The Nateland Podcast - 2: Love

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

It's Valentine's week, and the guys are in the mood for love. Or at least the mood to discuss love. Brian, Aaron, and Dusty discuss the different types of love as defined by Greek Philosophers and modern day psychologists, the five love languages, and share toys, cars, music, and TV shows they've loved over the decades. BRUNT: https://www.bruntworkwear.com/NATEGet $10 Off at BRUNT with code NATE at https://www.bruntworkwear.com/NATE #Bruntpod#adIQBAR: Text NATE to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products, plus FREE shipping. Message and data rates may apply.

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Some people know who I am. Public figures. Public figures. Public figures. I think it's America. It's the public figures of America. Yeah. When you're a public figure, this is what happens. Good evening. Welcome in. Grab a seat. Pull yourself up to the table. Belly up. Here we are. And we're doing it. And that's the way it's going to go. Welcome into the public figures podcast. I'm Aaron Weber alongside two very. very funny comedians, two good friends, two excellent people. Brian Bates. Hello. And Dusty Slay. Okay. As seen on Netflix, he's got two specials out. Brian's got multiple specials. He's

headlining clubs all over the country. Dusty's doing theaters. I'm hanging out. We're doing it, baby. Three professional comedians, three public figures. And we've got a very exciting episode ahead of us right now. Very good. I'm looking forward to getting into it. Brian, how are things been going? Good. I'm going to be at Arlington Draft House in Arlington, Virginia, February 22nd. How about that? This has been a strong intro, I think. Hey, thanks. I actually felt good about it. So just now. No, it's been a strong intro. Arlington Draft House, great club. Have you been there before?

Okay. Yeah, I mentioned last week how I set the record for myself for most time on a show. That rates at an hour and 20 minutes. And you also, I think you said last time that you planned to beat that record this time around. Not only beat it, I plan on beating Dusty's record. Oh, and that's about an hour and 31 minutes. I do not plan on beating Dusty's record. No, I hope.

I don't know if anybody wants you to chase that right now. No, they're asking for less, not more. But come see me, Arlington Draft House. They're not asking for February 22nd. Brian, the show was great. We wanted a little less, I think. Yeah, it went about 30 minutes too long. They go.

Loved it. Loved it. But, yeah, about 15 minutes at the end. die. I'll be like, well, I only did 45. And we're like, yeah, you should have featured. Now, I keep underselling myself. Sorry. It's a great show. It's a hot show. Go see Brian at the Arlington Draft House. A great club, a great comedian. I'm sure it'll be a great night of comedy, one that you'll remember for years to come. I myself, I'm going to be in Texas soon. I'm going to be in Houston. It's a Houston improv. And then all weekend, my first full weekend at the Addison Improv in Dallas,

which I'm pretty excited about. So coming out and see me, Texas. in Houston and Dallas. I'm going to reach out to the Webbers. They're friends of mine and they saw me in Addison. You can get them to come to the show? All right. How about that? Austin and Jane.

Diane. Diane. Sorry. That's a pretty good guess. Pretty good guess. Come on and see me in Texas. Dusty, where are you going to be? February 20th and 21st.

I'm going to be in Traverse City, Michigan, and Saginaw, Michigan. There's a country song about Saginaw, Michigan. So I'm pretty excited to go. I've been to Traverse City. Stagin on Michigan. You have been to Traverse City. Yeah, that was bad. We did a bar there.

We did a bar. This time it'll be a theater. Yeah, this time it'll be a little different. But we did a bar, and it was just a show that we got a video of it. It's on, you know, I got a couple of travel videos out there. This is maybe the first one I ever did. Me and you traveling around Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but we did a thing in a Traverse city, and there was a handful of people.

people in the audience. And then we, and then they, I remember that guy and another guy, I think, invited us to get lunch the next day. They invited us to his bar to get food and then we paid for it. This is how he sold it to us. He goes, I was thinking about doing a comedy show at the restaurant I own. Would you guys be willing to come by the place, grab lunch, and I'll talk to you about it? We're like, great, get a free lunch on our way out of town.

We show up. we get all this food, he comes out and just like, yeah, we'd love to do a show here. All right, here's the, it was like 50 bucks. He just gives us the bill for it. We're like, all right, we'll probably never come back. And it's like, I don't, you don't have to give me a free meal. But I wouldn't have come here otherwise. I would have, I'd rather spend my money somewhere else.

And let me ask you this. Yeah, it was fine. Yeah. If he'd have given you guys a free meal, do you think you would have been enough that you're like, yeah, we should come do this? Nah. Well, that was the time. I would have done anything.

Yeah. You know, I would have... The way he did you guys a favor, because it was going to be a terrible show. And once he tipped his hand, he's making you pay for lunch, you're like, there's no way I'm coming here. Yeah, probably. But it was just fun to... I don't know if he purposefully misled us, but we were definitely like, ah, we're about to... He's about to pick up the...

It's his restaurant. Sure. The way they made it seem, it was like, you come on out to the restaurant and I'll give you a meal, and we'll talk about possible business venture. Yeah. But in the end, it's like, he's like, I need some business to my current business. Come on in by some sandwich chicks. Some chicken fingers.

Yeah. It's like a pyramid scheme. You guys get two guys to go in there. Yeah, exactly. Well, we're back from the cruise. We are back from the cruise. There was an incident on the boat. There was.

He probably heard about it in the news. Yeah. Ryan went overboard. Yep. Dusty had to jump in and swim and get him. Yep. And I'm the only one that could. Well, Nate jumped in, too, but Dusty got to me first.

Yeah. So now we know, right? Who's the fastest? I'm terrified about falling off a cruise ship. That's actually why we decided not to bring our kids. We were going to bring our whole family. I was going to bring my wife and kids. My wife got a little paranoid about maybe one of our kids falling off the side.

Are you worried that your kids might hear the call of the void? Do you ever hear that? I don't know that I've heard of it. but I feel like I have like when sailors would be out for a long time and then the sirens, sirens or the mermaids would come up. I think it's when, I don't know about it in a nautical context, but I've heard people say, like they'll walk to the edge of a cliff or like the top of a tall building and they feel an almost uncontrollable urge to jump off the top.

Wow. They just imagine themselves jumping off and then they want to do it. It's called The Call of the Void. I've had that in like a line somewhere and there's a cop in front of me and there's his gun. I want to grab it so bad. I'm like, I can do this. Yeah. Then hold up the whole store.

Tie him up. Well. I've had that. It's kind of the same thing. Before with people, if I knew something. bad about them or something where I in my mind I'm like don't say it don't say it uh don't say it right right where you want to say it I don't want to say it right but it makes you trick you and almost saying it yeah yeah and for the record because every time we do these future episodes and we say

something people think it's real yeah we're pre-taping this we have not left for the cruise yet we have I did not fall off I may I may it may happen but I haven't done it yet you're probably like none of y'all got a tank man, huh? We haven't been yet. We're looking forward to it, but we had to pre-tape this because we're on the boat. That's right.

Well, we're on our... Well, we'll be back by the time this comes out. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But we change clothes to make people think we're doing a separate episode. Just trying to visually separate the episodes from each other. But excited to be back from the cruise.

I do have some Nateland news I want to share. I'd love to hear each and every one of them. February 22nd, 23rd. in 24th at the lab at Zanis here in Nashville. Nate Land presents the showcase season four. Come and join us. Tickets are available for that. February 22nd, I already said, I won't be here, but never mind.

I don't know why I'm going back to our schedule, but come to the show. I love it. I'll be in Arlington, Virginia, February 22nd. But if you're in Nashville, come to the lab. Tickets available for that. And Nate Land presents Brad Upton. Brad's filming is our special March 29th at the Franklin Theater. We've all done the Franklin Theater.

That is a beautiful. I've not done it. It is a beautiful thing. You've never done it? I'll be in Minneapolis that weekend, but... No, I've always been loyal to Zanis. I've done a corporate there. Come on, too.

I've done shows there. Opening for Nate. Really? Yep. For what? Just like Nate, the headline there? Yeah, when he was... Yeah.

It seems like a different time. Yeah. How big is the Franklin Theater? Like 400? Four or five hundred? I don't even know if it's that. Yeah. So Nick could probably sell out two of those.

300? Yes, 300. It's not that big, but it's a beautiful theater. So tickets are on sale for that. And May 29th, don't forget, the breadwinner is coming out. Ooh. Yeah. So editors are needing a little bit more time to cut us out of our scenes.

But now, you're safe, Dusty. That's been said. Yeah, I mean, they always say that. But there is anything really safe. That's true. I mean, on the cutting room floor, it could all be changed. Yeah, yeah. But we're excited about it.

With CGI now, they could just Photoshop my face right out of there. Well, with your hair, it would take a little bit more time. How funny that would be if we showed up and they had re, they imposed Lockland Padden's in the scene. And they go, we needed somebody with better hair. Yeah. Well, we did a little different thing with my hair. What did you? Oh, what's the way?

I don't want to say. Okay. They actually, the hairstylist was like, I got an idea. We'll do this with your hair and then we'll do this. And then when we did the first thing, we were actually like, oh, this is pretty cool. Why don't we do that? And I go, great. And then Nate walked in to the thing and I go, do you mind if we do this?

And he goes, great. Love it. That's awesome. Yeah. Did you think about having your hair like that in everyday life? I flew out later that day. left it in. And I left it in at the airport.

And then I took it out before I got home. Well, that's very interesting about your family on the crew. I just assumed because Hannah is having a baby. That's why she didn't go. Well, that's another thing. It's like she's, you know, pretty pregnant now. And so we're like, you know, there's a lot. And then we did take a trip to Mexico without the kids.

And we don't really want to do that again. We missed the kids. And I felt weird about it because I leave all the time, right? But they're always with their mom. Yeah. You know? And then we were both gone. And I thought they never really been without one of us.

Yeah. Or without both of us. Yeah. Maybe it'll be good. Um, for them. Maybe, but there's to have one, you know, to learn to, I don't know. But, you know, trying to spend this.

But yeah, but we're, you know, she's going to stay. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's not happening. Yeah. Yeah. So, but, but Hannah had that fear a little bit, that the kids would, you know, might fall

off. And, you know, for me, it's like if my kid falls off, I got to fall off. You know, I got to jump right off after him. I'll tell you one time, my dad came, brought my little brother to a birthday party, came back in a suit soaking wet. My little brother jumped in the deep end of a pool. Oh, gosh. Couldn't swim. My dad jumped in full suit. Wow. Yeah. Boston. Yeah, my dad. Yeah, you're a good friend. My dad. Wow. But you just got to do it. You got to do it. You don't even. think about it. You got to do it. Well, that was before cell phones.

Who knows what he would have done if he had a cell phone in his pocket? It can't ruin the phone. Right. He'd be like, hey, film this. Before I go viral. Dad of the year. Before I jump, now turn it vertical. Does it bother you when you see, because I watch some of these videos and I'm a sucker

for him where a guy will go, ma'am, you're amazing. Here's 500 grand. You can get off the street. Have you seen these videos? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. I like them. And then I go, should I like this?

Because it's all like, why you're taping this? I go back and forth. How do you feel about it? I'm like you, I think. I like it from the standpoint of it's entertaining to me. Yeah. I watched one recently where it was like a, it's a Christian guy. And he went up to this preacher and he goes,

oh, I'm homeless. And the preacher takes him to a restaurant. He goes, come on. I'll get you something to eat. He takes him, and then he prays for him, and then the guy goes, he goes, after that, he goes, actually, I want to tell you something. I'm not homeless. Here's $500. And it's just like, and the guy, the preacher, and then another guy pulls up out of nowhere in his car and goes, here's a thousand. And it's like, the preacher got emotional, and it's like you like it, you like it's like you just manipulated this guy. How were they being filmed? I don't know. Like the preacher didn't see the guy from outside of the restaurant. camera crew? I don't know, but it seemed like it was more of a personal camera on the guy.

But it just like, it's like, you just manipulated this guy and it's like, just give him the money. You act like you want to help him, but you're only helping for your own viral content. You know, you said something one time about people shouldn't do this. And it's such an obvious thing that we shouldn't do that I'm embarrassed that I was even doing it. Not a lot. But just don't film anybody in. public, if they don't know they're being filmed or don't ask to be filmed. And I'm not saying I was doing that all the time, but if I was, I don't know, out in public somewhere and I saw something funny, I might do it. And it's not right. So now when I make videos on public, I mean, if there's somebody far in the background, I don't blur their face, but I don't try to find somebody and

show their face to it something. Yeah, I had a buddy of mine get filmed at a, a Walmart by one of these like Walmart prankster guys. And it really like, uh, it really was not nice. No. What happened? He was, um, was it you?

I don't try to think of how much of the story to tell. Because it's a guy y'all both know. I'll tell you after, but he was, I hate those prankster videos. He was at like a heart, he was going through, like, it was a terrible day for him. And then he gets to Walmart. It's one of those guy walks up with starts asking him questions and he's being filmed. And he just answered them awkwardly. And then the video got a ton of views. Oh, just kind of making, fun of them and he's like i just kind of hate that and that guy is believe it or not that guy's

doing comedy now it's like the walmart prankster yeah and it's just uh i i don't like it yeah you just got to not talk to them at all any of the prankster any of the people that's somebody will walk up and you don't even know you're being somebody will just walk up and like to make you look silly and you're like all i did was come to this walmart to try to like get groceries or something now i'm being ridiculed online Yeah. It goes back to what we're talking about last episode, the difference between like willfully entering into this versus I'm just trying to stay out of everyone's business. And now you're put on blast or stuff.

I filmed yesterday at the airport. I didn't post it, but everyone's back was to me. The moving walkway in Nashville Airport, everybody's standing on it right. Oh, I hate that. I hate that. And I was going to post it like, oh, we're still learning how this works, but I didn't. There's not a thing that bothers me in the world more than that, I think. It's not a ride, people.

But in people's defense on this. Stand to the right. Stand to the right. If one group of people, I guess you could just say move, but I don't think everybody on there was, they know how to do it, but if one person up front or two people are blocked you. It traps everybody. You just got to go, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. I guess everybody was being nice.

You got a sparta kick the person in the back and knock them over. And if they have headphones in and they don't hear you, you just kind of scooch by them. Well, this is my big theory. I always see that, you know, the subway takes guy online? Yeah. Ask people what their take is if I ever do that. I think headphones are a net bad for society. Yeah.

Why? Because you can't hear what's going on. We need you in the world. Yeah. Come join us. We're living a life out here. There's a world going. Maybe I don't understand.

I don't know if it's necessarily a good thing. He doesn't mean us wearing headphones right now. I mean, I'm not saying this should be illegal. I'm saying it should be if you're in a public place where we're all relying on each other to be in the moment. Take the headphones off. I'm sorry, I missed where this is at. Where are you talking about? In public.

This is just my take. If I were ever on a show and they go, what's your hot? But not a, not on a plane. No, a plane's different. I'm talking about, but at the airport, like walking to your gate at the airport. Yeah. These guys will have, I don't know if it's a good thing. to just go, let me retreat into my own little world real quick.

Uh-huh. And then they're in everybody's way. Maybe earbuds are okay, but noise-canceling headphones where you can't hear anything is back. Earbrot's the same. It's the same thing. They got, you know, they're not listening to nothing. They got a song on. Somebody yelled for you, you'd hear them.

But if I have my headphones in and they're not loud, you're not, I'm still in the world while enjoying my entertainment. But these big noise-canceling headphones, you are completely removed. And your walk, and then they don't even think. I'm existing in a living, breathing airport where there's things moving around. And, you know, they're just clogging up hallways and take the headphones off. I think the moving sidewalk thing, though, even the escalators, it's like move to the right and let me pass you. Let me pass you.

Even going up, right? I don't want to go, boom, boom, boom, boom. I'm not trying to run up the stairs, but, you know, I like to take a step here and there. Yeah, on the escalators. It moves along a little faster. Right. We don't have, just because it... Well, you gotta go.

Well, I'm trying to catch flights. Late for a flight. Just because it moves. Signed up for clear, though. He doesn't even really need to rush. You guys both get the airport five hours early. But just because it moves doesn't mean it's a ride. I agree.

I agree with that. I agree with he doesn't. Move along. So you get on an elevator and what jump? I mean, Brian sits down on the escalator. Try to get up there quicker. Sit down on the step. If there was a ladder in there that you could climb,

And it would make it go a little faster. I would. With a suitcase. Yeah. Up a ladder. Yeah. That's funny. Well, I got this weekend, and I got on the plane, and the lady in the middle, I was getting ready to put my earbuds in.

And the lady in the middle is like, I can't remember what she has to know. Are you from here or something like that? And then I'm like, yeah, I can't remember. Yes. No, I think she asked, is Houston your final stop? And I said, and I said, yes. And I'm putting my earbuts. And then she turns the other guy, but he's already got his headphones on.

So he doesn't answer. Or if he heard her, he could pretend like you did. I'm like, oh, crap, I'm too late. You know, because now she's starting talking to me. Yeah. And I'm like, this is going to be tough. It's been a long time since someone started talking to me on a point. But once we took off, she quieted down.

She was good. She was good. As soon as we landed, she started talking to me again. I think before taking off and after landing, that's all fair game. Talk to it. I don't like it any time. Because it feels like it's kind of over. Come on.

Come on. You guys need to be in the world, do we need you. We need you out here. Not on a plane. We need you. I'll talk to you. We just got Christopher Cross playing in your headphones. I wear eye.

Four hours. I do. I wear an eye mask. You wear an eye mask on a play? Do you? I'm surprised we didn't talk about it. The new boarding process is Southwest now. I've not boarded.

How about it, man? I've not boarded a flight yet with Southwest, but I've been booking them, and I got to tell you, it's nice to push my own seat. And I have had entire rows to myself every time I've flown with it, the new system, because I got A-list preferred. I can get the priority seating or the exit row that you have to pay more for. So the slubs, they're not paying for that. I got A-L-L-S preferred, too. They're clogging up the back of the plane or the front, and I got all these rows for you. I want it to be.

It's been unbelievable so far. I want it to be publicly known. Yeah, people hate it, but I love it. On the public figures podcast, I'd like it to be publicly known that I'm making a total switch from American Airlines to Southwest. I'm doing the switch. Welcome, man. I'm doing the switch.

Southwest has tons of direct flights out of Nashville. And now that the seating change is different. Now that you can pick your seat. That was my only problem with Southwest. You don't care about all the free borders now, you know. Yeah, that was my only problem with Southwest. Aaron, a few weeks ago, I don't think does. he was here for this episode. I shared how I got my hotel room in Houston next to the airport,

but I was next to the wrong airport. The wrong airport. It's about 30 miles away on the other side of Houston. This weekend, it was almost a similar situation where I was, again, closer to the other airport than where I was staying, but they don't have Southwest. So I chose to find a hobby, direct flight Southwest, got to drive longer, but it's direct. or I could do a connecting to George Bush, another airline. To me, it's worth it just the direct flight. Totally. Totally.

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Which will be forwarding to our new email that has yet to be created. Yeah. Or I guess it's the Nate, yeah, yeah, anyway. Sorry. Robert, I've been having trouble reading today. Robin Dietrich. You think that's right? Mm-hmm.

Love the podcast every week, but especially when Dustin's, and Aaron are on their game, and Brian tries to keep them on task. Thank you for bringing the laughter and positive vibes every week. On their game. So he's like two episodes? I'm the teacher. I mean, when we're on our game, we're on our game. You know what I mean? So even if it's only a couple episodes, it's still very fun.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Robin. And you know what, Robin? We like when you're on your game, too. You know what I mean? I don't. I like to say, you know what I mean, when people don't know what I mean. If your name's Robin, you think you have to hear about Batman a lot.

Like every day your life, do you think it gets brought up? I don't think so anymore. I mean, we've not had a Robin character since Batman and Robin in the late 90s. Robin was in the Christopher Nolan Batman movies. Yeah, but never referenced. But not. It wasn't like a big character. Never referenced.

They kind of say his name's Robin at the end. Yeah, but... But it's not like a big... I don't know why they did that because those movies were over. I know. Why would you even tease that? They must have thought

maybe he was going to do his own thing? I agree. I just really soon watch that movie. I would think more Robin Hood. Oh, Robin Hood. It kind of depends on if it's a man or a woman. I guess so. If it's a woman, I don't think people are like,

oh, like... Yeah, if you're like a tiny... guy named Robin. And you're like in gymnastics. And you say like EGAD and stuff a lot like that. Are there any public figures now named Robin? I mean, Robin. Ventura? Yeah.

And Robin from... That's still pretty old too. Howard Stern. Oh, yeah. Robin Thick. Robin Thick, Allen Thick's son. Robin Roberts. You guys know her? She's a sportscaster. Okay. Robin Roberts?

Yeah. I think she's on Good Morning America. Yeah, okay. All right, here we go. Keeping it going, Bart Scarborough. My daughter flew Southwest Airlines into Nashville and had a five-hour layover. I told her to be on the lookout for one of you guys while she waited. She was trying to get some shut-eye and was interrupted by someone singing.

It was dusty, singing out loud for. all the world to hear. Before she could say hello, he was out the doors and she was left to gawk. She missed her big chance to meet a real public figure. Now, does this sound like you? Do you sing out loud like that in public? Yeah. I love the fact you're not denying this at all. No, you know, it depends on the day. Sometimes he's got his noise canceling headphones in. Sometimes I'm very happy and I just walk around singing. You just walk around. White I have a son. No.

I'd never heard that. Never heard that in my life. But, you know, I'll walk around singing a country song. Can you give us an example? Well, I've sang on this podcast. It'll come naturally probably before this episode's over. That's a night that the lights went out and George, you know what I mean. That's usually what happens.

Yeah. I wonder when this was, though. Sounds like it could have been meeting times. It could have been any weekend. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I was singing.

There was this a fair and young song, Four in the Morning. It's four in the morning. And I got really, I don't even know how it goes anymore, but I really got into singing that, and I was singing that a lot. Yeah.

That's probably what it was. Yeah. Mm-hmm. What was the song you were singing? What song? Just now. Oh, Post Malone. Okay.

All right. Jordan Ford Ice. Four dice. Four dice. I got to roll four days. Has anyone told Aaron that his sports team changing all the players' questions is similar to the ship of thesis problem? The problem states if you replace every piece of an old ship board by board until no pieces left, is it still the same ship? Also, if you were to take all those old boards and reassemble them, would that now be the true ship?

That's a great question. That's an interesting. Yeah, somebody wrote in about that ship of Theseus. Somebody wrote about that before. And I think it kind of, it's my first time thinking about it like this. But it's not like, what I'm saying is if I see a U.S. battleship in the ocean, Right? I would go, that battleship represents the United States. What if the battleship had its own name? Battleship Aaron Weber.

Okay, yeah, the USS, whatever. I don't care. But it represents, it's an extension of whatever country put it out there, right? So I care less about the ship, and if the ship, but if you don't have, if it's just a rogue ship by itself, then who cares? what it's just kind of Also, I'm going to say If you were to take all those boards And reassemble them Would that now be the true ship? I would say yes

If you were able to keep all the boards And then reassemble them That would be the true ship But why are you replacing the boards? Just over time wearing tear No, but I'm saying though If they can still be reassembled Then why are you even replacing them?

Because if they're all torn up Then you can't reassemble them. Oh, okay. Yeah, well, I think it's just a thought experience. Well, I mean, I'm thinking about it. You're thinking of it. Because if you replace them board by board, it's like, it's like a college football team, right? You take some guy leaves and a new guy comes and it's like, it's always still the team. Yeah. You know? Because the new guy comes on, but then in a few years, the new guy is the veteran. And then there's a new guy. So at the same way, the new board that you're putting on, eventually that new board, that's going to be an old board that's been a part of this ship for a long time. Okay. Yeah.

I mean, I like how the thought experiment, you guys want to check out on the thinking. This moment we start thinking, you guys go, ah, it's just a thing. You're experimenting with different stuff. It's just a thing. It's fun, but it's different to the... Anyway, thank you, Jordan. Oh, yeah. Thanks, Jordan.

It really brought a lot. If you fold a piece of paper Let's get to Lisa Lisa B Thomas I bet she's got Lisa B Thomas Lisa That's a name you throw

in a middle initial in there Yeah Lisa B Thomas There was a Lisa Women B shopping Go ahead Dusty My favorite part of every episode

Is watching Aaron crack up And turn around in his chair His laugh is more contagious than COVID Yeah Only one of those is real You know what I'm in?

Yeah I know Dessie would be reading the comments when I put that one in. Thank you, Lisa. I appreciate that. Yeah, thank you, Lisa B. Thomas. Lisa B. Thomas. Yeah. I thought about being a.

A.J. Weber instead of Aaron Weber. I don't like that. You know, like, A.J. Weber's got a little... Sounds like an athlete. J.K. Rowling. J.R. Tolkien. Oh, so you're thinking like a writer. I like when authors do that.

What's your middle... I don't know. There's something powerful about James. I don't know if James. I like... I like Aaron James Weber. Aaron James Weber on stage? Yeah.

It sounds like a shooter, don't I? It's all three names. Well, I think it's just because there's a couple. Isn't there a couple of shooters with James and the name? Have you heard that, I wish I could credit the guy, but it was a joke that went super viral of a comic. They said when a shooter or an assassin, they call them all three names, it's because they're in really big trouble.

When a pair, it goes, John Wilkes Booth, get over here. Aaron James Weber. Or AJ. I think you could change it and... People wouldn't even notice it. It's... Yeah, it's still early enough. Call yourself whatever you want to do it.

Still early enough. It hasn't caught on it. My name hasn't caught. Okay. The next one, keeping it very simple with the name, Cam. My wife is a lovely person. but has a real problem with getting any sayings or phrases right.

Instead of the normal nursery rhyme, she says, Nicknack, Paddywack, buy yourself a dog. Wow. I'm just going to start right there for a second and just say, that's really bad. I like that. Nick, knack, paddywack, buy yourself a dog. Just because you hate dogs.

Yeah. Which I guess makes sense. Before you give a dog a bone, You should be sure it's your dog. Of course, she also says, Billy pops corn and I don't care. And like a moth to a fly, not sure there's an explanation for those. I bet moths and flies hang out. You think?

They turn around. Billy pops corn and I don't care. Well, I don't know. What is cracking corn? Jimmy crack corn. Yeah, what does that mean to crack corn? I think you're like making it, turning it into like a corn meal. Okay.

I don't know. I think you're cracking it. Crack corn refers to dried corn kernels that have been broken, ground, or fractured in a smaller piece, is primarily used as animal feed for poultry and livestock. All right. Or for grits. Oh, I didn't even know. Jimmy Crack corn, the phrase implies breaking down corn to create food or metaphorically celebrating the death of an enslaver.

It was an old folk song, Jimmy Crack Corn. That seems like a stretch button. It's fake. But I guess, hey, I get, but why would you care, right? I mean, if he cracked corn, hey, I don't care. But it was two-week notice. Go ahead and crack corn. Yeah, oh, and crack corn, good.

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Green Shaw? Green ha. Okay. The question is for Brian and Dusty. At Dusty Show in Huntsville back in August, there was a female audience member in the front row dressed in a Where's Waldo outfit, including the striped hat.

I kept thinking the guys would call her out, but neither ever did. So my question is, at what point do you decide to interact with an audience member? Well, let me ask you guys, Do you remember the person that they're talking about? I do, but it's not my show, so I'm not going to... Right.

Now, did it feel like that person wanted to be addressed in some way? She's on the front row. Was it obnoxious enough of an outfit where you're like, oh, that's not like just how you dress? You're doing something? No, she was sitting like, if you're facing, she was sitting right over here. Okay. And he thinks she wants a little interaction. I don't know why she would dress like that.

See, that would stop me from doing it. I asked to have her kicked out, but no one could find her. I swear she's in there. I don't, yeah, I mean, I'm not into that. One time, a long time ago, I was, one of my first headlining gigs at Crackers in Indianapolis. There was a bachelorette party, and I shouted them out at the very end of the show, just to like, because I felt like, ah, they probably wanted some attention. But, you know, I was nervous, and I was like, just trying to, just trying to.

to do my show. Yeah. So at the end, I kind of go, hey, thanks for celebrating here. And then you could tell the girl, like, had this attitude like, oh, now you mention us, you know. And it was just like, okay, well, so I don't, I'm not into recognizing the audience member

that's trying to get attention, you know? Yeah, totally. Yeah, I don't know this person's motivation. I didn't see them, though, for the background. Yeah. I don't really look at the audience. I don't know. I mean...

You have your back to the crowd. If I make eye contact with someone in the audience, it can mess me up for a second. I need some... You just throw them one of these. Yeah, I'd put it in the... That's what I do. I'm putting it in the eye line. You block.

Yeah. That's what the wave's really all about. But now I don't... But he said, so my question is, at what point do you decide to interact with an audience? Brian, he go out there, guns blazing. I dare someone to say, something. I only interact when they talk to me. Yeah. Yeah. And even then. You try to shut it down pretty quick. Yeah. Stephanie Neal. I got laryngitis last week when I had a rare string,

had a rare string of public speaking responsibilities that could not be easily rescheduled. Brutal. As professional comedians, thank you, Stephanie for recognizing that, as professional comedians, What do you do when your whole job is to talk and you lose your voice? Yeah, she put public speaking in quotation marks. Is that a euphemism for something? I think she probably just... Yeah, let's just say I had a lot of public speaking going on. You're like, well, what is that mean?

I think she's making fun of herself, like, talking in front of her team members or something at work, maybe. Or is she making fun of public figures. Well, this was before. Okay. I think, I'm guessing she's just like, compared to you guys, it's not really public. speaking, but for me it is. I don't know. That's just my guess.

I like how you really put her below us, though. Well, he's trying to think there's some underground dark web thing going on. I'm just asking questions, right, Dusty? Exactly. Nobody seems to have answers. Well, now you know where I'm coming from all the time. I'm trying to ask a question. They go, hey, it's just a thought experiment.

But this is what I do. Throat Coat Lossange is your best friend. Specifically the throat coat lozange. Not any other lozage. No other lozage does it. Like throat coat tea is very good. I like that. But I mean, the throat coat lozange is,

you can really only find it in like Whole Foods. Powerful. It's the best. It doesn't do a lot for the cough if you got a cough, but fishermen's loisage is the best for a cough. All right. Just letting you guys know about that. I just man up and do it.

I smoke. Yeah. Well, I did a bunch of shows in, I did five shows in Spokane, Washington, where I had already canceled a weekend because I got sick. I flew there for the rescheduled dates on a Thursday. And I called my wife and I go, I think I'm getting sick. And you got sick there. I got sick in Spokane, too. There's something in the air. Yeah. It gets you. And then I did my first show on Thursday. And I thought, If I could just get a good night's sleep, I'll be good. That night in my hotel, the fire alarm went off in a way that there was a voice coming through the PA that said,

there's a fire, get out of the building, there's a fire. It was a robotic voice, but also I could hear people running down the hall. And I thought, I never leave during a fire alarm, but maybe I should. And then my- Wait, okay. Why don't you usually leave during a fire alarm? I always assume it's just a malfunction. And I've never left.

I never left the hotel during a fire alarm. And then my feature, Alec Parenthood, he starts knocking on the door. He goes, he goes, we've got to get out of here. And then I go, okay. And then we have to go down the stairs. We're on like the seventh floor. I can see through the glass doorway people passing through there. And I go, oh, gosh.

So I'm waiting on him to get his camera equipment. I go, we got to get out of here. You can film this out of him. Yeah. I would get that too. And then we go down like seven flights of stairs. It puts it basically dumps us out in the street. And then we walk around. I expect to walk around front.

There'd be fire trucks and people everywhere. And there's nothing. And we walk in. They're not apologetic. They go, somebody pulled the fire alarm. You can go back up. And then so Friday I had two shows. I was very sick.

Saturday I thought about canceling the shows. Even more sick. It was so bad. But throat coat too. Throw coat tea And the lozange. That's where it's at. I had never heard that story.

That's crazy. Josiah Stein. My wife and I rented a car from Enterprise so we could drive around Dallas to visit her grandma and various other family members. We got in the car and I thought it smelled weird.

As I opened up the mirror flap, I came to find the source of the funky smell, a bag of marijuana. Needless to say, we reversed all the way back the front and requested a new drug-free vehicle to which the employees were flabbergasted. Yeah, you're one of the few people that would... I think a lot of people would go, what am I, platinum member?

Yes, sir. And then they drive away. Enjoy that visit with Grandma. Yeah. I'm a big enterprise guy. I like them. Yeah, me too. I've been doing...

I'm going to do a platinum on Enterprise. I need to just pick one and stick with it. And they're at most major airports. And most of them you can just walk right right to the lot to the car. I did Avis this weekend and I checked in early and didn't do me any good because the line was still cruebly long to get up there. Yeah. Yeah. Enterprise is where it's at.

I'll refer you if you want. Get some points that way. I don't know. I don't know. Probably. All right. Woo. Dang.

Gwey. Wu Gwee. Uguay. You guys know each other so well. I would love an episode where you all pretend to be another host. It'd be funny to see how Brian acts like Dusty. Well, Brian's done that on a Halloween episode. That's true. He already stole my catchphrase. I could do Dusty on We're Having a Good Time podcast. If you want people to stop stealing your catchphrase, you can't stop catchphrasing every day saying. No, it's only... Your phrases are, we're having a good time. It's only the most common phrases that I will claim as my own. Hello. Yeah, hello is mine too. How we doing?

You're doing Dusty. Any greeting, any personal greeting. Thank you all for coming. That's Dusty. Dusty always tells him, thank you for governor. He's stealing Dusty's staking the crowd bit. He know that. I'd like to do that.

Can you do an impression of me or Dusty? I think I'm hard to do an impression of versus Dusty. Well, Dusty, I could do, like, I listen to his podcast every week. Welcome to work. Thank you. I can't do the voice. We're having a good time. Voice is admittedly a big part of it.

Yeah, it's a big part of an impression. What's the other big part? The content. Okay. I'll do that part. Okay. Let's hear it. Welcome to We're having a good time.

All right. Welcome to We're having a good time podcast. I'm your host, Dusty Slay. This weekend I was in Syracuse, New York, Hot Shows. I worked with my good friend, very funny. Oh, God, what's his name? I hate that I can't remember his name because he was very funny. Very funny.

And we're good for it. And we went to eat barbecue. Of course, I don't eat pork because the Bible says don't eat pork. Look, everyone always emails me that Jesus said it was okay, but I don't care. Well, I don't say I don't care. I'd say he didn't say that. Let me get it right, though. But then we go to the barbecue restaurant, and there's a dog in there.

And look, I don't hate dogs. I wish they were all gone, but I don't have. hate them. That was true. That was unbelievable. This is not bad. If you could get the voice, this would be a spinal. This weekend I was in Syracuse, New York. I feel like this was a

very negative episode that I maybe read in a little bit. But I think we had a good time, folks. Jeez. These are great impression. So I just got to get the voice down. All right, I'll do Brian. Okay. Yeah, sorry I had my CPAP went out last night.

I was breathing too good. That was great. Let's stop there. Let's do an air one. You can't do you, Aaron one. You can't neither. I can do an air one. I went to the buffet today.

And they ran out of plates. They ran out of plates. Not food. God, you nailed it. I feel like Aaron's in the room. I don't think y'all know what an impression is. Here's my impression to Aaron. Hey, I'm a big fat guy.

I thought it was spot on. Yeah, what are you, Frank Callianda? Perfect. Well, thank you, Lou. It was really funny. You know what we did do? I may have talked about it. on the show before, but I did a show years ago at third.

No, this is episode two. You haven't. That's true. Everything's all fair game now. Yeah, exactly. Start all over. Did a show at Third Coast Comedy Club here in Nashville years ago called Set Swap, where two comedians who were friends would do each other's sets.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was so much fun to do it. It was me and Brad Sativa did each other's sets. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Brad uses a lot of words. I don't. Yeah.

I'm not allowed to use. Yeah. But it was fun. Anyway. Sorry. Aaron Croh. Has Aaron Weber ever explained to the group the difference between correlation and causation? Maybe worth a discussion.

Probably not. No, because there's a... Croft. I would say a causal relationship between conversations like that and how bad the episode is. Does that make sense? No. Okay. What's an example?

Well, I don't know why he don't think we know what it means. Well, I don't. Do you know? I mean... Correlation is X and Y happening at the same time. Okay. Causation would be X happening because of Y. Okay.

What's Y doing? It's a thought experiment. It depends. But you can do, okay, like the cost of TVs has gone down. over time, right? Because people are on their phones. Yeah. All right, let's keep thinking more.

Yeah, that just killed whatever I was doing. You guys get it. You guys get it. Here's one. So, I want to hear it. Dusty got laughs because of me. Okay. Because I got the audience warmed up.

whereas Aaron bombs because he couldn't follow dust. I don't know. I don't know. I thought I was. I thought I had one and I didn't. Okay. I was in Chicago this weekend. There was a disproportionate amount of murders that night in the city.

Okay. That's a correlation between those two things. Okay. My being in Chicago didn't cause. Ah. Now, could it have? Maybe. maybe I did that well

that people died. Oh, there's more murders than normal. I'm saying if there's any kind of statistical anomaly or not the normal. Aaron Croft, this is why we don't get into the If there were fewer murders, I would say I was the causation because people were at my show. Well, there you go. You could.

You could argue there's a causal relationship between those two things. Or they might have had a heart attack on their own. Andrea Boyles. I've unintentionally incorporated Dusty's nah, nah, into my daily vocabulary. I was recently asked by a cashier in a department store if I wanted to apply for a credit card, and I replied, nah. And she said, was that a yes or a no?

I quickly replied, that was a nah. Thank you, Dusty, for helping me add some extra snark to my day. Yeah, Andrea, listen, the cashier, she knew what you said. But she goes, was that a yes or a no? It's like, listen, lady, you're not my English teacher. I don't want to apply for the credit card. Yeah. Thank you, Andrea.

I'm glad you're doing that. Jordan Padenick. Padnik. This, you ever hear of the show below deck? Do you ever hear of the show? Anybody? No. Do you guys listen?

Yeah, I'm listening. I remember Nate making fun of you for watching this. This is a clip for the show. They're asking the chef. The chef is, I think, French. And they're, he asked them how the steak was cooked. And this is what he said. We are four medium well.

For medium well. What would he say? Medium rare or medium well? Medium well. Medium wall. Yeah, I don't know what. Is below deck a show like about ships and cruise? It's about the crew that works on a chartered yacht.

Oh, so it's not like what we're. doing the cruise. No, this is like a private group of like 10 to 12 people were run out of you. I got you. Okay. Last comment. Jordan Payton Nick. I'm a fan of Dusty, but I just want to know what his reaction is to First Corinthians 1114.

Oh, geez. Go ahead, Dusty. Tell us. Okay. This is an IV first off. Okay. Well, let's find the King James. Yeah.

Let's find the King James version. Okay. Doth? Yeah. Well, I... We'll read it for the listeners. Well, it says, Doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair,

it is a shame to him. Well, I've read this many times. And I'll say, you know, in Corinthians, they don't give away, they don't give commandment. So it doesn't mean that you can't have long hair. And what does long mean? Does it mean long down to your hips, long down to where I have it? Yeah.

Or maybe even your air is a little too long. I mean, not. I'm good? Yeah. Hey, Brian's going to heaven right away. So, you know, I think it's vague, but I also don't think it's a command. Why is this, this is Corinthians? So this is Paul, right?

Yeah. Why is he talking about this? Well, there's been an explanation. Was there like an epidemic of long-haired dudes? There was an explanation. It's kind of weird, though, but this guy, who's this guy, Michael Heiser? And he has a podcast where he talked about this verse. And it's pretty weird, actually, what he talks about.

And even though it's a Bible podcast, it would probably seem like not clean to do it on this podcast. But he got into what they actually believed about long hair. And that somehow men would not be able to have children if they had hair that was long. But. It's still unclear if that's true. Well, no. Lockland's doing great. But that, yeah, I mean, I actually had a guy at the courthouse.

I got out of my car at the courthouse in Opelika when I was 18. I had long hair. and a guy with his Bible came running up to me and showed me that verse, all that long. You're like, that's the new law and I don't abide by it. Well, I didn't know any of that back then. Like playfully or? No, he was like out there. Like a guy playfully runs up with his Bible?

I thought he was like new dusty. He's like, he was an old man. And he was telling you you need to cut your hair? Yeah. That's crazy. Out of all the injustices, this is, let's focus on. Yeah. But look at all the injustices he focuses on.

And he's like, I look good with his hair. so it ain't a commandment. Well, I don't, you know, I don't focus on injustices. I focus on, you know, the Old Testament laws. Okay. That's true. And that long hair's not listed. The only thing I found is that there's maybe mention if you want to be a priest not having long hair.

Interesting. Huh. Do you want to be a priest? Well, if I do, I'll cut my hair. Okay. That'd be great if you became a priest. Yeah. A Catholic priest?

Yeah, obviously. the right kind. But, thank you, Jordan. Yeah, thanks, Jordan. I appreciate that question. I like that last name. Paid a niche.

Me too. All right. So this week, it is Valentine's week. I think this comes out maybe February 12th. Guys, happy Valentine's Day. Yeah, same to you guys. It's one of our favorite holidays.

St. Valentine's Day. I don't celebrate Valentine's Day, but... This comes out February 11th. I knew you didn't celebrate Valentine's. We did a Valentine's episode, three of us on Nate Land one time. Oh, yeah, yeah. Looked at the history.

So, like, let's don't do that again. All right. But I think we all believe in love, right? I think we believe in love. Love is all you need. Sure, yeah. That's what Valentine's, you know, that's kind of the theme. So today we're talking about love.

And we've got some things to unbox, I believe. Oh. Get some things to unbox. Yeah. All right. All you need is love. Oh, we got a few things. Does it matter who opens what?

you need is love. You're going to go with that one. Oh, I get the big one. I'll open the tissue box right here. Okay. If you're listening, we've got cardboard boxes. This is a thing we do on this show. We do an unboxing.

I love this. So far. All right. Okay. All right. I've got an action figure. Oh, that's Master Splinter. Oh, Master Splinter.

From Teener, Dusty. Yeah. Yeah. Action figure of him. Okay. Okay. I've got some, oh, wired headphones. Okay. And I've got a Nintendo 64 shirt. Oh, that's awesome. What size is that? Let's see here. This is Excel.

All right. You can hold on to it. Looks bigger than that, though, doesn't it? You think that until you put it on. We'll just try and see. Give a shot. We're a new podcast that could go viral. Okay, so this is supposed to be a theme. Yeah, so these are...

Listen, teach, play. Whoa. That's what I'm thinking. Wow. Well, that's better than what I was going to say. But these are all things that at one time another, we might have loved. It's from three different eras here. Yeah.

What do you got over there? I still love wired headphones. There you go. Is that a USBC or is that a lightning? Oh, it's a USB. You guys? Oh, it's an ox? Oaks. Yeah. Nice. And you must have been in Master Splinter because you knew who that was.

Yeah. So that was probably... I was into the Ninja Turtles. I wasn't really into... That was before your time and after my time. A humanoid rat and a game. He was a villain, right? No, he's the trainer of the Ninja Turtles. Oh, he's a good guy?

Yeah. Oh, why is he training the turtles? Well, he's Master Splinter. But he's a, what, a pigeon? He's a rat. A rat. So Nate's was really into teenage meat Ninja Turtles. So they're, that error.

Teenage mutant ninja turn. And then Nintendo 64, is that what, 60, yeah. Yeah. That's about when I was in college, TechMobile, stuff like that. TechMobile. Yeah. That's not 64. No.

You probably think about regular Nintendo. Super Nintendo. Oh. Yeah, Super Nintendo. 64 has had the really weird controller, had golden eye. and 64 came out in 96.

Okay, it's a little after me then. Yeah, I had Yeah, I mean, it's maybe the greatest gaming console of all time. It's aged better

than just about anything. People still play an N64. I have an N64. I have one, yeah. That I'll play occasionally, take it on the road sometimes. Well, today we're going to talk about some things we love.

The things we've loved along the way. Yeah, Before we get into that, I'm going to share a little bit of information about love itself. I'd like to hear it. I don't know much about it. Well, you like this, Aaron. Ancient Greek philosophers. That's what I'm talking about. Aristotle's?

Broke love down into eight different types. Who did? Who? It doesn't say. It just says Greek philosophers. Okay. The good ones. Okay.

Do you know any of them? No, because I don't even know who you're talking about. Well, I'm talking about the different types of love. But who... There's love that's like... I'm looking for the Greek word. Oh, the Greek word. Agape. There you go. That's a very...

That's the shirt you're wearing. I didn't even realize that. That's so true. That is crazy. That is so true. So you and I have both done a fundraiser for this organization. At the Franklin Theater. At the Franklin Theater.

Agape, it's a Christian organization. There's a lot of agapes that are Christian organizations, but this one's here in Nashville. And... What kind of love is that? It's for children. that for need adoption or foster care. That's for the organization. Okay.

He said, he said, what kind of love is that? Oh, I'm sorry. You know, children and you need adoption? That's pretty specific.

I'm sorry. Agape love is very popular among Christians, so let me tell you what it is. Okay. It's unconditional, selfless love for everyone and everything. The highest form of love. It's what God's love for us. Nothing, you know.

So is it possible to have agape love as a human? Can you have agape love for other people? No chance. You're supposed to strive to do that. Probably the closest, I would say, is for our children. Right? I hope so. Yeah.

But we're supposed to have agape love for each other. Or at least try to. At least try to. All right. Here's some others. Eros, that's sexual and passionate love. Okay. Like you guys have for...

Fylauilia. That's love between friends based on deep trust and mutual respect. Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. There you go. That's where it comes from. Wow. What's the first part? Ophelia?

Yeah. There's also a song, Ophelia. by Marshall Tugger band The band? Ophelia's the band Yeah, okay Storge or Storj, I don't know,

S-T-O-R-G, I think it's Stor-J, love between family members. Okay, like you're all in storage. Yeah. Stowed away. And Agapy, we recovered, Lutus, that's playful love

that involves flirting and casual relationship. Lutus! kind of like, what you guys have for each other? Pragma. That's long-lasting love grounded in commitment, duty, and responsibility. That sounds good.

Like a marriage. Like a marriage. Like practical. Pragmatic. Yeah. Practical. It's a little close, but a little different.

It's like when I tell my daughter, they both start with peas. That's half the battle right there, bud. Well, they both start with P-A, P-R-A. Yeah. Wow. So they're basically the same word. Yeah.

I mean, if we're going to do the joke, though. And mania, that's obsessive, jealous love. Oh. So like a maniac. That's the only one that's bad so far. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. I guess so.

You don't want to have that. Yeah. And then these are the Greek philosophers. Now, modern psychologists have come up with their own. Of course they have. Types of love. Did I lose a page? Philosophers are never good enough.

It's postmodern. Well, you've got to update it because you have the internet now. There's different kinds of love now. You can obsess over the internet. Yeah. You can stalk people like all their posts. All right. These are more practical.

Number one, non-love. Indifference toward another person. No passion, no emotional intimacy, no commitment. I think that's. Okay. obvious. That's kind of like, well, if I think I have non-love for a lot of people. Is it non-love? Well, yeah, I mean, that, well, that's not a type of love. A non-love is not- Faison loves, brother. Yeah, that's a type of love. I agree. This is from, uh,

I love non. Yeah. You have non. Yeah. So good. Number two, liking. Yeah. This is most friendships, no passion, high levels of emotional intimacy, no commitment. Also, not love. You like them. Yes, I still agree. In this type of love, you're more focused on the real close bond you share with someone else. All right. Number three, infatuation. It's starting to get weird. High levels of passion, no emotional intimacy, no commitment. Infatuation is not love. So far, we're 0 for three, right? Yeah. You get butterflies in your stomach and a flush of desire. Not love. Number four, empty love. People who stay together out of obligation, indifference or simplicity.

Couples who choose to stay together for their kids. That sounds like love for the kids. Love for the kids. That's true. Yeah. But not for each other. And just a general lack of responsibility. But still not really love.

Not love. Number five, romantic love. That could probably be covered under one of the other types of love. From the philosophers. Skip to the good one. Number six, companion at love. I was about to say compassionate, but companion. Companion at love.

Maybe you've been friends for years and your best friends who allowed each other through thick and thin. So it's like friendship that's so close, it's weird. So Aristotle would call eating salt together. So two friends have gone through some crazy experience. Then that kind of elevates the friendship into something. By joining a fraternity. You have to go through an initiation. you go through the same.

You go through the pain. You eat some salt together to get in. Eat some salt together. Yeah. Not literally, but yeah. It's a thought experiment. Yeah. Do you want me keep going?

Yes. Number seven, fatuous love. For fat people. This is when two heavy people fight each other. And they use all the plates at the buffet. No. They say you fill a lot of sparks toward this person and you're committed, but all of a sudden you might start to realize there's no emotional

connection. I love you fatuously. And number eight, consummate love. Okay. All right. This is what you're supposed to try to achieve. High level of passion, high level of emotional intimacy. I can't say that word.

High level of commitment. This is the gold standard of relationships. Okay. Yeah, this is why everything's a mess now. because they've all, like, you're supposed to achieve that. It's like, come on, guys, we're trying out here. Well, that's what character's in the trying, right? What?

The virtue is in the trying. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Yeah. Not the, it's a deliberately unattainable standard of perfection, but you're defined by your pursuit of that perfection, not whether you achieve it or not. Have

bars? Have either of you Have either of you read The Five Love Languages? I know about it from Every Comedian on Earth But I've never actually read it I didn't

I knew you hadn't really I was just trying to be nice And I'm just trying to be nice and told you But Appreciate it Yeah Nate told the story on this podcast About how when they got married

His parents Gave them that book Parents Would I say it wrong? I thought he said parents Parents Parents? parents.

Pretty advanced bird. He bought him a book. His parents gave him, gave them that book. And they kept asking, have y'all read it? Have you all read it? And they were like, oh, yeah, we're getting around to it. And they finally were like, look, there's a $100 bill we put in there for you guys. So if you're never going to read it, you need to know that's it.

Oh, that's hilarious. Wow. Was there actually in there? Because that's a. Yeah, I think so. I think so. That'd be a good lie to tell people. All right.

Let me give you the five. Look through every page. Couldn't find it. I'll give me the five level. And you tell me if you know which one you think you are. Well, what does it, does it mean how you like to express love to people or how you like to receive love from people? I've always got confused on that because you'll do a test with your partner.

You'll each be one of these two. And I guess it's supposed to help you know what they like. And I guess I sent a video to my wife that I saw the other day. and it was a guy hugging his wife and she looked real annoyed. Yeah. And it said, when his love language is affection and your love language is acts of service and there's work to be done at home. I think I saw that.

And I said that to her because I think that's us. Yeah. I want a hug. I want a hug from my wife. And I think she'd like me to clean up the house. So that means her love language is acts of service. Yes. Because she wants you to express your love by doing things.

Yes. Okay. I had it. And all I want is a hub. Oh, you know what I mean? All right. The five love languages are acts of service. Okay.

Receiving gifts. Quality time. Definitely not that. Just kidding. What quality time? Just kidding. Just kidding. Everybody.

Words of affirmation. Yeah. And physical touch. Okay. So which one do you think you would be? Words of affirmation. Oh, physical touch. Yeah, yeah.

Okay. When I was younger, physical touch, now I just want a nice word. Keep at it, buddy. I just want somebody tell me a good time and don't touch me, actually. So, yeah, so couples do this and it's supposed to help them in their relationship. What are you supposed to do with that? At the least, understand what motivates your partner. And, you know, if you're trying to do something for them and they're not receiving it the way that you think they should, it's probably because that doesn't even mean much for them.

Like, acts of service, mowing in the yard or something may not mean much for your spouse. And then you get frustrated. But shouldn't the goal been be, oh, we need to recalibrate things in that person's mind? Because it is a bigger deal. The yard used to be mowed. Yeah. Then to scratch your back. I don't know.

I love to have my back. Well, me too. I'm saying. I even try to get my kids to do it now. I go. Really? Yeah, I'm like, yeah. You know what I can't wait for when Olive is big enough to walk on my back?

Yeah. Do you like people walking on your back? Yeah. Oh, God, it feels so good. Lucy won't do it. Makes me furious, but. You walk on hers? That's very funny, Brian.

I could use a word of affirmation from you, Dustin. You look very good. Oh, man. The shirt you're wearing, you got gold emblem match with your gold hat right now. Your eyes? I thought it was Brad Pitt over here. Yeah. It's too much, guys.

Hubba, hubbo. Yeah. Too much. All right. Well, thank you. This is a quality touch. A physical, physical touch. Yeah, yeah.

Got to touch the skin, though. I'm good on that. All right. We all love our family, I think, that goes out saying. So we don't have to get into that. Let's get in some stuff. non-people, non-personal. Let's get into what life is really about.

Material things. That's right. Stuff we have loved over the years. So I thought it'd be fun. We're all 10 years apart. So if we take a decade and pick some things, I think we're going to have some very different answers. Oh, I love this. Yeah.

So let's do the 90s, 2000s, 2010s, and then 2020s. Perfect. Perfect. And I pick four things to talk about. out. Is there one you guys wanted to get into first?

Was it matter? I think we should just start in order. Yeah, like in 90s. Well, I know that, but I'm talking about the topics. All right,

we'll start with toys. Okay. So obviously, it's going to be very different for you and I. I'll start and we can just, I don't know how we want to do this. Some of mine are lame on here,

but for toys, 1990s, for me, I chose golf clubs. I never played golf growing up, never took golf lessons. But in the 90s, in college, my buddy liked to go these cheap courses and play. And I bought some really cheap golf clubs and we would go.

They were toys. Well, I'm in my 20s. So this is the closest thing. They're tools for me. But yeah, for Brian, they're more like toys. I get worked on on the green. You know what I mean? I'm not going to have any real toys in my 20s.

It's the closest thing I can come up with. I was just trying to get caught because you were saying we're going to these cheap golf courses. I was 25. I got a slinky. And I was thinking you had some plastic golf clubs. Yeah. So that's what I'm choosing, golf clubs. I've started playing golf.

I've never been good at golf. But I was having fun in college. Those were the closest things I have to a toy. Yeah, that's a real good one. Mine would probably be a bike in the 90s. I had a bike with pegs. You ever have a bike with pegs on? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. When I got the pegs put in. Well, 90s were my heyday for toys. I mean, I was eight years old in 1990. I mean, I had G.I. Joe's. I had a He-Man, Masters of the Universe toys. I had Ninja Turtle toys. That's how I know about Master Splinter. Me and my stepbrother, we had the whole sewer thing going. We had all, you know, you had where they had the city on the top, then the sewer underneath. I had, gosh. Those action figures. Oh, yeah. That was it. I mean, I was all, I had, I had race cars, I had a remote control car, remote control car with a cord. but still remote control car. Oh, man.

My dad had four-wheeler's. We had bikes. So you're just doing a bunch of stuff that you had that you loved as a kid, which is fine. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, the 90s was my heyday for toys. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're saying we're picking one thing. G.I. Joe. Oh, yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. And did you think that that translated into you eventually joining the Army? Maybe. The...

Was he an Army guy, G. G.I. Joe? Or was he just kind of... It was a big military. It was lots of GI Joe's. I thought it was one dude named Joe. No, no, no. I didn't know that.

I thought it was one guy named Joe. Now, it's a whole world of... So it was GI Joe's. G.I. Joe. I thought it was a guy who was a GI and his name was Joe. I did too. That's crazy. Who's...

Okay. So they don't have names? Look up the... Yeah, they all have names. But you got to look up action figures from the 90s. I mean, but yeah, it's like... It stands for something, I think. But it's...

Well, GI stands for general infantrymen, right? But it's... Yeah, I mean, there was so many. I don't... You know, I was just playing with the toys. But my... In the trailer park... You didn't have the whole backstory here.

In the trailer park, the whole front yard was all sand. Okay. So we... And then Desert Storm was going on at some point in my life as a child. So we had Desert Storm kind of trucks and tanks. and tanks. And so, and then the yard was sand. So we were building bunkers and roads and we had G.I. Joe's all over the place. It was unbelievable. I think Desert Storm was like 91. Yeah, I mean, it was, you know. Yeah. So that was your heyday. Yeah. I mean, I, Sergeant,

I had a Sergeant Slaughter G.I. Joe. You were right, Dusty. G.I. Joe was not originally one guy, but a brand name for four different action figures representing the RV Navy Air Force and Marines. Yeah. Launched in 1960. I mean, but there was so, my dad, you know, my dad would pick me up every other Sunday because I live with my mom and he would take me to lunch and then we would go to Walmart and he would usually buy me a GI Joe. I had so many GI Joe's. So how would they make them different than if it was? I don't, I'm, I'm pretty blown away that you guys don't know about GI Joe's. But I think GI Joe, I know it's wrong, but I grew up with, I had the little plastic green army guys. That's what I. Yeah, no, G.I. Joe's had...

Is this them right here? Yeah, they had, you know, they had wrists that moved. They had elbows. They had shoulders. They had... They were not like this. That's some form of G.I. Joe. But you want to look up the 90s plastic G.I. Joe's.

They were about this tall, but they were real slender guys. And, yeah, like this one right there. Like this right here? Yeah, more like that, yeah. Okay. And, oh, man, they had guns and grenades and... It was unbelievable. Look at that vintage G. I. Joe collection right.

Yeah. That's what you had? Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. That's awesome. G.I. Joe's were the best. But I also loved He-Man, Masters of the Universe.

By the Power of Grace Gold. Should we stick with the 90s or go to a different topic? I say stick with the 90s. Okay. So keep it fresh. All right. So the 90s TV shows. Yeah.

For me, Seinfeld. Now, I will say this. I didn't like start watching Seinfeld episode one. I was kind of late to the game. When I was in college, I remember my roommate watched Seinfeld some. And I didn't really get into it or care for it. But then mid to late 90s, I started to really get into it. And then obviously by the time it finished.

But I mean, I've watched, it's like a lot of shows. The show's syndication. I've gotten much more into it than even when it aired. Yeah. Yeah. But you picked it up while it was on TV. Do you watch the finale live? Do you remember that? Okay. Yeah, I went to a friend's house and we all watched it. Oh, that's fun. He had like a Seinfeld watch party.

I was in middle school when Seinfeld was coming out. I remember watching it. We loved it back then. Yeah, but you're probably... I wasn't allowed to watch it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For a while. Yeah. So I was in college and then working when that came out. What about Family Matters, Fresh Prince of Bel Air? When were those out? Early 90s, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that.

whole TGI Friday, I mean, those shows, and then TGI Friday also had step by step, step by step, day by day, fresh dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like how you and Nate, so you make similar age and similar interest. Those shows, I was already a little too old for, like full house and family matters. Family matters, yeah. You know, I was, like I said, in college and working. I don't care about Urkel.

Yeah. So by the time, like, Boy Meets World comes around, you're like, I'm not watching this. Yeah, I don't even really hardly know what that is. You don't know, Topanga? You don't know if Topanga? There's, I'm trying to think of 90s. For me, the one show in the 90s, cartoon. I was young in the 90s, but Hey Arnold was, I think, the best cartoon of that era for me.

Okay. So a big show. Yeah. It didn't actually last that long. Where did it air? It was a cartoon, right? It was Nickelodean cartoon. Came out in 96.

Doug? It's about Doug was a different show. What about Hey Dude? Never heard of that. But Hey Arnold is about all these... What is Hey Dude? The Shoes? Now Hey Dude was a TV show, I think, came on Nickelodeon about a Dude Ranch.

Oh, never heard of that. Hey Arnold was about street kids. And it's like the main character has a football-shaped head. Yeah. And they call him football head. Yeah, I remember this show. And it's just about him and his friend. and there's zero parental supervision, this whole show,

and it's just these kids running around the city, and it was just, it was the best. So you were born late 91. Yeah, late 91. So this is, I mean, you're young. Yeah, I mean, by the time I was watching, I was seven or eight or nine, so at the end of the 90s. So it's clean enough that your parents let you watch it.

Yeah, it was Nickelodeon. It's for kids. Okay. So it's not an adult cartoon or anything. What about you, Dusty? Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah. TV show the 90s. I mean, if I,

I mean, it's so hard because, like I say, the 90s, that was my era. Yeah. So, I mean, what in the 90s was bad? I mean, that I didn't. I mean, Fresh Prince was such a great show. Well, you remember the good stuff. Yeah. I'm sure there's a ton of trash on.

Yeah. They got canceled real fast. Yeah. But, you know, there was so, like, I used to, I watched a lot of TV. Bill Engball show. You got into that? I did get into Bill Invol, but I never watched the Bill Inville show. Friends had a spinoff, Joey.

But Friends was out in the 90s, right? Yeah, and the 90s was Friends. Yeah, so you were saying it was all great. We're saying you got to pick one. That's the point of this. Oh, but Joey Blossom. I remember Blossom? No.

I think that was not in the 80s. Yeah, Blossom. Oh, was it? I don't think so. You may be right. Yeah. I got to pick one show from the 90s. Yeah, that's what we're doing.

I mean. Picking one thing from each of these categories. That's too hard. I got to pass. Okay. It's like Kevin on the office when he's doing the CPR they pass. No, he says call it. All right.

A car from the 90s, which should be interesting, R3. So when I got my job at New Channel 5 in 1995, I bought, I guess the two cars I had previously, my parents had bought for me, about about a Ford Pro. And I think it was like two years old, so it was very new to me. And it had tinted windows. What year? Do you remember? It was a 93 Ford probe, and I bought it 95.

And, yeah, except it was black. And it was a sweet car back then. Yeah. Did the headlights pop up like that? Yep. I mean, it looks cool. That's pretty sweet. I was a cool guy.

It doesn't sound like it's going to be a nice looking car with the name like Probe. Once it starts to get raggedy and only... You just got probed. And only one headlight comes up. Yep, I think that happened. Give you a little wink. Yep. I think that ended up happening.

But yeah, that was like my first car that I bought myself and made payments on myself. Oh, yeah. That's a big moment. Yeah. What car were you driving in the 90s? I was not driving yet, but our family car, we had a 1991. Toyota Previa minivan. It was a white one.

All the hubcaps fell off. It's so funny. A lot of the pictures of this same model car, the hubcaps are missing. That's truly the worst looking van in all of history. Yeah, that was, I mean, that was the Weber family minivan right there, dude. That was a nice car when it came out.

That is the way. It had a sliding door, but only on one side of it. Yeah, I remember those. And our minivan, we were at the ballpark. My brother was playing. and that sliding door slid right off the car. Wow. And we had to drive back to the house, my brother on top of the car, holding it.

Wow. And we brought it back to the house. But that was our car. I mean, that was, we took all our road trips in that car. You know, my dad and brother in the front, and my mom and sister in the middle. Yeah, that's the way we did. Put six people in that car, man. Wow.

We missed it. It was, we donated it to, like, I don't know, something. Cars for kids? Something like that. And we used to see it around town every now and then. We'd see it. Don't you wish you could have it now? I would like it back.

It looks like a novelty car now. It doesn't even look like a real vehicle. I was just watching. That's the ugliest car. It is the ugliest car in the history of a van. It's not that good look. We had a little thing on top too where we put extra stuff in. Oh, yeah.

Dusty was just on millionaires and cars getting coffee. And that what it's called? That is what it's called. If you're a millionaire, you can come on to. Well, I didn't know that there was any kind of criteria. But anyway, it's titled. I just agreed to do the podcast. But you were talking about on there, I think, a car that you wish you still had.

Well, there's several that I wish I still had. But the car I drove in the 90s that I liked the most and wish I still had was a 1989 Ford Bronco, full size. it's uh i mean that's what i had what color was it was a white that's o j yeah but it was that's awesome it was 1989 dude that's it's it was it was the best i love that but my it broke that car play in my yeah my dad gave it to me and it broke down a lot so one day my dad traded it in and then the car that i had in the 90s for the rest of the 90s was a 1999 uh saturn A thick of time. Saturn SL.

One or two? I don't even know if there was a one or two back then. Is that one of the blue ones? Probably the top left. So a real downgrade from the Ford Bronner. You graduate in 2000? Yeah. So, okay, so this is your high school.

So I drove it senior year. Yeah. And gosh. Like the second one, second one from the left up there. Yeah, that one. That looks almost identical. and mine had gray bumpers

which were called five mile per hour bumpers so you could hit anybody going five miles per hour and it wouldn't hurt their car. Wow. How smart. It was.

It saved me a lot. But that car ended up being really great for me. I would end up wrecking it in a ditch. I flipped it. But it was great for me. But a car I wish I had back

was a 2000s car. We can get into that in the next decade. All right. You know, a little Saturn trivia. I don't think Saturn's exist anymore. They started in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

Did they really? Yep. Spring Hill was nothing. And then this Saturn plant came there and kind of blew up in the... It was really a great car for me. It was good on gas. It was, we used to call it incognito because it looked like the kind of car that, you know, you wouldn't get pulled over in. It looked like nothing bad was going on in there. Nothing good, but nothing bad.

Would you drive your friends around? All the time. I used to deliver pizza in that car. And they'd come meet me at the pizza place and we'd drive around. around and deliver pizzas. Did you put a thing on top of the car? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. A local pizza place? Papa Johns. Oh, Papa Johns. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah.

Local joint. All right. A place called Domino's. And then music we loved in the 90s. I guess this could be a singer or a song or album, whatever we choose. I chose the 90s was when, early 90s was when country music kind of blew up. And obviously Garth Brooks was the biggest, but they were so. many big acts and George Strait was already big in the 80s so it's not like he was new but at that time

when I was in college it's crazy saying this now Nashville did not have any big venues for big acts this is before Bridgestone Arena was built so if there was a big act coming they would come to Murphy'sboro's Murphy Center so I saw Garth Brooks there but I saw George Strait numerous times at MTSU's Murphy Center. And I still love George Strait, but in the 90s, you know, I love George Strait. That's a great one.

That was mine. Yeah, mine's a little different. Okay. Boys to Men. It was a big, Boys to Men. I remember I saw Boys to Men either at the Super Bowl or some NFL game.

I thought you were going to say like Twinkle, Twinkle, a little star. No, that's when I was six or seven. What was this song, a big song? I remember Boys to Men, but. Well, the end of the road was the big hit. But I'll make love to you. I was more into the love stuff.

Yeah. It's a love episode. But I remember my dad, we went to the mall. My dad bought me. You're so your dad took you to Boys to Make concert. No, I never saw them live. But I bought this album, Evolution right here by Boys to Men. They had a song called A Song for Mama on it.

That's like the greatest song, you know, from a son to a mom. Yeah. And I love that album. That came out in 97, so I was six when we got it. Wow. This was a new addition, right? As they're boys to men because they used to be a boy band and then they became men. I have no idea.

Are you making a joke or is that real? No, no, no. I believe New Edition changed their name. They were like a boy band and then I feel like they got older and they changed their name to boys to men. I've never heard that. I've never heard that either. I mean, it might be true. I have no idea.

Surely it's on there. They found inspiration in new additions. harmonies and routines. Oh. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'll look this up later. Wow. There might be some truth.

They eventually renamed the group Boys to Men. Wow. After, oh, yeah. Wow. That's crazy. It's nice to have an old guy on the podcast. You remember when that happened. Old head.

I do remember what that happened. I was getting them mixed up a little bit with Belbiv DeVoe because I think some of them are in there, too. All right, Dusty, music from the 90s. Well, I would say early 90s. I mean, I was all country, all country. Probably Hank Jr. was my favorite. Which one you loved? Yeah, Hank Jr.

And then as I got, you know, later 90s, as I got my own car in 98, I started to drive around a bit, listened to the radio, started to branch out a little bit, found some 90s alternative rock. I would say probably by the end of the 90s, Matchbox 20 was a big fan of the Matchbox 20 yourself or someone like. you. I wouldn't go right till they were my favorite band. I also liked live.

Lightning Crash. That album. Unbelievable. Creed was really popping off at the end of the 90s. Towards the end. Yeah, my own prison and all. My own prison. And then, you know, I think I was a senior when the album came out.

Well, 99 is when I started my Creed fan website when I was a kid. So it's true. It rained for a year or two. All right. Now we're in the 2000s. Two thousands. A toy. I mean, it's getting hard and hard for me.

So it's a little bit of a stretch for me. You're like a hot water heater. I kind of knew for my head. Like, what's a toy at this age? I chose Titan season tickets. Oh, wow. Technically it was 1999. It was their first year.

But, you know, I had season tickets all through the 2000. and loved it. They were actually good a lot of those years. And I had two tickets, so I would take friends to games. And I just thought it was the coolest thing ever. It is awesome to have season tickets. It really is. And then I just couldn't believe that Nashville had a professional sports team

and guys that I just watched on TV are actually playing here. They're right there. Live. I mean, my seats were so high, but still, I loved it. I loved it. So that's mine. I would say I got a drum set at the early. 2000.

Spatula? Now, full on, full on Tama, five-piece drum set. The ride symbol and a crash symbol. So this is ages like two? No, it was like nine, like early, this is 2000 probably. And I had a drum that. I played drum seriously for a long time.

So that drum set was huge. You're still a good drummer? I haven't played it forever, but I think I could be all right. I was never like exceptionally good. anything, but I played in, like, our church group and stuff. So as a young kid, I would play occasionally. Catholics have drummers? Usually one mass a weekend. They try to, they try to modernize it for people like y'all.

Yeah. And then, and then, and what? Yeah, you don't like any instruments, right? Yeah. Yeah. And then I play with, like, groups through middle school and high school. Anyway, the drum set for me, but you does. I would say horseshoes. early 2000s, I moved to Folly Beach, South Carolina. Go hang out on the beach a lot. I'd say it'd be tough to say whether a set of horseshoes or a cooler was my favorite toy.

A good cooler can change your life. But horseshoes is a toy, yeah. And we would go down to the beach and we'd play horseshoes a lot. In the sand? Yeah. Oh, that's fun. That's good. Used to do that all the time.

It's before Cornhole took over the world. Horsesues was the game. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. All right, TV shows in the 2000s. This was tough for me because I love The Sopranos. There's a lot of good shows, but I chose The Office. Yeah, yeah.

It actually ran over the next decade, but by then the show wasn't as good. So I think it started 2005. So the office. That long ago. The West Wing for me. Go check it out. West Wing, best show of all time, early 2000s. I blacked out most of the early 2000s.

I don't even know that I... Weather change. watched a TV show at all. The whole decade. I don't know that I ever got into a TV show in the decade of the 2010. Okay. Guy Fierry or something? You're watching any of that?

I might have watched a little. Or who's the guy you like? Restaurant Impossible. Yeah. But I didn't get into that until after. Yeah. I would say maybe, yeah, diners, dives and drive-ins or whatever. We watched a little bit of that because he came to Charleston.

But, yeah, I don't think I watched a TV show at it. all, really. Well, that's me for music. I stopped after the night. I really almost stopped music. But I chose, I wouldn't say I really love them, but I had to pick something. So I chose cold play. Wow. I like The Scientist and... That's a good album. The first album was a good album. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's what I chose. A decade for them. That's got to be John Mayer for me, that whole 10 years. Room for Squares comes out early, early, aughts. And then he just goes on a tear for the next 10 years, culminates in the greatest live album of all time,

live at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. And that was the decade of John Mayer for me. Oh, yeah. I got into Radiohead in the 2000s, and also I liked the first two albums of Kings of Leon and the first two albums by The Killers. I would say those really rounded out the 2000s for me. But I was, I got had a real radio head,

because I'd never listened to Radiohead. So I got caught up on all of them in the 2000s. And it's the next decade where your life changes a lot. Yeah, well, I start to get it together. Yeah, yeah. All right, now we're in the 2010s. So for a toy, I chose the iPhone. I still be my toy now, but I got my first iPhone around that time.

And I mean, I'm addicted to my phone. I love it. I love it more than my family. but I shouldn't. Yeah. So that's me. It's a laptop for me. I remember I got my first laptop in 2010.

I graduated high school. And I'm a big computer guy, not as much as I used to be. I used to do a lot on there. But yeah, that's it. It's the best. Even though truthfully, my toy is probably my iPhone 2, but in 2012, I quit drinking. And so for the next two... I thought you meant like an iPhone 2.

No, no. That's what I'm upgraded. No, no. My iPhone 2 is incredible. But I wrote a bike for two years from 2012 to 2014, and it completely changed my life. So I'm going to say a bike. That's a good one. Yeah.

TV show for me, again, this is tough because there's so many good ones, but I chose Breaking Bad. Yeah, Breaking Bad's mine as well. Okay. The best show with a decade. I'm going to go Portlandia. Never watched it, but I hear it's great. That was my favorite show. I mean, I watch Breaking Bad, obviously, it's a better show.

But Portlandia is so funny. Now, Better Call Saul is considered one of the best spinoffs of any... Oh, it has to be. Yeah, maybe better than Breaking Bad. Kind of like us with Nate Land. Yeah, we're the Better Call Saul of... Yeah. A car from the 2000...

Did I skip? You skip Car for the last one. That's all right. Oh, I'm sorry. That's okay. Well, for me, if the 2000-th-th-2-0-10s, it's a Honda Accord, two different Honda Accords, but sorry, you want to do your cars? That's right. Early 2000s would be a Dodge Avenger for me, because I put, that was my first car that I actually bought on my own, and I wore that car out.

By flipping it in? I don't, I didn't flip it. I flipped the Saturn. The Dodge Avenger I threw up in, and I wrecked several times. times. What was your first car that was yours? I had a 2004 Toyota Tacoma. I remember that cab.

That truck right there. I bought it from my grandpa for a dollar. And he used to carry his dog around in it, and it smelled like his dog for maybe two or three years before I finally got the smell out of there. You know, I had to mask it with... Dipset. And cigarettes and everything else he put in there. But, yeah, I got in a bad wreck in that car driving back from.

Gregory's Comedy Club in Cocoa Beach, Florida. I was driving back, got in a wreck, smashed up the front of the car, couldn't afford to fix it, drove around for years with a smashed up front of that truck, ended up selling it to a waiter at Zanis here for $400. Wow. Selling the car. So it's still out there somewhere. But I like to think my grandpa protected me in that truck.

Yeah. Yeah, you know, because it got pretty smashed up. And they were like, they go, it looks terrible, but it's true. fine. I go, well, then that's all I need. Yeah. Yeah. 2010's car for me, 2005 Volvo S-60. We drove around with me a lot in that car. That was my favorite car that I ever owned. I drove all over the country in that. 2004?

2005, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, that white one. Yeah. Gosh. That was my favorite car in the world. I drove that car all over the country. I traded it in with 317,000 miles. Wow. Love that car. It was fast. I remember driving Aaron around in Upper Peninsula at Michigan. Not a soul around.

Just flying. Yeah, 95. Yeah. Try it down two-lane roads. God, it was amazing. It was just flying scared to my life. That's the best. And then so now we're in the 24th.

2020's. The 2020s, the current decade. Yeah, this gets harder and harder for me. That's more than halfway over. That's crazy. We're closer to 2030 than we are in 2020. That is crazy. That's when it all goes down.

2030? Yeah. Yeah. It was 2012, remember? It was 2030. You think 2030 is? It's every year. No, 2030.

Okay. It's when... I'll be dead, by then. Okay. 2020s, for me, I mean, I'm like, what can I think of? I got a telescope. Oh, yeah. I haven't had a much chance since I've had a kid,

but I used to love to go out there and look at the stars, look at the moon and observe, you know. Don't even know what I was looking at, but it was fun to see stuff up close. Remember that there was one Christmas a few years ago where the planets aligned and they called it like the Christmas star or whatever, and I brought it to Nate's house after the podcast, and we got out in his cul-de-sac,

Did you get a good view of it? It was okay. I think Nate was a little disappointed. I think he thought I was going to have like a dire observatory telescope. It's one I bought for 80 bucks at Walmart. But it was fun. So that's mine. Mine is probably the fattest thing ever.

Got an outdoor fridge. Not an outdoor, but a garage fridge. Yeah. Just for drinks? Where's Nate when you needed? That's the dream. Yeah. The dream is to a separate fridge with all the stuff.

The fun stuff. You keep in the garage? Keep it in the garage. Yeah, yeah, I got it out there. It's not a great one. It's a small one from Costco, but that's a milestone in my life. I have a separate fridge. I got to work on a separate freezer out there.

That's probably, that's going to be next. But anyway. I'm going to try to piggyback off that. Please do. Because the reality is the real toy that I got in the 2020s is my children's toys because I had my first child in 2021, my daughter. but I got an outdoor heater so that I could sit outside and smoke cigars in the wintertime. Big time.

So one of those ones that. It's not like that. It's like this, but it, I mean, it pumps it out. And it is. Sit right in front of it? It's like, I'm like too hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great.

Yeah. It's funny. It's stuff that makes you excited. Yeah, it's the best. Getting my dryer fixed tomorrow morning. I'm so pumped. Yeah. I'm so excited.

Yeah. I love that. It's been running continuously. Oh, really? And you turn it off and it still runs. You can unplug it? You have to unplug it. Then as soon as you plug it in, it starts going again.

Wow. That sounds fine to me. It sounds fine to me. You can't control any of it. Yeah. You just got to get yourself one of those surge protectors with a little switch on it. I mean, honest. Yeah.

That might be the way to do it. Yeah. But I'm going to have a guy to look at him. Yeah, that's probably the way. Our TV shows that we love of the 2020s. I almost said Game of Thrones, because I was into Game of Thrones. Time flies. That was over, I think that maybe ended in 2020 or maybe.

That was when I was in college. 2019. So I chose Succession. Wow. Short live, but I thought it was really good. HBO. Yeah, three seasons. Yeah, but I really enjoyed it.

That was a great show. I'm going to say a show that also died soon, Mind Hunter on Netflix. I don't know it. David Fincher. It's about the two guys. They're kind of fictionalized in a way, but it's about the group of people at the FBI that first started investigating serial killers.

And it's just like interviews with Syria. Is this still what? Tristan, mine and it's unbelievable. Two seasons and then they stop doing it. And every now and then I see an article, we're coming back for season three, but it's not going to happen. But that was my favorite.

What about you? I should have said, always sunny, for the last decade. But I didn't, and I'm a stick with Portlandia. Yeah, you can't go back. For the 2020s, I'm going to, I've not watched many shows at all. I watch a lot of old shows, but I'm going to say the show that I watched that I liked AP Bio,

season one. Only season one. I'm really surprised you like that show. I love that show. Okay. Season one is unbelievable. So funny. So funny.

I've never even heard of the show. I just happened to stumble on it. I like the actor. Season one is so funny to me. I think I skipped, again, one of the categories, the 20thans for music. I was, this is where I'm really getting desperate. I couldn't even think of anything, but I really, I'm supposed to stuff from something I love, but I really liked Tennessee whiskey by Chris Stapleton, that song.

Just that one song on Loop the whole decade? I couldn't think of anything. I really stopped listening to music. That whole album is good. I'm going to say this, Traveler. I bought that at, what is this music shop over here? Fairly popular record shop right near Zanis. Grimis.

I went into Grimies one day. probably to pick up my CDs making that fudge that they let me put on their shelves that they never sold any of. And they asked me to come pick them up. And I bought... Did you sign them? No, no, I didn't sign it. Yeah. But the traveler, I bought it in there.

I never heard of Chris Stapleton, had no idea who he was. I listened to that album for a week. And I was like, this is the best. Did you just like the cover? I think it was displayed or something. and they were, but I had never heard of this guy. And I listened to it and I was like, this is unbelievable. I don't know if I've ever taken a chance on a CD like that.

I used to do it all the time. Really? But then, so I'm like, I wanted to make a Facebook post about how good it was. And then the next week, like a week later, he does whatever award show with Justin Timberlake where he plays Tennessee whiskey. And everybody knows now. That's how I learned of it. And I was like, ah, I wish I'd have made the post. I want everybody to know that I.

I was on this first. Yeah. But now y'all are friends. That's called a hipster. Yeah. That's like the definition of a hipster. But I like that one. I also, Sturgle Simpson,

met her modern sounds of country music, came out in that. Very good. Very good. That was a good time. Did you have one? 2010s? 2010s is probably, I got into jam stuff a lot. Probably Tedeschi trucks.

That probably dominated that era for me. Yep. Whitey Morgan. Whitey Morgan. Very good. Country, too. Sorry, I kind of messed us up by getting out of ours. So now we're back to the 2020's cars.

So in 2010, the 2010s, I bought a, in 2012, I bought a brand new Honda Corde. It's the first time, and probably the only time of my life, I'll buy one. We always bought slightly used. And I'm like, I'll do it this one time, I'll buy a brand new car. And I'm still driving that car today. The one I have out there now, it hit two. thousand miles a few months ago. Wow.

And I posted a video of all the well-known comedians that have rode in my car with me. That's good. And, you know, Dusty wasn't on there because he never did. But then a couple weeks ago, Nate Land Finale were both parked outside. And couldn't find anywhere to park. And he's like, let me just jump in your car and we'll pull over here. So we drove about 50 feet. Yeah.

That counts. That counts. It's a road trip. It's a road trip. So now I can say, I can add dust. to the list of people in my car. That's not the car we drove to Huntsville that time. Didn't you drive?

Now, I think, well, maybe I did. You may be right. You are both drunk. Now, you may be right. How do we get home? I don't know. Because we've done two Huntsville shows. Are you talking about that corporate?

Yeah. I think you're right. I think I did drive. So, never mind. That's true. I forgot about that. That was when y'all performed for janitors at lunch. Yeah.

Yes. Uh-huh. Yeah. The other time we... Well, Brian performed for everybody, and then they started to leave during my set. And he would not let up. Finally, the people who booked... He'll do his time, man.

Yeah. Finally, people who booked you said, hey, you can stop. Yeah. Yeah. The other time we drove to Huntsville together is when I had shingles. Oh, yeah. On my face, I had to wear a hat. Yeah.

So we've had... I drove that time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Trunk. Really? the back of the truck, the bed of the truck. I put a, and put a trash bag on.

So, anyway, my car is the same for two decades that I choose because it's the only one I've had. So what's a car for you? I had that 2010 Chrysler Town and Country minivan, and I beat that thing into the ground and it gave me nothing. It fought back the whole time. Nothing but problems, dude.

It would, it used to turn off in the middle of driving and the steering I mean, it gave me nothing but problems. I love the look of it, though. And it had Stowing Go seats. I remember I bought it. I go, it's got Sto and Go seats. Worst case scenario, I can always sleep in the back of this minivan.

A, never clean enough to do that. B, thankfully, never had to. But I love that minivan, and I put 250,000 miles on it or something crazy. Is that the one that ran out of gas? They did run out of gas. Yeah, I mean, I got a lot of material from this movie van. You let me smoke a cigar in there in Columbus, Ohio. You could do whatever you wanted.

It was so cold and we sat out there and you let me smoke a cigar in there. Of course. You can do, I mean. I was like, are you sure? Yeah. So that's the one you had when podcast first started, Nate Land started. You was to drive that to Nate's house. I think so.

Yeah, I think, yeah, I still had that. Yeah. And I loved it as much as it was a nightmare and I'll never buy a Chrysler ever again. Chrysler's like, hey, your headlights out. What we got to do is we got to take all four tires off. and take apart the car, and then we could put a new light bulb in. I mean, they're built, they're dealership traps. They're awful.

But, God, I loved it. I loved every second of it. And then music of the 20, oh, go ahead. Why? I want to just, well, my car. I mean, not that it's going to. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I skip you?

Yeah, you did. My apologies. But I have a 2018 Toyota Tacoma that I still drive. Yeah. And I love that. It's a nice drug. It's a very nice. Yeah, thank you.

How long have you had it? I don't know, maybe the whole decade so far, maybe. Six years. Maybe five, maybe five. Maybe I got it. Yeah, I might have got it at 20-21, I bet. After-COat. Yeah.

Here's how old my car is. This had nothing to do with it. It was just a pure coincidence. I bought my car on Election Day the year Obama and Romney where I guess each other. You know that seemed like such a long time ago? It feels like a whole different. Yeah, I was riding a bike back there. It was like a whole different country.

Obama and Romney. Yeah, 2012 was where I bought it. That's when I quit drinking. I was riding a bike around. I'm still driving it. Wow. I hope to get to 300,000 miles, but we'll see. You remember the things that were scandalous during that election?

Binders full of women. You remember all that? Oh, I forgot about it. Yeah, it was crazy. That's amazing because in that time, I bought a car in 2014 with a hundred, thousand miles and I put 217,000 on it by 2018. Yeah. I mean, you're...

I mean, talk about an easier to drive tour. You ever given up a... I have no other option. Yeah. You ever fill a connection with a car and you hate to give it up because you think I've been through so much to get that car? I mean, I felt that way with that one. Even though it hated me.

I mean, I keep cars so long that I feel like sad when I... I still think about the Volvo. As men get older, they become sentimental. about, they have more and more sentimental about that kind of stuff. Well, I sure do. Oh, yeah. Like, if you ever move from your current house, do you think you would get sentimental about leaving that house? Absolutely. Absolutely. Because we may do that. And I think about how often my daughter runs up

down that hallway. Yeah. If, you know, yeah. Well, I can tell you, somebody who just moved houses and my kids had been in the house the whole time, you know, that was the house they'd been in their whole lives. I don't miss it at all. So I thought I would. I thought I would be very sentimental about it, but I don't. I did come up. We talked about a top five country songs about loving things. Yeah.

Did you want to do music of the... We got it. Time-wise. All right. Because I only have four. Normally I have a lot. I have two. I can throw it.

Because we talked about not making it about love because they're so many, all songs. Everything's about love. About romantic love. Right. So I thought about... We can do Agape Love, though. These are some songs about love. So I'm going to go, number four, I Love a Rainy Night.

Oh, that's a good. By Eddie Ray. Yeah, by Eddie Rabbit. There's a song called I Love by Tom T. Hall. I love little baby ducks, old pickup trucks. A great song. Yeah, it's a great song. Frogs.

And then there's another one called I Love This Bar, I had that one. My Toby Keith. I love this bar. Yep. And then my number one, he doesn't actually say he loves things, but it just kind of piggybacks off. Which I never say piggyback, and I've said it a couple of times here,

off being sentimental about things, but it's a guy named Guy Clark, and the song is Stuff That Works. Oh, stuff that works. Yeah, stuff that holds up. Oh, you really do know it. Yeah. I thought you were joking.

Oh, no. It's a great song. Kind of stuff that don't never let you down. Yeah, stuff like that. Yeah. And it's just like he talks about things that he loves in his life that he, that he, that just, it works and he loves it because it works. What about, so one of them was I love this bar. The other one I thought of, it kind of fits is I'm going to miss her by Brad Paisley.

Oh, yeah. I'm going to miss her. Because that's about. Because he loves fishing. He loves fishing more than his wife. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. I still think stuff that works is number one. just if we're ranking them. Okay. I'm not going to argue with that. I don't know the song. I would put Brad Paisley's song at number five. I'm fine with that because what were the other three?

I know them all. Eddie Rabbit, I love a rainy night. That's a great song. Tomty Hall, love, and I love this bar. I love this bar, yeah. All right. I like my truck. I like my girlfriend.

You know this song. I like to take her out to dinner. I like a movie now and then. But I love this bar. Oh, okay. I love the way he pauses before. You know, you don't really sing melodically, so it's tough sometimes. Well, you don't get it.

Bart Scarborough's daughter gets in. Just a drummer. What do you know? You know what I think? They say, what's the difference between a drummer and a, it's all these drummer jokes. Yeah. How do you know if a drummer is at your door? I don't know.

The knocking gets faster and faster. Oh, yeah. That's funny. And then what's the difference between a drummer and a, uh, A large pizza? It takes longer to break down your drum kit than it does to eat the whole pizza. It's not really an answer to the question. As a pizza can feed a family of four.

Oh, that's good. That's good. We didn't get to show the video this week because we recorded two back-to-back from last week. Are we asking for another one? What video? Let's ask for another one. Maybe something that you love. Something that you loved in a particular decade of your life.

Yeah, keep it short. Shorter the better. I know it's sometimes hard to go into detail, but if it's too long, we're not going to be able to use it. So give us a story, and we may show it on the podcast. And then you too can be a public figure. Is that our motto? I like that.

Yeah. If we show you, you're now a public figure. Yeah. Anyone, even you, can be a public figure. Yeah. Something like that. All right. And you can wrap it up.

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Have a great Valentine. Excited to be here, Dusty Slay. Say, where are you going to? We're having a good time. I'd like to tell you where I'm at. I'm in Texas, Houston at the Houston Improft, Dallas, at the Addison Improv. And then in a couple weeks, heading up to Canada in Edmonton, Alberta at the comic strip. Brian, where can the people find you?

I'm in Arlington, Virginia at the Arlington Draft House, February 22nd. All right, Valentine's Day, Sioux City, Iowa. Love it. All right. Love it. And that's all she wrote. And tune in next week. Book club on Monday.

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