The Nateland Podcast - 132: #132 Mail

Episode Date: January 18, 2023

This week, the guys are learning about mail. Nate, Brian, Aaron, and Dusty discuss the history of stamps, zip codes, mailboxes, homing pigeons, the Pony Express, and more.  Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail]

Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. Today's episode of the Nate Land Podcast is brought to you by Rocket Money, Athletic Greens, and Babbel. All right. Here we are. We're back. Rolled in this morning.

From? 10 a.m. Columbia, South Carolina. All right. Told them the time about us when we, if Andy beat South Carolina for Nice. All right. Told them the time about us when we, Vandy beat South Carolina for the first SEC win. Mm-hmm.

And we carried the, and we tried to. Mm-hmm. It was a good opening joke. Mm-hmm. That's a fun, like when you have like something like that,

you're like, yeah, I'll just go up and say that. I'm trying to do that more on stage. Like, you kind of,

especially with getting new stuff, it's like, I kind of go like what I'm trying to do that more on stage. Like you kind of, especially with getting new stuff, it's like I kind of go like what I'm most excited to talk about and just being like just, and I have this college, the chunk, and so I'm just kind of going into it. And you start it and then kind of just go from there, you know? You went to the national championship game, dude. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was on the field Championship game, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I was on the field.

Very exciting game. It was awesome. Josh Brooks, the Georgia Athletic Director, was kind enough to invite me to the show. It was a show. Invite me to the game. He came to our show. His family's awesome.

They're great. They're great. They listen to the podcast. Awesome, awesome people. And I mean, he's done an amazing job there. And it was nice because it was we got to sit in his suite and

it wasn't a game. Right, so you did a party. Yeah, I mean, I think I would have liked a game, Right. So you did a party. Yeah. I mean, I think I would have liked a game, but I also didn't mind not being around the most stressful people you could be around if the game was. Right. Like it would be a lot for them. And they were relaxed pretty quickly, I bet. If you were in like a TCU box, that would have been less fun. Yeah.

It might have got around to fun. Yeah. They're not going to make up tight either. Yeah. Well, if they get – yeah. If it's like, you know, the beginning of the third quarter and they're still mad, you're like, all right, well, I don't know. You would have been perfect for TCU as a Vandy fan.

You could show them how to – guys, I've been here. Let me show you how to have fun. Well, TCU – Vandy used to beat TCU. Vandy used to – that was like you saw TCU on the schedule, check market, automatic win. That's how crazy. And then now they're in the National Championship game. Yeah, it was. And really showed like they belonged.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know who could have really shown. I mean, it's basically Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State. It's like those are the three monsters. But going on the field and walking out there and just seeing it, it was unreal. The whole experience was crazy.

It's nice that Notre Dame doesn't have the most embarrassing national championship loss ever. Yeah. Again, it feels good. I think it's so funny. I've been reading all these conspiracy that Notre Dame doesn't have the most embarrassing national championship loss ever. Yeah. Yeah. Again. Yeah. It feels good. I think it's so funny. I've been reading all these conspiracy theories that Georgia has been pumping their players full of misinformation all season.

Like they've been like gaslighting their players. Cause every player they interview after the national championship, they were like, y'all thought we were going to go five and seven. Yeah. Y'all thought we were going to go four and eight. And you're like, you've been the favorites all year. Yeah. But in their head, they're like, y'all thought we were going to go five and seven. Yeah. Y'all thought we were going to go four and eight. And you're like, you've been the favorites all year. Yeah.

But in their head, they're like, y'all doubted us. It's like, no, no one ever did. Yeah. You got to keep the underdog mentality. Yeah, I guess it worked. Yeah. A little chip on their shoulder. Yeah, I don't know if that's a conspiracy.

I mean, I think every team probably does that. You can find something. You'll find somebody that says something. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's what I do with comedy. Because they lost a lot of players. This is not going to go well. They lost a lot of players to the NFL.

Yeah. But I think, weren't they preseason number one coming into this year? But you said conspiracy theory. They're pumping the players. I thought, oh, with what? Oh, no. And these are misinformation. I'm like.

I thought misinformation was code. Look, I oversold it going into it. They told them not to get the vaccine. They told them to get the vaccine. I don't even know which one you're going after. They kept giving them boosters, and it was not boosters. It was steroids. You're like, what?

You're like, oh, so they did like every football program does? I mean, they just make stuff up. I think you can find something. You could find somebody or someone that's doubting. But to act like the whole country doubted them all year. It's like you're the defending national champions. Well, David Pollak at the end in the interview with Saban said, he said, George is the new power program in football.

I said it right next to Saban. Oh, I saw that, yeah. And you saw Saban. So it'll be interesting. I mean, that at least makes that game, if they, you know, do they play next year? In the regular season? Yeah, I don't know. They will in the SEC Championship game. Yeah. Most likely. And then, so it'll make it fun.

Saban's coming in hot next year. He's coming in hot. Yeah, it will it's i mean that's all it takes is that yeah so they could have found some video from the last year going like they did it but they're losing all these guys you know they could have yeah yeah saban's probably got that video now he just watches it every day of that guy saying that it probably plays in the locker room non-stop it was i think david pollock said it though like he said it to say it like he i don't even know if there was look it's not no completely wrong two straight they went two straight yes but it's uh you know now they're

gonna go for three like the motivation is all still there and i think he said it to like oh i'm gonna say it because nick saban's sitting next to me. Yeah. I love that. To let him know. Like, that's what it – I thought that's how it felt to me. Like, oh, I'll – I like it, too.

But I like to think that Saban is now supercharged. I do, too. Yeah. Well, it makes the game – they need to – they're playing it all next year because you've got to do something to make this game watchable. I mean, you know, it's interesting. We were talking about college football this week. College football is just – it's, you know, it's these main teams, man. And then it's – you know, I know Tennessee is coming up

or like these things are coming up, you know, but it's Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State. And usually Clemson. And then the playoffs is one surprise team gets in. This year it was TCU. Yeah. But then the other. I think two, really.

TCU and Michigan. Because however Michigan lost to TCU, I don't know how that happened. Yeah. Those games were awesome. Yeah. The games leading up to it. Yeah, they were great. But I don't know how Michigan lost to TCU and then they lose to Georgia like that.

That's what, when God is not on your side as a program, that's what happens. That's true. That is true. Notre Dame. God's on Notre Dame's side. Notre Dame and Alabama. That's what I've always said. No, I'm not saying they're on our side.

I'm saying they're not on Michigan's. I know that for sure. Yeah. If there is a God, he wants nothing to do with Michigan. Yeah. I tweeted. The university, not the whole state. No, I'll throw the whole state in there too. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Ann Arbor specifically. I tweeted. The university, not the whole state. No, I'll throw the whole state in there too.

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Ann Arbor specifically. I do love Michigan. The state. Okay. Yeah. As a kid, I wore a lot of Michigan t-shirts.

That's because my brother-in-law's from there. So I had a lot of hand-me-downs from Michigan. Yeah. He had a lot of, like the college t-shirts. Yeah. That's why he repping Michigan down in Opelika, Alabama. Yeah. Your brother-in-law?

Yeah. How old's your sister? She's 11 years older than me. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. So I don't want to just throw out her age, but yeah. Yeah.

No, no, that's fine. I was just trying to map it together. It's a lot. She's my age. Yeah, I got a wild family tree. Yeah. I mean, they're out there. She is my age. Yeah, I got a wild family tree. Yeah. I mean, they're out there. She is your age.

That's crazy to think about. Yeah. Your family tree goes up one tree, but then there's a tree next to it. There's a couple that's growing. Yeah, a couple. It's on separate trees. It's a forest.

There's some shrubs. Yeah. Yeah, they're starting again in a lot of places. But your dad's been married five times? Four times. Four times, but his current wife for how long? Like 20 years. So in a way, he's like, guys, I told you.

I just got to find the right one. It's not me, it's them. Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, he could make that argument. His wife, I have a younger sister with the two of them, and his wife loves to say to me in front of my dad, she goes, she'll say to me in front of my dad, she goes, she'll say to other people, she'll go, you know,

Dusty is like the best dad I've ever seen. And I don't know where he gets it from. She loves to say that right in front of my dad. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. He is the best dad I've ever seen. Yeah. Well, the game was, yeah, it was awesome.

Josh and his family, I met his brothers, their family. I mean, they were just super nice, and you root for that guy. That guy, he was, I want to say, Louisiana Monroe. And he really came up through the rankings and was the equipment manager and all this kind of stuff. And then now athletic director. And just a really good dude. So that was awesome, you know.

He wanted me to say something about you, but I now have blanked. I'll have to find out. I'm sure it was positive. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure it was very nice, and I'm sure I'd love to hear it he had some very funny stories but it would happen to all of us where it was

like his first game the first game when he was AD he like goes to a basketball game and he's walking in and they're like you can't come in this way I mean he's an athletic dude he's over all athletics. And they're like, you know, and he's just a nice guy that doesn't want to be like,

do you even know what you're doing? He's like, all right, we'll go around the other way. And he walked around the other way. Yeah. Wow, that is nice. Yeah. I was watching. Because I would definitely be like, well, I'm not going to be rude about it,

but I'm going to go ahead and come in this door. Yeah. Yeah. That's very nice of him. I was watching the Jags game this weekend. They were getting killed 27 to nothing second quarter. And I tweeted, Jags versus TCU in the loser's bracket. And people are liking it.

Chad Witherspoon tweeted it. I thought, man, this is so funny. And then Jags score 27 to seven. I'm like, all right. I wish Chargers keep pouring it on. My tweet looks funny. And then it's 2714. And then as the night goes on, I'm like, oh, boy. Oh, boy.

And by the end of the night, people are just trolling me. Like, oh, that went really well, didn't it, buddy? Yeah. It really backfired on me. It's like tweet deleted. Did you make the freezing cold takes? You ever seen that on? No, it's one of my favorite accounts. It's like people deleted. Did you make the freezing cold takes? You ever seen that on? No, it's one of my favorite accounts.

It's like people that tweet exactly that, and then the other one loses. Really? Yeah. They'll go back years and find tweets. They do history stuff too, but they do, it's all sports, and it's very funny where they'll just be like, and they'll be like, Georgia has no chance to go back or something. Some guy said it a year ago, and then they just bring it back up.

They'll pull up tweets like, this Mike Trout guy is overrated from 2004 or whatever. That's a lot of fun. Yeah, that tweet's exactly what it would be. We did not get to see that game because we had a show, and that game seems unreal. Yeah. It was watching Derek Trucks and Susan Zdesky sang the national anthem. They were at the game.

They're big Jags fans. And I texted Derek. Derek bet on the Jags to win at halftime and one big wow whoa yeah he's at the game and then bet on them and then one big exact opposite of what you just told us yeah well there's a story that kind of went viral of a guy who who bet on the chargers when they were up 27 nothing he bet a million dollars on him to win, the payout of which would only be 11 grand. But he's like, I'm a genius. It's a surefire way to make 11 grand.

Ended up losing a million dollars. That didn't make sense, though. Why would you risk that much for that little? Yeah, I mean, if you got a million dollars. 1.4 million. Because it's virtually a sure thing. You run that simulation 100,000 times. It's almost every time the Chargers are going to win that game. Virtually a sure thing. You run that simulation 100,000 times.

It's almost every time the Chargers are going to win that game. But the idea that you just put it out there that you might lose $1.4 million. $11,000 becomes nothing when you're looking at $1.4 million. If you had $1.4 million cash in front of you and someone grabbed $11,000 and ran off, you wouldn't even chase them. Because it just wouldn't be worth chasing them. Uh-huh. So it just doesn't make sense. The betting stuff, look, I know we talk about betting, but the betting stuff, some of it drives me crazy. These parlays and they just show them every week and you're like, oh my gosh.

It's too much. It's taking over everything. Yeah. It's like not even some of the, you know, I was making sure. Yeah. So DraftKings. Yeah. The people love it.

The people love it. I commented on the last podcast that Titans won in the playoffs, and it was prerecorded. Yeah. And it confused people this time because we weren't as clear. We did it with the Vanderbilt-Tennessee game. You made it very clear. We don't know.

And this time I did it again, and people were like, what are you talking about? Yeah. Yeah. Let me tell you one thing. Tell me if I'm crazy on this it was like with the bills watch i watched the bills game and it's also like it's been unreal with the hamlin hamlin stuff and like what they you know how much money they raised that stuff

like all that but then i saw a lady in the stands hold up an America's team sign for the Bills. And I mean, I was like, all right, now you're making me not root for the Bills. Just kind of like, yeah, I mean, we all, it's a game, it's dumb, and we just pray for that Hamlin. That's insane. But then just to hold up America's team, you're like, well, don't bring us. I mean, you're playing another team. Yeah, yeah, sure. You're making that team feel bad.

Like, well, I can't even root. Now we just have to have the. Yeah, like we're sorry the guy got hurt, but we don't all like your team. Yeah. But she was a Bills fan, so of course she's going to. But it's the arrogance of just going, like, just even have a three sign. And how are you going to take that? Work for it.

Yeah, she used the E for the threes. And you're like, just use, if you hold up a three, we're okay. Yeah, yeah. But it's the fact that you're like, no, we're America's team now. Everybody wants us to win. You're like, well. What's the other team? Russia's team? Yeah, You're like, well. What's the other team? Russia's team?

Yeah, you're like, well, I mean, there's other teams playing. Isn't it the Cowboys called America's team? Yeah, they're America's team. Cowboys are still called America's team. Yeah, yeah. But everybody's playing. These other games they're playing. You're like, I mean, the other players are.

I read into stuff very much. But it was a little, I was a little like, all right. That would annoy me for the same reasons. Let's not overstate what's happening here. You're not America's team. Yeah. Nate. There you go.

Also, we had great shows this weekend, And nothing's been a problem. But I do want to address, like, not a ton, because we've said I have new material on the road. I do have new material on the road. The special's not out. So it's like sometimes you go to these cities, you're going to end up. I'm still doing some of the special stuff. But I was doing like 47 minutes this weekend.

But just to give people, I'm just trying to tell people how it works. We've had no problems. Everybody's been very nice. I'm not trying to say we have problems. But we've had some questions. And so I'm just like, well, I'll just tell you. And I got 47 i have 10 minutes that i did on the last tour that i cut from the special because i'm kind of replaying with it i didn't

need it so that stuff will be in this hour uh and then yeah and then it's like 47. I did 47 this weekend, I think. I think I did 53 one night. One night might have been 40. But then I'll just keep, you know, it's like I'll do it. The special comes out January 31st, Amazon Prime. And then after that, you know, I'll be. I mean, there's a chance I could do some greatest hits at the end or something. But it's like basically it will all be new.

I think we're pretty close. So just let people. It's a pretty crazy turnaround, by the way. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, really, you look at the special as when you think about the new materials, because you go into these cities. I know a lot of people travel, though. Like people come to multiple shows and that stuff is, that's beyond grateful that you do all that stuff.

But just so you know where we're at. I don't know. You know, if someone's, like, thinking about coming here to here, you know, and you just saw me, it's like – you know, just so you can know where we're at. I just like saying it. I call 47 Minutes a full headlining set. Yeah. Because that's what I do when I headline.

Yeah. 45 to 50. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's the requirement of a comedy club, right? 45 minutes. So anytime a headliner does more than that, then they're doing more. I mean, I always do an hour, you know, but yeah, it's like sometimes I've had to do this. No big deal but uh well i do well my reason that i like to do an hour is because if i don't do an hour then there's uh

the the other comics do 45 minutes right so it's already become somebody else's show by the time i get on the stage yeah so i like to hit it early yeah you know that's why and i'm not trying to like go a long time but you know what i mean you know what i mean yeah i'm not rubbing our face yeah but i'm just saying i did it i did 80 minutes one night but it was it was like 47 and then i did 30 that was just on the that still that will be on the next special. Just nothing that town has seen. Yeah, sometimes I'll do seven, Dave. I did 38, and the last 10 minutes was taking questions from the audience. And five of that was you asking them questions? Yeah. Well, this guy met a couple of sports legends this weekend.

Yeah, I was checking them off my bucket list, man. I hung out with Greg Gumbel on Friday. Oh, wow. He's a big fan of Kathleen Madigan, who I was opening for. So he came, and we went out, hung out. He had some crazy stories about hanging out with athletes and stuff. And then Bob Lee came out the next night, one of the original anchors of SportsCenter. Wow.

I think one of the original 19 employees, I think, of ESPN. And he was there. And both those guys, their voices are so good. I could hear them talking when they're coming around the hallway. I was like, that's a broadcaster. I don't even know who it is. They're both super cool, super nice. They're both big comedy fans.

Oh, wow. So it was really They're both super cool, super nice. They're both big comedy fans. Oh, wow. So it was really cool to hang out with them. Yeah. You posted a picture of Greg Gumbel, and I looked up his age. He's like 76. Yeah. And you look older than he does. I do look older than him in the picture, yeah.

And he's lost a bunch of weight. I'm bigger than him, and I look older than him. He's in his 70s. Who's the old guy, Greg Gumbel? He looks unreal, yeah. 76. Something like that. He was in his 70s. Who's the old guy, Greg Gumbel? He looks unreal, yeah. 76. Something like that. He was in his 70s.

Wow. Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. So it's crazy to people. Yeah, there's me and Greg Gumbel right here. Oh, wow, yeah. Wow, he does look really good.

Yeah. You're wearing the same thing. Oh, man. I am. Yeah. It's an unfortunate staffer behind him oh yeah it looks like i'm giving a poor person cleaning it up in the background it's a good comedy uniform though it looks good yeah yeah talking about what i'm wearing yeah thanks yeah someone at a club asked me what i was going to be wearing tomorrow and i was like this yeah This is what I'll be wearing all weekend unless I get it dirty.

You don't bring, what do you bring, like one backup shirt? Yeah, I bring a backup. But yeah, I just do the, you know, a black shirt, black jeans every time. I don't want to. What's the backup shirt? Black shirt, black jeans? A black shirt. Yeah, a different kind.

A less good shirt. Yeah. One that I don't like as much. Yeah. My one that I like has been washed a lot of times. It is worn out. I,

yeah, I think I change every show. Sometimes I could. I always did it even at clubs. And I also did it an hour,

10 minutes. Yeah, yeah. You know. No, it was, I would always change. I don't know why.

I just – sometimes I don't want to. I mean, I can wear stuff the same sometimes. I wish I had just – it's like the same outfit. I like changing everything. Yeah, I mean, I am all about not having to be like, oh, what am I going to wear? I want to be that. Yeah. I like that.

And if I could find the thing to do. But I always say I want to do that, and then I do like, I like changing it up. So, you know, all right. All right. Were you anywhere this weekend? Yeah, well, this weekend, no. But since we were here I did Chicago oh yeah

did Chicago's 80s six shows sold out all six great all six wow added shows added a show

and it was great we did a 4pm show on Saturday that's awesome had a great time very cold so I didn't do anything in Chicago but the shows were awesome

that's awesome club was great they're so nice you know I go to these big cities. Sometimes I get intimidated by the big city, and then they were just so nice. They made me feel good. Yeah.

It was great. Great people. Yeah. It's a good weekend. I didn't get robbed, you know. Yeah. Yeah. That was, Chicago Zanies was one of the first big weekends,

if not the first big weekend I sold out. Okay. Mm-hmm. All right. It's a good, it's a, it's a, because it's a very good comedy town, and it's a good it's a it's a cause it's a very good comedy town and it's one that I think

I think it's a lot of people's like it's kind of like alright sell it to Chicago and then you know alright

so it's going from there so don't let everybody down alright well I hope so I mean let's go don't make it stop yeah you know like for some reason

it just stopped after that, you know? I can't. Started doing less time. Yeah, you bought new clothes. Bought new clothes. It's all downhill. If you dress like Elvis, I wouldn't be surprised, too, though. Like, if I went, like, you know, if I made a lot of money and then suddenly was, like,

dressing like Elvis. Well, the weekend we worked together, you were trying a rhinestone shirt face. Yeah, well, it was, you know it was one of those Western kind of shirts. I got a couple of those. I love to buy those, but I never feel like I can pull them off. And I wore it in Huntsville, and I was so uncomfortable the whole time. I haven't worn it since. I changed this weekend within four minutes of going on stage.

Wow. I had something on, and I just was like, I felt a little tight. And then Eric, I was like, you got to run to the bus and go get another shirt. I go, I can't do this. And then he ran to the bus and I changed. Oh, I thought you meant within four minutes of going on stage. Like, you'd just been on stage four minutes. That's what I thought.

Oh, yeah. I thought you changed on stage. This guy is so comfortable. Yeah. No, no, I'm not that comfortable. But, no, it was like I was about you changed on stage. This guy is so comfortable. Yeah. No, no. I'm not that comfortable. But no, it was like I was about to go on stage. Yeah. And then I just switched it.

And then there is something. Some nights you're just like, I don't like this. Yeah, you try something new and you're like, this doesn't feel good. And now I'm going to be out on stage for an hour. For an hour. If I was doing Brian's song, yeah, you can wing it. Yeah, just give it a shot. Why does it matter?

I'm not going to be up there that long. Right, but, you know, when you're out there an hour or more sometimes, you know, you want, you know, to be comfortable. Yeah. All right, let's first talk about air travel comments. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and nateland at natebargutsy.com. Beth J.

The airline baggage discussion reminded me of the time my husband's uncle visited for Christmas. He stayed for a few days, and when loading the car to leave, he suddenly ran back in the house for one more bag. He said, don't want to forget this one. I have to return it to the baggage claim. He had apparently grabbed someone else's bag when he arrived, told no one, kept it with him his entire stay, and planned to return it on his way out of town. Wow.

That's awesome. I would like to be that guy. Don't want to forget this one. Just that you're that comfortable. You're like, I'll just do it when I get back. And you don't think about it. Somebody on the other end has been freaking out the whole time. Yeah.

Yelling at the airline. I know. But to be able to not think about all the consequences with that. I mean, I don't know if I could. I couldn't have done it. You shouldn't. Yeah. Well, I mean mean this guy's living his life man yeah like it's you know it's accidentally i'm sure you say i bet he's a nice guy but he just like he just was like no that'd be all right and you know what if i i'd almost tell you if that guy if this guy was the

opposite i think would be like yeah yeah just yeah, just give it back from there. I think I would, I could be okay more with my bag. Be like, all right, yeah, I'll just get it when I, you know. Well, my question for this uncle, though, is like, all right, let's say you checked one bag. And now you're leaving with two. And you don't think, oh, I only brought one. Maybe I didn't need to leave with two. That's a good point.

Yeah. You remember it on the way out of the house, but leaving the airport, you didn't think, oh, you know what? I didn't pack two bags. That is true. That's a good point. I didn't think about that. Yeah, so what did – yeah, I wonder.

Yeah. Maybe you had two bags and one was just – one was like the main clothes and the other one was like not that important stuff. Maybe it was gifts or something. Yeah. Maybe he had two bags and one was just, one was like the main clothes and the other one was like not that important stuff. Maybe it was gifts or something. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Oh, visit for Christmas. Yeah, there you go. So maybe it was like he had Christmas presents in it.

Yeah. But then. So that means someone else got his. Someone got a Christmas present. And his uncle was fine being like, yeah, I'll send you stuff whenever. Maybe open the bag, see what's in there. Or the uncle could be like, I bought y'all gifts, but I forgot them. And he's an uncle there, but he goes, yeah, yeah.

That makes sense. Yeah, you don't give that good of gifts anyway. Sam Gilliams. Gilliams. I share Dusty's dislike for the Southwest boarding process. It brings out the worst in humanity. I was on a Southwest plane where every passenger had to hand over a paper ticket with their boarding group on it. Had to hand over a paper ticket with their boarding group on it.

And I thought, what happens if we all have to get back off? Well, that's exactly what happened. And when we re-boarded in groups by the honor system, there was none. It was a fight for survival yeah yeah why would you have to hand the ticket I don't know I feel like I remember maybe the

mobile scanner was it what the way I read this is maybe the mobile scanner was down or something so they had to print out but you wouldn't you still have your mobile pass where

you could yeah that's true actually in group one you don't know when this was yeah maybe it was before we could even do that. I feel like I do remember a time of giving, they would take your ticket. Oh, yeah. They still do that. You can still choose to do that.

Yeah. No, but I mean, I think I remember a time you'd get on and you'd hand them the ticket and they'd go. Yeah, I've never seen that. I would say this is an anomaly. If this happened recently, this is an anomaly, Sam, and I wouldn't judge Southwest for this fight. You know?

It's like, give them another chance. I mean, I agree with Aaron on a lot, but I don't like the Southwest boarding process. I like Southwest, but I don't like the boarding process. I don't like the boarding process either. I guess I'm just used to it now. You know, I clocked it. This is what infuriates me, and I don't think this bourbon process either. I guess I'm just used to it now. You know, I clocked it. This is what infuriates me.

And I don't think this is a Southwest problem, but I was about halfway down the plane, and as soon as the plane, this weekend, as soon as it parked, you know, and then they said, everyone, you can start leaving the plane, it took 12 minutes for it to get to my aisle. It takes that long for people to get off the plane. What are we doing? People get so slow about grabbing the bag out of the overhead.

It's like, just get it. I'm just watching people, and it's like they're not even ready to go when it gets to their row. I clocked it on my watch, 12 minutes. What row were you in? I was about halfway, halfway down the plane. Who's the, you know, who's the psycho? The guy clocking over the other people?

You know, that's tough to tell. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I don't know. That's a lot of psychos. That's a good point. I like to give kind of like, let's go. He stands up. You'll do that? Yeah, a little bit where I'm like, people don't know I'm doing it. Let's go.

Look alive. I think people know you do yeah you know let's go look alive yeah i think people know you do it and then say let's go folks it's saying you go and let's go and then aaron once the door opens he goes stands up he goes starts his watch and everybody's like golly we got let's go you got both of y'all coming from two sides you're like oh no he's timing you. Time's a ticket, folks. That's a good point. Where are you doing something? No. Stephanie, commercial pilot here.

The reason why we ask you all to turn your phone to airplane mode is if something were to happen on taxi or takeoff, we have a better chance of getting your attention than if you were on your phone. All right. All right. Do they tell you that? that no then why not just tell us that i would be because i mean what are we because i i would imagine it's like what i have a 40 minute conversation with you about just just turn your phone off pay attention for two seconds like i feel like it's it's that honestly so does that mean what's saying it mean i'm saying honestly you would go i let's have the if we're having the conversation and you're in Southwest, you go, well, let's just tell them all that.

It's like when you tell a joke and you over-explain it, and then you're like, I can just... You don't really need to hear the whole thing. The point is, just turn your phone off. But if the concern is compliance, then I feel like you'd have a better luck just being honest with people. I'd be much more willing to go, oh, yeah, I'll just turn my phone off. I'll just pay attention. I don't think people will because they'll go, I'll pay attention.

They go, I pay attention. I don't need you. You don't need to tell me what. And I think most of them would. Oh, no. I don't think. I don't know if I would. You buy this?

They tell you not to text and drive, and you're watching a movie. So, no, I don't think you're gonna turn your phone i think you're gonna go i'm not one of them i'll i definitely would go oh no i know i've flown enough i got what you're about it's better for it to be fear of the plane crashing then yes i, no one pays attention to the emergency announcements they make. Oh, they're on the phone. Yeah. I mean, people talk, hello? We're taking off. It's like we run the phone like that.

Well, I guess I just don't like that. Just be honest with us about what's happening. Yeah, but I mean, you're just, you know, what are we doing? On a flight? We can't have a, you don't want to, then you'd be annoyed that they're going to read all this. Could everybody turn your phone off in case there's a fire before we even get off the ground, you animals? I can't get your attention.

The wing's on fire. And someone's like on their phone, hello? Yeah, they said the wing's on fire. I mean, people are... You get on a phone and it's another planet. Yeah. One flight told, they told us that 5G was interfering with communications, with ground control. On the plane, they said that one time.

Over the overhead. And I was like, well, I know what it is. It's doing more than that. Yeah. Does that mean once you're in the air, though, you can take it out of airplane mode? It's not going to work. It doesn't work up there. Your phone doesn't matter.

I mean, but it's... Satellites can't get to it up there. Yeah. But it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It's supposed to be coming from satellites. Cell towers, right? Yeah.

They're on the ground. Yeah. I don't think it's nothing. It doesn't come from satellites, right? I don't know. I don't know where it comes from, to be honest with you. Isn't it cell towers? I think so.

That comes from the satellites. Yeah, yeah. But the cell towers are the middle man, and we just can't get straight to the source of the satellite. Yeah. Even though we're up there and we're like, we're here, can we talk to the satellite? I would think it would be the best signal possible.

Because you're so close? Yeah. All I know is they threw up a 5G tower right across from Zany's. And then three days later, somebody crashed a truck into your face. Is that when it happened? I don't know if the timeline's right, but that's what I'll tell myself. Yeah. I remember they throw it up in front of that Dollar General.

And then the Dollar General, and then the Dollar General goes out of business, and a truck comes through your face. And then that other business went out of business. Oh, yeah. It's just that whole intersection's been down the drain since then. Bob James has been just – Zanies has been thriving. Zanies has been doing well, yeah.

They put up the towel. Yeah, yeah. Jesse Rothacker. We've had Rothacker before. Our reptile rescue occasionally needs to ship live reptiles across the country, which I hate doing because the airlines are so bad at doing it. The last time we needed to pick up reptiles at the airport, we had live venomous gila monsters shipped to us.

I think it's, we just said this on the Arizona, I think it's Gila? Gila monsters. Yeah. The last time we needed to pick up reptiles at the airport, we had live venomous Gila monsters shipped to us from California to our nearest airport in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. That was a lot of commas. Yeah.

I mean, that sentence has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 5 commas Can you do that? He did it Seems excessive I don't think there's a cap on the amount of commas he can have But it does get to a point where

Alright, let's start a new sentence That's like when I was a kid I drove around with my hat backwards And I got pulled over and my dad goes, well, your hat was backwards. I mean, there's a point with commas you go, okay. There's a bit too many commas. How about we get out of this sentence and let's start anew? Yep.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The shipper correctly labeled the box as venomous hilla monsters and the air laundry labeled it simply as snakes. Here it is. That's crazy. I think probably, maybe they just was like, people aren't going to open it if it says snakes. Yeah. But if it says Venomous Monsters, they'll probably, let's take a look.

Yeah, I'd like to see what's going on in here. You know what? To be honest, there's a chance that you go, what's a Gila monster? Yeah. It does say it up at the top where he wrote, or somebody wrote

venomous. Venomous, there. Two Gila monsters. But then I guess the airline has to add this additional tag onto it that says live animals and then they wrote

snakes at the bottom of it. Probably didn't have a lot of room and they were like, I don't know what a Gila monster is. And I don't, I'm not down with, don't use a g if you want it to be an h sound i mean you know what i mean i mean we we got the letters for a reason yeah it's really not a use the use an h

yeah well jesse did name it so uh what is the gila monster it's like one of those big lizards oh yeah yeah and I think they're prevalent in Arizona apparently prevalent yeah

they look like here they are they're just orange and black kind of monsters so it's gonna be a wild ride probably opening

those boxes yeah you just don't know what you're about to get you know that guy took home the wrong bag for Christmas. Yeah. Can't forget this.

Got some Gila monsters I got to take back. Barry Spalding. Ooh. Spalding family. They make volleyballs. S-P-A-U-L-D-I-N-G. Is that how they spell it? I think that is how you spell Spalding.

I don't think they use a U. Yeah. I don't think they use a U. Yeah, I don't think there's a U. Oh, yeah, they use. Well, maybe he's trying to be. Or maybe they're British. Maybe he's trying to be humble. Yeah. Barry does sound like the first name of a Spalding heir.

Mm-hmm. Barry sounds like the one that's like, oh, God. You know, Barry, like, Barry they've had to keep an eye out on. Yeah. He's been a liability for the family. I mean, he's, you know, he still lives at home. He's in the guest house, guest house. Right.

But it's, you know. Went to Yale but got kicked out for some reason. Yeah. Yeah. Until recently, I was a test engineer for a U.S. jet engine manufacturer. No one's buying that. We should fire pheasants. We would.

We would. We should. We should fire them. We should fire them. Take what they should do. These pheasants aren't doing anything. I almost read it as we should fire peasants. And you're like, he goes, golly, how many peasants you got working here? He is part of the spawn.

Yeah, he is. We would fire peasants into the engines to pass FAA regulations. The peasants were raised

to a specific size on a local farm and humanely, humanely, humanely, humanely put down before being frozen and delivered to us.

We would thaw them out over 24 hours, load them into compressed air cannons, and shoot them at the engine as it was spinning at takeoff speeds. Video available. No, I'm joking. There's no video. Can you imagine? I like that they say humanely put down as a other way of saying we killed them. Yeah.

Well. Well, yeah. But then he goes on to describe we're just humiliating the bodies of these poor animals. So it's good to know they were put down. Yeah. They're just launching them into. I'd like to know how it affects if it's a live one, though. You know what I mean?

Maybe a live one would do a little bit more damage. You can get through a little farther. He goes. Dodges. Yeah. Dodges the first couple blades so close yeah it's like a video game where you almost made it yeah yeah uh all right yeah they're raised just specifically for that that's one that's i wonder for like PETA. Like, you know, it's kind of an iffy. You're like. We need to do it.

It's important. Saving lives. Yeah. We are saving lives. Yeah. Yeah. But it comes at a cost. Comes at a cost.

And you give the animals a good life. You hope so. We went to the zoo, Chattanooga, Chattanooga Aquarium. Awesome. Yeah, it's cool. Love that. Yeah. They were very nice.

My daughter and my niece and nephew, we took them and they showed us around. It was cool. I pet a penguin. Oh, nice. Yeah. Very furry. They are. They're very soft.

They are. I think I thought it was going to be more of a seal-type body or something. I would think that, too. And it was super, super soft. Wow. Yeah. Like if someone's like, I got a penguin jacket to sell you. I mean, I'm not for it, but I'd try it on.

I'd slip it on. But it's, they're seeing all the you know like they live to like 31 or they live older in these

you know kind of things and they face the wall have you ever seen I've seen it before like if you go to just look at the penguins they're

like they'll be facing the wall and not the glass and I was like why do they because they're all facing the wall and they say because it gets I was like, why do they? Because they're all facing the wall. And they say because it gets, there's too many people and they're very visual. So they just see everybody waving and stuff and it becomes like too much. So they all just face the wall.

So it's more kind of just calm. Who waves at a penguin? Many people. I would. Yeah. What are you expected to do back? I don't know. A lot of people are children and they're not just born full adults

I don't know if you've ever been around a child I mean, what are you doing? What are you expected to do? Yeah, I don't think I mean, it's a kid that's just You wave at the people Kids gotta learn someday, yeah Yeah, I don't know if they're anywhere by

The guy walking alone Wearing an ascent pullover. What are you waving at, you dumb kids? Timing them. The guy looks like he... Kid waved for 12 minutes. He's got boots on. It looks like he just got out of the penguin cage.

And you're like, do you work here? And he goes, no. And you're like, well, your boots look like they do. Mm-hmm. Jeez. Sorry to asked. Bates would probably wave. Oh, yeah.

Totally. He'd see me wave. He'd wave like Forrest Gump. Oh, yeah. You guys go ahead. I'm going to keep talking to this penguin. Don't let, yeah. Bates will read every sign in that place.

Did you go up to the room where you kind of overlooked the whole penguin exhibit oh yeah they said they brought you oh yeah those people are awesome yeah I've been in Chattanooga

three different times the last three months no one has not once reached out to me that's tough I'd love to go I think if

they got an escalator that's long, no one wants to be a part of that. It's a liability. Yeah, just you getting on. Got to sign some extra papers. Yeah, they're going to be like, we'll meet you at the time. They got that escalator that's like the longest escalator ever. Yeah, it's huge.

And so, I mean, you just on that. Love to see it sometime, huh? I want to go now more than ever. Yeah. Go. Yeah. Go. Yeah. Was he moving stairs? Madison Hill.

My buddy Kyle flew home and stood at the carousel waiting for his luggage. Eventually, he was the only one left. An employee of the airline walked up and said, are you Kyle Gray? He proceeded to take Kyle to a room where the remains of his luggage were on the table. The guy said, your luggage must have fallen off the commuter vehicle when we were driving to the carousel.

A plane then ran over it while they were taxiing to the gate. Your bag combusted and caught on fire. This is all that remains. I mean, are you Kyle Gray? Yeah. Come with me. Yeah.

Your luggage must have fallen off the commuter vehicle. This reminds me, is it Seinfeld or a movie? God, I'm picturing something. He goes, yeah, something happened. Yeah, I don't know. He goes, yeah, I'm picturing something goes, yeah, something happened. Yeah, I don't know. It feels like a Ben Stiller movie or something. Yeah, yeah. I feel like it feels like an airplanes and –

Oh, meet the parents. Planes, trains, and automobiles. It's like that. And they pull out luggage and they, oh, it's Pure Luck. Pure Luck. What's that? Oh, we just watched it. Pure Luck. What's that? Oh, we just watched it.

Pure Luck's awesome. Martin Short. Yeah, Martin Short, Danny Glover. And it's the best, dude. If you haven't watched

Pure Luck. I'm not seeing it. I'd love to see it. Oh, it's the most fun. It's the most fun. Yeah, that's it.

And he, and his luggage, it gets, it gets like jammed in a thing. Now, Madison said, no one's ever seen this movie? Never heard of this movie. Oh, man.

I'd love to see it, though. I just watched it again. It was my favorite movie growing up. I mean, it was so good. I went to school with Martin Short's son. I don't know if I've said that before. What? Yeah.

When? At Notre Dame? dame in college yeah yeah you have taylor swift and martin short i've never met martin short but some of my friends went to his wedding and all those guys were there it's pretty crazy you're like friends you ever talked to him still i haven't talked to him in a few years yeah henry's his name yeah hen. Henry Short? Yeah. Hank. Hank Short? Yeah. Wow. He's like, Hank for short. Well, I said short, but Hank for short. Yeah.

I remember this movie. I think it's actually an 80s movie. Yeah. Martin Short is the funniest person ever. Yeah. He's so funny. Yeah. Wow.

Madison said, I couldn't put Fidel in here, but they made him fill out some paperwork to get paid for what they did. And he was just a college student coming home from camp, so he just wrote down. It was just a bunch of shirts. He wrote down $100. They gave him $100. That's it? Yeah.

Kyle's got to give you that. Yeah, he's got to give it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Even the airline should be like, I'm going to give you $500. I mean, the bag had to be, I mean, at least $50. I mean, bags are not cheap.

He's like, oh, it's just some shirts. No big deal. I'm like, nah. Yeah. I like those shirts. Yeah. That's why I brought them. It's got sentimental value to me.

Josiah Bork. Josiah? Josiah. It. Josiah? Probably just Bork. Bork. Oh, you're going the last name, isn't it? Yeah. No, it's B-O-R-U-K-E. Yeah, that's how Bork's spelled sometimes.

Bork. Sometimes where, Notre Dame? My janitor growing up, his last name was Bork. That's how it was spelled. You had a janitor at your house? No. The Weber family? I did weird that word.

The janitor at my elementary school. My janitor. My janitor. Yeah. More pieces of it. Right after we find out he's best friends with Martin Short. And he goes, well, my janitor at our house. And Greg Gumbel.

At our house, Greg Gumbel. I did not mean to say that. I'm sorry. My janitor at my house comes. Yeah, Bork. We talk to him. The Tom Hanks conversation starts

because Nate doesn't like the Elvis movie. Then you guys struggle to think of a bad guy role for Tom Hanks. He is the bad guy in the Elvis movie. That's hilarious. Yeah, that's very funny. Jonathan Baileyathan bailey i think you skipped one connor whitfield art commons bric-a-brac mentioned he had seen the david statue outside in florence

while this was the original location of the statue the one currently in that spot is a replica. The original statue is in a museum nearby. Wow, this guy's trying to ruin your memories. No, a few people pointed this out, and I do remember that now that there was, I couldn't remember which one was the real one, which one was the fake, which makes sense.

They're not going to put the real one out, the elements, I guess. I saw both. But was it still carved out of stone? But you only showed the picture of the... Well, he just pulled up that, and I didn't argue because I forgot that there was more than one. Seems like if they still were able to carve it,

then it might as well just be the real one. Does it make it less good when they're like, then we got Jake over here to make the exact same one that we put outside. That's what I'm saying. If you can make it again, then why are we calling that a replica? Well, that might have made it different. Can I ask you, if you'd have gone home and then found out that you only looked at the replica, would that have cheapened the experience for you? Would that have ruined the memory?

You still felt the same way. Yeah. Well, there you go. I'm sure there's been a ton of stuff in my life that I didn't know that they're just memory? You still felt the same way. Yeah. Well, there you go. I'm sure there's been a ton of stuff in my life that I didn't know that they're just being nice and telling me it's something. Well, I've been told that you actually saw the fake Sistine Chapel too. I was told that they have made a second one for tourists. You saw the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Tennessee.

Yeah, that's why you heard so many gollies. They hear golly, they go, hey, you on a special tour? They send you down a fake one. Well, I posted photos on Instagram of me with that, what's not the real Statue of David, and then at the Sistine Chapel, and someone said, that's not even the Sistine Chapel you're in. That's the Vatican Museum, which the Sistine Chapel is part of the Vatican Museum.

People love to know something, don't they? Yeah, they love to tell you. They love when it comes around to something they know just a little bit about. But I did see both. I'm really bad at posting photos of them. There you are. Cameras are just invented. Well, someone else said that.

This is before camera phone. Yeah, winding it up. There said that. Yeah. This is before camera phone. Yeah. Winding it up. There you are. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny to see your hair is. Yeah.

Your hair is not far from where it's at now. You really. Yeah. You held ground. I did it. Yeah. It was a strong, you know. I'm proud of the guys.

I mean, doctor said I had five, six years tops. Yeah. It was a strong, you know. I'm proud of the guys. I mean, doctor said I had five, six years tops. Yeah. Now we're hanging in there. His fourth and goal, and you're like, I don't know if we're going to score. That's the hair. The hair is like trying. But you're doing good. Thanks.

Keeps. Keeps. There it is. Jonathan Bailey. Keeps. Keeps. Here it is. Jonathan Bailey.

Last week's Banksy discussion reminded me of this crazy story from 2018 when he donated one of his paintings to an auction with a hidden shredder built in the frame. After the painting sold for $1.4 million, the frame started to shred this poor guy's new painting until it jammed about halfway through. Funny thing is it actually ended up significantly raising the value of the painting almost intently after it was purchased. Don't think that's what Banksy had in mind. I don't know who Banksy is, but that's pretty rude.

Yeah, that's the art of it. I mean, if you're in that art game, I think that's part of it. Do you remember us talking about Banksy last week? I guess not. He was the street artist and no one knows who he is? Oh, yes. Okay, yeah. Well, this is Keir Smith who does the drawings of every episode.

He made you Banksy in this illustration. Okay, good. Now you're doing a secret drawing. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't do people like that yeah that's a good draw that is a good drawing though that's great yeah and there's video out there of that auction Sotheby's and as soon as the guy hit sold you just see the painting just start getting shredded and everybody's like what is going on? It was pretty crazy. Yeah.

Yeah, it's got to be. You'd have the, yeah. I mean, I guess it's still halfway there. I think they stopped it when it was like halfway, either, he said jammed. Yeah, like halfway shredded. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. All right. Sarah Brewer

You guys missed the opportunity To talk about the amateur sketch Of the leprechaun In Alabama That looks eerily similar To a Jason Mraz album cover Oh yeah Does just look like a guy

In a fedora This was a story In Mobile From like 15 years ago Where people were claiming They were seeing a leprechaun In a tree down there And someone sketched What he looked like I'm going there soon I hope to find him in Mobile for like 15 years ago where people were claiming they were seeing a leprechaun in a tree down there and someone

sketched what he looked like. I'm going there soon. I hope to find him. You gonna go look? Yeah, I think so. Hiding up in the tree. Make sure you take that picture. Yeah, you gotta know what he looks like. Tom Jobson, the Lucille Ball statue

is pretty creepy. Yep, there it is. So we talked about statues that did not go well. That one did not. They redid that one. Is she holding a flask? It looks like. It's her doing that when she's drinking the...

Cough medicine? Yeah, it's a cough medicine. She's got a spoon in her hand now. It's got's got alcohol in it i remember that that's a very fun episode yeah well faces are tough faces are tough to do well bronze i mean you see them do david and you're like and just to go like we went another way and you're like you should probably do more of the david thing like that's like know, it's like go that route. Yeah, like making it good? Yeah.

Well, it's just like it's easier to make it with whatever. Out of marble. Out of marble. I support them putting clothes on people now, but yeah, besides that. It's like if you can't do it, just say you can't do it. You know what I mean? Don't take on the contract. Yeah.

Just go, well, everything else is pretty good. It's just. Yeah, you made a good the contract. Yeah. Just go, well, everything else is pretty good. It's just. Yeah, you made a good human body. Yeah. We're looking for a specific actress here. Yeah, the head's the main thing. Yeah. Connor Van Stingberg.

It's technically true that we can't go to the moon right now, but NASA just wrapped up its first Artemis mission. They sent an unmanned rocket around the moon and back. Within the next three to five years, we should land a man and the first woman on the moon. Technically true. Well, either it's true or it's not true. I mean, either we can do it or we can't do it.

Yeah, a lot of people called me out on that. But, I mean, I'm just saying right now, if we want to go to the moon, we couldn't. They say they lost the plans. Well, I don't know about that, but we're planning to go back. This Artemis mission, we are planning to go back soon, but we're working on it. We didn't go the first time we tried it to see if it worked. We went around the moon and came back.

Right, Dusty? Yeah, but I'm like, we've been there though now. You know, right? So let's just do it again. So they think next few years we'll be back. What are we going to do? What's the plan? Get that flag back.

Yeah. I mean, eventually, I think, look at living there. Okay. The flag is white now. Is it? Yeah. Surrender. Gave up The radiation of space

Took all the colors Yeah If we live there Are you gonna live inside of the moon? I think they would build some type of Capsules that we would live in Why not just build the capsules here? Well if like

We will build them here I guess and take them up there and then assemble them. No, I mean like. Like Ikea. Are we like trying to escape something? Well, maybe an asteroid or. I don't think the long-term plan is to ever live on the moon. The long-term plan is to live on Mars.

And that could be a jumping off point. Or the moon could just be like hotels, like Airbnb. Yes. Let's get to the moon, relax, have some fun. Kind of regroup. Yeah. The moon is a hotel on the side of the interstate. We're just there.

It's decent. Last cross-section. Just right up there on the moon. Last cross-section. And then we're head on over to Mars. Yeah. Yeah, because Mars we could live on, are they thinking? That's what they, yeah.

We can actually create an atmosphere on Mars and have breathable air there. Terraforming, that's what they call it. That's what we created. We just vacuum all the bad stuff away. They would have to do some spraying of some chemicals. Yeah. It won't be easy some spraying of some chemicals. Yeah. It won't be easy, that's for sure. Yeah.

So we go get global warming up there. We just take it up there. Kind of. Essentially. Yeah. Bring all the aerosol sprays and gasoline vehicles. Yeah. Yeah.

Really messed up Earth. Let's mess up Mars. Right. Let's get up there. And then we'll mess that up and find another one. Keep going. Neptune. Yeah, Neptune. It's always one mess that up and find another one. Keep going. Neptune. Yeah, Neptune.

It's always one. There's never one just right next to it. It's always like, well, we can't do that one. I think it would have to be one of Jupiter's moons, I think. It would be the planet. It's potentially inhabitable. Yeah. I think Saturn should be the place.

Let's pick a place with some rings. Yeah. You know what I mean? Earth has a ring. Does it? Yeah. They don't really show that off a lot, though. I think all mean earth has a ring does it yeah they don't really show that off a lot though i think all the planets have a ring of some kind they're just the saturn

one is like crazy why can't we see our ring well it's just not as defined as do our satellites get caught up in the ring no i think we've avoided that problem. Okay. That's wild. Yeah. You never hear about the ring. This is the first I've heard of Earth having a ring. I could be completely wrong about this. Put a ring on it. But somebody told me this once a long time ago.

Obviously, it's not. But there is something resembling a ring of stuff around here. It doesn't look like it. Quick Google search does not seem to show that. Well, let me find it. Let me go It doesn't look like it. Quick Google search this night to see if it shows that. Let me find it. Let me go. Let me look this up. I know Notre Dame's smarter than Google. Yeah. I learned this at a bar probably. Why don't you call Hank Short?

What's that guy up to? Say, listen, Hank, you remember... Oh, here it is. Although Earth doesn't have a ring system today, it may have had one in the past that's a very that's what are you it's all science all the gas giants have rings jupiter saturn uranus and neptune uranus yeah is that how they say it that's how i say it i like how you did that to avoid the uranus yeah yeah yeah i like that uh. I'm going to start doing it like that. Uranus?

Uranus. So the rings around Saturn, it's just gas and different... No, it's rocks and solid stuff. But those planets are gas giant planets. You couldn't land on those. It's all just gas. You just go through it. Yeah.

Maybe you'd burn up and die. It's like toxic gas. What about the Van Allen? It's a circle. It just works out. What do you mean? Just the gases make a big circle. It just kind of worked out.

Because of the gravity. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because it's got its own gravity. Yeah. But not around it. It doesn't have gravity. Just real close.

Yeah. So gravity is just in these spots. Not where there's mass. Where there's mass. Yeah. But doesn't pull the ring in. No, the ring is things that have been kept in orbit around the planet. And then they eventually, they just form and converge into each other.

Yeah. So the gravity is like a drain. And it just ends up bringing stuff to it. Almost, yeah. And then it's just worked out that it's like, well, that's just where all the stuff kind of clicks. Yeah. So it's like a garbage planet. Yeah, it could be that. I mean, we could have that on Earth.

We put enough pollution on trash out in space, it could form a ring of just garbage around here. Like in the ocean, like we talked about. Yeah. Why don't we throw our trash to Saturn? I've always said that. Or they throw it to, yeah. You know what I mean? Start shipping the trash off.

Yeah, we got. Haul it to outer space? Yeah. And send it to one of these garbage planets that nothing, what does it matter? That's what I'm saying. It's just like, you just gotta, everything's gonna burn up and then become a ring. So you just start like launching all your people magazines up there. No, it is.

If they can find a way to do it cost-efficiently. Yeah, sure, someday. Yeah, the cost is we're making the cost up. So it's like... Yeah, just do it. Yeah, just do it. I mean, we're not calling another planet to ask for money. But first we need to take our trash to the moon.

Well, every time we launch a rocket, take a little trash. Yeah. Go, hey, you're already up there. Yeah. You're already going. Yeah, where's all this stuff when they- What's your argument for the ocean? What's that thing that falls off of it?

Where does that go? The rocket goes into the ocean. They land in the ocean. When they part ways, it just falls back to Earth through the ocean. Yeah, yeah. Why don't they just take it up there and then let it go and then just be like, head on out to... Yeah, maybe we'll see you in another rotation. Do you think it's ethical to just launch space out into the abyss, launch trash into the abyss?

Well, I mean, you got Saturn. That's not... So you have to target it and shoot it right into Saturn so it just burns up? Yeah, I mean, there's no point to... Yeah. Just an empty vacuum up there, right?

Yeah. If the aliens come and go, hey, you guys been the ones dumping all this trash out here? Yeah. And then we'll go, honestly, we didn't know you were out there. They'll understand. Yeah. I mean we'll go, honestly, we didn't know you were out there. Yeah. They'll understand.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Elon Musk set a car up there, so. That's true. Yeah.

But didn't it come back down or is it still up there? No, I think it stays up there forever. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah,

it's wild. Like it's, you know, yeah, just put the trash up there, man. Just float it up there. That's what I thought.

I don't see what the problem is. I think they haven't found a way for, to do it cost there. That's what I thought. I don't see what the problem is. I think they haven't found a way to do it cost-efficiently. Yeah. It costs a lot of money to launch a rocket. Should build a tube from the earth to the sky. Like a laundry chute. Like a laundry chute. And you go in it.

Like at the bank. Like at the bank. Yeah. Yeah. And it just goes into space. Like at the bank. Like at the bank. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it just goes into space. And then you might find more gravity drains because it's like you would just, then the trash starts going to one part.

Now you got a new planet. Yeah. Hook that right to the hole. Maybe it could be closer to our planet. And then we just make it like, so the planets are all over here. Go, let's go down that side. And then you see, and then it zoops up. Yeah. I like the idea.

Could a black hole be a planet? That's what a black, like it could be, it's just everything then it gets jammed and clogged in the drain and it won't go in the hole

and so it just makes it a star. It's like when you're at a hotel and the water kind of rises and you're just like, what's going on here? Yeah, it's like that's how Saturn is.

What if it gets trapped in the rings of Saturn and then makes Saturn habitable? We can finally land on it now. Like we live by it. Oh, we land on the trash. Yeah. What if it hits the rings and it shoots it back to us way too fast? Well, that's a little tougher. Yeah.

We'll know not to do that. Yeah, yeah. We'll learn real quick. It's like the ceiling fan, that's a little tougher. Yeah. We'll know not to do that. Yeah, yeah. We're learning real quick. It's like the ceiling fan when you throw something at it. Yeah. And you didn't expect it to go down. Yeah. Well, that's going to be tougher.

But you just come in from the top. You got to come in from the top, yeah. That makes sense. Or the bottom. You really just can't hit a slither on the side. Yeah. So you just got to go. The odds of us hitting a slither is pretty low.

It's that thin. It's just like six inches. It's like a paper. Well, for the size of the planet, relatively. Yeah. And what if it hits it and goes the other direction? Yeah. Builds up Pluto, comes a planet again.

Yeah. Pluto, right. Spins it over there to Pluto. Pluto's not going to be. And what if there's aliens up there? They don't want to see our literature. Yeah. Pluto spins it over there. Pluto's not going to believe me. And what if there's aliens up there? They don't want to see our literature? Yeah. We throw old magazines in there. Oh, what if it is a people

magazine and the aliens get it and they go, oh, we're learning about people. Sexiest man alive. Yeah. They don't know it's trash. It's probably clean by the time he gets there. We've talked about, we've sent that space capsule out where we put records and we've put different things about us on.

So you're saying throw some trash in there too. I mean, you've thrown all this stuff into space. I don't know why you ain't throwing it. Someone grab a bag on the way out, you know? Yeah, exactly. That's what I mean. You're already up there. You're already up there.

Take a trip. Let it go. Better than the ocean. It is better than the ocean. Let's see how big space is. Pretty big. You know what I mean? If it's endless

then really the trash is fine. Yeah. It'll just be gone. It'll be way on out there. If aliens complain about it we go, hey man, just let it go by.

Yeah. And then soon you'll forget all about it. It'll keep going. Because yeah, your children are going to have a weird upbringing, but then it'll be clear again. Yeah. Yeah. I think this is a revolutionary idea.

I agree. I hope they do it. Yeah. Well, I knew these would they do it. Yeah. Well, I knew these would be talking about it. Yeah. Or we could burn the trash and let the smoke just go into it. Would you mind just Googling, could trash be taken out of his base, just to see if somebody's already come up with this idea?

Yeah, yeah. Well, y'all are trying to move the entire population of Earth to the moon, so I don't know if it's – I don't see somebody's thought of it. So I don't know if it's... I don't see somebody's thought of it. So this is... The Discover Magazine says that it would cost $33 quadrillion a year to launch our trash into space. That's money we're making up.

Yeah. But that's money that... There's real resources that you need to build that stuff. But you're just paying salaries. Yeah. And you just go. Yeah, they'll have to be a board, a trash board. So this is saying, why not just shoot it into the sun rather than Jupiter?

Yeah. Yeah. And this is, I guess, saying why we don't. This is why we won't do it. Yeah, because, you know. I would rather shoot it into vast nothingness than at our energy provider. Yeah. You know, don't shoot trash at the sun.

Yeah, just leave the sun alone. You know what I mean? Like, I'm like, ah. Just don't make the sun angry. It might make it hotter. You know, get some kindling going. And it'll be like, it starts really, like, man, it's 150 degrees out here. Yeah.

It's all that trash we sit up here. Yeah. Just seeing it light up. Just seeing sparks all day. That's that plastic I sit up there. Yeah. Yeah, like propane tanks. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm into it. Yeah. Is there a reason why it said doesn't? It says there are currently three barriers to the idea. One is the possibility of a launch failure. If your payload is radioactive or hazardous and you have an explosion on launch or during a flyby with Earth, all that waste will be uncontrollably distributed across Earth.

Well, let's don't start with radiation. Yeah, we're talking about paper and plastic. Okay. I don't think there's radiation in the ocean. Let's talk about the ocean one. Okay. I don't think there's radiation in the ocean. Let's talk about the ocean one. Yeah. It costs less.

So these are arguments against shooting it into the sun. It says it actually costs less to just shoot it out of the solar system than it does right

into the sun for some reason. And it said mainly the reason is just the cost. It just costs so much money to do it. If we all got on board.

Yeah. We all just agreed. A little bit of a tax hike. Let's fund this. Redirect the money. I mean, at least you can wrap your head around it. All the money that's being sent somewhere, they tell you it's going to this and that. At least you're like, I'm trying to send trash to space.

And you go, all right. That's pretty cool. Maybe if you donate a little money, they give you a little land from the landfill that won't be needed anymore. Yeah. Well, they're saying that a big benefit of doing this, all the nuclear waste that's really dangerous that America has, you just shoot that out into space and it's not our problem anymore. We have 60,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste in the United States alone. Superman took an atomic bomb into outer space and it opened up that thing that the Crotonian villains were in.

So he could free up some villains out there we don't even know about. That's true. Superman 2. It's the things, free up some villains out there. What do we know about? That's true. Superman 2. It's the things you don't think about, really. Should be one guy in there that goes,

what if there's no space that bounces back towards us? And they go, all right. That's a good point. Well, that's the real reason. I wonder who that guy could be. Yeah.

That would be funny if they go, all right, this is a good idea. Just to go, dang. It's coming back down towards us. We're still watching. And he goes, oh boy. if they go, all right, this is a good idea. Just to go, dang. It's coming back down towards us.

We're still watching. And he goes, oh, boy. They'll go, it's the magnification of space. It seems like it's coming at you. It just is getting bigger because it's magnified. All the answers are in space, but they won't let us ever just shoot stuff up there. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. All right. And I'm like, all right, but for today yeah let's just get this like you could go have it where you just drop them off and they don't have to do that yeah but then you're like you know then you weigh the packages at home yeah and then you gotta print labels and i'm like well i would just be doing your job yeah yeah yeah well that's the goal of some a lot of business yeah i don't want to do your job. You do all the work.

Yeah. We send you a meal, you cook it. Yeah. Do you have to tip at the post office? No, no. There's no tip options. Yeah. Yeah.

I did give them some chocolates at Christmas time. That's how much you go in there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've had people get irritated with me before, but I know how it all works now. So I got my whole system down. Yeah.

Post office does not get taxpayer dollars. No? Wow. They're all self-funded by selling stamps, products, stuff like that. That's why they keep raising the price. They got to find a way to fund it. I thought it was run by the government or something. It is a government agency, but they don't get taxpayer money.

There was a lady in the Hermitage post office one time. She got real mad at the teller, and she goes, I'm taking my business to Chattanooga. And we all laughed when she left because I'm like, this is not a private chain you're running here. I don't think anybody in here cares that you're going to Chattanooga. I'm taking my business to Chattanooga. And Chattanooga is also a funny name to say, like, to be taken seriously.

To say aggressively. Well, it's such a, where is it at? Nashville. It's just a long drive. Yeah, it is. It's an hour and a half, two hours to go. And there's another post office just down the way in Donaldson. Taking my business.

So the earliest known delivery of mail was 3000 BC. Egyptians used homing pigeons. Homing pigeons know how to get home. They have a built-in... So they would take these with them on the road, and then they would put a little message, and they know that it's going to go back to where they started.

Oh, that's interesting. I never knew how the pigeon worked. You see them in movies where they throw it up, and I'm like, well, how do you know where that thing's going? You get it. You get it sent out. Yeah. But, man, you know where that thing's going? You can only send out. Yeah. But, man, you better hope that doesn't fall off. You know? Yeah. Probably not

anything important. I wonder what you think the success rate is on a homing pigeon. I mean, obviously, more than 50-50. Back then, it was that or nothing, I guess. So, why not give it a shot? Yeah, you get no alternatives. But, like, it can't work 100% of the time. I mean, just grabbing it and tying it to the leg i mean they don't have big legs you know like it's you know i don't know if you strap a backpack on them and they were still had everything written

on stone tablets back then too so it was a really heavy package a lot of pigeons died along the way or just predators yeah some predator i think you gotta think you got to know, if you see one pigeon, it's help. Two is we're okay. Or something. You got to have a backup plan to be like, I'm going to write on this pigeon. But obviously. But your wife gets mad at you because you hadn't written her. And you're like, honey, I put in a pigeon.

You're like, just look for a pigeon for the next three months. Any pigeon you see. That text must have not gone through. That was like, I bet that pigeon was eaten by a hawk. Yeah.

You know? She goes, I bet it was. It always does, doesn't it? It always does. A hawk comes flying around. Yeah, she's like, seems like the neighbor

doesn't have any problem with hawks. Yeah. The neighbor gets their letters. Gives one every day. Yeah. Comes home,, seems like the neighbor doesn't have any problem with hawks. Yeah. The neighbor gets their letters. Gives one every day. Yeah. Comes home, pigeon lands on the flowers. Where's my flowers?

Sweetheart. Sweetheart. Babe. Those are probably my flowers. Yeah. I put flowers on there. Maybe it'll be cheap and we'll buy some better pigeons. You're the one that got your uncle's pigeons.

My uncle's got a pigeon farm. We're going to use all those pigeons. His pigeons are dumb. Don't talk about my family like that. That kind of fight. Huge fight breaks out. First post office in America was 1639 Fairbanks Tavern. Back then, everyone hung out at the tavern, so they said,

this would probably be a good place to deliver the mail. It's mainly just coming in from Britain. This was before America was here? Well, it was before the United States of America was. So it was just colonists. 1639? Yep. And Boston.

Okay. Yeah, Boston. That's where people would drop off the mail when did uh when was it uh what's the columbus 1492 1492 oh yeah we were here for a while a minute but columbus was here we were you know yeah the loose America, right? Yeah. The loose America. Yeah. It took a while for things to get going as far as like British colonists and stuff. Yeah. It was like kind of, you know, the beginning. A lot going on. A lot going on.

It was pretty early. They didn't even have a post office yet. Yeah. They got one in 1692. Yeah. An ocean Columbus sailed. Took 200 years to get a post office going. Yeah. An ocean Columbus sailed. Took 200 years to get a post office going. Yeah.

Well, then in 1775, the first U.S. post system was started. Anybody want to guess who the first postmaster general was? Benjamin Franklin. George Washington. That's the two people you know from it? Yeah, that's all I got. Bill Clinton. Let's go Andrew.

No, he wasn't around. He might have been. Who was the second? John Adams. That's a good guess. You said it very confidently. Yeah. You're right.

Benjamin Franklin. I guess you knew that. How did you know that? Notre Dame? I was just in Philadelphia a few days ago. And they talked about that? I walked here. I went to the Liberty Bell.

I went to Independence Hall. I was reading up on it. Yeah. And they said he was the first postmaster general? Mm-hmm. Went to Ben Franklin's grave. Oh. Put a penny on it. Wow. Oh, because that's what... And it was changed all over his grave. Yeah. Pretty underwhelming

grave. You'd think you would have a big headstone, but it was just a nothing block of concrete. Well, because we were throwing pennies on him. The 1700s, or I guess, when did he die? 1800s? Yeah. You would think they would upgrade it, though.

You know? Give the man an upgrade. Well, you want to keep the original headstone. You want it to be his original grave. Well, keep it there, but also give him some good stuff around there. Yeah. I gave him a lot. They probably had some signs, right?

Yeah. Do they have, like, signs? You think he's in there? Yeah, there's signs everywhere. Where's he buried at? Like, right in Philadelphia? Yeah, right around the corner from Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Yeah.

It's just, like, a block away. Yeah, a prime location. Yeah. You think he's really in there? Or they dug him up? Who would have dug him up? I don't know. Just feels like.

There's no way to tell. Dig him up, clone him later. For life. I think I want to try to learn. I've been wanting to try it. You got one in mind? Spanish. Spanish would be nice.

I think it's going to be one that we need to really work on here. So it's like, I think I would like to be one that we need to really work on So it's like I think I would like to I'd like to learn Latin That's all I got You were pointing at me I thought you might be like We should just all learn English I just wonder if you thought maybe a universal language would be the way to go.

I think Spanish. But I mean, yeah. Do you think if the whole planet had to agree on one language, it'd be Spanish? No. No, I mean, it might be English. I don't know. I think English, yeah. Yeah, but I'm saying for Spanish would not be bad to learn here.

Oh, for sure. Oh, yeah. For sure. And then so, you know, yeah. I think it would be great to know Spanish. I mean, just because there are so many Spanish speakers, it would just be fun to be able to do it. I agree.

I agree. I agree. So when the post office first started, everyone just went down to the post office to get their mail, just to check, see if they had email or whatever. And the recipient had to pay for the mail, not the sender. The recipient had to receive it. So a lot of people would go and be like, I'm not accepting this. Yeah.

You go, who's it from? Yeah. Nah. You pay for that. Yeah. And then, so then the post office was doing a lot of returning to sender because they're like, they don't want it. So then finally someone came up with the idea of poster stamps.

So stamps were introduced in 1847, and then that started where the sender had to pay for it instead of the recipient. That seems like a much better way to do it if you're the post office. Yeah. It's like a collect phone call. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Got a bunch of pigeons hanging around there nobody wants. Yeah. You can keep feeding them. Was the post office ever using pigeons? Yeah. Like, officially? The only thing I know is from Egypt from 3000 BC.

Okay. I don't think so. So there's a little bit of time between that and the first American Egypt from 3000 BC. Okay. I don't think so. So there's a little bit of time between that and the first American post office. Yeah. Okay. A little bit. So they were using just horse and carriage. So they were not using pigeons here?

Not that I know of. Oh. No. I feel like they do that in movies, though. I mean, not that movies are all got to be correct, but I just feel like they will use the pigeon. How does a pigeon know where the home is? Yeah. Well, they just have a, wherever they're born, I think,

they have this built-in system of knowing how to get back to it. I think it's something unique. You don't think you have that in you? I think I do. Yeah, you could find your way back home. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'm sure everybody kind of does, but I have a home. I mean, pigeons.

Now, if a pigeon has to move a lot, it can get confusing. Yeah, I mean, you have a pigeon that's going to show up in Goldsville, and you're like, well, I mean. On the weekend, he visited his dad. Yeah, he's in Knox County. You're like, I, I mean. On the weekend he visited his dad. Yeah. He's in Knox County. You're like, I mean, five days away. And he goes, I'm in Tennessee, though. He's calling you.

He's like, honestly, I'm tired. He goes, dude, you don't know what I. Have you ever gone over the Appalachian Mountains? It was just so high. Storming. I think my home is Knox County. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So I'm going to just tell you what they said on the phone. And you go, all right, but I wanted you to be here. Pony Express, we talked about that a little bit on the Old West episode, but that was another – that wasn't the U.S. Post Service. That was kind of like the FedEx or UPS. It's a private company. That found a way to move blitters faster.

So it only lasted for a year and a half, but they would find scrappy riders, as they advertised, usually orphans. And you couldn't weigh more than 125 pounds. Because the whole pack had to be no more than 165. And a rider, they would switch horses every 10 miles to a fresh horse.

And the guy would ride usually 75 to 100 miles at a time before they switched to a different rider. And they'd go day and night. And they'd go from St. Joseph, Missouri

to San Francisco. Wow. And they just had them stationed everywhere? Mm-hmm. Every 10 miles, they had a new fresh horse and then i guess once the rider's done riding mile 100 whatever he would just spend the night there just doesn't seem very profitable i guess not it didn't last very long yeah i don't i mean how you getting those horses you just got them spread out everywhere you know

then i guess you when you're on your way back maybe you just i mean that's 40 pounds of mail that's not even a lot of mail it's a lot of paper yeah but that's paper that's saddle that's everything he's got yeah that's just mail i mean and how much is like good mail and how much is like hi i went to school today it's like we can't or junk mail yeah yeah a lot of Sears catalogs of those pony experience. Yeah, and you're like, we can't be. Yeah. I go, well, you know what this is? How much did that cost?

Probably pretty expensive. I don't know. Yeah. I'll look that up. So once they start, so then the guy came up with a system. What did he call it uh i can't forget i've lost it but anyway a system where instead of making people come to the post office you start they start taking it to your house because he noticed during the civil war a lot of widows were standing out in the cold waiting to get a letter from their husband at

war and he said what if we start delivering it to you? And it took off and that became a thing. But then at the time you had to give it to the recipient. You couldn't just leave it. So all day long people were just walking, is he home yet? No, you know, all that. So then they said, well, let's come up with something. So that's when the mailbox was invented.

You're not required to have a mailbox. Oh, really? No, you don't have to have one. If you don't have one and someone tries to deliver mail, they'll just write NMR, no mail reciprocal, and it'll go back to the post office. You won't get your mail. Oh, I thought they just throw it on your.

No, they can't do that. I wonder if you could not pay bills or something like that because you could just be like, I don't have a mailbox. Yeah. I mean, I guess you have a contract with the company. I feel like that company would be like, well, go ahead and get a mailbox. But if you're like, well, we sent a notice, and you're like, well, you need to physically tell me.

Because you probably have to give them a notice. So you could, like, maybe legally, they probably have to say they have to have a notice. And they're like, well, they don't have a mailbox. Then it's like, well, I guess you, it's like when you have to get served. Oh, yeah. So you basically just could walk around and, like, just try not to get served. Yeah, I think So you basically just could walk around and just try not to get served. Yeah, I think they would figure that out. It's called free city delivery.

That's what they call it when they start taking it to your house. By the way, the early days of the Pony Express was very expensive for people to ship stuff. $5 for every half ounce of mail. Wow. So that's the equivalent of $130 today per half ounce. Wow. So this was not for the common man sending regular letters.

This was like important stuff being said. Yeah. And they lowered it to $1, but that was still really, really high back then. So that's why it went out of business. You're right. It wasn't a sustainable model. Yeah. It wasn't profitable. How many ounces in a pound 16 so it'd be 32 times 130 i mean that's

4 160 a pound wow yeah and 40 pounds you're gonna want some guarantee that that gets there. Is it 40 pounds, right? That's the equivalent of it today, yeah. Yeah, I know. So that's $4,000 a pound? Mm-hmm. So it would be like $160,000? $160 a pound. Back then. Yeah.

$160 a pound. Mm-hmm. I know, but I'm saying it's $4,000 a pound, and they can do 40 pounds. Mm-hmm. Right? 40 pounds including the saddle. Including today, including the saddle. So that means it's like $160,000 or something.

Yeah, yeah. They could make some money doing it. I mean, you'd be one – well, you'd have to pay everybody. Yeah. So – Probably have to have a lot of dead horses. Yeah, a lot of horses die. That's a lot.

Zip codes became a thing. Why don't you just call them? Zip codes became a thing in 1963. Zip stands for Zoning Improvement Plan. 1963? Yep. Zip is an acronym? Yep.

Zoning Improvement Plan. Yep. Zip is an acronym? Yep. Zoning. Improvement plan. Okay. And I never knew this, but so the five-digit zip code, the first number depends on what part of the country. It goes from east to west, or zero through nine. So if you're in Maine or New York, your zip code's going to start with zero or one, and then it goes from east to west. In California, Washington, it starts with a 9

I had no idea I think we were 0 in New York I guess so when I mail packages there it's always 0 and then like Alabama's 3 we're 3 Tennessee's 3 how about that

and we were 9 in California they put some thought into this stuff 0, 9 how about that it's pretty cool and we were 9 in California yeah they put some thought into this stuff I've been 0 9 maybe New York was

or Chicago I've been 3 Charleston was 2 South Carolina was 2 they got 2 quick yeah

that's probably too quick yeah that's a slowdown I've been I've been 2 stretched a bit cause Charleston's

still on the coast. Yeah. Yeah. Where'd one go? They go, look how far Charleston is. That's two. It's two all day. And then they get to one.

Well, I bet they started working up north and working their way down. Yeah. And then they started going west. What's Florida? They probably have a couple different ones. Florida's west of South Carolina. Yeah. Yeah. So it's probably just twos and threes

So once these post offices Started popping up in these towns They had to have names To separate the mail You couldn't have a name of a town that was already Another town in that state already had that name It would be too confusing So a lot of these towns just started getting

Named after the postmaster general, whoever it was. This one town in Alabama, Rimlap, Alabama, the guy's name, the postmaster was Palmer, but there was already a Palmer. So they said, let's just do Palmer backwards. There's a lot of towns where it's just the guy's name backwards. Oh, wow. Rimlap. It's not a bad name for a town. Yeah? I live in Remlap.

You're like, yeah, that makes sense. Real backwards town. 2,000 people. Yeah. And then they had to start shortening the city. There was no uniform name. Berg was spelt b-u-r-g-h or b-u-r-g burrow b-o-r-o-u-g-h or b-o-r-o so like we got to have uniformity because it's getting confusing so in 1890 they uh came up with the u.s board of geographic names and they said

get rid of the H in Burg and shorten Burrow to B-O-R-O. So Murfreesboro used to be spelled B-O-R-O-U-G-H. Oh, wow. Until then. That's already a long word before that. Well, Pittsburgh really hung on to the H. They did.

But Pittsburgh, they complained about it, and they got theirs back. Because there's a Pittsburgh Kansas I think That doesn't have the H Yeah There's a South Pittsburgh Tennessee Doesn't have the H Pittsburgh lost it in 1894

But then they regained the H in 1911 They fought for it To get it back They fought for it hard Yeah Wow What a dumb thing to care about Well

Why would you care about the H? If they took the H out of Nashville, I wouldn't care. Nashville? Make it a solid H. I might want to keep that H. Old Nashville. In the 80s and 90s, the term going postal became a thing because there were so many workplace shootings at post offices. Why?

It was just because it was – I mean, I think it's coincidental, although Newman explained it on Seinfeld because the mail just keeps coming. It never ends. It never ends. I can almost see that making sense. It just builds up. It just makes you go crazy i mean most people at the post office seem frustrated yeah they don't seem to enjoy i mean it's like and i

stand there and watch them when i'm in the post office and they're just all day keying in addresses keying in at and most people have complaints they're mad at the people that work there i've had yeah i mean i've had complaints but i've been you know i've mailed packages in other cities and i've seen just people just yelling at people that work at the post office i've never yelled at them but i'm i get frustrated with them but i mean that's well like isn't then you have fedex and like these other companies like they start running like properly and that's kind of the problem. Yeah.

Because there's not a good system, I feel like. Yeah. I mean, those are, I think, more expensive for shipping packages. I mean, the mail is really amazing. It's like, we can talk bad about the mail, but it's amazing that I can just put a hat in a box, pay a little bit of money, and it goes all the way across the country in like two days. Oh, yeah. It's amazing. I mean, ordering stuff on Amazon is crazy. Like when you just order something and you're like, man, it's just in your house.

Yeah. And you're like, I just ordered this and it was somewhere else. I ordered a thing on Saturday and I got home about an hour and a half later and it had come. Yeah. I mean, it's, I was like, whoa, that's wild. And it was a portable DVD player for the car. I'm like, I don't know. I thought I wouldn't even be able to find a DVD player.

And they were like, oh, we got these laying around. There's one just sitting in a warehouse. Yeah. Near your house. Yeah. I think Kathleen Madigan has a joke, doesn't she? She has a joke about, yeah, just the idea that you can- Hey, if I give you 50 cents, will you take this to Washington State or something?

Take this to Alaska. Take this to Alaska, yeah. Can I get you anything else? More stamps. Yeah. This is crazy. Yeah. Yeah.

When the post office first started, it was the only way people had to deliver money. So if you were caught stealing someone's mail, it was the death penalty. had to deliver money. So, if you were caught stealing someone's mail, it was the death penalty. Wow. I still support that. This was in the 1700s when it first started, if mail thieves got the death penalty. And then Congress

soon reconsidered 1799 stealing mail for first-time offenders was punishable by public whipping. Because they're like, we're killing so many people. They're like, this is way bigger problem than we thought. People are like,

it was a mistake. It was a mistake. Second offender still death penalty. Public whipping? Yeah. And when was this? What year? 1799's when they changed it to the public whip.

This is under Ben Franklin's watch, huh? No, he was Postmastermaster general a very short time. Okay. You know, I support a warning for the first time, death penalty for the second. It's like, you do it the first time, you're like, listen, we're serious about this, okay? We'll get you again. I support it. There's no in between a warning and the death penalty?

Yeah, well, you're going to have to kill someone to set the standard. You know, like, we're serious about this. Don't do this again. So there were so many letters being mislabeled, unlabeled, whatever, that they opened the dead letter office in Washington, D.C. in 1825 for people to go through to try to figure out where this was supposed to go. And they would hire women to do it because back then women were seeing, I think still today, more honest than men as far as stealing stuff

from your letter. Probably from all the dead letters, all the people they killed for stealing. They still have it. Now it's called the Male Recovery Center and it's in Atlanta. But it's a place where letters go where they try to figure out where is this supposed to go. So they always give it a go how hard are they really trying they can't be trying i i shipped a hat one time somebody ordered a hat from dubai and i shipped it to dubai and i guess no one picked it up in dubai and it back. So it went all the way to this country for like seven, I don't know, 15 bucks.

Yeah. And nobody claimed it. And they sent it all the way back to me. Yeah. The guy messaged me. I go, I don't know, man. It went all the way to your country. You're just like, move to a better country.

And then it came back. No, I'm kidding. I just like, you should have got it. You didn't mail it to him again? No. Told him to find a different comic to like? Yeah, yeah. Well, I didn't know what to do.

I'm like, I hate international shipping. You got to fill out a whole customs form. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, I already did this one time. Yeah. I guess the 1996 movie Dear God, anybody see it? Starring Greg Kinnear. I think I saw that.

Maybe. He worked at the- George Burns? No, that's the original. This is the remake. Oh, okay. Greg Kinnear worked at the dead letter office, and he responded to a letter written to God. Oh.

That's bold of him. I don't know if I saw it, but- Many people write to God. Someone's answering. Yeah, Greg Kinnear. Greg Kinnear is. Yeah. Dear God.

That's bold of you. What? Greg Kinnear, that's bold of him to do that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. A little presumptuous. Yeah. I don't know what he said. There's also a facility...

Because I have to watch the movie. Yeah, yeah. They really got me hooked. Well, and the George Burns one, he was God, right? I saw it as a kid. I just remember liking George Burns. I don't even know why I liked him. He just seemed like a real character.

Yeah. There's also a facility dealing just with bad handwriting. The remote encoding center in Salt Lake City just deals with people trying to figure out what you're trying to say here. I'd imagine these facilities are just to tell you that we're doing it yeah there's nothing going on there there's no way that they're

basically just it's like and I would imagine most bad head running is probably just someone that's like if they even have an ounce of a trouble they just throw it in and then so maybe you get a person that's like, I'll look one second longer than that person. And then they go, then they send it to the dead letter one.

And then they just go, so this is where we burn it? Yeah. All he did was leave the H on the Pittsburgh. Is it where the letters die? The mail was so trusted when it first started that people would mail their children. Wow. If they had to send their kids somewhere, it was cheaper to just mail it. I think I maybe even sent you a – did I send you something?

They put them in a box. Under the plane. In a crate. Yeah. And then I think they'd ship it on a train or something or – Ship it? Put a little sticker on it? Snakes?

Yeah, they would mail their... Like, if they're going to visit their uncle, they'd just mail them. Yeah, it was cheaper. Then what? Flying them in a plane? Then... There was no plane.

I guess then cheaper maybe to put them on a passenger train or something. Yeah. Yeah, I'd like to see how they're shipping them. Well, it looks like that guy's just carrying the baby very badly. Oh, man. That's 1913.

That's not what you're signing that for when you become a postman. Yeah, he was legal to mail children. With stamps attached to their clothing, children rode trains to their destinations accompanied by letter carriers. Wow. 53 cents for parents to mail their daughter. Where are you mailing your kid to? And you don't even know if they get there.

There's no real communication. They got to send a pigeon back. Yeah. It's a nightmare. And what are you getting? You're getting a quarter out of that? You got to take care of a one-year-old? And you got to, I mean, just be like.

Just say you don't want your kids. Yeah. I mean. And just like they have to do it. I mean, imagine carrying. That couldn't have been. Are there still services for that? Do you think? Obviously they're different, but.

Well, you can fly your kid. Can you fly like a one-year-old kid? I don't think so. I mean, I'd imagine you'd have to, you know. You have to get someone with them yeah yeah someone's got to if you're flying a one-year-old without you i think uh child protective services comes along and they'll fly with them i bet they could fly three-year-olds or like you know four you know depends but i mean five-year-old i had to talk about a kid that flew alone, and he sat next to me.

Because, I mean, the parent is at the front of the plane, drops them off, and then the other parent gets them as they come off. But I had a very sweet kid in the middle, and I let him watch my phone, and then he just fell asleep on my shoulder. He's a very nice little kid. But then he just flies, and then, whew. But there's got to be some circumstance where, for totally valid reasons, I have to send my newborn to San Francisco without me.

There's got to be some service. Go on Fiverr or TaskRabbit or something. I'll figure it out. Got to ship the kid over there. I don't even know. What is Fiverr and TaskRabbit? something. I'll figure it out. Got to ship the kid over there. I don't even know. Yeah. What is Fiverr and TaskRabbit? I don't know.

It's just where you hire people to do stuff online. There's so much more stuff, man. I don't even. I'm still like, could be like Uber Eats. And there's stuff. I don't know what stuff is. Put the kid in an Uber and just drive the Uber all the way out there. Yeah.

One way. Yeah, yeah. Just find a guy you really trust. Stick your kid in the back of his Honda Civic. Yeah. Let him go. Yeah. Dang.

Would you do that, Brian? Got a car seat already back there. Send my daughter? No, when you were Uber driving, somebody goes, listen, I'll give you, it's going to be a huge bill. It's going to be $1,800, but drive my kid to California. $1,800. That might not kid to California. $1,800. That might not be enough. That's a long way to go.

Yeah, I mean, you're talking three or four days. With a baby. You've got to change the diaper. You've got to get a hotel. Yeah, you've got to change the diaper. You're like adopting a kid for a while. I'll say no. I mean, I would.

When I drove for Uber, I would pick up teenagers. That's a movie, though. Let's do that movie. Yeah. Brian Bates drives a kid to California in an Uber. I'm all for that. Picking up other passengers along the way. The kid leaves Brian.

I learned the life lessons. He cracks the window. He goes, what are you doing? And he goes, that whistle noise. Then drive me crazy going through Montana. The president makes more money than any federal employee, $400,000 a year. Second most, the postmaster general. Oh.

Makes more than the vice. Well, he used to be third, but when Conway became vice president. Yeah. I'm trying to make a joke about that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So postmaster general makes $276,000. You're trying to make a wage gap joke. Wage gap joke, yeah.

It makes $243,000. The post office used to always be the place where FBI would put their 10 most wanted lists. Anybody remember that? Oh, yeah. I think so. I thought it was a joke. Why don't you catch them when you're taking their picture? First, the picture's sideways just because they're taking off in front of them.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a good joke. They stopped doing that. Now they just put them up at Walmarts and stuff, right? Oh, do they do that? I don't know. There's always missing kids and stuff up there.

Figured you might as well throw a top 10 list. Yeah. They stopped doing it. They said they just needed the space. The post office is selling. They're using every space to try to sell stuff. So they just said that wall needs to have some display other than. There's room for a piece of paper.

Oh, like ads and stuff. Yeah, what a cop out. No, but they are. Like, if you go to a post office, there's stuff everywhere. There's not an 8.5 by 11 little rectangle of area. I agree, but it's like, it almost shows you your business model. So your business model is not actually doing the main thing. But I thought, was the post office still the biggest over FedEx and over everything?

As far as the most mail? Yeah. I bet it is. Yeah, I don't think those others have overtaken it. Like the post office is still by far. Yeah, I think so. The biggest. Now the post office delivers Amazon packages on Sundays.

Yeah. Why is that? Does Amazon not run on Sunday? I don't know. I'd never heard that. I mean, it's shocking if the post office is doing, because you're, I mean, they deliver mail every day. So they got to be delivering more.

But I mean, the way people are getting stuff, you know, mail or bills or all that stuff. I mean, it's got to be where people are not. You know, there is a guy sometimes that comes to deliver Amazon packages just in a regular car in my neighborhood. And they just will have packages piled up in his car. But then you'll have the other like really fancy like solar electric car, Amazon van. You ever see those where it just doesn't make a sound? Yeah. I feel like I could go deliver some.

I mean, I was always a delivery guy. I miss it sometimes. Like, I thought this last Christmas, I thought, why don't I sign up for just, you know, they need holiday help. Yeah. And just be like, just go and, like, get home. Just be like, let's go grab some boxes, load them up, deliver some. Yeah, I'd love to, like, when Greg was on here and was talking about working at that.

Burger King. Burger King. I mean, I'd love to do something like that for a short time. Just go, work, write some jokes. I think that'd be great. Yeah. You could do it. Yeah.

I know, but it's like, also, there's like a time factor where I'm gone all the time. I don't tell my wife, hey, I'm going to go work at Burger King for a couple of weeks. Yeah, that's the tough part. And I never could get hired at Burger King, even when I was a teenager. Wendy's, I had an interview and didn't get the job. At Wendy's or Burger King? Wendy's. Oh, so Burger King?

Well, Wendy's a little higher class. I don't know that I applied at Burger King. I did apply at Wendy's and had an interview and didn't get the job. Yeah, Wendy's is, especially back then, Wendy's was like, we're trying to do something. It was a big deal to go to Wendy's. Wendy's was trying to be, they were like Chick-fil-A now. Yeah. Where you're like.

That's true. You know, we're the Yankees. You got to shave your beard. Yeah. Dave Thomas might be doing an interview. Yeah. Postal trucks, steering wheels on the right-hand side. They can't make U-turns or left turns because they think it's dangerous.

All U.S. postal trucks are going electric. They're buying no more gas-powered trucks starting in 2026, and they hope to have them all electric by 2028. All right. Look for some more stamp increases. That'll solve it. Yeah. Yeah.

I guess that's a good place to stop. All right. That's fun. Are we going to plug places that we're going? Yeah. Yeah. We'll do it right now. All right.

Stretching. Bridgetone. Just letting everybody know, we will be at Bridgetone April 15th. It is all of us that will be at Bridgetone. Also, my dad is going to be part of the show. This is going to be an awesome, awesome time. I'm excited. Obviously, this is the biggest show ever.

And being at home, it's a dream come true. Tickets are going. I mean, we've sold a lot of tickets and there might know that I think the top is the part where that we're, uh, filling up that's left, uh, hoping to sell this out completely. Uh, I think the whole night will be amazing. Everybody together, just laughing, having fun, just being a part of it will be huge. And I hope everybody, if you're, look, if you're here, I know we have a lot of folks that are traveling in for it since it's a show that all of us are on. So truly, uh, we'd love for you to be there April 15th. It's

doing very good. There's, uh, uh, there's, I mean, it's like kind of the tops left. I mean, there's a lot of tickets have been sold, so let's sell it out, pack it out. Honestly, it will be amazing for you guys to be there. April 15th, go check that out. That's the big one for me. And then you go to my website and check everything else out. Tupelo, going back to Tupelo. Oh, nice. Yeah, maybe I'm going to Tupelo this week.

Yeah, I have that and then yeah and then I might be well we're we got a pre-recorded for you so yeah

but yeah go check that out this week I got some private corporate shows but they're still on my website so you can't come

but I want you to know about it and then next week Waukesha, Wisconsin. And then the week after that, February 3rd, I'm with Dusty Slay and Aaron Weber in Lexington, Kentucky. All right. That's exciting. Yeah.

Next weekend, I'm going to be in Raleigh, North Carolina at Good Nights Comedy Club. I've never been. I'm excited. And I just added a bunch of dates. I'm going to Charlottesville, Virginia of dates i'm going to charlottesville virginia now i'm going to west bend wisconsin i'm going to uh lexington kentucky at comedy off broadway a lot of fun spots aaron weber comedy come hang out all right this week uh as of tonight i'll be in mobile alabama we have two shows we sold out one so we've added another at the Alabama Music Box.

And then I'll be in Lafayette, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and New Orleans. So all those dates are on the website. And yeah, and the next weekend we'll be in Lexington. And I'll be in Atlanta the next night. And those tickets are really

selling. So get some tickets. It's gonna be hot. Yeah, go get them. All right. We love you, and I hope you had an awesome past week. Have a great week, and we will see you next week. All right. Bye. Bye.

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