The Nateland Podcast - 19: #19 | What Happened in the Year 2002?

Episode Date: June 10, 2026

This week, Brian attends a Catholic wedding, Aaron goes back to Notre Dame, and the guys debate where they'd go if they could travel back in time. Then they delve into the year 2002 by examining important topics like Aaron's sports injuries, Brian getting a girlfriend, and Dusty getting a raise at Office Depot.  This Episode is Brought to you by Better Help.You don’t have to say yes to everything this Summer. Find support in therapy. Sign up and get 10% off at Betterhelp.com/PUBLICFIGURESFactor: http://Factormeals.com/nate50offHead to Factormeals.com/nate50offhttp://Factormeals.com/nate50off and use code nate50offto get 50 percent off and free daily greens per box, with new subscription only, while supplies last until 09/27/2026. Pestie: https://pestie.com/NATEFix your bug problem before it gets worse. Go to https://pestie.com/NATE for 10% off your order Warby Parker: WarbyParker.com/NATELANDOur listeners can buy one prescription pair and get 20% off any additional pairs at WarbyParker.com/NATELAND — and using our link helps support the show. #WarbyParker #ad

Welcome in, ladies and gentlemen, to another edition of the Public Figures podcast. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night. Whenever you're listening to them, we're happy you're here. We've got another fantastic episode right ahead of us. But before we get into it, I'd like you to introduce to you to my co-host here, right at the table. To my right is Brian Bates. Okay. And then I got Dusty Slay to my left here.

All right. And we are the public figures, three Nashville-based professional, stand-up comedians getting into it, the nitty-gritty, tackling the world's important issues, solving things one step at a time. It's good to see you guys. It's been a while. I'm going to be in Topeka, Kansas this Thursday. Topeka, huh?

At the beacon, and then Friday and Saturday, I'm going to be in Lowell, Arkansas, first time ever at the Grove Comedy Club. That's a big one. Very excited. Take my buddy Adam Bush with me all the shows. Great club, terrible owner. You know, Bill. what a wreck of a guy.

We're a lot about Bill. We were texting Bill this weekend and he said any time he's mentioned on the podcast, somebody will send it to him. So Dusty said, I'll be sure to talk a little trash about it. Terrible guy. And I'm sorry you're doing that club. Hopefully you get to avoid him most of the time you're there and you don't have to deal with him. Well, buddy Adam Bush is opening for me.

And he says these are the biggest shows he's ever done. Really? Yeah. All right. That's me. Yeah. No, that's great. The Grove is great.

Bill's great. Yeah, I can't wait. Bill and Rhonda. Please come to these shows. Do come, yeah. I've got a big show coming up in about a couple weeks. I'm going to be in Hattiesburg, Mississippi at the Sanger Theater. That's June 20th.

I'll have Lee Kimbril with me, who's one of the co-hosts of the new Life of Dad podcast here on the Nate Land Network. Lee's very funny. He'll be with me coming out in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, June 20th at the Sanger Theater. What about you, Dustin? I'm going to be in West Palm Beach. at the It's 5 o'clock somewhere festival. Do you know with All the Jackson's going to be there? No, I don't know.

And I don't know if they know. But, you know, John Anderson will be there. I'm very excited about that. That's more important. Shenandoah. I mean, I'd love to meet Alan Jackson. I'm not going to lie. But I love John Anderson, Shenandoah.

Ella Langley. Okay. Are you an Ella fella? That's what they're called. Oh, no, I would not say that I am. But, um, like her music, fine. Yeah, yeah. You say Shenandoah. I always said it more Shenandoah. I say Shenandoah, yeah. You know, it's the, like the national park, Shenandoah. I don't really know the difference in between. It's a real, it's a real place. It's a thing.

Okay. Well, I'm just letting you know, I guess then. Let me rephrase. I've been saying it wrong this whole time. Not that I say their name a lot. You might be saying it correctly. I don't know. I've just never heard it. They're great. You know, that saw it was a real, a real, a real joke on the internet for two dozen roses, but. They have so many good ones. Yeah. But that's a hot song. I don't know that joke. That's a hot song.

Well, it was just audio people were playing and they would just, if I had two dozen rows. Sorry, Kathy. And an old bottle of it. Jump it right into it. It is raining here in Nashville as we're recording this. And Zany's Comedy Club, which is where the studio is located, is one of the best comedy clubs in the country. That being said, it's not perfect. And I would say one of the major flaws in this building.

is that when it rains, it takes over whatever's happening in this building. Have you all been on stage when it's raining here at the club? I like to hear the rain. But not when you're performing. I like it, I feel like it really chills the audience. That's not what I'm having. They're already chill. I like them to settle down.

Chill's not my issue. Yeah. Did you see the Trump interview on Meet the Press? No, I missed it. He was in a barn and it started pouring down rain. And they had to keep stopping the interview because it was like 10 roof and it was so loud they couldn't hear. And people were falling asleep. All of our politicians are so old that I thought that if they heard the 10 roof, they would just fall right asleep.

It was just very interesting. They're having to like yell at each other. And I finally said, we got to stop. That's so funny. I've seen comics basically do that here where they're like, what do you want me to do? When comics who haven't been here before starts raining, I've seen comics go like, what is happening right now? And it's just, I don't know, we've got, I don't know what materials on the roof here.

It doesn't sound as nice as like a tin roof. It sounds like something's happening. I can sleep with this. I like when an old politician glitches out. You ever see those? Yeah, like Mitch McConnell or the list? Yeah, I love it. I love it.

You'll wind him up, wind him up. His battery is dead. There you go. Grab them, take him back to his layer for a little bit until he comes back to life. They are old, but what have you guys been up to? Do you have a good weekend? I haven't seen you in a while. Yeah. You know, you always say that and we see each other every week, but, you know, I mean, I just wish you would acknowledge that we see each other all the time. I can still be interested in what you're doing. Well, do you want to scale back the amount of podcasts we do? I'm happy to do that, Brian. No, I just. We, you want to go to monthly? Let's do four, four in a day once a month. Yeah. And then I get you guys out of my life.

Okay. I, my wife and I took our first trip since our daughter's been born, just the two of us. Wow. Out of town, we went to our wedding in Colorado Springs. Okay. And we had a great time. It was one of her close friends. It was a big Catholic wedding, right?

It was a Catholic wedding. It was your first Catholic wedding you've been to? Um, no, but the first one of, like, I got there and like the priest is up there. and people are answering him. He's like saying stuff and everybody's changing him. I'm like, well, we supposed to come to rehearsal?

Like, how does everybody know what to say except me? Right. And then they do, well, they do a lot of things. They, they,

they, at one time, I just want to go, sit, get out of there. Right. Let's, uh, get a pimento cheese sandwich.

Let's greet everybody. Say peace be with you. Yeah. And so we had to like turn to everybody. And that's pretty late in the mass, too. That is like 45 minutes. What do you mean,

turn to everybody. Well, just people around you. You greet them. They go greet a neighbor. My wife got mad because I greeted the lady behind me with a holy kiss. I just said, peace be with you for my wife. Like Judas.

There's a part in a Catholic master of the priest says, peace be with you, and we say, and with your spirit. And then he says, I'll share the sign of peace with those around you. What you're kind of supposed to do, shake the hand of the person in front of you, the person behind you, to the left and to the right, and then kind of. Isn't this the sign of peace? I guess it could. You know what, during COVID, a lot of people are doing that.

You're sharing peace and they're just kind of looking around like that. But you hug, you shake hands, you know, whatever. Exactly. I'm glad you said that. You hug. Yeah. You know, the lady behind me is again. And then I'm like, all right, finally, are we done?

He's like, nope, come up for communion. And he's like, if you're not Catholic, you come up and then you do this. Right, right. So I went up there and said, Wakanda for us. All right. Psychom out a little bit. Yeah. So I did it.

That's awesome, man. Yeah. My first wedding I'd been to since yours. Wow. Wow. That's been five years. Yeah. Most of my friends have been married for 30 years.

Well, you've got to turn down a lot of weddings as a comedian. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I've got a couple coming up that I felt like I couldn't get out of. But it's been a lot of, like, college friends and stuff where you go, like, yeah, I can't lose a Saturday for your stupid wedding. Yeah. You know, I don't even know the girl you're married. Yeah, I mean, yeah.

I mean, well, it is like, yeah, I mean, Saturdays are tough. Saturdays are tough. Are you guys going to join Chris wedding? Honestly, I was booked long in advance. And I got the invitation. And I looked at my calendar and I go, I can't, I can't cancel a gig. Well, this is why you weren't invited to his roast. Like, well, you know, because you don't prioritize.

You know, this is my protest of not being invited. You don't want me to come to the roast? Don't ask me to come to the wedding. Are you going to his wedding? Nah, I found a gig. I mean, I hate that this is... I was wide open. I found something.

I didn't get in pain. We were excited. I mean, I had an idea in mind. I thought, well, be a lot of comics in town. Maybe we should try to do something at the grove since it's in there. And then I looked at my calendar and I go, oh, I can't even go. I mean, Hannah was excited to go. I mean, we were pumped about it.

I can't, I want to say it's even military gigs where I have three in a row and they're, okay. I can't, I can't call my job. Right. And be like, hey, guys, sorry, I can't do this. I have a. Got to go to John Chris Wedding in Arkansas. A guy that doesn't even invite me to other things.

Yeah. Doesn't he really care for you. Yeah. Are you going, Aaron? I think we're going. Yeah, we're going. Yeah, we're going to go. I didn't book anything that weekend.

could have. Well, my calendar gets booked, you know, way in advance. So does mine. Where are you booked up to? Where's your last day on the calendar? I got some 2027 days. Yeah, so do I. Yeah.

I'm going to do February next year. Okay. It's not bad. I got some August 8s. My summer's filling up, guys. If you want Brian Bates this summer, you better get on it because it is almost full. That's awesome. Well, being away from the Bay.

Maybe. Just you and your wife. That's great, man. It was great. It was a fun time. Had some people recognize me at the wedding. It's always fun. From the movie?

They go, it's trash man, number two. I don't think it was the movie. Yeah, that's cool. I think it was the podcast. That's cool. Yeah. What about you, does? I went to Irvine, California.

At the improv. Big club. Me and Adam Bush. Oh, this is awkward. Yeah. This is the Adam Bush episode? Yeah. Keeps getting talked about it.

Yeah. And yeah, it was great. We had a great time. And shows were fun. Just in and out at a club. Yeah, I did four shows. And I was doing an hour five almost, you know, I had to really scale it back. But I got to tell you, that hour's hot.

That's good. I'm into it. Yeah. That hour's hot. That's great. So you're just going to do an hour from now on? No, no. I can't wait.

You're going to do a less hot hour. Well, I got, you know, I got the five o'clock somewhere festival company. So I probably won't even get to do an hour. Next weekend, I'm in Austin at the mother ships. I'm back in a club. But then at the end of the month, I'm at a casino. So I'm going to let it rip. You might do three hours.

I might. I got to let it rip. You're going to get to that festival. They're going to like, no, no, no, we just wanted you to tell that one joke. I know. And I don't want to tell that joke anymore. So. I think you're going to have to.

I just think that sometimes I think people think, like, well, it's country music. This is a country music. joke, they're really going to be into it. But really, it's an long, in-depth joke to where people that come to see music probably don't want that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, but you heard. I did a show at the, I was at Notre Dame this weekend. I did a show at the reunion. It wasn't my class, but this is the third year in a row that I've done a show there at this old historic theater right there on campus. I think it was built in the 1880s. And, uh, He was packed in there. It was just really fun.

Connor Larson was with me. I got to show him Notre Dame a little bit. We got to see the stadium at the end. Your dad was there. My dad got to come. My dad graduated Notre Dame in 84 and 85. So, you know, it was his 42-year. I graduated high school in 90.

Your dad's just, we could almost with the high school together. Oh, that was college, though. Okay. That was college, yeah. All right. Yeah, my dad's 10 years older than you. Okay. Let me feel a little better.

10 years. So the gap between us all. Just another 10 years is your dad. And then Harper's 10 years younger than you are. That's right. So if we had five people on here, we could do it. Yeah. So it's cool to bring him.

He had never been in the stadium before. And he hadn't really been back to campus at a while. Yeah. Since he graduated. So it was just a fun, fun weekend, man. Fun weekend. And now we're back. Now we're back to the real world.

Here's an idea, though. If Alan Jackson were at the festival and he would sing the lines as I broke it down, then that would be a good breakdown. That would be great. I think it's going to be tough to do. Yeah, it's going to be tough getting Jimmy Buffett there. I'm going to put, well, Jimmy Buffett comes in at the end, and it's a little weird of a joke because I say, is Jimmy Buffet been here the whole time?

Right. And he's dead. That's right. Yeah. You can get one of those holograms up. Right. And then he could just pop up because I'd say, and then Jimmy Buffett just pops up. So it'd be great to have him just pop up like that. I think this festival is like, this is a little more than we budgeted for for your set.

Yeah. See, we're getting a hologram of Jimmy Buffett. Maybe I get a guy, I bet there's a guy in Palm Beach that looks like Jimmy Buffett. Oh, I'm sure you can find. There's going to be a hundred at the show. Yeah, yeah. It's true. Well, anyway. You ever listen to old Jimmy Buffett, like the A1A album?

That's what he's like. I think I'm like most people I've heard the hits. I've heard the ones we all know. Yeah. And I never thought, let me dig in a little deeper. That one's a good one. It's a little more country. Okay.

And, you know, he's not total beach vibes yet. Mm-hmm. That's good, though. Jimmy Buffet's good. I, uh, I'm going to tell you guys this last week. I had a, uh, something come up on the back of my tongue. It is. Wait, wait, wait.

On the back of it. The back of it. I could barely see it when I shine a light back there. I take pictures of it. How did you know to be looking for it? I felt. I could feel something back there. Is it a salivary stone?

What was it? Is it a little piece of popcorn? So, well, you're getting ahead of me. Oh, okay. Sorry. I didn't even know how to tell the story. Let me back up then. About eight years ago.

Oh, geez. Same thing happened to me. Yeah? And I went a few days. It was like a holiday weekend. I'm like, oh gosh, I got cancer or whatever. I go to the doctor. I went to the dentist, actually.

And he's shining his light back there. He's like, man, what is going? And he takes a thing and goes, pop. It was a popcorn kernel that it got suction somehow on my tongue. Wow. And wouldn't come off for days. Wow. This time, I'm like, man, it looks a lot like the same thing.

But it does not look like a popcorn kernel. There's no way that. Had you had popcorn recently? Yeah. Okay. I had. Yeah. I just got that to use of popcorn.

I would think you would have popcorn. daily. What does that mean? I don't know, but I can see it. Old school on the skillet. So I'm not quite as freaked out this time as last time, but I'm still thinking there's no way this can be a piece of popcorn.

And I'm reading a lot about it and, you know, stuff to do. And nothing will come, it won't come off. And I finally called the dentist and say, I got something in the back of my tongue. I got to, and they said,

we can get you in tomorrow. I said, okay. And then that night I'm eating. and I'm like, I drink, and I feel like, I feel like I felt something moved back there. And I go look in the mirror, gone. Wow, you got it out. You flushed in that.

So twice, a popcorn kernel is somehow suction on my time. Four days. You don't reach a finger back there. Yeah. How aggressively are you eating? You're just getting after it with this popcorn, too. I don't know. You know, I have a joke about eating popcorn and, like, how, get something stuck in the back of your throat,

like a little popcorn kernel on. You got to kind of scrape it out with the roof of your mouth, and then you go. But it was, I felt that in the headphones, man. Yeah. But it was like embedded in there in the back of your tongue? Yeah. Just a kernel. Let me see if I, you want to see a picture of it?

Maybe. What is it a picture of? Just what came out or is this a picture of your tongue? Picture of my tongue. Does it have a little punching bag in the back? You know what I'm talking about? Tonsles. No.

What is that called? A little punching bag in the back. In the cartoon, it's always a punching bag. I thought that was your tongue. Oh, man. I don't think I want to do it. I mean, it's just more, it's more tongue than you think it's going to be. That looks.

It looks like another tooth sprouted up. It looks like a blister, like your shoes, you got new shoes. Yeah, yeah, an ankle blister. Doesn't look good, does it? No. And you try to get it out with like a toothpick or something? With a tooth bra? It's way back there.

Yeah, way back. And I cannot get it. You got to get a good fingernail on it. I couldn't reach it. I couldn't reach it with my, um, I was reading on a line. It said to eat pot. I eat popcorn.

Fight fire with fire. Eat peanut butter. Peanut butter sticky. Oh, it'll grab it. So I'm just downing peanut butter. It won't do it. But it finally came off.

Did you gargle with the warm saltwater? I did. Yeah. That didn't do anything, you know? It was just living life and it caught it. It was for a few days. So I have some weird thing. My tongue is some weird thing where popcorn just gets stuck to it.

I thought you were about say gargle peanut butter. That would be pretty. tough, man. Yeah. You've got to get that. You're going to die if you try that. You've got to get that peanut oil off the top of a organic peanut butter, the kind that Greg Warren really speaks out against. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. You know, summer can go one of two ways, dusty. For some people, it's about vacation, sunshine, and making memories. For others, it can feel like a constant juggling act. You got kids home from school. Your schedules are packed, travel plans, trying to keep up with everything. Personally, I found that some summer is a lot more enjoyable when you make time for yourself instead of saying yes to every single thing. That's one reason. I like Better Help. Therapy can help better understand. It can help you better understand your needs, feel more confident setting boundaries, and create a version of summer that actually feels good for you. BetterHelp is the world's largest online therapy platform with more than 30,000 licensed therapists and over 6 million people served globally. Plus, they make getting

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Yeah. Yeah. But if you had texted this morning, hey, man, I got something, a lump in the back of my tongue. Do you remember when it happened last time? Or you just guessed. No, I mean, I'm saying I've had something similar. I didn't take a picture, but I've had, I could tell I had a little piece of pot. I mean, I think I broke a tooth on this podcast because I thought I had popcorn stuck between my teeth. When it happened last time, it's still broken. About eight years ago, I think.

I posted a picture of it on Instagram on my stories. Yeah. And I did like three different stories. and I noticed that even my friends, you can see how many people view your story. And I haven't revealed what it is yet. I just looked like I have some terrible thing. They stopped watching.

It's just kind of funny. Like, before I even reveal what it was, they're like, I'm out. We'll find out eventually. But your picture, posting pictures of your tongue. Yeah. Yeah, that's, you probably got, you know, you probably got like hidden.

Probably got hidden a lot. People go, let's mute this. I don't know Brian was going to be showing his pictures of his tongue. Well, that's true. Go ahead and mute this. Well, that is true. I noticed you never look at any of my stuff, so maybe that answers that.

Are you looking for that? You're looking for who's not looking at your stories? I think your stories have just fallen out of my algorithm. You like, well, you'll like some of my stuff. Okay. Nate will like stuff. Dusty's never even seen any of my stuff. Whoever's running Nate's Instagram's like that.

Valerie, you like some of my stuff? I doubt Nate is like, let me check in on what Brian's doing on Instagram right now. Well, I feel like I like your stuff. Yeah. But I remember when it happened the last time, you talk to your dog a lot on there. You do the daily videos, which was your idea to start doing those, right? Yeah, that's why I muted you. Yeah.

Yeah, that makes sense. No, I do like that. Breakfast bites. When it happened the last time, you said, before we knew what it was, you told me, don't go to a traditional doctor. Don't go do that. I've got a guy that'll, you know, hook you up. Yeah. Luckily, you didn't have to come to that, but I remember we had that discussion.

Yeah. You got a tongue guy? Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, don't. Don't go to traditional medicine. They'll find something. Yeah. They'll go, oh, well, this is just popcorn, but it turns out underneath it. It was hanging on to something.

I didn't even know who to go to. Like, who would you think to go to if you had something in your time? I'd probably call my mom. You know what I mean? Well, medical professional is that. I can't imagine a popcorn kernel elevating to the point of or escalating to like I need to get a doctor involved.

But I didn't know it what it was. How many days? How many days was it a problem before it came out? Three or four. Okay. Yeah. And you're thinking about it all day. All three or four days.

It's just rubbing back there. Just awkward. Yeah. Awkward's not the right word. Just annoying. It's tough when you have a thing going on that's not obvious. But you still have to live life, right?

So you're out there talking to people the whole time you're thinking about, I got this weird lump of the back of my tongue. It could be anything. You know now it was popcorn, but if you didn't know what it was, where would you start after your mom? Like, I really didn't know even who to go to. I got a joke about losing your jaw. Orging care, maybe.

Losing your jaw to dip. Yeah. And every time I do the joke, my dip spot hurts. Oh. I think I'm, I think I go. Your dip spot. Where I used to dip. I go.

You put in the same spot every time? I used to, yeah. Oh, well, that was your issue. You got to mix it up. You got to go upper deck every now and then. No, you can't because, you know, it's not worth it. What are you talking about? You don't want to waste it.

What are you talking about? It's not good in another spot. I got one spot. It's not like breaking in a glove, man. A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. A little bit.

No, but it's like there's only one place where it feels good. It fits nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you got a, there's a trade off. I would just, you know, smoke. while I needed to rehab the gums. Yeah, right here? Right here.

Oh, right there. On the side, yes. It's tough to do it right. Where I have, you know, a broken and decaying tooth in my mouth. Mm-hmm. I don't know if it's decay. It is broken. Well, it's a good joke.

I heard it last week. Yeah, thank you. I haven't heard it. I don't know that. Where are you hearing him do comedy? New material Monday? Right here. No, not new material Monday.

Nate Land Live. It doesn't hurt when I do it, but it is like there's something about, talking about this whole thing. And then while I'm doing it, subconsciously, I'm going, well, that's good to happen to you. It's weird. There are, like, eye injuries.

Somebody tells you out of an eye injury, it makes me uncomfortable. I feel like it hurts. Yeah. It makes me uncomfortable to hear. Yeah. There's a kid, my elementary school, threw a screwdriver up in the air, and it landed on his eye. Jeez.

Yeah. Doesn't that make your eye hurt a little bit? It feels, it's tough to hear about it. It just, you know, with a guy like that, you go, it was going to happen eventually. It's better to happen in sixth grade than it was going to happen. Uh-huh. But I think about that all the time. Anytime I have a screwdriver, it's not that often.

When I'm holding one, I go, man, if I threw this up in the air and it landed in my eye, I would hurt real bad. Throw it up in the air and looked straight up. Yeah, and it landed straight on like you were planting a flag in your eye. Gosh. Yeah. How's that eye? I think he's doing fine. Okay. But it, it, uh, I won't go into detail, but it was bad.

I've lost contacts in the back of my eye and I have to like, really like look to the side and like drag it across. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I'm a glasses guy. You got to go to Warby Parker. Yeah.

You know? Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. You went in these comments? Let's get in the start off with these comments here, huh? Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews. Are we looking at Spotify?

Spotify comments? We haven't looked, you're not looking at those? What's Spotify? Wow. Does Spotify have comments? Oh yeah, you can comment on individual episodes. Oh, goodness. Yeah.

It's a new rabbit hole for you to go down. But can you comment? Yeah. Can you comment on those comments? I don't know if you can reply to individual comments. If I can't reply, I don't want to read them. Okay. You know.

I'll have to look into that. Monique Howlston. Dusty was very all-cap. cool this episode. I don't know about anyone else, but this was one of my favorites. So many times I laughed out loud. Thank you, Monique.

Thank you, Monique. I felt like it was one of our worst episodes when we ended. So it feels good to hear. Oh, I thought it was very fun. I tried to be. You seem tired and checked out. But go ahead.

But I was cool, though. That's why they liked it. They were like, Aaron was asleep and Dusty was cool. Yeah. Yeah, I deleted the part where she said Aaron checked out. Well, thank you, Monique.

appreciate that. Erica Wolfert, or Welfare. I have a theory that we, the human race, were originally aliens. Our ancestors came to Earth so long ago that the origins of our inhabitants have been lost in time. It's no crazier than the theory of evolution and doesn't take away from anyone's theological beliefs. That's fun. Well, it takes away from mine. But I like that. you know, there is a theory that this is like the Ananaki. You ever hear that? Like that they think that. It's a dish?

Yeah. That they were like that. That it used to be only like a hominoid type. Like hominoids are like Bigfoot and the abominable snowman. Right. And that was what lived here. And the Ananaki needed something from this planet. But the sun was too close.

They couldn't survive. So they mated with the hominaki. And created us. Oh, okay. Homo sapiens. Yeah, I don't believe that. But I like that. I think that's a fun theory that I don't believe.

Erica, you might get into that, though. I like that Erica's, you know, on board with that. Yeah. I like that. Thinking outside the box. Yeah. It does take away from my theological beliefs, though. But, yeah, I'm trying to think about it.

But if she said God created the aliens, it's still. would take away. If the beginning of the Bible was, and then Adam stepped off the ship, then I would go, you know, that doesn't take away. Spaceship. Yeah. Paul goodness.

I like that. What a great name. My goodness. Paul goodness. There's a speculative theory, often called the extrater tempestrial hypothesis. That's very good. I'll tell you what.

It needs a better name. This theory is going to take off. It suggests that what we think of as aliens might actually be future humans returning to study or visit their own past. So who knows? Maybe Dustin Richard Slay, the 38th, will be back to study his super-duper great-grandpa. Well, that'd be cool. Yeah. I like that.

So you're on board with this? Do you think that's what it is? Yeah, but we talked about it before. Time travel theoretically is only. possible moving forward in time. It's only possible to go forward in time. It's not possible to go back in time. If I could go back in time, it'd be nothing but bad news. I'll tell you that. What do you mean? I would abuse it so fast. What would you do? I can't even say. But it's like just how far back are you going to your own life? Yeah, oh, my own life only. Okay. But you're you watching younger you? And you would influence the

situation? I'm talking to younger man. You're going to come to your bedroom at night. I'm telling younger me how to do it. And then we can move this along a little faster. If they... I don't have to wait so long to figure out life out here. Yeah, you're clearly a different person than you were when you're younger. Yeah.

Younger me probably wouldn't even listen to me. Yeah. But... You go, man, what did I take? Yeah. So it's possible that 20 years from now, if you had a good psychiatrist, you could be totally different, too. That's true. Yeah.

That's true. I mean, yeah, I mean, if we're, you know, if we're always changing, always learning, always growing. Yeah. You know. Evolving. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, goodness. Mentally.

If you could go back in time, we'll give you three places in time you can go. Okay. Where would they be? 2009, I'm buying a bunch of Bitcoin. Right? Do I get to come back as me now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you can observe and there's no.

But I can't influence the past at all. And there's no risk of danger. You can go watch whatever you want to watch. Oh, man. Dude, so many fun things. I'm going back to Woodstock 99. I'm watching Limp Biscuit live. I'm surfing on a piece of plywood in that crowd.

I'm going nuts. Okay. So that's one. I'll go back 2009 by Bitcoin. Put it in my daughter's name. So two of your three in the last 15 years? The Battle of Hastings. What do you want me to say?

Well, all right. Maybe I should go for. Hold on. Well, am I just here? Am I in Nashville, Tennessee? Anywhere you want to go? Anywhere you want to go anywhere. Maybe I'll go.

I would like to see some dinosaurs. Maybe I'll go back to that. Okay, so 65 million years ago, 99 and 2009. That's right. Yeah. All of mine are bad. I can't even say it on the podcast. Well, think of three ones that you can say.

I would go back to the time of Christ. Okay. And do what? Just ruin the good times? Just observe. You can't interfere. What would you observe? Sermon on the mount? Okay, so I just go in. I'm just going to watch things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can't influence the patch. I just pass. I go pass. You don't want to go check anything out, man.

You don't want to go see Leonard Skinner before the plane crash? That could be cool. Anything like that? That could be cool. Come on, dudes. We're choosing. You don't go back to that grand old opera show. But we're just watching, though. We can't. You can't watch it.

You can't participate. You can't influence the past or else it'll affect the future and butterfly. What if it's like the multiverse type thing where it's its own timeline? Okay. So, yeah. And then you come back to now like the, like it never even happened. Yeah. Okay.

You wouldn't want to go back to like the time of Moses and be grumbling with other Israelites? No, that seems. Yeah, it seems like I would be afraid that I would be complaining right along with them. That's what I'm saying. You'd fit in perfectly. Yeah. You'd be like, God, we should have just left us in Egypt. The fear with that kind of time travel is that you go back too far and then they're like,

oh, we thought we could get you back, but. Have you heard of iPhone face? That's what they say. No. It's like you ever watch a show that takes place in the past, but the actor or actress just looks like they're from modern times? And you're like, they don't look like they're from the past because they have iPhone face. Huh.

Yeah. I think you got a little iPhone. phone face. Yeah. It's a good thing. Okay. It's not bad. Can you think of an example?

No. Okay. But you know it when you see it. Okay. Go watch a show. Go watch a movie about the past. Wouldn't their hair be a big part of it? The hair too, but it's something in the face.

Yeah. Something in the face. It's like, we look different now. You ever see those old videos of like chimney sweep kids from like the 1910s in England? And like, God, I just look like they're from a different time. They don't look like the kids now. The fate, they don't have iPhone face. Because they had to work really hard.

That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. Why is it called iPhone face? Because you feel like that face looks at an iPhone. Okay. All right. I think I don't know the whole etymology of it. Yeah.

What would you do? Well, even if I look at pictures of my dad as a kid, he looks much older than me every, like, my dad in my house. There's like, he had all my pictures of every year that I was in school on the wall. And then he had a little wallet size of himself. in those same years. He always looked older than me, and better, for that matter. But I just felt like he was working.

He had to farm. Did you know? I was playing video. The first season of Sopranos that this guy's my age. Wow. James Gandalfini, Tony Sopranos, 35.

Wow. When the show started. Do you know that, Brian? No, I would have guessed him. I mean, I knew he was in his 40s, but I would never guess him that, you know, he played. I would have guessed even older than that.

I think he was playing a guy Yeah, it's pretty hard. You think, I mean, in my head, I look younger than this guy. Some people say time is sped up. Yeah. We are actually younger than what we, that are, than what our age suggests. So time is passing more quickly. Yeah.

Okay. But we don't notice because it's all just, you know, spout. Because it's happening to all of us, either. When I watch old shows, it's hard for me to fathom those. those actors are maybe like in their 20s. Yeah. Because their styles and just because you think of how old they are now, it's hard to envision that's what people look like.

I get that. Where would you go back in time? You said you go to Jesus? I'd just do some. But what specifically would you go to, you'd just go just visit him as a carpenter? Get a table made or something? Maybe after his resurrection.

Okay. I don't know. I guess I'm not trying to poke holes in it. I'd go to 11th grade prom. I go to You want to See anything Historical?

Yours are like Back to the future You're going to go back to change the things I don't know Some historical stuff Yeah Like

What D-Day? Maybe Civil War Yeah I would like to save One of them though For my childhood Just to go

Yeah You know Some stuff That I grew up with What's sentimental about Well, that's fun. Write in what you guys would do. I want to hear.

But there is this theory that whenever there's a historical event, people see more UFOs and that they think it's either people from the future coming back to watch it. I think when Obama was inaugurated, people said they saw UFOs and stuff like that. And some people think they're coming back us from the future because apparently our heads are getting bigger. and we're getting... Egotistically? Physically, right? Physically.

Testosterone in men is an all-time low, and people always say these creatures from the future almost seem non-binary, non-gender-specific, whatever, and they think it's just... Androgynous. Us, I guess that's the correct word. Us from the future, that's where we're headed toward, and maybe there's some type of...

reproducing issue in the future. So that's why they come back and do kind of crazy things to us. Okay. I'm not saying I believe any of this. I believe that. It's what they say. It's really going to mess up my time travel plans. You're going to go in the past and do some similar things. Okay. B.J. Maxwell, if as Aaron insists, there's, quote, no question extraterrestrial life forms exist. why do we assume them hostile? Well, I agree. Well, I think if they're here and they're interfering with us, they probably need resources. I don't think they're psychopathic and just want to kill us for no reason.

But I think if they made it all the way here and are revealing themselves to us, there's probably a reason and they need our resources. That's what I would guess. But if we had the ability to travel to another planet to visit, we would. and I don't think our mission would be to wipe them out. Well, right. I don't know if I'm as optimistic as you. Like if we found out there was.

I think if we send people off into space and we freeze them and wake them up, you know, millions of years from now when they land somewhere, I don't think they're going to get out and just go, hey, you know, we need resources, but I just want to see what y'all are up to, you know. I think we're taking over wherever we go. Yeah. I guess I'm just saying if it was right now, we wouldn't be going out in space for resources. We'd just be going for human exploration. You know what I'm saying?

By the time you get all the way out to something, you would need resources. You'd need fuel, you need water, you'd need food, you'd need everything. I'd say, hey, I need a ride back. I need you turn the ship around, send us back to Earth. Yeah. Dusty? Well, listen, I... Be cool.

Yeah, I mean, I think if you got some... far, really far away, you just try to join up with them. You go, that was a long trip. Yeah. I don't want to do it again. Just try to put, just put us up for a night. Can you just let us live here now? We want to live here with these big-headed androgynous people.

Steve Ralston, haven't you guys considered the possibility that if aliens arrived, They could be a lot dumber than us. They're just better at making spaceships than we are. That's what I always say. I mean, I brought this up before. The last time we talked about it, you know, we always assumed they're just so smart because they made it here. But what if they made a wrong turn, you know?

That caught in some black hole and it dumped them out on us. They show up and they're like, we think they're, you know, so smart. I'll say it again. I think because we know that the next closest planet where people could leave is so far away, that for them to get all the way here, it means they have technology that we know nothing about, or it means they've evolved past a physical body and have downloaded their consciousness onto some kind of machine or something that that is immortal. So they're probably just more advanced than we are. That's my assumption. Could be wrong. Hopefully I never find out

You ever meet somebody though That's like so smart That they're like Dumb? Yeah kind of dumb because they're like They got no social skills They're just like idiots of aunts Yeah so what if that

They're great at building spaceships But you know They survive the entire trip They're autistic Well I mean that's not I'm not saying that But Janet Torok.

Janet Turok. Does the USA report more UFOs than other countries? While we are a great country, I find it hard that aliens would just focus on us. I always think it's our military testing new technologies. I think Janet's right, but I also think the UFOs would be coming to America. They're like, we've got to find out what's going on there. Do you think about any of those videos that we've seen lately could just be some undercover, not undercover, but secret stuff that's us?

I think that's a possibility for sure. But I think sometimes things, you know, the world of the only country that really gets tornadoes? Do you ever think about that? Oh, no, I didn't. I haven't thought about that. There are some other places, but I think the majority of them, overwhelming majority, happened in America. It's just, it's just our geography and geoengineering and potentially. Yeah. Potentially, yeah. You know, I speculated that they were going to release another batch of files this

past Friday. They didn't. But now I'm reading that they may wait till this Friday. The movie Disclosure Day comes out and they may disclose this Friday that, you know, aliens are real. It's pretty good marketing for the movie. They're saying it's his best films in Saving Private Ryan. Oh, is this Steven Spielberg? Yeah. This is the one that I saw on Twitter today. the big movie coming out. It's going to have people doubt in their religious beliefs. Yeah, go see Bradwinner instead. Yeah.

Don't go. Yeah, don't poison your mind. I'm going to go see it. Now, someone said that, because I said last week, why are all these spaceships crashing all the time if they're so advanced? And someone said that we started testing radar in the 40s, and it somehow messed up with our anti-gravity. system in their ships, and that's why, like, two crash and Roswell.

Okay. That makes sense to me. That's kind of fun, right, does it? 5G, too. 5G, you better do it. I mean, you can't even turn your cell phone on on a plane there, you know, so. Same thing. Yeah. Thomas Heath from the Heath Bar, underrated candy bar, by the way. Is it? Never gets talked about. You ever get into a Heath bar? I'm sure that I've had one, but when I'm in that, what's in it?

Toffee. I think it's caramel and taffy. That's where it's lose. It's good. Well, that's the whole thing. It's the whole thing of it. It's toffee. It's got a little crunch to it. You know, it's good in like a milkshake or a blizzard or something. Okay. Well, Heath. Your favorite milkshake of all time, though, Butterfinger milkshake.

Hardys used to have the Butterfinger milkshake. Yeah. The Butterfinger steak and shake, Butterfinger. I love Butterfinger. I think it's an underrated candy. I agree with it. I think it's kind of disgusting because it's like, what it's. is that. Yeah.

But the taste. It's also an off-putting name. I've never thought about it. Yeah. Butterfinger? Bart Simpson used to do the commercials. Nobody better lay a finger on my butterfinger. All right.

What about you, Brown? I can't stand butterfinger. What are like a bitto honey? Wothers original. Do like a word of the little strawberry candy with no label on? What about a rezzling? Remember those?

A reeling? Isn't that a wine? Yeah, J-Lor reisling. I remember that one. Reisling. I feel like there was a candy. A reisling. It was like a.

Chocolate and caramel, chewy candy. Oh, reason? Reason. Yeah, no L in there. That looks good. Yeah, it's a good one. Chocolate covered caramel covered in rich European, oh, chewy chocolate caramel.

Yeah. Oh, that does sound good. 45% cacao. Yeah, I love a cacao. Oh, that's great. Go ahead. I was going to say, I didn't come to your defense many years ago in the Nate Land podcast. I think I've since told you, but when you defended Milky Way,

pretty strongly. Yeah. Milky Way is probably my top candy bar. You let me hang in out there. Well, it was... If you were to defend it, people would be giving you Milky Ways after every show like they are for me. You'd be about as big as I am. I wanted you to have them all.

Thanks, man. Milky Way, to me, is just like a snickers that they forgot to put the peanuts in. Oh, my, you want a brain dead take that is. Of all the dumb takes you've had, Dusty, that's the dumbest. I mean, you don't think that? Yeah, guess what, dude? Sometimes I don't want to have a meal. I want to have a candy bar.

Okay. Yeah. You know what I mean? I could accept us falling off the edge of the earth, but now you've gone too far. I mean, Snickers is a supreme candy bar, though. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

It's so, a Snickers is so well established that. Of course, it's the Coca-Cola of candy bars. Yeah. You know, but every now and I want a Dr. Pepper. Hungry? Why wait? Yeah. Grab a Snickers, by far, the top candy bars?

It has to be. It has to be not even close. Really? I would think so. Yeah. The candy bar market share. Top, well, you got Snickers is number one. This is by consumer preference.

Aresas is number two. Kit Kat 3. That sounds made up. Twicks for Hershey's Milk Chocolate 5. I don't know a single person buying Kit Kat out here. I love a Kit Kat. Do you? I dip into them every now.

Yeah. Yeah, I could do you. Green room isn't having any because I eat them all. Do you break them or do you just bite it? I just, I go for it. I break them. I can't be wasting time. What's the point of that?

Kit Kat fast break. Fast break is unbelievable. Get the white chocolate Kit Kat. You're messing around with that? I go into a gas station, get some gas on the road. White chocolate Kit Kat. Yeah. It's a good day right there.

Dusty always has to eat this European candy. I have my stickers and that's it. What about? I have my stickers. I like a twigs. I like a twix. Okay. I like a twig.

Do you break that? Do you eat one at a time? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yes. It'd be weird to eat two at a time. What about a payday? I like a payday.

I don't know. I think payday has changed. Dude. Well, yeah, it has. Now it's more direct deposit. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

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cool. Well, we learned on our Tennessee episode, we had more caves than any other state in the country. Is that correct? Was that that that? Or Kentucky? No, no, no, no. We joke that Kentucky talks about caves more because they're embarrassed on what's above ground. Okay, okay. That was the joke that we're in. Good memory. But Tennessee has the most caves of any state. Tennessee, yeah, I mean, I think for sure people are taking people in caves. Yeah. I think so. There's something, there's a whole underground system going on. one. Teenage meat ninja turtles.

Yeah, I mean, have you heard that theory that, you know, the teenage mutant ninja turtles are reptilian, obviously, and they live underground and they eat pizza. That's how they survive. Wow. Let me stop right now. You're going to believe this story wholeheartedly. Go ahead. And you know what pizza, you know, is like code for.

Yes. So they think that they're stealing the pizza to give to the reptilians underground. Wow. That's got to be true, right? Come on, guys. Okay. I'm into it. I'll have to look into that off air.

Yeah. But we'll get to the bottom. I will be honest. I'm not going to look into it. Okay. Well, I've not been looking at it. Trust Dusty. I've not been looking into it either, but I believe it.

He's just been sharing it on his podcast. Yeah. Malachi Munn. What a name? Yeah. Malachi Munn. Who's Malachi? It's a biblical name, right?

What did Malachi get into? I don't know. a prophet, I believe. I think it was the last book of the Old Testament. Yeah. I think of children of the corn when I hear that name. You ever see that movie? You read that book?

Do that Stephen King? Stephen King, yeah. I think they like to give horror movie characters biblical names to make you afraid of them. Yeah. Well, I think this movie, they were kids that lived in a cornfield, so it was appropriate. But I know what you mean. Dusty said he liked the indoor aquarium more than the outdoor zoo. Aaron replied. He goes for the wet more than the heat.

Seamlessly referencing Dusty's last special wet heat. I mean, come on. That's an all-time great from Moses's brother. It's a great line. Thank you, Malachi. Yeah, it was good. I would have liked a little love when I said it. It was a good line. I feel like we were in some type of flow and it got it overlooked. It's okay. It can happen. It was great. Graham Matheson.

A lot of good names. Yeah, Graham. Was a Graham Cracker just named after a guy named Graham? I bet so. A white guy. What do you mean? Well, Graham crackers light brown. Yeah.

But what do you mean? Graham crackers are named after Sylvester Graham, an eccentric 19th century American clergyman and health reformer. Oh. 1829. Clergyman and health reformer. That dusty, that could be you. This might be dusty going back in time to the past to invent the graham cracker. Sylvester Graham.

1829. he created an unsweetened, coarse, whole wheat biscuit as part of a strict meatless diet. He believed eating simple, bland, and high-fiber foods would curb carnal desires and promote moral purity. How about that? Fast forward to now, I'm making s'm making s'm smores with these bad ones. And they're also not unsweetened. Yeah, now it's half of its sugar. Yeah.

Graham Matheson, I'm not shocked that old body slam bait's favorite whole cup. was the NWO version, considering his heel turn since the switch to public figures. Well, that is true. Yeah. But I was already turning heel on Nate Land. I think you turn heel pretty quick. Once Nate started leaving. You know, you were like, there's a void and there's a vacuum.

I need to fill in his podcast. Body slam baits. I like that. That's a good one. I haven't seen that one yet. Rachel Anderson. They're starting to get positive. They are.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like that. Let's switch that up. Rachel Anderson, if the old cars before computers all, quote, disappear, then everyone has a car that can't fix on their own. It can be tracked and controlled. It just seems too convenient to be coincidence.

Yeah, I mean, Rachel gets it. I mean, it's, they want to track you. Justy, break down what that comment means for me. Well, they want to track you. Well, she's saying that now we have all the cars now we can't work on. The old ones we could work on, some people. And they're gone, right? They're pushing those out.

So all the new ones have tracking, everything has tracking on it now. And then the newer they get, they want to do like biometric data on you. You got to connect to the internet to turn your car on, all that stuff. I just worked with a comic and she told me that she has a driverless car, a car that can probably a Tesla. And she said she just got a report the other day that eight. 87% of her driving was done driverless. Like, she just gets in the car and lets it go. So you're not into that at all?

I mean, I love the convenience of that. But if they can let, you know, if you can let the car drive on its own, then they can just probably hack it and drive it to the police station. That's for sure. You know? And then do what? And arrest you if they need to. Right.

Oh, I see. Yeah. If you have a warrant out for your arrest, they just take control of your car and drive you. It seems like a good thing. You would. You would take. It is a good thing until all the any crime, any, you know. You're a murderer.

Yeah. You guys are like. Or they go, Brian's saying something we don't like. Exactly. Drum something up. That's totally different. A murderer great. But yeah, they go.

He's saying that's the next logical step to this is doing that. Are there cars now that you could use a fingerprint to start your car? Maybe. I'm sure you could set it up. Not even with keys. I mean, if not, that certainly will be there soon, I would think. Maybe they're listening to this podcast and they go, that is a good idea. You know, I called my bank the other day.

Biometric baits. And they told me, I verified my identity from my voice. Oh, you're talking to AI? They said, just talk and we'll verify it to you from the sound of your voice. Because you've been saying this is Aaron Weber speaking? I said, did you know that your voice? is as unique as your fingerprint. Wow.

At Chase Bank, we now, blah, blah, blah, verify your identity with your voice. You should call next time as Randy Newman. I needed deposit. Late payments are. Do you think the, I'll think about this just at the airport, the camera that you have to look in,

go through TSA, do you really think that, like, is it so good that, they can just, sometimes I'll be wearing a hat, maybe glasses. It looks very different than my... I'm not even framed correctly in the picture.

Yeah, I don't care. Yeah, there's people behind me. I guess it must be good technology. It is that game. Yeah, you believe it. Yeah. Shayla Scott.

I love a league of their own, and I agree with Aaron and Dusty. Doddy was too good of a ball player to drop that ball. 100% dropped it for her sister on purpose. Kit was whining to her earlier, her feel bad. So she gave her one to make her feel better. I rewatched the scene last night. Okay. More than ever, I think she did not drop it on purpose. She, uh, Kit comes to bat. She goes out to the pitcher's mount and says, uh, throw it high and outside. She can't lay off of it.

She's trying to, everything she can do to get her out. I just think it was a collision at the plate and she, she dropped it. I think she made the decision during the play, though. you know what I mean yeah now I looked into this is apparently deliberately ambiguous yes it's been going on since the movie's been yeah out people have been debating it uh they asked Gina Davis and she says she knows the answer but she'll take it to her grave uh so it's kind of a fun thing now they they want you to they don't want to give you the answer I like that they let the actor know though I do what are you talking about I liked it so they know how to play it yeah you know there's famously in the Harry Potter movies, Alan Rickman plays Snape.

Yeah. And the whole series, you're like, is he a good guy? Is he a bad guy? And nobody knew. But apparently, J.K. Rolling told the actor, hey, he's actually good the whole time. He was the only one in the world that knew. So that, because he's like, I need to know, so I know how to play this character. That is cool.

Good stuff. Yeah. I did that with the breadwinner. What was the question people were asking? What is the controversy with it? Do I like Nate or not? Okay. And they said, no, you don't.

So I'm like, I'm going to laugh if he wipes out. Yeah. I need to know how to play this. Yeah. Charlie bravanova. Bravo Nova. Yeah. That's powerful.

Dusty nailed the entire premise of 310 De Yuma. Brian can never be more wrong in the history of eternity. That is true. was the premise that you even nailed? Well, that you said you knew right away that Christian Bale wasn't a hero. And I'm saying the whole premise, like we talked about it. I thought about this later because you referenced Unforgiven. So Unforgiven, he was set up to be a hero.

And then they, throughout the movie, they kind of make you doubt whether he can actually pull it off anymore. And then he does. 310 to Yuma, they don't set him. up that way, but you know he's injured in war. And it kind of makes you feel like he's just trying to farm now. He just wants to be a farmer, but they keep pressing him. They just keep pressing him. They're trying to take his land, and he's got one opportunity, and he knows he can do this. So throughout the movie, the other guys trying to get this criminal to the train are dropping

like flies. And it comes down to Christian Bale and Russell Crow. And you go, this is where we're going to see it. Did you think he was going to shoot up the whole gang? Yeah, I thought it, you know, it's like, I just watched Quigley Down Under, which is, you know, very fun movie, but not nearly as, you know, good as 310 to Yuma. But at the end of that one, there's a, he's a, Quigley is a rifleman, you know, and he says he doesn't prefer handguns.

So at the end of the movie, there's a quick draw with Quigley down under. And I believe Alan Rickman. And then Quigley is able to, you know, he turns out he's a very fast draw as well. So it's a, you know, it's this big reveal. Oh, he actually was amazing. Whereas Christian Bale is revealed at the end that he's actually, he's like, I ain't, he said, he said, I ain't, I never been a hero. He said my war injury was friends.

fire. He says, try telling that to your kid and keeping his respect. And it's just a big moment to where Russell Crow, this awful human being, awful bad guy sees this humanity now in Christian bail. And he goes, you know what? I want you to have the respect to your son. I'm going to make sure you get me to that train. It's a great movie. It's so good. I try to look up what Dusty's saying. And it just said, no one's that dumb to think that. Besides Dusty and Charlie. Google said that. It's so good.

Who's Charlie Pravano? That felt like three hours and ten minutes, y'all talking about it. It's so good that it makes the whole movie. I have to go watch this film. That scene makes the whole movie. You didn't think the movie was good until then? No, I enjoyed the movie, but the part of the movie was this buildup of we're going to see who Christian Bale really is. Let me ask you this.

You ever watch my big fat Greek wedding? I watched that this weekend. great movie forgot how funny that movie was I cried a little bit never seen it you went to a wedding

you watched you a big fat you never seen my big fat Greek wedding no oh come on it was a cultural

phenomenon that's a great segue cultural phenomenon in what year 2002 I believe so wasn't I think it was

all right how about that I think it was one of the top movies of 2002 and that's what we're talking about this week

I love that great segue look at that that's what I do it that's what I'm talking about it was research um I want to ask you guys this.

Did you really bring that up like that? Or did you just happen to know when that movie comes out? Well, because I do my research on 2002. Wow. I think it was like the fifth highest grossing movie of the year. I think you're right, but it was the biggest surprise. Yeah, because it was an independent film. Yeah.

Was that the research you were doing for the pod watching that movie? Yeah, I was trying to help out. Brian, let me know if you need anything. I'm going to watch the movies from 2002. Okay, Dusty. It's 2002. You've been out of high school for two years. Are you starting to get a little like, what am I doing with my life?

I think I figure stuff out. Well, yeah, I mean, I, you know, I touched on this on 2001, I believe. But, you know, I'm rolling into 2002, I believe, with a suspended license and on probation. Yeah, 2001 didn't do on a cliffhanger. So now you're suspended license, probation. What are you doing? I work at Office Depot. All right.

Doing what? Well, that's a good question. Are you interacting with customers? Yeah. Always a customer service guy. All right. I started off as a stocker. And then the...

You drive a forklift? Not yet. Okay. And then the... That comes later. Yeah. 2003. And then the furniture person got fired.

So I became the stocker and the furniture person. Wow. No pay raise. And then I... And then the receiving manager position goes away. And I get that job. I get... I'm the receiver now because I'm not a manager.

passenger, no pay raise. So now you're handling all the stuff that gets shipped to the store? Yes. So now I go in in the morning, unload the truck, check it all in, then put it on carts, then stock it. Let me ask you this. When you were working this job, would you have appreciated Memorial Day getting the day off? No, I was hourly. I don't think that it would have made any difference in my life. Hourly employees don't get paid? I don't think so in a retail situation where the stores open on Memorial Day. Okay, okay. It's probably a Memorial Day sale. It's probably a busier day for us. Probably go get some ink cartridges. I thought they might get like a holiday pay or something. I don't recall, but you don't get a lot of raises. And I did get a raise after a year.

I got a 10 cent raise, 10 cent an hour. Wow. And my manager shook my hand. Congratulations. You're getting a 10 cent raise. That phrase. Chad Ryden. And I said, thank you. Yeah, $4 a week. Yeah, that's crazy. Chad Ryden used to have a joke that said he used to work at a TV station in Knoxville,

and his boss gave him a raise. And then that night on the news, they said, minimum wage has been raised. Oh, hilarious. But had you consider stand-up comedy yet? Oh, no. I was still in Opelika. Never crossed my mind. I didn't know what my life.

was going to turn into. Did you think at one point maybe I'll move up at Office Depot here and maybe run the whole store and then was that ever a goal? I don't think so. At that point, I was fairly goalless. Yeah. You're 20 years old? 20, yeah.

Yeah. 20 years old. Pretty goalless. Can't even drink yet. Yeah, not old enough to drink yet. No, I was getting a ride to and from work. I had a roommate that would pick me up every day and he lived with me for free to be my chauffe And that was a bad gig.

It wasn't a bad gig now. And, yeah, and I lived in a trailer and we were drinking, you know, we weren't legal, but we were doing it. Of course. And, you know, life was fairly empty, but I was, but I was having a good time. Life was empty. It was. I mean, it was no internet, no, no smartphones. It's like, it didn't even.

Did you have a cell phone at this point? 2002. 2002, I was, it was during the time where you, you know, sometimes you had a cell phone, sometimes you didn't. Yeah. That might have just been you. Yeah. You know, I don't know. You know, sometimes you pay the bill that month.

Sometimes you don't. Well, that's exactly right. You'd go, you'd go. You know what? I want to get the cell phone back. So you go down to AT&T and get it turned back on. I think then it was singular wireless. I remember singular wireless with the little orange X.

Yeah. Yeah. And then 18T bought them out, I think. What did the cell phone of 2002 look like? Did you have one at this time, Brian? Mm-hmm. It was like a Nokia. Oh, one of those brick phones.

Yeah. So here we go. Here's the Motorola 2002. I mean, it looks like a house phone. Yeah, I didn't have that one, but I probably had that in images up there. Probably that middle top one, I think I had. Oh, like, okay. So this, it was a Nokia?

Yeah, I probably had to know. Tokyo 3360. These look crazy now. These look insane. But these things were indestructible. I bet I had the 3360 there. Yeah. That was a good phone.

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I went to English and math. Each, each of those classes. That's what they were called. One time. It's like, Nate's joke. Yeah. It is similar to that. So I never talk about it.

But it's like, yeah, it was like, yeah, like went. And it was, there was one guy that I went to high school. with and then there was no women in there. And I was like, well, that was the whole point of this. That was whole point of college. Yeah. What college was it? Southern Union State Community College.

Well, there's got to be. That's known for just hot women. Well, I'm not saying it's known for it, but it's college. There's got to be a handful in there. And they weren't in my classes. Yeah. If they were, they were like 55. Yeah.

Me and all the other people, you know, Was this in Wadley, Alabama? No, that's the other campus. There's one in Wadley and one in Opelika. Actually, Southern Union is right across the street from my high school and also right down the street from where my mom lives. Is it still there? Okay.

Still there, yeah. Yeah. Well, now you have a key of the city so you can go wherever you want. That's right. That is true. Did you ever think you would have the key to the city at this point? No, in fact, when I got the key to the city, a girl that I used to party with a little bit, said that to me.

Did you ever think you? And she said it in a way. that was like, Oh, yeah. I should have a key to the city. Well, she said it in a way that was a little insulting. But I also,

but I got it. I got what she was saying. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we were trying to do that too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That wasn't clear. That's awesome. And you're 10 going on 11. 10 going on 11, man. Probably my life, dude. Learning cursive? Learning cursive. Dude,

I've mastered cursive by now. 10 or 11. I'm doing, I'm doing, you know, I'm doing. Long geometry? I'm doing a long division by this point. Putting down the spatula. picking up the pen.

That's right. When did you make your video about the number 23? That was, I was in high school at that point. So that's coming up. I'm sorry, when did the idiot boy? When did you make that? Idiot Boy was probably about the time he was mastering the 23 or whatever. Okay.

Okay, so we got that later to come. Oh, no, no. Idiot Boy was probably 2005. All right. Is this your nickname or one? That was a video I made. Okay. It's a good video.

I haven't seen it. It's too, you know, I couldn't show it on here, but it's a good, it's a good premise. Well, posting it on your YouTube, everybody go look at it. It could be cleaned up. Okay. You could re-edit it? Yeah. Do you remember anything special about 2002?

2002, so I'm in sixth grade at this point. I'm playing all sports. Okay. I'm playing football, baseball, basketball. That's all sports where I'm from. Yeah. Yeah. Soccer was not, nobody played soccer.

Yeah. If you did play soccer, you were called names. Yeah, I played. that I don't like. I got called those things. By my dad. Actually broke my back this year. I had to wear a back brace for about six months.

Wow. Wow. I think it's a football-related injury. I remember you saying you broke your back. I did not realize you were that young. Yeah. I was that young. I had to wear a metal back brace.

I could only take it off to take showers. And I had sleep in it. Wow. A full thing came around pretty uncomfortable. I remember I wore my school shirt over it, but you could see, I could see I had something on under it. Gosh. Did you go to a different school in sixth grade? No.

So I went to, in middle school, which is seven. How long was the bus? Sorry. I went to a good school, no buses. And I'm just a joke. Yeah. I'm kidding. But I wore that backphrase for about six months.

I've had some crap. I totaled luck because I was asking my mom the other day. I was like, if you list all the injuries that her kids had from sports, like would you let us do this again? Me alone, I had a broken back in fifth grade. Next year, we'll get to it. 2003, 2004. I had knee surgery when I was in middle school.

Stand by, everybody. I broke in my wrist. I broke the growth plate in my arm. I've tore my rotator cuff. I've sprained both ankles. I broke another bone in my back and high. high school. And you told all this up, and it was, it was all for football that I'm doing nothing with. Wow. I mean, I liked it, but would you let your kid, if you would have told her,

your kid's going to suffer all these injuries, playing a sport that he will not play at the next level, would you let him do it? No. You know, probably, you know, probably have CTE on some level. I've always had that. You got CT in college, right? I got a bad concussion in college. I was hospitalized for two days. Wow. In college, he stopped thinking for himself.

Isn't that weird? Yeah, I had a bad concussion. And I still think I'm not quite as sharp as I was before that. Wow. I don't know if that's true or not. But, you know, you could convince me. I was a little bit sharper. You and Nate both think that you're lacking.

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Huh. Yeah. It was a good. Sixth grade is a good year. How many, like, you played baseball. Mm-hmm. How, like, how many games would you all have? God, maybe, like, 15.

Yeah. If I had a guess, you just had games on the weekend. When you get older, I think you start to play games during the weeknights, but this is way before travel ball, anything like that. Like, I just played East Montgomery was the name of the league. And not far from my house. And we would just play games there on the weekend. I think we had, like, 10.

Yeah, 10-12. It's maybe that field. Something like that. And now it's like a half of Major League season. It's a full-time job for these families. Yeah. We never had any of that. It's such a, yeah, they're even gambling on youth sports now.

I would love to do that. I would love to do that. I have a joke about it, but, you know, I played YMCA football in Montgomery growing up. And when you play YMCA football, your team name, it worked this way in baseball, too, but your team name was a company that sponsored the team, right, a local business. And you could always tell looking at the schedule how good the team was based on which company wanted to sponsor it. Oh, yeah.

Like, I don't even need to see the kids. If I could bet on youth football in Alabama, I'd be a trillionaire because I know you can just tell. Like, we were a double legal school uniforms. Okay. They're going to be terrible, right? And we're playing LW tax services, you know, like, oh, God, they're going to be. Yeah. There are like, there's a couple bail bond companies and stuff like that where you're like that team.

Those kids are going to destroy us, you know. You could just tell. Huh. I guess I don't understand why those teams would be good. I would just know because you know what part of town there in. Oh, I see. I guess. Okay.

I guess that's what I'm saying. I got you. Oh, okay. Now I got you. Yeah. I got a girlfriend in 2002. Whoa. It was a big year for me.

Whoa. Yeah. And you're working full time at the station? First one? Most serious one. Yeah, of course. Was it a coworker? No, girl from church.

Wow. All right. Yeah. Be honest, you ever check in on what she's doing these days? This morning. I've checked since this podcast. How's it going? She's doing all right.

She's doing all right. Good for her. Yeah. I do have one ex-girlfriend that I check out. sometimes, and she, like, is not active at all on social media. And I go, come on. Yeah. Just give me something.

I want to know. Yeah, I want to know what's going on. You can hire somebody to look into it. Whenever I do a show in Northern Alabama, I'll say, I used to date a girl from killing Alabama. And I'll say, you guys know where killing is? And I was like, well, you tell me? Because she wouldn't.

And that always gets a laugh. But that's where she was from, killing Alabama. And you're also low-key hoping that she's in the crowd. No, because I just checked on her up before I went on stage. No, she's not there. But anyway. Do you ever think about when you, I mean, Brian and I'll get there at some point, but do you ever think about girls like that from the past?

Maybe they open up Netflix one day and they're like, dusty sleigh on the front page? Yeah. Toby Keith, how do you like me now? Of course. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but I, yeah.

Not even girls, but anybody from your past that, you know. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, I mean, and they all, I picture them all like that girl who said that about the key to the city. Everything, this will be you? Dusty Slay? What is he? Comedy?

I'm getting that a little bit with the movie. I have friends that didn't even know I did stand-up comedy who have reached out to me and said, I just saw the breadwinner. I'm like, is that Pride Bates? How did you swing that, Brian? Yeah. Well, I've been doing a whole thing for 20 years now. Yeah. That's awesome.

Yeah. So, yeah, I was about to ask you, oh, I was going to say, we have a mutual friend, Worry Hinkle. Yeah. And she was like, when I started doing stand-up comedy or when I first met her, I'd already been doing it. She said, I got a friend who does stand-up comedy. And throughout the history of people telling me that, no one's ever told me about a friend

of theirs that was actually good at stand-up. Yeah. It's always somebody you never heard of. and you're like never will. She's like, my friend Dusty Slay does come. I'm like, that sounds like the dumbest name. Good luck in this business. Yeah. Dusty Slay.

Yeah, good luck with that. Is he a character of a janitor on stage? What is that all about? So that was the one time where, yeah, he was doing a lot better than I was. That's awesome. You know, I was probably hanging out with Lori in 2002. In Opelika? Yeah, she went to a different school, but we were friends in 2002.

Yeah. Just because we're on that year. Well, I looked up a couple of, very random, but I looked up gas prices and movie prices. Okay. Gas. $100,000. Well, in 2002, I can tell you, I mean, it was probably just over a dollar. I'm guessing.

Are you, you have the national average? The national average. Just a little bit higher than probably Alabama. A buck 85. $1.36. Yeah. I remember in 99, I had a full-sized Ford Bronco, and I remember it took 30 bucks to fill up from empty to full. And I think it was a huge tank.

Yeah. And I just remember being like, that's so expensive. And now that truck would probably take 80 bucks to fill up. Yeah. 2002, the minimum wage was $5.15 an hour. Yeah. Just not much lower than it is. And I made it.

I made $5.15 a lot. But that's before the raise. Well, when I worked at Office Depot, I made $7.00. So it was a big deal. Seven. So I got up to $7.10. Yeah. Yeah.

So gas prices now are like $4 a gallon on average. So it's basically triple. Yeah. Now. Well, luckily, we all have three times as much money. Yeah. When I was working at Office Depot in 2002, I'd made $220 a week. That's what I would make at the end.

After taxes? Yeah. It's not bad. $220. What was your rent back then? Do you remember? I bought a trailer for $1,000. Just outright gas?

Well, I got a loan. What were the property taxes on that? I don't. I think there was some. You have to go get a tag for your trailer. Where'd you have it parked at a lot? You had a lot. My lot rent was $120 a month, and that included water.

So all I had to do is pay power. And I also had gas. Septic tank, too? No septic tank hooked up to the city. Okay. That's a house, basically. And they wouldn't let me get a trash can because my sister lived in the trailer before me and didn't pay her trash bill. So they took the trash can. And when I called to try to get trash, they go, well, somebody still owes money on the trash can. And I go, but that was the last person that lived here. That's not me.

And they wouldn't let me have a trash can. Wow. So the whole time I lived in the trailer, we would put the trash bags on the back of the porch. and then once in a while my buddy with his truck would come and we would put it all in there and take it to the dump. You run it up to Office Depot. Yeah. Well, fortunately, there was a dump right down the way from us. So we would go down there and throw all my trash.

And I forgot about that. What was your living situation? 2002, Ryan? Well, let me ask Dusty. You were working full-time at Office Depot? That's $11,440 a year. That seems low even for 2002. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

That is what I'm saying. I don't think he's like I was killing it back. I mean, that's like poverty level. Yeah, it's a very low amount of money. Uh-huh. Yeah. What was my living situation? Glad we cleared that up. Yeah, I was not doing well.

I want to make sure you're struggling a little bit, huh? Well, you just made the joke when, like, we were making triple now what we did then. He's making a hundred times more. Remember when I said it was an empty life? My bank account was also empty. I overdrafted on my account during that time. I was not living the best and there were these

videos that were popular in Florida thing you know women were going down to Florida and then they were selling these and I ordered one off TV one time and then I and then Girls going wild yeah and then I didn't

I didn't want to say but I guess it's better than my attempt at a description I think it makes it better I thought it was perfect so I ordered you know VHS just one it was like Snoop Dog was in it

And we all thought it was fun. Yeah, it was for the music. Yeah. But it was like, it did seem cool. And then so they, and then every month I would get like another one in the mail. And I just thought, oh, you guys are just sending me free ones. This is great. Manna from heaven.

And then one day my account overdrafted and I had to go down to the bank and a guy I was doing campus life with, which was a Christian youth organization, worked at the bank. and he was helping me look it up and he was like, what's GGW? And I go, oh, no,

they're charging me for these? God's, you're trying to think of something to be it. God's great warrior. Yeah. So they got me. Oh, that's funny.

Yeah. So I was making, I was bringing home less money. Yeah. I see what you mean about an empty life. It's what you need. delete me. Yeah.

Yeah. Wow. That's funny. I bought a house in 2000, the house in Donaldson and he was living there. So you're doing well. You bought a house. Yeah. Yeah.

He's crushing it compared to me and you. Yeah. You're 10. I'm wearing a back brace. Trying to learn civics. You know? Let's talk about some things on you guys level, video games. Okay.

Sony and Microsoft introduced the PlayStation 2 and Xbox consoles. Yeah. Critically acclaimed videos were Eternal Darkness, Grand Theft Auto, Vice City, Metroid Prime, Metroid Fusion. These bring a bell? I mean Grand Theft Auto, obviously. My buddy had a PlayStation 2 that he brought over, and we would just sit in there in that living room of that trailer

and smoke cigarettes and play Tech and Tag tournaments, and it was great, man. It was... PS2 was awesome. That was the real fulfillment I had in the year. Grand Theft Auto was fun, too. Yeah. Grand Theft Auto 3 was what it was.

Still waiting on 6. Yeah. It's coming out. We'll get it. The first camera phone. We were just talking about... The Sanyo SCP 5300. First cell phone to have a built-in camera.

To be released in the U.S. 5300? Yeah. Those picks. Look at this. It's a flip phone. Heavy megapixels. I had that.

Yeah. You had this? Yep. And it was like the cool phone to have at the time? Yeah. How about that? I had a digital camera, I believe, that was two megapixels. Two.

I believe. I can't swear I had that, but it looks, I had one that looked very similar to that. Wow. Yeah. For, I don't think, for reference, I don't think I get a cell phone for another six or seven years at this point. Another teaser. I don't know. People to stand by.

Stick around for 2008. He was in a full body cast. His parents got on the phone. Just put it up to his ear. There was a year. It might have been, I think it's, there is a year where all four of us were on crutches. All four kids were on crutches at the same time. Wow.

All for different sports-related injuries. And we went to a Chinese buffet once in Montgomery. We looked crazy. Yeah. With two parents coming in, four kids all on crutches. What are you all doing? Do you know, parents are fine? Mm-hmm.

You know. Yes. Yeah, we're all just chopped up. My sister had to get a metal plate put in her hip. And I don't remember what my brother did. I don't remember what the two brothers had, but I had just had the knee surgery. I've never broke a bone. Wow, now it's going to happen.

You've never had an injury like that? Have you torn a muscle or anything? I rolled my ankle. Okay. Maybe in 2002. I was working at Office Depot, playing a little tackle football with my friends and rolled my ankle. Okay. But that's about, I mean, I've been, you know, I've been shot with a BB gun in the chest.

Okay. And you've been stabbed with a pencil. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I got beat up. Yeah, okay. It balances. Yeah.

You heard of black eye? Bloody lip. I've had, uh, black eye. I've had, you know, both eyes swollen shut at the same time. And I had, uh, one eye swollen shut at a separate time. Uh-huh. Yeah. Uh, also.

2000. That was more of a 2004 thing. We'll get there. Yeah. In 2002, Blackberry launched the first Blackberry 5810 that you could use the phone and send emails. Oh, yeah. I remember that.

Well, this one? That looks like an iPad almost. That thing's huge. You know what they were doing in Office Depot during that time? They had these Palm pilots. I remember a Palm Pilot. Yeah. He had the little stylus.

Did you ever have one? No, but I wanted one because it looked so cool. But I was like, what kind of schedule him? I keep. Yeah. What are you going to be doing? Yeah. He just looks at his blank every day.

Yeah. Play Xbox. Yeah. You ever wonder why they call it Blackberry? Is it a guy's name? No. What is it? I looked it up.

The key. The black or the berry, the sweeter the... They think those keys look like the outside of a Blackberry. Hmm. The fruit? Yeah. What else? I don't know, but I just not seeing it.

So you're saying the keyboard here? Yeah. Yeah. That looks like the outside of a Blackberry? Yeah. Let me look that up. Blackberry. I guess it's got some bumps. That's a terrible name, if that's the reason.

That's what they say. They caught on, but. Well, not for long because they're gone now. They are gone. You know, some people say, Mandela effect, do you ever get into that? But they say that like where things have changed, they say with the BlackBerry's, you can look through the camera and it undoes the Mandela effect. I try to get one. He can't find him.

Like like, like the, give me a specific scenario. Like Shaq and Shazam. Like the Berenstein Bears, right? You know, it's like, was more of a Berenstine is what we all believe. and now it's Baron Stain. So they're saying you could take the Baron Stain Bear's book and look through the camera of the Blackberry and it would say Baron Steen. Oh, wow. It undoes the Mandela effect.

So if you look through a Blackberry, Nelson Mandela died 10 years before we actually did? Yeah. Whoa. Why a Blackberry can specifically? I don't know. But I tried to find one. Well, let's get, let's order one.

There was one guy selling one. If we only still unboxed things. Thanks, man. Yeah. I bet Adrian could find it for us. Yeah. It's fine, Blackberry. Yeah. It's going to help to find a charger.

If anybody could find it, it could be Adrian. I believe it. You've got an old one? Yeah. Oh, I should have him bring it in. I told you. I almost didn't. I bet he doesn't, but he knows he can find it.

In the group text this morning, I almost said, if anyone has a Blackberry, could you bring it in? But I didn't. Meetup, Social Media Platform Meetup. Do you ever use that? I remember Meetup. It was founded after 9-11 to help people meet up. Because of 9-11?

Or just happened to be after 9-11? Because of 9-11. The guy said that, you know, different people in the community were looking for ways for things in common. I'm not describing it very well, but they wanted to meet up. Okay. Meet up. I feel like I was having the same difficulty before night. 9-11 meeting up with people.

Well, I'd describe that very well. In 2002, Delaware made history about coming to first state to ban smoking across all restaurants, bars, and private workplaces. Whoa. Okay. That's when America started to go down.

Yeah. It would take many, many years before Tennessee followed suit. I know that. Yeah, I think you could still smoke his Aeney's in 2002. When I started comedy, I remember the open mics, you could smoke

in most of the places we did open mics. Bobby's and Springwater and all those places. Spankies. Spankies. I only went to Spankies once. Yeah. But it was definitely smoking.

Oh, yeah. I remember that. Oh, yeah. I've told this before, I think. But when I, my girlfriend I got, we would come to Zanis just to watch. And one night we came. Usually it was somebody we knew of. We like clean comedians.

So we saw Henry Cho. We saw, you know, I can't remember. But there was one night we were like, we just look at. Who? Ever see Nate before you knew him? No. He was not. He wasn't even doing comedy.

2002 yet. Oh, okay. But one night we came to see the Raging Cajun. John Morgan. Yeah. And we didn't know he was. We just wanted something to do. And he made fun of me from the stage. Pick me out and said some awful things like making fun of me. Is your girlfriend at the time that you're with? Yeah. You break up right after her. She did. I'm a car ride home. I never saw her again. But I just remember how embarrassed I was. Yeah. I remember where I was. I remember where I was. sitting out there in the showroom.

Have you ever talked to Raging Cajun Cajun since then? I've never worked with him. I worked with him a couple times. I worked with him too. Will O'Donnell, my friend, works with him a lot. I'd like to. I'd like to bring it up and ask him about it. Me too.

Yeah. And then he just go right back in. Because I remember you from before. I remember this more. I can't do a Cajun accent. I'm sure that ruined it for you because, and that's too bad because he is really funny. I'm sure it's tough to enjoy.

him after. I know I wouldn't be into it. Yeah. Was it a predominantly black crowd? Do you remember? Is his crowd predominantly black? He's got a good black following. Yeah. I don't work with him at the Stardome and it was virtually all black. I mean, there's part of me now the questions if that's who it was. You were just the one white guy sitting in the front. No, no, no. It was all white people. I'm questioning whether I've got the right comic. But I'm pretty sure that's who it was. Okay. I bet it was. I bet it was too. Does he the type of? I bet he was killing. Is he the type that would pick on somebody's? He does some crowd work.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And right, I wonder now if you saw him do, like it would even have the same impact, or was it at 2002 that was like so wild to be talked about by the comedian? Well, if I was an audience member now, I'd still be very embarrassed. Okay. I mean, he was asking like, you know, dirty stuff. Like, hey, man, you ever do this, you know, and that kind of thing? I was like, no.

He was like, come on, man. By the end, he's like, do you know about meetup? As my girlfriend leaves? In 2002, a company called Launch, launch, not Launch Lab, created a website where people could rate and submit jokes. Their goal was to come up with the funniest joke, the world's funniest joke. They received 40,000 entries from 70 countries.

And you guys want to hear, that's not it. I saw that too, but that's not the joke that won. Yeah, I want to hear the joke that won. Is it appropriate to say? Yeah, it's appropriate. Okay. Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. It doesn't seem breathing, seem to be breathing, his eyes are glazed. You know this joke? I know it. Calls 911. Yeah, calls 911. Operator says, calm down. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead. There's silence, then a gunshot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says, okay, now what? Not bad. That's apparently the world's funniest joke.

Wow. Which... In 2002. Yeah. Yeah. Even then it got ripped by comics. Yeah. Pardon.

Here's one of that. That last... I heard. Here's the best joke submitted by a well-known scientist category. A man walking down the street sees another man with a very big dog. The man says, does your dog bite? The other man replies, no, my dog doesn't bite. The first man then pats the dog, has his hand bitten off, and shouts, I thought you said your dog didn't bite.

The other man replies, that's not my dog. That's not bad. That's terrible. That's not my dog. He said, my dog doesn't bite, but this is not my dog. I may do that tonight. That's a good, that's a good joke. That stinks. That's a good joke. What kind of murderer has fiber? What kind? A serial killer. Ah, that's a good one. I'm glad Laflap died, huh? These are good. Hold on.

You see, I feel like you, I feel like you're 10 years, you missed the whole, you missed the whole era of street jokes. Oh, I was, I was, I knew all these street jokes. There was a time, you give me any category. I give you a street joke. I bet I can do that now. Give me a, give me a topic. Give me something. Sports.

Sports. I thought I gave you that. Religion. He thought that'd be the religion. There's a man hunting and a bear comes up to him. And a bear's about to eat these people, right? So the man starts praying and he says, Dear God, please just make this bear a Christian.

And then the bear gets down on his knees and starts going, bless us the Lord for these, I guess, we're going out to receive for the benefit. That's a good job. Yeah. This was one they used to tell. How do you keep? I'm telling that.

You should have heard me tell that in 2002. Yeah. Yeah. They say, how do you keep a Baptist from drinking all your beer on a fishing trip? Invite another Baptist. Boom. Yeah, that's a good joke. All right.

Why don't Unitarians sing at church? I don't know. Because they're all reading ahead in the song to see if they agree with it. How do you annoy? If you're a Unitarian, we apologize? How do you harass a Unitarian? I don't know what a Unitarian. You burn a question mark in his front yard.

I don't know what a Unitarian is. I don't know. For some reason, I know a lot of Unitarian jokes. Do you know any Unitarians? No. Okay. Well, if you're Unitarian listening, we apologize. Dusty, want to get into some music? Yeah. Top Songs of 2002.

Boyce to Men, are they up there? Lemp Bessie. Mariah Carey. No, no, and no. Whoa. Number one. How You Remind Me by Nickelback. Wow.

That was a good one. They've been around that long. Yeah, I remember that. Hot. Number two, Foolish by Ashante. I don't know. I don't know that one by name.

I'm sure I've heard it. I bet I have to, but I don't know it by name. Three or four. You know that? You know foolish? Just Ashanti. Ashanti.

Yeah. Ashante. Yeah. I'm going to listen to it for a few seconds here. Sorry, there's a movie before the song. It turns Howard? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

That is a hot song. Yeah, I remember that video, too. three and four both by Nellie hot in here man this is country grammar era right and dilemma oh man Nelly gosh in the early 2000s I was damn in that what was the country grammar came out in 2000 so maybe it was a different

out of here well the dilemma was the one that he did with the Kelly Rowland yeah but I don't know, 2002. Nelliville, came out in 2002. We were still jamming country grammar. What was that? Must be the money. Oh, gosh.

Sure, sure, yeah. I used to tear that song up, man. Make you $220 a week. Must be the money. Must be the money. Oh, why do I do. Hey, must be the money. I used to know.

I'm a little kid singing that. I used to know the whole album, word for word. Gosh, I love that. Country Grammar was a hot album. The dilemma was okay. It was hot in here and the dilemma, and that was it. All right, I'll do a few more. Then he had a resurgence almost 10 years later.

Just the Dream by Nelly. It's a great song. It a resurgence. I don't know if I know it. All right. Wherever you will go by The Calling. I don't know. I don't either.

A thousand miles by Vanessa Carlton. Oh, yeah. Because I would, that piano. Making my way down. Yeah, gosh, that was a good song too. I can still see my buddy doing the, as he's driving. He used to do the piano thing. Right now, Kathy's going skip, skip, skip, skip.

In the End by Lincoln Park. Oh, okay. Yeah. Hybrid theory had just come out. Sure. It's the name of the album, Lincoln Park. Hey, must be a money. I want to listen to that on the way on.

Yeah. I've not heard it in a long time. What's Love by Fat Joe featuring Ashanti. Okay. Yeah. Ashanti? You turn in her French. That's not the...

I'm not a player. I'm not a player. I don't know. That's not it. I love that. That's the only fat Joe I know, I think. You know, lean back. Probably.

Lean back. Lean back. I don't know, but probably. Oh, come on, dude. You got it bad by Usher? I don't know. I used to jam that too, man. I wasn't even in love with anyone, but I...

That's such a good song. know this one here. So good. Yeah. You got it bad. Okay. Oh, yeah. Got it. Babada, badda, babada. Oh, yeah. 16 years. Bringing back some memories. Ah, man. I used to jam that hard. And blurry by Puddle of Mud. Oh, yeah. That was a good one, too. That's a great song. Gosh, music used to be really good. It's funny if it, puddle of mud, dude, these were the golden days. Right here. Well, it was, you know, it was the beginning of the collapse of everything. But it, you know, it was the beginning. It used to be good.

Yeah. Gosh, it used to be good. All right. You remember Puddle Mud song that was a, she hates me? Yeah. Yeah. I think I was already transitioning out of it by that time. He missed it, man.

That was a good time. But I do remember that one. At the CMA Awards that year, Entertainer of the Year, anybody want to guess? In 2002, Entertaining of the Year, was it maybe an early Brad, was it Brad Paisley? Carrie Underwood. Before Carrier Underwood. Yeah. Carrie Wonder hasn't quite come along yet.

It's Garth Brooks or Brad Paisley? Toby Keith. All good guess. Remember 9-11, it just happened. Alan Jackson. No, no, no. Oh, is it Alan Jackson? Yeah.

Oh, I would guess Lee Greenwood or something like that. No, Alan Jackson, where were you or do you remember? The album was Drive. Okay. Oh, Drive, though. He deserves it for that song. Yes, yes. I'm just saying, well, that is a great.

song. But where were you with Song of the Year? That same friend that I said, did the I remember him listening to drive. He was the guy that drove me around. He wrote a whole, was it a 9-11 album that you were? No, but just that song, where were you? It's 9-11 somewhere. Where were you in the world stopped turning? Okay, I've heard that. Yeah. Top selling country albums 2002. Top selling album was Unleashed by Toby Keith. Oh, yeah. What was on that? How do you like me now? I think, right do you like me now?

That song is that old? Yeah. It was right after 9-11. It's older than that. How do you like me now? Was this the one with the list? As courtesy of the red, white, and blue, beer for my horses. What a great album is it.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's not the list on there. I remember that. No, I don't see that. I was hanging out with the same guy. He was my roommate of my guy that drove me around him, Tom. And he would, yeah, I mean, he would, he changed the, that's the next.

thing on my list. You know what? Take a walk. I don't know. I don't know that one. He would insert, you know, drug references in the list. And it was pretty fun. Yeah. No shoes, no shirt, no problem by Kimmy Chesney. Listen to that a lot. Is that what your life motto for this year? Yeah. Would that have the, I want to know how forever feels? Was that on that album too?

I don't know. I know the song, but I don't know if that was. I think it was on that one. Obviously, there was a song we called No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem. Yeah. No shoes. No shirt. No problems. I don't see that song you're talking about on here.

Oh, man. But Kenny Chesney was just pumping them out so fast back then that... The Old Brother Were Art Thal soundtrack. Was that really? It was up there? Yeah. It was one of the top selling. And Home by the Dixie Shicks.

All right. But the best-selling album of any genre was M&M's The M&M Show. The Eminem show. It's one of his weaker albums. I don't know. I mean, I don't remember, but I remember listening to a lot of them. I'm not saying that's bad. I'm saying compared to Marshall Mathers' LP or Slim Shady LP.

I think I sent you a link to the top grossing movies. Okay. Anybody want to guess? Top graced movie, too, that was it a Star Wars? There's a Star Wars movie that year, I believe, right? Top movies is 2002. Wow. I would think, oh, brother, we aren't that?

Interesting. This is domestic. not worldwide. Okay. Spider-Man. You know, that was really the first, like, not the first superhero movie, but it's like the first one that they kind of... Aside from Batman.

Well, yeah, that's true. Batman with Michael Keaton had already been out. But it was almost like a relaunch of the modern... With good graphics. I mean, he was really able to... This is the Toby McGuire. Toby McGuire. It was before the Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe.

I mean, that is Marvel, but it's before that whole storyline. Yeah. You're saying it's the early wave of like treating a superhero movie and taking it seriously. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not, yes. I mean, not making it kind of...

Oh, Lord of the Rings, the two towers below my big fat Greek wedding. Look at that. Number five, 2002, my big fat Greek wedding. Jeez. Made for, I think, like, five million dollars. Oh, but... And it made hundreds of millions of dollars. Oh, but two towers was not... Right.

Because the first one is still number 12. Right. So two towers have been out. for a minute. December 18th is when it came out. So it was probably big the next year. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Yeah, those movies made billions. Just give it up for my big fat Greek wedding. I mean, yeah, I mean, honestly, it makes me want to go watch it. I listened to a podcast about how it was made. Very interesting. The girl who stars in the movie wrote it. It was her idea. Couldn't get the movie made.

Turned it into a one-woman show. Rita Wilson, whose Greek, went to see. it with her family, loved it, told her husband. Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks about it. He went to see it, loved it. He ended up producing the film. Wow. That's how it got made. They got taken to J.F. She did JFL and did the one woman show there. And then the movie got, the movie made hundreds of millions of dollars. Isn't that cool? I'm friends with Ray Wilson. I never saw the, uh, I met her twice. Well, ask her about it. Yeah. Did you ever see my big fat Greek, we get wedding two? I never saw it. I heard it was terrible. Yeah, I didn't see it either. Still made a bunch of money,

but yeah you know I think they rushed it yeah who was getting married shouldn't have got divorced it wasn't it wasn't she got divorced

from the first guy I think so I think that's what it should have been my big fat Greek divorce yeah sequels are rarely it's good

Father of Bride was a great movie Father of Bride 2 not bad but a little they say Godfather 2 is the best one

right it's one of the few that's maybe the best the sequel but I can think of Return of the Jedi. I mean, I mean, excuse me, Empire Strikes back is what I meant to say.

Okay. Yeah. That's the fifth. Well, but the Empire Strikes back. It was the second. All right. Let's talk a little sports. Okay.

Super Bowl. First Super Bowl ever played in February. Do you know why? Because of 9-11. Yeah, 9-11 backed everything up a week. And if I remember correctly, I want to say it was in Detroit. And there was a big auto show going on. And there was a battle.

because it's already scheduled. And like you think the Super Bowl is going to just trump anything. Yeah. And it eventually did. But I remember it wasn't an easy thing. Like the auto industry were like, we ain't moving our date for that weekend in February. Wow.

Okay. I may be dreaming all this. Some kind of Ford Expo or something that was taking up all the... Taking up the Superdome or whatever it was. Okay. I remember it was like a little bit of a... Was it just still like a you're out? They fought it a little bit.

And the NFL. NFL eventually won. Came in and like a corrupt machine and made them move their show. And then the auto industry and the country collapsed. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. The underdog Patriots led by new quarterback Tom Brady.

Newcomer. Won the Super Bowl over the Rams. After Drew Bletso got hurt. Yep. In the playoffs, right? Was it in the playoffs or at the end of the regular season? I don't know. But he got hurt.

And this kid, Tom Brady, comes. out of nowhere. He played all the playoffs because the tuck rule game also happened in the playoffs. How about that? And then he played for another 22 years. Yeah, 22 years or something. It's crazy. U-2 was the halftime performer. Okay. It was supposed to be somebody else, but they wanted a tribute to 9-11 victim, so they switch it to U-2. Okay. Switched to U-2. A tragedy every time someone listens. Okay. Talk about Sunday, bloody Sunday, huh? Is this before or after Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson?

Before. Okay. So that hasn't happened. No. All right. All right. World Series. Angels beat the Giants in seven games.

Wow. Do you remember what happened in that game? I don't remember. This is kind of a blind spot for me. Okay. The next few years. Oh, well, don't read it there. Later.

He had a back brace on. I had a lot going on. Probably getting and messing up the signal at the house. They go, Aaron, go stand by the antenna. Okay, look at this, Aaron. Wow, what's happening here? Talk us through it, Brian. That was Dusty Baker's three-year-old son, who was the bat boy.

Whoa, I've seen this before. Ran out during the play and almost got crushed. Wow. That's so crazy. I love that. You know, Dusty Baker, who's a manager. He's a player for a long time

and he's been a coach forever. 3% of all Major League baseball games he's been involved in. Isn't that a crazy stat? Yeah. 3% of all games. He's been involved in him.

He's everyone's second favorite dusty, is what I'm doing. He also invented the high five. No way. That's not true. He did? No. What are you talking about?

Back when I was a kid, it was just five. He invented the high five. I'm serious. You were like, give me five. You went down low like that? No. Come on.

I invented the wave. Yeah. And so we're both known for going up high with it. Yeah. For decades, the conventional wisdom has been that the origin of the high five occurred between Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the L.A. Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium on October 2nd, 1977. In the sixth inning, Baker hit a home run. It was his 30th home run. And then they gave a high five to each other.

the first time that's ever been done. What? I do remember the low five. Magic Johnson says he invented it. Yeah, people say, give me five. Remember give me some skin? Yeah. Yeah.

Remember that one? I remember give me some skin. Yeah, yeah. How about up high? Down low? Too slow. Yeah, that was good. Yeah.

How about this one? Here we go. If you're listening, I don't know what Aaron just did. He'd give him the snail, dude. That's a good one. Yeah, that's fun. I mean, looks like there's a lot of different origin stories.

Well, Magic Johnson says he did it, but he never gave it a name. I feel like you got to name it, right? I'm going to give it to Dusty Baker. I mean, what a legacy. Yeah. Yeah. What a legacy. Imagine that, though.

You list off, you've been in baseball that long. You got all these credits, and then you go, and I also invented the high five. Yeah, that's crazy. I've been following 3% of all baseball games, and I invented the high five. Wow. The Lakers won their third straight NBA title. Okay, this is Shaq and Kobe. Shaq and Kobe.

Shaq won his third straight MVP. Phil Jackson won his ninth title. That's wild. His third repeat. Lennox Lewis beat Mike Tyson in boxing. Oh, I remember that. It was it in Memphis, right? It was in Memphis.

At the pyramid. At the now Bass Pro Shop. That was like... I remember watching that. Yeah, my friends, we got it on pay-per-view. It was the first thing. thing I ever torrented was that fight. First thing you ever

what? That I that I bootlegged. What was the word? Torrented. I've never even heard that word. Bet torrent? You don't know the torrent is? Uh-uh. It's like a folk group? So you're never illie? Did you say a folk group? Yeah, it's a folk group. Yeah. Arlo Guthried

a copy of that fight. Huh. Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, anyway, that was a big fight. Because there was a pre-fight fight. Just punched Mike Tyson in the face a bunch of times. That was what I remember. I think Mike Tyson is kind of beloved now.

Would you say that's true? Yeah, for sure. But back then, he was a real villain. Yeah. He was coming out of prison at this point, right? Yeah, he'd been in prison. Yeah, yeah. I guess he wasn't really hated for prison, but, you know, he was certainly not like then.

Sreena Williams beat her sister in three of them. four grand slams. That's crazy. It's crazy. Miami won 34 straight games, had a 34 game winning streak in college football, also the national championship game. To Ohio State?

Ohio State. I watched that game. Is that the game Willis McGahey got injured? Yep. It's one of those injuries you can't watch or his leg bent the wrong way at the knee. Gosh. Right?

Wasn't that it? I remember you got hurt. I remember seeing it as a kid being like, oh my gosh. There's been a few of those. Yeah. There was, who was the guy in Yukon?

What was his name? Had a terrible injury. A college basketball. I remember the kid from Louisville that had it happen? I don't know. I mean, there's Paul George had a bad one. There's Joe Thysman going all the way back. That one was tough.

Yeah. SpaceX started in 2002. What were they doing? Just getting off the ground. you like that that's good and then this Friday they're going public

and Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire supposedly well friends won outstanding comedy series the West Wing won again from Emmys

yes sir Beautiful Mind won four Academy Awards wow they win best picture yep you ever see a beautiful mind no I have it I almost watched it

recently I recommend you watch it. I will. I recommend you don't look up the real story and watch the movie. I like Russell Crowe. It's one of those movies. Russell Crow is unbelievable in it. It's one of those movies that the real story will kind of ruin the film. Okay. Wasn't there a Robert De Niro movie where he was like... Godfather? Now he was kind of like that, kind of like a... Robert De Niro. Kind of like a smart guy and he carved his, I remember he carved his name and a park bench on the... Flowers for Algernon? Very well could be. I have no idea.

Trying to think. He's done so many movies. I can't, I can't think. Did you ever read Flowers for Algernon in school? No. You ever read it? I'm familiar with it. I never read it.

Oh, yeah. That book broke my heart, man. Yeah. Do you know what it's about? No. It's about a guy who's... Name Algernon. No, Algernon is his pet, I think.

Oh, okay. I think it's his pet mouse. It's about a guy who's developmentally disabled. And they do a medical experiment, they turn him into a genius. The book is his... his diary, slowly, slowly starts to become a genius. And he realizes, like, all the people in his life he thought were his friends were really just bullying him. And then it fades and he becomes not smart again.

And then his mouse dies. All right, that's it, folks. Thanks for tuning in. I think I hit all the key points of that story. It's been a while since I've read. credit. I bet it broke my heart. American Idol started in 2002. Okay.

Do you know who won the first season? Clay Aiken. The first season was Kelly Clarkson. Yep. Wow. Would you say she's the most successful, biggest name from... It's got to be her or Carrie Underwood. Yeah.

Yeah, Carrie Underwood, I was... And they're both pretty early on. Yeah. Did you ever think about auditioning for it? No, I had a buddy that... Good friend of mine. I was the best man in my wedding. Yeah.

He went, he was on it and went to Hollywood. Really? It was there a couple days. He got on TV? Barely. They never, like, focused on him. You could see him in the background.

Kind of like you on Last Comic Standing? Exactly like him on Last Comic Standing. Wow. So, but he doesn't still talk about it. He doesn't have his own podcast where he brings it up. Some athletes born in 2002? That's crazy.

Yeah. Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. Really? Yeah. Drake May, who's... Okay. You know, didn't win the Super Bowl, but went to the Super Bowl this year. That's crazy.

Do you know any of those people? You've heard of Caitlin Clark. Yeah, I know all those people. You do? Yeah. Yeah. Not Drake May. Yeah. You know two out of three.

Yeah. All right, we can wrap it up. I think we covered 2002. I think it was a... All in all, it was a good year. I think so. I mean, I pulled through. You pulled through, man.

Yeah. What would you say, just like, at this day. What would you say was your best year? Well, again, I want to get ahead. I don't know, 2026. Okay. Okay. No. So far. The world just keeps getting better, does it? Yeah. Well, you know, 2003 is what I thought we were doing today for some reason. And we're skipping too? Well, I don't know. I just, yeah. So I, I need a palm pilot. I think 2003 was a good year. Oh, I can't wait to hear about it. Yeah. Okay.

That's when the war in Iraq started. Yeah. It started to turn around for me. Yeah, okay. 2002 I didn't mention it but this is in on a high note the DC sniper wow 2002 this happened yeah I remember that I was pretty sure my buddy was the one doing it are you serious he what he had a job like in construction and he would go up there DC like once every two or three weeks or whatever for the job there was always a shooting then I'm like I'm pretty sure it's him are you being serious did you think it might be him I or is it a joke that you were making I didn't know I never really I never really thought it was him. But I would joke with him like, it's a crazy coincidence. Every time you go to

D.C., one of these things happened and you come home. Wow. But if it turned out it was him, you would have been like 98% surprised instead of 100? No, I'd have been 100% surprised. You know, Montgomery, Alabama helped solve that case, the D.C. Snipers. A whole city. We did. It was on the front page of our newspaper. We did. We're on their way up to D.C. the two DC snipers, and they robbed an ABC store in Montgomery and were caught on camera. And that's how they were tracked down. Wow. Isn't that crazy?

Yeah, I didn't know. What's crazy is I don't even know this story, but you're sniping people, but you're also robbing a liquor store. You might as well. Yeah. You know? Yeah. It's like if you're a murderer, you might as well steal some stuff. Yeah.

It's like if you're having pizza, you might as well drink a, you know, Coke. you know what I do know kind of the same why go diet coke I'm already eating 10,000 calories who's the Nateland showcase this week Lee Kimbril

Lee Kimbril how about that check out Lee Kimbril our good buddy part of the Nate Land family check out his set on the Nateland YouTube and then come see him live

June 20th in Hattiesburg, Mississippi at the Sanger Theater this is Aaron by the way I'm performing there June 20th as part of a festival an arts festival there. Sanger Theater, June 20th, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. What about you, Brian? Where can we find you? Thursday in Topeka, Kansas, Friday, Saturday. I'm in Lowell, Arkansas at the Grove. Then June 20th, I'm at the Palace Theater in Gallatin, Tennessee. Rob Wentz is opening for me there.

Awesome. June 27th. I'm at the Packard Playhouse in Columbia, Tennessee. And July 3rd, I have my own show here at the Lab at Zanies. I'm sorry, I'm born in you, Dusty. And July 9th, I'm at the comedy catch in Chattanooga, my buddy Vince Fabra is on that show. All right. Yeah. Well, you know, in two weeks, I'm going to be in Austin, Texas at the Mothership with Conor Larson. We're going to be there together. And so that's going to be fun. Did you say your buddy, Vince, he's buddies with the mayor of Hattiesburg?

He is, in college roommate. He shared my show on Instagram. Yeah. I was like, yeah, a ticket sale are not good. If the mayor is like, please come. You're crushing their economy. Toby, he seems like a cool guy. He may listen to the podcast.

I know he used to listen to Nate Land. He may listen to us. But he's great. He was Vince's college roommate. He had, I think you were at the mayor's office. I went to the mayor's office. I didn't go to his office, but he came to my show. Yeah, Toby's great.

Yeah. Okay. We might need him to get a body in the seats. Yeah. We may be Brett Farve to do an ad for you. Yeah, I don't know about that. But awesome. Hey, thank you for listening to another edition of the Public Figures podcast.

This was 2002. We got some crazy ideas in the cooker here. Maybe 2003, maybe 2004. We're going to take our time with it, though. We're going to see what happens. And we hope that you'll join us along for the ride. On behalf of my co-hosts here, Brian Bates, Dusty Slay, and all the Nate Land family, everybody behind the camera here. We're wishing you all a pleasant evening.

and a lovely rest of the week. Thanks for tuning in. God bless. Be safe. And send us a Blackberry. Yeah.