The Nateland Podcast - 21: #21 | What Happened in the Year 2003?

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

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Welcome to the public figures podcast where three public figures get down to the level you common folk. You know, most people like the common folk. There's always one that says that's not nice, but not out of ten say they like it. I like it too, but I feel like it's getting more aggressively mean every week. I just like to see where this is, you know, a couple months from now. Good morning, idiots. I like the idea that they pop in their headphones. they start a podcast immediately are put down.

I mean, I think if you check it out first time, you're like public figures, I don't even know who these guys are. Yeah. So we're just... Well, at least two of them. That's probably true. That is probably true. So it's just all tongue and cheek here, guys. But welcome, as always, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay.

All right. This weekend, I'm going to be in Columbia, Tennessee at the Packard Playhouse. Aaron, what about you? Where am I going to be? I don't know. I got a lot of dates coming up. I know you told me to be ready for this, but I'm not. But I got...

All right. Well, are you, Dusty? Go ahead, Dustin. I'm going to be in Lake Charles, Louisiana at the Golden Nugget Casino. Very excited. Nice. That's a nice hat. Yeah. I'm very excited.

Yours is a nice hat, too, Brian. Thank you, Dusty. Some say nicer than yours. Yeah. You've been trying to push that narrative, I think. He got a compliment on his hat. and then immediately became an insult to me. Well, I know you take great pride in your hats.

Everyone always tell you how cool your hats are. Well, they are cool, and I appreciate them saying that. This was a Father's Day gift. Was it? Yeah, yeah. And I got a... Oh, happy Father's Day. Thank you.

Same to you. I got a Tops shirt as well. Oh, that's cool. I'll be wearing on a future episode. All right. I like that, dude. Yep, yep. Happy Father's Day to you guys.

Father's Day, one of that and your birthday, the two holidays you celebrate. Congratulations. I don't really say. celebrate any of them. I know. I'm sure. To be honest with you. Well, happy Father's Day. Yeah. Thank you. Happy Father's Day, Aaron. Thanks, man. Did you guys do anything fun? No. I was in Austin, Texas, and on Father's Day. Okay. So I was there doing comedy. Yeah. How was the weekend? It was great. I did the mothership, five shows, all sold out. Boom. And it was great. And I love it. I love doing that club. Yeah. And you know what? I always talk about

Austin in a way because I say it's 6th Street is insane. I always say that. But I also talk about the homeless situation. But you know what? This time, not really that bad. It feels like they've really cleaned up the homeless situation in Austin. And it was, it was nice. I walked around. You know, there's still people out there. It's not a big deal if there's a, you know, a homeless person or two, right? But it's like, one time I was down there and I was like, whoa, this is wild. And then there was just a line for Dusty Show. Yeah. Well, that is what I say because there's so many comedy clubs on 6th Street that it's like people come up to me on the street and I can't tell are they a homeless person or an open micer.

Yeah. I actually met a guy. He called himself. Probably both. Yeah, I actually met a guy. He called himself Offender. That was his stage name. Nice guy.

But he was like, yeah, I live in this van right here. His name was Fender or a Fender? A Fender. Because he's, you know, he tells offensive jokes. Okay. Still tough name. I hope he doesn't have a first name. He was a nice guy.

Okay. I believe you. I believe you. I think his name was Jacob. Jacob. And then goes by a Fender. Oh, okay. Yeah.

It could be a Fender, like a Fender guitar. Maybe. That's what I thought you said originally. Yeah. or a, you know, a fender of a car. Fender vendor. Yeah. Okay.

He should start a podcast, public offenders. Yeah. So I've heard that club is, it's like perfect, right? It is. It's really, it's really nice. I really enjoyed it. Connor Larson was with you. Connor Larson was with me, yeah.

And it was great. I love the club. And, you know, they have two rooms, one green room, but they, you know, they give me the option when a headline. have a closed green room. So it feels pretty good. It feels like I'm really exercising some power. Yeah.

I don't think so, guys. Wow, you got the whole green room. But I just, it is because. So all the comics in Austin hate you, but you had a good week. But all the like, like, I don't know, quote unquote famous comics still come in there and hang out. Yeah, of course. But it's like, it's just too many people on a showcase. I don't want a whole, you know, I don't want it all crowded up.

And Paula Shore was there on Sunday. He was doing the other room. And, you know, we were hanging. out together. And I never met Polish Over before. Yeah, what was that like? He's great. I had a great time hanging with him. Yeah. You know, I'm a, I'm a Polish Shore fan. I mean, he was, his movies were out in my

era of MTV and movies and I like him. Yeah. I thought he was fun. The wheeze, man. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it is funny to see him now like, you know, he's an older guy. I'm older. We're all older. But, you know, you think about this guy I've been watching. Now he's just, you know, he's like a grown man out here. Now he's wheeze and the prune juice.

Yeah, yeah. It's a joke he tells. Okay. And he's great. And then on Saturday, I found out Nate was in town, Nate Bargazzi, our friend. You know, listen, I think there's a Mandela effect. Do you guys familiar with that?

Yeah. Nate was Nate Bargatsy forever. And then one day on this podcast, he was Bargetti. And what does that mean? I think that... You started calling him by his last name? I think there was a bit of a Mandela. He's saying he said the name changed.

They changed the name. And everybody was like, it's always been Bergetzi. And I go, no, it's been Bargazzi. That's always how he said it, Bargetzi. That's how his family says it. Yeah. But it's spelled Bargazzi, so the world has pronounced it that way. Yeah.

But he was in town. We got to the bottom of that. Yeah, well, I just, you know, I always say it wrong. So I just want to clarify that, like, as all Mendel effects, it goes, that's how I remember it. Someone commented this week, how come you don't know how to say his name? Yeah, because this was how it was told to me years ago. And then the, you know, Vendal Effect.

Through CERN, they changed his last number. And, but I was messaging him to get him to come to a guest spot on my show. And then he goes, oh, I got a matinee. So I just popped over real quick to the Moody Center to do a quick set in front of, you know, 15,000 people. Wow. And how was that? It was fun. It was a lot of fun.

Yeah. Eight minutes? Eight minutes. What's it like doing the length of time you let your openers do? Well, it's challenging. You know, because I was, you know, the round is the round. Yeah. And I got into the round, though. I could see how that, because I think I swayed less. I was fidgeting less because I was walking around. I really wish there were a comedy club in the round. I heard that there used to be one, right? Or maybe there still is one. I don't know. I can't think of one. Oh.

That sounds like that could have been a comedy zone type gig where... Yeah. Maybe. But it was great. Great weekend. Loved it. Connor did great. Awesome.

Had our friend Cameron Shepard do a guest spot on the show. He sang any songs on your show? He didn't sing any songs. I asked him to be clean. His songs are good, but they would not fit in well. Is he at Austin? He's in Austin now, yeah. Yeah.

Do you used to live here? He used to let he started here. Yeah. Did you mention him last night? night? Maybe. Yeah, I think so. We had a show together last night. We were here at the lab doing a Father's Day show. Okay. The Dad's Night Out edition of Zanis All-Stars where there were nine comics, three of whom were fathers. But it was a Dad's Night Out. Was it? It was me, Brian, and Jay Flake were the only dads. Wow. All Dads in the audience?

Not really, man. What did you say? All Dads in the audience? No. No. I thought it was supposed to be, you're supposed to do all dad material. So my whole set was dad stuff. After a while, people were like, too, can you talk about something else? I was like, get that lame dad out of here. Try to have a good time. But Saturday night, I was in Gallatin, Tennessee at the Palace Theater, and that was a great show. Thanks for the folks who came out to that.

That's a cool theater, man. You've done that? I opened for James Gregory there years ago. I had the worst bomb of my entire career. That's funny because the guy who opened for me said you had the worst bomb he'd ever seen. Is that true? I believe it. If he was at that show.

No, it was a different show. James Gregory shows were hard. Yeah. It was a magician, and he said he was with you on the infamous corporate you did. Whoa. He was at that gig. He said he opened for you.

He, he kind of, no, I kind of opened for him. He was going around doing magic. That was the luncheon where nobody spoke English. Yeah. He said he did great. I'm sure. he did because magic transcends language. Yeah.

Language is all I got up there. Yeah. So it's pretty tough when they don't speak the same one. And it doesn't count as a bomb. If they don't even know what you're saying? It counted, dude. It felt like it didn't. It was so bad that I walked all the way to my car, like two miles to my car.

And then the lady called me and said, you forgot your check. And then I sat in the car and I was like, I'm not coming back. I'm not walking back in the room. Oh, yeah. To get the check. Mail it to me or burn it. I don't care. Yeah.

I just want to go home. I get it. I get it. That's so funny. That guy was on the show. He's a good magician, right? Yeah. It's great to have an agent, you know, where you go.

I'll just talk to my agent. They'll get the check from it. And then they don't. They'll get it. They'll get it. You drive by it and you see flames coming up. They burn it that quick. You know, speaking of that, though, I was,

when I went to go to the Moody Center, I got an Uber. And my Uber driver didn't really speak very good English. And then as we got to the Moody Center, he was like, this is where all the, you know, my map, I had a pen that I sent him and that's where he was to take me. And he was like, this is where Uber drops off for the Moody Center. I go, yeah, but that's not where I'm going. And we were going back and forth. And then it's like his map was telling him to go a different way. And he's like, I can't go that way.

And I go, yes, you can. Like he goes, the cops are blocking it off. And I could see where the cops were blocking the street. And it was not the street that I was telling him to go on. And we almost got into an argument. And I go, just let me out. And then a pedicab guy goes, hey, Dusty. Oh, really?

Give me a ride for free. Wow. Well, that worked. Yeah. I don't know if I've seen that. But I was just like, dude, just follow the map. You're making this complicated. But he's probably gotten in trouble before for doing that.

He got in trouble with me. He got in trouble with me. How many confrontations have you had with Uber driver? Not a lot, but every time I do, I talk about it here. Have you ever given a one star on Uber? One time. Okay. Not that guy?

Not that. I gave him three. Because you know what? His car was clean. Three is basically one. Yeah. It's five or nothing? I want people to know.

I don't, you know, I'm giving out fives every time. But this guy, it's like, just follow the map. All I want you to do is follow the map. That's all I want you to do. I had one other day, I wouldn't pull in my driveway. Why? I don't know.

I see him come down the road. I'm out on my front porch with my bags, and he just stops, and then he just puts his, like, hazards on or whatever, and he just watches me roll up the driveway. And you have a long driveway, right? I mean, it's not short. Yeah.

How many stars you give him? Five. I don't really remember, but I don't really remember, but, I'm so non-confrontational. I didn't say anything. Well, you don't have to say anything, but it's like... It would have to be truly bad for me to give a one-star. My one-star guy was truly bad.

There are times when I've started giving less than five stars, and then it'll ask you to explain your reasoning. And I'm like, I don't care enough. Just five. Yeah. I mean, you got to write an essay explaining why. I don't think you have to. They just asked you to give feedback, but you don't have to. Well, I talked about it on here.

I had an Uber ride in Tacoma, Washington, but a guy who had just soiled himself in his seat. Yeah. Oh, that weekend we were together. Yeah, after my car got towed, and then I had to call an Uber, and then the guy had just crapped his pants. Did he say it?

No, he didn't need to. Oh, yes. It was right there. It was a small car. I'm trying to drink water, guys. Come on. Every time I try to make a sip, you say something that makes me want to do a spit tank.

They did add that on the Uber app, you know, or the, I use Lyft, where it says drivers you don't soil their pants it has odor free. Oh, really? Was the car odor free? That's a compliment you can give them. Yeah. Oh, okay. You can't request odor free. No. That should be default, but we know it's not. Yeah. Dusty, do you ever leave your doctor's office to feel like you got nothing from it? Every time. Yeah. They usually just tell me to drink more water. No real answers or game plan. That's the reason I love superpower. Superpower since a licensed performance, to your home or you can visit a nearby lab.

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Head over to superpower.com and use code Nate for $20 off your membership. That's code Nate. After you sign up, they'll ask you how you heard about superpower and do us a favor. If you could, tell them public figures sent you to support the show. I was in beautiful Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Oh, yeah. I made the, which is the home of what college, Dusty, do you know? University of Southern Mississippi. Southern Mississippi, but you pass through a university I'd never heard of in my entire life.

University of West Alabama, we drove past it. Wow. You've heard of that? No. No, I've heard of North Alabama, South Alabama, but University of West Alabama, we drove past it. And the only reason I mention that's because that's pretty much the only thing you see between Birmingham and Hattiesburg. That is rural area, dude. There's nothing out there.

Long drive, we got there. The show was great. I had Lee Kimberl with me, very funny comics. Mary Ryan Brown, who's from Hattiesburg. And then our old friend Landon, Brian, Landon talks. Lives in Laurel, Mississippi, about 30 minutes away. And I was like, why don't you come down and do a spot? So he came down and hung out.

And it was just a fun, fun show for everybody. Did you go see Mayor Toby? Mayor Toby came. I offered him a spot on the show, too. Okay. And he didn't want to do it. I don't think he does comedy. He does do stand.

Oh, does it? Yeah. And I'm told he's very funny. This is the mayor of the town. Yeah. And he does stand up. And Mary Ryan Brown will actually take him and have him open for her all over the state. Wow.

So I go, dude, why not give the mayor five minutes? Maybe he doesn't want to bomb at front of his whole constituents. Yeah. He only goes out of town. Yeah, yeah. But it was just such a funny sentence. Mary Ryan Brown's daughter was in the green room. and she was like, is, is Mayor, is Mr. Toby going to do a set?

And she was like, no, you remember, he is the mayor of our town. Yeah. And I was like, I don't think that's ever been set in a comedy club. Oh, yeah. He can't do a spot because he's the mayor of the city. It was just, just bizarre. But everybody was so great there. It was so much fun.

I had a funny thing I thought of y'all about. We were staying at an Airbnb right by the theater. and they had a garage with like an automatic door. And so we pull up, Lee and I are in my car and we pull up and we type in the code and it doesn't open. So we're like, oh, what do we do? So like we type in the code. There's a door. You can get inside the garage, but the gate doesn't open.

We can't figure out how to get the gate open. I'm in my car waiting for Lee to figure out how to open this gate, right? And Lee's over there. he's like waving his arms. He's touching everybody. He can't get this gate to open. And I go, let me come and take a look. So I walk inside around the gate.

I step in front of the gate and the gate opens. It was way to activate. Oh, geez. It's a cattle gate? But Lee, it was like, we can't get this thing to move. I got, let me look, dude. It just opened immediately as soon as I stood in front. of it. You already go, geez. Yeah, I was like, wow, man, that is humbling.

Lee goes, we don't have to talk about that again if you don't want. No, I'll bring it up. That's pretty funny. Wow. You know what? Speaking of Lee, we're going to do a new show at Zanis at the lab on the 24th. We're doing a, probably the day this podcast comes out. And it's going to be sort of an open mic called Get Loose. It's sort of, it's half booked, half bucket pulls. So. How about Slay Dusty? Well, that's a good name. I mean, it really plays right off Kiltone. Do you have to keep it loose or can you be tight?

You know, I didn't come up with the name, but I also could not come up with a name. Yeah, it is very hard to come up with the name. So Get Loose was presented. Why does keep up with one slaydust? Yeah, well, you see, it's hard. Yeah, yeah. It's real hard as we sit here on the public figures podcast. Which we came up with, you know, I don't know.

I don't know, 100 names. Yep. But, so we're doing that. So if you're like looking to do some comedy, we're going to be doing it biweekly, come on down, get in the thing. Or just watch some comedy. Or just watch. Yeah, either way.

Yeah. Anyway, I got this ball, by the way. Had of Buckees. Yeah. It's got a loose skin on it. It's got a real skin on the outside of it. It is a real loose skin. It's like a yo-y-y-old.

but also a ball. I'll level it with you. Uncomfortable to hold in touch. He was throwing it around last night. Everyone who caught it was like, ugh. It's fun to throw to people not knowing what it is, and they're like,

wait, what is this? Yeah. You can hold on to that, Brian. But I went to a Bucky's in Alabama. On Father's Day, it was a zoo in there. I bet it was.

I think I'm done with them for a while. And Athens? Yeah, I think that one. Yeah. Yeah. But I think I'm done with a buck. I think I can take a year off. For some reason, I felt like,

when I'm driving by one, I go, I might as well stop, see what's going on in there. I think I'm done for a while. Yeah. You ever, I agree. Some people talk about that we live in a simulation, right? And so when I think about Buckees, that's what I think about. Because you go like before, it was just, there was no gas station there. You know, might have a loves on the next exit where there's, you know, a handful of people in there.

And then all of a sudden, a giant gas station comes. And then every time you're in there, it's full. Right. Where are these people coming from? Were they just not stopping before? No, they're not going to other gas stations. Yeah, but I mean, I don't know, but I don't see a lot of gas stations going out of business. So I just feel like...

I bet they are. Buckees has their own NPCs in there, non-playable characters that just walk around to make you think it's busy. Those people all work there. They're all hired, and they're just walking around and there's just people going, have you tried all this jerky? Fresh, frisket on the boy. You know, just, yeah. They're good actors then because they got the wardrobe down. You guys want to get in these comments?

Let's do it. Let's start it off. All right. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast reviews, and mail at Natelandpodcast.com. We still occasionally get email sent to the old email, which I check about once a month. So if you do that, you're probably not going to make it on here. Okay.

You're probably not going to make it even if you get it right. Yeah, the odds are slam anyway and not impossible. Rich Lind. The Pranks episode is already an all-timer, and I'm only 40 minutes in. Dusty's quipped to Aaron. I don't know what you're doing in your bedroom. It was classic. I've been a fan for about three years now, and I always look forward to the new episodes.

Thanks for the laughs, guys. All right. Thank you, Rich. Thanks, Rich. Rich, Lynch. Rich Lind. Richie Rich. Mitch. Remember that?

Yeah. Got nothing else. It was good, though. That movie? I liked it back there. Is that what you're talking about? Yeah, I'm thinking of the movie with the kid from 7th 7. I don't know what I'm talking about. Y'all know what I'm talking about, 7th 7?

There's the kid, Simon, and then all of a sudden he was Richie Rich. But I think it was it a cartoon before that? I think so. He was like Dennis the Menace? Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry, Rich. I remember one of the Richie Rich.

I mean, well, the whole premise was he was a millionaire. Yeah. Now, I mean, if they make it now, they'd have to make him a billionaire to even really make it a trillionaire now. Yeah. Yeah. It was cool, though. He had that little remote control B. Remember that?

No, I remember he had a McDonald's in his bedroom. Oh, yeah. I would look down on that. Well. Back then, though. Back then, you would have been like, this guy is unbelievable. Jim B. Aaron not knowing who Olivia Newton-John is, is mind-boggling?

But he asked he has a question. So I can see he asking, is it, is mind-boggling? I don't think it is. I don't think so either. It's like, especially if you've not seen Greece, I don't know why you would really know Olivia Newton-John. And you were joking about Zanadu, right? What about?

I don't remember what I said. You looked her up and he was like, oh, yeah, Zanadu. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's the worst possible picture they could have picked for her. What do you mean? It's just a bad picture. picture. Well, she's dead now. So it's pretty good. There could be worse. That's her later in life. It just is a bad picture, though. I mean, I bet she, I don't. Look at that one. Look at that one.

Look at that one. Where the cursers at. That's later in life. Yeah, and that's a good picture. Okay. Yeah. But she doesn't look familiar to me in that. No. Do you know the song Physical? Let's get physical. Madonna? Let's get physical. No. Physical. Isn't that Madonna? I want to get physical. Who's that? Is it cool? She's a singer? I thought she was an actor. I thought she was in Greece.

But Greece is a musical. Well, John Travolta's not a musician. He sings, though. He doesn't have a song called Let's Get Physical. He has one where he talks about being stranded at the drive end. Branded a fool. That song was like one of the biggest songs of the 80s. That was right when fitness and, you know, the spandex and the headings.

headband and all that is going on. All right. Olivia. John Annan? Johnanan? Johan? Johan? Johan?

Johan. Johan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was making that harder than it needed to be, wasn't I? Olivia Newton, Johanon. Dusty, what's your opinion on Greece, too? Greece fans either love it or hate it.

I personally think it's great. The cast is awesome. The soundtrack has some catchy tunes. You know what? I've never seen it. I know it's Michelle Pfeiffer, big fan. Very attractive lady. And I like her.

I think she's more attractive than Olivia Newton, Joe. I don't know if that's a hot take or not, but I've never seen it. Grease too. Have you seen it? I have not. I have. Yeah. I skip the first one.

I think it's one of those. To me, it's one of those. if you give it some time and go back and watch Grease 2 as its own movie, it could be good. But I don't think you can watch John Travolta and Jeff Conaway and Stalker Channing. Stocker Channing. Stocker Channing. Wow, the first lady from the West Wing.

I didn't know she was in that. I don't think you can watch all of those and then go over and watch a Greece 2 with a whole new cast. Yeah. Yeah. Aaron Bendergriff. The amount of people who don't realize that Brian knows he's bad at impressions is funnier than anything else. Well, I don't know what you're talking about.

I don't either. Are you bad at them? People think you're bad at them? Well, I don't think that. I think I'm great. Hit us with the one real quick, just so we... I mean, request? What about John Candy?

John Candy. Yeah. From Uncle Buck. You know what? I have not seen Uncle Buck. I'm sorry to say. Okay, I've got... Here you go.

Stephen A. Smith... Talk about Monty Blah. And Dusty Slay having an argument. Go. I'll go. I think all sports are rigged. Well, let me tell you. That's very good.

Gosh, that's good. Well, let me tell you. The way you hit that, I started to get scared. Oh, Stephen A. Smith. He'll go at you. Well, let me tell you. Exactly. So there.

Scott Johnson. Lots of teenagers and people in their 20s are taking up old school ways of passing the time and being creative, such as knitting and crocheting, etc. It's pretty neat for a man who grew up in the 1970s to see that kind of activity gaining traction amongst younger people. Is that true? You heard that? Needle pointing is huge. Needle pointing. Last way we talk about whittling.

You know anyone who whittles? Like with a wooden stick? A knife and a Yeah, a knife at a woodstead. Yeah, I've got a friendly whittles. You do? But you're old, so. We're talking about young people.

It's you, isn't it? It's you, isn't it? All right. All right. It is. It's cool, though, that people are doing that. Yeah. World's getting better.

Yeah, I think if, you know, you spend too much time on your phone, you get mad, you get a lot of anxiety, and people really get mad at me. I've been on threads, and I don't know if you guys have been over there, but that's, you think the world's falling apart, you get on threads. And I try to make a little jokes here and there and people yell at me. Yeah. People are mad at me right now. It's fine. I bet I'm in trouble right now. It's hanging on by a thread.

Yeah, yeah. Let's pull up Dusty's Threats and see what's going on in there. Let's not do it. Amanda Arnold. I'm going back through the Nateland podcast from the beginning, and it's just so funny to me how Aaron's demeanor changed when Dusty joined the group. Oh, man. Dusty and Aaron are a prime example of two people who wouldn't be allowed to sit next to each other in church or at a funeral without side-eyed each other and cracking up.

Oh, that's where she was going to go with. Yeah, that's true. I thought she was going to say he's cynical now. He's hardened. He hates the world. I brought life to Aaron. He brought life into it. He breathed life into me.

Yeah. I appreciate it, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I used to be. You think it's Amanda and she goes by Amanda?

I think so. Yeah. Manda, manna, man, Amanda, man, man. I used to be,

I was a real laffer like in school and, and, I mean, if I'm not allowed to laugh, everything's funny. Mm-hmm. And then life broke you down or you think you're still alive? I think I'm still like that.

I just, now I'm allowed to laugh wherever I want to go. Oh, yeah, you know? Ed reads. Yeah. Yeah.

Did you get shorter? I did. I lowered my seat a little bit. Trying to get comfortable. How's that going? I feel better until you brought it up. Hannah White. I love Abigail stories.

One time I was live streaming a channel regarding a true crime case and saw Abigail comment on the stream. And I got so excited. We need more Abigail. No, we don't. Well, she's not here today. Yeah. Yeah. Good day to have that comment. Yep.

Yeah. No, Abigail's great. Very into true crime, too, so that doesn't surprise me. Yeah. I love that, like, it feels like anxiety amongst people is like all-time highs and also true crime. Is that, like, all-time, like, people are so into it. Yeah. And then now they know every way somebody could break into their house and kill them.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't feel like you want to know all that unless you're like, you know, trying to, you know, prepare a defensive strategy. Right. Which I don't think most people are. It's mostly women that are into it, right? Yeah. I like it too.

Yeah. That makes sense. Sorry. I know a guy that whittles. Nick Fazzino. Fazzino. A. Nick Vecino.

That's how I mean, man. Spain play Cape Verdi in a World Cup match. Did I say that right? Cape Verdi? I have no idea. I don't think it's right,

but I don't know. Verde does sound more like that. Verde. Yeah. Whatever. I think we got any Cape Verdy listeners out there? Cape Verde sounds like a dessert.

A little salsa verde, did. McKell Ojarazabal. This is a minefield. Of Spain, started the first 30 minutes without touching the ball once, breaking a record since 1966, which leads me to believe that old biodegradable baits could blend in better on the field than dusty in the pool. Well, that's what I've been saying the whole time. That's crazy. I think that kind of proves it.

I mean, I guess, yeah. I mean, if soccer or football, as people like to call it, is if not touching the ball for 30 minutes is allowed to, even in the World Cup, in the greatest games of the season, I don't know how it works, but there's a guy not touching the ball for 30 minutes. I see the goalie? No. Mm-hmm.

So. Here he is right here. I still think he would blend in a little better than you, Brian. I got to, let's Photoshop Brian's face over the sky. And let's see how it shapes up. Okay. Do, can we see it? Okay.

I'm not arguing that he blends in a little bit better than that. Since he is a professional soccer player. Yeah. I'm just saying, I get out there in the middle of the field. I mean, a lot of these games, not World Cup necessarily, but they seem like they in zero, zero. Yeah. I just want to. I just want a soccer team to listen to this and have you out for a game and let you be on the field for a little while.

And I want it to be videoed and I want us to be able to watch it over and over again on this podcast. Okay. And then I want to race Michael Phelps. Yeah. Yeah. I want to be a row of professional swimmers up on the diving board or not diving board. Was it the block? Professional swimmers, though, not Olympic.

You know, obviously not Michael Phelps, the fastest guy of all time. You're going to race a professional swimmer, though. A professional. You won't race the owner of the comedy catch in Chattanooga. No, I will. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, it's not like we were standing next to a pool together. It's up to you to make it happen, man.

I mean, you and Nate were on a cruise together. I said, I didn't back out. I said, I'm ready to go. You said, I smoke cigars all day. But I said I'm ready to go. Okay. Well, I'm right. Cigars do not affect your lungs.

You don't inhale. You know, we did four years ago. I'll go right now. Four years ago during the World Cup, we did a World Cup episode. And I think it was probably the most frustrated people have ever been with us who are diehard soccer fans. Yeah, because we basically, we did this for the whole episode. Yeah, it was me and Nate. People are so elitist about it.

I know. They're like, oh, they just treat you like you're garbage because you don't know anything about it. But it's the world's game. They think you're elitist for looking down on it. You know what I mean? I'm not looking down on it. I just don't like it. Yeah.

Yeah, I get that. I've tried. I've actively tried to care. And it's hard, man. It's really hard. I think you need better commentary. When you listen, it's like we're used to our commentators for football and baseball. It's like we need some, you know, jeffersonry.

Who is it? Jeff Ross. Jim Ross. Jim Ross, Vince McMahon type people all with it. Jerry the King Lawler. I don't know. They go pretty nuts when a goal has scored these announcers. Yeah, but how often is that?

Well, that's not the announcer's fault. They're trying. But I mean. But you can get somebody like Stephen A. Smith on there to do what, Brian? Let me tell you something. I mean, if you're listening, you think Stephen A. Smith's in the room right now. Yeah. Let me tell you something.

I do think he says that a lot. I don't know if he does. I don't know. It just sounds like something. Maybe you would. I think my second sport would be baseball. Baseball. Disney hitter.

Okay. And I just get up to the plate, not even swing. Hitting, I think, is the hardest part. I wouldn't try to hit. I would just stand up there and not swing. Or I might swing, but I'm not going to get a hit, but got to strike out all the time. Why not be a right fielder? Because then they may hit the ball to me.

I think if you were. Brian, I think if you were the bat boy, people would ask questions. People would get. Wait, is that guy supposed to be out here? Yes, because I'm 54. You don't think you could catch a pop-up professional baseball that came to you? Right to him. I mean, right to him like Benny the Jet Rodriguez hitting it in the Smalls glove in the Sandlot.

I mean. But if you had to track it, I don't know. When we went out at the sound stage. You made some good catches out there. I made one. Yeah. I'm trying to help you. Yeah.

But I wouldn't trust me in a professional game or anything where I have to throw the guy. Yeah. Guys, I'm in right field and he's round his second for third. He's going to score. All right. We need a reality show. That Nate Land needs to create a reality show, and it's just called Where Does Brian Fit in? And we just take you to different sporting events.

It comes on right after the rearrangeer. Yeah. And we just take you to different sporting events. That sounds mean. Yeah, but different sporting events. events and then you just, you know, you wear the uniform and we see can't, do people notice and go, that guy's not a professional. The Nashville Sounds just emailed me, asked me to throw out the first pitch again July 4.

Did they really? That's amazing, man. Good for you, dude. They're begging for me on the biggest game of the year. I love that. I love that. I knew too. Dessie, won't you go throw out our first pitch?

You know what? I have kind of talked to them about it, I think, but I'm not, I'm not really that into it because Because you stink? Well, it's a, it's a whole like, what are they? Throwing? No, it's like the ratio like a win, like there's no win. Like if it goes. Oh, it's a lose, lose.

Yeah, if it goes great, nobody cares. But if I throw it, I don't know, over the backdrop, people go. This guy, what is it? The backstop? Yeah. It honestly, you could spin it and it become better for you if it's that comical. bad of a pitch and you get the video of it and just lean into it. They made a 30 for 30 about George Bush's first pitch.

They can make a 30 for 30 about you. Yeah. No one thought he could throw, but he did it. I don't think. Yeah. I don't get the impression that people don't think I could throw. So I don't want to let them down. Okay.

Yeah. And you only get one. It's not like you're out there. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you get a few. You get one throw. Mm-hmm.

We'll make it happen. Yeah, that is true. It's tough when you... It'd be nice to have two. That first one, just to get a feel for where it's going. Hang on, the second one. This is the one that counts. This is the one that counts.

Yeah. And none of them count. And let's do a full, you know, a full batter. You know? Yeah. Like, you know, let me throw three pitches. There should be another celebrity who does the ceremonial first at bat. Yeah.

And then you have a full, you know, You try to strike them out. Have a whole celebrity, two teams. What about a... Stay at home. What about a last pitch? That's an old Jesse Case tweet, right? They went super of iron.

Jesse Case tweeted, like, should do a last pitch for Danny DeVito. No, it's two outspot on the night. Base load Danny DeVito comes in the mouth. Yeah, that's funny. Freezing 1. Dusty Slate Country Radio is the best place. playlist ever. I've listened to Classic Country all my life and still find hidden gems, a true work of art.

Well, I appreciate that. I wish I had a better way to thank you, but I don't, Freezied one. What does that mean? I think that's their name, you know. What do you mean a better way to thank them? I mean, like, you know, if they had their, want to give them a hug? They had an actual name. Like if it were, if it were Hannah White, I could say, thank you, Hannah. But it's Freezied one, but I appreciate that. I worked on that playlist. It's a good playlist. I thought you meant just by saying thank you that somehow wasn't enough. Now, I would like to give him a hug.

Okay. Yeah, I mean, I know you said that. I mean, I just heard from Freezing one. He does not want to hug. La La. I believe every generation complains about the next, like Brian said. However, I have to agree with what Dusty is saying because things now are actually bad and actively progressively getting worse. societies went downhill gradually starting around 1970 or earlier until current day and picking up speed each year it's not improving

Well, that's what you said right? 1960s Yeah And I listen to your podcast, I kind of understand where you're coming from. That was the civil rights movement. Well, at the- Women in the workforce. No, it's all about the music started to change.

And then we had another war. We went to Vietnam. It's like a lot of things. And then so all these people, you know, it's like these clashings of things happening. And then, you know, the government is classically stirring it up all the time. And then you're, you know, people are coming back from war. Now everybody talks about PTSD. Everybody has PTSD.

But back then no one was talking about PTSD with these guys coming back from Vietnam. And then they were just, a lot of them were homeless. Yeah, it's terrible. It's called shell shock. Yeah. But that's why the world's better now because now we understand it. I don't know. Back then, we didn't even know what was going on.

Well, I mean, I think we've made some improvements in that area, but I don't think the world's better now. If you could pick up your family and travel through time and just go, let me live the rest of our life in the 60s and 70s. You would do that versus now? I don't. Well, not, I mean, maybe the 70s. I think that'd be great.

Would you really? Yeah. Oh, all right. When the world. Brian, you were there. Would you take? I was there for most of it. Yeah, yeah.

The 80s I liked, I love 80s country. And so I always say I like 90s country, but a lot of the country I consider 90s. But think beyond the radio and think about the rich tapestry of life outside of songs. And think, would you rather live in 1970 or live now in 2026? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I think 70s or 80s, you know, you got less technology. You could, you know, you just buy yourself a little land. Okay.

You could work a regular job and pay all your bills. Right. You wouldn't need 14 roommates. Yeah. And I think it'd be great. The late 60s, I wasn't alive, but I've read a history book. It's pretty, I mean, being in war going on, some major assassinations of political leaders. It was a...

But if I'm my age and I take my kids back, they're not going to get drafted for Vietnam. Okay. You know, because they're still too young. And so I think that's the spot. That's the sweet spot. Yeah. I'm sorry you missed it, man. Yeah. I often think about it. Well, I'm his look. He's trying to bring it back. Yeah. What about you? Where would you? You would say here? I'd stick with where I am right now. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe go to the future. Yeah. What if you went to the future and you didn't, you're like, oh, Dusty was right. It is getting worse. What if you said, just take me way in the future and it got to 20, 29 and it stopped?

This is nothing. Yeah, exactly. This is where it stops. Maybe, maybe. Chase Kiao. When people say society is falling apart. Kio. Kio.

When people say society is falling apart, they're reacting to cultural change, not actual decline. By the numbers, young people today are. are safer, healthier, and more responsible than any generation before them. I don't know where he's getting that from. He shared some stats, which was too long. Smoking's at all time low, drinking's down, teen pregnancies down. Yeah, but there are other things that are up. Christianity is up.

I don't think so. Among Jin Ziers. That's what I ran online. First time in years. Yeah, but it's like it's nitpicking little statistics here and there. I don't think things are better. and I think, in a lot of ways, I think people were better when we were all smoking.

And there's different things, like, smoking's down, but more people are vaping. More people are doing, you know, it's like, it's just like people kind of nitpick statistics or there's no way to say young people are safer, healthier, and more response. It's like, we just look at our, this is what they do. They go, don't believe what your eyes tell you.

Look at these numbers I presented to you. Mm-hmm. Lindsey Crosby, I think the fact that you three are all a decade apart in age is one of the reasons this podcast works so well. It makes your discussions and stories that much more interesting and draw so many different types of fans in. Well, thank you, Lindsay. I say that was true. But cultural change also can play a role, too. It's like, you know, we have a Western culture.

and when things, you know, start to change in a way, it's like... I think worldwide, I would argue, even more so things are better. Poverty's down, worldwide, literacy's up, stuff like that. I mean, I can't prove it, but that's what I read. I think there's some pretty good numbers for how literacy is not doing too well even in our own country. People are not reading well. I wish you to say people are not reading good. Chime is finally changing the way people bank.

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Great reviews. It's really great. People are loving it. So go check it out. if you haven't already, or even if you have, go watch it again. It's great. All right. This week, we are talking about what happened in the year 2003. All right. And again, I want to start with you, Dusty. I'm still just working at the TV station. Aaron's still in school. Yeah, I'm fifth grade. Fifth grade. But you are still... Fifth grade was a tough year for me. Okay.

Well, maybe we'll go back in time and do some more of that. What's going on with you in 2003? Are you trying to figure things out? 2003. 2003 is the year that I do finally move from Opelika to Charleston. All right. So that was a big year. But it was...

Why did you move? I moved in August, though. So there's still a lot of time. 2003 is when I turned 21. And... It's legal now. Stuff got wild. And it was great.

Well, I left because I'm still, I think, 2003 rolling in. I think I'm still rolling in with a suspended license. Some of that time's a little shaky, but I think I'm at least still on probation. And, uh, and, where at a fresh start. Yeah, I'm working at the office depot. I'm having a great time. I'm the receiver. And, uh, well, you know, I took the position, the receiving manager position went away, but they hired me to fill that position with no pay raise. And are you buddies with the guys you work with at this point? You like all your co-workers? Uh, some of them. Okay. There's some I, you know, I won't say their names, but there's some I really don't.

But you remember him. Yeah, I mean, I got into arguments. I got into an argument with my manager. One time this got, my mom worked there too. And one time this guy came in and he's sorry, my mom was working the returns desk and he was yelling at my mom. And then my mom came back to the break room. She was crying. He yelled at your mom?

Yeah. So then I went out. My manager was helping this guy load a chair into his car and then I yelled at that guy. And then my manager came back and then me and him, you're yelling at each other. And then he fired me. And then my mom came back there. And I go, and we were all talking. I go, well, he just fired me.

And then my mom started crying again. And then I told the manager, I go, you wouldn't let anybody talk to your mom like that. And then he goes, well, my mom's dead. And I go, okay. I don't try to pull that card. I hate when people do that. You know what we made. And then I didn't.

get fired. I kept my job. And then the next day, that guy came in and brought my mom flowers. Wow. Yeah, because he needed somebody to step to him. And that's what I did. Wow. So he felt so bad after being confronted by his, by his behavior. Yeah. Why did he yell at her in the first place? Because he was trying to return something. I think it was probably a situation where it was like, you can't return that. And so he's mad at the Office Depot Corporation. Yeah. But taking it out on my mom. Yeah. Who's in fairness? A representation. Yeah.

The face of the operation in that moment. I used to get fired out. I've had to really, I've had to really tone it down. How was that like working with your mom? Was it good other than that? It was good other than, you know, I was into some extracurricular activities and I would go in in all kind of, you know, situations. And, and, but it was good, you know.

I wouldn't carpool to work or anything? No, I didn't live with her. Okay. We were just working there together. But you ever come in, hungover? And you're like, she just got mad at me. And then she comes in five minutes later and like, oh, boy, that was a rough night. No.

I mean, the first part, yes. By that point, my mom was pretty chill. My mom wasn't really doing anything like that. But yeah, I for sure would. Yeah. And it was wild. I liked it because it was like in Opelaga, but also close enough to Auburn where there were some college students at work there. So it's people I didn't know.

Yeah. You know. When you work at a big chain store like that or big retail store, if you walk into an office depot now, do you know things that like I don't know about the store and how it's run and what's going on in there? Probably so, but that's been a long time. Things have changed. Yeah. You know, but it just, it's office depot is pretty unchanged though. I mean, things have changed, but you walk in and you're like, smells the same.

Yeah. Even though it's different office depots, they all smell. the same and they make me sad yeah when i see people yeah when i see people working there i go i'm sad for you so you say it was a bad experience overall i liked it but it just feels like it feels like a a store that's that should be done like office max and office depot merged like because you don't need all these stores anymore yeah staples too right yeah i think so they're around but but you think it's sad because of where you were at in your life when you were worked there? No, I think it just feels like a store that's no longer relevant. Okay. Best Buy feels

like that to me too when I walk in there. All these stores that used to be cool and exciting. I mean, Office Depot had poem pilots and it was like, oh, yeah, look at this. Cutting edge. I remember going to Best Buy in high school after school just to, and you would go to the Best Buy and like, dude, there's like an Xbox out. We can play it. Yeah. There's just nothing, uh, I don't, I don't know. I'm older now, obviously, but I doubt kids think of Best Buy in the same way. I don't think so. They're empty usually when you walk in. Yeah. And then it's like every time I go, I need this, I go, I go, I could order it, but I'm just going to go, I'm going to support the store. And then they don't have it. Nobody's helpful. And I go, well, this is why you guys are going out of business. Like whenever they say stores, stores and restaurants going out of business, especially corporate chains. They always act like it's economy stuff. And I go, no, I just think you're not keeping up with your. customer service. Yeah, it's not a good experience. Yeah. But what made you move to Charleston? Well, I was, you know, me and a friend of mine, we ended up, my friend Joey, we ended up hanging out

on New Year's of 2002 to 2003. And we were, it was like not a good, we didn't have any good New Year's parties, nothing was good. And we were like, we hate it here. And we'd said, let's get out of here. Let's, let's make it our New Year's resolution. to get out of here. So that's what we did. We just started working towards moving to Charleston. Wow. We went to visit Savannah.

We wanted to go to Savannah. But his parents lived in Charleston. So while we were in Savannah, we went up and visited them. And then we loved it. Yeah. And then while we were gone doing that, someone had broken into my trailer and stolen things for me. So that's a sign. It's a targeted attack.

Yeah. People knew where to look. And so I was like, let's get out of here. Yeah. Yeah. So y'all both moved to Charleston. In August, yeah, we moved. And we're roommates?

We're roommates for about two months. And then I got my own place. Were there plans to do stand-up or comedy in any way? No, no, not at all. So what do you think you're going to do with your life at this point? I have no idea. You have no idea, but you're open to whatever the universe gives you. Yeah, I'm just like, I was pretty sick of rolling around my hometown.

Everybody asking me if I'm going to college. Where are you going to school at? And I just got to keep explaining to people. School of hard knocks, brother. Yeah. Yeah. So I, yeah, I moved. And then I transferred. With Office Depot, sad? I transferred. Yeah. So you had a job. Yeah, transferred. I was paying about four times as much rent and I did not get a pay raise. I never got employee of the month at the old Office Depot in Opelika, but when I moved to Charleston, like two months in, I got employee. Wow. Yeah, because I knew everything. Yeah. I should have been the manager. I was trying to keep you there.

Yeah. I feel like. I should have been the manager. They gave me employee. After two months? Yeah. They gave me employee in the month. And then I went out, you know, shortly after I went out drinking at a place called

the Plex. They used to have this bar called the Plex. P-L-E-X. Yeah. In North Charleston, it was an old movie theater. Mm-hmm. And then each little movie theater was different bars. That's fun.

And it was really wild. And I hung out there. And I went and I ended up calling in sick the next day. And they called me into the office and they got so serious with me. They go, you know, we took a chance on you bringing you in here, transferring you. Took a chance. I'm an employee of the month. That's what I'm saying.

Come on, guys. I took a chance on y'all. Yeah. I could have transferred to any office depot in the country. Yeah. You remember anything about 2003 that stands out? Well, I remember my mom sent me this picture last night. This is me in 2003 right there.

Look at that. All right. Playing YMCA football. I think this is one of the last years I was quarterback. Things are starting to change athletically for me. I would say we are. Offensive lines coming up. My arm is behind my back because...

You want to be like Nate? It's broken. No, I'm not doing a Nate impression. It is broken. I have a cast on my arm in this picture. So I played most of the season with a cast on. It seems like your expression makes it seem like your arm was in front of you. and then they go, hey, let's do one without your broken arm.

Probably what happened. That's probably why I got a little grin on my face. But, yeah, I forgot. We don't want the competition to know that our quarterback has a broke arm. Montgomery, what's the CP? Catholic Preparatory. Okay. The Knights.

There we are. Wyoming State football. Remember those old mesh jerseys? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Man. Yeah. You could just breathe in those things.

Yeah. Felt good. Felt real good. Well, I was working in the news business. I'll share a couple of news things of 2003. 2003 is a busy year for the news, right? Well. What is your role?

I want to get into the fun stuff. But I know, but I want to, what is your role at the news station as far as? In 2003? Yeah, 2003. I was on the assignment desk. I was probably the assignment manager at that point. Okay, so what does that mean? That means almost a little bit like a dispatcher.

I assigned the crews to their stories. I put a reporter and a photojournalist together. They go out, you know. So you're making editorial decisions on what gets covered? We would have a morning meeting where I would go over a list of things going on, and we would decide. I wouldn't make the final decision. Our news director would. But once we decide that I would dispatch people.

How do you know the news? We get press releases. Yeah. stuff like that. And then we just keep a running database. You know, if somebody's in court and they got a new trial date, we put it in for that date. Okay. Did you ever get breaking news and run it up to them on a piece of paper or something? Sure. And I mean, I was... Were you excited? Yeah. I was the, you know, the main person would fill the calls to the newsroom. So very often I was the first one to get calls about breaking news. Would you run it up there on a piece of paper?

I like to picture you doing that. I get winded. The other stations get it up. on first because I'm tired. I take a break. You ever wave to an anchor off camera? I'm just picturing you in there. Just to mess with them? No, because you got important news. Breaking news or something. You got to tell them to stretch. Do you have a headset? Not in this job. Yeah. Earpiece. Did you wear a little green visor and suspenders? Like a stock trader guy. That's what I'm a picture. Extra, extra, folks. I'm picturing something like that. I mean, some of the stuff you're thinking about it's more like a producer, which I was that as well. Yeah.

Where. Yeah. We don't even. Do you have a fire pole that you slid down at the office? All right. Let's move on. You don't have a clue with your job. Well, I was trying to share it.

I was, I actually was nailing it. Yeah. He said what you're describing as a producer, which I also was. Oh. That's what he said. Okay. That is what he said. Yeah, I was also a producer.

Okay. But in this role, at this time in 2003, I think I was on the assignment desk. I was there for almost 20 years. Yeah. Don't be ridiculous. I had a lot of jobs. All right, guys. I didn't make fun of.

No, no, right. I'm sorry. This guy's going nowhere in his life. Exactly. Yeah. You're playing Peewee football. I'm the only one that had a real career. You're called the midgets.

Ooh. They still called it that, unfortunately. They called you a midget? No, that was the name of the division. I know, but even that should have. You should have... Just your presence should have made them change it to something else. What would you have changed it to?

What's the opposite of midget? Robert Waddleow? No, that's a big tall guy. Yeah, that's the opposite. I think he's making a weight joke. Okay. Yeah, I was. Sorry.

That's impressive, though, that you knew the world's tallest man, and we both knew who you were talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Eight foot 10, I think. 11, 8 foot 11. Yeah. We learn a lot on this.

This is an educational show. It is. I'm sorry to, I'm not trying to make fun of your job or anything, Brian. I'm sorry. I feel bad about that. Do you? I feel like you took it the wrong way. I was trying to have a laugh with my buddy.

I took it the correct way that you guys were attacking me. No, I want to hear more about it. I think I was nailing it. And then because of Aaron's job. Jokes. It got roped in like I was making fun of you. I'm just trying to get a feel for what you're doing in there. Right. Where they calling in and they go, and you go, I got breaking news. And then you run it up to the news reporter's desk. And then they read it off to get it out there fast. You can't sit around on a fresh story like that. You know, this was before, I don't know when the lottery came to Tennessee, but it was probably around that time. It could have already been here. But people used to call, we would give out lottery number. on the news so for like the Kentucky lottery and I guess after the Tennessee

lottery we still gave them out and people would call all the time just wanting the lottery numbers what was the pick three wow so I would just have to do a lot of nonsense like that Tennessee lottery started in 2003 so this is the year you start to cover it look at the beginning of the downfall once gambling started to get legalized everywhere well I don't want to judge people just over the voice over the phone but it sounded like the people who least need to be spending their money on lottery tickets it always is yeah Yeah, yeah.

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Operation Iraqi freedom. All right. The Iraq war started. Saddam Hussein and all that. We defeated the Iraqi army in two weeks. And then it was smooth. sailing after that, right? And he landed on that cruiser. Yep. And it was Rousa idea to put up Mission Accomplish on the side behind him. She's like, what if we did this? You remember that,

Dusty? Yeah. I think so. It was just, they had a big mission accomplished batter behind him. And then, of course, it drug out forever. I wasn't really keeping up with a lot of stuff going on in the world. Yeah. Two thousand three. Once the army is out of the equation, you go, I'm not going over there. Yeah, exactly. But I might have ended up there. And I guess for people who don't know, my wife worked at the White House during this time. During this time. So she did not come up with that, but that was the joke.

Which is why Brian refuses to agree with me on anything. Some type of conspiracy, I think. You know what? The other thing happened, Space Shuttle Columbia. 2003? See, that's so funny. You're thinking about Challenger. Yeah.

Okay. What happened in Columbia? Same thing. No. Except it was coming back, not taking off. Really? Don't even remember it, do you? There were people on it?

Yeah. Seven astronauts. Where'd it go? It blew up in the air. No, but you said it's coming back. It was coming back from space. Oh, it just was in there. It's just amazing how the challenger, for people my age especially, it's such a where were you moment that people always talk about remembering.

But the Columbia, 2003, nobody even remembers it happening. Yeah, I'm having trouble even find it. Okay, Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Wow. It was the second, right at K. 1986 was the challenger. Yeah. Is that video of it? That's video of it coming through right there.

Yeah, I mean, it's already broken apart. How is this video better than every video that we have now? I don't think it is. It's 240P and it's black and white and rainy. Oh, I think this is some of that alien footage. No, I think it's a shuttle that got broken up. Well, anyway, isn't amazing that people don't even... I've never heard of this.

You don't even remember it. No. Never heard of this, man. Dusty? Do you remember this at all? No. Like I say, 2003 was not the year for me keeping up with current events. You weren't keeping up with space travel in 2003?

No. And in 2003, I would have believed it. I would have gone, whoa. In 86, you were too young. You were you four? I was four, yeah. That was when I would have been most likely to believe it. Okay.

It happened over Texas and Louisiana. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Louisiana, where I'll be this weekend. Lake Charles Golden Nugget. That's the most shameless plug of all time. Just left Texas.

Speaking of disasters, Dusty will be Louisiana's weekend. Okay, this turned to something more fun fun. Books. Let me talk about some of the top books. Okay. 2003. All right. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Wow. It's the biggest book of 2003. It's book five out of seven. Wow. Did you buy it like the day it came out? We bought. Pre-order. Not, I mean, this is how much we were into it.

We had to buy four copies of the books at once. So every kid had one right away. Wow. So every kid had, you wanted to read it immediately. Every kid in your house. Every kid in our house. Even the one who went to Purdue. Yeah, he was eight or nine at this point.

So maybe, I don't know if he was as into it as me and my older sister and older brother. But yeah, man. It's a hot book. Wow. What? I just, that's, yeah, the fact that you had to buy four copies. We all wanted to read it. Yeah.

So the movies were coming out and the new books were coming out and they were kind of following. Yeah, the movies were pretty far behind the books. Do you think there's any one of your siblings that didn't read it but was like, uh, the other siblings want it? I'm going to. Oh, that's what my parents did, I think. Oh, they were like, or are you talking about read it reluctantly or pretend to write? Yeah, they're like, ah, yeah, all the other siblings are reading it.

I don't want to be the one that's not reading it. Of course. There's probably some of that. Yeah. Yeah. Who do you think that was? My younger brother. Okay.

The total. guy. The tall one. Yeah. When I'm your own brother, six foot eight. Yeah. Wow. He's like, I got other things going on in my life.

I'm not going to be out of here playing midget football, okay? He really was Robert Wadbeau. The Da Vinci Code. Oh, the book or the movie? The book. The book. I didn't know the book was that new. I thought the book was like way older, way older than that.

No, I believe you. Did you read it? No. I know about it a little bit. And Michael Lewis's Moneyball, The Art of Winning an Unfair game, about the 2002 Oakland A's. The book was written that quickly. Yeah, I was surprised too. Wow.

You don't even really give it time to reflect on it and see how it affected baseball. Yeah. Are you familiar with Moneyball? You see the movie? No. But every time, I do need to watch it because every time you say, you have, asked me have I seen it. I tell you that I haven't. You say it's really great. And then you guys agree that it's one of the best baseball movies. And then I never watch it. And I should.

Brad Pitt's in it, right? I like Brad Pitt. He's the star of it. Every Brad Pitt movie's good. Also, Philip Seymour Hoffman is in it. Oh yeah. Playing a very small character, but he just crushes every scene that he's in. He does. And Spike Jones is in it. Robin Wright is in it? You know them. I like Robin Wright. Who is Spike Jones? Spike Jones is. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm is Brad Pitt's ex-wife's new husband. Oh, that's a man? Yeah, Spike Jim.

What does he do? He's a director and actor. Oh, okay. He was in, he did a lot of the, he was in a Wolf of Wall Street. Okay. And Robin Wright's Jenny. He directed the movie with her. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She's like, you know, forever. You know, yeah. But, you know, she's in the Princess Bride, too. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Chris Pratt's in it too He is Steve Correll

Golly No he's not What's he in Like I feel like he's in Some movie like that Steve Carell I feel like he's in some

He was in a wrestling movie I feel like he's in some Moneyball type movie No What wrestling movie The Fox Something with fox Hunting foxes or something?

Oh you're right Like I was thinking about professional wrestling No Yeah that was a great movie Like Greg Warren Wrestling Yeah

That was a true story All right. Flash mob started in 2003. What is that? That's where people coordinate on the internet. And like streak? No, no, no. Maybe on some.

Not the ones else. Okay. Like at the mall and everybody breaks out into Christmas carols. Oh. You remember that? It was like a viral trend people were doing. Just I guess Flash is where, yeah, okay. Is this when you were, I was listening to your podcast,

where you were hanging out naked with your buddies? No, that was probably more 2000, 2001. Okay. Well, let's take a trip back to 2001 real quick. Yeah, why were you doing that, Dusty? When were you hanging out naked with your buddy? Well, listen, we were bored, and we were just drinking and had a little party, and we thought me and my buddy, it's just me and one other guy.

It's not what it's worse. But it was, we were at a party with a lot of people. It was just the two of us that, you know, got naked and just hung out with the party. He cleared out when two guys got naked. No, it's my house and nobody had anywhere else to party at. So they hung out and we, I think everybody had a great time. All right. Okay.

I think everybody had a great time. Yeah. My buddy John. What's his last time? Exactly. Yeah, it's great. Well, I could probably say his name's John Strickland. Oh, okay.

And I don't know. I think he's in Tennessee somewhere. All right. But John was wild. He just got out of it. We had a great time. We had a great time. The iTunes store launched in 2003.

I had to look up how you've even got songs on your iPod before then. Connected it to the computer. Yeah. Yeah, to look that up. Ripping physical CDs directly to your computer. We're downloading MP3s from peer to peer. I'm still stuck in that technology. That's still my favorite.

You love burning CDs and burning DVD. Yeah. That's still my favorite. I used to do that a lot, man. I haven't burned a CD or a DVD in forever, but the iTunes store was huge. I used to cut this guy's grass who lived a few blocks away from me and he would pay me $25 to cut the grass. Yeah. And I would walk to the Walgreens after it gave me 25.

bucks cash and I would get a drink and then a $20 iTunes gift card with it and then walk home and load it up and buy an album. That was how I got music. Yeah. I was also torrenting. I was doing that a lot. Yeah. What's that mean? Follonious amount of. Yeah. You were doing what? You're stealing it off the internet. Yeah. Torrington? Bit torrent. What? Torrent. Peer-to-peer sharing. I've never heard that word. I always justified it as I'm yeah. I mean, if you come over to my house with your CDs, I'm just going to burn your CDs onto my computer. Right. So rather than you having to come over, I'll just get it from here. Right. But you were probably also inadvertently seeding it to other people in the process, right? I don't know. Yeah. Inadvertently, yes. Maybe.

Let's talk a little sports. Type of A buccaneers, when the Super Bowl over the Raiders. John Gruden. John Gruden. The Titans made it to the AFC championship game that year. Wow. But lost to the Raiders. You had season tickets that year?

Mm-hmm. Half-time performers was Shania Twain, no doubt, and Sting. All right. That's an interesting mix. College football had a split national champion. Last time they've had that. Oh, that was Auburn, right? Was that Auburn, 2003?

No, I think that might have been the next year. Okay. LSU won the BCS National Championship. That's Nick Saban, beat Oklahoma in Sugar Bowl, and then USC was named National Champion by the Associated Press by beating Michigan in the Rose Bowl.

And that's the last time we had one of those, right? Yeah. And now every college football season, nobody contests, everything's just, everybody agrees on everything. So that's good. That's good. Do you know who won the Heismet trophy that year?

2003. Can you tell me the team? I think you were about to say it. Jason White? Yeah. Wow. From Oklahoma? Yeah.

Yeah. I remember thinking he was like old, wasn't he? You might be thinking of Brad Winky. No, wasn't. Okay. Jason White was old. Maybe I'm thinking of Brandon Wheed and one of those guys. Jason White.

He was bald. He, uh, what? You okay, Dusty? Yeah, yeah. I feel like you guys are just name and names. What? That's the whole show. Names songs that you've heard of and then just movies that I'll be.

No, I'm saying, I've never heard of these guys. You never heard of, see what I'm talking about? He wasn't bald. I brought him up because he is probably the least memorable Heisman winner of all time. He did not get drafted in the NFL. He signed a two-year contract with the Titans. I didn't know that. And then a few months later before the season even started, he retired.

from football. Wow. He's so good that year. I remember he was unbelievable that year. That was his junior year. Why did he retire from football? He said he had some injuries, weak knees from previous injuries, and just, you know. You might as well.

He'll get drafted. It was going to be really hard. But I think he's... So did he not make any money from the NFL? Mm-mm. It feels like he at least stick it out and make a little money. A weak knees. I mean, tough it out a little bit.

I mean, now with NIL, he would be making so much money. college football but yeah i think i think about that with johnny mentel like gosh that guy would have made so much money instead he got drafted to the browns do you um do you know who the football coached alabama was in 2003 2003 was it the last year of mike schula maybe or was it uh price Mike Price? It was, you're right, it was the first year of Mike Shula. Okay. But it originally was supposed to be Mike Price.

Yeah, and then he. And he got let go before he ever coached a. In disgrace, right? It was a big scandal. Do you remember this, Dusty? No, no. You would love this guy. You weren't following even Alabama football at this time.

In 2003, I was focused on getting to Charleston. All right. And I was 21. Yeah. I always looked young, so I couldn't drink in the bars underage. So when I turned 21, a whole world. was open to me. And I learned a lot of new things and I had a lot of experiences and I wasn't doing a lot of TV time. Okay. Well, you would love him. He went to a strip club in Pensacola,

Florida. I brought a woman back to his hotel. She charged $1,000 to the room. And some other stuff happened. He was also seen going all over campus at bars, drinking with students and stuff like that, just having a great time. Yeah. And they fired him. It sounds like a college coach to me. I don't know why you let this guy go. Yeah. Just trying to get acquainted with the school, you know? Yeah, he didn't coach one game, did he?

Yeah. Yeah, he did the spring game. Wow. And then he got fired and they hired Mike Shula. Yeah. And you never know how it would have went. And I don't think it went well with Mike Shuler. Shula, no.

Whatever his name is. Yeah. Don Shula, son. Yeah. I know Don Shula. Yeah, the fact that I don't know the guy's name says he didn't do well. Yeah, that's true. I hope he doesn't listen to the.

the podcast. Florida Marlins won the World Series. We're the Yankees. Spurs won the NBA championship. It was Michael Jordan's last season, the NBA. Wow. With the Wizards. 2003. And then a few months later, NBA draft happened. And who was the number one pick in the draft? LeBron James. Yep. 2003. Yep. Right out of high school. Still playing to this day. That was one of the best draft class ever. So he went first. Carmelo, Anthony went third. Miss Bosch, fourth, Wayne Wade, fifth. Wow.

Who was third? Second was, third was Carmelo Anthony. Yeah, who was second? Some foreign guy? Yes, I forgot his name now. Just fizzled out. Yeah, it didn't work out. That's so crazy, man, 2003.

LeBron's still playing. His son's playing now. I know. That's how long ago, though. That's how long he's been playing. How's his son doing? He did all right in the playoffs. I think he's doing better than people expected.

Yeah, and I think people kind of want. him to not be good because they you know. Yeah. But he's good. Okay. Yeah. He's okay. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. He's all right. Like, a lot of people didn't think he deserved to be in the NBA.

I think he's shown that he at least can play. That's what I mean. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think when LeBron retires, they keep him? This is his son. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. That's a good question. Maybe. Are they trade him? Who knows? When LeBron retires. tires. In another 15 years.

Yeah. Do you know who won season two of American Idol? Would you? Taylor, is that Taylor guy? Taylor Hicks, the guy from Alabama? Yeah.

No, not him. Season two, was it? Carrie Underwood. I did think, it was somebody from Alabama, but I thought he was from Alabama. Ruben Stutter.

Yeah. All right. I love Ruben Stutter. Cook corn beef sandwich. I think he had like, it's a good joke. Oh, yeah. I think he had trouble.

touring, but I liked him. I thought he was really good. He had trouble touring, like, physically? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. That'll do it, man. He's a big dude. And they probably, you win American Idol. They probably work you to death, you know. Doing what? Sing it? Touring. Yeah, they go, they go, you're on our tour. You're not going to make very much money. We're going to work you. Didn't he wear shirts like with the Alabama area code? Maybe. Alabama was very proud of him. That show was so huge at this time.

Yeah. He beat Clay Aiken in the final. finals, right? I think it was Clay Aiken was the number two guy. The top comedy tour of 2003 was the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Wow, that was going on then. Yeah, I remember that. I do remember that. And the movie came out that year too. Wow. Man, cultural phenomenon that was. And how many of those guys do you guys know personally? I know two of them personally. I've met all four of them, but two of them I know pretty well. Yeah. I've only really talked to one. It was Jeff Foxworthy.

I haven't made any of them. Really? No. I'd love to, I mean, I'd love to meet any of them, but probably. Larry and the cable guy is my best friend.

That's not true, but, you like to think so. Yeah. Y'all tweeted each other every now and then. Yeah. Yeah. He seems like a good dude.

Yeah. In March, 2003, Friendster started. Do you ever have Friendster? Friendster. No, I didn't have a Friendster. I think I started it up with MySpace.

Were you on Friendster? I was not on Friendster, but later that year, Myspace launched. Oh, yeah. I had MySpace. I remember that. I was living on. Now, I don't think I'd moved to Folly Beach in 2003, but I think I got a MySpace. I hadn't, you know, I had a computer sometimes.

So I was looking at your MySpace page today that you created. You've obviously got to set up. Last Logging is today. Right. So you must have it set up where it automatically updates. Yeah, it just puts whatever the current date is on there. You got to update your age. I need to update my age on there too.

Aaron Webercom is a MySpace page designed to, I mean, it's designed to look like a MySpace page from this, this period of time. Yeah. This is what it looked like when I started here. This is how I remember Myspace looking. I loved Myspace. He had your top eight.

Yeah. Who was on your top eight? Was your friends? I was rotating. You thought a little girl you were interested in there. Yeah. And then strangers I would meet from other states that I thought were fun. Like I thought,

Like, I remember talking to this girl that was from Denver, and I just thought it was like, like, and when I say talk, I mean, we sent, I don't know, 10 messages. Yeah. But I just thought it was like, blowing my mind. And she made your top eight? Yeah, because I'm like, you don't want to put people in your, too many people in your real life in the top eight. Interesting. I feel like, because then you. What about your buddy John?

Was he on there? No, I don't know if John ever got on MySpace. But y'all were close. John might have been in jail in 2003. But, yeah, I, when I started comedy in 2007, my buddy helped me create a MySpace page. Wow. And it, I felt like it went away not too long after that. Yeah.

Yeah, Facebook really came around 2008 for the general population. Yeah, MySpace.com is still a website. I don't know what anyone does with this. I think Justin Timberlake owns it now. or something he's involved with it in some way let's talk about some music of 2003 okay

the top album of the year get rich or die trying about 50 cents I love that album gosh I love that album is that many men yeah many men wish death upon me

blood am I but you know what the top song was from that it was the top song of the year into club yeah into club wow you like that no I like it

that was such a huge it's not one of my favorites of the, I mean, it's not my favorite one, but I do like it. You could not get away from that song, man. Number two was Come Away with Me by Nora Jones. Really? I don't know if I know that one. I'm not a Nora Jones guy.

But you would know that one song. It's the second biggest song of the year. I don't think you need to be a Nora Jones guy. I don't remember it. If you played it, I might know it, but I don't. Okay. I think that one song I don't know why I didn't come. Do you know this song?

Not from that. I don't know what it's called. Is that what it's called? I know what song you're talking about. I can't hear you in there. Don't know why it didn't come. That one. Yeah.

You know that? No, not from that either, man. You don't know that? I don't know. Keep going, Kristen. I don't know what you're talking about. Y'all are crazy, man. This is.

I mean, he's nailing it. I thought he nailed it. I thought he nailed it. Well, Desi Austin's had, if you're listening. We need more the lyrics to find it. Yeah, I got the lyrics pulled up. Yeah, go ahead, Tristan. The chorus is, well, there's not a chorus.

Verse 1, verse 2, bridge, verse 3. No, that's not this. Oh, yeah, that's come away with me. Let's come away with it. I thought, what was the name of the song? I don't know why I didn't come. Oh. It's don't know why.

It's don't know why. That's what it's called. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, now you know it? No, I don't. But I got the right song.

All right, there you go. My heart is drenched in wine. My heart is drenched in wine. That's right. Is that how it goes? Yeah. Everybody knows it except you guys. I don't know.

Valerie was born in 2003. I've never. That's crazy. That's crazy. All right. Some other Meteora by Lincoln Park. Oh, man. It's a hot album, yeah.

I bet I know some stuff. That was the beginning of me not listening to them as much, but yeah. Speakerbox love by Outcast. Oh, yeah, one of my favorites. It actually, they have some of the, their best stuff on there but not one of my overall favorite uh especially the the big the big boy album was really good the Andre 3,000 had that hayah on it. Oh yeah. Which is obviously huge and it had the, uh, uh, uh, Carolina.

Oh yeah, yeah. That's a good one. This is really smelled like pooh, poop, bo, yeah. Uh, shuck and y'all by Toby Keith. What's on that? I bet. I bet courtesy of the red, white, and blue and all that, right? That was the last one, wasn't it? Yeah, I think it was the last one. We already talked about.

But he's still milking it for a while. I don't remember what songs were on it. Red solo cup? Yeah, that was way. Way later. That was way later. I think it's called shocking y'all, right? Shockin, not shucking.

It's all oyster songs. I don't know. How many puns does he want to do? I thought it was like all shots. Oh, I love this bar. I love this bar. American Soldier, that was a big one. Yeah.

I love this bar. I mean, when I was working at Office Depot and Charleston, there was a guy that I work with. God, he loved that song. He used to sing that song all the day. Man, I can't wait to get in the car after this and put on If I was Jesus by Toby Keith. That just sounds like a great way to spend the day. Yeah. Oh, bonus tracks, the Taliban song.

And weed with Willie. Was it pro or anti? I don't know. Weed with Willie. You'd probably like that one. I liked it. Yeah, it was okay. Yeah.

Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay. Oh, man. What a hot album that one. I love that album. Yeah. I loved it. I'm not into anything Coldplay does now, but that first album, I liked. That's all the big hits.

The scientist, that's yellow. Yeah. Rush. Oh, no. I don't know. I liked Russia Blood to the Head. Clocks was a big one. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a good album. Radiohead Light. What does that mean? That's how I always... You think of Coldplay that way? Yeah. That album. Some TV shows that ended and some that started.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it ended. Dawson's Creek ended. Oz ended. The Practice. I didn't watch any of these, man. Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Well, I did watch that. With my neighbor, Melissa Joan Hart.

They're your neighbor? Yeah, she lives around the corner. Really? Yeah, she doesn't know that she's my neighbor, but... Do you ever see her around the neighborhood? I always look when I drive by her house, but I've never seen her. Or if I pull in her driveway. I always drive slow in front of her house and just look.

If I walk in the back of the yard. She came to Zanis once, and I think it was very nice to everybody. I heard she's very nice. You ever watched it? Sabrina the Teenage? Yeah, sure did. Yeah. Yeah, I liked it.

I was going to do her podcast. I got sick and then never happened to me. Yeah. Well, if you do it, tell her neighbor say hello. I will. I'm trying to come by. Some shows that's... I got a buddy that's at your house a lot.

Yeah. Where does she do her podcast at? At her house? I think it was in... You'll probably see me there then. Yeah. You'll be looking out of the one. Brian?

Yeah. What's out in the bushes? Some shows that started in 2003. Arrested Development. All right. The O.C. I don't know. I don't know much about the O.C.

I know Marissa died. Spore or not? Was that a big thing when it happened? Who was Marissa? Was that, what's her name? Misha Barton? That was Marissa? No?

All right. Well, she died. Don't know why. Didn't come? You guys know it now? No. No. Two and a half men started 2003.

Oh, okay. Still going. No, it's not. It feels like it does. It went on for a while. Yeah, I mean, that kid grew up. Reno 911. Oh, I love that show.

A hot show. Love that show. NCIS. And there was a big year for reality show starting. America's Next Top Model. Okay. Mythbusters. We love that.

Dusty's favorite? Punked. The Simple Life. That's Parris Hilton. Oh, I like that one, too. I actually like that one. And newlyweds, Nick and Jessica. Never heard of that.

You have it? No. What was it? Jessica Simpson and Nick Glech from 98 degrees. Nick Lachet. Nick Lachet, 98 degrees. Okay. You never seen the scene where...

Host of Love is Blind. Oh, chicken of the sea. Yeah. Okay, I've seen that clip. Yeah. I didn't know that's where it was from. some people born in 2003, Valerie. We were listening on the way back from a trip with Nate.

We listened to his playlist, and every song that came on, I did not know it. And she would criticize me every time. Brian, how do you not know this? So I was- Sounds like an awful playlist. I know. I know. It was current hit.

How about Nate grows up a little bit? Chance the Rock. Harper, Justin Bieber. Oh, yeah. Brian keeps up with all of them. But hey, y'all was on there. That was the only one I knew. Oh, yeah.

You didn't know that. There you go. Fernando Mendoza. Really? Born 2003. That's wild. Jackson Dart, Travis Hunter. Some deaths.

We've got to have some of those. June, Carter Cash, and Johnny Cash. Wow. Do they die together, like Romeo and Juliet? He died shortly after? Yeah, a few months later. Yeah. From a broken arm.

Yeah. A lot of people think so. That'll do it. Bob Hope. He also kept hurting himself to see if he could still feel. Really? Was he really? No, that's the song. Oh, right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mr. Rogers. He died 2003. Yeah. Man. When did you think he died? I thought recently. Time flies.

Johnny Paycheck. Oh, take this job and shove it. Some people say he's the greatest country singer. Well, my friend says that. Yeah. My friend Alec Parent says that. He's the greatest country singer ever? He's the greatest voice.

He believes his voice, he has the greatest country voice. Johnny Paycheck's really great. Yeah. But he, you know, he's also, you know, he's an outlaw guy. And he, I think he killed a guy. At least shot a guy. And he was, you know, he had a rough life. but he's good

there's a couple of those on the Dusty's like country music playlist Robert Palmer died oh he was a musician too huh yeah I liked him Miss Elizabeth I'm trying to listen to the newest Robert Palmer tape but Evelyn keeps yapping in my ear you know what that's from American Psycho yeah

you know Miss Elizabeth No what is that Macho man's wife No At the I was 11, dude That was prime time for WWF Oh

Well, but she was Yeah, she was dying then Yeah Prime time was when he was 11 Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah CMA awards Single of the Year

2003 Yeah What's the artist? You guys just What's the CMA? Country Music Association Okay You just alluded

to it. Okay. Oh, hurt. Hurt by Johnny Cash. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Song of the year. Was that kind of give it to him because he died kind of thing? It was, it brought him back out of the dark. I mean, it was, I remember that song. Yeah, it was awesome. It was big. It was big. A song of the year was by Randy Travis. Oh, three wooden crosses? Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one too. What's the difference between single of the year and song of the year? No idea. No idea. Probably just a way to give away to a war. Probably so. Vocal event of the year, it's 5 o'clock somewhere.

Oh. Yep, Alan Jackson, Jimmy Boffrey. That's a good one. You know, he's doing his final concert this weekend, this coming weekend here in Nashville. Alan Jackson is, yeah. Where at? Downtown, Nissan Stadium. But they're going to block off downtown for people who didn't get tickets to watch it on the big screen.

Wow. That's how big it is. Is he dying or something? He's got a sick, I think. Yeah, he's got a condition that's, for it's. him to retire. Okay. It's his final concert.

Wow. You're going to go, Dustin? Now I'll be in Louisiana at the golden night. I'll just like I'll finish. I'll just like I'll finish. I've not had a lot of sleep. Amanda Arnold's like, yeah, this is what I'm talking about. All right, in country music, you know what else happened that year

based off of the Iraq War? What's that? Oh, the Dixie Chicks. Dixie Chicks. Got canceled. That was a big, that was a big story. Dixie Chicks are so good. The chicks, they're so good, dude.

You were back and listening to some of that old music. They were so good, yeah. old stuff. Yeah. They are really good. Wide open. The 75th Academy Awards, hosted by Steve Martin. Chicago won Best Pitcher. Oh. Kind of a down year, huh? It was. A down year.

Adrian Brody kissed Hallie Harry when she presented him the best actor Oscar. That was kind of a memorable thing. All right. Even then people were saying... She wasn't into it. Even then people were saying that was inappropriate. Now he'd get canceled. Yeah. But what was he there? Was this? the pianist.

Wow. So he won best actor, right? Yep. And she had won the previous year. For Monsters Ball. Right. And she presented and, you know,

he gave her a big kiss. That's how things escalated. It was kissing back then and nowadays were just punching each other. And then didn't Jim Carrey do something like to him? Like. I don't think it was Adrian Brody. There was some other award show where a guy kissed a woman and then Jim Carrey came up

and kissed him. Oh, okay. Yeah, that was a different award. Award. Okay. Okay. At the Emmy Awards, he would never besmirch or attack the integrity of the Oscars. Oh, yeah. It's a much more prestigious, classy kind of. If you're listening, yeah, he's joking. At the Emmy Awards, West Wing won a standing drama series for the fourth consecutive year. Unheard of. Unprecedented. It'll never be topped.

Tying the record set by Hill Street Blues, also later tied by Game of Thrones and Madden. but you're right Aaron no one's beat it that's true that's true comedy went to everybody loves Raymond

well I would have thought by 2003 that would have that show was off the air feels like no I feel like it's right when it's just getting started right I always thought it was a 90s show I always felt it was like an after Seinfeld

okay that's how I think about it like the next wave I always thought it was like Seinfeld And then after that, King of Queens, everybody loves Raymond. I don't know if it's right. I remember talking about it at my church in Charleston.

Okay. Maybe I think about home improvement was all in the same time of Sanford. That feels a little before. Yeah. Wow. 96 to 2005. You're right. 210 episodes.

Nine seasons. God, the show was on forever. How about that? SNL, new cast member, 2003. Is he a big one? Yeah. Keenan Thompson. Wow. Wow.

Isn't that crazy? Wow. Kenan Thompson's been on SNL Valerie's whole life. Yeah. Wow. That's crazy. Mm-hmm. I knew him as the Keenan and Kel show.

Me too. Good Burger. Good burger. Yeah. You really, to me, you really would have thought it would have been Kell. Mm-hmm. Who, you know, had the better career. Yeah.

But I think Kel's still doing, he does a lot. Okay. a lot of voiceover work and he's so he's had a really good career too what what channel was that on what network nicolodeon dude mm hmm way before my team way after my time again that's teen nick dude um the new governor of california oh swartzon egg all right look at that's pretty wild huh that is pretty wild i sent you um the list of the top movies of uh 2003 mm-hmm I will look it up. Don't you vamp for 10 seconds?

Dessie, where are you going to be this one? Well, down at the Golden Nugget Casino. I never got anything. You know, 2003 is when I started working at Hymond's. That's when I first became a food runner at Hymond Seafood, Charleston, South Carolina. I got it pulled up. Attitude is everything. All right.

All right. Thanks, Dussie. You did. You filled in. Yeah. Oh, you know what? I think Abby maybe. Highest grossing films of 2003?

Lord of the Rings. Oh, you know what? I went to see Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, by myself at the theater in Charleston. Wow. I wanted to see it. I had not made friends yet.

Was the theater full? Do you remember? I want to say it was like Christmas Eve or something. It was pretty empty. Wow. That was empty. Yeah, pretty empty. Oh, because it was Christmas.

This is why you stopped celebrating Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. Sad. But I, yeah, wanted to go see it. I didn't have any ideas. You know, I had not made friends yet. So.

Why do you think you didn't go home for Christmas? You had to work? Probably, yeah. Yeah. Office Depot? I was working Office Depot and Hyman's. Oh, okay. By this point.

And it's busy at Hyman's around Christmas time. I think, yeah, I just think I was working seven days a week. I was on the grind. Yeah. Look at you now. Working once a month. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I put in my time, guys. Finding Nemo at number two. Wow. And I think domestically finding Nemo was number one. I believe it. I believe it. I cannot.

Lord of the Rings, though, Return of the King. So good. Unbelievable movie. So good. I think I like two the best, though. With the trees. Two towers. Yeah, with the trees.

I just sent you a link. Treebeard. Also for the top songs. Where did you send an email? Yeah. I wish I could find nine hours to watch all of those again. I think you could find it. Maybe I can do it on the road.

Maybe when I'll do it down in Louisiana. That's movies, but... What did you want me to pull up? Well, anyway, we can get the songs now if you want. Yeah. We already did the song. Oh, Ignition. Oh, Ignition Remixed by R. Kelly.

Gosh, that was a great one. That was a big one. Really great. How many of these... When I'm gone by the... three wars down. Rest in peace, man. That guy just died, the elite singer.

Unwell, any matchbox 20 is good. Right There by Chingy. Remember that song, Brian? I bet you've heard it. Yeah, for sure. Right there. Yeah. Is that how good?

That's how that goes. I like the way you do that right there. Remember that? I don't think so. It's a hot song. Tristan, will you sing it for us? Cheryl Crowe. Do you know that song?

I like the way you do that right there, right there. Yeah, I mean, that was perfect. That was perfect. Okay. Come on. What year did you see that concert, your first concert, where the guy who's listening? Oh, from FFH? Oh, man.

Oh, shaky tail feather. Maybe 2000. Okay. All right. I'm with you, Averill Levine. Now, Avril Levine. Yeah, before she was replaced. You know, they say she's been replaced.

What year did that happen, do they think? Probably right after this. 2004? After her last hit. Oh, okay. What do you mean replaced? Like another person's her? Well, they think, yeah, they took her out and installed somebody else.

Who knows? She was getting too big, too quick. Who knows? Chris Gaines has already happened, though, right? Yeah. Yeah. Lose yourself at 28. It must have come out the year before.

Yeah. Because there's just no way it was that far down. Lose yourself by M&M. What a year. Adrian, what did you weigh in 2003? probably about 280 did you really at the round this time

maybe not that much yeah but you were headed that direction I was going there yeah yeah all right I guess we can wrap it up yeah uhg boots

everyone everyone go around say you're waiting out I like that you yeah we ended on that just kind of an awkward moment for Adrian and we don't if this is someone's first time listening

They don't, maybe they don't know what Adrian even looks like now. And they go, well, maybe this guy, how much does he weigh now? He weighs 340 now. Yeah, yeah. He weighs considerably less now. I'll say that. So everybody ends with just going, well, what's going on with Adrian? Yeah, we can wrap it.

Adrian, he's Jack now. He's a good shape now. He's in good shape now. Yeah. All right. When we did the grip competition in here once before, Adrian won. Well, I'd like you to explain what that meant. It just got more awkward.

It was a grip strength tester. Yeah, it was a grip competition. We all got naked. All right, we're wrapping up. All right. This Saturday, I will be in Columbia, Tennessee at the Packard Playhouse. Then July 3rd, here at the lab at Zane. You guys are always welcome to do it.

Brian Bates and Friends, July 3rd. July 9th, comedy catch in Chattanooga, July 17th, and 18th, comedy off Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky. Awesome. All right. Aaron Weber here, I've got a kind of a relatively slow summer. Things pick up pretty hard towards the end of the year, but a couple dates I've got coming up. I'm going to be. Let me plug.

I want to plug three things. Okay. All right. July 16, 17th, 18th. 18th, Royal Oak, Michigan. I'm going to be at the Comedy Castle. All right. Love that. Which I've never been to before. I'm super excited to be back up there. Jay Flake will be with me. August. I'm going to be in Phoenix, Arizona, at the Desert Ridge Improv. And then I want to plug at the end of September, my wife and I are a fundraiser show, which Nate Land is, we're very happy and grateful that they're a sponsor of.

It is our Prater Willie, Prater Silly, our fundraiser show for the organization that Lucy and I. work with. It's right here at Zanis. Last year, these guys were on the show. It was a great lineup. So keep an eye on for that. If you're in the national area or whatever, it's September 30th, it's right here at Zanies. And you can learn more about it

at prodder-silly.com. Thanks, guys. Okay, I'm going to hit you with about four dates. Just kind of one-offs here. Tonight, we got a show at the lab called Get Loose. Okay, cool. You can come watch or you can participate by putting your name in a bucket.

It's going to be a great show. We're doing bucket and book. That way you get to see a little bit of an open mic, but it also will remain a good show. This weekend, if you haven't heard, I'm in Louisiana, Lake Charles, at the Golden Nugget Casino. You just ripped to everybody that's the bucket spot.

Yeah. July 7th, I'll be here, Dusty Slay's grand old comedy show. July 11th, I'm in Charlestown, West Virginia at a casino. I don't have the name of the casino listed here. And then July 18th, I'm in Atlantic City at the music box. Awesome.

So come check those out. All over. Those are going to be great. I got, you know, I'm doing a few one-nighters in July, which is great. June was, had to work every weekend. You believe that? Yeah. Yeah.

Well, that's it, guys. Thank you so much. That was 2003. We learned a lot. Thank you, Brian. Well, thank you, Aaron. Thank you, both of you guys. Thank you, Dusty.

Both Brian and Aaron. Yeah. And thank you guys for listening or watching, however you tune in to the Public Figures podcast. Check us out next week when we're back. We're having a good time.