never showed on the other side neither. So I don't really know what to tell you. But, I mean, like, I know back then people were texting from planes. I know that. I wasn't because I have an Android and we're not capable. They don't let us do those things. But other people were. iPhone people were.

So how did we not get any messages? How did we not? I think they killed them first with a lack of oxygen. They all went unconscious. Okay. And then boom. They happen. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. I think because otherwise there would have been something 9-11. When you say they killed them first, I thought something more like walking through the plane with a gun. Oh, wow, that's so hands-to-hand violent. No, like they just turn off the oxygen. Yeah. So much easier, does it?

Then have it all that blood and strangle everybody one by one. Has it some debris washed up? Oh, yeah. Well, there's a psycho. This, like, psycho-seudo-scientist guy in a Hawaiian shirt that keeps, he keeps walking, on this one island and he claims he found wings, but nobody seems to really believe him. But they did find a door that they thought might be from that. And then they gave it to the French.

I'm like, why are the French in charge of science? How about we give it to the Germans? Like somebody who has a history of smart, like Einstein people. And then they were like, I don't know, it could be. Well, how many other planes have gone missing that are missing doors? Can we get a count to put that on the wall and eliminate who didn't crash? And then go, yeah, it's the door. So other than the door, oh, you know, random.

They need you heading up this investigation. Well, I think somebody needs a fine little kick-out. Like a coach. Yeah, like a coach. Yeah, yeah, but you're a motivator. Yeah. Here's your TED talk. Yeah.

Let's get moving. Yeah. Come on, people. There's 230 people. It's just fine if we go missing. Like, how many people do you hear get on a plane? They're like, I'm scared to fly because we might crash. Oh, way worse, lady.

Yeah. We could go missing. Yeah. That's worse. Because we probably will have already crashed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I never would have thought a plane could just disappear like that.

Not in this day and age. No. Who was on the plane? Anybody? Oh, there's the theory of the conspiracy people that claim there were scientists and all this stuff. And maybe there were a couple scientists. But what I mean, no. That theory is bad.

But why would it go missing, though? Because that man killed them. Oh. The pilot? The pilot? Yeah. He was just kind of like a... He was depressed.

He was going through a divorce. He was angry. He's that right age where people go crazy, like 40. You're never to see somebody my age. We're too close to retirement. I'm not tanking this whole thing now. You're kidding. I've worked my whole life to get to this point.

Last thing I'm doing is take it. I want all my pilots to be 58. All of them. I'm so happy because they're like, yeah, miss a few more years and I'm out of here. There's young ones that are going through divorces and they're angry. They've got some misery. All of them.

And they get to work and they go, I've got to do this another 20 years. Right. At least. Right. So you think Malaysian Airlines is covering it up because they don't want to know that their pilot went crazy. They'd have to take responsibility then. And then they'd have to pay all these people more than $4 or whatever they gave them to shut them up. They'd have to pay, you know, they'd be guilty of a accomplice at least, aiding and abetting.

But I wonder why the other, I mean, it seems like the other airlines would kind of be invested in uncovering this to shut them down. I think they're like Jed-Blue. Nobody takes them seriously or spirit. Oh, yeah. Like, does Delta have time to worry about what spirit's doing today? That's a good point. They do not. Yeah.

They don't even care. Whatever. We're not, I don't think. Malaysia's just like the Ryanair of over there. Like, our spirit is to hear is what they are to them. It's all these short little thing called. Is Malaysia China? No, it's his own deal.

I had to look that up to you. Okay. Malaysia's Malaysia. It's its own. Okay. It sounds like Malaysia and Airlines to Malaysia. It's not the same as American Airlines is to America. It's right.

There's others. It's like a frontier or something like on that level. Like if I was going to Bangkok, I'd pick AirChina. Yeah. Over that. Okay. But this is only from what I've learned after all this. I didn't even hear, I never even heard of this airline.

And I loved how like on the news, it's the same with the Nancy Griffith thing. Day one. Oh my God. We have a missing plane. Oh, my God. It took Don Lemon an hour to get through it. And then by like, I don't know, week three, they were like, yeah, still missing.

Anyway, on to sports. Yeah, they just move on. Not you. I mean, I understand yet. Right, I don't move on. And my brother finally was like, I can't discuss this topic with you anymore, Kathleen. I am at work. He's looking for bathrooms.

Yeah, I'm going to go find you a secret bathroom in the famous airport. Shut up, Pat. Like, I'm doing you favors, and you don't even know I'm out there working on your behalf, looking for secret men's bathrooms and tornado. I found one in a tornadoes shelter. I'm like, oh, this is his dream. Dream bathroom. Yeah, nobody's going.

Safety. Yeah. Tornado coach. Even a tornado can't get in there. Yeah. Your pants are down. You're fine. It doesn't matter.

I'm out here working on behalf of the people. And no, no one, you're the first person that's asked me in years. Nobody wants to talk about it. What's it there a case very close to that same time where a depressed pilot did like crash a plane to a side of a mountain? Yes, it was Egypt Air. Not too long after that, right? That was before that. Oh, before that.

Well, Egypt Air was before that. that. And there might have been one after that. I was so busy on this one. I did keep up with new events. So you don't really want to fly on an airplane named after a country? Well, American. Air Canada's fine. Okay. Yeah, Canada's nice. They were rude to me one time. They didn't crash the plane. They were rude to me. It's all the same to Dusty.

Pretty low bar. Air Americans okay here. Yeah, they're okay. They're just okay. Yeah, they're okay. It's the more specific you get the better. Like, I think Alaska's great. You fly Alaska?

I have, yeah. I've had good experiences. I didn't like that they gave me a Bible quote with my lunch on my tray. Not that I'm anti-biblical, but that makes me think we're dying. I was like, oh, do we have, wait, really? I guess it depends on what the verses. Yeah. Right?

Heaven? No. It's a revelation. You're like, oh. How about just a quote from Mark Twain or something? Cats are great. You know, Hemingway, don't let my cats die. Something not so, ooh.

I was thinking about it because I feel like with everything that happened with the flights last year, I look up the stats about airline crashes a lot. So last year there were 39 million flights around the world. 51 accidents out of 39 million flights. Where were those accidents? What countries were there was? Mostly other countries. Yeah.

But remember we had the big one in D.C., the helicopter crash. But that's one accident for every 759,000 flights. Yeah. So, I mean, that's still the safest way to travel in human history. But, but. I think a horse. Yeah. I'd feel safer on my horse.

Yeah. Would you feel safer on a horse than an airplane? Absolutely. Yes. I want to go back to that. Me too. All of it. I was talking about that the other day. All of it.

Except the women's rights part. I'm going to need a few more rights if we're flying back to 1830. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I need to be able to own stuff. and like you can't boss me around when you feel like that right yeah right but other than that

I'm all about the simplistic thing I was born and raised in Missouri never left great like if we rode horses you would all the communities would be closer together but so you could still travel as a comic you just you know you go you know instead of going all the way across the country you just go to the next town and you don't have a head shot you take an oil painting of yourself and put it out front yeah yeah yeah just like back in the old old old old day yeah just like back in the old old old They're like, he looks so serious. And you're like, well, he couldn't hold the pose. He couldn't hold the smile that long.

I think a horse is safer, Aaron. You know what they don't talk about on here? And this is my argument against the rich, fancy friends that I do have. I don't like private flying. And I'm like, let's go through the entertainer slash athletes we know have died flying privately. Yeah. And now let's go through after that list, which is like 20 deep of Patsy Klein, Payne Stewart, you know, go through home.

Roberta Clemente. Yeah, all these guys. Leonard Skinner. Leonard Skinner. Leonard Skinner. Now, let's go through the amount of celebrities that have died on Delta. Ixen.

Yeah. How about Southwest? Nay, nay, nay. None. Yeah. I just don't, I think the risk. And then people get used to it. All the Lakers.

Whoa, I fly my helicopter to Lakers games. Are you crazy? You're landing on top of a roof and a helicopter. Yeah. I don't know. Pretty famous Laker. I get the convenience. I lost his life in a helicopter.

Yeah, I mean, I've done it. And I'm like, yeah, this is pretty cool. You just go up, no TSA. I've gone with other people. But I'm like, especially, I really didn't trust it when I went with Ron White, because his was called Tater Air. And he had painted gold shark teeth on the bottom. And I go, what's up it?

And then on the tail, there was a pirate ship on a rough ocean. I'm like, this theme doesn't even work for me, Ron. I go, what's what the gold teeth? He goes, I want to fly into Santa Barbara and they park next to Oprah and have her thing. My plane's eating her plane. That was really what he intended. And it was painted like we were in some Vegas casino in the 50s, Tater Air and all gold lamain. I'm thinking the teeth like a World War II fighter jet.

Kind of, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, when was this plane built? He's like, I don't know. I'd like the 60s. It's an Israeli. I go, okay, well, I wouldn't get the car built in 19.

62 and drive it across America. And you want me to get in this plane, this rickety, I fly it everywhere. And I'm like, yeah, I know, but I just, I don't know, I just don't feel confident. Right. And I'm not afraid to fly. I just think, why would you increase the odds?

Then we started talking about that list of dead people and private planes, mostly musicians. Yeah. I mean, a ton. Yeah. I forgot about Roberto Clemente. Yeah. Payne Stewart on a ghost ship.

I just learned about Roberta Clemente. Oh, okay. You know who that is. Who it is. that she died in a plane cry. All of that. It was Roberta Flack. She's like,

I'm like, she didn't die in a plane car. Roberto Clemente's a band. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Really good songs. I bet I'd know some songs and I bet I like the song,

but I'm learning a lot here. Well, John Denver, that's a totally different case because he was flying himself. Well, and he ran out of gas. And, you know, you're an American legend. Could you check the fuel? I mean, I was so angry with John for a long time.

I don't even know the man. but I loved him. And I'm like, why did you, the gas thing didn't flip over right? Francis Gary Powers. You could see that coming. Yeah. I think you were crazy. Oh, yeah, John of Kennedy.

I just watched all that. Glenn Miller, I didn't even know that. The orchestra leader. Otis Redding, too? Yeah. Man. Right. And this would be my question of these people.

Buddy Holly. With what you were going to go do, was it that important? Yeah. That you couldn't have waited until the morning to take a Delta flight. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Ricky Nelson. I think Roberta Clemente was flying humanitarian stuff into. Oh, he was a baseball.

Yeah. Yes. I'm like, I bet I know some of his songs. I know that's why we just kept going along with it. We all know that you didn't know. Yeah. It's all,

it's coming together now, though. Now that I see that, I go, oh, yeah. Rocky Marchiano, he was a boxer for you people. They were too young. And when my younger brother, he's like 11 years younger than me,

he got Mike Tyson's fight out for Nintendo. Uh-huh. He didn't learn. and I mean, I am 11 years older, but I'm not going to let him win. And he was too dumb to realize that if you took Rocky Marciano, every fight you won every fight on Nintendo. Because he kept saying, why do you have confidence? And I'm like, in my mind, because I'm picking up on an algorithm, Pat, but he's six. I'm like, no, you go ahead.

Take Tyson again, Pat. It's all going to work out for you. Rocky would come out. I didn't know he died of private. I didn't either. 45 years old. Oh. Yeah.

I don't know. It's just not my thing. I mean, and then you do it every week. and it's so convenient and you get used to it. Stevie Ray Vaughn, too. Yeah. Yeah, Payne Stewart, that was, like they all passed out. Yeah, the whole thing froze.

It was frozen. The windows were frozen. The plane was frozen. And then it just flew till it ran out of gas and landed in some, like, field in Nebraska, I think. Or Iowa. I would just remember him that he would dress absurd, right? And he wore the bloomers from like the 20s and all that became his look. You remember him, Dusty, Payne Stewart?

He would wear, like, what you think a guy. Oh, golfing, yeah. In like the 1910s would wear golfers. Yeah, and he's somebody from Missouri, so I had to own that. Yeah, there's our guy. The one looks like a striped clown from Chucky Cheese. Yeah. He was a good golfer, though.

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the opposite of a natural disaster, a man-made disaster. Things like this. Tragedy. Tragedy, yeah, but it's like some sort of operational failure that caused. A tragic disaster. A tragic disaster. I like that term. But the natural

disasters are also tragic. Yeah, I guess you're right. You know what I mean? Yeah. A self-imposed. Self-imposed, man-made, yeah. So I looked at, I don't know, I've seen this footage before. Apparently, it's famous among engineers.

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940. It was the third largest video unavailable. Cool. I'll find a different one here. We're on the Zanis Network, which tries to silence us a lot. Tries to silence us a lot. Tries to silence. We talk about some true stuff on here that try to silence it.

I think Andrew's doing that. He's trying to keep you down on the farm. I think so. Yeah, he's going to start going on the road. You know it. So this is cool because there's footage of it. This is 1940. It was the third largest suspension bridge.

And it caught a 40-mile-an-hour wind at one point. Whoa. And that's what happened to it. I mean, it looks like it's an airhead. Well, I don't see cars flying off. I don't either. Well, people evacuated. The only person, the only casualty on this was a dog. Somebody left their dog in their car. What is that made of that would steal? It just wasn't, it just wasn't, uh, it's crazy.

Engineers just didn't know how to account for us. Yeah, there's one car and there's a dog left in that car. Aww. So that's the only, only casualty there. But apparently, like, engineering classes and architects and stuff, this is like famous footage to them because this changed how bridge is. were built. Well, it seems like it's doing well. I mean, it's holding up. It eventually collapses. But that was only a 40 mile an hour win. And if, I mean, A F1 is

50 or a bar. Is that a guy walking on it? Yeah, it is. I think it's a guy running and running away. It's like a music video. Yeah. Put some rolling stones behind this. That's a cool video. I don't see it. That was actually Brian running away from the fish concept. Yeah. Yeah.

So you can see, yeah, it collapses. on itself right here. Wow. Yeah, it's pretty tough. He's got to seem pretty chill for just having experience that. No kidding. And it's still windy. Look at the tree.

Yeah. I'd be running the rest of the way. That guy slowed down like, oh, I'm glad I'm through that part. You still are on the bridge. Now, I have a family member who's, I don't know what the term for it, but she is terrified of bridges. And I remember we were driving. There used to be a big bridge.

Do you remember going to, like, Dauphin Island and Alice. Oh, yeah. There's that big bridge right down there. Yeah, it's really long. And then once you get to a certain point, it goes way, like it's a, yeah. I don't, I'm not. It's like a nine-mile bridge. I don't like that.

I wouldn't be able to keep my eyes over there. And then it goes, yeah, it loops up. No. Yeah. No. It's pretty wild. No. I remember having to pull over because this relative of mine was driving.

She was, I can't do this bridge. We had to pull over and she. And he threw her right off. We threw her, you know, you're staying over. Left her in the car, like a dog. We all walked. But bridges scare me way more than almost anything else. Because the whole time I'm driving, I'm thinking about if this, I don't know.

If I get in, not even if the bridge collapses, but if I get in a wreck up here or something and I go off the side. What's the number one rule, young people? What's that? What are you supposed to do when you drive over a bridge? Pray. Well, if you're in a modern car. Cruise control? No.

Roll your window down at least that much. Really? Because when you go down, let's say you go off, worst case scenario, and then you start to sink, you want that water to come in slowly. And when the car is full, you open the door and there won't be any pressure and you can try to swim up. If you go down with your windows closed, it's all every foot down, you're building more pressure. Okay. So then when you try to open your door and all your electric is going to go out. Yeah.

So you can't get your windows down. Well, then you'd have to buy one of those things that you sell late at night on TV. You had to go, that just pox it, pokes the glass. Yeah, I know, I always want to buy it. Me too. I'm usually drunk when I see it. So I'm like, I'll do it tomorrow. That's why it's good to smoke while you drive, because your windows are always down like that.

Yeah. Yeah, that's right. That's right. That would terrify me. I don't think I could drive. I can't drive on mountain passes that are too narrow or bridges like that either. I think the mountains scare me more. Mountains are scarier than the bridge to me.

I went from somewhere in Colorado to Durango, but didn't understand. that what was going to happen, me and the other comic, and then he started crying and I'm the past. I'm like, no, no, no, I cry. That's the way this works. The chick cries. You don't cry. You drive and tell me it's all going to be fine.

Why is he crying? And there was, because it got... Eric doesn't like bridges. It got so tight up in the top. And then it started snowing. Like, everything's bad. And then you'd get down that one. I think, oh, thank God we made it.

And there's another one. It just kept going and the stress was horrible. And mountain passes, bridges. No. Apparently back of the... day they used to tell me Aretha Franklin just quit going on because there was this young guy who was without back, I think. And he was like, I'm so glad to see you, Kathleen. I'm like, why? Who'd you have? He goes, Arita Franklin. And now there's so many rules because she's old,

completely crazy. She can't do math. And we're not allowed to go near mountains. Well, you try to get from Asheville to Nashville to Nashville to Chicago without seeing a mountain. She don't want to see one. You got to go all the way down to Florida and take a left. Wow. That's wild. Like, that's an awesome amount of power, though. I don't want to see any mountains. No. I don't see flat planes.

Well, you're saying if you were on a horse, this would all be way safer. Yeah. For sure. The horse would know. Don't go. My stupid rental car with Jason driving didn't know don't go. We just kept going. There were signs, too.

And there's nowhere to turn around. Have you done any self-driving cars, Kathleen? I won't get at them. You won't do it? You know, there are Waymoes all around Nashville now. I just saw one coming here. Yeah. And they're always really hesitant when they turn.

It's like an old person's driving it. But wouldn't you rather them be that than cutting people off? No, I want them to be sponsored by Red Bull and I want them all to go 200 miles an hour. Then I would be entertained. I'd be like, ah, it comes to Red Bull car. Well, that's true. I'd like a waymo though because I can cut them off and I don't feel bad at all. No, and they do sense like you can really screw with them.

You can run them off the road. These people are emailing all this crazy stuff, the kids, that you can, it senses you. and if you keep inching over, he'll keep inching over until he, whatever, that nobody, until the bot crashes off the side of the. Not that I would want to go attack someone's property. Yeah, there's still a person in the car. No, I'd, no.

There's still a passenger. Maybe. Well, sometimes they're completely empty. But the passenger, I love to cut them off because you don't even have to wave. You don't have to do anything. If you honk at a way mode, does it respond to that? I don't know. I wonder if it picks up that it's being honked at.

I doubt it. No, I don't think. Here's where I was like, okay, this knee, I will get in one maybe two years from now, but we got some kinks to work out. Yeah. A guy in West Hollywood got in one to go to LAX, and they're not supposed to go on the highways. At least that was the rule back then. I don't know if they can at this point, but the thing wouldn't stop.

It just kept going around in circles around LAX. So he's missing his flight. All of his stuff's in the trunk. So even if you wanted to tuck and roll and jump out, your stuff is bad. back there because he's LAX, he's going wherever for a while. And what are you going to, then he's, you know, I didn't know what to do. You're calling an 800 number in the Philippines. Oh, yeah.

Hi, it's me. I'm stuck on Sepulvita in a circle. They don't care. No one cares. Like, no. Maybe if you pop the hood and get and it pull the battery. From inside? Yeah, you jump out.

I think that would be fun. For a moving car. Yeah. Jump on the hood. Jump on the bumper. Yeah. You're going around in circles, pulling stuff. That's what happened, Roberto Clemente.

Yeah. They're all over Phoenix. Yeah, I did one in Phoenix. Did you? Did you like? I did. By the end of the weekend, I'm like, I can't handle a personal Uber driver anymore. This guy talking to me.

You don't want to talk, right? No. Now, would you trust one enough to be like, let's say you get out of a show and you're like, let's just drive home to Nashville and sleep in the car and just have it drive you to your own? It's how the show went. I've been on some shows like, I don't care, dude. Just do what you got to do. Yeah. Go off this bridge. I don't care.

Now there's also another one, Zooks, Z-O-O-X. It's like a cube. And there is no steering wheel. There's no nothing. The whole thing is programmed. That's it. It looks like a thing, like a ski lift thing, like one of those. Well, have you ever seen the little robots on college campuses that deliver the food?

Yeah, it looks like a giant one of those. I feel like I'm a Chinese meal getting in that and I'm being delivered to someone. Oh, yeah. I feel like food. It's like a Chinese food. It really is like a horse-drawn carriage without the horse. Oh, it's also kind of like a ride maybe at Six Flags or something where if you were on the antique track car at Six Flags, it seems. But they're not on tracks.

And I'm in a weird cube. And I don't, I feel like the door shut and how can I can I get out? Yeah. I don't. I think we need. It's an Amazon thing. I need a few hundred people to die before I do this. Yeah.

Yeah. Like you guys die first. Work it out. You work it out. Work it out. Yeah. I've lived this long. I'm not.

Yeah, you've worked your whole life. I'm too old to be the first Marine that goes into the Zooks. Somebody that's in their 20s can do that. Not available to the wider public yet. It's just employees and limited group. Public launch in Vegas. They're everywhere in Vegas. Wow.

Amazon bought them for $1.2 billion back in 2020. I don't mind bridges too much. I was driving home from Missouri this weekend, and you go over the Mississippi River. And then that was like, and then you make a little turn. And then I'm like, oh, we're going over it again. It's the Ohio River. Have you seen the old bridge on that Ohio River one? No.

Terrifying. The new one isn't a ton, ton better. But that one, and I bet over it back in the day, horrifying. Yes. Wait, where? Out in Ohio State. Well, it's went from Kentucky to... Yes, where Mississippi River kind of merge.

The John A. Robling suspension bridge, this one? No, that's in Covington. That goes... That's Cincinnati. on the old Charleston Bridge going from like downtown to Mount Juliet or Mount Pleasant is that old bridge. Now they have the big one now that's really nice. But when I moved there, it was two bridges. And one of them was a two lane. But it was like, and they said that used to go this way where it was like oncoming traffic, like, you know, two-way traffic. And they said

like a big diesel trucks would go through and knock off your side mirrors. That's how close you were. together. That's crazy. Yeah. And if somebody's car breaks down, if you, Google, try this, Eric. Try, um, bridge over Ohio River by Paduca. Oh, Paducah, Kentucky. Just somewhere by there.

Yeah. Okay. There are two. Oh, yeah. I know that bridge. You're talking about the Brent Spence Bridge? No, no. That's Covington.

With a tugboat. George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge. That, this old one. Yeah, and that's the old one down there. This one's fine. It's the one, the old one. You're like, wow, what were people? The purple people bridge.

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So another one of these we had talked about, because we had talked about a little bit, was there's something new coming out about, is it Chernobyl or Shernoble? Chernobo. Cher. Cher. Sure. Sure. I'm positive.

What? Listen. I know about the Roberto. Clemente thing now. But Chernobyl? Chernobyl? Like Cher? I've always heard Cher.

Like Cher Noble? Yeah, well, that's another chair. You don't call her chair. Her name's Cher. Yeah, but everybody says Chernobyl. Sure. But I think you say it fast enough you can't really tell. Do you see that Chernobyl?

You got to blend the two together. And is that even what the Russians call it? Yeah, who knows? It's like when they do their writing of their team name on their shirt, and I'm like, no, you're supposed to be the Rangers. Why does it say that? Right. Why is it some weird drawing?

CCP. CCC. No idea. It's on every jersey. Chernobyl, that HBO thing was fantastic. And there's another one coming out. But there's something even better. This is insane to me.

This is like the stuff I'm obsessed with. If you put in YouTube, Aaron, the babushkas, like bobbushkas of Chernobyl. Yeah. Oh, okay. The Chernobyl babushkas. It was on YouTube. Okay. And it's a documentary of all these old ladies after the turn up, like, well, Russian, like, living with no money, no nothing.

They're probably 65, but they look 100 because they've had a hard life. After the disaster, they went and got them all and took them to a very big city and put them in some high-rise, nondescript God-off a building. And they had a little meeting, and they're like, no. And they walked back and they live in it. Wow. They live in the evacuation zone, like with wolves. all the animals have come back tenfold. Now there's stuff that wasn't even there.

Like it was there hundreds of years ago. Eurasian lynxes and crazy. Bears are back there now. Yeah, they all look like her. And they all have vodka, which I'm like, where are you getting vodka? That one of my first question. There's no liquor store.

I'm out. I'm out. They all have vodka in some sort of giant pot with something boiling in it. See, what's that? What's that lady? Oh, look at her hands. Yeah.

So they just live, they live in the area. evacuation zone. No one's supposed to be. You're not technically allowed to live in it. Are they? So they're like homesteading there, essentially? They went back to their old homes if they still existed and just moved right back in. And there's a very young girl, a 20-something who brings mail to them, like illegally.

Okay. I'm like, okay, so you get your little government check. Where are you cash in that? I don't even, even at the end of the thing, I was like, I still have so many questions about how this lady got all this. food. It doesn't look great, but it is food. And the liquor, it looks like some roots and mushrooms. They'll sit down and go, are we ready to drink? And it's just a whole bottle. They're going to drink that whole bottle right there. She said, she made strawberry wine. Yeah, there's no vodka tonic. Yeah. There's no tonic. But they can rate. There's no limes. There's nothing.

Just potato vodka. Vodka and radiation. Yep. Giant wolves. Dire wolves. Do you think they're raiding like other people's houses that had liquor? I'm sure that already did that. Yeah, they probably did that the day they moved back. But Ivan's not coming home. And they went over and took all his stuff. But I would. I'd see no reason not to.

Are they having kids or are they just going to die? They're all too old. Okay. Yeah. Their husbands, most of their husbands, most of their husbands died in the accident, which is sad. Like they're, and they were old then and he dies. And then, yeah, there's nobody under 60 out in the area except the male lady.

This is like I am legend without the zombies. Right? Just the end of the world for them. Essentially. But it's really the beginning of the world for these people because they don't even care. That's what I love. And I wouldn't care. There gets to be an age where she's just plucking mushrooms out of the dirt.

God only knows how much radiation's in that thing. Yeah. Yeah. She don't care what she got left on earth. 20 years max. Eat what you want. Yeah. Just piling through garbage and radiating.

food. See, she's got a blanket. She don't have any teeth. Teeth are gone. She's been there forever. She doesn't get out of bed much. They come over. Now I remember all this. I'm going to have to rewatch it. I loved every minute of it. Yeah, this scene is particularly sad. Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry about that. Yeah, but at least she's home in her bed with her cat and she's not in some high rise in, uh, they took her like Moscow or somewhere a big city you've heard of. Now, that lady's a spring chicken compared to look at the food. Look at the wine. Yeah, cornbread or? something there. Yeah, look at that.

Something you can eat with no teeth. That's how my grandmother used to eat. Now that's a good spread. It is true though. Yeah. Yeah. That's a nice spread though. I used to see. Yeah, look at that. Look at the bread. Looks great. I would eat it.

Do they grow their own food? Oh yeah. Yeah, they know how. I have no idea that people were back there. I was reading about all the animals and how they've increased like 10 times what they were. It's so much better without people. They just accidentally created the world's largest nature reserve there.

So it's just all these animals run around unchecked. This caption, now he's gone and I have everything. That's a tough frame. She sure does. Yeah, look how happy they are. They're having parties. There's clearly not any kind of hair salon out there. Nobody's doing their hair anymore.

But that's what I would feel if I didn't have to leave the house. Why am I blow drying my hair? Who cares? Yeah. They look like they're having it. That's her. She's hammered. This was after they drank like 100 bottles of vodka.

She's just banging a sickle on a floor, like a post hole digger. They are living a life. I don't understand why it didn't get more attention. I thought it was a great documentary. It's probably raining radiation right now. That's probably radiation fault. She's getting cancer on the umbrella. She doesn't even care.

Good for you. I don't even know about it. Is this on Netflix? This is just a YouTube documentary here. But it's like a for real documentary. It's not like some guy. And now the influencers are all trying to sneak into the evacuation zone for their videos. Because there's a lot of tourism to that area, right?

Yeah, but none of it's really legal. You're not supposed to be there. And I wouldn't mess with the Russians. Yeah. That's fair. But I wonder if I would get, I'm interested. I want to go see like the, the, if I wear a hazmat suit and it's all above board, I would go do it. The bears have moved into a lot of the.

houses. Free shelter. Those wild horses, too. Yep. The Chernobyl. The Eurasian lynxes are like bigger than a Eurasian lynx should be in an awesome way. Kind of looks like a giant bobcat. Oh, it's really cool.

It just shows without us, nature does great. We're the problem. Yeah. I'm the problem. As soon as we're out of the equation. But like these women, the way they're living, they're okay too. Yeah. Right?

It's like if you just live simple, you go with nature. Right. And they're already old. Yeah. So what do they care? Oh, hey, you have, you know, stage one cancer. Well, it's fine. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's a bear that's going to take me out. Yeah. Yeah, there's a Siberian giant black bear in there. It's also hungry. Yeah. And the mushrooms aren't doing it.

Yeah. I was looking at, because I was just looking up some man-made disasters. I had never heard of this. Have you heard of the London smog of 1952? No. It's very specific. Did we? Yeah.

I don't know that I have. It must have been years ago, right? I don't remember when, but I vaguely remember us talking about this. How about all the people that got killed by syrup? Wait, what? Oh. What happened on that? Maple syrup drowning, put that in there.

It'll come up. A town. The Great Molasses Flood. Yep. Wow. In Boston. A syrup deal. A large storage tank filled with 2.3 million U.S. gallons of molasses pushed through the streets

at an estimated 35 miles per hour killing 21 people and injuring 150. Wow. Can you imagine you died by syrup? Melascus is so thick. You didn't even have a frozen waffle in your hair. Enjoy the last bit. Yeah, that one is probably the, craziest. What happened was it? It was just a tank explodes.

Probably brought in a lot of insects and giant way, 50 feet high, sweeps everything. Oh, man. Yeah, 100 men, women, and children caught in sticky stream. Building, vehicles, and structures crushed. Sticky. When was this? I want to say like the 30s? 1990. Okay. Yeah, 1919.

So the war, the great war had just ended. You finally get home from the war, you're killed by a wave of syrup. Not the Nazis. Not the Germans. Wow. Just a slow way to die. Yeah. The insects just start coming around.

I'd never heard of this one. Imagine me just waist deep in molasses walking through the street. I mean, I bought some thick molasses before. I don't even know if you'd be able to walk. I was going to say I don't think I could, especially if it's, Well, coming at 35 miles an hour. I mean, there's 18 milan our winds outside today, and I had a problem to shut my door. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's the difference between syrup and molasses? Melasses, I believe, is unrefined. What's... Okay. Melasses is a thick, dark byproduct of refining sugar. You got to refine it to make it. So the molasses is like the stuff that would actually you start with. Oh.

And syrup is a lighter, sweeter, and less viscous liquid made from plant sap or corn starch. Okay. I'll be on. I kind of used them interchangeably in my life because I just kind of think of. You say that when you're having pancakes. You go, I'll put a little molasses on me. Oh, wow. I've never even seen it.

Look how thick that. Yeah. Oh, I've never. I didn't know you could buy that. I thought that was just how syrup starts. I go waffle. I'll get a buttermilk waffle. Yeah.

Get any molasses back there? From 1919. I got my horse tied up outside by Dusty and Kathleen. Well, this is the world y'all want to go back to. Yeah. Yeah, I do. I do. I do.

I think. We've been talking about the 9-99 challenge you know this. I do not. It's a baseball thing I just learned about it last week. Nine innings, eat nine hot dogs, and drink nine beers. Well, I could drink nine beers, no problem. Over the course of nine innings, no problem. You could have nine beers.

Yeah. Well, yes. By the 7th evening stretch. Yes, but I'm saying it's got to be a normal beer. Yeah, like a normal, not a tall boy. Right. I don't want the giant gallon they hand me at Nissan Stadium and go enjoy. That thing's going to be so hot by the time I get to the bottom.

I find it completely irritating. Yeah. If they won't sell you a 12-ounce, that's my own beer complaints. Let's say 12-ounce Mickelope Ultra or something like that. Yes, I could do that, but I couldn't. You couldn't do the nine hot dogs? No. Well, I mean, I could.

I wouldn't want to do nine hot dogs in a week. I wouldn't mind that. I love cast tissue food and hot dogs and all that. Yeah. But like everybody loves a Dodger dog. I don't want the long, skinny one. I like the short, fat ones. Is that why they, I saw that underneath a picture of Trump today, 999.

And I didn't know what that headline meant. No, I don't know what that means. If it meant this? Maybe he did the challenge. But this was kind of an, On a thing people were doing unofficially at games, you know, for social media and stuff and just like dudes would go there and let's try to do a 999 challenge. And then a lot of these parks are like, let's just sell a whole package that includes nine beers and nine hot dogs. And you can just buy it all at once.

And the problem with that is- Yeah, I agree. But then the problem with that is you buy nine beers in the first inning by those beers are flat and warm by the end. Yeah, it's disgusting. And you're on your ninth hot dog drinking a warm flat beer. Especially if it's the Mets and the inning is going on eight hours. Yeah. I mean, you're really, your beer's getting super duper.

Yeah. Speaking of bad public restrooms, you're at a baseball stadium. Oh, man. Nine hot dogs and a hot beer. They're doing something. The Cardinals are doing something. $29 all you can eat. I saw that.

And I'm like, is this what we're getting down to now? because we're not good enough to get people to care. We got to give them like, you know, is this a funny bone? It's basically a funny bone. Yeah, Coca-Cola unlimited. But see, they don't do alcohol. The card, because you're going to,

you could get sued for that, that 9-99 thing. If you sponsor it, you could end up being in trouble for someone's DUI. Somebody wrote in and said that a lot of those packages, they're like smaller. It's the equivalent of like three, beers, but it's nine beers. So I'm getting tiny beers?

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Yeah, it's probably a long line, though. This works for me if I got kids. Yeah. If you're taking a bunch of kids to a game, it makes sense. Yeah. Like family style, like I went to this Paula Dean family style over there by the mall, Opry Mills Mall. And you order all this stuff and they go, yeah, if you're done with something, you know, we'll bring it to you.

We'll bring you more. We'll bring it to you. But the server's gone. They bring it to you the one time you can't. They clocked out. Went home. Of course. Can't find them.

Everybody got a new job. Yeah. Have you ever thrown out a first pitch or saying after the ball game? Yes. I did both of those. Well, I did it in St. Louis. And then I did it in Chicago for the Cubs, which was very difficult as a Cardinal fan. I felt like I was crossing trader lines.

But they weren't playing, if they were playing the Cardinals, I don't know. It'd be so different. Yeah. Aaron was with me. I was really, it was so much fun. It's a lot of pressure because when you start walking out to that mound in real life, you realize how far away it is. And I was thinking, what did I agree to?

This is the stupidest thing. And I see my name out there, which is shocking. Yeah. Because it's gigantic. And they're like, no, do we go to the first pitch? And I'm like, oh, terrible. And St. Louis, I said, you guys should move. And they were like, ha.

I go, no, I'm not being fake humble. Yeah. I don't know where this is going. And it is a baseball, and I am going to throw it as hard as I can. So if I were you, Fred Bird and company, you need to go to the left or go to the right. But it's a lot of pressure. Like, I don't know that I... How was your pitch?

It was a strike. Okay. If the batter had been a little person. Okay. So low. What did Aaron do to help you? Well, he was good moral support because he doesn't get riled up. He stood out there on the mound with you?

No, no, no. But I got to go on the field, which was pretty... My first time at Wrigley, I was on the field. with the person throwing the first pitch. But the night before, I remember in Madison, Wisconsin, we were practicing. Hold on. What's going on in a big nice deal? Well, you said, wow.

Rickley Field? That's like, just because Roberto Clemente hasn't put out any female music tracks. It doesn't mean I can't enjoy Wrigley Field. That's incredible. Yeah, it was. And it was very sad because it was the most gorgeous day ever, a great day to sit in the sun and drink beer in Chicago. And we had a show that night. And I'm like, yeah, there's always a.

show that gets in my way. That's why have people going, you really going to retire? Oh, watch me. I'll film it for everyone. You and Dusty are so alike in that way. Let's retire together, ride horses. All right.

Yeah. We'll take our horse to Chernobyl. Yeah. Extraction zone. Evacuation zone. Whatever's going. But what about take me out to the ballgame? Was that?

I sang that up in that thing. Yeah, they got a lot of cues for you. It's very easy. Yeah, because I was like, hey, I'm not really, I was in the shower and I'm like, turns out I don't know the, words. Yeah.

Like some, but I probably don't know the whole national anthem either. I mean, I don't sing at all, so I shouldn't be singing anything. But, yeah, they ask it. That's part of it. Take me out to the ball game. I don't want to do the whole thing. Take me out to the park. Some say crowd.

Some say park. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks. I don't care if I ever get back for its root, root, root for the home team. If they don't win, it's a shame for it's one, two, three strikes you out at the old ball game. I mean, that was well done. That was way better than I thought it would be. No teleprompter. It was off to a brutal start to that.

We got most of the lyrics wrong. I'll sing the national anthem. Well, I feel like I could sing it, but it's a different. Like you can sing, take me out to the ball game, bad. Yeah. You can't. I think a lot of people don't know the word perilous. Yeah.

And it's in the anthem. Parallus fight. Yeah. Because sometimes it sounds like flight. Yeah. Paralless flight. Yeah, it's one of those, once it gets going, it's a lot of like the, it's like the Catholic prayers you learn growing up.

Once he'd get in the groove of it, you can get it back. You can just get it. Yeah, yeah. They taught us take me out to the crowd, right? But then when I started seeing them sing, they would say, take me out to the park. I heard ballpark. Yeah, okay. I've only heard crowd.

Okay. Yeah, but I've only heard it right. So I don't know. What have you heard? take me i've heard the lyrics of it but say it what it what is it take me out to the ball game take me out with the crowd oh okay well to the crowd to the crowd to the park was there like an official thing did somebody write it's an actual song yeah yeah take me out to the ball game that's funny i always thought it was to the crowd which 19 it's written in 1908 but erin also thinks a batter gets beamed

instead of bean that's true oh take me out with the crowd buy me some peanuts and cracker jack single singular cracker jacks i don't guess they are not cracker jacks some cracker jacks i don't care what if you want two boxes stuff you got to wait for you got to eat them all wait for your server it's part of the nine nine nine challenge yeah that guy that told you those they come back when yours his empty yeah exactly he just quit paul adine's so another one i looked up because i remember when this happened it was not that long go. In Beirut, Lebanon, in 2020, there is a massive explosion. Do you guys remember seeing this when it happened? Again, Zainty's trying to shut us down, dude.

2020. What is Andrew Dorman trying to hide here? A lot. Yeah, this was a cool video because there's like, there was a woman doing a bridal photo. Oh, I do. Yes, I remember her, just because of that, though, that's the only thing that rings a bell. Do you remember that, that footage, but not the... Yes, because I thought that, you know, a lot of people go, well, the rain ruined my wedding day. You don't even know what ruining your wedding day can actually mean.

Man, I don't remember this. Here's a good, here's a good video of it. This was in 2020. Wow. What blew up? Right downtown. Let's get a, let me get a good shot of that again. I mean, I know it's a building, but...

Oh my God. That looks like an atom bomb. It does. So it was the largest non-nuclear explosion in world history. It happened. It's pretty crazy. So it was, it was, first of all, it was fireworks that went on. It was a warehouse fire that was next to this port where all this stuff was being stored.

They had seized stuff from a cargo ship and they put it in this building right next to a warehouse. The warehouse caught on fire. And it was 20. 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been confiscated from a cargo ship. Oh. And it just, boom. Have you ever seen the video of the Chinese fireworks plant that blew up? It's so kind of.

Sounds like the beginning of a joke. It's kind of, it was kind of exciting. I'd hate to say it. I've seen videos, and there's a guy filming it from across. Yeah, but actual, like, bottle rockets were flying out. Like, you actually got to see some that worked correct. There was a fertilizer plant that exploded in America like 10 years ago that was pretty insane. The guy filming it was so far away and he thought it was no danger.

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She shoving it all in her purse. And I'm like, boy, if I'd have had the wherewithal, I would have been right next to. A spirit animal. Hey, Vov Cuco, come all. We're taking the good champagne. Yeah. Shadda, this is where you hold, go. This whole thing is insane.

Like, somebody is so not scared. I've got the time to think, now is the time to grab some free booze, Kathleen, on your way out. Like, and the dude that kept eating, I, you know what? That would have been my dad, though, because my dad was totally deaf. Like, and he wouldn't have known, you know, you don't have them to have the dad, they're shooting. Like you'd have to scream it at him. Oh, I didn't know what your mother was talking about.

Okay, he just, that guy. Imagine, though, you're the lady and you got invited on a date. And in your mind, you're like, I don't want to go on the date with the guy, but there is going to be a lot of free food and booze. And then the shooting happens, and you're like, I didn't do this date for nothing. No. These are my exit prizes. Thank you very much for coming.

Here's your swag bag. Where's the lady? And she looks like one of my sister-in-law. So this is in the immediate aftermath of it. Like they're still exiting the room. Yeah, they don't even. They're all pretty chill. This shooter was on a different floor, apparently.

Yeah, they're all pretty chill. So, yeah, look at this table on the bottom right. They're not even, now everybody's reacting. This guy, they take JD out before Donald. Way before. Yeah. Yeah. Which, you know, I don't know.

Then this guy, what are you, come on. Yeah. Rambo-shambo. That was a ridiculous. One leg over the table. Look at he's pointing at the customers. Yeah. Like, I don't need that gun pointed at me.

I'm here, like Dosty said, on a bad date, it's not working out. Yeah. And now I got a machine gun pointed at my face. Where's the lady stealing the booze? Yeah, that's what I want to see. Can you type in ladies stealing a letter? Yeah, yeah, I am going to look that up. It's so funny.

Yeah. Yeah, but the guy that was eating, he said, I felt safe in the moment, so he kept eating. Yeah, he's like, I've paid a lot to be here. Do you pay a lot to go? I don't know. She's taking pictures of herself, too. Here, this is where she puts, these are videos somewhere else. Those are still pictures.

But yeah, she pockets that, and I'm like, that's champagne. She went high. These guys are up there. She's like, I know, but if I could just get three more bottles in this way. It's nice. It would be such a profitable evening for me. They're not too... Do you know who she was?

I do not. I can't. It looks like one of my sister-in-laws, but I'm afraid to call. Because it absolutely could be her. That's crazy. That is crazy. Yeah.

I was in a casino where there was a shooting, and I would refuse to leave my video poker machine because it was doing so good. I was with Kenny Rogerson, and it was that fight where 100 years ago, Mike Tyson bit off, Evander, field to hear. So it was over like in four seconds and I'm like well what

what happens to my bet? Like because I bet it would go three rounds but he got decued so does that not should I? Shouldn't I? I don't even understand but anyway they let the fight out and everybody was going crazy because everybody was really mad they spent all that money and it only lasted

30 seconds or whatever one route less than one round and it was in the old well the MGM is still the MGM now but it was designed differently but there was gunshot fire over by the quote Wizard of Osbar. And I said to Kenny, I go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I just got four eights.

Like this machine is on fire. I feel four aces are coming and he's like, honey, we're not going anywhere. That's their story. This is ours. Well, let's not grazed by this, though. You're hanging with Kenny Rogers. I'm a huge Kenny Rogers back. He's not that one.

Rodgerson. Roderson. Comedian. Kenny Rogers was in the band with Roberto Glenn. Yeah, yeah. Well, I know. Yeah. Oh, he's a Boston comic. He was funny. We both drank beer and spoke sigs, and we had just gotten so settled in our spot. We found two great machines. And I'm like, I'm not going to let you run me off. I'm sure. Way over there. I'm not going to be governed by fear out here. That's right. I came down here as a positive winner. I'm sure he's great, but that's a tough name to be introduced.

Ah, Kenny Rogerson. You're Kitty Rogers. Son? Now, my last name's Rogers. Now, my last name is Rogers. I think he usually goes by Ken, doesn't he? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why we always. called him Kenny. He must have told me to. I wouldn't have done that on my own. There he is. Probably on stage. He just does. Yeah, I'm Kenny Rogers. He's very funny. Very, very funny. Okay. Yeah, him. The funniest man you've never heard of. Yeah, pretty much. But I mean, a lot of those Boston guys. The Punchline. Don Gavin, you know, a lot of those Boston guys, I feel like, because they kind of tend to gravitate towards their area. Yeah. And I mean, he went and did all the shows. Who was the other one, Kevin Meaney? Like, there were

a bunch. Oh, yeah. But locally, Don Gavin is God. Oh, okay. But if you say it, you know, around the country, like normal people would be like, I kind of know, maybe not. It's kind of like Brian with Nashville. Exactly.

I mean, here, Lord Jesus. You go on the road, I don't know an apostle, but I can't remember which one. Luke? Is it Luke? Luke face. No, Luke's one of the big ones. I'm more like Philip or something. Bartholome.

One of you have to think, is the apostle? Thebius. You could have convinced me. I made up. I made it. I remember that one. Now, I always heard that you were the only comic that Letterman let use a mic stand. Is that right?

I did. I don't know. Maybe nobody else ever asked for one. I was just like, look, I'm not doing your flying an airplane. I'm not putting the headset on. I'm not Christopher Titus. I don't have a TED talk. I'm going to stand here and tell jokes.

Wait, were a lot of guys doing that on Letterman? You'd have to wear the headset? Yeah. Well, the headset. I said maybe I'll meet you halfway with the lapel mic, you know. But you can't really hear yourself in those. And like, look, I've been doing one thing this way for this many years. And now you want to change it all up?

No, not doing that. I didn't realize. I just thought they had handheld mics with no mic stand. Well, they had that like Brian Regan would have always, but he would always naturally take it out of the mic. And I don't. I'm like, I stand here. I don't touch that. It's called stand-up comedy.

That's what I'm getting paid for. You are unique. in that you do not take the mic out of the mic stand. You stand there and do the act. I've never touched it. The first time I opened for Kathleen on the road at a theater was in Atlanta, and I missed sound check for whatever reason. I don't remember.

I missed sound check. It's right hiking or something. Yeah. No, I think I was sick that weekend. No, come on. Come on. And then I get there. I remember I walked out and I tried to take the mic out of the stand.

And it probably was only five seconds, but in my head it felt like 30 minutes trying to get the mic out of the stand. So I go, I guess I'm just doing a set like Kathleen does. I go, let me just try to do this. And I got to tell you, I was like, my act stinks. If I can't sell it with, I was like, I didn't realize how much I was selling with. Yeah, well, you think, there's not a lot of substance in your act. It's mostly just sounds and waves.

I've always said if you mute Aaron, it's better. Just watch it work. Rob White doesn't do it either. But I'm saying it's a real testament to your comedy that you do it, you deliver it and sell it with just, you're just standing there's jokes. There's a theme here. Rod has good jokes. He still does. I'm trying to give a compliment.

He can't compliment all this point. I know. You're right. Now with Brian. Yeah, I never thought about doesn't anybody else use one. But I'm like, it's just not negotiable. I'm not going to sit here and argue with you guys. Just go get a mic stand.

Yeah, it's not that hard. How hard is that? Right. I'll bring my own if you tell you. And let everybody have their own unique flage. air on the show. Everybody doesn't need to do the same thing. Right. I got to ask about doing that thing. I think when I did the Tonight Show, they asked, would you prefer that? I go, oh, no. No, no. Now I'm taking calls from Waymo's that are going in circles in LAX. No, and I just think it's very life-coachy.

Yeah. It just looks. James Gregory was doing that a lot. But he was old and crazy and he probably had a cigarette in his hand and drinking his hands are busy and he's, his hands are busy and He doesn't need to be. James got a lot going on. I excuse the over 70 crowd. If they would do whatever you want to do to keep going on stage. Yeah. He was sitting down at the end and all that kind of stuff.

Yeah, he could come sit down comedy. Even Cosby before all the bad accusations and stuff, he was sitting down a lot. Even like himself, that special, he was sitting down for a lot of it. I'm against it. You're against sitting down? Yeah. I'm against it unless you're super old and people want to come anyway. Unless you're super old.

Lise Van Lennelie's dancing. saying from a chair now. Liza Manelli, if you Google that, it's horrifying. And I'm like, wait do you see, it's recently. She's got like a red top on and she's kicking her legs. And I'm like, I mean, I guess if she's having fun, but it just doesn't. Yeah. What are we still doing here? Yes. Just come out and tell a story. Yeah, there's a-all-in-evening with, which is always code for I'm not doing anything productive. I'm just going to talk about me. Shirley McLean's going to talk about Shirley McLean for 11 hours. Buckle in. Starting in the 20s.

Well, she's got a lot to talk about. Is it an Iggy Pop that's still doing with his shirt off? He's like in, yeah. I've seen some of that. But he's got scoliosis. So you can't, he's always looked like that. Oh, yeah. That's not age.

Well, the wrinkles are. Yeah, everything else's age. It's sagging. Oh, the more he's going to put a shirt on. Yeah. Yeah. I think, did you see him at the end though at Coachella? It was very cool.

He got in a coffin to leave. They bought a big old coffin out, put him in and shut the door, and off he went. And I'm like, I like it. That's a good exit. Yeah. Intertaining. Yeah.

Yeah. But I know he just looks, but he's always looked pretty train wrecky. Yeah, he's always looked weird, right? You can pop me. Oh, my God. Oh, wow. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Come on, dude. He clearly likes to tan. Yeah. He does look. He looks like one of those, what are they called Bobbin, Ginoosh, girls or whatever. Yeah. I guess he, I don't. don't even know he's like funk punk punk punk I think he has one song I don't even I didn't even know that I can't even know something to travel or something like I had to Google it but he does have a very big following of the punk crowd people I want to tell the kids though that they're the punk kids this is what you could look like yeah just FYI I don't know what this train where this train goes but for this man who's the leader yeah this is where it ended this is the last station this is best case scenario yeah

You become a pop, right? Yeah, it's a tough look. That's all I have on the disaster stuff, Brian. Oh, is that what we're talking about disasters? I had no idea either. Man-made disaster? Chicago fire. The Chicago fire.

Yeah, that's pretty bad. Well, the fertilizer explosion is pretty intense. The one in Beirut? No, the one in America. It's like the Pia, Kansas or something. Yeah. Let me look that one up. But the Chicago fire were supposed to blame it on that lady's cow.

Yeah, but don't they think that's probably not the case? Correct. It is not the case. Kicked over a lantern. Investigation continues. That was out of 2016. So what year was this? About that time. Okay. Video unavailable.

Okay. Oh, my gosh. It's all good. Well, I like to at least we're protected, though. We are protected from, you know, seeing things that we don't want to see. That we do want to see. Did people die in this? I don't think so.

No, it was a, I just saw a guy. Maybe they did. but a guy was filming from his truck from a dist, like a distance. And this explosion, like, you could tell, he was like, I did not think that was going to affect me. So this was, like I was going to say, why was he filming? There was already a fire. Yes. And he was filming.

Or he set the bomb. Who knows. Yeah. He set the bomb and got pretty far away before he filmed it. Yeah. Well, I think we're going to see a lot more of this sooner than later because all of our infrastructure is getting so old. Oh, yeah. When these dams start bursting.

Yeah. And they're all, Lake of the Ozarks, one in Missouri is probably 100 years old. You know, it seems fine for now. But how many of the, where was it just recently? Oh, I was in Wisconsin. I was in Michigan. This was all in Wisconsin. Like last two weeks ago, flooding, flooding, flooding.

The dams were just one after another because the Army Corps either doesn't have enough funding or enough people or whatever. But that's my next prediction, dams. Well, I try to tell these people. all the time that the country's falling apart and they don't listen to me. It is. Yeah. That's why we want to time travel backwards. Yes. And do it right this time. Exactly. That's why we leave Earth and go somewhere else, right? No. Oh my God. That's the whole movie at the sphere. It was the most depressing thing I've ever seen in my life. Well, let's say you go to the sphere

on a day where there's no concert. What they do offer you is a movie called Postcards from Earth. So Tweedle D and Tweedle D and Tweedle D can't sign up fast enough. Here's my $35 to see your crazy movie. movie or what it was more than that, actually, 75 months. But it's a whole movie about how we've destroyed the planet. There's plastic islands of garbage that are 100 billion miles wide in the ocean. Then they show you all that. And then ghettos and slums. The ultimate irony is after you're so depressed.

And here's what happens. When you leave Earth, you better have partnered up because you have to get in a pod. It's got to be a one person or a two person, according to this movie. I'm like, so single people are screwed again? That's not nice. They should be able to take a friend. or a pet. I got to go in a single pot.

Who thought of all that? Well, then I walked out and they were trying to sell me a souvenir plastic sphere cup. I'm like, go watch your own movie. You go sit through that depressing, god-awful thing. I just watch it out.

I don't even understand the point because it's not even like you're telling me, hey, there's things you can do, Kathleen. Don't drink out of the plastic water bottle. They just let me know. It's all going to hell real soon. Yeah. And then there's other planets

that when we land, we don't know people, there's no buildings. I don't want to go, there. Right. It's like just fix what we've destroyed. Right. Right. We messed this up. We were on the right tractor in COVID. Yeah. But you never been in a house or an apartment that's so beat up. You're like, dude, I mean, I could fix it up, but let's just start over somewhere. The rearranger, the rearranger,

comes in and just starts rearranging things. Have you heard Dusty's idea for a reality show? I pitched the show many times, but called the rearrangeer. You go in, you don't buy anything new, but people's houses are a wreck. And you go in. And you go in. And, and you go, all right, let's take what you got here. Let's rearrange some of this stuff. Okay, I like it. And make this better for you. It costs no money.

You just film it. And I go in and I go, well, this bookshelf needs to be over here. And we could put this and it's... Are you going to organize as well? Yeah, I'm just rearranging and organizing. Okay. And I like it. I'm called the rearranger.

That's it. That's it. It's a simple show. It's the most low budget show. I just go in and I go, gosh. No construction. No, carpentry. I mean, you can build stuff, but it's got to be.

be, you can take some tools. That's all you can do. And then what they have, you can build off what they have, but you can't bring stuff in. Okay. Nothing new. Nothing new. Well, that's why I don't even understand that this is again why you and I should go backwards in time. Like, why are they still, like, a target selling plates? Haven't we made enough plates? There's enough plates. For everyone. Plates break, though. Occasional. How many? I mean, I break plates all. I break plates quite a bit. What do you do? Well, I got, well, the baby's. Once the food's done, he can't stop. He's still going.

More food. I can honestly say I have never broken a plate. I still have the same plates that I bought my first apartment because it's a white plate. I don't care. Yeah. There's plenty of plastic plates out there too. Well, and then my mom will go, you want to take these, you know, does China? No, I don't.

Well, here's that. More dishes. More dishes than my parents stole dishes from Florida. They're trying to pawn those off all people. There's just dishes everywhere. I don't understand why we can't just distribute them. With your rearrange your show, we would take the extra stuff and they'd give it to the people that were going to go buy a plate.

There's no need for that. And like an antique store, there's a store in Opelika where I'm from called Angels Antiques. It's an old Walmart. And you just go in there and it's just endless, just stuff. You know, it's like, yeah, you walk through there and you go, I don't want any of this. But it's just endless. See, it's huge. That's what I'm saying.

There's one in old. I agree by my house. And I went in there and everybody's got their little stalls or each one of them. But no one's, there was no one buying, there was one guy in front of me and he bought the Ant Jemima Black racist salt and pepper shakers. Oh, yeah. She had a lot. And he did that for a joke.

I know where to get it. Yeah, that was definitely a joke to put in the mail to somebody that he thought was going to be hilarious. Yeah, I was saying there's a million plates in that place, I bet. Yeah. Over 500 vendors. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm not saying there's not some good stuff in there, but you walk through and you go, man, we got a lot of stuff. But you know what? It's going to end up just like it lives now. It's going to end up in your home sitting there doing nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Or in the ocean. Yeah.

Or we can send it off into space. Or send this whole thing to a country that has nothing. Trinople. Yeah. Take some of this stuff. Hey, do you want some old Coke signs? No, we'd like some medicine. We give our cars to Tijuana.

Like, let's get that program extended out, a little further south, helps some people out. Yeah. Yeah, I don't understand why we're making all this new stuff when we have enough. But again, that's why I would go back in time. I feel weird that I break plates more than the average person. That is very strange, Aaron. I get a little clumsy unloading the dishwasher sometimes.

Yeah, but how hard does a plate have to fall? What's your floor made of? Concrete? Jesus. Like three or four a week? No, three or four a week. is crazy. At Target, they're like, oh, more plates, huh? Well, we, I've got like the everyday plates and those, I put them to work, right? And then you've got like your nice plates that you're like,

I guess we're waiting until like the president comes over for dinner. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That'll be like, yeah, we never use that. Yeah. But the everyday plates take a beating, man. I had a one bedroom apartment in Hermosa Beach and my mom's like, I'm shipping all this China out to your house. I go, A, I don't have a house. B, I am on the road 322 days a year. I doubt when those 20 days are available that I am home, I am to be hosting a China tea party for other comedians that also have no money or nothing in a one bedroom. It wasn't even really, it was a studio. I did not even have a kitchen table. I'm like, no, mama, I eat on the couch. So am I supposed to invite my friends over and go, oh, where's China from my grandma Madigan? Here you go, Aaron, don't break it. Yeah, and you don't want

to put China in the microwave. Not fine China. No. No. You know, have you guys ever done this? Me and my sister were talking, I said, hold on. I think I have something in the microwave that shouldn't be in the microwave. She goes, oh, I do that all the time because I just want to see what will happen. And I said, me too.

We just to put random stuff on it? Well, no, it's not random. Like a fork? It would have something to do with food, you know, that I'm heating up. But like stuff I don't know. Let's just see how this plays out. Yeah. Yeah.

But I thought I was the only one to ever did that. Talk about food or like materials. No, wrapped in a material. They say it's wrapped in Reynolds wrap. You're not supposed to put Reynolds wrap in there, right? I put a Chick-fil-A sandwich in the bag one time. In the foil bag?

Yeah, and I didn't realize that inside was foil, caught on fire, ruined my lunch. Wow. Yeah. And the microwave. Yeah, I was a company microwave. I didn't get rid of it. So the Home Depot? It was an office depot.

Oh, okay. Different depot that I worked out. How many depots have you worked out? Several. Somebody drunk at my leg bar, somebody was talking about, I love it when there was been like 18 pictures of Miller Light consumed and then we're going to solve hard stuff, right? Yeah, of course. Because somebody was talking about their kid being autistic and somebody else was like, yeah, I don't know what caused all that. And there's this big chatter about autism being more prevalent now than which it is than it wasn't.

This drunk old guy who lives on his boat goes, microwaves! I'm like, what was that, Charlie? Because I didn't even know if he was joining in our conversation. just yelling out random words. He was like, think about it. When did they come around? How about for me and you, Kathleen? What were we? 21.

We're way beyond that. It's the ones under that age. Only difference between our generation and them. That's the only difference is the microwaves. But he did have a point. You're on board with this. I'm anti-microwave now. I would, yeah, I don't love it.

But sometimes I'm too lazy to heat it up like an old person. Let me get my thing and put it in the oven. Cooking tray or whatever. I love a lot in common. You have a cabin too, right? I do. I have a cabin in the woods. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In the woods a bit. I love it. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like there's some meth heads down my road.

Yeah, I heard you talk about this on another podcast. I was worried for you. Oh, no, no, no, no. The brothers. I have guns. They have guns. They have guns. She outs.

Don't always go well. But it's mutually assured destruction. Correct. They'll let you, they want to do meth and hunt and do whatever they do in the creek, could probably get their meth water. I don't know. And I say it's fine. So yes, you're welcome on the property.

But do I completely trust? No. You never can trust them. No. But there could be all right people. They're all right. Trust them, yeah. They're just, you know, their family owned all that for years and years and years.

And it got sold off little by little as they stayed more in their trailer and cooked meth. And then they kind of lost track. Yeah, you got to get rid of some of it. They don't like the new people that bought it. And then they did rob. it's like a, there's mice in there for sure. But like they stole the shower curtain that was already used. Yeah.

It's gross. I had a friend that told me, I had a friend that told me one time that he was had a little homemade meth lab in his house and it caught fire and he couldn't get the fire to go out. So he wrapped it in the shower curtain and threw it outside. So maybe that's what happened to them and they needed a new shower curtain. In a plastic shower garden? He was just freaking out. Well, plastic would probably smother it while it melted.

And I guess you don't want to call the fire department if you're a mess labs. Yeah, right. Yeah, maybe that was it. I was thinking more along the line of a wedding gift. Okay. You know, you never know. You never know. Yes, I like my cabin.

Me and Dusty are going to ride off into the sunset. Yeah, I love that. Yeah. Because I used to do a joke 100 years of my act about when Randy, Travis, got, he was found naked in a truck, drunk in a ditch with vodka. And I said, now look, I understand all those things individually. And I like them and I approve. I like trucks. I like vodka. I like being naked. I don't understand how that occurred in one evening. And when you have a bizzillion dollars, you know, you should call for a ride. I go, if I had his money, I would call

the Clydesdales and have them pick me up in a beer wagon. And I would sing, here comes the king, here comes to big number one the entire way home. Drunk on a giant horse. Again, though, I'm going back to my, I want my horse outside. Yeah. I'd like it to be a Clydesdale. Yeah. But it's hard to get on.

I'd have to have like a step ladder. Yeah. They're huge. You could probably work a saddle situation where it folds down a lap. Like a fold down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The further out in the woods is better. Uh, you got any shows coming up? For the rest of my life, Ryan. Well, no, you're going to retire soon. No, not yet.

Yeah, I just did Boston. This week is, oh, Biloxi, Bo Ravage, and the casino. Oh, I've done that. I love it. That's a great spot. Yeah. I love that spot. Yeah.

And the next week is Vegas, the Venetian. And then that Camden, Missouri, that's where my cabin is in the woods. That's Burt's show, and I'm just going on it. So I'm jumping on that for fun because then the show is not my responsibility, which is wonderful. It's a Burt's problem. Is Bert saying in your cabin? No, no one's invited. Maybe Dwarf.

And then Knoxville, Knoxville, I had to reschedule those because of the ice storm. Oh, yeah. And then summer, summer I have time off. Selbyville, that's in the woods, that gig is in the woods. I love that. And then I can't. Oh, Niagara Falls. I love it.

I go on the Maiden in the Mist every time. Just travel advice if you're ever going to night, go on the Canadian side because I'm not because I'm anti-American. It's the view is. much better. It is great over that. Yeah. That Canadian side, and you wear red pachos because it's team red against team blue. Yeah.

I went to Niagara Falls recently and we were too lazy to go into Canada and I was pretty underwhelmed by it from the American side. Yes. We have the best side, but you can't see it as well from our side. Right. Because the side that we see is the American side, right? The side that we're looking at is the American side, but the falls are technically We have the worst.

We have the best fall, but the worst view. Yes. Yeah. Is that right? I don't know. And then I rabbit hold all the people, I probably spent three hours in my hotel room, people that have gone over the falls either on purpose or not on purpose. And one lady was so mean, she put her cat in a barrel to see if, no, but hold on.

The cat survived just fine, so then she did it. And then she went on tour. She went on the road as a lady. That's how you had to do back then. There were comedy clubs or anything else. You had to do something absolutely crazy. And then you went on the road and everybody wants to see the lady in the barrel. You had to go viral in the newspaper.

Yeah, see if you could find her picture. Wait, so she just toured different waterfalls? No, she just went around and gave speeches. The most bizarre thing I've ever seen is in Seattle. Annie Edson Taylor. There she is. There's her barrel. She got a sponsor and everything.

See that? Look at that. She's got a sponsor. Yep. Look at her. Her motives were entirely financial, but she never made much money from her adventure. And she was like 67. She died penniless and her funeral

was paid for by public donations. Well, who was the promoter of the tour? It probably took all her money. Yeah. Just because she died penniless, didn't mean she didn't make money along the same. She made money. She made money. It sounds like she went out just right. Yeah, I think so. She had a brutal life. She was married

and her husband died and their baby died. And then she was just between jobs. So she started doing the barrel thing. This is the grand snap. This is the there was a lawyer guy who was alive and he lives in Michigan. He went over in a fishing boat with his uncle and his, accidentally.

They got caught up on the other side and then boom. And he said he barely, he was seven. And he's like, I kind of remember it, but I think because I only weighed like 80. When I hit the water, it wasn't that big of a deal.

Wow. Yeah. He lives somewhere. He's a lawyer in Michigan somewhere. There's just, the things people did to go on tour at the Seattle Moore Theater, they have all the old posters and I was walking down the hall. In the 30s, you could have bought a ticket.

And I don't know why it made me laugh, but it was come see Willie Hitler. I'm like, who's Willie Hitler? And then you keep reading the poster. It was Hitler's nephew trying to warn everyone. He's a complete lunatic. He's going to cause serious problems in chaos. I'm not even kidding you guys. See, William Hitler.

And I'm like, he doesn't sound as threatening as Adolf because he's Willie. Willie. Where's Willie Hitler? He went on tour. He toured the whole United States. More theater holds about 1,800 people. And they were selling these things. That's what we would have been up against.

The Barrel lady and Willie Hitler or Dusty Slay, who would have spent in our money to see. I was reading about the Barrel lady, her manager stole her barrel and most of her money. There you go. And she had to use private detectives to find it. They found it in Chicago, but then her new manager stole it. She just had bad luck with her reps. Yeah. What a life.

That's a little Elvis-y. All right there. Bad manager. So go see Kathleen on tour, one of the best. Go see her. Yeah, come on out. Where are you going to be? This weekend, I'm back on the road for one weekend.

I'm going to be in Dallas, Texas on Friday, and Houston on Saturday. Oh, fun. Yeah. I'll be in L.A. on Monday, but the show sold out. I'm in Salt Lake City. This is Aaron Weber. I don't know what's happening. Okay.

Sorry. No, this is Aaron speaking. I'm going to be in Salt Lake City this weekend at Wise Guys and then Washington, D.C. at the D.C. Improv. So Wise Guys in Salt Lake and then the DC Improv. Brian, what about you? I'm going to be in Denver, in Greeley, Colorado, and then two nights in Casper Wilding. Colorado, you're doing the O now. Well, you guys have called me out on it. He says Colorado.

That's the way it says it. Some people say it like that, and I don't know, have I been saying it wrong my whole life? Colorado. Yeah, that's how you said. They said Rado. or something. Colorado? He said Colorado.

Rado. Colorado. Which I like. I think Colorado's good. But now he doesn't say it because we called him out on it. Well, we need to get somebody on the phone from actual the state of Colorado. Colorado. I just asked.

Is it Nevada or Nevada? Maybe Nevada. Or say whatever you want. My dad would say Cincinnati. I'm like, that's just wrong. Like nobody else is saying it's not Hawaii. Uh-uh. Why are you saying an I as an A, dad?

That's what I. Is it Chicago or Chicago? Old people say Chicago. Chicago. No, Chicago. Okay. We say Chicago. Chicago.

I don't know the difference in the two. Yeah. Yeah. Chicago. Chicago. Ah. Oh, Chicago. Chicago.

Chicago. I don't know what I say. I can't say. That's a tough. Chicago. Caw. Like, call, car. Like Chicago.

Yeah, Chicago. Call. Or Chicago. Or Cincinnati. Yeah. if you're Jack Madigan. Just so wrong. Oh,

Cincinnati, Ohio. You want to wrap it up here? Yeah, I don't know. That felt like the end of the podcast. The last 30 seconds. Well, thank you for coming, Kathleen. Yeah, Kathleen, you're the best. Thanks for coming by.

I want to go steal one of Brian's beers. Yep. Not Brian Dorfman. Yeah, Brian Dorfman. Owner of Zanis. Owner, because I purposely asked if he was here. And I'm like, great, you're not here. I'm going to drink everything you own,

all of it. And there won't be anything left. Though I love the idea of Bates having a private fridge. filled with beer here at the club. The Catholic knows about. His own IPA. He's going to steal from. You're the best. Thanks for coming everybody. Thanks for listening in. Good afternoon. Good evening. Good night.

And we'll see you later. We'll see you next time. God bless. And be safe. Thank you, Kathleen. I appreciate it. That's great.