The Nateland Podcast - 182: #182 Ohio

Episode Date: January 10, 2024

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Hello, folks, and hey, bear. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast 2024. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay Alright We did it, you're here Welcome New year, starting off fresh Well we already have one episode that came out That we recorded last year with Angela But this is the first real 2024 But this is us together

First time 2024 Big year Could be a big year You ever just feel it coming into the year Like it's gonna be a big year you ever just feel it coming into the year like it's gonna be uh it's gonna be a big one yeah you do you feel that i'm trying to just convince myself of it yeah if i say it enough then i think it'll happen i feel like even years for whatever reason more stuff happens in odd years no 2001 like in the world just in general in the world or in your

life no i meant in the world 2001 was pretty bad that No, I've been in the world. 2001 was pretty bad. That was all year. That's true. Yeah. 2000. I mean, it's not a perfect plan. 2001.

Yeah. Change the world. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that just shot down that theory quick.

Well, I mean, that's one, the most pivotal event of our lifetime was an odd year. There's some stuff in 2023 that happened. That was, you know, they're kind of moon landing 69 now. Moon landing was 69.

2020 was a bad one too, though. 2020. Well, I think that's what he's saying. Yeah, it was an even and that was a bad one. I guess I just think Olympics happened even years and I feel like the World Cup happens even years. A lot of stuff. Elections. Fun stuff.

You're saying elections. Oh, you're saying good stuff happened. Well, I just meant in general. I hadn't really thought this through. You just said it. Good happens in even, bad in odd. Is that what you're saying? Sure, yeah. I take back what I said about this

year. Well, the way the world feels, I bet it's going to be awesome. Seems like everybody's getting along. We're getting along. We're having fun. We are. We have fun. I think it's going to be a big year for Dusty Slay. Yeah. It's going to be a big year for Dusty Slay. Yeah. It's going to be a big year for all of us. Netflix special comes out.

Oh, yeah. Well, that is true. Next Tuesday, right? Next Tuesday. January 16th, yeah. Big time, man. It's going to be a big year. Even day.

On an even day. On an even day, yeah. On an even year, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Saw the trailer dropped. It looks great. Is that the same trailer that you posted originally?

But it's making its rounds again. It looks legit. No, I think it's a new one. Yeah, it's a new. the first one was just music. This one has some of the jokes in it. Some jokes, yeah. Yeah, it's fun. It has, it is a good trailer, but they play, you know, kind of like rock music along with my jokes, which I don't really feel like fits my jokes. You know what I mean? Like, like some of the jokes that I used on there, I like them all, but some of them are more subtle jokes.

And so when you're hitting it with some real rock, it feels like, I don't know. You wanted some smooth jazz or something. That would be a little more your vibe. That would be more my vibe, yeah. Like I hit a joke and then the saxophone plays a little bit. Yeah. Or maybe just some soft piano. Yeah.

They would be confused. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I like it. What hat did you wear? I wore my own hat. Oh, there you go. Are you worried that title working man, people are going to do some background check and find out you didn't live in a trailer park?

No, that's true. I mean, no, I'm not worried about it because that stuff is true. So I'm not worried about that. My dad did go, he goes, what's with this working man thing? And see, my dad still has my pictures from high school hanging in my old room, even though my old room is nothing like when I was growing up, the pictures are still on the wall. So my dad's still, in his mind, I'm still like this high school slacker kid. Yeah. He can't let it go. Listening to Limp Bizkit. Right. Yeah.

That I've lived an entire life since high school. Multiple lives, really, that I've gone through. Yeah. Things. And he's still locked in that I'm failing Spanish class in high school. That's the only class I was not doing well in. Oh, Spanish. Yeah.

And he can't. He's acting like I never worked a day in my life. I've had several jobs. I've been an alcoholic and recovered. Yeah. I've gone through things. He's like, ah,

he ain't done nothing. It's just working, man. Working man. What a lazy boy. Yeah. And then I start trying to explain and he zones off. Are you with us?

Yeah. You probably had more jobs than any of us. Yeah. I probably had more jobs than my dad. Yeah. I'm being honest. I mean, not only jobs. You think you have, well, I've had quite a few, but jobs than my dad, if I'm being honest. How many jobs do you think you had?

Well, I've had quite a few, but they didn't all last a long time. Is it all on your LinkedIn? Should I pull that up? It should be on my LinkedIn. I would be wondering how many jobs. I had a lot of jobs, too. Yeah. You probably.

Yeah. Have you not had a lot of jobs? No. I mean, I'm educated. Yeah. That is true. That's Yeah, that is true. That's funny. That is true.

Educated people don't have. Yeah, you get one and check whether you're out. I did have that old school mentality that doesn't exist anymore. You get a good job, you just stay there. So that's what my parents taught me. Well, I had that with the water company. They would have been. That's what the plan was there.

It was to start comedy. I've delivered pizza. I think I had four of my jobs I think I did twice. I worked at Papa John's twice. I worked at Western Sizzling twice. I worked at Spectracide twice and at Hyman's twice. That would have been eight jobs had I not just gone back. That's a good lesson not to burn a bridge on the way out.

Yeah. You never know. You're going to be back at Papa John's. I'm a two-week notice guy. That's true. I'm all about the two-week notice. And we might still go back. Who knows?

That's what I always say. I make fun of Spectracide all the time, but I'm like, hey, who knows? I wonder if two-week notice is still around. Do people, they don't even care anymore. I would think people just quit now. When I got fired from my last quote-unquote real job, when they fired me, I go, so like, you want me to do two weeks? And they're like, oh, no, you can leave today.

I was like, oh, man, I thought I had a two-week so I could just chill and they didn't want it. I don't think you get two weeks when the employee fires you. Yeah, I guess you're right. That's when you're like, hey, I want you to know, and I'm going to be leaving you, so I'm going to give you a little bit of a warning. Yeah, I guess you're right. I just thought I'd need a transitional period.

I got to train the next guy. But they're like, we don't need you. They got rid of you. You're fired. So in two weeks. Yeah. All right, we'll bring that're fired. So in two weeks. Yeah. All right. We'll bring that guy in.

I'll tell him. Yeah. We're firing you, but we'd love for you to train the next guy. Yeah. We don't like how you work around here, but we'd love for you to instill some of that in the next guy. I didn't even think about that. We want your philosophies into the next age group that comes in. We want you to instill that work ethic in the next generation.

Weren't you a valet one time? I did do that, but for about six weeks. I got valet too. Yeah, did you? B and A at the Nashville airport. Oh, okay. That's big time. Yeah.

Did you ever crash a car, get in a wreck? No, it was right when Sirius came out. So you would, like, it was like you'd be getting some nice cars and you'd just sit and listen to Sirius radio. Oh, yeah. And it was like, you'd be getting some nice cars and you just sit and listen to serious radio. Oh, yeah. And it was like, this is crazy. And so sometimes you'd park a car and just go sit in the car for a little bit longer and listen to serious radio. That's fun.

Yeah. I've worked at the Planners Inn, downtown Charleston. Very nice hotel. And it was, yeah, I mean, those cars, I would be like, I don't know. I mean, I don't feel comfortable driving this. Did you have like high profile clients that you're supposed to like know who they are? Well, you had an earpiece that you would wear. And so when people would pull up, they would say, especially if they were coming back, they would tell you in the ear, oh, this is Mr. Johnson. You know, and then I'm supposed to go out and go, welcome back, Mr. Johnson.

And I had a real hard time with that. I'm very polite to people, but I have a hard time being like, oh, welcome back to the hotel, Mr. Johnson. Can I help you with those bags? I'm just like, hey, you know, I mean, I'm good to talk, but I can't get into this. Let them feel welcomed. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I go, you know, I just like to talk to everybody like we're just normal people out here. So I have a hard time with

that. So it wasn't for me. And plus there are other bellhops and they would get real competitive, you know, because they want to make money. And I'm like, I want to make money too, but I'm not trying to trip you up to get to the, the client. Who was telling you?

It's Mr. Johnson. The front desk people. Like they could see him pull in. Either they had cameras or, or, or whatever. They had some system and then, you know, and then you'd get in the elevator and the front desk people would be making jokes with you in the elevator about the people. And it's hard to not laugh, you know? Oh, that's funny it is i always

wanted a job we're at an earpiece i never got it you just feel official uh the manning cast yeah the manning cast your dream came true and for what i'm gathering wasn't as fun as you had helped i hated it i thought it was a lot of fun this Earpiece was one of the worst parts. Yeah. I had a great time. But when I saw Obama speak, the Secret Service guys were all around. They all. Where at? Notre Dame? Yeah, he did.

That's the difference, man. Yeah. It's just like I don't have a story where I say when I watched Obama speak, I just was never in. I was never within six miles of a president. Yeah. I i mean there's just you're not going to be around like we weren't hanging out or anything yeah but you're not i mean you would never be that's that's the college education it's just you're at least in the a couple blocks from someone from a powerful person we're under the same roof yeah yeah versus like where yeah where we're I mean I never had a job you're like no one's you know I went delivered a washer and

dryer to the Dixie Chicks that's pretty cool all three of them no I was like there's there there a studio or something or whatever so I mean you know how many people have seen the Dixie Chicks is laundry room, though? I mean, that's pretty. I thought they shared an apartment. I was like, wow, they're legit. No, yeah. Still do.

Yeah, they had. It was. It's the Chicks now. Yeah. It was like their music office or whatever or something. I forget. I remember delivering their. Probably platinum records on the wall.

That's pretty cool. I got thrown out by the Secret Service at an Al Gore event event once what were you doing causing a ruckus didn't have the proper credentials oh really you were there at new channel five yeah i was in new hampshire the new hampshire primary when al gore ran for president and the company that we were working with didn't have enough media credentials for everybody so uh we were like one shorts of me and the camera guy had to share so you should what i should have done was just hang tight close to him because he was wearing it and not make myself known but i started trying to make a name for yourself well i started wandering a little bit instead of just staying hid and a lady came up to me and was sticker

servicing she was like where's your media credential and i'm like oh it's right over there in my coat and she's like well you need to wear it at all times when you're out okay listen i got an inconvenient truth for you and i walked over there and i told the camera guy, I was like, Jerry, Jerry, hand me your pass. And as soon as he did, like they grabbed me and they hauled me out in front of everybody. And they questioned me. They got dogs. You got questioned?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, he was vice president of the United States. Yeah. There's some guy pretending like he has credential and he doesn't. And I got questioned. And then finally they were like, all right. They said, if you want to try to kill him, we'll let you try.

He doesn't even need secret service for you. They go, we feel so comfortable. We're going to put you in a room alone without. What were some questions they asked you? Just who I was, why I was there, all that stuff. They finally said, you can go, but you can't stay in here.

And so now, in New Hampshire in January, I'm outside with no coat just wandering around. Wow. Just out in the open. No cell phone at the time, probably, right? Where's your coat at?

By my media pass that Jerry was wearing. I mean, we'd taken our coats off inside there, but I didn't have time to say. They wouldn't let you get your coat. No, they're like, you got to leave right now. They hauled me out. So you never had a media pass? There was three of us there, and we had two media passes. So in that moment, I wasn't wearing it.

And I should have just stayed low profile. But I started wandering around. You know how Brian is. He just takes over. He should have said, hey, give me your media pass. I'm going to go walk around. Yeah, I should have. I very well should have, yes.

But I didn't think, ah, who cares? Where's this story been all this time? Yeah. I thought I told it, to be honest with you. No, I never heard that. That's good stuff. Just waiting for the new year. Yeah, endless well, Brian.

I was waiting for an even year to tell it. Yeah. That's when stuff happens. Did you have a hotel? Did you walk back to the hotel? We had a hotel, but, I mean, we were at some... Jerry had that key too. Jerry had it all.

I think I did have a cell phone because I remember calling and saying, well, when you leave, at least bring my coat. I couldn't walk back to the hotel. We were at some of... I mean, it was like far away. Yeah. How long were you outside? We were at some of, I mean, it was like far away. Yeah.

How long were you outside? I felt, I felt like I went to like, uh, there were satellite trucks there and I knew somebody that was inside, you know, running one of the satellite trucks. So I just went in there and sat in the satellite truck. You said I got kicked out. Yeah. What was the reason you were there? You were. Because Gore, Gore.

Yeah. Gore was running for president. He was from Tennessee. It was the same weekend as the Superbowl. The Titans were the titans are in the super bowl like probably two or three days before that and uh yeah i was there as a producer but that night i was just a guy roaming around new hampshire how old were you think it was 2000 so yeah I was 52 Dusty you're having a good time

you know a lot of people I thought would well you know just it was left out there yeah

I'm 52 now thank you very much oh yes you've been like 30 yeah that's fun were you pretty nervous

when they grabbed you I was very nervous yeah because i was embarrassed everyone sees it everybody saw everybody saw it i mean there's a ruckus and i'm like george costanza getting hauled out you know by two guys and whatever like like you know they're grabbing you and pulling you out of there it's almost fun except for that you can't get back in right it's It's kind of like a cool, like, yeah, I got kicked out. Did they ever leave? Was it ever like, we understand, but you just can't go back in?

Yeah, that's what they said. They're not going to arrest me, but they're like, we ain't letting you back in. Yeah. We've already made a point. God, would you have went back in? Which should have been like, either arrest me or let me go back in. Well, they beat on the pass that's true but jerry does kick jerry out for a while yeah yeah i'm cold the camera's already in there i mean we don't even

need jerry what was the other person doing he was reporting oh he's a reporter a photographer and me as producer so you were the most why could they not get three badges? It was some company that we would work with these other side affiliates. And it was this company called Conus. And I think they're even out of business now. And they just, for whatever reason, didn't get us enough media credentials. They didn't think Gore would be the nominee at this point. That's why Brian's going to cover that. In New Hampshire.

Yeah. New Hampshire primary, which is a big deal. That's one of the big ones, yeah. Yeah. Iowa and then New Hampshire, yeah. Yeah. Just up there in the thick of it, man. Bush was there, too, which is funny because Ruth worked for Bush.

She had been there? I don't think. We've talked about it. I don't think she was there, but it'd be funny if she heard about it. Yeah. Three towns over. Yeah, I remember that. She goes, I was in that.

Yeah. She could have been at that event, I guess, technically. Well, not at Gore's. She could have been like, hey, there's a guy wandering around out there with no media pass. Can you guys check that out? She reported you to the Secret Service. You remember, did you have short sleeves on underneath the jacket? I feel like I did.

I remember it was very cold. Yeah was very cold i could i would feel you're like it's that person because it is there's there's a person that wears a coat when it's cold when they take it off they have short sleep because they're just gonna be they somehow get so hot inside well it was like you know usually i would you have if it's real cold outside you have long sleeve both but then you know there is people that would just have buttoned down short sleeve shirt i remember it was a packed event so you're like it's going to be very hot in there yeah because they would think about stuff like that yeah they would say that to themselves body temperature yeah they would say that in the mirror well it's going to be packed so it's going to be hot.

I mean, Aaron, I feel like you could relate with me on this. Look, I get it. You know, when I fly, it's cold, go into the air. I wear a heavy jacket to the airport, and then I have a T-shirt underneath it. T-shirt and shorts underneath it. So when I get on the plane, I start sweating. I take it off. No, not tear away, dude.

I'm not warming up for a JV game. Ruth pointed out to me that she, well, she didn't point out, but she was the deputy chief of staff for Condoleezza Rice. The person who replaced her, Condoleezza Rice, when Obama took over was Hillary Clinton. And her deputy chief of staff was Huma Abedin, whose husband, which would make me Anthony Wiener. All right. It's all coming together. How was Anthony Wiener before Anthony Wiener? Yeah.

So, you know. That's fun. All right. So since we've been all together We've had a couple fun things We did a surprise birthday party for Laura Yeah Very fun birthday party We had the Velcro Pygmies

They're a cover band Kind of a hair cover band Yeah There's me, Bateson Like 80s hair metal Yeah, we all dressed up In kind of an 80s kind of thing Well, not everybody

Not everybody. Aaron was wearing a cardigan. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, dude. I'm joking. Yeah. Just like, come here. Wearing a cardigan.

I'm joking. I don't know if you guys talked about this at all, but, you know, when we were here the time before the party, Graham K was here and he was downstairs and like, this is a surprise party. As far as I know, it's like, this is all a surprise party. And he goes, he's downstairs. He goes, goes hey you guys going to the party you guys going to the party tomorrow or whatever and i'm like i didn't know what to do i just i waved him off and i left the room i was like i don't know what to do yeah and then i messaged him and i was like

as far as i know this is a surprise party and he thought that i was just got very rude with him and he thought i just waved him but i was like i don't know what to do here yeah he said something about it later he was like gave me a weird like yeah hand motion i was just trying to make conversation i talked to him about it later but yeah it was uh yeah the whole thing we uh we was at exit in which if you know in nashville is a kind of a is a very famous legendary legendary uh rock venue and uh yeah a lot of people were there and i mean it was really really a fun fun uh night it's fun to get out and to play all the music laura likes uh it was looking at the picture brian bates has got a long wig on yeah and if you're a you know a big fan of

the podcast you might recognize that wig from the ha episode where Brian was dressed up as Dusty Slay. That's the Dusty Slay wig right there. Well, I'm going to tell you something. That wig, that changed who Brian was. Yeah. I mean, I was into long hair Bates. Yeah. I was like, this guy's awesome.

Too much. He's doing Jaeger bombs at the bar. No, that's not true. But Dusty's wife was like filming me all night like to the point where it's awkward like i'd move and i would just see her moving with me i'm like what are y'all doing you're stealing the show i mean it brought you an energy that i've not seen before well it's a little awkward i was a little you know comics like to be funny but we like to control it this is a little bit out of our comfort zone to show up like this.

I mean, it was good. It was a good vibe, though. I want you to get it. I want you to wear a wig like that. I know. You told me multiple times that night. Yeah. All right.

Let's start with you guys. The Christmas Traditions comments. Gabriel Hernandez. Aaron needs to be canceled for never seeing Home Alone and his dislike for Rocking Around the Christmas Tree. Oh, amen. It's all instincts. But Home Alone came out a year before I was born. It's like, I guess I'm just supposed to have watched it later in life.

I would say you should see Home Alone. It's great. It's very funny. Rocking Around the Christmas Tree is a garbage song. Home Alone is, yeah. What if Brenda Lee listens to this podcast? I hope she does. I I'll watch it. Rocking Around the Christmas Tree is a garbage song. Home Alone is... Thank you. Yeah, is... What if Brenda Lee listens to this podcast? I hope she does. I hope she hears it.

Yeah, Home Alone's super funny. Okay. I mean, it's just a great movie. I'll watch it. It's just a fun movie. Next Christmas, I'll watch it. Yeah. Is there one sequel?

There's like seven, right? Yeah, but I think there's two. Only one. Only two Macaulay Culkin. Yeah, and then after that, I don't know what happened. But yeah, Joe Pesci. Yeah, they're great. What's his face?

Daniel Stern? Daniel Stern, yeah. He's so funny. Yeah. So funny. They're really great. Yeah. Old Blue Arms.

Oh, okay. Nate Shaman Nick for saying pecan, pecan. I don't know how to say it anymore. Nate Shaman Nick for saying pecan, pecan. I don't know how to say it anymore. Nate shaming Nick for saying pecan different is hilarious when he pronounces Reese's Pieces as Reese's Pieces. Reese's Pieces. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, I say a lot of stuff.

I'm a Reese's Pieces pronouncer too, though. I don't. Reese's Pieces. Reese's Pieces, yeah. Yeah. I know it says pieces, but you know. Reese's Pieces. Reese's Pieces, yeah. Yeah. I know it says pieces, but you know. Reese's Pieces. Reese's Pieces.

But I think it's like the name Reese. Oh, it's like Reese's Pieces. It's his pieces. Yeah. Reese's Pieces. It's the pieces of Reese. So it's Reese's Pieces. No one would want to eat it.

What do you want to eat? Reese's Pieces. It's pieces of what? And you're like, no, I don't know. Yeah. If you really look at that name, that's a very weird name it is for uh candy so it's bizarre but reese's pieces sounds it's got a flow to it it's got a flow and i'm not worried about like taking someone's thing reese's pieces but like hershey's a name too you know it doesn't hershey's a good name that's not i know but re

because it's reese's pieces just like, who's Reese? No one ever sees Reese. No one's ever talked about Reese. No one ever. We just go Reese's Pieces. You think it's a guy? I think it's... Reese? They weren't naming stuff after women back then. Reese Witherspoon. I think it's

a last name. But when you break down Hershey's, you get Hershey's Kisses. That sounds better than Pieces. Yeah. I want some Hershey Kisses. Oh, it's made by Hershey. They were created in 1928 by H.B. Reese,

a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Hershey. How about that? I haven't got to the bottom of it. So he probably stole from the company. Oh, yeah. How about that? I've got some bottom. They probably stole from the company. Oh, yeah. Started making that candy. Josh Ellenberg.

So there was a recent first name. No. HB. Would you have HB's pieces? I'd like to know what HB stands for. Yeah. Harry Burnett. Harry's pieces. Harry Burnett. Nah.

Harry's pieces. Harry, yeah. I like that. I don't want a hairy cup either. Harry Burnett Reese. How about that? Inducted posthumously

into the Candy Hall of Fame. Good for him. Yeah, why'd you not give it to him a little earlier? I know. What were they holding on to?

They waited 53 years after he died to induct him. Well, I think he needed E.T. to make him know Reese's Pieces existed. E.T. was big. But E.T. was, I mean, that came out in the 80s. I would think he got in for the Cups and not the PCs. Did he do the Cups? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've seen that.

The Cups were probably, yeah. The Cups is what he got in for. Maybe the PCs kept him from getting in sooner. They were like, actually, this is hurting your legacy a bit. Well, imagine the cup. So the idea of the pieces was to do what? Small cups? Just try to do little M&M's.

It's like an M&M competitor. But it's not even close to M&M. Well, yeah, but the Reese's family... I don't know if I really had Reese's pieces a ton. You're missing out. Better than M&M's, in my opinion. What? Yeah, so good.

So good. That's crazy. I think M&M's have- You like them more than M&M's? Yeah, yeah. I think M&M's have petroleum in it, I think. People were saying that. Who?

Who was saying that? There's people out there saying that. Yeah. Look up. I mean, you don't have to look it up right now, but in your own time. I don't know if it's going to work on a regular computer. I don't have the dark web on there yet.

Oh, man. I'll keep digging. Yeah. Yeah, thank you. You have to keep digging. Keep digging. Josh Ellenberg. While listening to the Christmas episode,

Nick used the phrase, she could care less while talking about his daughter. While I love Nick, my gears began to grind after that comment. She couldn't care less would be the expression. Curious if you fellows have any expressions that get under your skin. Cheers.

And how's your year going? It's off to a great start. Uh, no, let's go is my only. Yeah. But literally I feel like at least half the time when someone says literally, it's not literally. I don't like the expression worse comes to worse.

Oh, my God. That sounds like the worst it could possibly be. People go, worse comes to worse. I'll just do this. See, I like it. I like worse comes to worse. Do you? I like it because it makes me, it's like when you're about to solve, when you're about to work on a problem, I just, I will tend to go, what's the worst?

The worst is this. So if that's the bottom, then it's like, well, if I'm not scared of that bottom, then you can give it your all. But this expression seems it's not just the worst. It's worse comes to worse. It's as worst as worse can get. I think it's, I's not just the worst. It's worse comes to worst. It's as worst as worst can get. I think it's, I say worst of the worst. Or wait. Different expression.

Yeah. Is it? Is that an expression? Worst comes to worst. Yeah. Or I'll say worst case scenario. Yeah, worst case scenario. I heard a girl.

Push comes to shove. Yeah. Push comes to shove. Well, this is one of those those she could care less does not bother me even though if you really get into the weeds of it it's not what they mean it's it you can use context you know what they're mean when they mean when they say it right it doesn't bother me that much well it's like that's the uh yeah it's probably the human aspect that you should learn to love to go like yeah that is

interesting humans say they don't say stuff grammarly you know when you're reading a book or something it's it's that's what the book is for there's a nick who wrecked eight cars in a van he might say she could care less yeah there's uh i had an english teacher that was like you you you make exceptions for things. There's some stuff we should just carve out exceptions for. The opening of Star Trek. You remember the opening, it's to boldly go

where that's grammatically you're not supposed to put an adverb when you have an infinitive like that, to go. You're not allowed to put too boldly go. He was like, we'll just allow it. Star Trek will just allow it. So we should just have exceptions.

We all thinking that. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking of all the unbelievable things in this movie. That's what gets me. Yeah. They said that.

And I was like, I'm out. What should they have said to go boldly? Oh, to go boldly where no man is. Yeah, but to boldly go just sounds better, right? Yeah. I mean, grammatically, it's not correct. And that was Star Trek? Mm-hmm.

I never watched Star Trek. You're missing out. Yeah. All right, the 180s comments. Josh Stringer. I know it's Nate's podcast, so it makes sense that Brian did a year interview review for only Nate. Let's get a review for everyone.

Would also be cool to hear some goals and plans for 2024. Didn't you say some other reviews? Did a little bit. Yeah. I mean, I did mine. What about us, Brian? I mean, come on. Well, I mean, I didn't do it. January,

I got a new filter for my CPAP. There you go. February. That's big time. We had a 20% off coupon to Long John Silver. You're supposed to replace the filter like once a week though. You are? Yeah. We'll talk about it later. All right. Just want to make sure you're breathing okay. Have you

been keeping it in for a year? I don't know. I was just. That's never the thing you want people to bring up. Trying to be funny. That's anxiety. I've never changed it. He's never changed it. Yeah, he changed it once a week.

So we stumbled. Mine was recalled and I've never replaced it. Really? You just breathe in toxic fumes every night. What was recalled? It's something about the. Can you do a CPAP recall? Phillips Respironics or whatever.

I don't know. The foam comes off and causes cancer. That's all we wanted. I don't know if you had to read more than that. You just thought, like, whatever? Yeah, whatever. It's a living life, man. If it happens, it happens.

Yeah. Worst comes to worst. I just stopped breathing. Yeah. First comes the shove living life, man. If it happens, it happens. Yeah. Worst comes to worst. I'll just stop breathing. Yeah. First comes the shove, I'll die. Yeah. That's the right attitude to have when you get a daughter. So.

I mean, one of my goals for 2024 is to start smoking, so. Oh, nice, dude. Oh, yeah. Let's do it. Starts now. Don't mind. Can I light up? Yeah.

Yeah. Spark it up. Smoke them if you got them. All right. I was at a toy store over Christmas and saw some of these. Don't mind Can I light up? Yeah Spark it up Smoke them if you got them Alright I was at a toy store Over Christmas And saw some of these I'm like

I gotta get some Cause you can't find them anywhere Candy cigarettes? I know You gotta find them at like A Fractal barrel type place Seems like you already went to a few

Not only one Then I saved the rest That used to be Dude A candy cigarette Was the thing to have. I tried to find it for the candy episode. I couldn't.

Yeah. You get some candy cigarette, get some, uh, some of that, uh, what's the bubble gum that big league. Yeah. Dude. Yeah. Feel like a real adult. Pack these things.

Yeah. You do go pack them. Yeah. Oh, well. Wow. Good job. Thanks dude well. Wow. Good job. Thanks, dude. Andy Campbell.

When Aaron was recounting his childhood injuries, I was struck by his parents' decision to go to a Chinese buffet with four children on crutches. They choose the only type of dining that absolutely requires the use of both hands. That's some tough love. Good luck, kids. We'll see you at the table. I didn't even think about that.

That is crazy. I don't know how we got it. Maybe that's why they chose the buffet during that time. They're like, this guarantees a one-plate visit. Yeah. Trying to get these. I would imagine a bunch of kids, buffets are, you just got to do it because it's going to cost you $1,200 if you go there.

Oh, yeah. Like an O'Charlie's. Right. Because you're going to just keep doing it. So you're, you know, and it's, you know, Ford. And one of them's a lineman. Yeah. And those buffets are like eight bucks.

And you're like, oh, y'all just go off. Yeah. That is, man. Y'all just all had to be just, oh, can you imagine oh, y'all just go off. Yeah. That is, man. Y'all just all had to be just. Can you imagine being behind y'all on crutches? Yeah. You see them get out of the van, you rush in that restaurant and get ahead of them. You better get ahead of them.

Go. Go. Or you just sit and wait because, you know, they're probably about to bring some hot stuff out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Keep it for after. Yeah. They got to refill all this stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, keep it for after. Yeah, refill all this stuff.

Yeah, that's right. Darren Parrish. The company I think did a complete 180 is Champion. I remember when Champion was dirt cheap. There's an episode

of Seinfeld where the guy who shaved his head got depressed due to actual baldness. He had a Champion shirt on. He had a Champion shirt to show he gave up on life.

Now Nate ends SNL in a champion hoodie with 37138 on it, complete 180. Yeah, that is crazy. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, champion. I think champion is cool now, right? Right. And it used to be the Kmart brand, right? It wasn't Kmart's clothing.

Grant Warstall. You guys listed all the worst parts about video stores with such a positive tone. Lack of options, popular movies sold out, late fees, rewinding the tape, sounds awful. Yeah, I mean, it was the frustrating things, but when you look back on stuff, the frustrating is usually what makes you as a person in general.

And so that's why you look back on it with fondness because you're like, yeah, you were like you had nothing to do versus you should have some restriction in your life. It was great to not have unlimited options all the time. It makes you appreciate a movie better yeah it was you know when you had to go there and you had to guess what time you like you thought about a process you thought i mean no you didn't have phones so you weren't just staring in onto you know any movie on earth that's why take away go look at netflix netflix you go sit there you walk oh geez things you just flip in any movie that's ever been made in the history of Earth, you can get to. Well, now I don't watch anything because it's like, where is it going to stop?

Trying to find a movie to watch with my parents over Christmas was just like, I mean, it took two hours. Scrolling through everything. There's too many options. When we had six DVDs at the house, that's when it was easy. Let's put in one of the six. Yeah, you go to Adventure Video. The movie that you want is not there. So you're like, I guess we'll just grab this other movie.

Yeah. And then you go back and you watch it and you're like, this movie sucks. But you're like, we rented it. We did it together as a family. Yeah. Yeah. Sandra Nguyen. When?

When? You think when? Sandra Nguyen? Mm-hmm. Wow. Well. When? When? You think when? Sandra when? Wow. When? Wow. My dad would dub every single movie we rented. Then he kept them organized with a checkout list for people who wanted to borrow them.

The video store called to tell us that we accidentally returned our dubbed copy of the movie instead of their tape. that we accidentally returned our dubbed copy of the movie instead of their tape. My sister and I spent the afternoon thinking our dad would face a $25,000 fine or five years in prison. Instead, the video store happily gave my dad his bootleg copy back in exchange for their VHS. Yeah, I wonder if you really got that. That's very funny that I like that, you know, he did that. What, did he dub it over with his own jokes or

just say the line no no you just you i think you have two vcrs and so you would just he'd rent it record it and then uh rent it play it and then on another vcr be recording the movie that's what dub every single movie is i think so uh but that i think that's what you mean in the statement do like a voice like a dub over no she means like a bootleg okay okay i've never seen dub used like that yeah you would have like vhs's that could say like star wars on them and then you're like that's actually spider-man we recorded over yeah that's my wedding yeah i actually thought dub 2 meant what you thought. Yeah. Because the last name, and I thought maybe he was like way ahead in advance and making like it was in English, and he was like,

I'm going to go ahead and make a copy in my language, and then people can rent them out from me. Yeah. I mean, I took it too far. There's a chance Sandrara is uh you know from atlanta yeah then he kept them organized with a checkout list for people who wanted to borrow them so i thought he had like a whole network of people that were like an underground railroad we're trying to get you know we're trying to get you know a version of this movie in our

translated movies for the Vietnamese community. Yeah, yeah. In their city. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that would be a nice thing. Sorry, guys. I've not read off paper in a long time. Meaning books?

Well, yes. Maybe give you an iPad. Pretend like you're watching YouTube. No, and I don't mean just the paper like that. I mean, I've not read out loud. Yes, out loud. It's been a couple weeks. It's a lot.

It's been a while. Getting back into it from the holidays, man. I get it. Well, this week we are talking about Ohio. Ohio. I believe all three of you are performing in Ohio this month. January. Oh, really?

How about that? Yeah. I-O. All right. That's the chant, month? January. Oh, really? How about that? Yeah. I-O. That's the chant, right? Yeah. H. Big hand motions. That's pretty annoying when people do that. All right. The guy that's about to go there, I would maybe save that for after.

I believe you would have just come back. I just come back from Columbus. But you're getting ready to go. I'm back in Toledo in February. Okay. Never been to to go. I'm back in Toledo in February. Okay. Never been to Toledo. And I'm about to be in Dayton. I'm in Dayton.

And what's Nate doing? Columbus and Cincinnati. Ohio State Stadium. Yeah. This weekend, Columbus and Cincinnati. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's awesome.

Columbus and Cincinnati. Wow. The capital and largest city, Columbus. Yeah, this is great. Columbus, you don't think and there's no disrespect to columbus but it's never talked about in the same way that cleveland and cincinnati are am i wrong about that you're not right i found it's more than twice the size of cleveland which is the second biggest city it's not even close it's the biggest city in ohio but for whatever reason

i well we talked about the reason i think it's because of sports teams. They have, of course, Ohio State. They have a hockey team, soccer. But I think about baseball, football, basketball. That's what I've always thought of. Oh, that's a big city. They don't have any of those. What do you say?

Columbus is what? Is it big? It's more than twice as large as the second biggest city in Ohio. Oh, really? It's not even close. Oh, it's bigger than Cincinnati and Cleveland. Yeah, I think it might be more than them combined. I think it is. Now, Cleveland, I think, used to be a lot bigger, and people have moved.

Cleveland's decreasing. Columbus is increasing. Yeah, yeah. Great zoo. They do have a great zoo. They have a great zoo. Ohio's the Buckeye State, because there's a lot of buckeye trees there. I never knew what a Buckeye was. I thought it was a candy.

Maybe named after a tree. According to this. Is it a nut? Yeah, it's a nut. I love how frustrated you were that we didn't know what a Buckeye was. I think I know. I thought it was a candy guy. According to this.

Well, I was being funny there because people always call me out. I thought it was a kitty guy. According to this. Well, I was being funny to that because people always call me out. I'm the one that writes it. Then I'm like, according to this, if you carry one of the nuts in your pocket, legend is you'll have good luck. Oh, okay. On an even or odd year. It doesn't say. It does not say. Did you ever carry around a trinket like that?

Rabbit's foot? Anything like that? I always felt kind of extreme. Like you'd always buy the rabbit's foot. And in my head, I thought, are they killing these rabbits? Just for the feet? Just for, you know, it's like a quarter. And you're like, all these rabbit's feet.

Yeah, yeah. Did you ever put one on your key chain? I might have had a rabbit's foot. I think I did at one point, too. A little horseshoe too I was really trying to get some luck Oh yeah? Yeah

You carried a little horseshoe? Yeah A little Was it for a pony? Did it work? I don't think it was actually ever on a I don't think the rabbit's foot was real either If you pulled out this horseshoe you're describing

Would it be a normal size horseshoe for us? And then he... He go, yeah, just a little horseshoe. That's a real horseshoe there. No, it's a little. It's a little. Still got a little horse foot on it. They have the only state flag that's not a rectangle. It's a pennant.

It's a confusing flag. How'd they get away with that? You feel like that's maybe the main thing that a flag needs to be. It needs to be a rectangle. That's Ohio. Swallowtail flag. What was that? Weak flag.

Yeah, when would they when did they do this? This flag was designed in 1901 and adopted in 1902. Before that, they did not have a legally authorized state flag. Well, maybe it wasn't all.

Well, no, 1902. That was everybody was already doing the flag thing, right? In the 1900s? It wasn't all. Well, no, 1902. That was. Everybody was kind of already doing the flag thing, right? In the 1900s? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. How many stars?

We've already decided on the flags. What's that? How many stars they got on there? Weird number. It has 17 white stars. What is that? Why 17? What did you come up with, Brian, according to this?

I didn't come up with anything. The 13 stars grouped around the O represent the original states of the U.S. And the four stars added to the peak of the triangle symbolize that Ohio is the 17th state admitted to the union. I could have just said that's why they're 17. Yeah. Total, because it's the 17th. I like Ohio. You know, when I lived in Charleston, we had the Charleston City paper, and they put out a paper one time. And I think I've mentioned this before, but the paper, a lot of Ohio people apparently were moving to Charleston.

And they had a paper, and the cover said, go back to Ohio. a paper and the cover said go back to ohio and i just i remember thinking ohio must be awful yeah and then i started doing comedy everywhere in ohio and i'm like that's great yeah i love ohio there's a lot of comedy in ohio yeah a lot of funny boys dude there's like seven so many clubs yeah why were they trying to was that taken over over? Were they causing problems in Charleston? Not that I was aware of. I mean, the city paper, you know, it's a bit of a, I don't know. I liked the paper for a while. It's changed hands now, but it's a bit of a ridiculous kind of local paper.

You know what I mean? Commie rag. Yeah. It's just like, yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. And go back to. Yeah. They never put me on the cover also. And they did put some of my friends up there.

I'm not saying my friends didn't deserve to be there, but I did too. So I'm mad at them. Yeah, you were Comedian of the Year for what, two straight years? Yeah, I was. And they were on the front page of the newspaper? The cover. Yeah. Was it a magazine?

Yeah, it's like the Nashville scene that we had here. Kind of the equivalent? The cover. Yeah. Was it a magazine or? Yeah, it's like the Nashville scene that we had here. Kind of the equivalent to that. Okay. Yeah. And they were putting y'all on the cover of it? Oh, yeah. Well, not me, but yeah.

We were hot in the art scene. I mean, we had a hot scene for a while. Yeah. And I was voted, you know, best local comic for two years in a row and I never got a cover. Yeah. And I was voted, you know, best local comic for two years in a row and I never got a cover. Yeah. Pretty ridiculous.

But the entire state of Ohio got asked to leave. Yeah. Yeah. Insane. Yeah. So I thought, you know,

and I'd never been to Ohio, but I thought, wow, I wonder what's going on there. Why everyone's leaving and why we don't want them to come here. But there's so many clubs.

There's funny, there's like, I mean, Cleveland has clubs and toledo and dayton and cincinnati and uh columbus i mean they're all over the place that might be it but yeah that's a lot that's still a lot that's a lot let me ask you this do you think ohio has an accent when you think of ohio can you hear a particular accent in your head just midwest just like a midwestern accent right well i had a roommate friend in college who's from toledo and he would brag to me not brag but he would say that ohio because of its location accent wise it's so neutral that newscasters would try to model their voices after Ohioans because there's no accent. But then I heard him talk.

I'm like, you have the thickest accent I've ever heard. You know, you've got like a thick Midwestern accent. I don't know if I believe that at all. Have you heard that before being a news? I have. I mean, most of the broadcasters do come from the Midwest because it's centrally located. So it doesn't get too strong uh-huh any direction yeah i mean i feel like uh i feel like i can see that i feel like you know real southern ohio you're

like practically kentucky so you could have a southern accent real northern ohio aren't you right near michigan so yeah you're up so if you're in toledo yeah you could really have a michigan accent and michigan for sure has an accent well do you ohio isn't it like that ohio he's like oh man yeah yeah it's like a little bit of that so yeah like a little yeah brown paper bag that yeah that kind of stuff a little bit of that There's a little bit of that. Now, I was going to ask, do you care? That sounds like Wisconsin. Yeah, that's what it all looks like. It all blurs together up there. Yeah. Do you, I personally would not care

if a newscaster or anybody had an accent. I don't think I'd trust anybody more or less based on an accent. I feel you would. I think so. What's the accent

you trust the most? A southern accent like yours? Seriously, though. No, I think just neutral. I wish that newscasters where they're at in the country had an accent that represented it. Yeah, you want like if I'm watching the Nashville news, maybe I want somebody who sounds like they're from Nashville.

A lot of yeehaws. We got Tornado Watch. Tornado Watch. Everybody, serious stuff right now. We got Tornado Watch. Tornado Watch. Everybody, serious stuff right now. We've got Tornado Watch. Whipping a rover. You know, over on the highway, Tornado. We've got Tornado Watch.

Yeah. I mean, would you want to hear that? Tornado? That's what I'm saying. Tornado warning? I mean, no. Boaz, there's a Tornado warning coming out right now, and they're like, I don't know if this guy is serious.

I don't know if I trust him. But I'm guessing if you're a New Yorker, you like a new guy who sounds like he's from new york you don't want a guy who sounds like he's has no personality at all not from the south i mean that's true yeah new york you want a new york sounding guy new york a real attitude about the news especially that's what i'd like because the local news i mean you're the expert here but and when you disagree but I'm saying there's so much national news, social media, I feel like if I want local news, I want it to be because it's like relevant to me. It's authentic.

These people live where I live. So why not have a Southern accent? Why do I care if they have a neutral accent? I'm trying to. Maybe just, I mean, even when I hear, I have a Southern accent, but I hear other other southerners interviewed on the news i'm like god they sound so dumb do you really sometimes you have that bias where do you think that comes from just movies and stuff self-hate yeah yeah that's

a lot of self-hatred yeah i don't know uh but i do we talked about tom brokaw was from south dakota yeah i can't remember where the other peter Peter Jennings and all those guys were from, but I think they are usually from the Midwest. In Columbus, 50% of the country lives within 500 miles of Columbus. Oh, wow. 50%. So that's a good place to live to do comedy. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a pretty good- For driving. 50% of the country lives in what? 50% of the US population lives within 500 mile radius of Columbus, Ohio. Oh, wow. 500 is pretty far.

I was going to say that. It's like an eight hour drive. What's the going across country? 3,000? Almost 3,000. You have LA to New York. Yeah. That's a worthless stat. Alright. I feel like everybody can say that. New York. Yeah. All right. So that's a worthless stat. All right. Yeah.

I feel like everybody can say that. Every state we do we go, you know, 50% of the country lives within a 500 mile radius

of this. Oh. Do we have it? I mean, with Tennessee we'd probably be pretty close. Nashville is very

centrally located. That's why it is a good hub for traveling comics. Yeah. Especially if you're driving. It's really good. Yeah, that's why the tour bus is all here. I always heard that's why country music was so big here,

because all the singers and all the buses and everything would live here. 50% of the U.S. population live within 600 miles of Nashville. All right. So Columbus is a little better,. So Columbus is a little better. Columbus is a little bit. It's worth mentioning. Yeah. Yeah.

If it's 500 miles or less, I'm going to mention it. It's the birthplace of aviation because the Wright brothers were from Dayton. Yeah. But then they went to North Carolina. They did it somewhere else. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. That's why they're first in flight. Now, why did they leave Ohio to do it? Did Ohio, they

weren't open to the idea of flight. They had to go somewhere else. I don't know. To do it. How'd they get there? I don't know, but I know how they got home. They landed in Dayton. Sorry, suckers. Did they? No, I don't know. Probably not.

I feel like it was probably because of the you need to be near the water, the ocean, the breeze. Some more flat or something? Yeah. North Carolina's not really known for being too flat, though, huh? The coast would be. I guess so. I went out there in the Outer Banks. I saw

some Wright Brothers stuff. There's a club out there, right? There was a club called the Comedy Club of the Outer Banks. I saw some Wright Brothers stuff. There's a club out there, right? At one point. There was a club called the Comedy Club at the Outer Banks. Yeah. I don't know if it's still there. I don't want to say

they've closed, but. Eight presidents have come from Ohio. It's called the Mother of Presence. That and Virginia. How'd you know that? I don't know.

It feels like he came from Ohio. He did. Yeah. What do you know about Taft? Nothing. He feels like he came from Ohio. He did. Yeah. What do you know about Taft? Nothing. He's the fattest guy. Yeah.

It's just that picture of Ohio. Like, I just, it just felt, I don't know why. I don't know what you're saying because he's fat. I just, Taft felt to me like he came from Ohio. Yeah. He looks like an Ohioan for sure. Yeah. That guy's got a Browns jersey on somewhere if he lived now.

Yeah, yeah. Who else came from? They're all like, nobody recently. William Henry Harrison, ULSSS Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Taft, Warren G. Harding. So that's the most presidents, but probably the lamest lineup of presidents a state could have. I think Virginia also has eight, and they also call themselves the mother of presidents. But they've got some movers and shakers. They got big.

They got Jefferson. Why not father? George Washington. Why not call themselves the father of presidents? If there's already a mother of presidents. That's a good question. Because I think the mother, the metaphor is they're birthing. They're giving birth to.

Yeah, that's a dumb point. Kind of the father's making it happen too, though, right? Takes two to tango, that's for sure. Come on. Now, my favorite is William Henry Harrison.

I think I told this story in the president's episode, but Dusty wasn't here. He gave the longest inauguration speech of any president, nearly two hours. Kind of like you

at theaters. Yeah. And it was raining and cold and rainy. He didn't wear a coat or a hat because he wanted to show people he was tough he got pneumonia and died a month later shortest term as president 31 days 32 days or something yeah a month i mean yeah i love a guy that'll prove a point though you know what i mean he's like you know what i don't care

even on his deathbed he was like i'd I'd still be talking if they would love me. Well, they were. Pneumonia was such a killer back then. You'd think they would take it a lot more serious. Yeah. They were trying bloodletting. Leeches. They didn't mention leeching.

Suction cups and Native American remedies involving snakes. Oh, they were. That one, the kitchen snake. Yeah. What year was it? Sounds like they were killing this guy. Let his blood out. Bring the snakes in. Late 1700s or early 1800s.

William Henry Harrison. Was that who we're talking about? Yeah. 1841. This was pre-Civil War. So we didn't have anything, dude. We didn't even know to wash our hands after stuff. I do like that this guy was like, I'm running on being tough.

I'm going to show you that I'm tough. And I still believe he was tough. I mean, but if you really think back, it's the equivalent of seeing someone in the stands with no shirt on at a Browns game. It's that same, like, how tough these guys are. But no one really thinks that. You just think, what an idiot. Yeah, come on, dude. You're not

impressing us. I think they're tough. You do. You're like with the offensive linemen, don't wear sleeves. Yeah. That's like the unspoken rule for linemen. Have you ever painted your chest at a sporting event? I've never taken my shirt off in public Just double check it

I'll put a sweater on in the pool He's two of the letters We don't know how to phrase this question But You might be in the T and the H Yeah We're go Irish I'm just go

Yeah Rock and roll hall of fames In Cleveland Yeah Three of us Went Yeah You been Dustin

Rock and roll hall of fame You have no interest in checking that out? Nah, I don't know. You like rock and roll? Yeah, I'd check it out. Yeah. I've been twice. That's a cool building.

Yeah. Yeah. I'd check it out. Yeah. We talked about it, though, I think. Yeah, you just got me telling the Green Room Azanis that story. Yeah, we were talking about it recently. So the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a pyramid with multiple floors.

Okay. And I went and did not realize this. So I spent all day on the first floor. And then. Which is not much. Well, I mean.

It's like the gift shop. That's mostly the gift shop. Then they make an announcement. We're closing in 10 minutes and I see people coming downstairs. I'm like, what are they doing up there? And there's like six other floors.

Wow. And I just try to go through them in 10 minutes. Wow. That I just try to go through them in 10 minutes. Wow. That was, he ran through them. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, you, you would think that you would need to know a little bit about music, you know, and you'd be like, uh, they're not really highlighting a lot of rock and roll bands down here. Yeah.

And I don't know, maybe you're not well-versed in it. Maybe you are. I don't know. I'm not yeah if he can't figure out that there's other floors

I don't imagine he knows all the bands yeah right I don't I think he would have known as much as he whether he went up there

or not it was the same experience I would have totally enjoyed it if they'd had told me like if I'd never known I'm like oh that's pretty good you'd have left it

it was all right. Yeah. So it's a pyramid, huh? Yeah. It's like a cone. Yeah. Is it a pyramid? No, kind of.

Yeah, yeah. It's a little more of a cone. Yeah. But this was 1997. I went to the World Series. The Indians and the Marlins. Oh, why'd you go up there? Me and my buddy, just like,

hey, let's go to World Series. So we just drove up there and went. Yeah. It's like a pyramid. Imagine walking into that building. It's all on one floor, huh? At least I was on the biggest floor. Pro Football Hall of Fame, also

in Ohio. You haven't even given your ticket yet you're just walking around and then you're telling what those people get so they go sir can have your ticket you're like i'm not even in the lobby here yeah you're like let's get ready to leave i didn't even get it i saw it for free free. Yeah. Yeah, I would like that. I mean, at the Country Music Hall of Fame here in Nashville, it's really great. I love that. I like a real music history museum. Well, there's a lot of crossover rock and roll and country, you know? Yeah.

Yeah. So you can check it out. Yeah. You look like one of the things they put behind the glass at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They just show you you're the mannequin that's like oh my god one of the mannequins became real and just you walking around hey hey there that's right you were in the

country music hall of fame i was in there yeah you know i was um on the show i guess the first show that they called it the show that never happened at the Opry when COVID shut down our COVID shut the Opry down. I was on that lineup. Yeah. So that lineup was hanging in the country music hall of fame. I don't know if it still is, but it was in there.

I mean, you were part of a, a moment in country music history. Yeah. It's pretty crazy. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty crazy. Yeah. Yeah, it's neat. Yeah.

Pro Football Hall of Fame, also in Ohio, in Canton. That's where anybody been? No, but those are two pretty big things for Ohio to have. Ohio's got a lot of stuff. Those are two pretty big Hall of Fames. Yep. You could say they're like the mother of Hall of Fames. Yeah.

First official professional football game in Ohio. that's why it's there in Canton Dayton Triangles versus the Columbus Panhandles Triangles? Panhandles, how about that? Yeah, Dayton Triangles They named it after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Was it Panhandlers? That's what I thought

What was it? Panhandlers? Panhandles I thought. What was it? Panhandlers? Panhandles, but I guess maybe panhandles. Yeah. Like, what is a panhandle? Just the handle of a panhandle? Is it Florida? It's Florida.

Oh. No, it's Columbus panhandles. Columbus, Ohio? Yeah. Columbus panhandles. Like, literally, like the handle of a pan? That's what they named the team after? I don't know.

So the origin of the name Panhandles was the Pennsylvania Railroad route from Pittsburgh to Columbus. That was called the Panhandle Division. Is it kind of funny that the first names, now you've got to change names because they're offensive, and the first ones were like the least offensive. The triangles. The triangles.

And then the panhandle was just a route, I guess. Apparently. It's funny. Then they changed. And they're the ones that they've had because the Indians and is that it? Yeah. Yeah. And what are they now?

The Guardians. The Guardians. Yeah. It's a bad name, too. And then Redsk, what are they now? The Guardians? The Guardians. Yeah. It's a bad name too. And then Redskins and Commanders now. There's been a few. They're in Ohio, right? I thought you just meant because they're in Ohio.

I'm in Ohio. Yeah. Let's go back to the Triangles. Yeah. Let's do, yeah, the Cleveland Triangles. Let's get it going. It only lasted 25 years

it's a long time yeah you know you look back you're like oh barely made it then you're like oh there's people

there's probably still you know some people alive that were like man I was a big triangle fan you know and everybody's like

what triangles let's do all shapes yeah the dayton triangles i mean their logo is it's just a triangle yeah why would they be the triangle it was something like triangle park yeah the nickname of their home field triangle park which is located at the confluence of the great Miami and Stillwater Rivers in North Dayton. So yeah, I mean, they didn't,

the reasons for these names are not exciting, but they make sense. Yeah, they're all, yeah, there's like a real, you're like, oh, okay. They didn't put a lot of thought into it. I mean, you couldn't go anywhere back then. So I think it was, you know. It's like,

I love Lamp. Yeah. Just naming things, you see. You know, with the Nashville tables. Yeah, we named it that

because, you know, when we were coming up with names, we were sitting at a table and we were like, you know what?

This is where it all started. Dayton was probably going to be, we were like, they're a big town. Yeah. Still a big town, but they're not, you know, you don't think of Dayton. Dayton Flyers, though. You don't think Dayton is one of the biggest cities.

Yeah. When I was doing my research for this, you and Dusty both posted on the road at the Dayton Air Museum museum video oh really i was with you on yours i think it's my first one yeah you put out and y'all both saying yours i can go through a museum pretty fast because i don't read y'all both said that's he said i just get everything off youtube yeah yeah i mean there's no need to when you go to a museum and people are just stopping at every little thing.

It's like, what are you, it's all. Trying to take it all in. It's all lies. Just move through here. You know what I mean? Just look at the big, yeah. Yeah. You're just there because you just want to be inside a building for a little bit.

Yeah. You know. Because it's cold outside. Yeah. And there's airplanes. I love to look at an airplane. Yeah. You know.

I can't go to a museum with Lucy anymore. She reads everything. Oh, yeah. And I went with her family to the World War II Museum in New Orleans, and they read every, and I finished, I just, I split up. I can't. Yeah. So I finished, and I'm in the lobby, and I called Lucy, and I go, where are y'all?

And she's like, we're at Pearl Harbor. And I was like, I mean mean i'm done with the war yeah i'm in the lobby yeah it was like another two hours before they finished okay yeah i blazed through it too what'd you do just go eat i just i didn't mean that like that but it came off very i really did probably in my head probably in my head i'm just trying to think, well, what'd you go do? You're like, yeah, we'll just go to a restaurant. I'm going to go hang out, eat somewhere. Yeah. You got a dab at the concession stand. Can we leave this open?

They go, sir, we don't really work. It's a work like that at the concession stand. The Ohio State University, third largest in the country, over 60,000 students. Huge, man. Third winningest football team in college football history. Can you name the other two? Yep. Notre Dame. Yeah.

I guess in Alabama. No, Michigan. Michigan and Alabama, yeah. No, Notre Dame's up. Notre Dame had some vacated, but they're – I mean, look, they're at the top. Yeah. What, do you just vacate a win and pretend it didn't happen? It happened.

They love to try to do that. It happened. Yeah. I was there. The last time Ohio State lost to Notre Dame was 1936. That's embarrassing. Really? Yeah.

MTSU ever play them? No, so we've never lost. Wait, Ohio State, really? Yeah, I mean, they just – that's embarrassing. Really? MTSU ever play? No. So we've, we've never lost. Wait, Ohio state. Really? Yeah.

I mean, they just don't play them very often. Dominate Notre Dame. They've played like three times in my lifetime. And yeah, since 1936. Yeah. So what are y'all played like 12 times?

Y'all lost every time? I don't think it's, has it been 12 times? I don't know. I don't know. 1936. You don't, you don't bring up any other details about this stat?

You're just throwing that out there? That's a tough stat. Yeah, because he did take the time to write that stat down to bring it up to you. Yeah. This is, oh, it's struggling. We've only played, yeah, like eight times. That's not a lot of times. That doesn't have the season on there. Okay. We've played nine yeah, like eight times. That's not a lot of times. That doesn't have the season on there.

Okay. We've played nine times. Nine times. Yeah, I guess y'all don't play a lot. That's a shockingly low amount of time. But two Fiesta Bowls. Different conferences. But I'll be honest with you, these games, the last close game.

Well, I mean, seven to two. This year was close. This year was close. Seven to two. That's how different football was in 1936. 7-2. And you know the headline was like, Barnburner and South Bend.

7-2. It's such a crazy, boring game. Yeah, I don't even. Yeah. I mean, this year. So a safety and a touchdown. One touchdown. Or maybe two field goals and a safety.

You never know. Or a one. Yeah. It's a seven. One field goal. Two safeties goals and a safety. You never know. It's a seven. One field goal. Maybe a one point safety. Anybody wonder why they're called the Ohio State University? Just like arrogance. A lot of universities I feel like are like that.

Aren't they? Well, they are particular about it. The Ohio State. Yeah. The Ohio State. Why is it? I guess because it was multiple? Distinguish themselves from Oregon State University and Oklahoma State University.

OSU. Oh, yeah. So, but still, if you're saying Ohio State University, it seems like you can still leave the the off. You go the OSU. Yeah, which I've never heard. Yeah. The OSU. Yeah.

Ohio has an official state rock song, which is played at every Ohio state game. And I think most Ohio sporting events. Hang on, Sloopy. Hang on. Sloopy, hang on. Hang on, Sloopy. Sloopy, hang on. Is that really what it is?

Yeah. You don't know that song? No. We're going to go through that. You don't know Hang On. Originally called My Girl Sloopy. Hang on, Sloloopy 1964 song you don't know hang on sloopy no i know the inspiration of the song was dorothy sloop

you would know this song i don't know how you don't know it from just us doing that no i'm never well give me some the last time we did this i mean mean, I know that Give Me Some Lovin' song. Yeah, the worst singing it that I've ever heard somebody sing a song. That's perfect. I would have bet my life that I never heard that song. Okay, you got that one good? Okay, I'll look it up later. Me and Nate just harmonized on it.

Yeah. Snoopy. Snoopy. I thought it was Snoopy. So I learning stuff educational podcast b side of the single is daddy woo woo you don't know that one no not as much of it daddy woo woo daddy hang on sloopy daddy woo woo daddy woo woo's coming sloop sloop what What is Sloopy? Sloopy is Dorothy Sloop, a jazz singer from Steubenville, Ohio. The song was about her. My girl Sloopy.

I bet you didn't win her over by calling her Sloopy. What's her name? Sloop. Yeah. Yeah. It's Dorothy. Yeah. Hang on, Dorothy. Shut up It's Dorothy. Yeah. Hang on.

They're like, ah, shut up, Sloopy. Hang on, Sloopy. And they're like, yeah, it seems like a mean bully song. Yeah. Yeah. Hang on, Sloopy. Sloopy, hang on. Like, Dorothy.

You know what it sounds like? You know, what's the thing where, like, half your face kind of droops off to the side? Bell's palsy? It sounds like you're calling somebody with Bell's palsy. face kind of droops off to the side bells palsy bells it sounds like you're calling somebody bells palsy sloopy hey sloopy good yeah that's what it sounds like yeah you think a lot of people yelled at it people bells palsy i will now yeah you just shout out bell balls people sloop dogs yeah Sloop Dogg. Yeah. Did you know Shawshank Redemption was shot in Columbus? Outside of Columbus.

Mansfield, Ohio. I'm sorry. Mansfield. Ohio State Reformatory. I saw the outside of it one time. It's pretty fun. It's right next to an actual prison. You did the tour.

I did the tour. It used to be a big prison. Now it's shut down. Now it's just for tours about the movie. And it's like a ghost tour place too. So you can do that. But you can see a modern prison right next to it. So it's kind of weird to be in this old school prison. And they're actual prisoners a few hundred yards away.

But it's very cool. Do you think they'll let them come over and be part of the haunted house? You know, like good behavior ones? Yeah. You can scare some kids if you're good. A couple big fast food chains started in Ohio. Wendy's and Arby's.

Both solid chains. Wendy's is Columbus, I believe. Arby's is Boardman, Ohio. That's tough. That's a tough one. You get bored, you create fast food place. I'm thinking Arby's. Boredom is, what's they're saying about boredom and invention?

You know what I'm talking about? Well, I think you got to be bored. To invent something? When the worst comes to worst, you'll invent something. Necessity. Necessity's the mother of invention. Yeah. Okay, that's right.

Not boredom. Yeah. 2016, the Columbus Airport was renamed the John Glenn International Airport. Do you know John Glenn?

I don't know John Glenn. Is he a role model for you? Well, he's a little bit like Chuck Yeager. Yeah. Oldest man to ever be in space. That's right. And he was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth. You know he was up there. Is that all? Yeah. Where are we?

They just stick him in a shuttle. Where are the cameras? Now, I guess that means Captain Kirk, William Shatner. Yeah. They don't count that one. Right, right.

He, we watched John Glenn take off in school. I remember that. First or second grade. 1998. 1998. Yeah, it was, yeah,

first or second grade. You were in first or second grade in 1998? Yeah, it was six or seven First or second grade. You were in first or second grade in 1998? Yeah. It was six or seven. I was speaking to a school that day as a representative of News Channel 5. Were you really? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I remember. Was it his school? What were you speaking about? My alma mater. They asked me to come talk about the news business. Your alma mater of your high school?

Your elementary school? Elementary, yeah. One room school house. No, I'm just saying. Alma mater of your elementary school? One room school house. No, I'm just saying. Can you not? Graduated summa cum laude. I mean, I say my alma mater. My only alma mater is my high school.

I think it's kind of fun to say it. I don't think I would. I think it's fun to say your elementary school. If I went to DuPont Elementary, I don't think I'm going, I'm back to my alma mater. DuPont alumn I don't think I'm going, I'm back to my alma mater. DuPont alumnus. You're alma mater. I guess I have more imagination than you guys. I don't know.

Yeah. Just talking to the kids about that day you were talking to them. Yeah. About what? I remember being at that school. Just the news business. But I remember that was the day that John Glenn. You're like, guys, bring your credentials.

All the time. Was this before Al Gore? Before. Yeah, because Al Gore was 2000. Pre-911. Have you ever thought about... I'm sure you haven't. I was involved here at State Community College, so I was probably over by you.

I was in Alabama. Oh, yeah. The Columbus Blue Jackets while they're called the Blue Jackets? No. I think I always thought it was like a hornet

or something, like the Yellow Jackets. Jackets are blue. They sent the most soldiers to the Union Army during the Civil War. Oh, nice. But there's no Gray Jackets

in the South. Interesting. That'd be a good name. The Gray Jackets? People probably look down. Interesting. That'd be a good name. The gray jackets. They probably look down. It'd be a tough mascot. I mean, they did lose. So probably not what you want.

Yeah. Some TV shows shot in Ohio. There's a few famous ones that have. Shot in Ohio or take place in Ohio. Take place in Ohio. Okay. Take place in Ohio. Can you name any? Leave it to be there. Okay. Take Place in Ohio. Can you name me?

Stranger. Leave it to Beaver. Sorry. Leave it to Beaver? Is that it? I'm guessing. I'm just taking guesses. I don't know.

That's a good guess. I don't know, but that's not on my list. Okay. It's okay. Relax, dude. It's all good. Well, y'all kept looking

for an answer. It's going to be okay. I can't think of any keep going yeah where do we go okay yeah all right all right um wkrp in cincinnati that's probably before y'all's time but yeah i've heard of it big for me hot in cleveland that's more recent okay those have on tv land yeah Benny White? It was a good show. The Drew Carey Show. Cleveland Rocks was their theme song.

Yeah, that was a good one. I love that show. Yeah, okay. All right. Let's get to some famous people from Ohio. These are either born there or live there. 21 Pilots. Dave Grohl.

Patricia Eaton. Yeah, dave where was i at where dave grows from he's from your saturn at life yeah warren ohio uh no but i was in a town where i because i said new york's no no no where did i meet dave I would say Dave Grohl is from the town. I was saying it as a joke on stage. I was in Peoria, and I was like, Dave Grohl. I go, he's from here. And I would tell the city that. And they'd cheer? Well, they'd be like, oh. Like no one knew.

He's from Warren, Ohio, and they have the world's largest drumsticks there in Dave Grohl Alley to honor him. Oh. Yep. It's pretty fun. World's largest drumsticks there in dave grow alley to honor him oh yep it's pretty fun world's largest drumsticks huh yeah it's a kind of cool story i think it's a small town not a lot happens there and then he makes it big and some guy said we should take this dingy old alley and make it something great and show that you can accomplish great things. So they named it Dave Groh Alley. That's cool. So 21 Pilots, Dave Groh, appreciate you. Jason Day, Dave Chappelle. I'm naming everyone that you actually know.

Yeah. Josh Need. Yeah. There are a few others. I don't even know Chappelle. I mean, I've met him. You've met him, but that wasn't, I mean, those are all famous people, but I'm like, wow, Nate knows every one of these. Josh needs Greg.

Yeah. Very funny. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I'm not saying that you were saying. I wasn't making fun of him. You brought him up and I had not thought about Josh in a while. Very funny guy.

All right. Who do you guys really think was the most famous person from Ohio? I have the list pulled up. So I can't answer this honestly. Bone, Thugs, and Harmony. Oh, yeah. They're from Cleveland. Okay.

Yeah. That's pretty famous. I mean, outside of a president or like Taft, is it fun or is it not fun? Well, I mean, it's an opinion. Jim Brown. Where is he from? He played for the Browns. I don't know if he grew up there.

Yeah. There's one that? He played for the Browns. I don't know if he grew up there. There's one that you're probably sports wise. LeBron James. That's right. What I did not know is Steph Curry also from Akron. Oh, really? Did you know that? I had no idea. That's never talked about. There's a list of famous

people from Ohio. He was probably there very briefly. Probably. And he also grew up the son of the NBA player. Oh, these people are all, that's a lot of people from Ohio. Steve Harvey. Machine Gun Kelly. Katie Holmes. Halle Berry. Steve Harvey's my favorite. You can argue, dude, the Paul brothers

being from Ohio, they're so big. Woody Harrelson. Now, Woody Harrelson grew up in Texas, so Marilyn Manson. I guess he was born there Sarah Jessica Parker Wow There's a lot of people Ohio's got a lot of people

Neil Armstrong's not on there But Oh my gosh Tanner Buchanan I don't know I have no idea Who's that on this list To me

Steve Harvey is my favorite Off this list From Ohio Yeah Yeah Yeah he's great All time great Yeah

So who are the Three biggest actors on West Wing? No, Martin Sheen, probably Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford. Rob Lowe? Rob Lowe, but he left the show. Yeah, yeah, but Rob Lowe was the star when it started. So Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Rob Lowe all grew up in Dayton. Oh, did they really? Yeah.

That's kind of cool, right? That is very cool. It's happening. I was kind of killing it, Rob Lowe, all grew up in Dayton. Oh, did they really? That's very cool. It's happening. I was kind of killing it, dude. It's doing great. I mean, we can wrap it up. Let's see here. Third Rock from the Sun, Family Ties,

also set in Ohio. Great shows. Some good amusement parks there, Kings Island. We'd go to Kings Island all the time. The Beast. They had the longest wooden roller coaster at the time outside Cincinnati. And what's the big one? Cedar Point.

Cedar Point. I've never been to Cedar Point, but that had the one that's the craziest. They had the craziest roller coasters. Yeah. Oh, the Toledo Mudhens. So on MASH, Maxwell Klinger. Yeah. Oh, uh, the Toledo mud hens. So on mash Maxwell Klinger. Yeah. Uh,

on mash always, but he was from Toledo. He always mentioned the mud hens, his favorite baseball team. So, um, Toledo mud hens. I think our friend Doug Buckler.

Yeah. Gave, I think he sent it through you, this hat and shirt. But when we were in Toledo, we did shows together and there's a Jamie far as a restaurant there. And, uh, mud h and shirt. But when we were in Toledo, we did shows together. And there's a Jamie Farr as a restaurant there. And Mudhands are probably one of the more famous minor league baseball teams.

Right, because of that. Because of MASH? I mean, that's got to be. I guess. I've always heard of the Toledo Mudhands. You know how many people watched the finale to MASH, dude? A lot. A lot.

Seven billion people, dude. A lot of people did. A lot of people, people, dude. Yeah. A lot of people did. A lot of people, man. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Big Bear stores. Did you ever go there? No.

That's a Big Bear. Grocery store chain. Big Bear? Big Bear, yeah. That's like their Piggly Wiggly. I think they've since closed, but Big Bear was pretty big. Oh, you know, when I was in Liberty, Ohio, the Liberty Township, I went to a Cabela's and I found a bear sign that said, Hey, Bear on it. Oh, really?

Yeah. I took a picture of it, but this was a while back. You might want to move on. You didn't buy it? I didn't buy it. We didn't really talk about sports much, but the Big Red Machine was dominant in the 70s for the Cincinnati Reds. Reds, yeah. The big red machine was dominant in the 70s for the Cincinnati Reds. I mean, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench.

Yeah. Those guys were the team of the decade in baseball. Right. They've fallen on some hard times lately. Yeah. The Reds have. Things are looking up for them, though. They got some young stars.

Look at that. It says, hey, Bear. And he's waving. And the guys are waving. Yeah. Let me see that. I feel like they completely ripped us off That is me

Okay Yeah Yeah that thing That's fun Hey Bear How about that There you go Alright

Look at that Camilla's ripped off this whole podcast Yeah Alright That's a good place to stop Yep Alright Alright

Yeah so this week I'm in Columbus I'm in In Cincinnati Cincinnati Yep Somewhere Good place to stop. All right. Yeah. So this week I'm in Columbus. I'm in Cincinnati. Somewhere else. Are you playing the arena where the Blue Jackets play Columbus? I believe so. That's where we saw 21 Pilots.

That's where we saw 21 Pilots. Very fun. Yeah. In Charlotte. Yeah. Yeah. These shows coming up, they're all being the round. So two in Columbus, then Cincinnati and Charlotte. That's crazy.

Nationwide Arena. Yeah. It's going to be a wild run. And then you don't take your foot off the gas for – Not until July. Not until the summer. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Jeez, dude. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, this is the second half of the be funny you've had some good time off some rest time yeah i've had some rest uh special somewhere in there along the way and uh and then yeah the fall and i think being 25 i'll be kind of chilled out and uh and then i think you sometime in 25, we'll probably start another tour. So awesome. Yeah.

This will be the end of the be funny is, uh, this is it. Uh, this weekend, I'm at the palace theater in Crossville, Tennessee with Henry Cho, January 26.

I'm co-headlining two shows at the Walnut house in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, which I've done shows there before. It's a great place with, um, Paul Aldrich. Two shows, January 26th. Awesome. This weekend I'm in St. Paul, Minnesota at Laugh Camp Comedy Club. Next weekend I'm in

Des Moines, Iowa at the Funny Bone. And then the big one, Zany, Chicago, first weekend of February. I'd like to sell those out. So if you're in Chicago, come on out. All right. Thank you.

Well, Tuesday, January 16th, my Netflix will come out. Yes. So watch that. Tell your friends to watch it. It's going to be great. It is great. I know it's great because I recorded it. And I know what it looks like.

I'm very happy with how it looks. I'm very happy with the jokes.. I'm very happy with the jokes. I'm not always happy with everything that I film and I am happy with this. I'm very pumped about it. I had to be involved in the whole editing process. And sometimes when you watch it over and over again, you start to hate it. Well, I didn't start to hate it. I love it.

So check that out. And then January 20th, I said 19th earlier, January 20th, I'll be in Dayton, Ohio at the Funny Bone. All right. Awesome. Yeah. All right. All right.

That's it. I hope you guys, your 2024 is off to a running start and we will see you next week, I guess. Yes. As always. All right. We love you. Bye. Bye.

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