The Nateland Podcast - 18: #18 | The Truth About Aliens

Episode Date: June 3, 2026

This week, Brian promotes the Breadwinner, Aaron is not a fan of the King James Version of the Bible, and Dusty again defends his singing abilities, Then the guys get into the topic of UFOs by debating scenes from the movies 3:10 to Yuma and A League Of Their Own while also talking a little about aliens. Square: square.com/go/nateGet up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/nate! #squarepod#adHelix: helixsleep.com/nate Go to helixsleep.com/nate for their summer savings, that's 20% off site wide from June 1st- June 11th, 2026. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout, so they know we sent you! IQBAR: Text PUBLIC to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products, plus FREE shipping. Message and data rates may apply.Ultra Pouches: @ultrapouchesDon’t sleep on @ultrapouches. New customers get 15% Off with code NATELAND at takeultra.com! #UltraPouches #ad

Welcome to the Public Figures podcast, where everyone is someone, whether they know it or not. Wow. That's good. That's cute. Yeah, Valerie wrote that. All right. The way you said welcome, though, it was like... Waka!

Yeah, like one of the Muppets. It was Waka, Waka, Waka, Woffett. That's Fawsey, right? Yeah. Waka, Waka, something like that. I never watched Muppets. I'm Christian. but keep going.

Well, welcome in everyone. Were Muppins? Muppets anti-Christian? I don't know. Gonzo was. He had some beliefs that, you know, conflicted. Yeah. That's for another podcast.

This title of this episode was Gonzo Christian. Yeah, let's get right into it. We're done. As always, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. Okay. Glad to see you guys. another fun episode. We're all now

movie stars. That's right. Oh yeah, we are, yeah. Yeah. Did you remember you were in a movie, Dusty?

Yeah, I did. Yeah. I forgot my ultra pouches today. Yeah. Well, that's coming up later in the show. Yeah.

Well, it's a, you know, I'm setting up a callback. I, I spent the weekend promoting the movie, driving from theater,

theater, standing outside to see If anyone recognized me, no one did, but... Were you wearing your trash man outfit? No, but I stood close to the trash can. I'm like, trying to... It's recycling day. Yeah.

Did you keep that shirt that you're wearing in the movie? No, I don't think so. I don't think I kept any of those clothes. But you kept your hair like that for a while? I did, yeah, through the airport. I walked through the airport. You think about doing it like that? I liked it.

I actually had a good time with it, you know, and we didn't plan it. this way. But, you know, Willie Nelson owns a ranch where he rescues horses. And he wears his hair like that. Oh, all right. I thought you were going for like a pippy longstocking type thing. No, no. I never would go give me the pippy longstocking look. This is what the lady said, the hairstyle. She said, I'm going to put your hair in these braids and then we're going to like put some product in there and then take it out and your hair will be real wavy. But then we put it in. and we liked it.

It was a little bit like that, wasn't it? We're looking at a picture of Dusty from the breadwinner. Yeah, it's about like that. That's a bad picture of her, though. It sure is. Look at the other one right next to her. Yeah, the other one, she's smiling. Yeah, that's a good one.

Yeah. Well, let's see an image of Dusty. Do we have in the movie? I don't know. I don't know if that's on there. Dusty Slay, Breadwinner. Let's see if it comes up. Not yet.

It'll get there. The movie just came out. Yeah. Give us a little time. But working man's now out on. YouTube. So that's right. That is true. It did very well. Thank you guys for watching that. Like 250,000 views already. Yeah. As of recording this, that's great for, especially for, it's already been out. Yeah. For two years. So thank you guys. Yeah. I think we should just stop

all new specials and just re-show. Dusty's classics. Let's stop it all. I agree. Let's stop it. But if it's already been recorded and hasn't been released yet, you can still release it. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. That's what I'm talking. You know, we can travel around and, you know, you can do new material if you want, but no more recording it. Okay. Nate's recording special this weekend, but other. After this weekend.

The deadline's loose. Okay. But let's, in general, let's stop all production. We're just trying to get the mindset out there. Stop creating things and just sit back and relax. Yeah. No more movies unless someone wants me to be in it. because now I'm a movie star.

That's right. How's your IMDB looking? Looks great. It looks better than yours. I bet it does. I know mine looks bad, but I want mine to always look bad. Yeah, nice right there. Are you Brian Bates the 12th?

What is that on there? Wow. Who knows? Why does it say Brian Bates the 12th? I like that, though. That's how you should be, that should be your new comedy. Are you like a feudal lord or something? Brian Bates the 12th.

I like that. I'm the 12th Brian Bates to have IMDB. Let's see some of your credits here. Sprung? Oh, yeah. It's going to look a lot like mine. I'll take it to the same two. What's some, oh, that's a podcast somewhat, damn it.

Yeah. Yeah, that was myself in that. Dry bar. Yep. And in the trivia, secret talent is nose whistling. All right. I don't know who put that in, but kudos to you. Yeah.

I don't know either. Probably Katie, because she's trying to divert attention from her giggling. Yeah. She wants to take me down. I bet that's it. I bet that's it. So I was home this weekend, like I said, going around trying to get people to recognize me

as a star of the movie. Where were you, Aaron? You could have been working, though, right? I could have. Actually, I did, I went to two four-year-old birthday parties. Okay. Not invited to either.

Yeah, I didn't know him. Eleanor stayed home. Saw the balloons. I'm like, hey, what's happening here? Just showed up. You take your daughter. That's how you get free cake. Yeah.

And they're like, what? She didn't know anybody? No, she's just, she's just being shy. One yesterday was at the zoo. Oh, I haven't been to the zoo yet. You've never been in the Nashville Zoo? No, I've never been to the Nashville Zoo. How does it compare to other zoos? Is it supposed to be a good one?

I think so. I mean, I haven't been to a ton of zoos. It's better than the one in Arkansas. Okay. That's all I'm really, who wanted to know. Yeah. But, I mean, I don't think it's one of the top zoos in America. Mm-hmm.

But I think it's pretty good. Okay. Have you been? Never been. My wife and kids go. Okay. Oh, they have like a pass? No, we've just been. We've contemplated the pass. Uh-huh.

But they've been a few times. Yeah. You're not about it. Well, they usually go when I'm on the road. Okay. Good weekend thing. Yeah. But yeah, I'm not into it, though.

What about it? I like an aquarium. Okay. I'm more of that because you're inside in the AC while you're walking around looking at stuff. Oh, it has nothing to do with the, animals. No, no. I mean, yeah, it's all cool. You're always like, just get out, let's get some heat. No, I mean, it's, but yeah, I like it, but it's not in a, it's going more for the wet than the heat. Not in a city situation. You know what I mean? Where it's all, everybody, there's a bunch of people

running around and all that. It was very hot. Yeah. You know, I, I do feel sorry for the animals, but you didn't do it. I didn't do it. And you know what? Their habitats probably being ruined as we speak. So where else are they going to go? You could just open the gate, let them out. Yeah. And then they'd just shoot them. Yeah. Yeah. You know? Didn't we have animals get out recently in the Nashville Zoo?

Did something happen? I don't think so. Okay. I was just wishful thinking. Yeah. I don't, not that I know of. I don't know. Who knows what's real anymore either? You see an article and you go, oh, no. And then you go, oh, that's AI. And I go, fooled again. You almost have to assume. Everything is AI and work and work backwards to determine it's not at this point.

But if it was a reputable news source, you wouldn't feel that way, right? There are none. The Nashville scene. Well, they get some things right. They're all right once and a building. Broken clock is right twice a day. That's what they say. I was on the road with Nate this week and I hadn't been out on the road with him for a while.

we hit some big time markets. Knoxville. Knoxville. Birmingham, Savannah, Georgia, and then Greensboro, North Carolina. And when I say big markets, I mean, those are big markets for me because all those places have clubs except for Knoxville. Savannah, though, doesn't have a club. Savannah has a venue that I got a show at.

Okay. A place called the Victory North. I've never been. I know nothing about it, but they booked me. So I'm going to come back there in November. I think that I used to work a home. Depot in Savannah on Victory Drive. Wow, that's probably it. Yeah. And Savannah got burned down by the North when they had a victory. Okay. Wow. Right. Brian's doing a show at a defeat South.

I mean, I just think that's a odd coincidence. It is. Yeah. Victory North. It's a very cool. They could have had their own victories, though, since that time. Mm-hmm. You know. Savannah bananas. Yeah. The shows were great. obviously. They're huge. I don't know what's official and what's not yet, but I know that over the weekend, Nate, on the tour that he's on, the big dumb eyes tour, they passed two million ticket sales. Wow. Is that a lot? It's the most for a comedy tour in the history of Earth. Wow. It's the biggest comedy tour of all time. So pretty crazy. So it doesn't really matter if the movie does well.

That's incredible. The movie's just icing on the top. But pretty cool that... Now, that's amazing. It's the biggest tour ever. They presented them with a little thing and two million. And then somebody at the venue and then his staff and everybody. Because it's the biggest tour of all time.

More than the blue collar comedy. I mean, I think it was Jeff Dunham that he passed. And Jeff Dunham was over like a three-year span. And this is under two years. I was told his tour is now the, I want to say the 20th most courting tour of anything. It's up there in terms of all tours. Yeah. But by that, by that way, what you're saying about Jeff, like, so you could technically

your entire comedy career be one tour. You could. And then see, I mean, still probably wouldn't make it. Uh-huh. Most people are not going to make it. Well, it was very fun. We were doing the math. And I always think about when ticket sales are talked about, I always think about the metric in my head is a sold-out zanies.

Yeah. That's like the one thing I can think in my head where I know exactly what it looks like and feels like. So two million tickets. You want to think a guess on how many sold-out zanies that is? Just give me a quick guess. It's $100,000. It's... You said a quick guess.

You didn't even give me time to think, but... $15,000. Do you think a sold-out zanis is 20 people? It's You said a quick gas I mean I didn't know I was going to get insulted by my gas Sorry I went too high Yeah I don't want to guess

I'm scared take a quick go What are you some kind of idiot Take a quick gas, moron You said a hundred thousand Hey you said for two million Two million yeah What's a hundred twenty people So Zanis is like two 90 right

Two hundred people is sold out 6900 shows So that's what two millions ticket. So if you were to do... It's a lot less than I was saying. If you were to do a sold-out show at Zanis... It seems attainable now. If you were to do a sold-out show at Zanis every night,

it would take 19 years to sell 2 million tickets. Is that counting holidays? That's counting, 365 days. But if you did three shows a night, you could really knock it down. You could knock it down to six and a half years or whatever, which is still... That's doable. It's still insane. Doesn't make you feel proud we gave him a start on this podcast? We were really the launching pad that brought him to the next level.

But it was a lot of fun. We went and saw the movie at Birmingham, like Nate popped in. It was crazy. Everybody was there to see the movie. It was fun to, he did a little surprise and everybody was there. They were very excited to see him. So it was just a fun weekend. I saw a lot of podcast people and getting a lot of, uh, um, boy I tell you. Not boy, not boy I tell you, but not Hay bear, but what are they saying? and they're trying to, we don't have a thing to yell. Coming folk. Something. Yeah, stuff like that.

So people are out there. Hey, I don't know if I've heard that. But yeah, they're out there saying stuff. Told me to guess. 100,000. Listen, you said quick guess. If I'd have went too low, if I'd have said, I don't know, 6,900, you would have been like, ah, geez, would you look this up before?

Was that your other option to guess? Yeah. The exact right answer? Yeah, it was. Shout out to Amber Autry, our friend, Amber Autry. Eight sold out shows here at Zay. Eight sold out shows. Do you know how many labs it would require to do that?

Quick guess. Nope, not quick enough. Not quick enough, though. That's 24. It was a slow guess, though. I mean, that was quicker than you guessed 100,000. You took time to figure it out. I didn't get an opportunity to figure it out.

Yeah, Dusty wins. Dusty wins. Yeah, to be quick. What about you, Dusty? I was home. But this week. can. I'll be back on the road in Irvine, California at the Irvine Improv. All right. So I want to get that. It's a big club. It is, a big club, and I'm excited. Friday and

Saturday I'll be there. It's going to be great. How big? How big is it? I don't know. How many Zanis? I think it's not quite. I think it's like 1.5 Zanis. Yeah. So 450? It's a good club. Quick guess. Yeah. That's too slow. But 200,000? I've been off the road. I get, you know, I took, basically two months off. I did a few shows in between, but basically two months off. So now I'm bad. So it's going to be great. It'll be probably pretty loose. And when my shows are loose, they're the most fun. That's when it gets wild. Yeah. So this will be fun. It's funny. Because I know how comedy works, I know that your set is very tight and well constructed,

but it definitely appears loose. Yeah, I mean, well. So if you'd go, we want to see it. get real loose. Yeah. It's going to be, what are you just going to? Who knows? Yeah. That's,

but it's a club, so I don't, you know, it's tough to do it. You can't set records, yeah, for time. Yeah. Yeah.

He'll find a way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, just get rid of your openers. I'm thinking of it. I'm going to keep going. Go ahead and start seating the next show. I'll just keep going.

That's what I want to do one day. No openers, two hour show. I just come out, do two hours. That's what Cosby was doing at the end. Yeah. I want to do that and then none of the other stuff

Cosby was doing. It's a good rule. How about your own sitcom? I don't know. It seems like a gateway. You're doing commercials. He did commercials. Yeah.

Yeah, I did for, you know, for, for, Cracker Barrel. Sheets and Cracker Barrel. Yeah. Not for Jello. That's why he draws the line. Jello just feels different. Yeah.

That is the gateway. Yeah. even like in movies when they want to drug someone, they mix it in a little pudding. I've seen it done. I guess if they're in the hospital. Well, um, you guys,

you ever do jello shots back in the day? Well, oh yeah. Oh, yeah. On a TV series I used to be on called Sprung, uh, I was a serial killer. And in one of the episodes,

I gave the guy some tips on how to, uh, drug someone. Inmate Larry. Yeah. And what did you say? Uh, you get some,

household items underneath your sink and you can make chloroform. Yeah, chloroform. Yeah, to make them pass out. Yeah. And then what would you do? Well, I'd kill them because I was a serial killer. But in his case, he just, I forgot the story. He needed some time.

Yeah. Yeah. And I also want to mention some of our friends that have done Nate Land Presents recently. Connor Larson was two weeks ago. That's right. Ed Wiley. Ed Wiley.

Yeah. Last week. And this week, our friend Tara Browns comes out. Tara Brown, local here. I hosted that one. Tara did very well. Tara is great. I'm so glad when she moved to Nashville because she's just a funny comic and a great person.

Well, I hate that we didn't mention Ed last week, but, but yeah. Well, that's on you. Well, yeah. Sorry, Ed. Try to cut out a lot of this news that we're going around here. Support for today's episode. episode comes from Square, the system powering like half the places I go. If you've ever tapped to pay and thought, whoa, that was fast. It was probably Square. Whether you're selling lattes,

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It's tough that I can't go on there and comment. Do you want to respond to some of them? I mean, one person gave us one star. Most of them are nice. One of them gave us one star and said, they'll never listen again because you made fun of the King James version of the Bible. Well, that's valid. What did I make fun of? You were making fun of Dusty.

And I want to say, hey, he was an inside joke. I get it. Well, thou shall hast not comment thou. I get it. But also Apple. That's not going to help, Aaron. Apple. We just lost some more.

You know, I don't like Apple podcast reviews for that reason because you can't respond. Yeah. And so they're pretty annoying. But that one, that adds up. Yeah. It could have been, Dusty you wrote it. I always said the best version of Jesus that happened 2,000 years ago. Take it easy.

The best version, like how I want to read it is how an English king would say it a thousand years later. I think that's probably the best. best way. Well, it's this. Informal, unreadable English language. There's some poetry to it. It feels good to read. That's how I read. You like to read a lot of other stuff like that. Thou hast. I don't really read anything else. Doth thy read. Actually, every time I'm reading another book, I go, I should be reading my Bible. That's what I say every time. When's the last time you read a book? Well, I read some of the Bible today. I didn't read the whole thing. That's a good cutaway. Why don't you read any books? Well, because I could be reading the Bible. Exactly. I mean, I'm not saying I read all the time.

I'm not trying to act like I'm out here reading all the time. But whenever, like I go, all right, all right, all right. I'll read. I'm going to read. And then I go, wow, if I'm going to read, I should read the Bible. You don't think you can get value from other things that aren't explicitly the Bible? I do, but, you know, my reading time is so limited. You know, buy my own self. I'm not saying that I can't work a little reading in. Like we're having a good time on bookshelves, November 10th. Yeah, I mean, but they'll probably... Don't buy it. Buy a Bible and read that instead.

Yeah. You'd actually be like, that's great. If you don't own a Bible and it's between my book and the Bible, go ahead and buy a Bible. It doesn't. Like, hey, sales are not good, but Bible sales went up tremendously. You're like, all right, we did it. That was the whole point. Well, I'm glad I brought it up.

Okay. I'm joking around. Well, they've already cut off now. You gave us one star. First comment comes from Jojo. All right. This might be an all-time episode. Bates with the MLK Jr. Snipe.

Aaron with some hot tips. Hold on. That's an unfortunate. And Dusty being Dusty. All right, next comment. Wait, what is that? That's when I was talking about, yeah, the way that was written is not the best.

It's tough to call it a snipe. When I said, Dusty wants to do away. holiday starting with Martin Luther King Day. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. It's just the worst way to work that.

It is. Take that MLK Jr. Matt Lazari. Did not anticipate the episode in the year 2001 to be so good, but dang, it was hilarious. Can we say dang on it? Yeah, I think so. But Matt, wait till you hear 2002. That's going to be wild.

You won't even know. We're cooking up for 2002. Yeah. It's going to be insane. same. They say if you play 2002 backwards, it's the same. That's right. Palindromic. Wow. Just wanted to

throw a little dust. Except Satan's reading it when you do it backwards. Yeah. Amanda Moran. You know that though when the people say you play a record backwards? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'll be okay. All right. Well, you guys act like you didn't. No, that's why I said it. If you play Sugar, Sugar by the Archie's backwards, it'll say like,

come to my doorstep at Satan or something. The Beatles, I think you play one backwards. It says that Paul was dead. Led Zeppelin has a bunch, too, that people say. But just don't listen to it backwards. Yeah. That's an easy way around it. Dusty.

Just listen to it forward. Counterpoint? Well, I did quit listening to Led Zepp one altogether. I used to love it, but I was like, I don't know. That's too much. I don't know if any of it is real, but there's some stuff I read about, but I was like, you play it backwards. I should have been reading my life.

I should have been listening to the Bible on tape. Yeah. Yeah. Stairway to Earth, which is what you don't want. You don't want to come back down. It's a stairway to Earth. If you play it backwards. Amanda Morin.

I will fight anyone who says Brian's old man check-in story is not the funniest thing they've ever heard. Thank you, Amanda. Great podcast, guys. Appreciate what you do. It is a good story. It is a very good story. It is. I'm going to try it on stage.

A lot of people said, it's going to make a good joke. I don't know. I think it's a great clip for your social media. Listen, I appreciate your honesty. I'm not saying it's not going to be a good joke, but you should clip that up, have that full story that you just share on your own social media, or maybe the Nate Land social media.

It feels like a story that's very funny because you guys know me. You know what I'm telling you is the truth. But if I'm telling it to an audience that doesn't know me, and they expect a little embellishment almost, They might be like, I don't know. Well, tell it at the end, and then they know you by then. Yeah. Especially if you do an hour and a half.

Because I've been opening with it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they know me by then, especially if you do an hour and a half. Tipy Canoe. Thank you, Amanda. Tippy Canoe.

Dusty has a great point. All right. Next question. Stop making movies for 10 years. It's no secret. These movies are just regurgitated old stories. On the same point, stop building cars and making, make rebuilding cars cool again. We have too many new cars and not enough

recycling, rebuilding cars. If you rebuild a car, you really like, you can customize it to your preferences. Yeah, I mean, it's never going to happen, though. I read that they just like a couple of like big junkyard just caught on fire and burned down. So nobody's wanting us to be able to rebuild anything. So, but it would be nice if we just, like it's like you go on the internet, you go on any streaming service and there's a million things like i i spent half the time that i had to watch something looking for something and what and then i watched a holk hogon documentary which episode one was pretty good by the way i hate to admit could have been reading your bible i know but i was i i do love hoke ogan and uh you know so um yeah i i i yeah let's just we got to shut it

down. You got to live simple. What was your favorite Hulk Hogan era? His last year's, right? Yeah. You know, I grew up with Hulk Hogan. I grew up with the eat your vitamin say your prayers, Colgagan, you know.

I am a real American. I am a real American. Is that the only one you have? Fight for what's right. I don't know the whole song. But, uh, yeah. I mean, I don't. I only know one quote from him, and I won't say it on the podcast.

My favorite was the NWO era. I liked NW. Hulk, too. I mean, but it's only good because, you know, according to this documentary, which I did not know, Hulk Hogan started as a bad guy. He was a heel when he started. And Rocky, his appearance in Rocky, came before the whole Hulk Hogan era. I had no idea. Thunderlips.

Yeah. But, you know, he's known as the ultimate good guy, the ultimate good guy in wrestling. Yeah. And then he makes the heel turn. And then he crushes it. I don't know. It was a great air. I mean, that was high school for me. And gosh, I was all about it. All about it. As far as movies, I was reading this weekend, pretty fascinating. The top two movies this weekend, both horror movies, both. made by YouTube creators, both made on pretty low budgets. What were they? Obsession. Obsession was number two. It's been out a few weeks. That was made for, I think, less than a million dollars.

Yeah, $700,000. And then a movie called Backroom. Mm-hmm. And 20-year-old guy created it. Really? Youngest director, I believe, ever to have a number one movie. Wow. It did 80 million or something.

Wow. And all these Gen Ziers are going out to see it, which they've never been able to get these Jin Z ears to the movies since they were they were teenagers during the pandemic they've never really been coming out but now they're finally going yeah they've just been on their phone yeah finally got their anxiety meds right so they can come out see a horror movie see a horror movie but I thought that was interesting yeah I thought you guys would think so too well I'm not I'm not into horror films at all I'm not either and I I think it's bad uh look if you like them you like them, but I think a lot of people are scared all the time out here, and I think you've got to

stop watching horror movies. I agree. You can go into it with the mindset that it's no different than a roller coaster, right? Do you think it's bad to be scared on a roller coaster? Yeah. Okay. Well, then, yeah. I used to not think so, but now I do kind of think so. Oh, yeah? Yeah. So like skydiving's bad, do you think? Well, I mean, maybe sky. Anything with a thrill involved, you think is probably bad? Water skiing, jet skiing, comedy? Well, all of those things, a lot of those are sports. Right.

Riding a roller coaster is not a sport, though. Okay. Take the seatbelt off, hang on by a handle, and now we got ourselves a sport. Okay. All right. Well, that was fascinating. But go see the breadwinner. in theaters everywhere.

That's why I liked it. That is why I liked it. My daughter wasn't scared. Yes. Nothing. Yeah. Well, don't take your daughter to obsession.

Yeah. Take her to see back room. Is that what I said? Or the Michael Jackson documentary. Yeah. Not documentary, but was it biopic? I don't know. I almost said biopic, but I know better now.

And then the cars there. I'm still in this comment. I do agree that so many cars are being made. And where are all these old cars going? I don't know. It just seems like... They're smashing them. Who is?

Like, you trade your car in, and then they just take it to, like, for the parts and strip them down, I guess. Yeah, I don't know where they go. They drive them off a cliff into some lake. And they're burning the junkyards? Yeah. Who's burning the junkyard?

Yeah. I don't know who's doing it, but the junkyards are burning. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, okay. And fire is one of those things where we never think people are setting the fires. We go, crazy. Just burned everything down.

Burned all that land we wanted to buy. Nate Blair, Dusty's idea of a global 10-year pause on all technology and entertainment seems like it would require a rather large authoritarian government. Excellent point, Nate. Kind of like we have now, I guess, but keeping it going. Hmm. Good point, Nate. Ryan Joy, apparently Dusty couldn't hold a job in 2001. Every memory he recalls is from a different part-time job. How many places have you worked? I worked quite a few places, but in 2001 I was, you know, 19.

So, you know. So none of these were careers. No, no, I was working at Western Sizzling. You never thought I'm a Papa John's lifer when you're in there? Yeah, I worked at Papa Johns and then went back to Western Sizzling and then joined the Army, then didn't get in. Then I went to Office Depot. Okay. I looked this up before the podcast. Do you know the average amount of jobs a person has in their entire lifetime? Five. You think the average person has had five jobs? 200,000.

I'm going to stop answering if you're going to make you sound dumb. It's a trap. Do you have a guess, Dusty, or are you done playing these games? I'm saying 10. Yeah, 12 to 15. All right. And they say the next generation, they're probably going to have closer to 18. Wow.

It's going to be more common to have. Because AI is going to take all the jobs. Well, I think it's more common to have, you know, like minimum wage jobs and just kind of hop around from job to job. And I mean, I haven't had nearly 12 to 15, but I've had, if you total everything, I've had like seven or eight, I think, in my life. Are you totaling yours up right now? I had seven.

Just in 2001. Yeah. But I worked at the same place twice four different times. Heimans. I worked at Western Sondland twice. Yeah. I worked at Oil Office Depot twice. So that's two.

I worked at Hyman's twice. I worked at Spectreside twice. Did you quit and come back or did you go on sabbatical? Quentin came back. Okay. And then there was one more, but I don't know. I had eight jobs. I forgot about.

Jim Bob's. I sold timeshares for a little short time. And comedian. Comedian. Oh, yeah. I didn't even count that one. See for me, a comedian, podcaster, movie star. It's three.

Uber driver. What's Brian Bates, what's Brian Bates, Uber important TV special? That is, I don't know why. It's written like that, but that's one of my dry bar specials. Oh, okay. Yeah. Because you were a writer on that one. Yeah, I was.

And the star. Yeah. I was supposed to say, I'm the director, but Isaac. H. Not going to work anymore. Alex Bedsec, Bejik, Bejik. I do hate to rain on Aaron's parade, especially because he's full of knowledge.

Wow. But I do believe the car trick is a farce. I also would love to hear the science he's found behind this. See, now you're, now this is a territory where I get accused of this stuff all the time. You're like, science, I'm just trying to give you a practical solution to the heat. And you want the science? Yeah, what is he? I don't know what he wants.

I'm pumping the heat out of the car. I think you want you to explain how that would work. That's exactly what I was about to say. Like, how does moving air push air out of the thing? I don't remember how I set it up on the last podcast. Maybe I said, maybe I oversold the scientific. They go cite your sources. I don't have any of that, but I recommend you try it.

It's getting hotter out there this summer. I want you to try pumping out the heat. Pumping out the heat. And if you have a sedan, let those back seats down. Well, somebody made a good comment. You can roll down one window. if you have a sedan, just roll down like your back window and it'll work the same way.

It just needs a place to exit. You don't want your trunk to be too hot, though. You may have an old watermelon back there or something. So it's going out your hatch. It's not coming out wherever there's an opportunity to go out. But could it be pulling it out your driver's side, like going that way? Brian. just try this

don't overthink it see I think Alex was on to something don't overthink it I would love to hear your science he's found behind us actually the Bernoulli

principle Amy Calfi as a singer myself I've heard countless singers who are technically good that have zero heart or soul

and I don't want to listen to them Dusty has so much soul like he said he feels like he needs to sing and then sings his heart out perfectionist

is overrated. Music is healing and comes from the heart. Sing on, Dusty Sleigh. That's what I'm talking about. I bet Amy's not very good singer. Well, listen, she got solo of it. Well, that was a joke. I thought you guys might laugh at that.

I'm kidding, Amy. I'm a great singer. I don't, I don't. The only thing Dusty doesn't agree about this is the perfection part. No, I do agree. You know, I mean, I never would walk in here and go, guys. I'm an unbelievable singer. Yeah, you got a little.

listen to me sing here. But that lady last week, Kathy or whatever, just acting like, struck a nerve. Like the three of us, like you guys are just starting a barbershop quartet over here and I'm some kind of, you know, just hobo out here. It's like

take it easy, lady. Obo. Just because he looks like a hobo, doesn't mean he is one. But I agree with you, Amy. You know, they say when you sing, you pray twice. You ever heard that expression? No. You go St. Francis.

What's what we haven't heard of. You sing. You pray twice. What does that mean? What's the science, by the way? I don't think there's science involved. Well, maybe you're singing a hymn. I'm saying if you were given the choice to.

I'll fly away. I'll sing it. That's like praying twice. All right. Who knows? Yeah. Lori Lynn, I agree with it. But Kathy. Aaron and Brian sing fine. Dusty singing is fingernails on a chalkboard. Yeah, I'm with you, Lori. And Kathy, I'm with you as well.

But see, that's what I'm talking about with these people. Lori and Kathy. They get it? It's like, I get it if you don't think my singing's good. That's fine. But, you know, and Aaron, you know, we all know Aaron's got musical talent, okay? But I see where this is going, but go ahead. But the, the, this guy he's been imitating. Who is this? Randy Newman. Randy Newman. And then Brian can't sing either. Yeah, that's true. I mean, what are we doing here? Well, according to Lori and Kathy, I can't. Yeah, but what does Lori and Kathy know, though?

They know I sing fine. Yeah, you sing they sing fine. That's what they sing fine. Yeah. Listen, Lori and Kathy, you know, they don't have the kind of soul that I have. And so. They're only praying once. Unlike you. Let me ask you this. They have an old testament to soul. That's right. Let me ask you this. Nails on a chalkboard. Do you think that's the worst sound? Or do you think there's a sound worse than that? I got a sound I hate worse. Okay. Let's hear it. I've been, you know, since I was a kid, I've always liked to.

You should have just started singing. I've always liked to collect bugs, you know. Yeah. So there's a glass jar, metal lid, a little bit of sweat sand. along the rim and then you close it. Oh, I can hear it. I can hear it. I can hear it. That's one of the worst. What's yours, Brian? Least favorite sound? You guys talking. This should be my podcast.

You got the biggest headphones though. Have you guys ever even heard nails on a chalkboard? I have. It's not pleasant. I'll give you that. But I feel like, first of all, how often are you hearing nails on a chalkboard? That's what I'm saying. I grew up with it. Kathy and Lori probably right with chalkboard. But why would nails, why were you growing up with nails on a chalkboard? Just because kids would like to be.

Oh, just to recreate the sound? Yeah, they would do it for five. I had chalkboards growing up too, by the way. I'm not from the future. Yeah. What's that? I had a little bit of chalkboards when I was young. We went blackboards pretty quick.

All right, now we can see. Yeah, yeah. We had smart board in high school. I never got to the smart board. He gets pressed just a little bit. He folds quickly. All this scientific knowledge. but that's your worst sound i would say uh and it hurts my teeth even thinking about it uh an eraser

where there is no eraser in the metal of a pencil eraser oh i can't hear that what i can't picture that i can't picture that sound you know what he's talking about no no no no but I can see it. I can see the eraser breaking off. Yeah, and it's just the metal. Yeah. And what are you erasing on? Like if you had a piece of paper and say,

say the eraser is just down to where it's even with the metal. And you're trying to erase something. But the metal is what scrape you on the paper. Oh, that's not a good. Okay, I know what you're talking about. It hurts my teeth. I get it. You ever drive home with like a,

a big pack of hot dogs he's just eating him out of the bag on the way home raw hot dogs come on man go ahead water bottles up against each other

I had a 32 pack of bottle water And the whole drive home, all the bottles are making. Oh, yeah. That sheet plasticy sound. Yes, dude, terrible. That in styrofoam, styrofoam rubbing up against styrofoam is really unpleasant. I don't like anything moving in the car.

Think like when I'm driving, a bottle rolling around. I don't like any of that. Change rattling in the middle. Your car ever messy, do you make a sharp turn? You feel the whole car slide to the side? That's the worst. But it's such a good feeling when your car's clean enough, you make a turn and nothing happens in the car. That's a good feeling. Oh, yeah. That's a good feeling.

Another sound, though, I hate leaf blowers. I just wanted to bring that back around. Is it the sound itself or is it because you know what it's, what it is? It is the sound. Okay. If it were quietly blowing those leaves around, you wouldn't care that much. I wouldn't know. Okay. But is it, I'm still, is it the sound or is it because you know what it is? It's the sound. Like just the sound itself.

It's just, it's drowning out. Because you always argue it's unnecessary. Well, it is. And I feel like that's your problem. And it's drowning out all the sounds of the birds chirping and just the pleasantness of the day. But it doesn't give you like a hair raising on the back of your neck kind of feeling, right? I bet it does for him. Dogs barking.

I'll say a dentist drill, the sound of a drill from a dentist. Oh, yeah. And when it hits the teeth. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Can you hear that? I don't like it. Well, anyway, thank you, Lori.

She's the one who brought it up. And Kathy. Stephen Gill. I was a senior when 9-11 happened and had to write a paper in my government class about how a 9-11 events made me feel. Sounds like a high-level class. What kind of class is a senior? You know what kind of how it made you feel?

Didn't you take a friendship class in college? Yeah, well, that was a seminar. Yeah. Don't worry about that. First of all, it wasn't a friendship class. It was a class. How to make friends? No, it wasn't a how-to class.

It wasn't like home-ac for friends. It was a seminar on the history of friendship from Aristotle. to Facebook. So just want to clear that up. And I want to apologize, Stephen Gill. I didn't mean to insult your feelings class that you took as a senior in high school. I expressed how I was upset. The activities were canceled like football. And then went on about how I then understood the importance. I received a C. I received a C on a paper about how 9-11 made me feel. That's pretty funny. It sounds pretty difficult, honestly. Yeah. That's really funny. That is funny. Sorry Aaron stepped on his Stephen.

I'm sorry. Steven, I'm just joking around. I'm just joking around. Who's your friend that from Opelika that listens to the podcast? Skeeter. Oh, Stephen Bass. Oh, Bass. Gill is a different fish, I guess.

Yeah, yeah. Or a part of us. His cousin. Rob Kraft. You're thinking of Doug Finn. Rob Craft, bread and breakfast. Aaron and Bates is Nick's Twitter. name. How about that? Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah. I like that. Bread and breakfast.

S.W. Darby. One thing me and Dusty agree on, bring back the Aaron Weber Walsh album. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. It's a good album. I mean, these are, these are the jokes. Me and Aaron used to work the road with those jokes. I heard a song on the radio coming here that you have a joke about, I think in your current act that I thought man that would be a very funny if you had that animated I don't want to talk

I thought you made me and didn't want me to talk about your jokes but oh just say what the bit's about it's the Garth Brooks song Oh yeah yeah and I was just listening to words your joke's very funny

and I thought boy if that was animated with what you're saying that would be very funny yeah I should do it thank you you got to get the old man story animated

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You need to get. I'm ready to go. All right. Um, we're doing this an hour. Jeez. This week, that's crazy. We are talking about UFOs. All right.

All right. Now, the government has started releasing batches of videos and documents about UFOs. And they did one on May 8th. They did a second one on May 22nd. So if they're doing it every two weeks, that means this Friday they'll release their third batch. Wow. Now, what is the rationale for releasing them in, batches like that. I don't know. I don't know. There's a lot of them, but...

Are they heavily redacted? Are there's a lot of stuff that's missing from these files? I'm just wondering, maybe they need time to go through and review what's confidential and what's not. Maybe, but they also sit their own timeline and wouldn't release any of them. Yeah. Seems like they could have just went through the wall. Waited until it was already. Yeah, I don't know the reason behind it. Maybe they're testing our reaction to it each week. Yeah, maybe building up. Seeing what they can tell us. I think it's pretty well determined that we're not going to be really outraged about anything ever.

Outraged. Well, they've released a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, and then now they're dumping UFO stuff and judging our reaction. And we're like, maybe not necessarily angry, but just no matter what they release, we ain't going to flip out about it. By outrage, you mean we're not going to change the way we live. Yeah. For anything. Based on anything.

Yes. Yeah. So we might as well just Yeah Let's give them UFO Just give them UFO Let's give them some videos That they've been able to watch

On YouTube for 10 years Yeah You know a joke about that I think One of a specials About how they said We had aliens And we just like

Okay that's cool And this went on about our business That was in 2020 Yeah When the world was It's a lot going on Yeah And if you think

The 2002 episode is good Wait till the 2020 It's going to be a while Yeah We'll do it I thought I haven't discussed this with anyone, but I thought maybe we'd go through 2019 and then stop there. 2020 is when the podcast started, so it seemed like a good place to do.

I'll be shocked if we get to 2009, but yeah. 2019? 2009. Well, we got to talk about the financial crash. That's true. Gotta get there. For a long time, my years are the same. What does that mean?

I'm just... That's a great tease for future episodes. We're really selling these, aren't we? But, I mean, they're exciting. But they're the, you know, I'm doing the same stuff for a long time. When would you say things radically changed? What year? 2012.

2012. Okay, so we got some time. We got some time. But we're going through probably the darkest, but most interesting time of your life would be those years. Yeah, we're starting that in 2002. But I talk about a lot of that in the book, so I don't want to give too much of work. Oh, come on. Kids, kids.

All right, we'll do the... So our next episode, so our next episode, episode will have to be after November 10th. Well, we can talk, you know, and get into it. You just don't, you know, too much. You just won't finish any stories. Yeah. If you want to hear what happened.

Yeah. We're having a good time. And it is, you know, a family-friendly podcast. Sure. Yeah. And the book's not. No. Okay.

It's not, you know, I don't know. But it's a book. You don't read it out loud. He cusses a lot. Don't read it at bedtime to your children. It's funny of the story. stories are all the same. He just puts a lot of four-letter words for no reason. That's my next hour. Yeah. I'm going to go wild.

Anyway, UFOs. Third batch should come out this Friday. The first batch was some videos and some documents. The second one was 51 new videos and some others. Have you looked in any of this stuff? Yeah, I looked at, I mean, I, there's the website I think I sent you that you can watch them all. I have also just watched news stories about what are the most interesting ones. Because there are so many. So Dusty, we

know your stance. Aliens are demons. But I told you that I was going to... Yeah, but I just... You're going to play along, but we know that aliens are demons, but for the sake of this, you're going to be cool. I don't think I've seen this one.

I think that looks like... Ships coming in. It looks like ships and then something just flew by there at the bottom. If you're listening, we'll just tell you about it. If you go to war.gov slash UFO, they've got both releases here and then all the files and you can look at everything on there. And then I sent you, I think, an article of some of the best ones from the most recent batch. From the Hollywood Reporter. Yeah, where you get all your UFO government stories.

We were virtually speechless. Yep. Somebody said that. So there's so much interest now in UFOs and with these files being released that some of these prediction markets now have odds that you can bet on when the government is going to officially announce. That we've made contact with. Or we've something that proves that there's life on, you know, and other planets that have come here. Wow. Did you place a bet?

No, I think I sent you a link to one where you can go on there and. The prediction markets here. Polymarket. Will the U.S. confirm that aliens exist by? And then by December 31st of this year, they have it at a 16% chance. This way you can waste time and money.

That's pretty crazy, right? 16% chance. Is that probably the highest ever that it's been? Yeah. It's got to be, right? And, you know, I think they call it, you okay, Dusty? Yeah.

Yeah. I got two wrapped up. Tussie was choking himself over there. They call it Disclosure Day. And ironically, Stephen Spielberg has a movie coming out next weekend called Disclosure Day. Whoa. How about that? You think they're in coups?

You think they're going to announce it on that day to go up the movie? Yeah. Got to beat those obsession numbers. But I mean, Aaron, I, I, I, I know Dussie Stance, do you care about this at all? Do you get into it? Yeah, I'm very interested in it, for sure. You guys do think about them, though, as space aliens?

I don't know what to think about those videos. It could be so many things. Because when they zip around real fast, it's like, obviously, we don't have anything that can do that. Right. Well, let me ask you, do you believe those videos? Yeah. Yeah, you're being cool, right? Yeah.

You know, I mean, you're playing along. I believe the video that there's something. in there. There's one that was released in the second batch where it's already moving fast, and then all of a sudden it just zips off so fast you can just barely even see it go. What about growing up? Were you into the set growing up? Yeah. I've always been interested in aliens and- What about you, Aaron? U-FOs. Very into space. Yep. And I think like every kid, for a certain stretch there, you thought you were going to be an astronaut, right? Yeah. I did.

Was very into UFOs as a kid. Okay. A lot of people just assume you being you that you think you've been abducted by aliens and Bigfoot was on the ship, but you're not into any of that. No, I mean, I think you probably could be abducted, but it would be, you know. Yeah. It wouldn't be people from outer space. Yeah.

Okay. I think they can get you. But yes, I was really into it. Any like unsolved mysteries about UFOs. or any books like I was really into it and trying to figure out what it was. Because, you know, they say Alistair Crowley, the father of Satanism, says he...

Remember, you're going to be cool, Dustin. I am going to be cool, but I'm just, you know, I'm just going to... Yeah. They said he opened a portal. He claimed to have opened a portal to another dimension and then in walked a demon that he called Lamb, L-A-M. Okay. And his wife drew a picture of L-A-M.

lamb and lamb looks like the gray aliens that we... Oh, okay. So his wife saw it too? Yeah. Uh-huh. And when was that? Why did he do that? Well, he's, you know, he wanted to make some contact.

What a mean thing to do. I know, but I... Close the portal. I think there is something to that, like that he knew how to open it, but didn't know how to close it and didn't really know what he was getting himself into. Yeah, yeah. Do you know, when that was supposed to happen? I don't know, maybe the 60s.

Okay, so not that long ago. Yeah. Huh. He was able to, okay. I'm just making a guess there. Yeah. And we know I can be way off on my guesses. Yeah.

200,000 years ago. Yeah. So, Aaron. Do you think there is life out there? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Almost no question.

Once you kind of wrap your head around how big the universe is. Yeah. The, the, the, the, yeah, there's something else out there for sure. I don't, I don't know if they've made contact with us. I don't know how to make sense of all this stuff the government's given us, but yeah, dude, there's other stuff out there for sure. Does it go ahead? Do you think they look like the tall gray aliens, though? Because it feels like so many people are always talking about how that's what they say.

I don't, I don't know. I don't even think they're probably. probably not even, they might not even have physical bodies. They might not be carbon-based life forms. They might be something completely different that we can even wrap our heads around. Why do you think people, so many people report seeing those kinds? I sent you another link where they, supposedly there's four types that we've come in contact with. Oh, I like that. And it even shows a little picture of them, if that'll load here, this graphic right here.

So these are the four most reported alien. beings. And some guy in this article says, like, I forgot his title, but he says that we've either been in contact or have... The mantis is what people see when they do ayahuasca. Okay. They always say they see that. Okay. So that explains that one. And the mantis looks like a giant praying mantis. Yeah. Yeah. High. Six to seven feet, highly agile. Excellent eyesight with telepathic abilities. Reptilians, a lot of people think reptilians live amongst us. They are shape shifters.

Why people do, don't they? Yeah. And they, yeah, so they could be. I'd say one in three people think that. They could be anywhere all the time. The Nordic, yeah, I've heard that before too. Nordic just looked like human people. Yeah, just tall, though, eight foot.

Yeah. Yeah. Human-like appearance, advanced intelligence, peaceful nature, highly advanced society. But the giants like that, like Native America, Americans would talk about. Right. You were red-headed giants. Uh-huh.

Six fingers, six toes. So I... Two layers of teeth. And then the grays are the ones we most often think about. Yeah. And see... Yeah.

Describe. I just feel like if they're coming from billions of miles away, which they would have to be, most likely, right? Yeah. It just seems like they would be sending some type of a robot or some type of non... That's what I mean is some kind of consciousness that's been downloaded onto something. Yeah.

It can't be like a carbon-based life form. And why are so many of them, if they're that advanced, crashing was they getting? Do they not have breaks? They're like, oh, shoot, we didn't think this through. Because supposedly they're crashing everywhere and everybody has access to. I forgot to fill up with gas or whatever's going on. Yeah, maybe there wasn't a fuel source. I just feel like if they're that advanced, they're not going to like kind of let us see them.

Maybe they don't have gravity on their planet. So they get in here, gravity sucks them down. I'm being cool, guys. I get it. I get it. He's sweating over there because he wants to let loose. But he's trying. He is really trying.

Maybe they don't have gravity on their planet. Yeah, wherever they're from, maybe it's a hollow planet where they live inside of it. Maybe, maybe. It's a good point. Some people think Earth is hollow. Some people do think that. You ever see the King Kong movie? Yeah.

Where they kind of went inside of the earth? Kind of like Middle Earth. Yeah. It's pretty wild. What King Kong movie? Is the one of Jack Black? No. One of the more recent ones were King Kong and Godzilla.

Okay. I don't know. Because he comes up in Tokyo. Remember? He goes underneath in like Antarctica, comes up in Tokyo, fights Godzilla, and then they team up to fight the more advanced. advanced Godzilla.

Oh, yeah. It's based on true story. All right. I believe it. I believe it. Loosely. Yeah. But it is.

All right. Since Dusty's wanting to let loose over there. I'm being cool, guy. He is. He's being very cool, but I'm going to try to, I need your expertise on this. So there's this conspiracy theory that scientists are disappearing out there because of their connections to maybe UFOs or anti-gravity or stuff like that.

And I wanted to find out from you, Dusty what's really going. on? Well, scientists are always disappearing. Anytime they, you know, come out with some truth, they go, oh, God, they died. Shot himself in the back of the head. Yeah, it happens a lot. So, you know, I don't know, but I'm guessing these guys just, you know, they died of natural causes and maybe due to some connection with UFOs. The UFOs maybe implanted something in them. So do you think the UFOs came and got them, or do you think the government got them because they knew too much? If you're listening, Dusty Raise His Hands Up. That's tough to say. You know, who knows, right? But it is anytime at least 10 people tied to sensitive U.S. research have died or disappeared.

But they say recent years. How recent, you know, talking two years? I looked on Wikipedia because there's a link to it. It's been a few years that they're talking about. I'd like to know their research. I mean, it shows them the list when they disappeared what their research was. A lot of gravity-related research. Yeah, we got an anti-gravity enthusiast, founder of AC gravity and anti-gravity scientists.

Yeah. A planetary scientist. See, that guy died of Alzheimer's. So that one's tough to say that, you know. That's what they're telling. What about all these disappeared? Disappeared. Yeah, I mean, that's...

Just went walking in the woods and disappears. You know, they see it in our national parks. Lots of people go missing out here. Oh, yeah, yeah. And are never found. Yeah. That's crazy. But, I mean, it's thousands and thousands of acres,

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Shark Neda? No, it's no. But where they, they, they, they invent like a gate or they can... Portal movies? Yeah, like... I was trying to think it with Michael Keaton. No, it's Stephen King. Forget Michael Keaton.

Okay. It's, they, they, you know, they have this portal where they can go to other planets. Okay. And, um, I don't know, you know, I'm just saying. So maybe that's a thing. A lot of people think CERN is that sort of. a thing.

Yeah. You know. Mm-hmm. CERN is, uh, forget what that stood for. You know? No, I have no idea what we're talking about. What is CERN? You don't know that sci-fi movie, though?

It's, uh... I think you got me confused when he said Michael Key. I know, I say, forget Michael Keating. I'm trying. I just keep saying about Mr. Mom, you're talking about. Is it called portal or doors? It's not called portal or doors. It's like a gate.

It's a sci-fi network original movie? They say if you're going through a portal, do your car door like this. And it'll suck you right now. I don't know. Just sci-fi movie, gate. Don't do portal. Do gate. Stargate.

Yes, there we go. Come on, guys. And it's a pretty popular movie, I think. Yep. I was working at the video store when that came out. Yeah. And that, you know, they got that guy. Who's the main guy in that?

The main guy in the movie. The movie or the TV show? The movie. It's Kurt Russell. Kurt Russell. Easily confused with Michael Keaton. They're about the same age. Yeah.

Yeah, I get it. Easy mistake to make. All right. So. You guys have never seen that one. I saw it, but it's 30 years ago. It came out in 1994. So I just don't remember that much about it.

But yeah, what's your favorite UFO alien movie? Signs was a big one for me. I just watched that one. It's a really, really great movie, I think. Really great. And that's kind of how I think about aliens is how they're depicted in that movie still. Because I saw it at the age where it just imprinted itself on it. Let's see where it walks by.

Yeah, yeah. When Joaquin Phoenix is watching Mexican news. Yeah. It's behind. And then it walks out. Yeah, it terrified me as a kid. Yeah. I liked it. It was fun.

I like Guardians of the Galaxy. I mean, that is a great movie. It's just funny that that's your UFO. alien movie? I don't believe. I don't like superpowers and stuff like that. It makes me uncomfortable. Yeah. I see, when that movie came out, I feel like

there was all this M. Knight-Sharmelon hate. Stargate's very good. I feel like you got kind of lampoon, didn't it? Not yet. I don't think, I don't think the tide had turned on him yet. I mean, I'm sure it got some hate, but yeah, he hadn't become a punchline. In the way that he is now. Independence Day.

That's the first one I think of. That's where it's at. That's where it's at. It was a little before my time, so I kind of missed the wave of it. So it wasn't as informative as science was. Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith at their best, man. Welcome to Earth. Yeah, it's the best. I think my favorite one, which you've already said on the previous podcast,

that you were bored with it, was contact. I was bored with that one. Is that Amy Adams? No, that's a rival. I was bored with that one for sure. Ravel's good too, but maybe contact Maybe contact

Jody Foster Yeah, I think I was bored with that one too Have you saying to Aaron? No I think you'd like it Because it's You know,

use your brain Is it about trying to communicate With Yeah I felt like an insult Something for some reason To me Yeah to Dusty

Oh okay It's she works for I mean she's Yeah she's a scientist And they got all the satellites Out there Like SETI trying And she finally hears a signal

from outer space. Oh, yeah, I do remember that. I was like, oh, get on with it. Get on with it. And they get it. And then they realized there's a video signal that connected to it. And it's Hitler opening the 1940, whatever, Olympic Games. And they're like, oh, boy.

And then they realized that was the first signal that was strong enough to leave our atmosphere and go out of space. And it was them sending it back to us, just letting us know we received it. Whoa. I'm into the premise of that. That sounds amazing. It's, yeah, I mean, give it a watch and report back. Let me know.

It's just a, it's very slow moving. I think Carl Sagan maybe wrote it or it had some influence on it. Have you ever showed a movie to somebody that you thought was good? And then it kind of bombs with whoever you're showing it to. Yeah, I mean, I talked for, you know, hours to my nephew about Rocky. and he's 10 years younger than me. He's not that much younger than that. Oh, he's an adult.

And he's my age. He fell asleep pretty early on. What time of night did you start? Not that late. Okay, okay. And it was night time? Yeah, yeah. It wasn't two in the morning.

He fell asleep, and it's like, it wasn't enough flashing for him, I guess. You got to, like, really be into it, but it's a very smart, emotional movie. Yeah, it's not just a fluff kind of, it's a real film. It's a real film. real heart to it. Yeah. There's real characters. He's like,

I don't know. It feels bad, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. You have that, Brian? Yeah, plenty. I was trying to think of a good example of one that I recommend. I've had plenty where people have recommended to me,

and it just did not work for me. What's a couple of examples? There's a, and I think these were movies that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid, but I didn't see them until there was a dog. I didn't see the Goonies until 2020 during the pandemic, and it just doesn't work for me as an adult. Yeah, you had to have seen it as a kid, I think.

And now, and then I'm surprised you missed that one the first time around. There was a lot of movies I missed as a kid just because we didn't have exit. I mean, I was only the person of my mom driving us to the theater. And then it was like when it was out of the theaters, it's just, it's gone. It's gone, right? Yeah, that's crazy to think about. So two years later, if it comes on TV. We watched a bunch of movies this weekend, and we started talking about, we were watching

in Ben Stiller movies. Yeah. We started talking about heavy weights. I was like, God, heavy weights is so great. And Nate hadn't seen it. And like Julian hadn't seen it.

Nick, nobody had seen this movie. I haven't seen it. Except me, Noah Stroop, who does photography and videography. And that might have been it. We were like,

oh, this movie's so good. Dude, we're going to watch it. And we wash it. And. Yeah, I would never do that. After like 30 minutes,

I was like, gosh, this movie's longer than I remembered it being. you know and then the laugh start nobody's laughing anymore and then finally i was like i just want to turn it off we didn't finish the movie oh that hurts i mean it is very funny in some parts but you're like man this is a kid's movie and then when i watch it now i i'm like watching it like i'm the kid i was when i first saw it yeah you know and it just doesn't hold up just a little it's a little embarrassing

you know there's some 80s movies that uh you know i just watched fairspillers day off and i still love it, but there's some stuff in it that. You ever hear the theory about that movie that Ferris Bueller's Day Off is like Ferris Bueller is living a groundhog day type day, and that the reason everything went perfectly throughout the day is because he's lived this day so many times already. No, I haven't heard that. No, that's it. Yeah, that's got to be true.

I just remember thinking that's an incredibly long day. Yeah. He does every, he goes through a Cubs game. That's a whole day. So in Groundhog Day, you know, hit me, they speculate that this was years that he lived this day. That it went on. Apparently, I think it was a book or maybe the original manuscript got a little darker than. And so you think about Fierce Bueller.

I mean, he's just nailing it all day. Yeah. So. He also might just rule. Yeah. I don't think so. Okay. Because.

Oh, you think it is Groundhog's Day. It's got to be right. Yeah, because what else did that guy do? Yeah. What's his name? Matthew Broderick? Yeah, I mean, he killed a guy. He did do that.

And he's in the producers. So. What do he kill a guy in? In like another country. A vehicular incident. Oh, like a real one. Yeah. Yeah, the actor.

I can't tell when you guys are going for movies to real life. We're jumping around here. I'm sorry. He's like, it's like Groundhog Day. What else does that guy do? I'm like, are you talking about, okay. So, Laura Bush. It's brutal.

Okay. this is a comedy podcast if anyone's listening for the first time you know another movie that's really long it's a great movie but boy

really long day what do you think about it is a training day training day is great that's all one day huh yeah they start early in the morning

and this is not training days yeah exactly I I heard I don't know if this is true or not you're talking about movies starting off slowly any action movie you see now

you kind of know the formula. It's going to start off with a action scene to establish the characters before it gets into the main storyline, right? Sure. I heard that Raiders the Lost Ark was the first movie to ever do that. The opening scene, he's, you know, in the cave, get the thing, it's an incredible scene. Then it starts the story.

Wow. But it gets your attention and get you hooked in. They created the formula. That makes sense. And also you want to, you kind of want to know what you're, what you're, what you're, your action hero can do. Yeah. But at the same time, sometimes it's nice that build up of where you're like,

I don't know what he's going to capable of. And then suddenly you see that's what made 310 to Yuma so good. Because you're waiting on the Christian Beal character to be this secret hero. Christian Bell is a hero, dusty. Well, in the movie I'm talking. You're waiting for him to be this secret hero. and then he reveals to you that he's not. So it's a letdown in a way, but it's like...

I don't think I was feeling that. You thought he was really going to be a sharpshooter that just hadn't... Yeah. No, I didn't think that at all. I think everyone did except for you. Can I do a counter-argument? Yeah, go ahead. I think you're the only one who thought that in the history of the earth.

Let's do a poll. Yeah. Let's get some comments. Find out. Yeah. Did you think that? 310 to Brian. I think that was the whole crux.

That was the whole moment. Because Christian Bale, his character, was able to survive where all these other men went down. And now it's just the two of them. And he's like, I'm getting you to that train. And he's been injured. He's lost his leg. You know, he's been injured in war. Next time we see him at the airport, we're going to ask him.

But then he says, you know, I ain't no hero. Yeah. revealing to whoever the other guy is. So you thought it was going to be like a superhero movie where at the end he comes out. Well, not a superhero, but like a Western where you realize,

oh, this guy was... He's just holding back the whole time. A lot of Westerns are like that. I think you'd not seen enough Westerns, and that's why you weren't feeling that. Yeah, Brian, take a lap. Unforgivens kind of like that. Yeah.

But they set him up to kind of be. like that. All right. Well, we'll just have to agree that Dusty's dumb. Well, or we take a poll. Let's take a poll. All right, well, about this, this is about UFOs, the movie, League of the own. Yes. Have you seen the League of the Own? Sure have. There's no crying in baseball. The ending scene. Okay. Pay the play at the plate. Gina Davis, the ball comes out. Did she do that on purpose? I think she did it on purpose. Now, is there a right answer to this? I don't think so because I've tried to look. Okay.

To me, that would defeat the whole purpose of her sister doing something heroic if she did it for her. I think she was happy for her sister because her sister made the play and knocked the ball out. I think she let her score. She wasn't interested in baseball. I think she let her score too. Yeah. She didn't care about baseball as much as her sister. And she wanted and she knew that her sister, she knew that her sister needed it.

Yeah. And she knew she was leaving it. She didn't need it. She had her husband. So what point would it have been for her to hang on to the ball? Unless her sister just knocked it out. And her sister was clearly not as athletic as she was. I think she, I think Gina Davis was competitive, and it was the championship,

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Get your take on them. The movie Alien. Never saw it. I haven't seen it forever. Too scary for me when I was a kid. There's numerous, numerous sequels. Yeah, it's a whole franchise of this. I have seen Prometheus, which is weird to watch out of order like that, I guess.

but it wasn't into it. Yeah, Prometheus. That was weird, was it? Yeah. Arrival, which we've already talked about. Amy Adams, she's like a, her job is like an audiologist or she communicates.

She knows how to communicate really well. So let me ask you the question. We get asked all, it's always asked when this is talked about, but I'm curious to your thoughts. Aliens invade. Yeah. We need an ambassador for the human race.

Yeah. Who do we send out there? Yeah, we talked about that on previous episodes. Of this podcast? Not of this podcast. Yeah. And I'd like to hear your thoughts. Who do you send out there?

I mean, the real answer is some faceless, some scientist that nobody knows, but that's a boring answer. I don't think that's the real answer. Well, who would you send? I think you send a preacher. To do what? To talk to them. They're great communicators. And they could throw a little holy water on them.

go ahead and end that situation right away. Can we come back to that? Let's say we choose Dusty as the spokesperson for Earth. Dusty, what's the first question you ask? What are you doing here? Now let's say they can speak English. Yeah. Okay.

And they say we're here. We just want to get to know you. We just want to see what you got going on. I'll say, well, cool. I'd like to talk to you about Jesus. Okay. And then if they say, okay, then I go, all right, maybe you are from space. What if they said, we'd like to smoke a cigar with you?

I go, did you bring some from space? Because I'm all out. Okay, well. Yeah, I wouldn't mind having a cigar with an alien. Just to chat about. Just chat about some stuff. Which one of those four would you choose? Well, I'd go the Nordic guy because it looks pretty, you know, it looks pretty,

normal. What? You just hang out with a normal looking guy? For sure. From space? Yeah.

I would never hang out with the reptilian. Not on purpose. They could be shape shifted into some other situation.

They could be in this room right now. Yeah. The gray, too scary. The big eyes, too scary. And then I'm... I'm afraid of a

praying mantis when it's small. Yeah. What if they wore your merch? Would you be on board then? Well, you're telling me if they landed

out of space, and they were wearing a we're having a good time t-shirt? Yeah. I mean, you would... That would change. They go. Wet heat really took off on Zyblor. You're like, I love these guys.

You're the most famous person on our planet, dust is. Listen, flattery, it's hard to, you know, if you're getting flattered, it's hard to, I would just hope they wouldn't be doing that. Hard to stay mad at somebody. Yeah. They compliment you a bunch. Oh, you guys. They might know how to manipulate us.

You guys, come on in. Get some of our resources. Well, what about you? What would you say? Uh, I don't, I mean, maybe you send, you send some kind of, uh, some kind of well-intentioned scientist guy. Bill Gates? No. Foucher?

Yeah, we'll send Fouchy out there. He's isn't the only scientist I know. Bill Gates and Fouching. Oh, the aliens are here. Dr. Foucher. Get out there and talk to him, please. No, you need somebody who knows, I think you need some kind of biologist, maybe, somebody to talk to them. Very often in these movies, it's always the scientists who lives and they have to navigate.

The pilot gets killed. Yeah, yeah. Because scientists can do so many different things that just makes sense in the storyline that they survive. You know what? I say we send Will Smith because he's already been in the... movie. Send Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum. Give Will Smith a real redemption opportunity. His career has gone a different direction these days. This is his, uh, this would be his opportunity to go real life Independence Day. Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith, you send them out there. Just the cast of

Independence Day. Just send them out. Bill Pullman. Bill Pullman died, I think. You guys have experience. Oh, I don't know. Maybe not. You all have experience talking to aliens. Get out there and do it for real. Yeah. Send Walking Phoenix out to get this. cast of signs. Yeah, get Mel Gibson out there. If you've acted in an alien movie, we're sending you to talk to the real aliens.

Randy Quaid, we'll search him down. He's going to be hard to find, I think. All right, but Aaron, if it was you, they sent, what would you ask?

Well, I'd have to learn sign language. We have to develop a language between the two. That'd be the most complicated. Yeah. You know, you'd have to, I come in peace,

something like that. It looks like a third base coach. trying to get you what if they could read your mind and talk to you telepathically yeah well they may be good which one of these ones the the mantis style

has telepathic abilities I would say the gray could do it but they all look like they he looks like he could here's the reality if they are able to get to earth we know that the nearest

planet is so far away that for them to have been able to get here, they're so far advanced, they're operating at a level we can't even comprehend. So, who knows? They're probably re-know our mind. But what if their planet is in total turmoil? Right. And they're coming and they need help. And they put every resource they ever had into the ship to get here. Okay. And then what, they want to stay here and set up shop here? Or they want us to come help. What if, let me ask you this. I'm not going to leave and then they get here and they go, well, we're going to find another place.

It looks like y'all need more help than we do. Where do they land and they think we do want their help? And where do they land where they say we don't want their help? It's hard to answer that without being mean. But I think you know what we're talking about. But if they're so advanced, so much further ahead of us, and they came here and take over our planet, is that even unethical?

Ooh. If they want to take over our planet. Yeah. Yeah. Because that's what we do to dumber creatures. But we don't do it to other planets, though. But we would. We've taken over Mars soon.

We relocate animals. But this is our planet, though. But it was their, it's the animals planet too. We've been given dominion over all the animals. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Well, that kind of shuts that argument now. But like ants, they have their, it's,

their home and then we just like, well, get out of the way. Yeah, we do whatever we want with them. You know what I mean? Yeah. You're saying if aliens came, we're so, and we'd be so much dumber than them, it'd be the equivalent of us like kicking over an ant hill somewhere. Yeah, yeah, or something like that. Yeah.

I mean, I hope that's not the case. But if they get here, they're probably going to kill us all. What would you say to them? Well, I would argue. Let's say they were like, we need a guy who's been on earth for a long time. Okay, who's been here the longest? Where do you think that voice comes from? Who's a public figure?

Yeah, we need a public finger. And you go. What would you say? And as they say, provided they can speak English. Right, right. They've had a long trek here. They've learned the language. Okay.

I would ask, what do you guys know that we don't know? Wow. First, your opening line. Yeah. Yeah. That's a pretty big opening line. Come off with a question. You just come right out.

What do you know that we don't know? Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, no. Hey, how you're doing? We come in peace. Nothing like that. What's the question you ask? Well, I guess, I guess, you know, how you would go about it. But, yeah, first question.

What if they came, say, we come in peace and they do this? And then you do this. And then they're like, oh, this guy's one of us. And you know the secret handshake. And then they kill all of us except you. Well, it's part of it, right? Yeah, I mean, that, you know, stuff happens. I would say for that question I asked earlier, the difference between us,

obviously, there's a lot of difference between us and animals. But an ant or any other creature like that, they're going to be the same a thousand years from now as they are now. Whereas, hopefully, Bessie would argue we get dumber, but we're going to be a thousand years more advanced. Yeah, sure. Right? 100%. Yeah, I mean, our technology will be greatly improved, I would think. Yeah.

Unless there's some kind of, you know, reset. Event. Yeah. Some type of event. Yeah. Or we'll download our consciousness onto something else. You know, the transhumanism, they call it. The kind of leading congressman for getting this stuff revealed is from Tennessee.

Who's that? Tim Burchett. Oh, really? Yeah. He's the one that's been pushing for disclosure and releasing these files. Let's get him on the pod. Yeah. He might come on.

Yeah. Let's get him on here. But, yeah, Congressman from Knoxville. Okay. Shout out to him. Where I filmed Working, man. How do you think? It's available on YouTube.

right now. How do you think the world... How do you think the world would react, though? The government comes out and says there are aliens, we've been in contact, or we've retrieved alien craft. I mean, it would have to be much more explicit than what they're already telling us? Yes. I'm saying, they're saying definitively.

You're saying the president comes on TV. They have to break in TV. We've met aliens. and then we have to, how would we react to that? That's huge. I don't know. I think a lot of people off-rip wouldn't believe it. Well, sure.

But do you think there'd be panic in the streets? No, I don't think there'd be panic in the streets. Like if they showed it to us. If they showed a video, like a video of what? Like a little gray alien in the Oval Office? Something like that. Or maybe a, maybe like a retrieve craft that. What about a ship?

What of a ship was coming down over a city? I think that would be. your panic. Yeah, that would be different for sure. Yeah. I'm saying the president comes out and says we have that they show us some still photos. Of course, some people are going to believe it, but the ones who do believe it, are they going to panic? I think no one would believe it now because of AI. Unless you see it with your own eyes out there in the world, right? Yeah, what if they put it on the White House lawn during the UFC fight? Do you ever watch the... He gets in there. Everybody can just get in and sit in it. Do you ever watch the movie Deep in? Do you ever watch the movie Deepen

where a meteor hits the earth and there's a scene at the end. It hits the water and it creates a tidal wave. It's like four or five hundred feet high, right? Yeah. And the main character of the woman, her and her father, they stand on the shore and just let the wave kill them. I think that's what I would do. What about you, Dustin?

I like that too. I mean, what are you going to do? There's nothing to do with it. If there's a giant spaceship that covers, you know, all of Manhattan, I'm going to do it? Am I supposed to take a pistol and just shoot at it? But what if they come in peace? Oh, I don't think they're coming in peace, dude.

I think you got to, I mean, I hate to bring it back here every time. I think you got to pray. This is what's always. Obviously, we're doing all that stuff. This is what we're always missing in these end of the world movies. Into the world movies, everything's going wrong. Everybody's panicking. Everybody's freaking out.

Nobody praying. You know what I mean? that's what we're missing. Mm-hmm. I bet you'd be reading the King James version if they were coming down? No, I would. Not even then? I would want to understand it if I was really trying to read it there at the end.

But Dusty could translate it for you. I'll be right there with you. I don't think. You'll be in your bunker. You shoot me and my family and get in the bunker and lock it. Now, Aaron, have you heard that the Vatican has secret UFO information? No, I don't know anything about that. Well, some people think...

What are they got? The Pope, this new Pope may be the one that releases the information. He's taking on AI right now. I saw that. He's taken on AI. I was into that. There was a guy who testified before Congress in 2023, David Grush. And he says that the Vatican has an international cover-up of alien secrets.

Apparently, one crash in the 1930s in Italy, and Mussolini retrieved it. And the Pope Pius, the 12th, informed the United States about it. Give them a little heads up. Oh, that's nice of them. So the Vatican has all these secrets. Yeah, I don't know if I don't know if I believe any of that. Yeah. I don't think the Vatican is doing stuff like that.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. Okay. Eric just looked at his fake watch. We're almost done. Close encounters of the third kind. I never saw it.

Let me ask about a movie. What about Mars attacks? Yeah, I've seen Mars attacks. Yeah, yeah. That's a good one. You think that's what the aliens look like? Well, they're green in that, but I think they look like the grays. Yeah.

And then they're telling you they're coming. Based on a true story. And then the celebrities, maybe they are gray, yeah. And then the celebrities are, there's so many celebrities in this movie. and, you know, and they're like, trying to be buddies with all these guys. And then they start wiping them out. Yeah.

And it's a yodeling country song that sets everyone free. So we're right here in Nashville. So I think we're there. We'll be safe. We'll be safe here. I've not seen Mars at Hacks. You've not seen it? Uh-uh.

Oh, man. It's a great movie. Um. Listen, I don't want to say it's a great movie. Yeah. It is entertaining. Yeah. The Tim Burton movie.

Is it? Yeah. E.T. Oh, E.T. That was a really good one. I don't know how it holds up, but I liked it as a kid. Aaron, have you seen E.T.? You never saw it. Drew Barrymore, isn't she, in that?

She plays the alien or who is she? She's the mom. Oh, what about this? She's the little sister. What about this movie? I mean, nobody ever talks about this guy because he got in trouble or whatever. but Kevin Spacey was in a movie called K-Pax. I never saw it.

K-Pax is really good. That's why no one talks about the movie because Kevin Spacey got in trouble? Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. Well, yeah, I mean, Kevin Spacey, no one talks about his movies anymore. But K-Pax was really good. He's an alien? Well, that's the thing about the movie. You don't really know.

And even in the end, you don't really know. I suspect that he was. But in the movie, you know, he's been checked into a mental institution. But he's going on and on. And I don't want to give it away. Okay. You know, it's 24 years old. But in case people have never heard of it and want to go watch it.

The Kevin Spacey part was originally offered to Will Smith. Oh, wow. Will Smith turned it down. Wow. I turned it down. A big miss on Will Smith. Close encounters the third guy. It's been a long time since I've seen it.

But Stephen Spielberg is so good at taking movies and coming from a different angle. That movie is really about how we react. Yeah. To aliens. What is it? Close encounters to the third kind. I never saw it. It's one of, I guess, his first movies from the 70s.

It's supposed to be one of his best. Made a ton of money, man. 307 million on a $19 million budget. Pretty good investment. What about unsolved mysteries? Do you ever watch that as again? Mm-hmm. Because I used to watch that a lot, and that's what really got me afraid of aliens.

I used to be really afraid that they were going to come and take me in the night. They still might. Wow. I got a plan now. What's the plan? Well, it's the same plan that I've been telling you guys the whole episode. You got a Bible by your bed. Well, yeah.

Well, yeah. What's the plan? I know you've been telling us a whole episode. Well, you know, there's been people that study these. alien, the people that claim to have been abducted, they say there is like people crying out to Jesus during these abductions always report that the abduction immediately ends. And so that's what leads more to the evidence of what, you know, people talk about them being demons. But that would be my plan. But as a kid, I didn't know any of that. I was just watching Unsolved Mysteries. And I

was just afraid. I was afraid of ghost and I was afraid of aliens all the time. All the time. All my life. I was afraid of ghosts and aliens. I was afraid I kept the door closed because one time I saw a ghost in Unsauled Mysteries come into the open doorway and actually warn a family that their house was on fire and saved their lives. But it still terrified me. I'd like to have that ghost dude. Yeah, but I didn't want to see it. Hey, I burned something on the stove and can't turn it off. Just let you guys know. That's what he did. And aliens, all that stuff terrified. Yeah. All the time as a kid. Have you seen the movie Fire in the Sky? No. I know the song. It's from early 90s based on a guy who claimed he was abducted. It's based on a true story. A guy was abducted for a few days

and he was out. He was a logger and they were getting in logging and they saw a bright light. He got out of the truck. It sucked him up. Spaceship. A few days later, he shows back up and said he was abducted. Was he a changed man or was it just right back to it? His name's Travis. He's still alive. Travis Walton. Yeah. He was on Joe Rogan. Wow.

How about that? He was an alleged. It's got to be tough. This is your whole life now and then still says alleged on your Wikipedia. Yeah. Guys. Come on. I made my whole life about this, dude.

Well, that is what's so crazy about the government just like kind of releasing stuff now is it's like my entire life. If you talked about believing aliens or being like, oh, I got abducted, then you were some type of nuts. case. And now the government's like, well, maybe they are real, guys. Yeah, are bad on that. Yeah. Yeah. Let's say aliens come down. Okay. To Zanis. Right. They see a mural on the wall. And they're like, these guys must be the most important people on this planet. That's what I would think. Yeah. That would be you, Dusty. Yeah. What do you think of that? Well, I think they would go, well, this guy is on the back corner of the parking lot. So we'll start with the people.

Where's a Nate Bargatsy? We'll start with the front corner and then work our way back to this guy. Okay. Yeah. But if they land the back parking lot, you might be the first one they see. Yeah. That's true. You and Lavelle Crawford first.

Yeah, I'll tell them. Well, I am in Port and I am a public figure. Yeah. You see my special on YouTube right now. Yeah, you could watch this. You had a lot of time when you were flying here to watch that. I was listening to the We having a good time. We're having a good time.

We're having a good time, podcast, and Dusty said that he saw a mural of Kobe Bryant, and if aliens came down, they'd be like, wow, these guys must be the leaders. Yeah, I get that. He's on two different walls. Because it wasn't him in, it was in L.A., and it wasn't him like playing basketball. It was just a picture of painting of Kobe Bryant.

And that's what I thought. If aliens came here, they go, that guy must run the country. I think they think the Statue of Liberty is the queen. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, absolutely. Men in Black, another classic. All right, now it's time for Dusty Slay's top ten country songs about UFOs. Thanks for listening to the podcast.

Are there any? I don't know of any. Welcome to Earth, Third Rock from the Sun. Yeah, but even that, it's not really about aliens. I don't know that there's any. about aliens. Okay. Okay.

I can't think of a single one. This is a, you know, I'm quick guessing it here, but. It's either none or 200,000. Yeah. Aaron, have you heard of the Fermi paradox? Oh, what's that? It's basically saved by a scientist lasting Fermi, that if there are billions and billions of planets out there that should have

potential life, why haven't we found anything out there? Why is it? They're not. There's, Journey has a song called The Wheels in the Sky Keep on Turnin. Yeah. Is that about UFOs? I think so. All right, sorry to cut you off, but I...

Elton John has a song called Rocket Man, I think. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right, we're building the list. You know that way? Yeah, yeah. What about David Billy? I must...

Okay, we're building the list. What's the paradoxes that... Yeah, well, nothing's been country. The paradoxes, why haven't we found him yet? Because they're too far away to get to. But, well, we're not like, but if we're singing signals out there or if they're advanced, why haven't they sent a signal to us? Even the signal, I mean, maybe they have, but they're so far away. I mean, the arguments that are made based on that is they're either hiding because they don't want to be found.

Okay. Because someone may come and wipe them out. Yeah. Which is a pretty good argument, I guess. Or by the time you get to the advanced technology abilities to send out methods. messages or probes, whatever, you wipe yourself out. You kill yourself. Yeah, because of...

With like, like we almost have done multiple times. Yeah. Yeah. The other option is we're still just too far away from each other for any of that to matter. Mm-hmm. You know, how far has our signal gotten? Our radio signal. How far is that in the space right now?

Cornadustia, half a mile. And then it goes, plink. Well, not a half a mile, but not, yeah. Not much further. Yeah. Yeah. It bounces back on us. That's funny.

Like the end of the Truman show? Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much. The outer darkness. Mm-hmm. Yeah. All right.

Well, I guess we can stop there since we were on a roll. We learned a lot. We didn't have, I forgot my ultra palches today. I know that you guys have already done an episode on a different podcast. Yeah. about UFOs. So this was, you know, part two. Yeah, and I get more specific about,

I think we've already, we did two episodes on the old podcast, and we got specific about cases like Roswell and different abductions and things like that. Okay. Maybe I should have went that route. Kept pretty, kept pretty back here. No, I like this.

I thought this was a lot of fun. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well. We're just testing the waters to see what we can get away with with Dusty. You know what I mean? I think we're going to get into the nitty gritty next week now that we know he's cool.

Yeah. And then we're really. We weren't sure how this was going to go. Dusty, you did great. I planned on a 45-minute podcast today, but we made it another hour. Yeah. How about that? And I can't wait once we stop rolling to hear what Dusty has to say.

Once these cameras are all. Yeah, we don't need. We know what's going on. June 11th. I'm at Topeka, Kansas at the Beacon. June 12th, 13th, I'm in Lowell, Arkansas at the Grove Comedy Club. All right. Afraid Adam Bush is doing those shows with me.

Okay. June 20th, Gallatin, Tennessee at the Palace Theater. Damn. June 27th at the Packard Playhouse in Columbia, Tennessee. And just added July 3rd here at the Lab at Zanies, Brian Bates and Friends, come celebrate Independence Day, Eve. Awesome. With me here.

That's great. June 20th, this is Aaron Weber speaking. I'm going to be in Hattiesburg, Mississippi at the Sanger Theater. All right. Love that. First time, I guess I've been to Hattiesburg once, but this is my first time at the Sanger Theater. First time in a long time.

I got Lee Kimbril from the Life of Dad podcast. And the Nate Land, he's coming with me. It's going to be a hot show. June 20th. Come on out see me in Hattiesburg. And Mary Ryan Brown. Yes. Yeah, sorry.

All right. I'm back, you know, been gone all of you. Oh, welcome. And now I'm, so I'm back on the road, June. I'm just going to hit you with the weekends. This weekend, Irvine, California, with Adam Bush. Next weekend, I'm in Palm Beach at the Allen Jackson's. It's 5 o'clock somewhere event. Then I'll be the next weekend, Austin, Texas, at the mothership with Connor Larson. and then June 27th, I'll be at Lake Charles, Louisiana. With?

With, who do I have? Tyler Elliott. Okay. Will you get to meet Ella Jackson? Would he be there? I don't know. I hope so. Have you ever met him?

I never met him. Yeah. It'll happen. I hope so. I hope so. Yeah. Also, I'm told John Anderson is going to be there. I'd love to meet John Anderson.

You're surprised you haven't. And, uh, oh, Bill Anderson, you've met upon. Bill Anderson, I met him by it. And then Clint Black is supposed to be there. I haven't met Clint Black before. And, uh, um, the, uh, it's terrible. Well, forget it. But, uh, they're going to be there, too.

The very popular, the very, very, the most popular female country singer right now. Ella Langley. Ella Langley. She'll be there. Who's, is she from Alabama? I don't know. They say she is. I thought you're going to say, uh, Lenny Wilson.

Yeah. Well, it's the two of them. Yeah. There's a lot of big women in country. I'm just saying right at this present moment. Famous, famous women. That's right. Name names.

That's not what I meant. A lot of horses out there. A lot of big girls out there in the country. Dusty Slate's top five big women in comedy. Go ahead, Dusty. All right. Well, that is it. Another fun episode.

episode of the public figures podcast go see the breadwinner in theaters everywhere and go check out that UFO batch that should be coming out this Friday and then we'll follow up okay all right we're having a good time boom