The Nateland Podcast - 15: #15 | What Happened in the Year 2000?

Episode Date: May 13, 2026

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This message comes from Capital One Commercial Bank. Your business requires commercial banking solutions that prioritize your long-term success. With Capital One, get a full suite of financial products and services tailored to meet your needs today and goals for tomorrow. Learn more at Capital One.com slash Commercial, member FDIC. Okay, welcome. ladies and gentlemen to the public figures podcast. My name's Dusty Sle. I am one of the host along with my friends, Brian Bates, and Aaron Weber. Good morning, everybody. We're pumped to be here. We're three professional comedians. That is true. We are. Based out of Nashville, Tennessee.

We are all professional comedians. That's true. Based out of Nashville. And I just want to, you know, I want to kind of echo what you're saying. No, I agree. It's why I said it up top. Yeah. Sometimes you're going to let people know. What are you? mean? Well, do you live in Nashville? We're based here. I'm based here. But if you guys were a little more successful, you could live in Nashville. Well, I live in Nashville. Oh, okay. But I do live in Davidson County. I mean, doesn't that count? Yeah. I mean, I pay

Nashville taxes. I'm not in Davidson County. Yeah. It's great. But we're recording this live from Zanis Comedy Club located in the heart of Nashville. That is true. And that's where we're based right now. Yeah. So that's where we're based. Yeah. That's the foundation of the podcast. That is true. Yeah. And we are all professional comedians. Yeah. There's no confusion about that. I thought you're going to challenge us on that, Brian. Come on.

I challenged myself on that one. We're all working. But, you know, we were gone last week because we did two episodes. So last week we weren't here. So, you know, we're having to get reacquainted. Yeah. What have y'all been up to? Like, I haven't, we never talk.

I know. And the podcast, when the, when the camera goes off, we all go to our cars. We don't say a word to each other. and we drive home to our separate lives and separate families, and we never check in on each other. I just want to see what you guys have been up to. And I call my wife on the way home, and I go, oh, gosh. Another day at work.

Yeah. You know, like the MythBusters guys hated each other. We talked about that, right? Yeah. They look like their friends on the show, and then they hate, or they, like, just weren't friends. You think they hated each other because they knew they were living a lot? Seems like that would make them barred. Turns out the greatest.

myth of all. Yeah, really eats away at you, though, I think over time. I think so. Yeah. I think it can't. Because you said they got a myth wrong. They busted it. My grandfather, who's a physicist, saw them do a calculation wrong on the show and wrote in and corrected them. Wow. Yeah. He said they did, they did something. They were trying to calculate the velocity of something. And he was like, nope, that's not it. Is it your grandfather that works for NASA? No, I'd never had a grandfather that worked for NASA. I have an aunt that works for NASA. I have an aunt that works for NASA. Oh, okay. I I thought I was an uncle. No, my, no, no.

It goes deep. Our grandfather was a head of the physics department at South Alabama. Okay. And did like a contractor. I'm from Alabama, but that just sounds funny. Head of the physics department in South Alabama. At South Alabama. I bet they have some physics.

You could get on board with it. Yeah, exactly. So I'm talking about. Not at South Alabama, in South Alabama. You got a ball. It'll roll down a hill. Exactly. No need to look into it much more than that.

Exactly. What's your grandfather's name? Density. Faustin. That's what I thought. Yeah. Austin with an F. Yeah.

In front of it. The story in the family is my great, great grandmother who went by Boogie, that was her name. Uh-huh. She was at the hospital. And I think these are the days, you remember the days where when you gave birth to a kid, your husband just wasn't there at the hospital? I don't know that, but. I've heard comedians.

about it, right? Like, the husband wouldn't come into the delivery. And Richel has a joke about it. Yeah, yeah. So she's in there, and she's in a fight with her husband at the time. And so to spite him, this is the story, she makes up a name on the birth certificate. Wow. Just because she knew that he wouldn't like it. And that was Foster Neff Weber. Wow. And it became a family name. My brother's the fourth. Foster Neff Weber, the fourth. But then he had a son and didn't continue it. Five feels like too much. Five feels like your English I don't know

I mean to me I mean you would have kept it going well I mean your brother had to grow up with the name so it's his choice but I just feel like if it's four you gotta do it I thought there's a little pressure but yeah I like your brother's strength though

and he was like I'm not gonna do it yeah but could you have more kids yeah but I feel like you gotta do it on the first born son right I guess that's true that's how it works it's a little weird if you don't it's almost a little personal against the first born son. It's like, oh, forgot. Yeah. Well, it's like, the second son, he's who I want to carry my name off. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're right. You got to think your whole

life and you know, the whole life you go. Faustin. Yeah, like Austin, yeah, like Austin, with an F. With an F. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, your whole life. Every day you have to do that. Yeah. Mm-hmm. All right. That's tough. Well, all right, guys. Well, I'm pumped to me back. I didn't do any comedy this past weekend, but since we were here, I did go off and some comedy. I went to McKinney, Texas. I went to, I did a corporate gig there. Okay. Then I went to Dallas, Texas. Then I went to Houston. And then I flew out to L.A. Did a show. For the Netflix as a joke, right? For the Netflix is a joke. Yeah, I mean,

there were a lot of pictures going around about with the Netflix of the joke. Lot of, I don't know. There was a party, a lot of famous people. I was gone. I did my show. Were you invited to that party? I don't know. I mean, because they knew I wasn't going to be staying, so I don't know. I want to clarify something earlier that we said. We were joking when we said we never talked to each other. People always think we really don't like each other. We basically text as soon as we get home. Yeah. And never stop. And then we got separate chains without one of us. Yeah. And then I go, oh gosh, they're texting me again. You see those three dots come up. You're like, stop it.

But no, we talk, it was by text all the time. Sure. I texted Dusty yesterday to see about getting our kids together to play. Yeah. And he was not having it. Well, I said, you said, I'll come close to you. And I was just thinking, how close? Because you could come over to our house.

I was taking Illinois to the park. And I thought, well, let me see if Dusty wants to take his kids apart, give his wife a little Mother's Day reprieve. And I said, I'll come over your way. Come in one of your parks. And he's like, we ain't leaving the house. He said, we're not celebrating Mother's Day today. Well, I'll be honest, when you text me, my wife was gone, and I was at home with all three kids. Oh, okay.

So I gave her a little Mother's Day reprieve. That's good. That's good. That's good. Well, that makes sense. You can't really take a baby. Yeah, it is hard to. Yeah, with the little baby, it's hard.

I mean, because when the baby's cool, the baby's cool. But when he's crying, it's like, what do you want for me, guy? You know what I mean? That's beautiful. That's beautiful. What is it that you want? Yeah. I mean, I'm holding you in all different positions.

I mean, that's all I can do. We think. I'm going this way, this way. You want to go upside down? What do you want for me? Olive, I think, is like, we think she's teething really bad right now. Yeah. Like, she has a lot of teeth for her age, but I think she's got some new ones coming.

She's been real fussy last few days. And it is, it's kind of funny. You're like, just I'll do whatever you want me to just what do you want right now. Yeah. Yeah. And they don't answer. Yeah. I try wording it different ways.

They just don't answer. My son, my, my, Sammy, he gets like that word. He'll ask you for something. You give it to him. And then he doesn't want it. And then he asks for something else. And we're like, after a while, we're like, listen, buddy, we're not playing your games here. Look at all these dishes you have here now.

This is everything you could ever ask for. And you're rolling around on the floor. Go to your room, buddy. Get out of here. Was go to your room a punishment when you were growing up? I didn't have a room, really. And, uh, you had a room. Go to the couch.

At my mom's house. It was a shower curtain, but it was a room. Well, at my mom's house when I was younger, we lived in a two-bedroom trailer. I had two sisters. So it was like, I didn't really have a room. You know, I had a place where I could put some stuff, but we shared a lot of beds. But you're, okay. But if someone said go to your room, you knew what they were talking about.

Yeah. Okay. But it was back then, for me, it was go outside. Oh, really? Not go to your room. Just get out of my face. Get out of this house. Go somewhere.

You come back when it's dark. What was yours, Brian? Was it go to your room? Was that a punishment? It would be go to the wing, like one of the wings of the house. Did you grow up at a mansion? Wow. I was trying to.

Okay. Dusty, go to your room. That's over there. We'll still see each other. Brian, they were like, go work on the railroad for a while. I don't remember. It's, I was, I didn't have any, no, there was no technology in my room growing up, didn't have a TV in there, not a video game system, anything, right?

But I had friends that had like a TV and an Xbox and a computer in their room and they would get sent to their room as my punishment. Surely they couldn't do that. You're like, this is all the best stuff. Yeah. Yeah, this is where I want to be. Yeah, exactly. There was no punishment at all. My room stunk, dude.

I set a bed and like some books. Just an old, what was it? He played with, a little ladle in there or something. Spatula. Yeah, a little spatula. This is when I was older than that. Do y'all do timeout? Yeah, I mean, we try all sorts of things.

A timeout usually works pretty good. I take Sam in his room. He cries, he screams, he tells me to go away. And I go, you're not leaving until you chill out. And then we can talk. Is that tough for you to do? Nah, I'm into it. Oh.

It's like, like, you know, other kind of punishments are harder. Yeah. But, yeah, you know, you go sit in there and he, you know, runs around and eventually he comes around. He chills out. He gets tuckered out. And we go, all right, buddy, let's talk. I have this joke. But I don't, you know, I don't know how to parent.

No one does. No one does. I'm just telling you what I do. But. Yeah. I have this joke. Diane. I'm sorry.

You know, Diane, I forget her last name, that comment. that's a lot. Weber? Oh, my mom. Diane Williams. Diane Williams. Yeah, she'll, she tells me all the time. She goes, you better get it together.

Yeah, and cut your hair. She tells me to cut my hair. Like, because it's vain. Yeah, I go, Diane, if I cut my hair, I would look better than I do now. So I'm humbling myself here, Diane. It's an act of humility to keep the hair that one. Like, come on, Diane. I'll move on for what I was going to say.

No, I want to hear it. What was I? What were even talking about? about punishing not knowing how time out yeah i have this joke because we we asked our pediatrician how long should you do time out for have you ever heard like a rule is it a pediatrician's jurisdiction okay what we it wasn't really a pediatrician but for the purpose of the joke i asked the dentist how long i should ground my son who should you ask that i don't know just a friend or family member okay i guess i'll change the joke my that's why it's not working the premise

the setup is not realistic chat gt I don't know who to ask those kind of questions. Anyway, the answer is one minute for every year of their life. Whoa. Okay. So how old Delano are you now? She just turned four. Okay.

That's kind of my joke. Like, I got some good news and some bad news. I want her to start dreading birthdays like the rest of us. Oh, yeah. That's funny. I don't even want to talk about it. But one minute per year. So a timeout is four minutes.

But for a kid that feels like in a turn. eternity, right? And we've done saying a comedy long enough to know four minutes can be a long time. It can be, but I feel like it needs to be longer. Yeah. 40 minutes. But. But maybe you do a multiplier based on the gravity of the offense.

You ever do a timeout and go, man, it got peaceful out here. My joke is that has to flip eventually. This has to chill without all these kids. I would love it. It would be a dream. Brian, go take 54 minutes to yourself. Yeah. But if they were like, but as you're walking off, if they went, give me your phone.

That would change. It would be tougher. If I could sleep, I'd still do it. But you probably still read the paper, right? I'd like to. Yeah. I'd like to. I would love to get the paper to my house and just not and just.

What paper? Any paper. You can get the paper delivered. The Williamson County. I don't even know. Times. The Gazette? The Gazette?

That sounds like. Not the Tennessee. Do you ever have something you want to do, like that activity and your kids act up and you threaten not to go? But you want to do it yourself, so you give in a little more? So it's an empty threat? Well, it happened for us yesterday, Mother's Day. We were going to go out to eat and get some dessert, you know, afterwards for Mother's Day. And Eleanor was just acting so.

And we kept threatening her like, all right, we're not going. But we both secretly wanted to go ourselves. So we kept like, I'm going to give you one more chance to get this right. Like I'm coaching her. Like, come on. I want this ice cream. We've done that with TV. We've got a YouTube channel set up where I blocked a lot of things.

And so I'll let my daughter watch some of that. And so punishment, I'll be like, you're not going to watch TV. But then we're like, well, it's kind of a break for us too. Of course. Of course. There's got to be a different punishment. You can have them write lines or something. Yeah.

Do you remember that? Did you ever get punished with that at school? You got a right lines. Oh, yeah, I guess so. I had a teacher who wants to make me write down. the definition of sarcasm like 20 times on a piece of favor. Wow. Because I was being sarcastic. Yeah. How long is the definition? I don't know, but it was pretty long. But I remember thinking, I clearly already know this. Yeah. I'm using it. And now you're really. Very effectively in your

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See website for more details. Anyway, it's good catching up with you guys. I was, let's see, I had one night with Nate in Colorado Springs. That was fun. Shows. Yeah, we did a show. Yeah, yeah. I just had a quick getaway, you know.

We like to do that from time to time. We did a spot A. You know, just relax and chill it out. I like Colorado Springs. Yeah, yeah. I told the story about you going to the Air Force. In fact, remember Cole, our former intern? Yeah.

Well, his... Never met him, but I remember hearing about him. didn't he come on our show and do the... I don't think I was there. Oh, okay. That was the day... You're right. You're right.

That was the Sunny Gray episode. Okay. Anyway, his younger brother goes to the Air Force Academy, which is a big deal to, you know, Air Force Academy. So his dad came and I met his younger brother. But Cole, it's hard to believe, already graduated from Auburn. Really? I thought he just was here making his choice. He just did the selection show.

Yeah, just his selection show already graduated. Wow. How about that? Time flies, man. Yuck. And then this weekend, I was home. I did Zanis Saturday night, the All-Star Show. And, you know, I'm trying to do new material to my special is getting ready to come up. And I told myself, no matter how it goes, don't go to your old stuff. You got to stick with the new stuff. And I went out in the first joke, bombed. And by my second joke, I went into my old material. I panicked. You're doing easy out. Circle of stuff. Well, I may start going back to that. 10 years ago. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, it's tough when you're trying to do all new stuff,

and especially if you feel good about it. Yeah. And then the first one bombs, you go, oh, damn, well, this is not good. And then you do the second, and it bombs and you go, do I even know how to write jokes anymore? Yeah, it didn't help that the host forgot my name. Oh, yeah. It's never a good one I had to walk out there.

Who was the host? I don't want to say, but he didn't, he didn't. You forgot his name, too, didn't. I do know his name. It's never. It's never good when the show's called All-Stars, but you don't know any of their names. He didn't forget my name. He forgot who was next on the list.

He got up there. He's like, oh, God. He's like, I got a, and I just walked out. You got one job. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You do.

In that moment. Yeah, one job. Yeah. I've done it, though. It's easy. But I say this every time. Zany's, Nashville has so many talented comedians these days. Yeah.

Not just clean comics. Just super funny guys. Yeah. There's been some fun, fun local shows here. You don't seem to agree. No, I do. But I was just thinking about this person that I saw on one of the new material Mondays from out of town. And she was doing like really dirty material. And it was bombing. And then she goes, oh, I forgot Nashville, clean comedy. As if we only have clean comics and as if the audience only likes clean comedy. And the fact, and she's bombing because it's dirty. Because the audience is like, what is she doing up there? And not that it, her jokes are just bad. Yeah. Sometimes I'll try and use. jokes on New Material Monday like I will tonight, and they'll bomb. And I'm thinking, that's just because I'm doing clean material. And you guys don't want to hear that. And then I'll come over

here and do Nate Land and I'll bomb again. I'm like, no. I was wrong. They were hoping that would go well. Yeah, they wanted it to go well for the sake of clean comedy. Yeah. It didn't. Where were you? I was in Salt Lake City at Wise Guys Comedy Club. Great weekend out there. I went to the Mormon Vatican. I forget what it's. It's pretty cool. It's okay. You and I did that. Yeah, I went back.

I went back with it. I had Jay Flake with me. I don't know. You mean just walking around downtown? Yeah. No, the actual temple. Downtown. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, right downtown. I think it's great. Yeah, I don't think it's bad. You said it was okay. I can't believe you think it's great. Well, the only reason I'm hesitant to say it was great is because everywhere, it's under construction right now. And every building that looks like, I'd like to go check that out. It's locked.

There's only really one building you can go into. Yeah. beautifully manicured. I like the architecture. That's what I mean. I mean, I'm not. Yeah, it's nice, but I'm not against the Mormon people. I think they're very nice. I'm not either, dude. I'm just saying, Brian has said, I'm surprised that you like it. Yeah, we'll save that for the text thread later to that. No, I like, you know what? It's like the first time I went to Salt Lake City, it was the only time it was like this.

I don't know what was happening. But downtown, there were so many Mormons and all the women were dressed so nice and like, They just, you know, they were like very modestly dressed but also very like, you know, attractive. And I was just like, this is great. I love this. Because it was like, you know, they weren't, I don't know, I just felt like, oh, a little step back in time. Do you remember. I get that. Do you remember what we did when we went there?

Yeah, I think so. We spent about 30 minutes walking around and then you're like, hey, there's a mall across the street. We remember that mall and walked around for like two hours. Yeah, yeah. I went to that mall too. Yeah, it's a really nice ball. Yeah. That's where that guy recognized me and Brian.

Yeah. And he took a picture with us. And then we go, you come to the show tonight? He was like, nah. Yeah. I love that. I've walked around a mall where my show is in the mall. And people are like, oh, you doing a show around here?

Yeah, right there. In this mall. Yeah. There go. Ah, wish I got tickets. I'm here tomorrow night too. It's not sold out. I'll give you tickets.

Yeah. They go, it's probably sold out. Yeah. Man, not even close. You can come. I'll sit you right up front if you want. Great weekend out there, wise guys. Keith is the man.

It's just a great club. It is. The shows were all really good. Jordan Macon, or I can't remember his name. Yeah. But he hosted. He's great. That's one of those clubs where the hosts are like headliners.

He's really great. It was just a hot show from the jump. And then we flew to Washington, D.C. I did the D.C. Improv on Sunday. Nice. Basically perfect club, too. It's a great club. It was just so great, and everybody there was so nice.

So thank you to everybody who came out to those shows. Well, I feel like you guys got really detailed about your weekends, and I just said where I was at, but I liked my shows, too. Okay. Well, I assume. And I actually like the Mormon people. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, me too. Did I say? No, you said it like I was. Okay, okay. I think what you would like about it is they have your same philosophy of there's no, if you walk in that church or whatever, there's no images, there's no statues, there's nothing. I'm down with a lot of this, not all their stuff, but I'm down with a lot of it. Of course.

The only Christian that he worships is Christian Bail. You saw, apparently he's shouting you out to other. I know, that's what I'm talking about. That was my segue into that. I wanted to talk about. Well, that's what I'm talking about. I mean, that was pretty cool. Well, tell us, what happened.

Well, Shane Gillis was on, somebody emailed me in the morning and told me this, and I was very excited about it. But Shane Gillis was apparently on a podcast that's here in Nashville, right? Bussing with the boys. Bussing with the boys. And he talked about being in a movie with Christian Bale. And Christian Bail was like, you'll never believe who I met. And he goes, dusty sleigh. That's incredible.

And yeah, it was like really great. Because even, you know, it's like, what's funny is like Shane seems really super. by his answer. But not in a negative way. No, no, it was more like, oh,

this guy, that's how big of a fan of stand-up he is. Yes. Is that he didn't say, oh, I saw Kevin Hart somewhere. Right. It was Dusty Slay,

like a comic comic. Yeah. Yeah. So that's really cool. It's incredible. That's what I'm talking about. So he's out there talking about meeting you to other people. I know,

that is crazy, dude. But it validates our story. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, most people take me serious, I think they believe us, but I just like it.

Here we go. Somebody else saying it. Yeah. A little double talking about. Yeah. That's what we need out here. Confirmation. Well, can I share some negative news with you guys?

I would love it. I just want you guys to know that that is how it goes with everything I say. And you guys will one day realize that. And it'll be, you know. Have you ever been wrong about something? Well, I have been. Yeah. A long time ago.

Yeah. No, of course I've been wrong. But I do admit when I'm wrong. But people like to, they love to come at me. made. They love to, and they go about, there was a post, and I'm not even, I don't even think I'm in the public figures Facebook group anymore, but I was scrolling Facebook and I saw a post where a guy was talking about how we were talking about the picture with the stars and he goes, and then they gave him an explanation and they still didn't believe it. And then all the comments were like,

like a true contrarian or whatever. And I'm like, if you believe something and then somebody just presents you with some flimsy picture, you don't just change your whole tune. You know what I mean? come on it's not contrary and it's just like that's not enough for me and then now they're like putting out pictures with the stars in it they go oh I guess so Dusty's on to it but they are though they go oh I was at home I forgot about these moon photos I took didn't put those out day one but I forgot about these here's here's my question then we can move on because we've harped on this enough but do you think the reason the stars weren't in those pictures is because NASA was manufacturing them and forgot to put the stars in?

Is that the explanation? I don't think they forgot. I think. But why do you think they're not in the picture? He's like, nobody will even talk about it. I think he brings it up. I mean, like, oh, well, I think it's all a distraction. And they'd rather us talk about it.

They don't really care because people questioning the narrative, they don't give it any, I don't think they pay any mind to it. It doesn't make any difference, but it forces us to fight about things. You think they deliberately withheld putting stars in the photos so that we would have debates about why there aren't stars in the photos? Yeah. Okay. All right.

I mean, yeah. Mission accomplished. Yeah. I don't know if this is, this debate is that rampant outside of this podcast, but. You're not on the same algorithm. That is true. That is true. I'm mostly John Boy right now.

That's what I'm watching. I listen to the We're Having a Good Time podcast and you guys should check it out if you have it. Dusty, you said something there. I thought could be a joke for you. Okay. Because he was talking about the moon, all this stuff. And he's like, why aren't they posting with pictures? He's like, if I was on there, as soon as I landed, I'd be getting on Instagram and Facebook.

It was just very funny how you present it. Yeah. Like, why aren't these astronauts going on their socials? And we're like, look at this one. Exactly. Exactly. I mean, even just from a standpoint of like, even just a fan, like, say you don't do anything in entertainment and your new family photos or your big post. Yeah.

You can't wait to post them. Yeah, of course. People, like go on Facebook on Easter or Christmas or Mother's Day. It's flooded with, oh, look at picture of my mom here. If you're an astronaut, you land, you go. I'd be loading it up on the bus ride back to the station. No, the ocean in the capsule. Yeah.

Floating. Yeah, there's went to space. What's the Wi-Fi password? I'd be live streaming the flight down into the ocean. You'd be on kick live streaming. Yeah. I don't know if I accept the premise of this. I feel like they're pumping out all kinds of content.

They're everywhere. There's all kinds of pictures. They're dragging it out. Oh, okay. Let's get on with it. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

All right. Let me share some Nate Land news of you guys. Let's do it. Nate Land presents the showcase season four. Last week, Heather Land, premier her showcase set. This Thursday at 7 o'clock central, we've got Chris Martin. All right. Chris is a British comedian.

A cold play? I don't think so. He is a British. Same name. miss him. You know, Chris Martin from Co-Play was in town this weekend. Was he really? He and Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter, Apple, graduated from Vanderbilt.

Wow. And then I just read the stay. And then Gwyneth went over to exit in and sang some songs. You know what? The only reason I know that they were married is because when they got divorced or separated, they said that they consciously uncoupled. That's how they were with it. We've consciously uncoupled.

That's what I hope to do with you guys said. You don't want to do it while you're asleep. But Chris Martin, I was at that show that he performed at. Very, very funny. He had a great set. So make sure you check that out. Yeah, he's a British comedian. He lives in the U.S.

Former writer on the Late Late Show with James Corton. All right. And so we got a new comic every week on the Nateland YouTube channel. Nateland has a new podcast called Life of Dad. And we're recording this on Monday. It came out today. It comes out every Monday. Hosted by Tom Riles, Mike James, and Lee Kimbril.

That's a hot podcast. It is. Mike and Lee, we know very well. Very funny comedians here in Nashville. I know Tom. He used to do warm up for the Ellen show for many, many years. He's the founder of Life of Dad, a worldwide community of dads. They have a huge following.

And, yeah, the first episode came out today. That's great. We've been talking a lot of dad stuff today. Yeah, we did. Maybe they'll have us on sometime. But Mike, you know, Mike James has been on the podcast a bunch, very funny. Lee Kimbril is a buddy of ours, who I'm sure will be on here at some point. He's really great.

Just became a dad. Just became a father. So that's kind of his perspective. But go check out those guys. They're all really, really good dudes. And Mike's kids are nearly grown. Yeah. So it's got the full spectrum of it.

It's nice. Yeah. And the breadwinters coming to theaters May 29th. All right. Starring us three and Nate. Yeah. I'm pumped about it. Oh.

And Graham Kay's Pete and me. Still out there. Graham was on last week. All right. It is still out there. It's not going away, but watch it. It's great. Yeah, seriously.

It's great. Everybody loves it. He just said it's still out there. Watch it while you can. Yeah. Well, the breadwinner coming to theaters May 29th. I'm pumped about it. We're very excited.

I was listening to The We're Having a Good Time podcast, if you guys remember that. And Dusty said he wants to take his kids to see the breadwinner because they've seen him on TV so often that they don't care anymore. So he wants to see him in the other. Well, this is what I said. It was the most narcissistic. thing I've ever heard. This is, no. You know, you know, Brian lies.

This is Dusty's. The Dusty's curated YouTube for his kids is all just videos of him. Hey, look at your dad on Nashville Square. My daughter doesn't even know I do stand-up. Is that true? Yeah, that's true. Well, this is, this is what I said. That, because, like, back in the day, being on TV was a huge deal.

But now we have all these smart TV. So, I'm on YouTube or something. Sometimes even, you know, sometimes. Why are you showing them clips of you while they're playing? Like, why are you watching you? Well, it's like if you pull up YouTube, like, you know, a video of mine, if it's been watched in the past, may just pop up and they go, oh, there's dad. Right. So I'm on the TV.

So it's not that big of a deal. Well, there's no difference in their mind between like YouTube on the television and actual. Right. stuff that I can just load on the TV myself versus being on TV. So I think it might be cool for my daughter to, we're sitting in a movie theater and watching a movie and then all of a sudden there I am. I think that'd be exciting. That would be exciting. Yeah.

You know. Well, May 29th. That's coming out. Yeah, go see it. They're on the full press tour right now, man. I'm seeing it everywhere. Yeah. It's going to be good.

Speaking of Nate, his big, dumb, eyes, tour this weekend will be in Providence, Rhode Island, Albany, New York, Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Syracuse, New York. Oh, I also want to say, I am my special working man that used to be on Netflix. I had a two-year lease with Netflix, so it's off Netflix now, but I'm going to post it on YouTube on the 26th. Okay. It'll be there. All right. How about that? go watch it and share it back. Yeah, it's mine. I love that. So, yeah, so I'm going to put it on

YouTube, so share it with a friend. If everybody listens to this podcast, that listens to this podcast, shares it with one person, that'd be very good. And then they share it with one person and they share it. Yeah. Put it in an email. Say, if you don't share this with 10 people, you'll have bad luck for five years. Remember those? I do remember those. I still see on Facebook, people will do the thing where they'll say, I bet five of my friends won't share this. Isn't it crazy? I unfriend those people where I see them. They're usually my family members.

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I liked it. I liked that. You like being ambush with the topic? Well, I just thought you were bringing up stuff. Wow. It was an interesting thing to have Kathleen, it was her first time on a podcast, that we all respect so much as a comedian. I almost didn't want to step on whatever she wanted to talk about with a topic. That's right.

So I didn't want to close us in too much. I liked it. We ended up talking about a lot of it. It was a hot episode. I know that's the stuff she's into. Yeah. Weird stuff like that. Oh, yeah.

So I tried to shoehorn it in. Yeah. Okay. This first comment comes from Taylor Brantley. Interesting way to spell Taylor. But this is my first encounter with Kathleen, and I was not disappointed. I think everyone. She's great.

She's great. It's shocking that this is the first time you've heard her. But yeah, she's great. You're not great, Taylor. but Kathleen is. Well, go check out some of her. I'm saying that. I'm saying that.

Go check out her standup. If you liked her on here. Yeah. She's like who she is on the podcast, who she was. That's just, she takes that right on stage and that's who she is. That's pretty cool. People are like she's the female version of Dusty. A lot of people are saying, you guys really vived.

Yeah, well, we do vibe. She's not as into the conspiracy as me. You know, when I tried to get into a bit of the conspiracy with the Malaysian airline, she shut that down pretty fast. but I like that she's digging into. Oh, she digs. Yeah. She digs.

All right. This one's coming from Adam Schmidt, the rearranger, or maybe Fing Sle. Fing Sle. Fing Sle. Fing Sle. Yeah, I don't know how to say it. Fung Sway. Fung Sle.

What is the say? Fung Shway? Fung Sleigh. Fung Sleigh. He's called it F-E-N-G-D-D. I don't think it's a good name because none of us can say it. But I like where your head's at. It's a good pawn, though.

Yeah. It's a good pawn. I like where he heads at, but, you know, we can't say it. I even know what Feng Shui is, and I still couldn't get it. So that's tough. But I think maybe we call it, because someone did talk about the spelling of Rearanger, that if you don't put that little hyphen in there. Rearanger.

Rearanger. So that could be a different kind of shape. Yeah, like you're a ranger for rears. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So. So. I did it a corporate last week for the Kentucky Petroleum Marketers Association. Wow. And that. Petroleum? Okay.

The KMMMA? Yeah. KPM. Oh, I left off the P. Yeah. KPMA. But that was tough to, I had to work on saying. I kept saying Kentucky Petroleum.

How do you... It's a spoonerism. That sounds like the, you know, no offense to them. But it just sounds like the most useless organization. How do you have to market petroleum? We're getting it. We're buying it. Well, I think a lot of their work now is making sure that they have, like, the same incentives from the government as, like,

EVs and stuff like that. Oh, okay. So they're not marketing to us. They're marketing to the government. No, I mean, I don't really understand what they do. They were very nice people. Probably marketing you to like Shell or somebody like that. I know they had a heck of a cheesecake at the reception.

That's all. That's all. Well, that's what people ask me sometimes with corporates. They go, do you cater your material? I go, most of the time, I don't even know what the company is. Yeah, yeah, you find out up there. What do you guys do? Was there a silent auction?

There was a silent auction. Anything good? They had a lot of interesting stuff. Did you get anything? I didn't. I thought about it. I thought about getting the Larry Bird jersey, autographed by Larry Bird.

It was pretty cheap, but then some other guy got it. Keep looking at my shirt. It's my new merch here. Yeah. I was at Ethan Rose across the street before this, and the barissa said, that's a funny shirt. Really? Yeah.

How about that? Brian's got on the new Aaron Weber Bobblehead T-shirt. I've got merch for the first time in a long time. That's a great shirt. That's a Zach Woomer, who has done some work with you. Yeah. Dusty guy out of Philadelphia. a really talented

artist. Designed my cover for my rock pot comedy album. Yeah. Kind of an unknown album. Yeah. It's a good cover. Well, anyway, go buy some merch from

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Donna Worley. If we return to the horseback standard of travel, we can look forward to Brian's easier to canter tours. Well, that is true. Yeah, yeah. Cantor is a good word. Yeah. Not trot, not Gallup, canter.

She picked the best word. She did. I like the dressage, something like that. I don't know what that means. That's where they're like, Crip Walk. I think she's related to Darrell Worley. Yeah, but she is. Probably.

She has to be. Yeah. Not a lot of Worley's out there. It's not. Oh, I like this one. This guy got on this name quick. Yeah. He was early to the internet here.

This is Bob. I don't know if that's his email address. Bob at gmail.com. If Aaron hears a horse with no name in other context, does he then need to go? Interesting. Like Pavlov's dog. Do I have a Pavlovian response to the song? Not yet.

I'll tell you, I have a Pavlovian response to... Cheesecake? I'm sorry, you finish. Soul Man, which is the song. They play that song before every show at Zanis. For 30 plus years, I think, they've played that same song before every show at Zanis. So when I hear it elsewhere,

I get a little rush of adrenaline as if I'm about to go on stage. Wow. Do you know what I mean? Sure. If you were in her car and you started to hear Soul Man on the radio, you'd be like kicking the show mode a little bit. Yeah, get nervous. Yeah, you'd get a little nervous. I'd turn it off.

Yeah, I would. I'll change the channel. I don't need to hear this, man. One of those guys who I think lived in Nashville recently passed away. The guy who wrote it, I think. I was at a show once he came to the show. Yeah, I was at a show once when he was here. Maybe it was the same show.

Could have been. We've done a lot of the same shows together. Yeah. I know that guy's name, too, and I cannot. Steve. Blue Brother. Like, I didn't know. Steve Cropper?

Yeah, they say it in the song. Yeah. Steve Cropper, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. Okay, there's, okay, because there's two songs that Zanis plays before. It's Soul Man and then another song. Okay, so the other one, that's a country singer, blues guy. Yeah.

His daughter used to come to the shows. Oh, okay. Very good, but I can't think of anybody's name right now. Okay, I have a newborn, and I don't get the best sleep right now. I hear you. Jake Stevens, Aaron has told the origin story of Dusty's Wave a few times before, and I swear it gets me... I think it's supposed to be every time. Every time. Okay. Just picturing gotcha during a show that's not going well is the most hilarious thing to me.

Yeah, you know, you think about, you know, if you wave to somebody and you put your hand right in front of their face and you go, gotcha. You know what I mean? I really was playing around with the wave for a while, trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to do. And now, I don't know, I'm still waving on stage, but now I can't, I feel like I can't do the joke anymore. I've done the joke on The Tonight Show. I did the joke on a Netflix half hour.

I did the joke on Working Man, and it's like, I can't keep doing the setup. And without the setup, you know, some people will know what I'm doing. I think you're stuck. Yeah. I think you're like Bert with taking, a shirt off. I'll,

you know, who doesn't like a wave, you know, you go, hey, all right, we're having a good time. Welcome to loves. Yeah,

exactly. Well, that is, you know, you walk in, you got, yeah, they go,

welcome to loves and you just give them a wave. You don't have to say anything. You just wave all the way through. All right. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

I love doing that. Yeah. I got new wave jokes now, though. I'm not going to do them, but I do have some new ones. Some new wave jokes. Yeah. Not new wave,

new wave. like, not like the music. Oh. They're not new way of jokes. Like N, you with two little dots on it, whatever? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. You remember New Metal.

Oh, yeah. We grew up on new metal. Corn, Limp Biscuit, stuff like that. Yeah, and it's new NU with the two little dots. You know, I loved one album by corn. I grew up on corn. I liked, yeah, the real stuff. COLR.

Yeah. But Limp Biscuit is one of my favorites. They were. so unironically awesome for so long. Yeah. I didn't know where that was going. I mean, the first three albums, unbelievable to me. John Otto, take it to the Matthews Bridge.

But it felt like then Fred Durst felt like he was trying to get too cool with rappers, right? And then Eminem on the D12 album, his final track on that D12 album, roasted Fred Durst pretty hard. Yeah, yeah. And I feel like it took all history crap. Maybe. It wasn't even a popular album, but that, that roast was pretty strong. Man, some of these, you know, Kevin Hart just did a, they just had a roast for Kevin Hart.

Yeah. Last night. Yeah. They can, I feel like, change a perception of someone if they just keep going in. I'm not saying anybody yesterday last night, but. You know what? It also can do. If you sit there and laugh at the jokes about you, that can change the perception of you, too.

In a good way. Lizzo, yeah, in a great way. Lizzo was on there last night, took a beating, just relentless. But every time they cut to her, she was, like, dying, laughing, and seemed like she loved it. Sing sincere. And I was just like, oh, maybe she's super cool. I have no idea. The Beaver, Justin Bieber roast, before that, I thought of him as kind of a joke.

I remember, because I'm older than him, and I was just like, this kid stinks. Like his music, I don't know his music. And then he did that roast, and he handled it so well. I was like, oh, this guy might rule. I have no idea. It can change your perception of people. people. Yeah. I agree. Can you take a joke? Yeah. But I don't think that's how you, you know, when you listen to Eminem Rose Fred Durst in that song, you didn't come away of that going. I bet Fred loved that. You know, but I do think Fred is, you know, he's still out making it. We're on a first name basis. I think that they still are, they're huge in like Russia and stuff right now, Eastern Europe.

No West Borland. To me, when West Borland left, that was kind of the end of Limp Biscuit for me. The fourth album. He was the guy in the monkey mask. He was the guy who had the big pupils. Yeah, that's what he played. I don't know what he played. He played guitar, but it had like a seven string on it or something. I don't know. Yeah, he looked crazy. Yeah. I think he left when it was turning a little bit. Like, because, you know, they were getting to rap, but it was almost like they were beefing. And I think my feeling is Wes was like, I don't, I'm just trying to play music. Let's get back to the good vibes of went best. Yeah, exactly.

Okay. Luke, uh, Ariandondo. Area, area dondo. Wow. Aredondo. What do you think? That's pretty good. Arirond.

Yeah. As someone named Luke, I have, I have to unfortunately remark that Luke wasn't an, an apostle. He was an evangelist, but not an apostle. Yeah, that's by bad. Well, thank you, it's all good. Thanks for clearing that. It's an easy mistake to make. I love that. I love that that's his last name, but the comment starts with, uh, as someone named Luke, he's like, yeah, dude, we're not focused on that first name, buddy. Let's talk about that last name, bud. Luke was a doctor. That's right. What do you think a doctor was doing back then? I bet you would trust a doctor back then more than you would now. Yeah, he probably had herbs and stuff.

And you probably... Reaches. Yeah. Yeah, just good stuff. I'm into that. And everyone died at 35. That's what they say, but I don't believe it. Yeah.

I don't believe it. That's the middle ages. I think you're... I don't know in Jesus time. I think people live longer than that. Because Jesus died at 33, you'd be like, well, he was going to die two years anyway. No, but I don't think he was a young man.

He wasn't considered a young man at the time. Yeah. People grew up harder. So, you know, they probably aged quicker. Because, you know, you had to do stuff. John lived in, like, 70s or 80s. You didn't get to wake up and go, ah, and then, you know, watch Netflix and microwave a hot pocket. And I guess I better go to the store and pick up some energy drinks.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I could wake up and work. Hope I don't get diarrhea or my whole family will die this week. Yeah, exactly. See, I think that's what it is. I think there were more diseases. Oh, gosh.

So there would be more kind of like bigger die-offs. So when you combine the ages. Die-off sounds like a competition. Yeah. So when you're having a real die-off over there. So you had people living like 90 to 110, but then you have all these people dying of leprosy. That brings the average down. It brings the average down.

Yeah. That's what I think is happening. Well, I'd like to see the mean, the median and the mean. Yeah, exactly. Just to see. These comments come from the geography episode. Amy Ball Miller, Graham is one of the best guests, plus I like to learn geography. Believe it or not, I ended up getting myself a big map of the U.S., and I have it hanging in my living room,

so I can follow along better when you guys talk about the states. I guess I need to get a world map now. I don't think you do. I'm sorry I was having a hard time. I honestly think you need to find a better podcast for yourself. She said, believe it or not, we believe it. Yeah. That's really nice.

Thank you, Amy. Do you all do that? Do you ever plot out? I've got on my Google Maps, I've got every venue I've performed on there. So you can kind of, I zoom out and just look at it. That's all the places I've done comedy right there. I do that too. That's pretty cool.

I can't put it on the screen, but I. You can take a screenshot and send it to me. I do that too. Look at that. I want to see. Yours is probably much more than me. Well, the thing about it is, they're probably similar. But when you zoom in, more start to open up.

Yeah, yeah. Like if you were to zoom in here to just like the Nashville area, there's all like all kinds of little places here. But it's fun to see. I also got a little map at my house with little pins. Okay. Cool. Just to keep an eye on it.

Believe it or not. Believe it or not, I got one. You can believe it if you want to, but you don't have to. I think she was implying. Now, I like it. I appreciate her. This is how lame I am. I'm so into you guys that I went and got a map to follow you.

No, we appreciate it, Amy. We do appreciate it. Yeah, we do. All right. We do. I don't need it to sound like it doesn't. But I just, when she said, believe it or not. I know we joke around a lot, but we really do.

So thank you, Amy. Believe it or not, guys. Okay, this one, next one's coming from Becky. Just a one name here. Becky. Becky with an eye. Yeah. With a good hair.

Okay. I don't know where that's coming from. I thought you were going to. explain it, but... Beyonce. Okay. Say what you want about Dusty's AI use.

Okay. I will. I'm about to. But when I played his raccoon song for my husband and daughter, they both said, why do I like this so much?

I think everyone's loving it. It's a great song. Where is it in the video where I can actually go to? When the videos start? Yeah, yeah. Right here. Let's play it.

Here I'm going to play a little bit of it. Do we have the copyright to this? Oh, nobody does. I wrote to it. I wrote to fake. Hold on. Well, so I've been creating these dark tone

Thanks. These are good songs. I mean, it's a good song. Guess who came along? Look at this meat. It was a wrecked. I mean, it's a good jam. Wow.

It's a hot song. I mean, don't doubt. No, it's just, you know, I just took some footage from my own trail can. That's the real raccoon from your yard right there. Yeah, yeah. And then. That guy's living large. Yeah.

I found some old kind of freezer burn. stakes that were dug deep down in there and I go. I got the trail cam. I want to see what happens. You already had the song made at this point? No, I made the song around the video. All right. I like the problem. What was the prompt for this? A little Nora Jones-esque? Well, I get into the proms. I get into the prompts. Okay. I really dig in. I got some other ideas right now. I got a good trailer park song. Okay. It's very funny. You put Morgan Wallen-esque. Yeah. Yeah. And no, none of the AI country is not very good. I hate... Sounds very hokey. Yeah, I hate the AI country voice. So I do more, I like more lounge songs like this. I got a bathroom song that sounds like a Disney song. It's very good.

Dusty, AI's killing us. You're the big, you're the problem. Well, I figure it like this. They're, you know, they, you remember John Henry, the story of John Henry? He used to, you worked on railroads or whatever. And then the steam engine came along. And John Henry was, you know, like, I can beat the steam engine. Right. And so he raced the steam engine. And then he beat it. But didn't he die?

And he died. And the steam engine continued. I go, why try to fight the steam engine? Because you're going to die anyway. Just work with the steam engine. Might as well sing about raccoons. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Who needs water? I know for a fact, your daughter asked you a question about Jesus. And she said, let's go ask chat GPT. That is true, too. And that's where I was like, this is a dog. dark. You just ask your dad. And then if I don't know, I'll go out chat. Because, you know, this is what I think is scary about AI, though.

I watch some TikToks and people they talk about, they say don't use AI because they go, oh, it said some stuff to me. And then as they keep talking, they reveal that they're like just having conversations with chat, GBT like it's their friend. Yeah. I go, don't do that. What are you doing? Mm-hmm.

Talk to me on TikTok. you know what I mean come on I'm out here you are out there after I go on Twitter I'm like why am I reading

this person's post I don't know there and then I'll scroll down it's because Dusty's reply to them I love it it's the reason

I stay on Twitter is just to watch it's funny and most of the ones I respond to are probably bots but I just that's why I'm like

I don't care I can insult them because it's likely they're a bot yeah so I think it's fun yeah okay

next is sane cane. Same cane. As a graphic designer for the last 25-ish years, the advent of AI will probably mean I won't be able to retire as a graphic designer. Maybe I should pivot to being a chiropractor. Interesting. That's good idea.

Try to think of a way to combine the two. You know? Yeah. I mean, there is a way because a lot of times you can use AI to create a graphic and give yourself an idea of how you might like it to go. But, you know, if you're, if you are a graphic designer, you can probably do a better job, you know, but you can get, you know, you can get a little thing in there where I can design a pretty good poster, I think, but then when you start putting the text on there with AI, it doesn't look very good. And you don't want to do your face.

You can do a poster and, and then you could draw the text on there and stuff. So I think there is still room, but it's not just graphic designers. AI is going to take a lot of jobs. Yeah. I would also say, saying Kane, if you've been a graphic designer for 25 years, I mean, the amount of technology that has entered into your industry since then, I don't, I mean, maybe AI is like fundamentally different than the rest of them, but you've adapted to all of these other changes. Yeah, 25 years ago, what are you using colored pencils? That's pre-photoshop. Yeah. You know? and crayons and markers.

Colored pencils. Cutting out newspaper letters. Cereal killer. But yeah, get into chiropractor. You'll adapt, man. Do you know why I said that about chiropractor? Because, yeah, because Dusty said that's his backup career. Yeah.

I love a chiropractor. A lot of us in here, we go to the same chiroprime. We'll get a Bradshaw in Old Hickory. Great, great chowperator. What's his name, Bradshaw? Bradshaw, yeah. You said it like it was one word. His last name is Bradshaw.

Okay. Dr. Bradshaw. Was his first name Bradshaw? No. Bradley Bradshaw? His first name's doctor. Okay. Is he a doctor?

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what a doctor is, but. Does he have an MD? Guys. I call him doctor. He's a doctor Capric. I call him Mr.

Dr. Bradshaw. Yeah. You request, he calls you doctor as well. Yeah. He's great, though. I always think of that. Hannah's old joke. Who's your doctor?

Dr. Dre? Remember that joke? That's a great joke. Can I use that? Yeah. Can I get all her old material? I took one of the jokes. Did you? Yeah. You know, sometimes... Five o'clock somewhere? Yeah. Sometimes when my older comic friends will quit comedy, but they don't announce that they've quit. They just kind of are not doing it. I go, I asked a guy one time, I go, he said he was retiring.

He later denied it. But he said he was retiring. And I go, hey, can I have some of your jokes? Because he had some good jokes. And then next thing, he never responded. And then he's like, doing comedy again. That was the kick that he needed to get back again. He's like, Dusty Slay's interested in my stuff.

Maybe I do got something. Okay. This is a tough last name here. Chandler Repair. Let's do. Repair, yeah. Chandler Lapeer. Repair.

That's a tough loss name. Sure is. Dusty, well, all right, well, I like it. Dusty is 100% correct. If anyone says they want to stay with standard time and not switch, then they don't know what daylight savings time actually is. If everyone understood it, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who wanted it to get dark at 5 p.m. I agree. Because they ask the question, they go, do you want to get rid of daylight savings time? And people go, yes. So they go, yes. So they go, yes. Yep, people want it to, because I think most people would like it to be lighter later. Now, people that go to work early, probably, I don't know, I prefer going to work when it's dark. You don't even see what you're missing. Everybody get together, figure something out, well, we don't have to change the clocks. Right. You know, just figure something out.

I don't know, I don't want to get into the weeds of it. 30 minutes, meet in the middle? It's meat in the middle. I say, let's... That would really mess up. Let's make it so that the sun comes up at 10 o'clock in the morning. Well, we're working on dimming it right now. Yeah.

Once we block it out. Stop. This is the name of the next person. We went from Bob to this. Stop the Lego motion. The U.S. tried doing year-round day-like savings time in 1974 and had to cancel it due to public outcry over how dark and dangerous it was in winter mornings. You're not going to please everybody. People are going to get upset no matter what you do.

And this was 1974. People could get outraged about things back then. Now, we're outraged every day about something new. You had to work for your outrage back then. Yeah. You had to write a letter to your senator or something? Now, people would be outraged until the next thing came up to be outraged about. So I say everybody's outraged all the time. We're on edge.

Brian, what was that like? Did you have outraged? 19704? I was alive, but I don't remember that. What are you born? 72? 71. Why do you have to overshoot it? Well, I knew that 10, 10, 10. See, I'm born in 82.

Oh, okay, 91. Yeah. Spring, guys, it sneaks up on you. Next thing you know, it's wedding season. We're already there. Big trips. Spring now, isn't it? All right, you start over?

No, keep going. I'm just saying. I mean, it did sneak up on us. it's already here. All right. Let me start over. Spring snuck up on us, guys. Didn't it?

Yeah, it did. Wow. I don't know where. I didn't even know it was spring. Yep. Well, that's because it's your new year. You're still in the first month of the year, right? Yeah.

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I think it's Rado Rado that's how she brought Colorado I was born and raised there and heard it pronounced that way my whole life I moved to Tennessee when I was in my late 30s and

was shocked to learn that nobody outside of the state or at least nobody in the south pronounces it correctly. Well, Michelle, listen, we don't care. Okay? We're not going. How do they do it? I'm from a town called Opelika and nobody even in the state could sometimes pronounce it correctly. Clearly you guys do care because when I say it the way I want to say it. Opelica? How do you say? Opelica. Talk about Colorado. I think it's fine. It just was funny to me. All right. Okay.

Interesting. Well, thank you, Michelle. Thank you, Michelle. Listen, I have had, I don't know if you noticed, but when we started this podcast, I had three drinks over here. And I'm down to one. You need to take a break? I need to take a just a real quick break. All right.

Brian, finally, dude. Let's talk about NASA. Let me get to NASA.gov. Are we going to keep going? Yeah, we can keep. I mean, we can. do you want to wait on him? I mean, we can vamp the two of us.

Let's see how long he takes. Yeah. We've been here long enough. Yeah. Been doing this six years, man. We can figure something out to talk about. So what are your? Hopes and dreams.

Yeah, what would you say your biggest fear is? Dusty leave in the room and we just have to talk to each other. It's just me and you. Have you had friends like that in your life that you think is a very good friend? But you realize they're not a good one-on-one friend. Like I have comedy friends. where I'm like in a group were buds. But then one on one, it's like, I need somebody else to really carry this.

Let me ask you this. If you were in a car ride with someone you didn't know, would you prefer there'd be two guys in the car you didn't know? Or would that make it more awkward or less awkward? It would make it less awkward to have two people you don't know. But do they know each other? Let's say no. Okay. No, that's way less awkward.

because then it's three people meeting each other. Yeah. And then there's always that weird dynamic where only I would want one person in the front, one person in the back. Don't you hate when you're driving and there's people in the back and they're having a good conversation and can't even hear them? Yeah. And you're stuck up there like an Uber driver.

Does that happen a lot? I think so. You're seeing Olive just back there and setting it up? No, no. But sometimes like if you're driving a big group like a family. Somebody gets out the front. Yeah. And it's just like you and like, you know, a whatever aunt in the front.

And you're driving and then they're having so much fun in the back. And you can't, you can't hear him. Yeah. And then you talk, they can't hear you. Oh, Dustin, we missed you, man. Good to see you, dude. We really got into it. Oh, good.

What's your biggest fear? Well, um, uh, the hannah virus? No. The hannah virus? How do you say it? Hanta. But you sound like it's his wife's name. My wife is Hanna.

I don't know. what are my fears? I'm talking about like clowns or spiders or stuff like that. You have any fears like that? Oh, ghost. Okay, ghost. Yeah, I'm afraid of ghost. What about demons?

Well, I think they're pretty much the same. Yeah. You know, aliens, ghosts, demons, all one and the same. And also, I think there could be some good, you know, some angels. But I don't think angels are going to be presenting themselves in a scary way. Right. Okay. Although in the Bible, they're always scared when they showed up.

Right. I think, yeah, I mean, I think any supernatural being is a little scary. Yeah, yeah. And if you saw some of the, you know, the figures that are described in heaven and the Bible, those would be pretty scary. You know, like the, I mean, there's some wild ones. But, okay. So I want to say, before we get into the topic, you know, that I love to trash people in the comments. It's really fun to me.

But I do appreciate that you guys write in and watch the podcast. Yeah. It's more fun for me to make fun of you. And I was thinking as I was peeing that Michelle that I was saying, we don't care. And we don't care how you pronounce Colorado. But I appreciate you listening to this. Yeah. Yeah.

You get some of your best thinking done while you're peeing. Yeah. Sometimes they're very long. Sometimes I wake up in the night and I go to the bathroom and my wife wakes up and she thinks that there's water running because it's been going for so long. Turn about faucet off. Yeah. But I got a strong bladder.

I had food poisoning this weekend. Oh, that's real bad, man. Woke up at 4 a.m. I just threw up for four hours straight. Yes. Brutal. Sorry to hear that.

Growing up is the worst. What do you think it was? I don't know. I couldn't pinpoint. I didn't eat that crazy the day before. I think it was just something. Something hit me the wrong way. You know, I had a joke like that, I think, where I said, I get food poisoning and they go, I never, I've dropped the joke, I think. It's a good joke.

You go where you can't narrow it down what caused it? Yeah, when you just eat bad all the time, it's really tough to narrow it down. It's a joke for you, but that was my real life. Yeah, yeah. Could have been Chipotle, could have been Taco Bell. Yeah, it could have been the gas station hot dog. First of all, Chipotle and Taco Bell on the same day is insanity. I've never done that.

Never done it? No, I've gone to, I've gone to the same fast food place. more than once in a day. But those were some low, dark days in my life. Where you go, you have that joke where you go, see you tomorrow, and they go, you know, you'll be back today or something like that. You say that to them. You know I'm coming back tonight. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you know what? Hannah gave me the tag for it. Oh, yeah. I remember that. I'd forgotten about that joke. Maybe I'll bring that back. Yeah, it's a good one. It wasn't bad, but it was one of those, like, you know, you're driving to a gig and back,

and I got McDonald's on the way, and then you're driving back, and you need gas around the same time. I'm not proud of it. You know, you have a... I'm older than that now. You have a whole album that was lost. That's true. And you should do all those. Like when I watched your half hour,

signature dish, I liked it, but I was like, I was like, there's no jokes from the Aaron Weber lost album on here. Yeah. And it was a lot of great jokes. I got to record them somewhere.

Yeah. I'm going to record them. All right, this week, I had this idea, and I've been told more than one person, it's probably a bad idea. Okay. But you've been told by two people that we think it's funny. That's right.

And you guys are all I care about. That's right. But I want to prove these other people wrong. And Michelle Parker. Yes. Yes. So back years ago in Nate Land, even before Dusty Bajorn, we did the decades. We did the 70s.

We did the 80s. And they were fun. Yeah. They were fun to do. Obviously, you were too young to remember the 70s and 80s and not much of the 90s. And Nate couldn't remember. remember a lot of it either. Yeah. So it's more fun when we have real memories of these events. So I suggest you guys, what if we start with the year 2000 and not do decades, but go year by year?

I love it. I love the idea. And it could get tough because I think a lot of these years are going to be kind of starting to get a little similar as we go, but we're going to see what happens. Well, things are going to take a turn in 2001. I don't want to get ahead of ourselves. But a 2000, I think, was a good time. Yeah, yeah. And I'm not saying we'll go every, like if we have a guest or something, we're not going to just force it on them. Sure.

Kind of like the states. We're going to go. We can revisit it. That's right. The state, if we still haven't finished. Well, you're right. We're going to keep doing those too. We did talk about it.

But then I feel like you sprung. Now, 2000 is a, it was a pretty memorable year for me. Yes. So I think, but I feel like you kind of sprung this date on us today. No. What do you mean? Where you go? I don't know.

I wasn't ready when you go. We're going to be talking about the year 2000 today. I thought I said that in the text. Do you need to go pee again before we record this? But, you know, in the book, we're having a good time. I talk about the year 2000 a lot. I don't know if I say it by the year. But, you know, the year 2000 is when I graduated high school.

All right. Well, let's start with what we're all doing. There's 10 years apart each year. of us. So it should be a little bit interesting to see what we're all. Dusty, you started 2000 in a bunker for Y2K. Yeah. So talk a little bit about that. Yeah, what were you doing in 2000? Well, in 2000, I was, you know, I had, you know, it's my second half of my senior year. But can I ask, do you remember the Y2K? Let's start at the very beginning. Oh, yeah. So you want to go in chronological order. Well, not necessarily, but it feels a good place to start talking about the year, because it'll

illustrate what different places we were in life. All right. Going into the year 2000, I was eight years old. Okay. So I have memories, but very different memories in the two of you would have had. Right. Do you remember Y2K? Tell me about what that was like. Okay. I was 28 years old. Okay. And I was working at TV news station. So it was well on our mind. And it was covered. You covered it a lot on the show. The night of New Year's Eve, we, yeah, leading up to it, we had a lot of stories on it, the prep for it. And then on New Year's Eve, we had it like super staffed. Yeah. Because we didn't know what was going to happen. Right.

And if everything started crashing, we wanted to be ready. What was worst case scenario? Do you remember? I mean, I think it's like airplanes would fall out of the sky. Yeah. Like, that was worst case scenario. Like, people just didn't know. And I feel like, because the truth is, nothing really happened.

Some small things, but nothing. According to some people. Some people believe the world ended and now we're all living in a simulation. Okay. Well, put a pin in that. Yeah. I would like to get back to that. I went to hold that thought.

Some very small things happen, I think, but nothing major. And there's the argument, conspiracy theorists say, oh, it's just the media overreacting and all that. I don't know that's conspiracy theorists, but, but, and I would say, no, because we got the word out and people did the proper adjustments. I think they spent years and hundreds of billions of dollars to prevent things from happening. Yeah. Right. So like a lot of people made sure that the world wouldn't fall apart. I can't remember when I first heard about it. It probably was before 1999, but 1999 especially, started to ramp it up. We're all procrastinators. We knew about it for years,

but. Yeah. So all these, basically, if you don't know what Y2K is, most computers ended in two digits, the year 99. And when it rolled over to zero zero, they were afraid it would think it's 1900. Is that right? Yeah. It was the way that coding. worked decades and decades ago is you really had to consolidate information to save space. So they started abbreviating, you know, a four-digit year. They've cut it down to two, and that saved all kinds of space in the code and programming. But then that started to cause all kinds of problems. Think about the banking system, the financial system, everything that has all this code written in, and all of a sudden, it's two zeros. Yeah. Like there were people,

trying to swipe their credit card in like 97, and their expiration date was 2000. And the machine, like, wouldn't know how to process it. So they had problems leading all the way up to. Oh, okay. But, yeah, yeah, it had spent hundreds of billions to fix this, to get to reprogram all this stuff. And then, you know, pretty wild. What was your, so like you remember better than I do.

What was your memory of it? I remember, you know what I remember? you know what I think I was eight years old was I suppose that second grade how old is eight it's probably second maybe third second or third yeah second grade yeah I don't remember I remember

hearing about that something might happen but I remember watching the news and stuff that night seeing Brian on there seeing Brian on the in Montgomery Alabama we were watching we were watching News Channel 5 yeah I don't

I don't remember a ton about that I think was it a Sunday I think I remember going to church on New Year's. I don't think so. I could be wrong about that, but I really don't remember. My grandmother was worried about it, and she never came to our house, but she came to our house that night, you know, to stay. And I was 17, and I was like, you know, we always partied on New Year's, but we were, me and my friends were a little scared. So we went to downtown Auburn, but we didn't go into downtown. And me and a few of my friends, we kind of sat on the outside watching the countdown, you know, kind of hoping.

What did you think of what's going to happen in Auburn? Well, we thought, you know, to us, Auburn was, you know, that's pretty big city. That's the closest we got. But what would happen? Like the traffic light was flashing? Well, we didn't know. We thought, what, what is going to happen, right? We weren't conspiracy theorists, but people were acting.

I was very much asleep back then. But people would, you know, they were talking that some stuff might go down and we were like, what's going to happen? Yeah. And then. He just wanted to be in it. When it happened? We wanted to see it. Yeah, yeah. But we wanted to be outside of it so we could get away. Yeah. You know, and then, you know, from our standpoint, nothing happened. Right. But realistically, maybe we're living a simulation now. Some people do say that. I don't believe that, but I think that, I don't believe in the whole simulation thing. But there probably some, you know, they call people NPCs, non-playable characters. People are just walking around out here, but they're not real. People do say they're out here. I kind of tap into that a little bit.

But yeah, no, I don't. But people do say that. Even like 2012 with the Mayan calendar, a lot of people are like, that did happen. Or some people even say that the Mayan calendar was a little off and they meant 2020 when COVID happened. Oh, okay. But 2000 was great. All right. So we've established, I was working.

working at New Channel 5. You were in second or third grade. You were graduating high school that year? I had my, yeah, you know, is it January? You're going into senior year? Yeah, I'm, I'm senior year, you know, as it, you know, because it's like, you know, whatever it is, August to May. I graduated 1990, 2000, 2010. Yeah, yeah. So I graduated in May of 2000. So my senior year is still going to. So you've had senioritis for years now at this point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm, I mean, I'm having a good time though. I'm partying a lot. Uh, you know, it's, you know, are you thinking about college? Getting your studies.

No, no, not thinking about college whatsoever. Extracurriculars? I had, they had like a work exploratory or something. I forget exactly what it was called. A job? Yeah. Well, you could get a job. As long as you could prove that you had a job, we had the block scheduling, you know,

so you had four classes. Yeah. And you could get out of school on the fourth block. Right. So that second half, I only went to school for three blocks. So I would get out every day early. but my job wasn't until like, you know, four or five. So I could sit around.

I'd get out at one and go see a buddy of mine and then go home and play some video games. Getting out of school at one at 17. That's pretty awesome. That was a dream right here. You had a car at this point? I had a car, yeah. What was the car? I think by this point it was a four-door 1999 Saturn with great-1999, new.

But it was practically new. Practically new. My dad bought it, but it was very, very big. basic. Gray bumpers, stick shift, no power steering, no power windows. Yeah. Very unattractive car. I had a CD player? CD player for sure. Yeah. You know, one that I had installed myself where you could take, you remember how you could take the screen off. Oh, so cool. Yeah. Had a little graphics on it. But I, you know, I had a Ford Bronco 2 and then a full-size Bronco leading up to that, which were very cool cars, but they were pretty raggedy.

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When you're a kid, the years are defined by what grade you're in. Totally. So there's a clear distinction between years. You're learning different things and different grades. It's easy to separate them. But then you get out and get a job, and your 10 years will pass. You're like, what happened? It's all works together.

I had that exact thought today because my daughter turned five today, and I think it's like, it seems like it was no time from her being born to being five years old. but the four years last time that I spent in high school seemed forever. Like forever. When I graduated high school, I felt like I'd lived just full life. Like so many life experiences. And now I've done it three times. Well, I think you experience fewer new things as you get older, right?

And your brain only perceives the passage of time insofar as it is experience. new things. Yeah. New sensations, new sights, new sounds, all of those things. I remember graduating and I went to an eye doctor and this pretty attractive, whatever the, I don't know. Woman? She wasn't the eye doctor, but she was. Reception.

Whoever is in between, before you see the eye doctor. The hygienist. Yeah, but that's the dentist. The eye dentist. Yeah. But she said to me, she goes, you know, they say high school is the best years of your life, but she said, That's not true. Don't believe it. No one ever. Did they say that?

They used to say that all the time. Oh. The best years of your life. And I go, I had a great time. But it's nowhere close to the best years. Did she say what they were? No, you didn't. I'd like to know.

Yeah. I miss it. Well, you say there's a difference between the most fun time of your life and the happiest time of your life. Yeah. Right? Like, wouldn't you say these last five years with your children and with your wife and your career doing well, that's the happy. I mean, that's, you're happy on a deeper, more profound level.

I would for sure say that out loud. On a public podcast. But you know what I mean. No, for sure, it has more meaning to it. Totally. But in a lot of ways. But you were having more fun in Charleston drinking and smoking and getting in fights. Honestly, I would say some, I think about this a lot.

The last two years that I lived in Charleston where I didn't drink and I rode my bike everywhere and I took control of my life. I look back on the as like two of my happiest years. Okay. Even though, you know, my life, I'm much more sick. I had no money. Yeah. I had, I slept on an air mattress at my apartment.

Right. I lived in a really crappy apartment. Yeah. But it was downtown. I was getting off work at Hyman's eating frozen yogurt every day. The time, going to coffee shops and sitting in writing jokes. Yeah. Just had a full day off.

Yeah. No responsibility. Nobody relying on you. Yeah, nothing. I didn't even have a car, no car payment, no insurance, no health insurance. I'm just walking down to the coffee shop. Living the drink. Drinking a coffee, eating an oatmeal raisin cookie and writing jokes and, you know,

writing jokes and staring at women. And it was a beautiful time. Right. Beautiful time. But my life has more meaning now, and I am more appreciative. Yeah. You know. Yeah.

But I don't know. I don't know where I got off on that. I don't know why you rejected my wording of that because I think we're saying the same thing. Okay, maybe we are. I just wanted to say the, I would say that. When people say, when people always say high school is the best time of your life or college is the best time of your life, I think they mean it's the most fun. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's not the best time of your life. They say the happiest time of your life is the years after when you become an empty nester as a parent. that's when like statistically the baby boomers you're the happiest because they go because then we went down to

Florida and abandoned our grandkids well just kidding I'm kind of kidding but I think it's that that stage in life when your children are adults yeah that's when people are that's what I should be headed into right now yeah well you get there yeah yeah with you know technological advances and yeah yeah I'm gonna get on board with AI. Freeze me. You're going to have to come, you're going to have to, what do they call it? Transhumanism. Yeah, yeah.

You know, humans and robots combined together. Okay. It'd be a bit of a cyborg. Download your subconscious onto a hard drive. I bought my first house in 2000. Really? Yeah. Wow.

In Donaldson. Not too far from your house in Donaldson. Yep. I still have it. Oh, okay. That's your, okay. Nice. A lot of people don't know that Brian's a real real estate model.

I know. Yeah. I paid $67,500 for it in 2000. Yeah. Bought at auction. Really? Yeah. It was one of those were. Murder in the house or something? Probably. There was, I guess, I don't know, the bank were closed on it or something. Some real estate company bought it, fixed it up to flip it and sold it at auction. Nice. I bought it. Wow. Would you feel weird about buying a house somebody got killed in? My buddy in college had a, we called it the murder couch.

He bought it at a police auction. We think somebody was shot and killed on the couch. That's tougher than the house. That's what I was thinking. It was a white leather couch. It's a great couch. Wow. But there's some stains.

That's insane. Yeah. Some blood stains? We don't know. Could be syrup. We didn't do a lab analysis. There's no stains. It's going to be really good to have on that couch.

I don't know. Some bullet holes. This is a nice couch. I was comfortable. But it was the murder. I don't know. You have to disclose that kind of stuff, right, when you sell the house. I guess so.

I think you have to say people have died in it or whatever. I think you can ask the question, are the murderer still around? Is this a neighborhood thing? Yeah, who did it? Yeah. Was this like a fluke thing or is this a problem in the neighborhood? Now it's happened three times, just this house. Also, it became an uncle in 2000.

All right. Nice. And where was comedy at this point? Were you even thinking about it or not? No, not even. I had a sister born in 2000. Really? At 18, yeah.

My dad remarried and had another daughter. Okay. We, um, yeah, that is fun. She was born in 2000. My grandfather was born in 1900. Wow. That's wild. Yeah.

That's quite a spread. Yeah. I've told the story before, but in 2000, my dad and my mom went too, but just she didn't care. We went down to spring training. And I just like that. Me and my dad. My mom went to, but she didn't care.

She was just being nice, tagging along. Yeah, of course. But we drove down to Florida for spring training. We were big Braves fans. We went to Brave Spring Training. I love that. I think we had this misconception that spring training is going to be not so many people and that you're going to be a little bit more.

Like the secret thing. Yeah. Like backstage almost. Yeah, because it's almost like practice. interacting a little bit more with the players. And that wasn't the case at all. It was packed. No,

they're ticketed games, yeah. 2000, you said? Yeah, I mean, the Braves were coming off. Yeah, coming off the hot 90s of the Braves.

The rest of the piece, Bobby Cox, by the way. Yeah. died over the weekend. And that's the game, I mean, I went to more than one

spring training game, but I've told this before, Andrew Jones, caught the third out, center field, threw it in the stands, and I caught it. Oh.

That's amazing. Wow. That's a Hall of Famer did that to you. Mm-hmm. Wow. Is he in the Hall of Fame? Yeah, Andrew, this year. Okay.

No, he's in the Hall of Fame. You know what else happened, Braves around that time? John Rocker. Oh, okay. You guys remember that? Yeah. I do remember that. That happened.

I had to look it up. I don't remember it, but since I went back in him being the best reliever in baseball, is that what you're talking about? I'm talking about him being your favorite player based on a Sports Illustrated article you read. You're like, this guy gets me. I went back and looked, I did not remember. remember John Rocker. 2000,

I was not paying attention in any of that stuff. But I, that guy's wild. Yeah, he doubled down multiple times, but this article came out

over Christmas in 1999. So right before 2000. Okay. Then they banned him from spring training for like a certain, like a month or something. And then he appealed it

and they lowered the band. So I saw him down there. It was the media, there was a media frenzy because this was when all this was happening. Right. I remember that happened. I used to love how he would sprint out of the bullpen, like a crazy person.

If you've ever watched East Mountain and Down, they say that that character, Kenny Powers, is loosely based on John Rocker, just his energy on the field. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, that's crazy. You were there when that was going down. Oh, another incredible sports thing that right when 2000 started, I think January 8th, 2000, I was at the game. One of the greatest memorable plays in NFL history, the Music City Maripa.

Wow. You're at the game. I was at the game. The same seats that you still have, the season tickets? I don't have season tickets anymore. Okay. What happened? It was the first season of the Tennessee Titans.

Okay. In their new stadium. You've never seen this play, Dusty? I don't think so. Famous NFL play. And this is the- Set the scene, right? This is the playoff wildcard game.

Okay. The first playoff game, the Titans are host. Everything's the first year of the Titans. And they'd had a great season, but Buffalo Bill scored a touchdown, or maybe kicked a film. go bottom line is they took the lead with 16 seconds left in the game it appeared the game was over and the Titans great season was over and then they kick off and we don't have to watch

the whole thing no i want to see the i want to see it's a crazy play yeah what's he doing here it's frank whitechick he throws it back across the field of kevin dyson oh wow and as i think i've shared on this before Nate loves the story i'm yelling get out of pounds get out of bounds get out of Bounds. Just trying to get a field goal. Because I didn't think he was going to make it the whole way. And I wanted him to get out of bounds before the clock expired. So I'm the only one in the stands yelling.

Go out of bounds. But he scores and it's... Wow. The lateral really never works. Yeah, but what it does, it's a miracle. And people in Buffalo still say it's a forward pass that he did. It was very close. I mean, I get that argument.

I get it. Especially if you're Buffalo. But they did have instant replay then. Because, you know, in Nashville, you know, our team's not very good. But Nashville's cool. And Buffalo has great food. But the city is... I like the bills too, but I'm just saying.

I like the people. The city is not as cool as Nashville. Well, I like it. I'm going to be there. November. Come see me at the evening. I'm not saying I don't like it. But you get what I'm saying, though.

Of course. And the Titans went all the way to the Super Bowl that year. Yeah, the first year. Yeah. Lost to the Super Bowl. And it's been... Who'd they lose to? the Rams, St. Louis Rams,

Kurt Warner. Greatest show on turf. Yep. I was in, I watched that game in Manchester, New Hampshire. In standard definition, I'm sure. Probably, probably. Because that was the 2000 presidential election, which was the crazy election with Bush and Gore that, you know,

had to go to the Supreme Court. But that was the New Hampshire primary, which is a big thing. Gore's from Tennessee, so we were up there covering it. And we went to a bar to watch the, Super Bowl. The Rams took a pretty good leave in the first half. And for whatever reason, everybody in there was cheering for the Rams. And I was getting so mad that I left at halftime, drove back to my motel six pretty far

away, watched the game, second half in my motel room by myself. I had to go back to the bar after it was over to pick up my friends who I left. But I was so mad. I like that attitude. Yeah. You wouldn't stand for the Titan slander. Yeah. Year one.

Yeah. I'm a die hard, dude. I've been with them since day one. Yeah. Nobody was taken as a serious. My friends weren't as upset as I was, and they were making me mad. I get that. So I had to go watch it by myself.

I like that attitude. And then Gore got the nomination for the Democrats, and the Democratic National Convention was in L.A. that year, and I got to go to L.A. to cover the convention. Is that when you met? That's when I met Martin Sheen. Oh, yeah. From the West Wing, President Bartlett. Yeah.

That's amazing. You guys party? You and Martin? So we did not party, but I was just the right place, right time. You got to think Martin partied a little bit. You got something like Charlie Sheen? I think he partied a little bit. Way in the day.

Yeah. If you watch that Charlie Sheen documentary, I think he eludes to some partying to Martin. He's pretty straight-laced these days, though. But I just happen to be staying at the right place. This was like such a crazy, busy year for the two of y'all. You both had so much going on. I'd say more for Brian. I was mainly hanging out.

I was trying to include you. Okay. Okay, okay. Yeah. He's trying to be nice. He got a Saturday. I was mainly, I was mainly partying with my buddies. Yeah, I was being nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Second half of 2000 got wild, though, for me, because I graduated. Let's hear it. My mom was gone a lot, and I kind of took over the house. Is this a trailer? No, this was a, you know, when I was 15, we moved out of the trailer. So, and I, yeah, I mean, the house became a bit of a party. But we get into that and the we're having a good time. Were you working right at right out of high school? I worked at Jim Bob's Chicken Fingers in high school, and then I quit that. And then I think by the end of 2000, I was working at Papa Johns or Western Sizzling, maybe both. Yeah. I did a little, a little stint in each.

I think it was Papa John's first, started delivering pizzas. Yeah. So I was really doing something with myself. And a lot of people were asking me. How's Papa John's back then? It was so good. Yeah. It was actually so cool, you know, because it was like, it was kind of on the line of Auburn

in Opelika. So there were a lot of people from Auburn that worked there. A lot of people I went to high school work there. We had a cool crew, you know, and it just felt fun. Like, I feel like you see pizza delivery places now and it feels sad. Yeah, it can. But back then, man, it was like, we had a cool crew, attractive women working. I know I've said that a lot, but it makes things better. This is a real theme in here. We're talking about the year 2000. I'm 18 years old. Okay. But you know what I mean? But it's like it makes things cooler. You know, if you're at a party and it's all dudes. Well, it makes you step your game up a little bit.

Exactly. Yeah. Everybody presents themselves a little better. Everybody's trying a little harder. We also had a bit of a goth faction at the Papa John's that I worked at. You know, a couple of the people that worked there were a bit goth. You know. Golf.

God. They said golf. No, not golf. Like I just pictured everybody looking like pain stuff. No, no, no. The opposite of that. Okay, goth. The painted fingernails.

Yeah, we had a few. Because the man, the manager was kind of a goth guy. Okay. And then so a few of his friends worked there. But they were cool. Yeah, yeah, nice. Yeah, I mean, they were older. Black eyeliner and stuff like that.

Yeah, stuff like that. Yeah. You went into it? I wasn't into it, but I like them as people. You had an arm sleeve at one point. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I was, you know, I had flame boots and I listened to, I was listening to Slipknot. What are they called?

What are they called? What are they called? Oh, yeah. I would just see kids at the mall with those. Yeah. Let me ask you guys this I was never What is this stuff

Oh yeah Oh yeah I never had that But I did wear some fingerless gloves For a while Oh come on why Because that was cool Why would you do it

When you were doing what Just hanging out Fingerless gloves Just being cool dude Big Slay-Ocress Yeah I never really got into Video games

I had an Atari when I was a kid By the time I got to college, my roommate had Nintendo, so we would play that. But that was it. But this says in 2000, the PlayStation 2 came out, the best-selling video game console of all time. It was incredible. I remember playing that quite a bit. PlayStation 2 was... Tech and Tag?

Grand Theft Auto 3? Grand Theft Auto. And some of the reasons, let's see if this rings true for you guys. It launched in 2000, standalone DVD players cost more than the console itself. so many people bought the PS2 just to watch movies. We did use it almost primarily as a DVD player in the house. Really? Yeah.

I didn't even know it could do that. Yeah. It could. And then the later consoles became Blu-ray players too, and people did the same thing with that. We were for sure doing that, but we were playing games. Yeah. I mean, because it was, tag and tag was really fun because I moved,

I moved into a trailer, and all my buddies would come over, and we would like, you could play tag and tag where you'd, rotate. So we have a whole room full of people. You know, they're all smoking cigarettes inside the trailer. What's ticking tag? Tech and Tech is a fighting game. It's a fighting game. Oh. It's a fighting game.

Yeah. So you're just, you know, you're just playing. And it was interactive because you're actually, it wasn't online, you're actually hanging out with your friends. It was a great time. That was the best time of your life. One of them. I had many best times in my life. Yeah. There is, with video games,

It did used to be very social in the fact that community. There would be people there in the same spot playing. Yeah. Right. And I know that it's still community-based, but it's all online now, and it's just a guy alone in his room. I know. But I remember the sleepovers and hanging out and like 10 people in a room playing Halo 2.

That was our big one. We were growing up. But yeah, it's the same thing. But even like Nintendo 64, Golden Eye, Smash Bros. All that stuff. Me and my daughter are playing Smash Bros.

On the 64 at home today. Really? Yeah. What about the Sims? I love the Sims. That also came out in 2000. Not a social game. But I had the Sims.

What is the Sims? It's, you know, you just, you know, on a computer. I had it on a computer and you're just, you know, you're like create a person. And then you can, you know, get in a relationship and make a family and you get a job. Build a town. I should have been to the Sims. Yeah. Yeah.

He'll be up there. Sim City. I was real into SimCity. It was a SimCity 2000. SimCity 2000 is probably the best version of the game. Really good. So much fun. Yeah.

I love those simulation type games. The other big thing that happened in 2000 was reality shows blew up. That was the year Survivor came out. Big Brother. Still on, by the way. Still on. Season 50. Wow.

I guess they do two seasons a year or something. Yeah, they must. But I just remember that too. Like, I've never really. I mean, obviously there's some reality shows I've watched, but I didn't really like it out of the gate. But Survivor was on my network. It was a CBS show. I mean, still is, where we worked. There was a woman from Clarksville, Tennessee, that was on the first season. Those people became celebrities. Yeah. That was, people have to say, oh, back we had three channels. Obviously, we had a lot of channels in 2000. But still, it felt like you could become a much better chance to be a celebrity. Well, that's what I'm talking about from earlier in the conversation.

Like, I've been on TV a bunch and my kids don't even really have a concept of what that is. Of course, they're young, but back then, being on, that was the only screen. Yeah. Yeah. You know, so they're correct in a way. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah. I just love, like, like, our algorithm, if we pull up YouTube, would be Miss Rachel and Peppa Pig and Bluey. That's what in your house, I just see all these dusty slave videos. We got a few YouTube channels. I got, you know, I got my YouTube channel. I got, uh, the kids YouTube channel on that. I got a, yeah, and then I got another account. Yeah.

I'm joking. It's just fun to think about like, well, because I got stuff that I were like to go through my kind of news stuff that I like to watch on one. And then I got more of the comedy one. And then I got one for the kids. But some of them creep into the kids one, you know. It's bound to. Yeah.

And I, you know, I show the kids the podcast. Yeah. You know. And they go, this is boring. Yeah, and you go. Tell me, that was a tough week. I remember back when I told you I went to the Democratic Convention in L.A. in 2000. Yes.

It was at the Staples Center. And they had, like, in the lobby, different things, not politics-related on display. Like, tech companies were showing stuff. First time I ever saw HD TV was there on display. They were showing it, the difference in it and the quality. And it's crazy, right? Yeah. Did you gasp?

I don't know if I gasped, but I was a little bit older than you were when you saw the iPhone. I remember at a friend's house, Will Clark, is my buddy. He had an HD TV in his house. And we went, it might have been the Super Bowl. It was a football game. And, um, yeah, yeah, same name. But I walked in and I was like, whoa, that looks, I've never seen a TV that look like that. And then it was so fun to see as people showed up.

everybody walked in and was like, whoa, what kind of TV is this? It's crazy. You see standard deaf TV now and you're like, we were watching that, dude, that looks terrible. Even sometimes like a YouTube video that's five or six years old. What is this crap? It's like, four ADP. And you're like, dude, dude. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not going to make my eyes try to watch this. Yeah. The other thing, I still think I still have this magazine. I was trying to do some research before we went out to L.A. to be up on it. And there was a Time Magazine article. I think Al Gore was on the cover. And I thought, I'm going to buy this and read about just to catch up on some stuff. There was an article in there about this new website called Google. Wow. And I'm like, okay, this sounds pretty cool.

I'd never heard of Google until I read this article. Wow. And they're doing pretty well now. Yeah. That's before they took do no evil out of their mission statement. Do you know that? No, I didn't know that. Their original mission statement was do no evil. And then they kind of unceremoniously took that out. Yeah, once they took down Ask Jeeves. Yeah, As Jeeves is gone. They're alphabet now. They're not even Google anymore.

Oh. But the company's called Alphabet. At the Grammy Awards that year in 2000, Jennifer Lopez wore a plunging green silk dress. I think you probably remember. I should have looked this up? It became such a search global search that Google created Google images. Yeah, I see why. But that's pretty crazy. They

created Google images because of this dress. Because so many people wanted to see this dress. So many people were Googling it and they didn't want text-based. I obviously would just want to see it. So they created Google images. I don't want to hear some dude's description of it. Yeah. I want to see it myself. I thought that was interesting. Yeah. What music were you guys listening to in 2000? Man, 2000. I'll help me. Yeah, yeah, let me see.

What was going on? At the Grammys, Santana won eight Grammys. For sure, was listening to that album with Rob Thomas and Smooth. He tied Michael Jackson. Yeah, Smooth won record of the year. Album the year was Supernatural. That was great. I want to say it was Smash Mouth.

Was this a big Smash Mouth here? Somebody once told me. Yeah. I don't know. I ain't the Shopping. The Marshall Mathers LP? Oh, Marshall Mathers L.P. Oh, Smash Mouth.

All Star was 1999. Great album. No, great album. Insync's no strings attached. Yeah, this is like boy band era. It is the huge boy band era. Yeah. And then like Eminem and the new metal is all kind of a rebellion against that.

Yeah. You know, yeah. Insync and Backstreet Boys and all those guys. I think I sent you a link to 98 degrees. What other music you got there? Yeah, keep going through it. All right. Well, I think I might have to.

You want to go to the movies? Those are the top domestic. Yeah. one's fine. Yeah, we can get movies right here, 2000. How the Grinch stole Christmas. That was a good one, though. Is that the Jim Carrey?

Yeah, it's got to be the Jim Carrey one, yeah. Gladiator. Oh, yeah. That's a good list. I don't know if... Meet the parents, X-Fans. I wouldn't say it was one of the best years for... 99 was like one of the best years ever for movies.

Yeah, in fact, I went through this list, and I was like, whoa, I didn't realize six cents tanked at the box office because it's like 108 on there. Yeah, yeah. It's because it came out in 99. Yeah, it was just trickle over from the year before. Big Mama's House? You remember that? Martin Lawrence.

Yeah, it was very funny. Sure. It was very funny. Martin Lawrence is great. Big Monson's House. What? 17 million. Oh, the Patriot and what women want?

Yeah. Mel Gibson had a big year. Yeah, and then things just got, yeah. Anyway. Jim Carrey had a big year, too. What else was Jim Carrey in? When I look through that list, I'm like, Oh, remember the Titans?

Gone in 66. Cast away. Me, myself and Irene. Okay, so that's two. That's two. I feel like I saw a third one on there. Unbreakable. Space Cowboys.

The Green Mile. Yeah. For the Oscars. I just had it. American Beauty. That was a hot one. Yeah, what was going on at the Oscars? Gladiator won this year, I'm pretty sure.

Yeah. Where did I? Braveheart won the year before, right? American Beauty won. Oh, okay. Best pitcher. Beat out the sixth cent. Sider House rules, the insider, and the Green Mile.

Green Mile was shot here in Nashville. Oh, okay. That's a great movie. Old Prison. So Gladiator must come out later in the year. I guess so. He did win. He had won stuff maybe the next year. We'll talk about that in the 2001 episode.

Okay. Sports. We can talk more about music or we can talk about TV shows. I just wanted you to read a couple more bands from 2000 or albums. I don't have the list here in front of me. I just had the top selling album in the United States was in sync, no strings attached. Number one song of 2000,

Breathe by Faith Hill. Yeah, it was a good one. I don't really, I can't think of that by the name. How do you go? You would definitely know. Just, just breathe or something? I don't know. Is that it?

Yeah. That's a good song. Yeah. But smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas, unbelievable. Maria Maria, that was a good one too. Is that the one? That man, my husband.

Like, how does smooth go? Smooth? Yeah. I know, I know it, but I can't. I can't catch it. I don't know the lyrics. I can. Say my name.

I was a big one. Got, vertical horizon. Remember them? They had like three great songs. Bent by Matchbox 20. Amazed by Lone Star. Creed higher. Oh, yeah.

Three doors down. Rest in peace, dude. Cryptonite. Oh, gosh. Aaron, what TV shows were you watching? A lot of Law & Order. At age of 8 going on 9? No, yeah.

We're a big Law and Order family. Okay. Probably, man. West Wing? A lot of, not West Wing yet. West Wing just started in the year 2000. Okay. I mean, maybe it was 2000.

Yeah, I think 2000 is when it started. So we hadn't caught on yet. I was watching a lot of Boy Meets World. Mm-hmm. I think I'm starting. I'm in the age where I can watch sitcoms. So it was Boymeets World You know

Family Matters Is that 2000? Oh man Those are great I'm catching the reruns on like I think it was called Fox Family at the time And then it became ABC family And then Disney Channel had reruns

And then the Disney Channel shows for kids Lizzie McGuire Oh yeah What do you got for 2000? Well I sent you a list of the top shows I think As far as Emmy Awards The West Wing won outstanding drama series It beat out the Sopranos, the practice, law and order in ER.

Oh, Friends and Frazier. That's big. Yeah. Will and Grace won Best Comedy Series. Beating out Frazier, Friends, Sex in the City, and Everybody Loves Raymond. Wow. Everybody loves Raymond. West Wing is the...

Oh, Drew Carey Show. I used to love that show. I really did. I thought Drew Carey Show was great, and nobody ever talks about it now, but I love that show. No, they don't. You didn't like it? I never watched it. I never watched it either.

I never watched it. So I'll take your word on it. I mean, it was great. I remember the theme song, like Cleveland Rocks. Ohio. Because it took place in Cleveland. Yeah, it was great. You like that?

Some of these shows. Tristan liked it. Some of these shows from the 80s and well. Yeah. These shows in 80s and 90s. So many of them are just known now for their. Let's give a shot of Tristan giving a thumbs up on that. You know, when we, when we, because people did comment.

We want more Tristan. How old are you, Tristan? That's enough. All right. Whatever. What do you think the, what do you think the best? Let me do a clean cut. This might be a clip.

All right. You're going to wait. It's got to be clean. It's got to be, hold on real quick. Let's do it. Let's get real quiet. What do you think the best sitcom theme song is of all time? Golden Girls, pretty good.

Golden Girls has got to be number one, man. Fresh Prince of Bell. Fresh Prince is up there. Best of all done. Probably. Yeah. I mean, come on. I mean, there's so many good ones, though.

What's the golden hair? Duke's a Hazard's great. Waylon Jennings? Yeah. Really great. I don't think this will be a clip, but I'm enjoying the conversation. What is your, what's the Golden Girls? Thank you for being a friend.

Yeah, that's a good one. That's it. Travel down the road and back again. Yes. Andy Griffith, they just whistle, but that's pretty iconic. I can't whistle, but yeah. That's a good one. You can't whistle either.

I'll share a few sports facts and then we can wrap it up. Okay. The World Series was the... Oh, sorry. Family Matter. It's a grand tradition this day and age to read any good news on a newspaper page. That's a good one. Love and tradition of the grand design.

Some people say it's even harder to find. That's a good one. That's beautiful, guys. There must be some magic glue. Inside these... You know, Steve Irk, you ever watched the beginning of that show. Steve Irkle. not he's kind of a whatever character.

Yeah. And then he just steals every scene he's in. They go, we got to build the whole show. My, Happy Days was kind of like that. My friends. Really, Fonzie was just a side character?

I mean, I'm sorry. My friends at the Confused Breakfast podcast, they have a really great theory following. Yeah, that's what it's called. That's what this podcast is sometimes. It's, most of this last five minutes. It's following the actor who plays Carl Winslow.

Whatever his name is, through movies like Die Hard and, crocodile Dundee and on into family matters. And it's my favorite movie conspiracy of all time. That it's the same character? Yeah. You know, obviously it's, you know, it's fictional. It's having fun. I've seen that. It's very good. I think I've seen it because you've shared it. Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Confused breakfast podcast. Not this breakfast. You should do it, though. You should do the podcast. I would love it. Yeah. Sports. The, uh, World Series was the Subway Series

between the Mets and the Yankees. Oh, the Subway Series. Yeah. Do you know what a memorable moment from that World Series? The Yankees won. Yeah. The guy ate a sandwich.

Was there a fight? Kind of. You're getting close. Was it something with Roger Clemens? Yeah. Yeah. Mike Piazza was bat broke. Yeah.

It kind of came back to the mound and Clemens just kind of heaved it toward Piazza. Yeah, okay. And it's still weird, his aunt, like, I think he said, oh, I thought it was the ball. Then he was like, I wasn't just, I just wasn't thank you. I was just, yeah, I wasn't in the moment. I was zoned out, but it was kind of crazy.

Okay, Dusty's like, move it along. Well, these guys are fired up. Yeah. High tea. 2000 Olympics was in Sydney, Australia. This is the steroid area. They were wrapped up on everything. Yeah.

The 2000 Olympics was when Vince Carter literally, jumped over a guy to dunk. Yeah. And we won gold that year? Yeah. Yeah. Lakers won the NBA championship. It's their first of three straight.

This is Kobe and Shaq. Yeah. Beginning of the three Pete. Phil Jackson's the coach at this point, too. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I've already covered the Super Bowl. Well, that was the 99th season for the Super Bowl. 2000 season, Titans were the best team of the NFL. Really? But couldn't get past the Ravens. Couldn't get it done. The Ravens were good. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. That was fine. That's it. It was a good year. It was a good year. We were the class of the new millennium. Maybe we should do that.

At the end of each year, we should just give it last thought. Was it a good year? Was it a bad year? What do you think? It's a good year for me. I was just cruising through second grade. I thought it was a great year. I graduated high school.

I got money from my family for graduating. I used it all summer to not work and buy recreational activities for me and my friends. and we partied and it was... And Papa Johns. And I worked at Papa John's and probably Western Sizzling too. And Office Depot maybe. No, Office Depot was later, but... Is this when you were telling people you're going to go to Auburn?

I was actively lying about attending Auburn, probably at parties. And when did you join the Army? 2001. Okay, save. We get there. Save it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I would say 2000 was a good year.

It was a good year. It was, uh, yeah. Where does it rank? of 54? It wouldn't be the top 10% year? No, I don't think so. I don't think so. I've said this before.

I was 28 going on 29. I like my 30s better than my 20s. I like my 40s, better than my 30s. So far, I've liked my 50s the best. Yeah, I love that. Yeah. That's great. All right, Dusty, you want to wrap it up?

Oh, yeah, I'm leading this podcast. Yes. Okay, listen, guys, this weekend, I'm still off. I don't know if you'll be somewhere this weekend. I'm going to be, this is Aaron Weber speaking. I'm going to be in Fort Laudder's. Dale, Florida at the Fort Lauderdale Improv. Last time I was there a couple years ago, it was the Dania Beach Improv.

Oh, yeah. I believe it's the same building. It's in the same spot, but it's now called the Fort Lauderdale Improv. I'm there all weekend. Jay Flake will be with me. It's going to be a good time. Come on out if you're in the Fort Lauderdale area. You know, I am off, but I'm coming back in June.

So I'll just give you a heads up. I'll be at first weekend. I'll be at the Irvine Improv in California. at the second week, I'll be at the mothership in Austin, Texas, and then I'll be in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Love it. That's what my June is looking like. I am off this weekend, but next weekend,

I've been pitching these shows for a while, but I'll be in Denver, Greeley, and then two nights in Casper, Wyoming. And then June 11th at the Beacon in Topeka, Kansas. Our buddy Adam Bush is opening for me. All right. It's the biggest show he's ever done. Oh, that's great.

So I'm excited about that. You'll be in Colorado. Colorado. Colorado. Colorado. Colorado. Yeah. Colorado.

Colorado. All right, Dusty. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Thanks for tuning in. This has been another great edition of the Public Figures podcast. I'm Dusty Slay. He's Aaron Weber.

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