The Nateland Podcast - #16 Hoaxes

Episode Date: October 14, 2020

This episode, we talk about hoaxes. The guys discuss if they've ever been the victim of a hoax, hoaxes they've played on others, famous hoaxes throughout history, and much more.    Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail]

Hello, folks. I love it. Welcome to Nateland podcast. We're excited to be here. Welcome to the show, everybody. We've had a big fun weekend. A lot of traveling. Went to Dollywood. Loved it. It was an amazing trip. And we're going to keep it. We got more this weekend.

If you want to come out to the show, you can go to natebargetti.com. One night only tour. We have two weeks left. This is it. You can see this. You're going to see this. If you want to watch four men bomb, we're the show for you.

We are excited to be here. Also, we have the Tonight Show. All the guys that filmed this stuff, that filmed the Tonight Show, they got some little Tonight Show. We all got Tonight Show credit. Now we're all Tonight Show people. Thanks for watching that. Thanks for all the nice comments uh the people loved it it's the first stand-up back since uh covet it's awesome pretty fun yeah that's neat we're the start of

the new era stand-up comedy after the pandemic uh all right we're gonna get started as usual uh with some comments from you guys as we always love reading all this stuff. Steve Edging. Steven Edging. Edging, right? I think so. Nate, you may get me arrested for LWD. Listening while driving.

Twice now listening to you, Buttercup and Aaron, while driving. I have laughed so hard I couldn't see to drive. I guess I am the idiot for listening while driving. Buttercup's a good one. It is a good one. Buttercup's a, that's another good name. That's a great name. I'm wondering how long before I'm no longer amused by these.

I don't see any signs of slowing down. Yeah, it's going to be tough, man. They're all pretty good and fun. So I enjoy them. Lane Saunders, a show where a group of men discuss childhood topics. The last three shows have been magic, animals and pirates can't wait for the next show when Nate Aaron

and Banana Bread discuss imaginary friends well alright you might be in luck cause we might be doing that Chris Minit the animals episode literally had me crying and able to breathe from

laughing so hard i thought nate aaron and beer guard beer guard or regard maybe bear bear guard can do no wrong with these shows and then came the pirates show even michael jordan missed some free throws keep him up the mostly hilarious work. The Pirates episode, that's Nick's fault. Yeah. I'll accept. I will walk off the plank for that one. I mean, we've been doing, we've been on a great roll. And Nick, we had put Nick in.

His agent forced us to have him. In fairness, he didn't, the beer guard, that's a tough name for you. Beer guard? It is a hard one. That's Brian's middle name. Mike Bone. I have always just listened to the podcast, but this week I decided to watch with the video on YouTube.

If you haven't done that, I would highly recommend it. The Beverly Bootstrap Bates jokes are way more hilarious when you see his reaction. Don't know how he sits there and takes it from everybody, but I'm glad he does. Love you guys in the podcast. You produce something funny and positive when most of the stuff you get on TV or online these days is negative garbage.

And that's why we're here. Not changing any minds. Mind your own business. Do whatever you want. No negative garbage. The rest of the episode is like, alright, now let's be negative. Well, it's negative to each other. But we keep it in this world of negative. I'm sure I've yelled

about something else, but we're negative to just each other. Ian Renfrew. Renfrew. Ian Renfrew. Love the podcast. Love your stand-up. Laughter is extremely important right now. Saw you last winter in Rockford, Illinois. My face and stomach hurt from laughing so much.

Pretty sure bed rest opened for you. He wasn't funny then either. Oh, pretty sure bed rest opened for you. He wasn't funny then either. Wow. That was a tough one. Hurt people hurt people. Pretty sure bed rest.

That one almost, when they slip a man and I don't realize that that's what they're doing, I thought that was the sentence. Like he was saying he was bedrest or something. He didn't capitalize bedrest. I didn't mind. I like sneaking it in. When you have to go back and go, oh, he's calling Brian bedrest. That last line was uncalled for.

He wasn't funny then either. Yeah, Brian was funny. Rockford, Illinois, one of the most dangerous cities in America. Oh, yeah? One of the worst dangerous cities in America. Oh, yeah? One of the worst cities in the country, yeah. It sounds so nice. Statistically. Like Rockford.

It does. It sounds like that. It does. Oh, like a magical place? Yeah, when we went after his town, he goes after bedrest, we go after you. You don't take down one of our own. Ross Montgomery. Excited to see this lineup at the Texas show.

I'm going to learn the Morse code for hello, folks, to flash my headlights. I hope Baden can dunk. Baden can dunk. Wears his shirt at the shows. Oh, badonkadonk. Badonkadonk. I've never seen that word spelled out. Honkytonk, badonkadonk.

Badonkadonk. Badonkadonk. Is that what they call youky tonk badonkadonk badonkagonk is that what they call you huh badonkadonk yeah that's what they call him can you believe that you got junk in the trunk yeah he does they call him badonkadonk you didn't know they called Aaron that yeah dude everybody does that

it's gonna be a long weekend every time he gets out of his bunk, I'm going to be like, well, there it is. Badunkadunk. Badunkadunk. Badunkadunk. Good song. Nick, how did you not realize that

all he's been called is names that are B's? Yeah. And you think for some reason this guy switched it to Aaron. Well, I mean, it just gets out of control. Some of these names, he's got more nicknames than anybody in the world. They're like sleepyhead. I know, that's the whole point of the show, but for some

reason, you thought this one was talking about Aaron. You thought this guy changed it up. But Dunkadunk, I'm like, well, now if he's got the junk and the junk, I'm going to be noticing that on the bus. Alright, I'm not sure Nick really knows what's going on right now if he's got the junk in the trunk, I'm going to be noticing that on the bus. All right. I'm not sure Nick really knows what's going on right now.

Nick's got badonka gone. You ever seen Nick? There you go. Nick's got one of the best booties in stand-up comedy. I've always said that. Did you think Aaron had some junk in the trunk, so that's why they were talking about him? Well, I don't know. That was the name.

That was the name I saw in the comment. And I'm like, maybe they know something I don't know. I haven't noticed that. But the theme of always using B nicknames and being ridiculous, you thought that this one changed up just because we're like- Maybe they gave that to him. They're like- Because of the junk he has in that trunk.

That's what I was thinking. Okay. Brian Lee. I enjoyed Nickland this week. This episode would have only been 45 minutes if not for him. Keep up the good work, y'all. Way to go, Nick. This will be the Nick Land podcast.

I don't know if you're suggesting Nick was talking too much or we were. No, I think he's saying he liked Nick. Which I like Nick. I think he's saying he carried the episode. Yeah, like Nick was everything. Yeah, Nick did great. He did great. Nick will be off the show next week and Brian Lee is blocked.

Russell D. Williford, Nick's joy is contagious. I love how mirthful he is. What is that? Mirthful is a great word. I don't know what it means. It's a good thing to be. It sounds like a nice. You want to be mirthful.

Yeah. Like a combination of mouthwash and, you know, like mirth. Mirth. You get a mirththful. Yeah. Like a combination of mouthwash and, you know, like... Murth. Murth. You get a mirth for a mouthwash. Constantly chuckling and laughing. Y'all are supposed to be comics. Maybe you could take a page from the book of Nick's awesome personality.

Nick does have a good personality. Here's the thing. I have multiple accounts that I write some of these, you know, as Russell B. Welford. What does it have to do with being a comic though? Being Merfle. Yeah. Because he's got a good laugh. Nick's a good laugher.

People are good laughers. Audience members are good laughers. Some are not good laughers. Well, that's a good audience member then. That's not a good comic. Well, but some comics are really good at being, they're a personality.

Nick's a good personality. Some comics have great personalities. Some are not. I don't think I'm the most personality kind. That's why I've never been a good personality like some comics are have great personalities some are not i don't think i'm the most personality that's why i've never been a good host of a show because i would never be like what's up everybody welcome to the show like i'm not a good if you're tuning into abc wet and wild you know and i'm like what's up everybody got a great show people are sliding and stuff everybody's like this guy hates his job and i don't but i just that's what i do so i stick what i do in my lane were you ever like that at all when you when you were hosting shows would you i was never a good host i would always just go the route

of i would but i would have comics tell me they liked me hosting because i would do my act i was never a big what's where's this guy fromking the crowd where they're from and stuff. But I would get them in the rhythm of listening to jokes, which I like to follow. I'd rather follow that than follow a guy being like, where are we at? What are you doing? What kind of hat is that? That's just a different kind of show mentality that audiences need. Because it either goes unbelievable, like some people are just great at it, or you can get into just a train wreck moment where you start talking to people so like what is it like being a dentist huh you got it they're in a whole big thing and then like nothing they all want to be talked to the crowd wants to be talked to the crowd's like this guy's so much fun he's just yelling at us and then you go up and do your act and then everybody's like well

where's the guy that was fun or the guy that made fun of us guy that talked with us the guy that talked with us yeah uh i'm an i'm an act guy i'm a i present my act that i created and then that's what it is um but a lot of comics are introverts yeah and yeah comics are not that a lot of people say we're not uh if you meet us we're not what you think when you meet us we're not this like yeah meet us, we're not what you think when you meet us. We're not this like, yeah, this super fun guy. I think we can make a lot of jokes and we can be funny in situations when we hang out. But yeah, we're not super fun.

I mean, it's, but that's, but it's. The tour bus has been pretty fun, you know. Well, it's, we just rail on each other. It's kind of this. Yeah. How we're making fun of each other. It's essentially that's what comics do. We tend to just go hard and make fun of each other. That's what the comedy cellar was.

Like when people talk about the comedy cellar, that back table, it was that. It's everybody just trashing each other and making fun of each other. And that's what's funny to us. So it's like very mean, and that's what it is. And that's what you like. And that's how comics can be that's you know and that's what you like and that's how comics can be and we can be too mean so we hang out with regular people if we we have to tone it back i can't just walk into your house and start trashing your house because that's you're gonna think it's

rude so then we end up just not talking because i don't want to cross the line i mean sometimes comics make jokes and we have to go like hey hey, man, this is like a regular person. Like you can't do it like that. I don't know if I've talked about this, but I always heard Patrice O'Neill, one of the greatest comics. He's passed away. He's one of the best ever. But he was on The Office, the first few seasons of The Office. And then he was off The Office. And whether this is true or not, it makes sense. But I always heard that Patrice was a comic and Patrice would really break people down. And he would do that to the actors on The Office. And they would have to tell him, like, you got to calm down, dude. These are not comedians. They can't, they don't take it like a comedian does. Like, we can't really, you can't offend me. I'm never

going to be, if a comic is good, I truly believe this, they can't be me. I'm never going to be... If a comic is good, I truly believe this, they can't be offended. They should never be offended. It doesn't matter. They can get mad. You can get mad about stuff, but I'm never going to be offended and be like, you can't say that about me.

Like, you know, I don't... It doesn't really matter. And so Patrice would do that, and then they would be like, yeah, man, you can't... These are regular people that are actors. Like, they don't... They're, like, sensitive. You can't just be like, what is man, you can't. These are regular people that are actors like they don't. They're like sensitive.

You can't just be like, well, this is a loser here. You know, now now in my head, I'm trying to think like what actor on the office. I think all of them. I think it was like Steve Carell that was like, get him out. You know, I don't think anybody probably I don't know what happened. I don't think anybody probably specifically got him out. But I just you know, you could probably tell if he's the only one doing that in a group of 50 people

then naturally the showrunner is going to be able to feel the vibe to be like we just can't have this dude here anymore didn't you tell me that supposedly Craig Robinson is the one that said hey man you gotta chill supposedly that's what I heard he's like you gotta calm down dude these are not comics

like Craig Robinson can handle it he's a comic yeah and not saying that these people are bad because they can't handle it it's just such a comics can be ruthless what if what if he's like wasn't attacking the cast but it was like the crew like the guy holding the microphone i think the crew would be able to you know like and he's just like you're gonna hold like that and the guy's gotta hold it and it's like i mean the crew could handle they're a bunch of union guys i mean mean, the union guys. Blue collar. Yeah, blue collar. They're all about that.

I think it's the actors, and rightfully so. I agree with that. You have to know when to tone it down. I mean, my stint in Hollywood is like you could tell that, yeah, you can't just be saying crazy stuff. Almost you can't have full-on real conversations. Comics are open we'll talk about anything you can tell me anything and i'm not going to care i want you to be interesting i would rather you you know when we talked about conspiracy theory if someone's like i don't believe in space i would love to talk to that guy

that's way more interesting to me than someone that's going to tell me i don't know something that's like factual i'd be like we need to worry about yeah climate change and then goes through this whole climate where you're like i'm not saying that we don't i'd something that's factual. It'd be like, we need to worry about climate change and then go through this whole climate change. I'm not saying that we don't, but I'd rather talk to the guy that just doesn't believe in outer space. Like that guy. And that's what everybody should do. That's how everybody should live.

Anyway, Nick's off the show. Emily Zell, when Bradley was talking about how the school in Crossbones was so scary, all I could think about was he looks worried. For real. Love your shows. I'm a college student at Mizzou. And when people see me walking around campus on Wednesday,

I'm usually laughing out loud because of Nate Land. Mizzou Vandy postponed. That's a big win for us. Big win for us. We were going to be playing you, Emily, this week, and we postponed because we don't have enough players. It's a mess. They're coming off a big win, though, right?

Yeah, they beat LSU. No. This is our big win. Yeah, this was our big win, and we don't have to play. We don't have to dress up. Yeah, Aaron showed me. Zoom had a huge win. Aaron showed me footage of him playing football.

So maybe he can. What if he was thrown in? Badonka, gonka, gonka got in there, dude. Yeah, I'll tell you what. It has messed us up with COVID, dude. I'm doing fantasy, and it's a nightmare. It's no fun. Titans, again, second week in a a row i'm just losing guys because of

because their team's not playing for covet yeah and you're just like this is not even worth it like playing tonight i know but they they got then they postponed didn't something else happened again and now they've caught back up well they postponed last week's game i mean they made it their bye and but the steelers got canceled this week. So all of a sudden you had to move that. Yeah. Did they? Yeah,

I think so. Yeah. I could be making that up. Yeah. What if I'm like the, you know, yeah. Belichick has coronavirus.

What are you talking about? What's he saying? And he has to go answer that question. I would love that this gets that high up that he has to go. I do not. Who said that? Nick or breakfast? We had a guy call me breakfast

this weekend. Oh yeah, we got recognized. Bates got recognized. First time? Solo recognized? You know what? I don't even think that was solo. I bet he saw you first and then put it together. And he goes, oh, I thought that was Nate's dad. Turns out it's breakfast.

But we did get recognized on the golf course. We did get recognized. Yeah. We, we golfed this weekend. Fun little weekend. Golfing next weekend. Golfing coming up Thursday.

Yeah. Valhalla. Big course. Big deal. Bates hooked us up. Yeah. This is all Bates. Big time course.

That's what I do. This is, this is a Big time course. That's what I do. This is a, would be a, mark it off as one of your best courses you ever played. This is top, top US Open was there. Tiger won his Tiger Slam. That was one of the courses.

Beat Bob May. How funny is that? Tiger Woods beat Bob May. Bob May? Sounds like a name someone gave me. I mean, it's like, it's honestly like if,

yeah, it's just nothing. It's like, and he just like was a, I mean, it's like, it's honestly like if, yeah, it's just nothing. It's like, and he just like was a, I mean, obviously a great golfer, but when you see the video, it's like Tigers, like this is 2000 Tiger. It's like Nike. It's like, I mean, it's just the boom, top of the world. We're all like, think he's the coolest guy in the world. And his foe is someone's dad, Bob May.

And Bob May got after it. I mean, it was a problem. He was that good. You want to lose to somebody really bland when you're like the greatest superstar in the world. Yeah. Well, that's what's tough with golf, I think, because you don't lose to cool.

You know, Miami Heat just lost to the Lakers, LeBron James. You know, it's like cool. In golf, you could be your Tiger Woods, you're all know you're all these like cool guys and then you lose to Fred Couples like you know just and it's like well who's that and it's a guy that you would be if you said me like that guy's one of the best golfers ever you're like that guy like it's just a guy in slacks that you know picking his daughters up from school and he just destroys you on the golf course.

Phil Hill. I feel like every time there's a guest, Aaron doesn't speak as much. We've had a lot of problems. Aaron not speaking. Aaron, why don't you speak as much? Just out of respect for the guest, you know? That is true. But it's Nick. But it's Nick.

And Nick's kind of a co-host. Nick's staying here for a month. I'm never leaving. He's never leaving. I just live on this table. Phil, Nick's not of a co-host-y. Nick's staying here for a month. I'm never leaving. I just live on this table. Till Nick's not coming home. Aaron, what's your problem, man? I'll try to step up, man. I was just trying to give some room.

Phil doesn't like it. Maybe he does like it. Maybe he is. You know what? I feel like every time there's a guest, Aaron, episodes are better because he doesn't speak it. Maybe he does like it. Maybe he is. He just wanted everyone to... You know what? I feel like every time there's a guest, Aaron, episodes are better

because he doesn't speak up as much. T-Cum 1012. You know Nate is a good guy when he has the same chair as the rest of the group. That is true. What a sacrifice.

I could get a better chair. That is a good sacrifice. Brian's not impressed. I mean, what a... These are nice chairs. A throne? These are good chairs.

I should have a throne. That would be great if your chair was like twice as high as everybody else's. It should be. And you just start... What do you want? These are nice chairs. A throne? These are good chairs. I should have a throne. That would be great if your chair was like twice as high as everybody else's. It should be. And you just start. What do you think of that? I don't think the podcast being my name is enough. It should be one more.

I should separate. I should build something that separates us. Nate's. We might be changing buses this week and we're already riding in bunks. So I'll be amongst the people. Wow. None of y'all will be near me but you i will be in the bunk as you i will have multiple bunks around me that are empty but i will be in the same bunks as

the people on the bus uh i'm waiting till i get i'm gonna have a car just drive behind us and i just get out and when i did that cruise ship with Paul Allen, my big corporate gig, they almost had his boat follow the cruise ship, which was like, that's a, it was just cause it's like, he has to do work. His,

he has a basically cruise ship. If anybody's ever looked it up, you can go, I forget what it's called, but octopus maybe or something, but you go look up Paul Allen's boat and it's unreal. It's got a submarine on it. It's crazy.

And then, but he was rented out a cruise ship. There was 250 people only on it. So it it's empty and there was a moment of like where he's like well should i just have our my ship follow in case he's got to get off and you know i mean he was just like a guy that sometimes needs a space i mean i get it like he's changing the world so maybe he needs a space he's allowed a space but he didn't do it but it was crazy to be like that could have been an option yeah so if i wanted to have a car trail or bus i probably couldn't afford that you were here by those billionaires they buy a house they also just buy every house yeah around it they

like buy the whole neighborhood because they don't want anybody near elon musk i think yeah yeah i i look when you get to that certain level it makes sense it's something everybody would do i think it's because you're looking for some privacy yeah and the fact that when these guys are so big if you can't have just your regular neighbor just be like that's elon musk like it just gets out and then you have people so you're just like i'll just buy every house and no one's allowed that's you with the bunks that's me with the bunks yeah i make a place and i'm gonna wake up y'all in the middle of the night and go switch bunks i want your bunk now i'm gonna make moves like that just to make a place. And I'm going to wake up y'all in the middle of the night and go, switch bunks. I want your bunk now. I'm going to make moves like that just to make a point. You know what I mean?

That's what your daughter did to me this weekend. Harper likes the top bunk. She wakes up and the buttercup is right beneath her and she tells you she's up, right? Sometimes I would just open my eyes and she'd be right in my face, like leaning over. She's got the curtain open. Yeah. Her foot was in my face one time. Yeah.

I love that she had her hands like going under the little hole. She set her alarm. So Harper, we had fall break. Harper and Laura came on the road with me. And we, so Harper would, I mean, she was just not going to bed until midnight because it's, you know, it's on a bus. She loves being the top bunk. It's a fun trip.

And she would set her alarm for 7 a.m because she wants to get up and then have time in the bus but she's got she needs sleep and like the good dad i am i would once she goes to bed i climb up there i take her she has a little ipad and i would take that alarm off and the next day i go what time do you wake up she's looked at me so mad she goes 9.50 because someone turned my alarm off and I go did they wonder who did that that's like you do that when it's like Christmas and you're like

I was waiting for Santa Claus well Santa came three hours ago I don't know what happened Leah Isabella Aaron's face when Nick said that Krispy Kreme probably had dairy because of the cream should be on the next t-shirt for the podcast

you can see him trying to figure out if it's worth arguing or if he should just let y'all have it which is the podcast in a nutshell I think that is true

yeah Aaron's like a scientist that you know the answer but you're having to watch us I don't even think he's that smart.

It's just that we're so dumb that it makes him look smart in comparison. We went to Notre Dame. I believe that. I don't know. You went to Notre Dame. It's pretty great. Did you get a scholarship to Notre Dame? No.

You look like you're wearing a Northwestern hat today, though. Oh, yeah. This is some random school. School. I don't know why you think Northwestern. It's purple. Tigers. Yeah, purple. Tigers. Yeah, it says

Tigers on it. Northwest Wildcats. Kind of the same thing, right? Same family. They're known for. Badaka gone. Texas Hold Me Girl. TX Hold Hold Em Girl. Peggy is my name. Don't even bother letting Nate try to pronounce my handle. Too late.

Peggy. Peg. You could do't even bother letting Nate try to pronounce my handle. Too late. Too late, Peggy. Peg, you could do an entire show of Nate trying to read. People think the best part of the podcast is the comments. In reality, the best part is hearing Nate try his best to read the comments. And also, I agree with whoever said, get Brock a hat. It looks like a secret club that he got left out of, and he's very worried about it. Someone's trying to look professional. I've debated not being a hat guy anymore. I still like a secret club that he got left out of and he's very worried about it. Someone's trying to look professional.

I've debated not being a hat guy anymore. I still like a hat. I'm just in the habit of it, but I some days don't want to wear a hat anymore. On stage or just in life? I don't ever wear it on stage. Yeah. I've honestly, there's a handful of times I've wore a hat on stage. Everybody thinks I wear a hat on stage.

I've never worn one on stage. I wear it immediately off stage. I never did it one on stage. I wear it immediately off stage. But I never did it because you don't want the shadows covering your eyes. My eyes are what tells your jokes, man. You got to have your face and you got yours, you know, your eyes covered down. Yeah. Imagine the laughs you could get if people could see those eyes. Steve Keck, I can't imagine this being your objective but the animals episode turned me

vegetarian knowing how smart pigs are made me re-evaluate everything and i don't like the idea of eating something that experiences fear walking into a slaughterhouse well sorry you're gone steve because we ate pig right after uh no i had a lot of pig this weekend. We did. I get it. I feel like I could be vegetarian. I can somehow get in some weird thing that I'll end up... Something would click in my head and I couldn't get it out and then I would end up switching.

Right now, I don't have that yet, but I could see. This comment did that for you. No, Steve hasn't got me yet. I feel like I i feel worse if the pig was brave yeah you know then that's like a admirable trait yeah oh like if he he says he doesn't like that feel? Madeline Brish in the hand. Aaron's fun fact that only three words in the English language start with DW is incorrect.

His source was West Wing because Jed Barlett says it. Aaron, I think you need to use better sources than fiction TV shows. For example, dwarf, dwell, dwindle, dwindle, dwarfism, dwelling and dwelt. My source, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. I feel like she kind of threw dwarf out there a bunch. She said different angles. Dwarfing.

But that's, I mean, blown up. I'll be honest. That is what it's from. That's a line from season one, episode six. I might fly Madeline. Of the West Wing. But I will say, look, a lot of these words are just derivatives of the same word. Dwell, dwelling, dwelt. That's all the same.

Dwindle, dwindle, dwam. Dwam is not a word. I think Madeline disagrees. I'm going to look that up. Well, I trust Aaron Sorkin. DWs are hard to say, generally. Yeah. Like, Darryl Walter.

That's why, you know, I mean, I said it last week, but it's the dwarf is hard for me to say. Yeah. And it's like, could you imagine also being named like Dwayne?

Dwayne is a Scottish word used in the Northeast. Oh, Scottish words. If we're bringing in other countries, I'm sure there are a ton. We're talking about America here, dude. All right, we're going to have Aaron and Madeline go at it head-to-head during the Krispy Kreme Challenge of naming DW words. It won't take long.

There's only three. Alex Spears. Someone explain to me why Barstool looks like a toddler and a senior citizen at the same time. That's a pretty good one. That was a good one. Toddler and a senior citizen. But we always had somebody say, you look 20 and 40. I feel like you just...

Yeah, but yours is meaner and funnier. That's what makes it great. It's definitely meaner. Three English words begin with DW. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle. There you go. I'm still on Madle. There you go. Yeah. I'm still on Madeline. Team Madeline.

BSF125, love the podcast. This may come as a shock, but I think you guys misunderstood something when it came to the eye patches. Pirates are storming ships so they don't get to choose where to fight. The fight happens wherever they find someone on the ship. When they first get to the ship,

the fight is on the deck in the sunlight, but there may be anything about pirates. This is just what makes sense, giving the info on hand keep up the good work fellas that's i mean i was in i was like oh wow this sounded like a doctor and pirate we have a pirate guy right here by the way i don't know anything about pirates i love that it makes sense that's the spirit of this show that's that's what we want. Yeah. This guy could do the show. Talking so confidently that at the end he's like, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Guys, just makes sense in my head why they did that. All right. Good for him.

Jstew72, there's zero chance that Nate and Aaron survive being marooned. Benchmark might survive. The look on his face leads me to believe he has considered every possible tragedy and he is mentally prepared You might have You've considered every possible tragedy But I think you're The possibility

I think your world is smaller than people think I don't think you've You've only lived here What experiences do you have no what experiences do you have i was in louisville and charlotte north carolina there you go i borderline when we first got on the road was fifth time he's ever flown no i don't know if that's true but you're not a big flyer before no i'd fly about once a year before we went on the road uh not much yeah so you think your travels i think my experience

that would prepare you more to be i think i have a lot more information to information to so when the plane goes down and crashes that's somehow going to help you because you've been on that plane a lot no it's no sense be like i've been to des moines so i can if i sue this tree yeah if i make it i think i have a lot more. I think experience is a gigantic thing to have. Jay Larson commented you would survive for five days and then you'd be gone. You guys are. Wow. I'm going to do it.

Y'all eat Krispy Kreme donuts. I'm going to be on an island. Let's see what happens. All right. Before we get started with this week's episode, we are going to, one thing I want to talk about, Bill Burr hosted SNL, and we watched it, and it was unbelievable.

Burr did great. It was a big, big deal, man. I'm obviously, you know, we're with All Things Comedy, and that's Bill and Al Magical, but seeing Burr come, like he's the guy to me that I've talked about on this. I got to watch him come up. I mean, he was above me, but I got to watch his success as he rose into now he's hosting SNL. And he did it, man. The standup on it, I think it's great for standup comedians, for pure standup comedians it's we we are the funniest burr was the funniest you're not doing nothing better than him man every sketch was better

every everything was great dude they i i don't know if it's like the writing on the show gets like with a comic in the room i'm i'm obviously being a stand-up comic but stand-up comedy is an amazing art form and dudes are just the funniest dude. And he was the best. He was, he, he absolutely killed it, walked out,

owned it. Uh, I mean, you know, it's like, how do you not just book that guy at multiple times? Then, I mean,

well, how do you not want that? You're not, it's just to start this SNL like that is just so good. And, uh, it was just a huge thing to get to see that and uh get to watch it we all watched it on the bus and being on the road and seeing a real stand-up comic you know

do it someone that's not like you know i mean chris rocks the real stand-up comic he did but chris was on snl chris did amazing and then when you get to see like burr pop up it's like yeah this dude this dude's just straight up comes out of his ownr pop up, it's like, this dude just straight up comes out of his own world. That's what it's about. He's a stand-up. He's his own thing. It's Bill Burr.

Bill Burr is his own thing, and now you're bringing him over, hosting this SNL, and it was awesome. It was awesome to get to watch. Also, one little quick link to that, but it's to our producer, Laura Bargetzi. It's our anniversary

today October 13th which you'll be watching this on the 14th but happy anniversary I'm glad I'm here

to ruin it for you we love it we love it I've been on Jason Day past two years I've been his anniversary

they've spent it with me so two years in a row one was their last year was their 10 year anniversary that's a big one and it was that yeah that's a big one row. One was their, last year was their 10 year anniversary. That's a big one. And it was that,

yeah, that's a big one. They were at our house. And this year we were together. But we love having you, Nick. Nick, happy anniversary to us.

Yeah. I feel like, I've actually been at your house other anniversaries. Yeah. As a comic, you always end up celebrating. Laura does very good with you know valentine's

day valentine's is a big day to work it's a great comedy night out so we don't really get those together our uh and then also like her anniversary she has to put up with not doing you know not getting on the exact day but she pulls it in stride and happy interversion. So are the three of you going to do something romantic tonight? Maybe. I got some flowers. Sleep on our Helix mattress together.

Everybody comes in. The dog, everyone. It all fit on there. All right. This week, they're talking about imaginary people. Imaginary friends. Imaginary friends. And you know what? We about uh what she's talking about imaginary people right that's imaginary friends imaginary friends and uh you know what we're gonna talk about that uh this

week we're talking about hoaxes and urban legends uh we have a joke of mine that actually fits with this story we're gonna play that i think we can play this clip and it's not gonna not be cut off i think i this clip we have it on its own thing yeah hopefully that happens we'll see if you don't see if you can't hear it, then we somehow got cut off. But I think I own this clip. So we're good to go. I'm a pretty dumb guy. Pretty dumb.

It's fine. I don't know. I had, here's my proof. If you need, you don't need it. I don't think you need proof, but if you need it,

my first job when I was 15, if you need. You don't need it. I don't think you need proof, but if you need it. My first job when I was 15, I worked in Nashville. Nashville used to have a theme park called Opulence Theme Park. So I worked there. And one day I was eating lunch and this couple sits down and we meet each other

and I was like, hey, my name's Nate. And they were like, the guy goes, my name's John, this is my wife Jane and her last name is Doe. He was like, we're John and Jane Doe. And I was like, blown away. I were like, the guy goes, my name's John, this is my wife Jane, and her last name is Doe. He was like, we're John and Jane Doe.

And I was like, blown away. I was like, are you serious, dude? I was like, can you even do that? And he's like, we're doing it. You know, I don't know. Blown away. Couldn't believe it. Cut to when I was 35.

I was driving. And I just started randomly thinking about meeting John and Jane Doe. And I was like, you know what? I bet they were lying to me about that. That's how long it took. 20 years for me to catch on. Yeah, I bet they were lying to you about that. I even, I looked them up. I Googled them. I tried, and yeah, turns out they were murdered. That's what I found out. And you know, that's what you get for lying to kids.

That's what happens. They still don't know who did it. John and Jane Doe. That was a real story. That really happened. I worked at Opryland theme park. I remember being, I was at lunch and they were sitting across from me and then they told me and I remember it. How old were you?

That's a weird thing to do as a couple. Yeah. What if they were called John and Jane Doe? I mean, I had to be 15 or 16. Opryland was my first job. So whenever you could work, did you work 15? I think I was my first job uh so whenever you could work did you work 15 i think i was 15 because i think my parents my mom dropped me off the first day and would pick me up uh and then it's quick you get a job at 15 man yeah why do you think they they just wanted to

mess with you i have no idea probably i mean they, I mean, it could have been, they were kids and they were probably 20. Yeah. So they could have been like, the guy's like, my name is John Jane. My last name is Doe. And they're like, that's funny. And they, they could have even been like, oh, they didn't know that I would take it. Like, I mean, this is my first job.

I'm like talking to other coworkers. I've never done that. They're older than me. I'm like, wow. Yeah. Yeah. And then, uh, I, it took a long time for me to even remember that. talking to other co-workers i've never done that they're older than me i'm like wow yeah yeah and then uh all right it took a long time for me to even remember that like when i thought of that as a joke yeah it just popped in like it was like something i was like oh yeah i got told i remember

getting told that but that's like a name too or at least me i would i probably wouldn't even find out in the end that that was the you know well i never found out for sure but i just even the john and jane doe that that is like those are fake names like i feel like i would never you know john doe you you know that they use that as a name though yeah for like if they don't know a crime like if they're john and john doe was killed last night like they don't know the name of the person that got killed yeah see i didn't know that yeah you just thought don't name a kid john doe because you are in trouble if you're in these these kids these john doe kids it's a very common american name and they never make it they never make it you know that everybody knows that like i'll tell you what you know who has a rough in this country that's

who we need to be doing marches for the John Does of the world that can't walk outside without getting shot. I mean, hundreds of them a day. No one talks about them. And the Janes. Could you imagine naming your kid John Doe? I'm sure there's real names that are John Doe. Yeah. I'm sure there has to be.

Someone's last name's going to be Doe. Yeah. If your last name's Doe, I've never met someone. I've never met anybody named Doe. I bet it's a name. I can't. I'm sure it is. Yeah.

It's like a big, like, ex, you know, high school linebacker, you know, or offensive lineman. I know a John Downs. It's close. It's close. I will say, every time I have to give my name at a restaurant

or anything like that, I give a fake name. Yeah. Wow. Because I don't like saying my own name. I always have to repeat it. I give a fake name.

I say Nathan a lot instead of Nate. Because when I say Nate, I think I say it, they don't have to say it multiple times. And if I can go Nathan, I can say it and like, it just gets it easier.

They're not going to confuse that for anything. Yeah. For some reason, the older I get, people are starting to hear me say Mick instead of Nick. Yeah. They go,

all right, Mick. I go, no, no, Nick. Mick, we'll get you in a little bit.

I think you look like a mick though yeah i could see you being a mick mick is the guy that's gonna come up you're like i've been talking to mick all day have you met mick like you're in you're in you're talking to everybody yeah you could be a mick this is there are real people named john and jane doe you you loved that we were in uh when the manager came up and was like, well, good talking to you earlier. You're like, ah. Yeah, where was that? The hotel. Nick will talk to everybody, man.

Nick loves. When we were walking somewhere and you go, I would have asked him. I like asking him. Nick loves asking questions. He just wants to walk into wherever he goes and goes, oh, do you want to ask some questions about that? Do we need questions answered?

Nick's wonderful. Cause Nick will, he loves talking to him. He's going to talk to him anyway. So you might as well give him a task. You know what I mean? Like you might as well get something out of it. No matter what, we're going to wait for him to talk to everybody.

So I might as well throw, Hey, ask, ask where the bathroom's at as well. You know, just so we know where it's at. So we can get something, you know,

at least I get some information about it. Do you talk flights nick to people i'm a big like i'll talk to somebody it looks like they're working and i'm like so what do you do you know i'm a flight attendant i have a flight attendant you know i'm the pilot that's why i'm up front with the pilot why are you in here how long have you been doing that you You fly on this plane? You're not flying on this plane. Yeah, I'm flying. Yeah. There's definitely times where I'll see somebody

like throw a headphone on, you know, like... Yeah. It'll start working. I'll start like... Because you can tell them I'll be like talking to them about stuff.

If anybody was listening, Nick took his headphones off and back on just for the audio people and they might be like, I'd like to see an act out of that. Well, you got to be a video watcher if you want to see the full act out of nick uh headphones back off back on and then he did a little uh remember the miss you remember the sketch we did uh

where we were it was like the words long time we were playing charades. Oh, yeah. We have video of it. And Nick, it was a masseur, which is a man masseuse. And so the word was masseur. So him acting it out, he just went. So he did massage hands, but with going. And we were like, angry massage? And he was like, no, it was man massage. Because a man doesn't mean. Remember that?

That was the greatest. And ukulele? no, it was a man massage. Because a man doesn't mean. Remember that? That was the greatest. And ukulele? Yes, I remember that. He started going. He started playing the flute. So the word is ukulele. And he keeps going. Like he's doing a flute action with his hands.

And we're going, flute, harmonica. We're yelling all that stuff. And he'd get frustrated. And he goes. And then he does the same like when we didn't get it it was him going back to the same exact thing when you see someone do charades they always like you always end up doing that like or if they're pictionary they're drawing and they're like no that's not it and then they just draw the same thing again and then tap at it pointed the same

thing i was so convinced that a ukulele is something. It was up there. Maybe not a flute, but in the family. Yeah, and when he gets back, he goes, when we get done, he goes, ukulele. And Big Jay goes, you mean like the little guitar thing? And he goes, ah, yeah, never mind. I was way off. There was no way you were getting it. You were holding like a violin almost.

Oh, yeah, violin. Yeah, violin, we could have maybe at least got into the ukulele family with violin what about hoaxes uh there's been a ton of them i talked about uh hoaxes like uh man talte man titel was a big hoax right i have a joke about that yeah man titel was in the crime museum museum we went to this weekend went to uh in dollywood uh which i'm this is a joke i think i'm going to do if people they talk talk about standup being in the act. I think I can put this as well. I won't do the whole thing,

but we went to Alcatraz, this crime museum and took a Harper, eight years old to a crime museum. And it's don't last night. I hear crying her and Laura, Laura's trying to get her to sleep and I just hear bawling and I go in and all she's thinking about is it is just a straight up it is a big crime

museum that goes into very much detail. I was scared in the middle of the night it's a lot. I woke up and was like it's a lot. We walked in it's like everything's fine and then it was just not fine. They have like John Wayne Gacy's clown suit there. Oh yeah serial killer stuff walked in it's like everything's fine and then it was just not fine they have like john wayne gacy's clown suit there i mean oh yeah killer stuff oh it's crazy yeah it doesn't it's crazy yeah uh so but idea i'm gonna try try it on try it on stage but manti so they had mantel

tail in there because they had like that kind of stuff and i had a joke about mantel tail but mantel mantel tail had a girlfriend remember there's a big hoax big notre dame guy yeah right this is what you guys did this is where i was in the thick of this dude you were in the thick of it not really played the girlfriend yeah i was lanae kakua you were you in school when this happened this was my junior year yeah junior year this happened so my roommate was on the football team yeah and i remember we're watching espn and this story comes on wow and he immediately says this is nonsense because i talked to this girl on the phone wow so he believed so he was like that's his gut reaction was this is nonsense uh i know Manti I talked to her

on the phone at work just in passing like in the locker room like oh my girlfriend says hi so did he never meet her never met her

it was like it was just an online relationship yeah and so then you know we're watching we're like this is crazy

and then just throughout the day everything just kind of collapses it was wild and she was supposedly in Hawaii? She was. California, wasn't it?

California. Yeah, he's from Hawaii. Yeah. This is a week after we lost the national championship game, too. So this is like a two-week stretch. It's like everything's falling apart at Notre Dame. It's all Notre Dame. I thought it happened before the national championship.

No. He had kind of found out what was going on. He found out at the Heisman ceremony, actually. That's a crazy part of the story. Yeah, wow. But it didn't come out publicly until afterwards? No, not until a week after. They show the photo of the real person.

Was he trying to get her to come to the Heisman thing? He's probably trying to get her to come. Like, hey, I'm going to maybe win the Heisman. Well, she had already died by that point. Oh, she died died that's right at this is the story that i've heard i think i've heard him talk about it he's at the heisman ceremony and during a commercial break he gets a phone call yeah from her yeah who he thinks is dead wow wait how did she die so do the do the man do the quick run through the Mantaite. Yeah, yeah, sure.

Just a brief over. You know it. Yeah, you do. You know it. Brian's got the information in front of him. So basically, she had cancer. Or at least that's what she told him, right? Mantaite was a linebacker for Notre Dame.

Big time linebacker. Great. One of the best. Right. Lost in all of this. He's one of the best college football players ever. Yeah. He won every award except the Heisman.

So, Tao and his parents, on December 26th, day after Christmas, it's nice they waited, found out that he'd been a victim of what appeared to be a hoax. Someone using a fictitious name apparently ingratiated herself with Tao, the school said. On the early morning, December 26th, Matai called his coaches to inform them while he was in attendance in the ESPN Awards show in Orlando. He received a phone call from a number he recognized with Lenny Kikua.

When he answered it, it was a person whose voice sounded like the same person he talked to who told him that she was, in fact, not dead. Matt was very unnerved by that, as you might imagine. So at first he thought she was still his girlfriend, still real, but actually alive. I like this at an ESPN award show. It's the Heisman.

It's the Heisman. It's the biggest thing in the world. That is such a non-sports person article written. They were doing some ESPN, I don't know, it's like a game show, war show, like something they get like some trophies or something. Football gala? Yeah, something where like a lot of the guys that are the better guys

I think meet up together and they do something. It was a super contest. They do something like that. It's a meeting that, you know, I don't know. I think it's on TV. I think they show it. I mean, it's the whole, Heisman's the biggest thing on earth. I know. And it's like just, I mean, there's commercials.

It's unbelievable. The trophy's famous. Yeah. It was. So this is, yeah. So he, just to set the stage a little bit, so his girlfriend died and his grandmother died on the same day. Yep. His real grandmother. and his grandmother died on the same day yeah his real

grandmother his real grandmother died and and then his girlfriend died on the same day and this became a national story because he went out and played and had like a great game yeah and then that becomes just a story that people talk about all season that this great player on an undefeated team overcame these two losses in his life. Yeah. So, you know, she's dead, and then he gets a call from her at the Heisman ceremony saying, and I think she answers, and she's like, I'm on the run from drug dealers, and he's just like, I can't talk about this right now.

That's crazy. Like, I'm about, they're about to come back from commercial break. Yeah. Bizarre. Yeah. And so, did they ever catch like this woman? This is why too, leave your phone off. I know.

If you're in a big moment like that, just give your phone to your mom and say, hey, hold on to this. I just want to stay in this moment and enjoy this moment. Yeah. That's crazy to be at a commercial. Hello? Huh? Like just to be-

It's like your car. You're in the middle of the Heisman. Can you imagine? Yeah. So they caught the guy who did it. Yeah. A guy named Renia Tuasosopo. Yeah.

And he was talking to her in just a girl voice. He claims to be her. They would talk for hours and hours every night. They'd fall asleep talking to each other on the phone. It turns out it was this guy. He's also aaiian guy yeah would he change his voice like he's an unbelievable actor he would and this and but some people don't think it was him because on dr phil he refused to replicate that voice yeah he's like i can't do it with the cameras going so i don't know what he was doing to get that voice going yeah so maybe that's pretty so

it's kind of fun that it maybe it's still the guys other people out there but i could also see that too to be like what if he's got to be in some crazy character mindset that he's in like he's in his room like hello like you know he's gonna and it would be super embarrassing to do yeah on tv with a live audience. Like in a world where he's like, dude, I can't. Like it's in like, you know, there's. What if he just nailed it, though? And he just is like unbelievable.

If you listen to the audio. He's an actor. Like he becomes like Jim Carrey all of a sudden. Like it's like switches character. If you hear the audio and there's some clips out there that he released. I mean, you would just never in a million years think it was a guy would he release voicemails or something some voicemails yeah do you see if you can find the voicemails yeah they're uh so you would yeah so they would he would just have some god that's crazy i i the joke i had about man titan which i

have this exact joke was was defending him and the fact that yeah like it's like because everybody made fun like they make fun of them and you're like do everybody could fall for this how right and especially in college like i don't i never did online dating but i'd imagine everything you're you have relationships in a world where they do become real and you don't ever really meet this person until probably towards the end and then once you look into like the extreme lengths this guy went to to to lie to manti he he found this girl and he used her picture and then he actually reached out to the girl in the picture and got her to send specific pictures with like words on a he he you know wow why did he do it what's that why did he do it? What's that? Why did he do it? I don't know. He didn't.

Is he trying to get money? He's asked about, I mean, it's, you know, why do any of these people do anything? But he didn't know, he didn't know Matt Tateo. No, he didn't know him personally. Was he in love with Matt Tateo? That's, that's part of what they talk about on Dr. Phil. He's like, I mean, I think maybe, I don't know. I'm confused about everything.

Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Play, here's a, here's a voicemail sample. Hi. I'm just letting you know I got here and I'm getting ready for my first session. And I just want to call you and keep you posted. I miss you.

I love you. Bye. I mean, I could see a dude being that voice. Hello. Yeah. But now that it's in your mind. But if you had just heard that, you'd have been like, that's a woman, right?

Oh, no. Yeah, yeah. I'm saying I could see that a guy, it's not like she's going, like he's having to go so, so feminine. Yeah. Like he's kind of in that middle ground. Like in your head, you're thinking that's going to be like the voice of Kristen Bell from Frozen.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't think yeah yeah i mean i don't think it's like you know i don't think he's doing too much hello but it seems like he wouldn't have to get in some big acting for that it's just hello yeah you know i'm doing that for hours and hours every night hey this is uh julie how you doing how'd the game go last night you guys you guys look like you did real good job down there. I'm the opposite of, I go the opposite.

You would know way too much sports facts. I know. That's great, man. Hey, what was the over-under, right? What happened? You think you guys have to kick that field goal? And he's like, I don't know. Maybe he sounds more feminine than me.

Like, all right, man. I'll hit you up tomorrow, bro. Good to see you. That'd be great to be that's the we would have heard those voicemails that would have been the best those sound legit so man like i mean i get falling for it but if he goes i got the voicemails and he plays it it's like uh man ty what's up how you doing uh really miss you a lot right now i love you uh love the flowers that you sent me i got them i put them on my table uh anywho and it just keeps going uh you guys think you're gonna cover but what's the defense look

like against uh penn state they seem like they got a good couple corners the nickel they've been running the nickel quite a bit and he's like this girl knows all about football and she loves what i do like he's just even falling more in love with it i love that i love that it's like, this girl knows all about football and she loves what I do. Like he just even falling more in love with it. I love that. I love that. It's like the world's greatest bookie, you know? Yeah. It's just like, it's also comes out that it's like, I, it's like the creator of Bovada.

And he's like, look, I really want. I read the long snappers had a cold. Is that true? Cause I don't, I mean, I'm putting a lot of money on this and I need to know, is everybody healthy? Just real specific, you know? you know yeah uh that's funny uh what's some other big hoaxes that they've had uh well like one of the biggest ones have you heard there's a sucker born every minute that phrase yeah so um that comes from the early 1900s how many babies are born a minute

if a sucker's born every minute is there i guess there's got you know it's like what is it one out of a hundred that's a good thousand what's your guess how many babies are born a minute in the world uh yeah let's do worldwide worldwide i mean world is crazy yeah hundred thousand every minute i i'm gonna say i think that's a lot i'd say 85000 a minute. I think it's much lower. 10,000. Well, you're... I mean, what are you...

I mean, you're already reading. Are you real? And you're like, you're changing your answers a lot. Are you going 100 or 10,000? I'm going to go 100,000. Worldwide, 100,000 babies

are born every minute. You got to realize there's so many minutes. So look at the actual. That would be a lot. That's a lot. I haven't looked yet. I haven't looked yet.

I don't think. I'd say it's lower. I think it's lower. I have not looked at the number yet. How much lower? I mean, I was going to say, I mean, 1,000 maybe, if not 80. That's not bad. Yeah.

53. 256. Yeah. I mean, I was going to say 100. 100,000. 256. I said to say 100. 100,000. 256. I said 85,000. 85,000.

There's a lot of misinformation going around. Hey, one of us went to Notre Dame. One of us did not. Because I'm the guy I learned from the streets. You're too. You're egghead. You're sitting here looking at the data. I mean, why don't you add up 85,000 babies a minute?

Dude, we would have so many people. looking at the data. I mean, why don't you add up 85,000 babies a minute? Dude, we would have so many people. Overpopulation would be a straight up... That is kind of crazy. No, he said 100,000. Every 10 minutes, that'd be a million people. He said 100,000 people. No, I didn't.

No, I mean... What do you... You said 100,000. What do you... You go 100,000. Yeah, but I... And then I go, there's no way, dude,

and you go 10,000 mean that's more like 350 i think ten thousand is even you said a hundred thousand no you you're right you keep saying no i said it but now i'm backtracking i know but you go a hundred thousand and i go that's crazy and then he jumped in 85 he thought that is crazy nick you lunatic 85 000 that's what aaron said he jumped in 85. He thought that is crazy, Nick, you lunatic. 85,000. That's what Aaron said. What he tried to do is prices right me. Like, let me just go like 10 cents lower.

Well, Nick, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. But I was convincing because he went 85,000. I know. Nick, what are you, an idiot? 100,000? You should lead the podcast. 85,000. I was going to go 100. And then I thought then i thought well that's gotta be more than that so i said thousand was about low 256 is the answer that's 2016 data

so maybe it's one up nick so maybe it's maybe it's up to you know what yeah let me know let me know when you get the 2020 data okay yeah all, all right. All right. Nick said $100,000. So $256,000. So all right. What is it? So one out of it, you got one out of a $256,000 chance to be a sucker. Yeah. So basically, the Cardiff Giant is one of the most famous hoaxes in American history.

And it happened in Cardiff, New York. So this guy got in this argument with this preacher. This preacher was saying in the Bible, it said there were giants that roamed the earth at one time, and he thought, I'm just going to mess with them. So he created this petrified 10-foot tall man and buried it. He had some help. He buried it in the back of a yard and then waited some time and then got some well diggers to come.

And they're like, oh, look what we found, a petrified man that's 10 feet tall and it became this big thing and they started charging money for it people came all over around the world to see this what they thought was a real petrified giant and then pt barnum was so into it he asked to that's nick's favorite guy pt barnum is that not the guy who's the the i thought you know a lot about pt barnum barnum is it is that not the guy who's the the i thought you know a lot about pt barnum who do you know about i know pt barnum yeah i don't know if he's like you know what guy i don't know if little people are like that guy the circus guy that's our hero well who did you say you like did you talk about like uh you read his book or something barnum barnum maybe i think that bailey are you like talking about who's the other guy Barnum and Bailey

Barnum and Bailey is that I didn't read I'm from Connecticut though where he's he P.T. Barnum lived in

did you do a movie with him or about him I didn't get that movie thanks for bringing it up maybe because you weren't a fan yeah yeah

what about the Hugh Jackman movie Hugh Jackman movie yeah I thought you just mentioned to me this weekend that you liked someone with a name like that, Barnum or Barn, you know, something. I'm like, that's like a wildly off. Don't get mad at me because you said 100,000.

That's what I feel like. You're mad at me because you said 100,000 and now you're bailing on me. When we get done with the show, you're going to go, by the way, I'm a big PT. Obviously, I'm a big PT. Well, PT Barnum offered $50,000 for the giant. And when they refused, he hired someone to create a plaster replica. And he just started displaying that saying, this is the real giant. Theirs is fake.

And it worked because people are like, oh, OK. They believed. So then. That's the best. You could do all that before social media. If you were really great at working a room and a crowd, the original, like even newspapers weren't,

he would get people there and just kind of go on this crazy thing. So he wouldn't let people touch it. Probably not. And then that's why he wouldn't sell it for $50,000 because he's like, it's over.

If I sell it. I don't know. I think he just was making so much money himself. People coming around to see it. He's like, no way. And then. $50,000 in 1869. He's like, no way. And then.

50,000 in 1869. That's a ton of money. Yeah. Yeah. So then the phrase there's a sucker born. About 100,000 now. Yeah. A sucker born every minute is reference to spectators paying to see Barnum's giant.

Oh, wow. It's crazy. They were both fake. Yeah. I think the first guy sued P.D. Barnum saying, you can't's crazy they were both fake yeah i think they the first guy sued pd barnum saying you can't show this is fake but they were both fake they're both fake how did they eventually find out did they uh they went to court and then the judge the guy finally had judge goes let me just touch it yeah and he's like ah because he probably wouldn't let anybody

touch it or get near it you just looked at it from a distance. The original Cardiff Giant is currently on display at the Farmer's Market. I'm sorry, not Farmer's Market. That'd be great. Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York. I think it should be at the Farmer's Market. Be like, you need eggs? Yeah.

Look at that giant. Yeah. It's crazy that we're still paying to go see it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a made up thing that we're still paying to go see it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a made up thing that we're all like,

what an idiot. And I'm going to go pay, I'll go to Cooperstown and pay whatever it costs to go look at it. I feel like you would bring us there before you bring us

to the Baseball Hall of Fame. I would, I would go see this. I think this would be fun. I think I have a better chance of getting a story out of that museum than I do a baseball museum. If I'm looking for material, I'm definitely going to, that's got have a better chance of getting a story out of that museum than I do a baseball museum.

If I'm looking for material, that's got a way better chance than going to the... I wonder what the... I'll go to both. What's the management team of that museum like? I heard he's... It's like a family legacy where they... Weirdly, I think I read something about

he's seven feet tall, the guy that owns it. No. Yeah. How crazy is that? That's why he did it. He's seven feet tall, the guy that owns it. No. Yeah. How crazy is that? That's why he did it. That's great. That's why he did the giant thing. They're all giants that run this museum. It's a big family.

That's how they got into it. They would always get told they were giants. This sounds like a Billy Crystal movie. Do you ever see that, My Giant? I was supposed to say, which movie are you talking about? He was a movie about it. Yeah. About him being a giant.

George, George Marison was in it. Big George Marison. Oh, and he's, he's, he was that. I don't have no idea.

He's Billy Crystal's friend. Yeah. And they go there and it's like Eastern Europe, my giant, you know, he's like, he goes around the town with him. Yeah.

All right. Give me share some more. Yeah. war of the worlds that's the one that maybe most people think about that's a movie well it was a movie but it's a real life thing orson wells did a radio play back in the 19 1930s and um he did one about martians attacking Earth. Yeah. And they say at the beginning of the episode that this is just a play. It's not real. It's whatever, blah, blah, blah. But everyone was tuned to another station at the time,

listening to her ventriloquist, which is very funny that you're listening to a ventriloquist. So no one heard the disclaimer that this isn't real. Then once the ventriloquist. So no one heard the disclaimer that this isn't real. Then once the ventriloquist, now everyone flips over to this and freaking out because they're like, they're attacking Chicago, the St. Louis,

the national guard's been wiped out. People are fleeing the big cities. And then people really did start fleeing and freaking out and started calling, begging police for gas masks requesting their power be shut off so the aliens wouldn't see them and some people were treated for shock at the hospital wow that's great so this so they just missed that's crazy so they just missed the uh the announcement the disclaimer yeah hey this isn real. And then they just hear complete terror. Yeah.

It was like a newsman. Folks, here's the latest. St. Louis has been destroyed. It says a woman ran into a church in Indianapolis during the evening service proclaiming, New York has been destroyed. It's the end of the world. Prepare to die. Wow.

Yeah. When CBS got wind of the hysteria, Orson Welles went on the airs himself to remind listeners that this was fiction. The FCC investigation found no wrongdoing, but networks agreed to be more cautious regarding programming going forward. I wonder how many people this was that, you know. It sounds like a lot of people. Sounds like a lot of people. The greatest thing about it is Orson Welles wells has i believe he had that great voice right didn't he have like i don't think like you could i'm orson wells he had like a great orson wells

kind of voice but what if he just like really like was like look i'm i'm not on today guys he's like by the way it's not real like he just kind of like he just like buried and whispered that and then everybody's like oh my god yeah it didn't stop ago this is not real what i mean how many people didn't hear that i always thought that with uh in war you know when they stop like silver war when it's over there's guys in the mountains i mean how long does it take from when it's like hey hey, we're done, to just a guy that's the farthest away from it being over. I remember reading about a group of Japanese soldiers. Yeah.

On an island, right? On an island, yeah. And it was decades, right? And they just thought the war was still going on. Until recently, until 2000. I mean, it was just recently. Yeah. I've been to there.

Oh, really? I went to there look up the exact date they got the guy I honestly think it was 5 years ago maybe 15 years ago where the guy has been this guy came to Nate's show

he was like look you're my enemy is that him? yeah so he died in 1997 so it's not five years ago uh but it was it was i want to say it was uh i think this is him japanese for hiding on guam yeah is that it yeah jungle of guam 26 years after u.S. forces had regained control of the island in 1944. So way off on the years. 26 years is pretty crazy, though.

It's crazy. And he just thought the war was over. So anybody that would come talk to him, he just thought they were an enemy. And so he stayed hidden. And, you know, it's like he just thought, I think he's, yeah, maybe saw Americans, too, and thought, well, they took over. They used to do a bunch of weird stuff at Guam. They didn't want, when America was going to take over, they would have people walk off cliffs because they said that America was going

to kill your family if they caught you. So they would get them, and there was a cliff that they would just have everybody just walk off and commit. So it'd be better to die that way than to give yourself to the Americans. Wow. And they would have them just go walk off crazy. Families, sad. Yeah, it was 1972.

1972. We also showed that exhibit yesterday to Harper. I explained it to Harper. I go, they had kids who just fall off cliffs. Anyway, good night. I love you. I just don't want to go to bed. I mean, she, oh, watch anything.

Dracula movie. I think, what did she get tired of? Vampires maybe one night. It's like all kinds of stuff, man. And then they just go lay in there. And she's in our bed. But yeah, it's tough. Where is she now

I don't know we haven't seen her since last night I thought I heard somebody leave in the middle of the night she's in school hear a car start up has anybody had a hoax Lucy was telling me is she going to tell you

she almost got scammed pretty bad like two days ago two days ago lucy aaron's fiancee still still yeah i hope she's not gonna do it this was uh this really made me question things but yeah i didn't but yeah she got she got a phone call saying that her identity had been stolen, that it was involved in a drug ring in El Paso, Texas. And in order to verify her information, she had to wire money to somebody. And she almost did it. She almost did it. Yeah, pretty close to doing it.

I would get it. You know what? I had someone steal my identity in Las Vegas. I had the Las Vegas police call me. Yeah. And like, they would send me emails. But I think it was real. Like the guy goes, we found everything on this.

So you should send him some money. I think the guy knew my information. And he's like, we found it all through this. No, I was never asked to send money. But he goes, we found all this information on this person. This person, they arrested someone that has just collects people's information. I was one of the people of the information that they collected.

And then, so they had all this, how to find that email. And like the guy, uh, I didn't know what it was. I mean, I think I had my,

I like showed it. I showed it to my agent or something like i showed it to someone to be like am i crazy is this like yeah not being uh and it was like it but it was the the person that just had my information and uh i never had to send money it was like i was just answering questions i was never like you know confirming or anything it was straight up him telling me that they found this person with all this information yeah i think it happens pretty insane amount now like through twitter and through other things where people are you know creating i i know i've been like even by friends i mean you have in your act like multiple times where you're tricking me and

doing that i'm like the perfect target because i'm very trusting. Yeah. You think giants own that place? Yeah. I had the best. Clint had a great hoax on me. Yeah. Where he, a very good friend of mine, but this is like one of the best pranks of all time. This is, we're going back 15 years.

You better hope this story is amazing because you're setting it up a lot. You didn't have to say that. You would have let us just do it. I wish I had now. I mean, now, now you go. One of the greatest pranks. Hundred thousand people born a minute.

But he so this is this is pre where you could like check everything out on the Internet and such an easy way. This is like 15 years ago where it was literally, it was much harder to get information to find out if things were true. So I told my buddy that I was dancing at a club, you know, and I'm, it was like, I was like, yeah, it was a nutty night. Oh, it was crazy last night. I was dancing on top of a speaker and I'm dancing and getting crazy. And with all these girls on top of a speaker, you're making this up and not making it up. You know, I was on a, like, I was like working at the club. I'm dancing on top of a speaker with girls and it was crazy. And, you know, it's like a, it was like a living, like a rapper lifestyle.

Somebody's like, God, I'm that guy where people are always like, come on, on this side of the carpet and hang out with us. And I'm like, sure. So I'm dancing on the speaker and I just tell him loosely that I, and this is also a little person, my friend. And about two weeks later, he says, Nick, you must be so mad. You know, I'm like, what? He goes, they did a story.

ABC news did a story about little people that exploit themselves for money. And they had you dancing on that stage. I go, what are you talking about no then he had other people from around the country tell me that you know oh like that i saw that i'm ashamed at you i can't believe you would dance like you're what you're exploiting yourself i'm like i was just there like you know they wanted me to go up on this i did i went on the speaker because i was like so like it literally went for like days you know i think even weeks yeah that i i was like to the point where i i contacted abc's department and i was like we gotta figure this out because i'm gonna sue you

i'm gonna go crazy like clint's mom i'd be like this is going too far you gotta tell and then and it was that great moment where I was like, I was just like, wow, that was just so, it would just made me laugh. Like it was like, I wasn't even mad.

Cause it was so funny that, that it happened like that. And then it was orchestrated. Cause it wasn't like I was, yeah, I didn't do anything. It wasn't like I was online too. This is even like,

I believe pre Facebook. So it wasn't even like, I'm like, you know, I'm doing like a, like so it wasn't even like i'm like you know i'm doing like a like a story of a oh abc you know or it just was a couple phone calls and it was so much easier to do that and not fact check it yeah you should tell that story in your act you should figure out that's a great story and then uh you're it's funny because you think with the internet it would be you're like well it's gonna be harder to you're, it's funny because you think with the internet, it would be, you're like, well,

it's going to be harder to trick people and it's actually become easier. And you would think, cause you're like, Oh, could I, I could look everything up. I can see if this is real. And they're starting to figure out,

you know, they have ways where the Facebook, you get an email from Facebook. I mean, I'll get them where it's an email and it says from it's the Facebook. There's always one little thing off, but it's like so close that you would never know yeah yeah it's pretty crazy like uh i have a couple stories but i tell them in my act about you yeah but nick have you pretended

to be your own agent whoa whoa whoa these accusations we're gonna talk you're you're offending my agent what is my agents listening right now my mistake what are you saying i'm doing that apologies no but i'll do like i i enjoy that kind of like calling as people or just goofing around even my mom i did something to my mom where i would call i used to call like in goofy voices like hello i'm nick you know like it's like a a russian you know randomly i heard mick there by the way yeah hello i'm mick you know yeah so i uh yeah i did say mick that time the first time you know i i but anyways i would do these phone calls like that and my mom was trying to sell a car and so this russian guy really wanted the car yeah and he had like a very like fake sounding

accent yeah and he's like hello i'm interested in like this uh car and and my mom was like nick shut up you're you know it was just like yeah i kept calling back and no i'm not nick i really want car yeah and the guy bought the car the guy bought the car. The guy bought the car, yeah. That's funny. I started thinking the only thing I can think of when Twitter first became a thing

there's a standard I guess if you're going to do a fake account for someone you're supposed to make it obvious. Yeah. Like it's a fake account. I didn't know those rules so I thought it'd be fun

to create an account for Marvin Harrison. The football player? Yeah. Who never says a word So I thought it'd be fun to create an account for Marvin Harrison. The football player? Who never says a word. I thought that'd be so funny if Marvin Harrison was saying funny things. I wanted it to be fake, but I made it way too real. And I got so many followers so quick. Wow.

And it was getting out of hand really quickly. How many followers was it? I mean, it was more than I have now. how many followers was it I mean it was more than I have now yeah I don't know like yeah

10,000 maybe something like I mean it was it blew up were you doing statements as

like yeah but then I didn't realize you're not supposed to do that you're supposed to make it clear

that it's a fake account so if anybody can arrest Brian Bates that's listening he's I mean

I deleted it quickly Marvin Harris might if he finds out about it we know now he doesn't have So if anybody can arrest Brian Bates that's listening, he's... I mean, I deleted it quickly. Marvin Harris might, if he finds out about it, we know now he doesn't have a... He has a little bit of a temper on me. Marvin Harris doesn't talk ever. And then he retires and just... Didn't he shoot somebody? At a car wash or something.

Yeah. I was in my head. I was like, wasn't there a crazy story about him? Yeah, it's crazy. It's the best. I mean, not the best. It's sad. But it's funny to me. Marvin Harris was like, what a wonderful guy. I'm like, wasn't there a crazy story about him? Yeah, it's crazy. It's the best. I mean, not the best. It's sad, but it's funny to me. Marvin Harris was like, what a wonderful

guy. I'm not saying he's not bad. I don't know what the situation was, but it's just crazy to be like, he never spoke and then kills a guy or something, or some kind of shooting involved. And this had already happened when I created this account, which made me think this will be so much funnier, but

I made it way too real. All of a sudden, you got a lot of new followers or comments. Like one day. There they go. I've got a lot of fake accounts right now that I get messages. If you're hearing this,

if I don't have a check mark next to my name, then that's not it. I get messages a lot and they're getting really good. They use your photo that you're currently using on your thing.

And then they, and people send me direct pictures of the direct message like they'll be like hey what's up and you know they're like oh i'm a big fan and they're like oh man i appreciate you i love hanging out uh i'd love to meet you after the show sometime please come we'll get your tickets come to shit like i mean it's a whole long drawn out thing and then they send it to me to you know be like, this is crazy. But it seems like it's a real person. It's not a bot kind of thing. They're crazy.

It just happened to me, actually. But they weren't making up that they were me. But I was in a New York Times article. And the writer of that article is like a big writer. And he has a lot of Twitter followers. And I got a message from him. And he was like, hey, blah, blah, blah. Can you sign up for this thing?

And it was like a, some kind of disability related thing. And that, you know, I'm in that world. And so I was like, yeah, I run this. I run this Easter sales, disability film challenge. It's a weekend film competition where you need to have somebody with a disability in front of her behind the camera. If you guys go to disability film challenge.com, check out all the amazing films from this year's challenge. where you need to have somebody with a disability in front of her behind the camera. If you guys go to disabilityfilmchallenge.com,

check out all the amazing films from this year's challenge. But so anyways, I'm in that world of disability. So I thought like, oh, well, maybe I'll just sign this thing. And I, you know, I tell him, oh, by the way, thank you so much for including me in, you know, in this article. And what an amazing honor. No problem. You deserve it.

And we're having a conversation as if this is the writer, but then he keeps asking me to click this thing and sign up for some kind of loan involving disability. And I'm like, well, I mean, it, it is in this disability thing. And the article is about the challenge in me. So I'm like, so I contacted him and he was, we ended up going to twitter and being like this is a fake account and yeah you know and they and it's crazy yeah yeah it's crazy that's how they get you wow i just realized that wasn't nate that finally followed me what if it is a different

what do you mean uh that wasn't the real nate bargetti oh, finally. That guy's a big fan of your comedy. What was the, what, do the Sid Finch, if people don't know that one. All right, Sid Finch. That's a great one. So this was an

April Fool's Day hoax that Sports Illustrated did. They realized the issue was coming out April 1st, 1985. So this writer wrote this article about Sid Finch,

a fictional baseball player um he was raised in an English orphanage learned yoga in Tibet and could throw a fastball as fast as 168 miles per hour and real guy uh yeah go ahead keep going and uh so they found this this uh they put Sid's pitcher on the cover and it said he was a rookie baseball pitcher training with New York Mets got and so they found this this they put Sid's pitcher on the cover and it said he was a rookie baseball pitcher training with New York Mets

got hurt he would have pitched he got hurt one year can you believe that it was like what year was it 1985

85 when were you born 82 he got hurt 168 miles an hour could have pitched how crazy is that that is crazy

you wish you would have went to your Yankees what new team are you a fan of Got hurt. 168 miles an hour. Could have pitched. How crazy is that? That is crazy. You wish you would have went to your... Yankees? What new team are you a fan of? Always been a Yankee fan. Yankees. Sid Finch would have went to the Yankees in 85. You'd have hurt it. You'd have been a Hall of Famer.

Got hurt. Can't throw that fast. He wore only one shoe, a heavy hiker's boot, when pitching. How crazy is that? That would be... I'd sign him up on my team everybody signed him up you're throwing 168 miles an hour who's not signing it up you know sid is kind of a shady name though well sid finch is a great it's a baseball name you don't think it's a baseball name it sounds

like lost in the shuffle in the orphanages and then came up 168 miles an hour dude you know fast like no one a catcher couldn't catch it. That was the thing. I feel like I missed part of this. So this is a hoax though, right? He's not a real guy? No, it's a real guy. I don't feel like I zoned out for a second.

I'll be honest. I'm like, I think I missed part of where it's like, it's not a real guy. I've been lying to you the whole episode. I know he is. The whole episode's about hoaxes. This is my life with Nate. We will like,

he will stretch out a lie and a trick for days or if not weeks with me sometimes where he's like, this is my aunt. And I'm like, well, I guess it's his aunt. The utility of the people that run that museum are all seven feet tall.

He had never heard of this 30 seconds before. And you're like, oh, wow. Nick always- But that would be great if it's a giant museum with a seven foot guy that works there well you try to get that no that's why they started it because the guys are seven feet that's what made them think of uh he really loves this i know he's a fan all right anyway sid finch who do you get drafted by the mets mets yeah to the match you don't remember this well he played with lenny died loves this. I know, he's a fan. Alright, anyway, Sid Finch, who did he get drafted by? The Mets. The Mets. Went to the Mets. You don't remember this?

He played with Lenny Dystryk. Played with him. The Yankees wouldn't take him, I'll tell you that. But the Mets, Lenny Dystryk played with him. Yep. Let's see, where is it? Yeah. Lenny Dystryk talked about him on Howard Stern. He met him once before he got hurt. Big fan of those car washes. They interviewed Mets pitching coach Mel Stoudemire about it.

And anyway, Mets fans were very excited, overjoyed at their luck in finding such a player. And Flooded Sports Illustrated requested for more information. Crazy. Do you think that was a hoax or not a hoax? I mean, I would say it felt like a real story. It is a real story. I know, but this is the game. But this is a hoax element. Do you think it was a real it felt like a real story. It is a real story. I know, but this is the game. But this is a hoax element.

Do you think it was a real story or not a real story? This is the game. People thought it was a hoax because it sounds so crazy. But 168 miles an hour seems too fast. That is fast. Well, that's so fast. I think 100 miles an hour seems like you never hear anyone throwing 120. Yeah.

So how do you go to 160? Guy Buck Johnson, 115 miles an hour. Look that up. He's the fastest pitcher. Yeah, Buck Johnson. That sounds like somebody that beat Tiger Woods. It's Joe Buck's great-great-grandfather. Joe Buck.

See, Aaron will never let me be completely tricked because he laughs at- Aaron, you need to leave the room. Aaron is like- This is so obviously not true. 168 miles an hour is insane. It is though. You would think after being friends with Nate for like 100 years that I'd be like, he's probably lying.

And I'm like, I believe him. Out of the episode. He is very trusting. I mean, episode about hoaxing every story. I just, I said that giants own giants. You were like,

Oh, that makes sense. Nick pays attention. And then he, Nick, it's not that he's doesn't like, there's not a dumb factor in this. It's Nick pays attention.

Then Nick zones out. And I just know when Nick is zoned out. And then I pounce on that opportunity. So we've just been friends long enough that I just can see Nick is not really, Nick's kind of thinking about something else. Yeah. So I know he's kind of not in the conversation,

and then I know when to throw this thing in. And then Nick kind of starts agreeing with you, I think, before he's back in the conversation. Like, you know, he's like, oh, wow, that's crazy. And then he's like, is it? And then it's like, I've got him. If I keep like. He's in a sweet spot.

Yeah, I get it. If I just say little things here and there and then kind of go back and I keep jumping back in. But yeah, I mean, the whole episode's about stuff that's not real. So I don't know why we would throw a real story about stuff like that. It's pretty crazy to be like. It says many people fell for the prank. The magazine printed a much smaller article in the following April 8th issue announcing Fitch's retirement.

We had a guy fall for the prank as we talked about the prank. So that was that good of a prank. I used to work for the Mets. Do you want me to do these other ones? Yeah, do the balloon boy. Do you know that? do these other ones? Yeah, do the Balloon Boy. Do you know that? Do you remember that? This was just a few years ago.

Seinfeld episode? Bubble? Yeah, Bubble Boy. What was the news thing? Just say what the news thing was. All right, so on October 15th, so here it came up on the anniversary, 2009, a homemade helium-filled gas balloon

came untethered in Fort Collins, Colorado. And the family called the police. Their six-year-old son was trapped inside it. Do you remember that? No. You don't remember that news story? I don't remember it. They're saying it was helium and it wasn't helium.

Authorities confirmed the balloon reached 7,000 feet during its 90-minute flight. It was up there so long, news crews had helicopters following it. I remember watching it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People watch it a lot. Watch it on the news. The event attracted worldwide attention, and the boy, his name was Falcon, was nicknamed Balloon Boy by the media.

National Guard helicopters and local police pursued the balloon after flying more than an hour. He's still up there. And a park committee, he's, what is he? He's 16 now.

Yeah, 16 years old. Well, he turned 17 in two days. Just turned 17. 17 in two days. Yeah. He's driving.

Well, he's not. He's in a balloon. Yeah. Above the sky. But he's 17 years old up there. I almost can vote during this, you know, not quite yet. Yeah. Above the sky. He's 17 years old up there. I almost can vote during this one. Not quite yet.

I don't believe it. Again, Aaron is like the reason. Yeah. I don't even know how to read this because I don't know. All right. Let's see. This is a news story. We could do the news.

I believe it. Aaron, do you remember this? So I remember hearing of this. Can you see him in the balloon? You see the balloon going up. Yeah, but you see the balloon. It's referenced. Yeah, he's in the basket.

Let me pull up some video. It's referenced in the office. It is? Yeah. What was it? And it's like part of the zeitgeist. So I heard of it. I don't know how this ends, though.

So I don't know what. Yeah, I don't. what So the kids in the balloon These all sound like great movies by the way Every one of these The balloon boys, look there he is Where's he at now? He's right over camp His name is Falcon by the way

We just kind of brushed over that Oh sorry Big production budget here on the Nate land. I mean, pay for the free ads. Who could forget that homemade flying saucer? You don't remember this? Whoa. He's in there.

America was spellbound as a balloon raced across the sky. So he climbed in. The sky was where that little boy was trapped inside. He climbed in, but his parents didn't know he climbed in. He was just like, oh, look at this, and then it's gone. He's in there. He's in there. But how do you know he climbed in. He was just like, oh, look at this. And then it's gone. He's in there. But how do you know he was in there?

Because he climbed in and the parents didn't know where he was at. They have three kids. Boys are crazy. And then they climb in and do it. But there's never like, to me... It's not a normal balloon. It's not like a hot air balloon. I want to see him in like an egg. But that was the balloon. It's like a... What is it? It's like a normal balloon. It's not like a hot air balloon. I want to see him in like an egg. But that was the balloon.

It's like a weather balloon. It's a weather balloon. So that's what he climbed in. See, I wouldn't believe that. I would need to see him. It happened. I don't know what to believe. Well, that's the video.

You can't see him because he's inside of a weather balloon. It's not a normal one. It's not a hot air balloon with a basket. Wouldn't trick me. Huh? I wouldn't be fooled. You would have said he's not in there. I would have said he's not a normal it's not a hot air balloon with a basket wouldn't trick me huh i i wouldn't be fooled you would have said he's not in there i would have said he's not in there because i think you kind of believe it right now i mean you would still you would still everyone believed he was in there everybody thought he was in there he was he in there yes other than

why would it be in the hoax the hoax episode uh it's uh no he wasn't everybody believed he was in there you don't want any more of the video but falcon was not i just ruined the fun i'm like then you know i'm going back to that i think did they get the balloon did they down the balloon the the balloon landed on its art i'm gonna say when okay uh it finally came to landing on its own and uh when falcon was not found inside it was terrible is the kid's name real falcon yeah when falcon was not inside it was reported that an object had been seen falling from the balloon so a search was begun later that day the boy was found hiding in the attic of his home where he had apparently been the entire time susp Suspicions of a hoax soon arose,

particularly after an interview with Wolf Blitzer and Larry King Live that same evening. Asked why he was hiding, Falcon said to his father, you guys said that we did this for the show. Finally, the Sheriff's Department announced that... Do they have a video clip of that? Wolf Blitzer? Yeah, him saying you guys did it for the show.

Yeah, I remember when it happened. Bates was there as the weatherman. Bates was working on the news then. I was. So he would have been the... Did you all cover this? I love that clip that you had with the old clip of you and... The weather clip.

That was me in college. That was awesome. That's a hoax. That wasn't really baked. The dad finally pled guilty to attempting to influence a public servant. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail in order to pay $36,000 in restitution. And his wife was sentenced to 20 days of weekend jail. What was the balloon boy in the office?

Oh, sorry. It's when the Scrant scranton strangler is driving by and they said there are three things we you need to watch live the balloon boy michael jackson's funeral i think yeah yeah and yeah michael goes i saw him i saw him and he takes gravel from yeah what's the microsoft buys the catholic church i don't know that one either uh microsoft acquisition hoax is a bogus 1994 press release suggesting that Microsoft

acquired the Roman Catholic Church. It's considered to be the first internet hoax to reach a mass audience. Many of the press releases' claims were unrealistic, from suggesting that Catholics would soon be able to take

Holy Communion through their computer to claiming that conversion to Catholicism was an upgrade. Despite these warning signs, several readers of the fake press release contacted Microsoft to confirm the claim of the hoax. See, I mean, that pre-2000, you would need to actually watch the news to find out if it was a fake. Now you could just go and be like, it's not.

It's the... But now more people are falling for stuff. Even the media falls for stuff. I mean, everybody can fall for things because it's not it's the but now more people are falling for stuff even the media falls for stuff i mean they're everybody's fault can fall for things because it's hard to check they're like the balloon boy thing is like that's a story that when that happened that's you know it's a high speed chase when you see those on tv where everybody goes and watches and it's that was like a moment where everybody's watching this everybody thinks thinks his kid's up there. And it's unbelievable. Why did the parents do it?

Because they were just trying to be funny? I think they just wanted media attention. Yeah. On what? Just with their family? I don't know. Is there a difference between a hoax and a scam? Like the catch me if you can.

You know, like that. We saw that in the museum yeah he's in there it's unbelievable that guy's story those are all real things like he was a pilot he was a doctor he was a lawyer yep i'm a i'm a doctor like the it's crazy and that guy passed the law yeah and so that he took past the bar you know with leonardo caprio uh hey what's his name henry uh abigail frank abigail frank abigail and then he uh that movie's unbelievable i love that boss and they uh he but he actually did all this stuff this goes back to my thing that he's a guy like when i was i think we've talked about it before he's a guy that's so smart that could just be wildly successful at any

of these things. But there's something in his mind that makes him try to cheat the system. And then he's so good at it. Now he works for the FBI. He ended up working for them because he was so good at it. That's like that girl that was the drug lord that I talked about where she could have been anything. She could have been a runner in the Olympics. And then she's like, I want to do this. And so she's the best drug lord there's ever been.

It's these people that are just, they're really good at anything, and they can go, and that's what he did, Frank Abigail. Frank Abigail Jr. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. So that would have been, what is that? That's a hoax?

That's not a hoax. Is that a hoax? That's a scam. That would be a scam. Scam artist. So that would be the difference. Bloom Boy's a hoax? That's not a hoax. Is that a hoax? That's a scam. That would be a scam. Scam artist. So that would be the difference. Bloom Boy is a hoax. It's what I guess mass people believe.

A hoax is probably a story. A hoax is something that mass people believe this thing. That's a hoax. A scam is one guy scamming a system. So that would be the difference. Twitter, if you get that on Twitter, you're getting scammed. Yeah. Versus Manti Teo got scammed and it wasn't really a hoax but let's try a mix of both what's crazy is like 9-11 there was all these like fake charities and things i've got one here i thought you're about to just be like 9-11 i'm like we're a different podcast now. Thanks a lot, Nick.

You guys wanted Nick. Now you got him. Nick Land. Nick Land. Hey, everybody in Nick Land. There was a woman who claimed to be a survivor of the World Trade Center attacks, and she went by the name Tanya Head. She joined the World Trade Center Survivor Network Support Group,

later became its president, but in 2007 it was revealed that her story was a hoax. She wasn't even in New York City on September 11th, but in reality was attending classes in her native city of Barcelona, Spain. Yeah. Steve Ranazzisi was the same comedian. He was a great guy, besides that. That's a little thing that he did Nate you'll like this one

go ahead Aaron no I wasn't gonna I don't even know why my bad yeah he was trying to talk too much talked a little too much that guy's gonna come back Phil

Phil's gonna come back Phil Hill's gonna come back and go yikes I guess I opened that barn door a little too far he ran all out the Edward Owens hoax was a historical

hoax created by students at George Mason University in 2008 as a class project to see if they could create a false story that would be spread across the internet. The students created a website and a fictitious entry on Wikipedia about Edward Owens, supposedly

a Virginia oyster fisherman born in 1853, who became a pirate. The hoax was reported as true in some media outlets. This was a class project that Professor led them in. Let's see if we can create a fake news story, and it'll work, and it did. I think you could create a fake story. I think we could talk about it on this podcast and create a fake story, us talking about creating this fake story. And you could be about on this podcast and create a fake story us talking about

creating this fake story and you could be like hey everybody listening we're going to do interviews on the media about it and we do it we are going to be completely lying but we're going to stick to this story and i'm telling you that we're lying on this podcast because i think people do not do research anymore so they do not look up any kind of facts. They would never listen to, you know, an hour and a half podcast to figure out me going, I am lying to you. And I would like, we almost like if we could ever do it, we,

if we could ever think of something, it'd be fun to try to do. Uh, everybody just goes to jail after you're like, would you go to jail? I don't, I mean, if you're,

if you're, if you, what happened to Matt? I think you're, mean, if you're, if you're, if you. What happened to Matt Tataios? I think you're. Did that guy go to jail? Well, that's, we're not doing, that guy. Yeah, I don't know. Did he go to jail?

That's, I mean. I don't know what that guy. I don't know if he even did anything illegal. He just broke a guy's heart. It was just kind of a mean thing to do. Yeah, it was mean. Now, have you ever seen the, a recent example of that, of creating a fake news story, that Justin Bieber eating a burrito sideways?

You ever see that picture? No. It's a group of guys, internet guys, and they wanted to create a fake story to go viral. Yeah. And they hired a Justin Bieber impersonator and they were like, what's the weirdest thing we could have him do? Yeah. So they took pictures of him sitting.

I want to see this. Sitting at a park, eating a burrito like a corn on the cob, sideways. And that picture of Justin Burrito eating a Bieber... Eating a Bieber. Yeah.

I remember when that picture went viral. They were like, what is wrong with Justin Bieber? Why is he eating a burrito like this? That's not him. Just a random dude. I'm wearing the same shirt as him, basically. Trending number one on Twitter. I mean, it was a huge thing. And it was just some guy's lying.

Yeah. Pretty great. Yeah. And they did it just to do that. Just to lie. Yeah. Just to lie and just watch people blow up. Because it's to show people's reactions or everybody's reaction is first to there's no questioning.

There's no like, hey, could this be true? He tried to make us believe the way Boggs went in the Hall of Fame as a Tampa Bay Devil Ray. Yeah, that's true. We didn't fall for it though, did we, Nate? Was that, were you just making that up? No, it was a thing. It's a hoax.

You played there. It's a hoax that I fell for. That's what Aaron thought. Was that a con or a hoax oh it's a hoax it's a hoax that i fell for yeah you know that's what aaron thought was that a con or a hoax uh it was a hoax the guy that yeah it's an easy one it's not as good as the burrito justin bieber burrito but it's a guy that's just like i like to have a little fun he's what's your hoax you made a way bug went into the hall of fame as the temple bay deborah you're like oh that's cool man like not you know i'll tell you my favorite one there's a video it's a video on youtube you can look it up it's some guys who who scanned trip advisor they're in london they created a fake restaurant with the goal of making it the

number one rated restaurant in london and they did over the course of months and months they posted fake pictures they They got fake reviews. And it became the number one rated restaurant in London. It's not a real place. Yeah. And they were just getting flooded with calls. And they were like, we're booked. We're booked.

We're booked. We can't. And eventually, they opened up their backyard one night and created a fake restaurant and tricked all these people. They served them ramen noodles and stuff. Yeah. And told them it was- Ah, that's like everybody bought they're like this place is amazing yeah it's all fake i love that because

yelp i really do trust yelp and trip advisor so i would be that guy that's like this is some of the best well it's the when you read trip advisor you always gotta uh it takes a special person to be writing some of these reviews i do love someone that writes an honest review but you can't when you read some of these reviews they're the they get too personal i would say this on stage sometimes where i was like they would they get you know they're like they say someone's name you know at the hotel they're like everything was nice except for benjamin that worked at the and you're like well now i don't even trust this review because you're too angry yeah you can't you talk to someone that doesn't when you're trying to level them like trying to tell them to calm down they can't if they're so angry they're not they they can't

be there's no rational they don't become you know rational they're they just lose it so when people if you're mad enough to go leave a review it's either this is the greatest or this is the worst. There's never a guy that's just in the middle. I had all right time. Yeah. I had a great time. Food was great. Would you like?

Dollywood. I would really review. I love Dollywood. I think I was super impressed because I didn't know what to expect. You know what we realized too? I was like, why did we never go there as a kid? Because we had an Opryland. So we never would have went because we had a theme park here.

A country music themed park. So it never would have been, you never would have thought to go. Because I was like, I told my mom, I go, why did we never come here? Like it would just have been an easy vacation. But it was because we had Opryland. I loved it. I was a little surprised though that there wasn't like a million Dolly Parton things around.

But we were saying, too, the live shows. Yeah. Dolly Parton would have probably been live shows, but they couldn't have live shows. But yeah, there was, she talked. It's not Dolly. It's not like it's Mickey Mouse. Yeah. Where it would be, you know, you see Mickey Mouse everywhere.

That's what he wanted. It's an unbelievable park, though. And it's beautiful, too. You're like going into like a national park. And they're not telling us to say. I don't think we got a free Dollywood trip. We did not. No Ubers out in Dollywood.

We learned that. Yeah. No Ubers in Pigeon Forge. Aaron and I learned that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, they did. We took a taxi from Pigeon Forge to Knoxville. How did that go? What was that? It was about an hour and 15 minutes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, they did. We took a taxi from Pigeon Forest to Knoxville.

How did that go? What was that? About an hour and 15 minutes. Oh, really? Something like that. It was just a lady in her car, basically. Yeah. We were setting the vaccine.

She had a wet towel down. The vaccine. Not soaking wet, but damp for some reason. Who was sitting on it? You? You had to sit on the towel? Yeah, we sat on the towel. That's great.

I don't know. Aaron fell asleep immediately. I felt so bad. Me and her. She was talking too. I was like, I'll just let Brian do his now. He just makes him the sacrificial lamb. Oh, man.

Angel. You sit up front or no? No, I sit in the back, but that didn't stop her from talking to us. She's very nice. She's very nice. Hour 15, that's tough. Yeah. All right.

Is there any more hoaxes? I'm out of time for Urban Legends. No, that's the main ones. We'll do Urban Legends on its own separate. Hoaxes was enough. This is all hoax. We got Nick to convince back and forth.

Nick thought there was a hoax a couple times. That was fun. I couldn't handle what you were doing. The picture kind of got me a little just because the reading of it sounded like 168 miles an hour i know well it's crazy to even how could it even remotely get you when you when i say read the story about the hoax i just say read the story i go i go brian go ahead and read the hoax story about sid finch we're reading hoaxes why would we throw one in there that's like a real one?

And then you're like, oh, I don't know. How about for Urban Legends, I'll throw in some real ones and see if Nick can do it. That would be a fun game. Can you tell what's real and what's not? I love that. I think I can get you. I think I can make one up for you. You think I could do that?

I probably could make one up. Time is on our side. Time, yep. How many I could do that? I probably could make one up. Time is on our side. Time, yep. How many minutes are babies born? I'm regretting that one. Yeah, 100,000. Well, then you try to backtrack it. No, you said 100,000. You go, no, no, no, no.

I never said that. People can hear the video. People can listen to the audio. You should run for office. Yeah, you go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I never said 100,000. You just said 100,000. just said a hundred thousand no no no no no no i said ten thousand which is still insane aaron threw you under the bus to then cut it down to 85 that he thought 100 is a lunatic what are you a lunatic 85 000 that's great what are you insanity dude nick get off the podcast nate 85 though

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