The Nateland Podcast - 22: #22 | Louisiana

Episode Date: July 1, 2026

This week, Aaron, Brian, and Dusty delve into the state of Louisiana by looking at the history of Mardi Gras, jazz, King Cakes, and Popeye's Chicken. Helix Sleep- Helixsleep.com/nate  Go to helixsleep.com/nate for their Fourth of July Sale, 20% off sitewide, 25% off Luxe Mattresses and 30% off Elite Mattresses from now until July 6th. Rocket Money- Rocketmoney.com/nateRocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings.  Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Join at Rocketmoney.com/nate.IQ BAR- Text PUBLIC to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products, plus FREE shipping. Message and data rates may apply

Good morning, everybody. Good afternoon. Good evening. Whenever you're listening, we're glad you are. Welcome into the Public Figures podcast recorded live. Nate Land Studios right here in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee at Zanis Comedy Show Place, one of the most historic comedy clubs in the country. We're happier here. We've got an exciting episode coming up. I am Aaron Weber, one of your co-hosts, alongside my buddy's Brian Bates. Okay. And Dusty Slay. All right. We're three music city-based stand-up comedians talking, learning, listening, growing every weekend as we explore a random topic for your amusement. Dusty's got a zany shirt on. That's a classic. It's a good one. I don't know if it's a classic.

It's a fairly new shirt. It's a new shirt designed to look like a classic. Yeah. I went to a restaurant and the lady goes, is that a restaurant? Talking about my shirt, I know. No, it's a comedy club. And she seemed very confused by the whole thing. She wasn't, you know, an older Mexican lady.

Okay. And she seemed very confused. And I go, you know, they might, you know, they have food too. Right. But if you're just listening, on the T-shirt is a popcorn. Be weird to be a restaurant and you have popcorn as the item on your T-shirt. She said, is it a restaurant? And I go, what's a comedy club?

And then just nobody working at the place I was at seemed to. You know, seemed to get the concept of the comedy club. They seemed disappointed that I had said that to him. So I go, well, you know, they serve food too. Yeah. And it never seemed to get better for them. It's a great place. It's a burrito place called Bubba Cooz.

You ever been to Bubba Cooze in Mount Julia? Never heard of Bubba Coo's. It's in Mount Julia. Okay. Where you live. Yeah. And it's good. It's a good burrito.

I don't eat at every restaurant of Mount Julia. I'm getting close. Yeah. I've lived there a couple of years, man. That's a good one. I'll check out Bubacus. But, yeah. We got a taco truck place that we've been eating that now.

It's right outside of gas station. It's unbelievable. Oh, yeah. It's a bit of a drive out there, but it's nice. And they're a little mean to you, and I kind of like it. Okay. Like they're always there? They're always just parked there right outside the gas station, yeah.

How much of a drive? 12 minutes. Yeah, but it's worth it. It's worth it, yeah. Check that out. And then I'll go to Bubba Cus. Okay. Well, you know, I got a food truck and a gas station closer to me.

I could probably get there in five minutes. No, they're not like my guys are doing it. I don't know. My guys. Oh, man, don't disrespect my guys. They're good. This is outside of the shooters parking lot, the bar shooters. Okay.

I know that bar. Yeah. Okay. This is not that. This is next to a liquor store and a gas stuff. I mean, this is pretty close to as sketchy as you can get. Okay. This one's all right.

I was at there getting gas because that's where I can get non-ethanol gas from my lawnmore and this girl was like, yeah, get that gas. And I was like, like, I guess, was some girl in the parking lot, like, she was there. Yeah, she was like, you know, I don't know. Get my gas. I think if people think, if people see you putting gas in your, in containers, they think you're like prepping gas. Not that I'm not doing that too. Yeah. But I'm getting gas for my lawnmour. Right. But they're also more likely to assume that you're prepping what if, that if Brian were to be seen filling up gas. I guess so, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. No offense. I'm just saying. No, I mean, yeah, I get it. I guess Brian would, you know, ask for help or whatever. Can't get the cap off. Brian would ask the lady, can he put this in my car for it? It's heavier enough thought.

Get that gas. Yeah. Got to get that gas. There's a gas station next to my old house, dude. I went in there so often. guy was so rude to everybody that I stopped going there. Yeah. I don't need, my day's ruined every time I'm in here.

That guy never smiled once. Yeah. And I try to be empathetic and think it's probably not a great job. He clearly works a lot of hours. He's always in there. And people are probably rude to him. But, golly, smile a little bit. Yeah.

Give me something, dude. Yeah. I would say, how's your day going? He would go, mm. Oh. Yeah. Wow. So I go, not good, huh?

Yeah. You go, I'm here. Don't you hate when you do that? How's your day going? It's going. Yeah. Give me something. Say it's good.

Lie to me. Yeah. Have you seen these videos of... Also, change up your life. You know what I mean? Yeah. All right. Go ahead.

Look, I agree. You know? Like the camera behind the counter, like, they'll show, like, rude customers in this one guy in particular who will return the favor. You want to talk about? Like somebody will come in with a wad up dollar, give me change, and he'll take the change, and he'll wad all them up and get them. Oh, I like that. Yeah. And whatever they do, he kind of puts it back on it. All right. Yeah. I like that.

I assume if they're nice, he's nice. Yeah, I like that too. It's not very good video. Everyone's just nice. It's not good content. Yeah. You know, what have you been up to this weekend, Dusty? Where were you? Oh, you know where I was at? I was in Louisiana. Lake Charles at the Golden Nugget. Yeah, that's right. And it was great. You know what? I'd never heard of Lake Charles before. I didn't want to say that last week, you know, because I was going there. But I've been to a bunch of places in Louisiana, but I'd never heard of Lake Charles. It's great. I'm going to say this, though, I didn't experience anything but the Golden Nugget Casino. But the Golden Nugget Casino, very nice, right by the water. A lot of restaurants and shopping and a pool and people hanging. And, ooh, It was great.

So Lake Charles is the southwestern part of Louisiana. So it's down there. It's a little bit. Louisiana, Louisiana. Yeah, a little bit past Lafayette, I believe. Okay. And people are nice down there. It was great.

I love Louisiana. I love people in Louisiana. I've been to a lot of spots. You know, I'm always looking for a cigar spot after. And I've been to some fairly shady spots in Louisiana having cigars. And it's always great. Always great. We're going to get in that today

And I love it, yeah What's the topic? Shady cigar places? Yeah. Okay, good. Well, I love it though. I had a great ton. We're great. What about you, Brian?

Where were you at? Hot show. Hot show. Okay. Really hot show. Now, be honest with me, if the show was not hot, would you come back and say that it was?

If you asked me how... I believe that it was, but I'm just wondering how honest you did. If you asked me how the show was, I might say it was a hot show, but I wouldn't offer it up voluntarily. Okay.

And it was, though. I mean, you know, I had a couple of comics. Locals, or Gert Nelson? Okay. Out of Louisiana, Rustin, Louisiana. Cool. And then Tyler Elliott from Tyler, Texas. Really?

And very funny. They're both very funny. And Garrett, we talked, is 22. I'm 44. That means I was his age when he was born. When he was born. Wow. Yeah.

It's a good math. Yeah. But very funny. And the show was great. I did an hour 20 and then they gave me the light because they were like, all right. This is a casino. People need to get back out there. How much time?

What do you have done if they hadn't given out? I don't know. I might have done an hour and a half. I had a, my closing bit, it's like seven to 10 minutes. So I just skipped it and just ended the show. Just ended it. I kind of been doing that lately because my closing bed is these long airport jokes that are very funny.

people like them, but I've been doing them for a long time. So I'm pretty sick of them. Next special, I got to put them on there, so I'll never do them. So you can never do them. Yeah. What's your PR at this point? I don't know what that means. Personal record. Oh, I don't know, hour 32, something like that, I think. That's the PR for the total length of my show, including openers. That's wild, man. Golly. Good for you.

Be that comfortable. That's, I'm envious of it. Friday night, I did a show here in Nashville at Cornerstone Church for the, wearing their shirt,

the conference, Christians working in sports conference. Okay. It was at Cornerstone Church here in Madison and I had a great time, everybody was super nice. What does that mean?

They're just, this is, they're in any kind of sports, but they're Christians out there doing it and then they come together to meet up. Mm-hmm. I mean, I kind of, my first joke was kind of making fun of their towel. It's very on the hit. Like there's no, it's usually something called Ignite or, you know, rise up. It's like, Christians working in sports. Okay, I think I know what this is about.

Yeah. Through a hot tub time machine. It's, uh, but it's, it's like executives. It's like athletic directors and colleges or executives, you know, NFL or NBA. Waterboys, stuff like that. That's what I was going to say. Like, if you're a Christian water boy, can you still get in? I don't think so.

They got their own conference. Holy water. Christian water boys. Do you ever have Gatorade growing up in sports or was it all water? I had Gatorade. I mean, like, officially like sanctioned by the team. Like, did they ever have like a jug of Gatorade or was it all? all water. Like sponsor? Not sponsored, but you know, like... I don't think I was ever on a team that

had any kind of sanctioned. I don't think I was either. I think it's whoever's parent. I think I'm using the wrong words. Yeah. I mean like you, a water break and then you go over there and there's Gatorade instead of water. Did your school have any, like a nutritionist and a trainer and stuff? We had not in Alabama. When I moved to Tennessee in the middle of high school here in Hendersonville, Tennessee, there was a full-time trainer on staff. When we were in school, we didn't know water was needed. Yeah. Back when you were growing up, though, food was probably still good for you in this country. You still got thirsty, though.

Yeah. Bates, he fainted. I guess he's sad. Yeah. No, it's 110 degrees outside. You got to step it up. I mean, I had the football coaches growing up that were just to suck it up coaches. Mm-hmm.

You know, suck it up, tape an aspirin to it, that kind of stuff. They would mock you for being legitimately injured, that kind of thing. And I love it. Turn me into the man I am today. That's why I'm still excelling in athletic. Yeah. They were asking how hot was your yearn? They were asking seven and eight-year-olds that, thankfully. Where was that at?

That was at Western Kentucky. We did an offensive lineman camp when I was in high school. And that's when you realize, you're like, oh, I'm not. This is the last level I'm doing this at. Because if that's what it takes to do this at a serious life, I don't have that in me. The one year I played football in eighth grade for the school. Our coach did give us like a little peatalk where he was like, he was like, if you go home tonight and you pee's real yellow, you know, you need to drink some water. Totally.

He gave us a real, a real peatocke. He's really educating us on the color of our peat. And you probably still analyze the color to this day. I do. I do. I go, either I just ate a multivitamin or I've not been drinking enough water. I forget about water sometimes until, you know, use the bathroom. And you're like, gul, what is that?

It's just coming out like coffee. That was Friday night. And then Saturday night. Had a great time, by the way. We were there, sure, everybody asked, why are you wearing a sweats? It's a hot day. It's good merch. I want to represent them.

And it's, you know, it's white. So it doesn't like attract the sun. Yeah. Like, you know, like what Aaron's wearing would bring the sun into him. This is cool. This is hot weather gear, though. This is cooling. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Carhart's doing it, man. They got technology. Yeah. But that's just, yeah, that doesn't, what's the science behind black and white? Black absorbs all the colors? I think so. Yeah, which is white absorbs.

Black under your eyes. That's right. So, close to reflect it away from your eyes or something. Yeah, and it looks cool. Yeah, it looks cool. When you played that one of your football, do you have eye paint, war paint on your face? No, I never. really even went in to the field.

So there's really no need and all that. It's so funny to put all that stuff on. You look like William Wallace out there. You never get in the game. I still remember to this day, my software year, my buddy, showed up to the first game and just showed up. He had an underarmor visor on. He had all the wristbands.

He showed up with all the gear. And he put it all on. And the coach just sees him and goes, take that off right now. at the team. Oh, so embarrassing. We had a, my senior year of high school, our drama class, wanted to do a talent show, our teacher, and everybody come in with whatever you need, props, dress, attire, whatever, to do a certain talent. And I had no talent. And, oh, come on. Well, let me just say senior in high school, I hadn't fleshed out my talent yet. Okay, okay. So I'm like, what could I do? And I was on the baseball team, even though I'd never got in the game.

So I wore my baseball uniform and I put the eye black underneath me. We're supposed to come in and talk about it, you know. Right. But I just remember being so embarrassed because the best player on the team was in my class who went on to play in college. And he didn't do that. He had some other talent that he could talk about. And I'm standing there in front of the guy who's a star and I'm never getting the game talking about baseball. I got eye black underneath me in a classroom.

Yeah. I think I had two. One out of the back pocket. Your talent was that confidence. I don't play, but I can tell you about it. Yeah, yeah. But Chris here, he plays all the time. That's awesome.

So remember that. So anyway, Saturday night, I was in Columbia, Tennessee at the Packard Playhouse. Did a show there with my buddy Paul Aldrich and great. Folks came out. And, yeah. Okay. You know, getting older is not all fun, mostly fun, but not all fun. Aaron made me clarify that. When you're young, you'll sleep on a couch, a floor, a pile of jackets,

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Is that what you got right there in front of you? Well, I guess so. Alex Vlito, Mike Goodwin, John Heffron. All right. This is like an official ticket. What a cool keepsake. Yeah. It's like a golden ticket to the chocolate factory.

I got a golden ticket. It's pretty nice. I was just downtown. I was, man, it is hot. I just want to walk in here and cool off. And it was like, oh, there's a comedy show going on. It happened to be a show going on. Stick around.

Now, it was great. Alex Voludo, our buddy, so funny. Mike Goodwin's our friend, so funny. John Heffron, I mean, is, I mean, like kind of a legend. Yeah, like, you know, one last comic standing back in the day. We did a new show here at Zanis on Wednesday, and I had Alex come out, and I feel like I put Alex in the worst possible spot. I didn't realize that it was that bad.

We did bucket spots. Yeah. And then the last bucket spot, there was like, I don't know, half the audience was comics, like 50 comics. Yeah. And once the last bucket spot was pulled, you know, all the comics left. And then we were like, next up, Alex Voludo. I had no idea, but he did great.

How'd the show go, though? It was really fun. We're going to do it more often. We're going to do more bucket spots. We had about nine bucket spots. We're going to try to ramp it up to 12. make a couple of changes, but I think it was awesome. Yeah.

I think it was really great. Good, and that's right here in the lab, right? Yeah. Good deal. Speaking of the lab, I've got a show here Friday night. It's Friday night. Brian Bates and friends here, July 3rd at the lab. I can't make it.

All right. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. Thanks for letting me know. I wish I was there, but I won't be. Oh, yeah, you're in New York City at a wedding, right? No, I'm going to... No, man, maybe. I'm still waiting on the last second invite.

Do you think if I get the last second invite, do you think I should go and abandon my wife's family for July 4th? Yes. I think she would definitely be going with you. I think, well, what if I went without Lucy? I don't think she would like it. No. You know what we're talking about?

No. Supposedly Taylor Swift's getting married. Oh, okay. This weekend. This week. Oh, in that case. The details are very secretive. In that case, don't abandon your family.

I thought it was a show. No. Okay. Yeah, don't abandon your wife's family. I was watching Sunday night baseball last night on NBC, Yankees, Red Sox, and our buddy, or least some of our buddy, Sunny Gray. Friend of the podcast. Yeah, it was on the Nateland podcast. Sunny Gray? Yeah. That's very close to my own son's name. I know. I know. He was pitching for the Red Sox. He's having a great season. I think he's nine in one this year on a bad team. And he had a no. hitter going until the eighth inning. I was getting more and more excited each inning as he kept going because when he was on our podcast, we talked about if he ever threw a no hitter and they said, you got to interpress conference say hello folks.

And, you know, of course he wasn't going to do that, but it would just be so cool. We talked about a lot about how he'd never thrown a no hitter on this podcast. He's gotten close a bunch, though. Yeah. Well, he got close last night. Yeah, he's playing unbelievable. It's that weird thing, and Dusty, I don't know if you know this, but when like the pitcher is about to have a no hitter.

hitter or a perfect game or something, there's a superstition that the second you address it officially, then you jinx the pitcher, right? So they're playing that dance of like trying to talk about it without talking about it, but they also want people to tune in and watch. Yeah. So they'll be like, check out the box score and look at the hit column and see if you notice anything like that. But the second you do that, you just, you jinx them.

Yeah. It's a difficult thing. You don't think he would have said hello folks I mean it was five years ago now wasn't it There's not a chance he's on he's been on two different teams since then Well maybe if he you know didn't forget about you guys Then he might have been a no hitter game But he forgot about you guys you forgot where he came from

And then the Red Sox blew the game Like they ended up losing the game Yeah Red Sox are not very good Yeah but anyway Exciting stuff exciting stuff. Oh, somebody sent me something today about a basketball player caught in some kind of scandal,

gambling, rigging the game. Brian sent it. Yeah, I do that just for you. Okay. Yeah. You know, at this conference, I said, they said that's the hardest things Christian is rigging those games and feeling good about it. Yeah.

But they tip me off to some games coming up, so I'm going to make some money. Yeah. You ever have somebody tell you a story that you know you told them? Yeah. And they act like they're telling you for the first thing. Do you let them finish a story or do you go, I told you this? I don't know. I guess it depends on how good they're telling it.

Like maybe I can pick up some tips on how to tell it better next time. Well, we're going to start off with some comments here. The comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple, podcast reviews. And our email, if you're old school, is mail at natelandpodcast.com. First comment comes from Jekarrel. 715. That's J.C. Herald. 715. I don't know why that's so funny, Jim Carroll. Between the Nateland podcast and this one, there are two episodes I have always told people they must listen to. One is breakfast trying to say porn. And the other is episode 90.

Peanut Peanut Butter Salesman with Greg Warren. This episode is now making the list after the laugh I got from the Nora Jones Don't Know Why discussion. All right. How about that? Thank you. Well, Mount Rushmore. Thank you, Jackarroll.

I love that because I was finally on one. I was losing it. Yeah. I think I was on the poem episode. You were. That's true. I wasn't. 99, though, that was right before.

Right before this podcast really took off. Yeah. Yeah. Amy Bowmiller, Dusty cracking up is the best. You guys are so much fun to watch. Happy to be a part of the common folk. All right. Thanks, Amy. Yeah, thank you, Amy. It's very nice. Wow, these comments are so good for me. There must be some bad ones. I'm sure there is because Brian compiles them. Barb Cotton or Barb Cotton. It's Cotton with an A.

Caton. Barb Caton. It could be a Midwest. I like that. Barb Barb Caton. I worked down at the Tasty Freet. Oh, boy. I was, oh, my gig. What was that guy at the? Oh, no, at the gig in Minong, yeah. Every time Dusty would start a bit, we were in the small Wisconsin town. We were performing at the city hall in Minong, Wisconsin. And this old woman in the back, every time Dusty would start a bit, she would just go, whoa. Oh, yeah. I'd never heard a human make that noise before. I was flabbergasted. Oh, oh, boy. Barb Caton, I was so impressed with how Aaron apologized to Brian after making fun of his news station job. Aaron is such a nice guy, hoping to see him in Royal Oak, Michigan in July.

Well, Barb, I feel bad about playing around with your name so much there at the beginning. Wow. And I'd like to apologize to you in person, July 16th through the 18th, in Royal Oak Michigan at the Comedy Castle. My first time at this club, historic club, I hear about it all the time. It's a great club. Yeah, I like it. My first time there coming out and see me Barb Katten and we can talk after the ship. Let me get this straight. Yes. Aaron insults me, then does a fake apology. Fake. And he somehow comes up as a nice guy. Yeah. Yeah, I know. That's what charisma can do for you. You can get away. You can get away with things.

Oh, geez. Thank you, Bob. Jana Cole. Janica Cole. I've got a friend. I've got a friend that whittles literally made me spit my drink out. I know. I know. Me too. Me too. That was Tristan. Did you tell your friend that whittles? Do you tell him you talked about him on the phone? No. He doesn't have a phone. Yeah. Yeah, I wrote to him, but I hadn't heard back yet. Yeah, he set a pigeon over to his house. Grandma Corps is the name of the lifestyle where people have grandma hobbies or decorate their homes to make it feel cozy like grandma's house. Okay. I'm getting into that.

Well, yeah. You know what? I'm buying. Not even Grandpa Corps? Yeah. Well, I don't have a name for it. But I'm buying old TVs again. Okay.

And I'm into it. The old deep ones? Yeah. Like cubes? Yeah, I'm into it. What are you going to do with them? I'm using them. They still work?

Yeah. What are you using them for? I'm just watching TV. I'm going back to it. Yeah. Why? I hooked up my. my Roku to one of the old ones.

And I just, I don't know, I feel like they're better. And I'm, in what way? By what metric are they? I just think they're better. They're not. Listening to us. They take up more space. They're doing.

They use more electricity. The new TVs are doing something to us, I think. Like what? I don't know. They're ruining our eyes and. You don't think it's what we're watching versus how, like with the device we're watching them on? I think a little bit of both.

Yeah. But I'm saying you could watch whatever you were going to watch in your old TV, just watching on a better one. Yeah, but what if I watch what I want to watch on an old TV, then I'm not, you know, it's the best of both worlds. This is what I think. I used to be able to sleep, and then maybe this is an age thing, and I don't know, but I used to be able to sleep with a TV on.

Yeah. I would sleep the whole night with a TV on. Wake up, watch weird stuff in the middle of the night, go, you know, I used to keep like Comedy Central or a cartoon network on, or wake up in the middle of the night and be some weird cartoon on that I'd watch. Sure. Now, the TV will not let me go to sleep. Yeah. Do you think that has more to do with the TV or the fact that you're in your 40s now?

I think it has more to do with the TV. You don't think you could watch the same shows that you were watching back then? No. Where were you watching back then late at night? Well, Adult Swim, the Cartoon Network. Sure. You remember that? And they'd have a lot of stuff like Squidbillies and 12-ounce mouse and the thing with the cup walking around.

Yeah, what was that, Aquitaine Hunger Force? Yeah, I love all those shows. those are great yeah well let me know how it works out I will I'll be talking about it mm-hmm Kayla Byram Kayla Byram

just some history for young Aaron he said John Travolta doesn't sing but John Travolta actually put out a full album now it bombed naturally but he did sing a full album all right I mean the Greece soundtrack is mostly him singing that's fair but I don't think it's crazy

if I think of John's Revolta and I don't think of musician right away. He is known as an actor. And a dancer. Well, no. It's an actor. And a dancer, though. But I don't think he's known as a dancer.

He's not in the Jabbawha. Saturday Night Fever. He's an actor. Saturday Night Fever. He danced in a film. Oh, Greece. Staying alive. Pulp Fiction.

Pulp Fiction. He danced in Pulp Fiction? Yeah, a little bit. Did you remember when they go to that 50s diner and she does do the dance? Yes. But if you won, they won the competition. If you play a dancer in a movie, I don't think that that guy's a dancer. He actually said in an interview that...

Let's assume I haven't heard every Travolta interview. Yeah, he said that learning, you know, starting as a dancer, actually... Started as a dancer? Actually helped him later in action movies to be able to perform the kind of things that he needed to do. Wow. Yeah. Cally, silly me. Yeah. I didn't know any of this.

Could you look up John Travolta's album? I'm just curious. I bet it looks good. Staying alive, by the way, one of the worst movies of all time. What do you mean? Wasn't it a huge hit? Saturday Night Fever was good. Outside of acting, Tarolta has released nine albums.

Whoa. Including four singles that have charted on the Billboard's top 100s, or top 40. The albums have typically accompanied films he starred in, such as Greece. He's also a private pilot. This guy's incredible. He's a bit of a Renaissance man. My apologies. John Travolta is incredible.

Okay. Sorry, John. I just wanted to see the album cover to see what it looked like. Yeah, well, I can't. Is there a movie? Is there a John Travolta movie you hate? Yeah. Battleship Earth.

Battlefield Earth or something like that. No, I never saw it. Yeah. There was a movie called Gotti that was like, I think, historically bad. This is the album right here. Oh, yeah. 1976. That's a good one.

You could watch that on your old TV. Yeah. And I may. And I may. Let me look at Battlefield, Earth. I think that with John Travolta. Battlefield Earth,

the one with Will Smith's kid. Directed by M. Knight Shyamalan. Is that the movie you're talking about? No. No. Is that, you know what movie I'm talking about? Yeah, I've seen it. Maybe after Earth.

Yeah. This Battlefield Earth is, oh, man. Battlefield Earth, Travolta. Well, you don't have to put it in Troultta. In 2000. Wow. Okay. It looks.

Got to be honest, man. You hate to judge a movie by the poster. but yeah that's a tough one that is tough but I gotta be honest with you I want to watch it I think it won a bunch of Razzies yeah oh too bad 2000 American science fiction action film

directed by Roger Christian based on the 1982 novel by Scientology founder El Ron Hupper Oh he had to do it because he's Scientologist El Ron Huber made him do it Yeah that's right That's another reason Desi Loxx was Leran Hubbard dead at that point

2000. He died in 1986, so he'd been dead for 15 years. But one of the Hubbers. Well, he'd left his earthly body 15 years before. Yeah, one of the Hubbard's. Mm-hmm. The Hubbard boys. Yeah. The Hubbard boys. Yeah. Next comment comes from, well, isn't this fun, Sunflower Fortunato. Richie Riche was originally played by Macaulkin. The kid from 7th Heaven, I just learned today, played him in the Christmas Richie Rich. Oh, okay. So that was the only one I seen. I didn't know McCauley Colkin was Richie Rich. Yeah, that's the one I remember, but I couldn't remember that it was McCullough Colkin. But, uh...

Yeah, Richie Rich's Christmas Wish. That's the one I see. And then, remember this kid from Seven-T-Sev, you know what I'm talking about? I don't know that show. I don't even. Are you all both too old for that show? David Gallagher? You remember Seven-T-T-Sevon? I've heard I remember that I never saw it. Was it like the WB or something? Um, maybe. It does it WB? If it wasn't, it was culturally a WB show. Yeah, yeah. You know? Yeah.

It was in that same kind of. Original Richie Rich, it had the, his mom was also in the movie Black Sheep with Chris Farley. Okay. I mean, he looks like he's a way better Richie Rich. Yeah. I mean, McCulley Colkin was crushing. Yeah.

You know, there's some conspiracies out there that say McCulley Colkin is Kid Rock. Oh, I think that's got to be true. Yeah. Have you seen, you ever see their picture side by sudden? No. I think there's a chance. Yeah. But now I'm going to look into it.

I mean, how could that not be? I mean, they do look alike. Look at McCauley Colkin and a young kid rock. Yeah. Now, here's where I think this theory is going to run into some problems, is that Kid Rock is around and he's old now. Yeah, McCleigh Culkin, too, though. Look at that one up there.

You telling me that? McCullough of Cogan's not singing ball with a ball. Right here. Yeah, look at him. Same guy. They're at least related. They're both lean in the same direction. Yeah, related, yeah.

Well, related's a much different argument. And the way he screams, I mean, McCullough of Hogan had that scream too, you know. Does Kid Rock do that, faces to the cheeks? No, but he, you know, he screamed, though. My name is gay. Okay, okay. You know? And if you get left alone a couple of times when you're a kid,

you probably will take on the mantra of kid. Because you're trapped in that forever childhood. Yeah. That's true. You know what? I'm starting to believe it. Yeah. It makes sense.

I'm starting to believe it. Ashley, uh, whoa. Ashley. Sorry about that. Ashley. Ashley Shipe. I think I was so worried about your last name that I messed up the first name. My apologies, Ashley.

How does Brian even know? Melissa Joan Hart is his neighbor if he's never seen her. That's a good question. That is a good question. And we're going to defer to Brian for the next couple of minutes. I didn't even think about addressing that last way. Yeah. Go ahead and explain yourself. Well, my neighbors have certainly told me that she lives there.

And she did a thing for Today Show, the put on YouTube, where she gives a tour of her house. And you were in the window? The bushes. Yeah. So. We're sicking in. You're listening. Aaron took his hat off.

You're almost just a spit take. But there's a lot of neighborhood gossip about it. Well, you know, I just found out it lives on my street. Yeah. Is Justin Baldino? Is that his name? Is that that right? Baldoni, Justin Baldoni?

The guy from all the controversy with Ryan Reynolds and all that. saw him last week. Really? So you're on his side? If I meet him and become good friends with him, sure. I know nothing about that guy. That's pretty wild. What a nice neighborhood this must be. Yeah, you guys are very well. But I just love the idea. We are. I just love the idea of you sitting down with all the old women in the neighborhood, like gossiping about. About Melissa Jones. Yeah, over some tea or something. Do some whittling? Are you drinking tea? No. Neither am I. Do you drink tea? All the time. I love tea. Do you ever go, like, Let's have a tea?

No, I just, you know, I drink tea on the road. Do you have a teapot? I do. I take a tea kettle with me. Do you? Yeah. He's taking it, like into a hotel room? Yeah.

The tea kettle? I heat it up, yeah. And it goes off and everybody hears it? Well, no, it's just, it doesn't whistle. Oh, I thought that was the whole point of a teacup. Well, you put it on the stove, it whistles so that it doesn't boil over. Oh, you got one that just like. To electric, yeah.

Oh, okay. I envision you in one of those, would they have a little kitchenette 6 a.m. You just hear a whistle throughout the hotel. Well, yeah, I mean, when I get down to where I do one show a month, I'm going to be sitting around home drinking tea. Is that your goal? Because I've already made it. Yeah. Dude, I did that a long time ago.

Been there, done that, brother. Yeah, I mean, eventually, you know, you wanted to go do one big show and one or two. Yeah, I mean, it's got to be a big show. Okay. It's got to be, oh, big one. Yeah. Okay. He was a big tea drinker, Greg Wharton.

I believe it. Yeah. Let's he drink. Green tea, black tea? Earl Grey. I don't know, but we were, you know, over at the curig and I was some coffee. I was making some coffee. He's like, no, I don't do coffee.

I do tea. Okay. I like to do both. An old man conversation. Yeah. Sorry I brought it up. Yeah, well, I'm the one who brought it up. That's funny.

Anyway, sorry, ass with Shike. Sorry, Ashley. Krista Wilson. Krista. How often do you think she gets called Kristen? I bet it's every day. I bet it's almost every time she says her name. Yeah.

They think she says Kristen. Yeah. And then there's Kirsta, right? Isn't that a name? Kirsta? It's probably gets called Christy a lot. Kirsten, Kristen, Krista, Christi. Yeah.

Keith Aberstead has a very funny joke where he talks about going to Starbucks. He'll say the name was like Keith and they'll just write. He's like, I bet they, he meant, I can't remember how the joke, but they'll just come up with whatever it is. Keith. Keith. Yeah. Keith.

Yeah. Like Chief Keith. Yeah. Krista Wilson. My hometown's local bookstore had midnight release parties where people dressed up and waited in line to get the newest Harry Potter book. Some of my fondest childhood memories were getting my new book home and staying up to finally read what was happening in the wizarding world after the last book.

Yeah. I wonder if there's been a book like that since then that has. really that kids were doing this for. I don't know. Is there like another book series that has been this culturally impactful? Are kids even reading books anymore? The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons and that all come. The Dan Brown book?

I mean, that was like a series, right? But I don't know. I don't think kids were really getting into it like that way. No, that'd be weird. Kind of joking, but I don't know. Angels and demons, I start. reading a little bit of that back in the day. And that's, it's pretty intense. Yeah, it is.

It isn't, it isn't finished it. Just read the Angels part. Yeah, I would not, yeah, I wouldn't even mess around with it now, but back then. Skip. He didn't get to the end. Yeah. Jason McCall. The movie Dusty is talking about with Steve Carell is the big short. Okay. Yeah, I was asking was he in Moneyball? Yeah, yeah. And I think Moneyball, I feel like Moneyball and the big short maybe have

similar covers. Well, they're based on books written by the same author. Okay. So that's... I bet that's it. But the covers, too. You're thinking of the movie posters? Yeah.

Yeah. They're both Michael Lewis books. He's made some really great... I've not seen either of them. Everybody talks about Moneyball that I should see it. And I don't know why I haven't seen it. will get around to it. It's really a great movie.

Brian and I talk about it a lot of time. I think it's the best baseball movie ever made. What's your favorite scene? God, my favorite scene. I love all the scenes with Philip Seymour Hoffman as the manager. Those are great. You too. And then obviously the walk off home run scene is like perfectly done, I think.

That's probably my go-to. What about you? I like it when Chris Pratt's character, who's based on a real, you know, right? Scott Hattieberg. Down on his love. It's Christmas. He's home. Sitting there depressed.

His wife's worried about him. And then they call and say, hey, we're outside. Can we come in? Yeah, that's such a great scene. Yeah. You should watch this. I will.

That's how I feel when you all talk about 310 to Yuma. Did you, uh, also a great movie, though. Or my big fat Greek wedding. Did you really cry when you watched that? Or did you just say that? Maybe. I don't know.

I can't think of specifically when I did, but it's an emotional film. It was like two weeks ago. You're like, I just watched my big fat week. I cried. Are you about to make fun of me for crying? Yeah, I am. Did you just watch it? No, I was just curious.

I thought about that later. I'm like, what scene made you cry? I'm just curious. He always cries at weddings. Do you? I don't know. There's some nice, sweet moments in that film, dude. Are you that callous?

You can't get emotional? I'm not. I actually, I mean, it made me happy because I get emotional with the scene I just told you about for Moneyball. Yeah, yeah. There's a scene in the movie Hoosiers where Dennis Hoppers, I think that's his name, the actor plays the assistant coach. He shows up real drive.

Well, he's the town drunk. No one wants have anything to do with him. And Gene Hackman, not only ask him to be his assistant coach, he purposely gets thrown out of the game. Yeah. So he has to coach. And then he, it's a great scene. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that stuff will get me. Yeah.

Rudy, there's like seven different scenes we're in. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You cry? You ever cry in a movie? Yeah. John Travolta movies. Well, you know, the emotion.

The most movie you got emotional. Well, you know, I, you know, the, I don't know, the, I don't know, I've not been watching a lot movies like that. But yeah, the emotional... If you get a better TV, you'd be able to see it. Yeah, the emotional manipulation of these movies are, they're really on it. I mean, there was one... But Hoosier's a movie from the 80s. It's...

To call it emotional manipulation. It's just good writing sometimes, man. Yeah. But I just, sometimes I wonder, we have these things built into us where we feel these emotions. Right. Should we be... Should we be calling them other?

up just at any time we set down to watch a film and now we're like crying. It's like maybe we shouldn't be doing that. You don't think it's bad to have, like country music does that all the time. Do you think that's bad if it's like an emotional, nostalgic song that makes you feel? You think that can be bad? I think so. And I'm just wondering if it, if it's bad to just be calling up these emotions, like we have them for like when real things in our lives happen.

Do we need to just be dragging out our emotions at every fictional or historical thing that they put on film or in a song? Just a question. I mean, it's a good question. I got to update my list of things, Dusty doesn't like feeling things. Positive emotions. Yeah. We go to a museum or you just ticked off the whole time. That's making me feel angst.

Get that out of here. Is that good? I think that's what makes us human, man, is the ability to feel. No, I agree, but I'm saying we feel them when something real is happening in life. Sure, but I don't think- Should we be overworking them all the time by film and music? I don't think if a family member dies and I go, God, I can't get emotional with this because I cried watching Hoosiers last week. But maybe you are.

You think you have a finite amount of tears in your body. Maybe you're desensitized to death suddenly. you're like well I've been through this before many times people I cared about for a short time and he kept dying and

died the mining accident yeah that in that janitor who was like you five foot nothing hundred nothing and it's like I'm crying now again I feel like Rudy it is a great movie and it's not his fault but it's been parodied so much and different things that I feel like you watch it now

if you're not careful it can come off as a little little corny. Well, totally. I can see that. I shouldn't see that. I don't feel like it's been parodied enough. Culture's fault. Yeah.

It's like what people will do with like old standup sometimes. Yeah. Where it's been mocked and parodied so much that it seems hack. Yeah. The main, my main complaint about Rudy and not even a complaint. But I think, I think if they were, if this were happening modern day, they would have them on some type of medication. Like where he's.

running up to the school at like night, talking to the guard. Like, I'm about to, I'm going to play for Notre Dame. And I think they would go, this kid needs medication. Well, he had a learning disability. He was dyslexic. And in the movie, he says it like, he goes, my doctor thinks I have something called dyslexia. And I think it was long enough ago that it wasn't commonly known. I don't think it was treated or anything like that.

He had learning disabilities the whole time. Was he annoying? and all the people on the football team hated them, for sure. Yeah. For sure. And also that same story, Rudy, probably happens on every college football team every season, you know, where they let some kid get in the game. It happens all the time. But because it's Notre Dame, it means something.

Yeah. It was me on our school. No, you weren't. Except I didn't even hustle. They let you do that for talent, Chuck. You were like Rudy but had no heart? Yeah. You're five foot nothing, and you're lazy.

Yeah, and instead of, and you hung with the best, and they go, you're not hanging with it. Like try running around on a soccer field, but you're not. At the end, you're going to walk out of here with a degree from Lebanon high school. Well, I got that Litterman jacket I wore. You did. I mean, it was a sharp-looking jacket. And the fact that you can still fit into it, still blows my mind. Dusty, I don't care for horror movies.

I don't, I feel like there's enough horror in the world where I don't need to, go get scared, stimulate. So I think that's kind of a little bit, what you're implying. Yeah, I'm just saying we have these natural emotions. Yeah. And we have, like, you know, sometimes if I take two flights somewhere, I might be able to watch two movies. I don't need to call up sadness and tears and two flights.

What about laughter? I mean, I think, I mean, laughter's different. Laughter is different. Laughter is different because it makes you happy, right? Right? But it's like... But these movies we just reference make it. I don't know. I was watching a movie one time in an airport. And I got there way early.

I watched the whole movie in the airport before my plane took off. Wow. And then I took my headphones off and I'm like, oh, I'm at the airport. You know, I've been sucked into this thing. And now here I am, I'm in real life out here. I've been over here wiping tears away trying to not let people know that's what's going on over here. I don't know if that's good. What was the movie?

It was, what is that movie? It's the Western movie. I think it was a director from Nashville. It was the guy, he's from O'Brother War Art Thalba. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Forget what it's called now. It was a good movie. George Clooney.

Not George Clooney. I do know the movie you're talking about. The guy who's like, you ain't no kind of man if you ain't got land. Yeah, yeah. Lauren Grossman. In 2003, I worked for my mom. I rode with her to a staff meeting where she proceeded to announce I'd no longer be working there since the busy season was over. When I asked why she didn't mention this on the drive, she said she wanted to keep work and home life separate. I was 15. I read ahead. I got ahead of you. That's great. That's so funny. He drove her to her own funeral. I love that.

You get fired and then you drive home and don't even talk about it. Did she tell her that morning and then she had to sit around all day waiting for a ride home? Yeah. I guess so. That is funny. Thinking about my finances and setting a budget, it's really the last thing I want to think about over what I should, what should be a relaxing weekend this weekend, guys. Got July 4th coming up. And since I have rocket money, I can now plan ahead and know what.

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Rocketmoney.com slash Nate. Wow, I'd like to know what kind of job that was. Yeah. Aaron Robertson. I feel like these episodes on years are really just a chance for Dusty, the storyboard, his biopic. I'd watch that, but I wonder who Dusty but want to play him in the movie. It's an interesting question. Let's assume this project doesn't get made for a few years, and you're now too old to play younger Dusty in a movie.

Who would you want to play? I don't know that I know anyone. Who would you think? I Nick Thune Nick Thune Okay I was going to say

David Spay pulls up his Joe Dirt outfit Jared Leto Who's that 22 year old I like how you guys are picking older people I know that's the show

All right Who's someone young Leeching or corn The You know A lot of this though It's in my book We're having a good time

And so I get a little more detailed in there on something. So I try to keep it a little vague on here. But I don't know. I have no idea. If I knew some actors, some young actors. What if it was right now? Chalemay, somebody like that? Timothy Chalamee?

He could pull it off. He's good. He plays Bob Dylan. Yeah, he did a good. He's Bob Dylan, but he's been in a bunch of stuff. He did a really great Bob Dylan. What else has he done? He was in...

Just in the ping pong movie. It's just in the ping pong movie. He was at the Knicks game. Yeah, he's been in a movie where he's an alcoholic, and he's Steve Carell's son. And then he's been in, he was an interstellar. That Bob Dylan movie, I really went in, I watched it on a plane.

And I went, I, I'm sorry. And I went into watching it ready to hate it. And I loved it. Yeah. I thought it was great. Okay. I loved to check it out. Who was he in interstellar?

He was McConaughey's son who became Casey Affleck in the videos. Interesting. That he watched. Very small. role, but he was young at the time. Interstellar, even though I don't believe in that stuff, I really shook me up. I like that movie so much. Yeah, it's a good film. Would you want them to make a movie about you? Uh, no, probably not now because I feel like... We don't have an ending yet. Yeah, I feel like everybody's, they're all bad at making movies and, uh, like they look good,

but the story is, uh, well, the story's your life. You can't blame the story. But they would, they would go. I know I've written a couple of, worked on a couple of TV shows here and there. Yeah. Well, they never got to be TV shows. But where it's like you got a good idea. And then they're like, what about this? Let's put a little of this in there, a little of that and there. And you go, well, now we're not even, this is not even the story.

Now we're lying. Yeah. But your story is very inspirational. You were in a trailer park, drinking, going nowhere. And now you're a public figure. Yeah. Big celebrity. It will really play in your emotions.

Yeah. That's right. You probably get some tears out of people. Yeah. You don't make feel. And I don't want to manipulate them. Yeah. All right.

That's such a, you might be the only guy to think that, but I like it. We'll find out. I'm sure. Dusty's always right. I'm sure we'll hear from some lunatics in the comments. That's my favorite comment every way. Don't ever disagree with Dusty. He's always right.

Is it GP Moore? G. Moore? I don't know. I think so. He's on a list somewhere. He's from Arkansas. Great city of Arkansas. All right.

Did you hook up with him? No. Well, I mean meet up with him. Sorry. That's what I meant. We're both married. But if not. Cynthia Carpenter, it's the final comment.

I remember the space shuttle Columbia exploding as it was aiming to land in Florida. We were in East Texas at the time visiting my mother-in-law. We heard the boom. I believe it was a Saturday. We drove past debris on our way back home to Houston. Wow. They heard the boom. They got to Cynthia, too.

Dang. What's the boom? Probably hit the firmament. Coming back in through it. They just went up. I guess just the explosion. They exploded coming back, though. Well, that's what they tell you.

So they went up there. They grabbed onto the firmament for a few days. Maybe they got stuck. Yeah, the waters above the waters. Yeah, a lot of people commented they were, Scott Bedgood, our friend comedian. Yeah. He said he remembers that he was living there. Wow.

Heard it and solid debris and stuff. You know, in the West Wing, there's a space shuttle. Columbia. It doesn't explode, but it has problems. Toby's brothers on the shuttle. Do you remember this? They named it after the actual... It's called Columbia in the show. It's interesting. Space Shuttle Columbia. Maybe they named it after the district of Columbia. Potentially. Potentially. Columbus. Yeah. Christopher. All right. We're going to move on to our topic. Thank you for listening. Well, it exploded over... My portion of the show is over. Texas and Louisiana. And today we're talking about Louisiana.

We're dusty. Just performed. Lake Charles at the Golden Nugget Casino. How was that show? It was so good. It really was so good. Like I, you know, I've been doing all month, I've done clubs. So I've not really been able to stretch out and do a lot of time. You know, I've been doing an hour.

And so it felt good. You know, felt good. I can only do an hour in the clubs. It's tough to not be able to stretch out. Yeah, it felt good. I did hour 20. Eight minutes on Nate show. knows. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm just getting comfortable on stage in eight minutes. That's wild. All right. I looked this morning. This is, I believe, I counted up our 32nd state to cover. Oh, okay. So we're getting there. Are we saving good ones or no? No. I mean, I usually like... Not that Louisiana is not a good one. Clearly not. But I wonder like what the strategy is. I know sometimes it depends on who the guest was, all that kind of stuff.

It's usually like if there's a guest in town who's from there, like I saw my good one yesterday and South Carolina. We haven't done South Carolina yet. And Dusty can talk about that too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's true. So he'll be engaged. So let's save that one. Yeah.

And then sometimes if we haven't done a state in a while, one of us is going to a state. Right. Now, it doesn't work this time, but Dusty just got back from Louisiana. Yeah. He went and investigated for a little bit. Collected some data. At the golden nugget. We can talk about it.

The Golden Nugget. You know, I don't know if this will be interesting, but I got, maybe I'll try to send this to you. I got a video. And it's, it's what my, what it looked like at night out of my hotel room. Out of my hotel room. Okay. Yeah, I want to see it. And then, and I'll show you.

Outside of this hotel room, not the inside. Um, what, we're just going to try to air drop. Air drop it too. However that works. And then you got to share. I don't know why it's not doing that. Well, I'll, I'll talk if you guys pretend to listen while you're doing that. Okay.

It was discovered by Hernando de Soto in 1541. Uh, and then France took possession in 1682, and it was named after the king of France, King of France, King Louis the 14th. Louis the 14th. Did you know that? I knew it was Lou. I didn't know which number. But you knew it was named after King Louis.

Okay. Same guy at St. Louis, right? I'm kidding. Yeah, I guess not with the same front of it. Anyway, and then in 8203, it was bought by the United States as part of the Louisiana purchase. One of the best deals of all time. How much was it? We bought 827,000 square miles of territory for $15 million.

$15 million. I think it came to $0.3.00 an acre or something like that? $0.000. Wow, that's a good deal. That's a pretty good deal. I'm guessing land's a little more expensive now. It's unbelievable now. Yeah, more than $0.3.

Yeah. We really have made two of the greatest purchases of all time, Louisiana and Alaskan purchase. Yeah. How do we get away with that? I don't know. I think when you have a strong military, you can go, what kind of deal can I get? But I don't know if we did have a strong military in 1803. I think we didn't know. We didn't know. We didn't know what we were getting. Did that come to you?

We had surveyed it and like, oh, man, we need this. They could have been, it could have been all swamp land. You know what I mean? That's true. They didn't really know what it was. And they were like untamed. Yeah. So they're like, sure, there's a lot of Native Americans there. Good luck. Y'all deal with it. Give me $15 million. All right.

So I'm going to send you two. All right. We got the nighttime one first. Yeah, the nighttime one first. Watch this. It's out of my balcony. Do you want the audio for this? Nah.

Who knows what I'll be saying? Okay. So it's just, yeah, just I'm just kind of giving you like this is the water, right? Some boats out there, nice view. And I was saying to the guy, I go, what's this city over there? I go, what's that city? And he was like, well, you know, so then the daytime one. Let's watch the daytime one next.

Okay. It's a little, real cliffhanger. Yeah. You see, it looks like some cities over there, right? I think I know what it is. And then here in the daytime, it's like refineries. Wow. It's all like oil refineries.

They did look like skyscrayed. It sure did. Yeah, yeah. It looked like Shanghai over there. Yeah. The amount of structures there. Yeah. That's crazy.

I know. Yeah. And then these boats, by the way, these boats all have their own Bluetooth speakers going on, and they're all competing to see who can be the loudest. Who can play jelly roll the loudest. Yeah. Yeah. And it's pretty wild.

Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. Well, that was pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, that was. I didn't think that would be that good. Me either. That's really interesting, actually.

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Because I said, what's that city? And he goes, oh, yeah, wait till the morning. Everybody thinks it's a city, but it's all refineries. Wow. That is crazy. I asked him twice. He goes, oil refineries. I go, yeah, but what's that city?

Yeah. I'm talking about the town over yonder. Yeah. It's an oil refinery, my young man. Dusty, know, the capital of Louisiana? You twirl it. You twirl it in your hands. Oh, Baton Rouge? Yeah. All right. I've been to Baton Rouge a couple of times. Yeah. Yeah, did comedy there a couple of times.

Silver Bar, casino. It's called the Pelican State because it's the state bird. Okay. That's why they're the New Orleans Pelicans. Yeah. I had no idea. Are they native to Louisiana? They have pelicans there, straight up? So much like swamp and coastland. Yeah, what do you think of Louisiana? What do you think of? I went for a state that's very close to Tennessee. I think I went the first time of my life about 10 years ago.

Yeah. Me and Nate and our friend Ryan went to the Independence Bowl. The day after Christmas, Vanderbilt was playing in it. And we drove, stopped in Little Rock Christmas night. Yeah. And then went the rest of the way the next day. I think that's the day. I think that's the day. that was my first time ever. That's in Shreveport. Yeah. And then about three years ago, maybe, I did comedy there for the first time. Again with Nate at the smoothie king center. It's a great way to start your comedy career. Yeah. They're in New Orleans. So it's my first time ever did New Orleans. Yeah, I mean, I grew up in Alabama and never went to Louisiana growing up either. I've only been a couple times through comedy, too. So I know very little about it firsthand. New Orleans scares me, but I like, I love Louisiana.

But if I say Louisiana, what do you picture in your head? What do you get? I picture it's like Swampland and Cajun country. Okay. Yeah, me too. Yeah. I still think, I think Marty Grawl, Bourbon Street stuff. I think that too.

I always picture Swampland, alligators. Even though Alabama invented Marty Gras. Yeah, Mobile. Mobile Alabama. Yep. And the New Orleans. But even that, Mobile is still that same kind of vibe. French influence.

Yeah. Mississippi, South Mississippi. It's all that. I think of them all kind of similar. Swamp land. The bayou. Yeah.

In New Orleans and Memphis, I think of similarly, maybe because Memphis has the blues, New Orleans has jazz. Yeah, yeah, sure. And there's Beale Street and Bourbon Street. Yep. High crime.

Yeah. Well. And they're also both on the Mississippi River, which is. That's true. NBA teams. Yeah. We did them back to back night,

actually, You take a riverboat down the Mississippi? How do you go, can you go down? Which way does the Mississippi River flow? It flows down. It flows down out of New Orleans. If you're like at the beach in Mississippi, that's where the Mississippi, you know, like at the Mississippi, that's where it comes out into the ocean. Yeah.

And so it's like, you know, I might be like blue and then the black water from the Mississippi River comes rolling out. And so that's why I feel like you don't really hear about people. hanging out on the beach in Mississippi. It's because the Mississippi, a river that flows through the entire country connecting it all, like I think every river almost comes into the Mississippi. Like all like seven rivers, I think, come into the Mississippi and then it flows down into the ocean.

It's just this whole country is going in and being dumped out right there. Here's where we got a video pulled up of the Mississippi. Mississippi River meeting the Gulf of Mexico here. And it looks like two different, I mean, two completely different color water. That's pretty great. So how can you travel? This is such a dumb question, but I've never traveled by river. Okay.

I'm not Huck Finn. Yeah. How do you go up? How do you travel north? Just like a motorized boat or, you know, like a. But Huck Finn didn't try. He didn't have a motorized boat. You tell me they can only travel south back in the day?

You have to paddle against the current the whole time? You have to paddle against the current the whole time? engine, like they might got on one of the, and then they had whatever that, whatever that kind of ship is that, you know, I don't know. The paddle boat? Like the Jadil Jackson? Yeah, I think you could go up that way. Like a riverboat.

Yeah, and I guess if the... Look at that right there. Doesn't that amazing? Yeah, if the water's still, then I think you could probably paddle up. But I think it's a pretty fast current, isn't it? Yeah, I think so. You told me Little Huck. Huck Finn went up?

I think so. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if it ever says what direction. I think he was just trying to get out of town. Yeah. I don't think he cared where he went. Yeah.

Maybe he just let the river take him. Yeah, I mean, you would go Minneapolis, I think, is where it starts. And then you would go through like Cape Girardo, St. Louis, Memphis, and Shreveport, maybe. Yeah, dude, it goes all the way up to that. Yeah. I mean, it's a huge river. Duluth almost.

And I think even further, I mean, Canada. Yeah. Well, we stopped looking at it up there. Stop caring. Yeah, we stopped caring up there. And then I think the Missouri River is the longest river in the country, and it connects to the Mississippi. I learned that on this podcast. Yeah.

Pretty wild. Pretty wild. If they have so many cultures in Louisiana, there is not an official state language. Some people speak Cajun. It's French. Creole? Creole. Do you know the difference?

No. I don't either, but... I think Creole's a little Jamaican sounding, right? And then Cajun is almost like a little New York sounding. A Creole language is a full-fledged language that develops from the mixing of two or more distinct languages. So Creole might be a mix of French and English, or French and Spanish or whatever. Well, based on some research that Adrian gave me, Creole is more New Orleans and Cajun is more rural. Oh, okay.

Like swamp people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, like you talk to it, like a Cajun, it almost has a little New York kind of accent to it. Hmm, like demonstrate. I don't know. And but like, you know, there was. The coach in the water boy. There was that video that went around.

It was TikTok video. But it was saying like, if you slow down the British accent, you get the Southern accent. If you slow down the French accent, you get the Cajun accent. And then it was a few different things. But I thought it was great. That's interesting. Yeah, I think of a – you ever watched Swamp people? Remember that show?

I know it about it. Yeah. And the guy always go, do them, do them, do them. Instead of shoot them. That's what he would say. So that's my only cage. He might have a speech impediment. Yeah.

That's right. By bad. Why bad, Louisiana. Yeah. I'll help you out here. Okay. It also has the highest homicide rate in the U.S. since at least the 1990s.

Wow. Okay. According to AI. Of course. I just want people to know. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that first fact.

Yeah. I mean, the swamp land, though, I mean, I mean, you know, it's a, this, you know, you could, you know, shoot somebody, throw them off to the alligators. Right. Was it the movie U.S. Marshals, the, was it that in the swamp? Yeah, when he chased a Wesley Snipes. 100%. Yeah, so of the swap.

There's a lot of them like a movie, I think it's called Just Cause, and that's a. Okay. Lawrence Fishburn and Sean Connery. He does a Lawrence Fishburn impression. That one's really good, and I think that's all, I don't know. Yeah, 1995 crime thriller. Yeah, it's really good. I just watched it not too long ago.

I think so. Okay. It's that kind of swamp vibe. Takes place in Florida. Louise. Still a swamp vibe, you know, guys. It all blurs together. Once you get down, you know, you get.

Look, it's all, there's water. Yeah. What more do you want for it? It's a great movie, though. I recommend it. There was one I watched, too, with Vince Vaughn, and that's for sure. Dodgeball? It's a little, it's like a more serious kind of recent Vince Vaughn movie,

and that's for sure in Louisiana. Okay. Really good. I don't know the name of it, but you can look it up. On your own talk. I'll wait until the podcast is over to look it up. Can you name some universities in Louisiana? Louisiana State University.

LSU. And then. Louisiana Monroe, Louisiana Lafayette. Yep. What's the one in New Orleans? Tulane. Tulane, good one. Tulane is in New Orleans.

You got Loyola. Is that? Right. There's a Loyola, New Orleans. Okay. Is there not? I mean, maybe I don't have any list. Well, I've got some.

I don't have that one. You're the one asking the question. I don't have every. Loyola University of New Orleans. Okay, you guys are doing great. Not me. Don't put me in that. I just named Tulane.

Aaron's coming at you heart. Are you done? Hold on. Let me think of one. I bet there's a, I bet there's just a Louisiana University. Golden Nugget College? What is it? You know where Terry Bradshaw played football?

He played at where the Duck Dynasty guy played. Well, see, I didn't know that. I don't know, who was it? Louisiana Tech. Louisiana Tech. his back or he was the Duck Dynasty guy was the starter. And Terry was the back guy? Yes.

I did not know that. Oh, I got to know this. The main Duck Dynasty guy. I got to know this. The people also ask, is Leola, New Orleans, a prestigious school? I got to know the answer. While not considered highly prestigious on a national scale. Okay.

Okay. Just because they asked that question, I was like, I really would like to know. It boasts excellent regional recognition. Okay. Let's go. Look. People around here think it's nice. Yeah, yeah.

And Southern University in Baton Rouge, Grambling State and Grambling. Grambling State. You know that? Yeah, sure. They both play in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Swack. And they have the Bayou Classic every Thanksgiving weekend, which is televised. Oh, that's awesome.

That's awesome. Louisiana is the least populous state with more than one major professional sports team. Interesting. It's the 25th most popular. So it's right in the middle. Yeah. But it has NBA and NFL. Wow.

Whoa. They don't have a hockey team? No. Okay. No. I thought you were joking. I kind of thought they did, but I was just looking at you. But I guess it's the basketball arena.

When you go to New Orleans, there is like an arena, but I guess that's what it's. I mean, they probably have a minor league. They used to have a minor league baseball team, the New Orleans Zephyrs. Yeah, I remember that. They played a sound. Great logo. Yeah. New Orleans has hosted the Super Bowl a record 11 times.

Wow. I would have never guessed that the most Super Bowls were in New Orleans. Yeah, me either. I would assume L.A. or New York somewhere like that. Yeah, maybe not New York just because they've never had a dome stadium. Atlanta. I thought would have a bunch. Yeah, Phoenix.

I would have probably said L.A. It's one of those Southern California places. They've had those to the BCS National Championship. the NBA All-Star game. Sugar Bowl. Sugar Bowl. Sugar Bowl is always there. The top four states for NFL players per capita,

all southern states, Alabama's fourth. Florida, Georgia, Louisiana. And Mississippi. Florida's not on here, but maybe it's because there's so much population. Yeah, there's so many people in Florida. Yeah.

It's so much bigger than all those other states. The Saints have won a Super Bowl. Yep. Drew Breeze. Drew Breeze over the Colts, 2010. Pelicans were relocated. They were the Charlotte Hornets. That's right. And then they became the New Orleans Hornets.

And then they changed their name to the Pelicans. Zion Williamson. Yep, he's there. They say the food in New Orleans was too good. Oh, is that why he's a little sick? They used to always say that. They would say every chef in New Orleans knew his name. Huh.

Because he would just eat all the food there. It's too good. Okay. He just gained a bunch of weight. Do you do shows in New Orleans? There's no club. I've done a couple of things. Didn't open mic there.

The Howling Wolf. I did that. Okay. And then I did the Joy Theater. The Joy Theater. After my show at the Joy Theater in New Orleans, I was sitting outside having some cigars off to the side. Shooting happened in front of the Joy Theater.

People took off running. And I was pretty entertained by it. I've told that story a lot of times and we'll continue to tell it for likely the rest of my life unless something more exciting happens than that. I mean, imagine what was happening outside the sadness theater. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Have you performed in Louisiana? In Louisiana, yeah, I've done some stuff in Shreveport.

What's you doing in Shreveport? I did the convention center at Shreveport. I did Boisier City. Boisier City. A Margaritaville Casino used to have the bonkers in there. I did that in about 2015. All right. Bonkers.

I'm guessing it was bad. It was actually really good for me. I took an opener. Not you, but... I've done some bonkers gigs with you, but I've never done that. This is why I think it went so well for me. One, you know, I was funny, but he did so bad and he got... He was a good comic.

I'm not going to say his name because I'm saying how bad he did, but he's a good comic. I know who it is. But he did so bad and he got the audience so mad. so mad at him. Yeah. Yeah. Now I definitely know. That by the time I got on stage, they were like excited. Oh, really? That's an interesting strategy if you want to be an in-demand opener. Yeah.

Be so horrifically off-putting that they go, thank God somebody else is on stage. Yeah. Yeah. I can try that. Yeah. What year was that? Probably 2015. Okay. I was trying to think of games. I was doing a lot of bonkers gigs. and this guy did a few of them with me. He's a good comic, too. He is a good comic.

Very funny, but he just, actually, I don't even want to say the thing that it's, it's a term that they would use for Louisiana people. Charlie Daniels uses it in his song, Trudy, and he was just, so he kept saying it. It's, uh, it's, uh, but, but he kept saying it because he just thought it was a Louisiana thing, but they were getting so mad at him. He says it took half the cops in Dallas County just to put one. What does that say? Everyone says coolest boy in town.

Oh, that is not what he says. That is not what he says. I like that they cleaned it up, though. But anyway, so I did that perform in... Oh, okay. Yeah. Very different. Yeah.

Very different. Yeah. The... Classic miscommunication. Yeah, and he kept saying it. And the people were getting so mad at him. But he was also a tough guy, so I'm sure he wanted a fight. But the...

I've done... Lafayette a few times. Lafayette... They got a great comedy club there, right? They have a great comedy club. I don't know. Actually, JP was just at my show at the Golden N. Nugget casino in St. Charles, Louisiana.

Do you tell them about me? Yeah. Or tell you. No, I didn't. Him about it. But what is the club? It's numbers. We look it up, though, just so I don't have.

Which city is it? Lafayette. Yeah, yeah. I think it's called Lafayette Comedy. Right? Lafayette Comedy. This is what we're talking about. Club 337.

Okay. That's what it is. Yeah, yeah. Great club. Really good. Then I've done Baton Rouge a few times. You've done Louisiana? Oh, you did with Nate.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I did, Smoothie King. I only do it, but Rina's there. Yeah. But I'm sure your Bunker's gig was great. I roll in,

I roll out. Yeah. Who's someone famous that you associate with Louisiana? Duck Dynasty. Okay, I forget about those guys. That's a good one. Phil Robertson, whatever his name is. Louisiana, Terry Bradshaw.

I always think about the coach. for LSU for just a short time. Ed Orgeron. Yeah, I love that guy. Ed Orgeron? Ed Orgeron took a... He took a turn. But when he first won the national championship...

Yeah, he was the best. They were like, what are you going to do to celebrate? You know, you're going to go to the bar or whatever? And he goes, nah, we don't do none of that. We're just going to go have a couple of ham sandwiches and take it back to the house. Take it easy on that cigar, boy. And it just seemed like such a nice man. He's great.

And then, like, you know, they started giving him that money. And then he left his wife and he had, you know. Yeah, he got caught up. Yeah, he got caught up. We all aspire to. I'm still not saying he's a bad guy, but he got caught up. He got caught up. Isn't he back?

He's doing, he's always around, man. I thought Lane Kiffin hired him back. Is that our own? Oh, maybe. I don't know. That wouldn't surprise me. Pretty sure Kiffin did this hire. He's probably a good defensive guy.

He got a little overwhelmed as head coach. I wanted to mention that team that he coached. 15-0, won the national championship. The quarterback, Joe Burrow, who won the Heisman, number one pick, one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. The two receivers, probably the two best receivers in NFL right now. Mar Chase. And Justin Jefferson. That team was incredible.

A lot of people think that's the best team ever. Yeah. It's the best college football team ever. Well, that's why Ed Orderon looks so good. Because especially if he's a defensive guy, right, then he's got that handled. And then Joe Burrow and these other guys have got that, they got the offense handled. You think he looks so good? No.

As a coach. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was, I was going to make sure we're talking about the seat guy. But he just like, I loved this guy because I felt like he had the Cajun vibe. Sure. And then he also seemed like a good guy. We're just going to have some ham sandwiches and go back to the house.

Take it easy on that sick. Oh, boy. Yeah. And, but, you know, he got, you know, several million dollars. And he was like, you know what, life's pretty good down here. Yeah. See if I can ruin it. Yeah.

There was, I want to mention Ellis. basketball team for my, I don't know if I said high school, maybe going to college. There was one team that was so good, at least on paper, you're like, how did they ever lose? So Chris Jackson was this phenon player. He averaged 30 points a game as freshman year. Crazy. And was SEC player of the year. His sophomore year, another incredible year. They had two freshmen's, freshman on the team, Shaq. And another guy named Stanley Roberts, who was seven foot and was supposed to be maybe better than Shaq. So they had these two giant guys in this incredible guard.

And I think they got beat like second round of the NCAA tournament. Wow. And you would think who would ever beat this team. Who was winning those years? UNLV maybe. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, they look good.

They look good for sure. I used to love the Alabama LSU rivalry. Yeah, it was the best. In 2011, Honeybadger. I had a, I had a, it was the first time Alabama and LSU met that year, you know. And I had a comedy competition that I had entered. And they, I made it to the next round. And they had nights, Friday and Saturday.

And they had, and I asked them, I go, hey, these are my friends. I go, hey, I go, I'm going to be completely honest with you. Alabama and LSU are playing on Saturday night. And I realized that you're going to. put me on either Friday or Saturday. And I go, I'd really love it if you'd just put me on Friday instead of on Saturday. And my friends go, oh, sorry, we can only do Saturday. And I go, okay, well, I'm going to drop out of the competition. Whoa. Because I wanted to watch the game and I was like, I'm not going to win the competition. Who cares? Yeah. And then they, so I dropped out. And then they go,

later they go, oh, somebody dropped out on Friday. Do you want to get back in? And I got back in. and then I won the whole time. And he got to watch the game. And the game was terrible. It was one of the most boring games. Nine to six, right? But then they played again in the national championship? Yeah.

Yeah. And Alabama blew him out. Yeah. Like 21 to nothing or something. Yeah. It was awesome. Roll tide. Remember Leonard Four Nett?

I do remember. That guy looked like he was going to be the greatest running back of all time. He's had a decent NFL career, but not like he looked in college. He looked like a freaking college. Yeah. And I think he may be done now. Yeah. But in college, he was incredible.

Pete Marevich. Pistel. Pete. Back in my day. Way before you. Here's some famous people from Louisiana. Theo Vaughn. Theo Vaughn?

Oh, yeah. For sure. Yeah. He's got a little bit of that Cajun. For sure, he does. He had a lot of it. Yeah. You guys may not even know this guy, but I think I'm in Louisiana.

James Carvel. Oh, yeah. For sure. You know James Carver? Yeah, Raging Cajon, yeah. Yeah, Raging Cajon. He was in old school? Yeah.

He debated. Yeah. They call him the Raging Cajon? I think so. I think so. Yeah. I was thinking John Morgan, the comedian. Well, they call him that too. You know, you got to have a rage of cage of for every genre. Yeah. You've got politics, comedy. John Morgan is a great one. I don't know that you consider John Morgan famous, but in the comedy world, I think John Morgan's pretty famous.

Like, because if you ever seen him, he kills. He kills and it's pretty unbelievable. Yeah. That's right. That was the show. First ever show he went to on a day. Yeah. I started to bring it up. Yeah, I don't like that. Mark Norman. Oh, yeah. Sean Patton. Do you guys know Sean?

I do know Sean. Very funny. Some good comics from down there. Ellen DeGeneres. Yeah, there you go. Louis Armstrong. Okay. Louis Armstrong, the jazz guy, though.

Yeah. Okay, because you were just doing Kahn and then I go, who's the... You're right. You're right. I throw a turbo ball there. I'm about that. I love Louis. Like, Louis Armstrong has the...

He has one album that I think it's like the Basin Street Blues or whatever, something like that. I love that album. It's really good. Have you ever gotten into jazz? Yeah, I love jazz. Can you do a Louis Armstrong impression? What a wonderful world.

No. No, no, no. I bet you could. No, it's very close to. Yeah. I've seen fields of green. You got to get raspier. Okay.

All right, hang on. Trying to think of the words. What a wonderful world. But I think to myself. Yeah. What a wonderful world. world. Yeah. We can do it together. I'll do it with you. And I think to my say, what a wonderful. See, that's not the Louis Armstrong that I really like. I mean,

that's a very much. That's a signature song, though. Yeah. That's what people think of. Yeah. No, he likes the song just not my version. All right. I think of the Manning's more Mississippi. I do too, yeah. But Archie went to the Saints and they live there. I mean, Peyton and he grew up in New Orleans, yeah. Reese Wilberton was born in Louisiana. All right. Everybody we claim here started somewhere else.

That's true. Because I still think of, I honestly think of Peyton as a Tennessee guy. Yeah. You know. Oprah was born in Mississippi. Elvis was born in Mississippi. Dolly, I guess, has been in Tennessee the whole time. Okay.

So that's one we got. Yeah, dollies are. Tim McGraw was born in Louisiana. Jerry Lee Lewis Okay Oh yeah These are all big names You ever watch those

Mike Judge Tales from the Tour Bus Uh-uh Those are great He's got some I don't know if it's a whole Jerry Lee Lewis I don't remember

But he talks a lot about Jerry Lee Lewis Wild story Yeah Let's talk about some fun movies That were shot in Louisiana Or set in Louisiana Dead Man Walking

Dead Man Walking Never heard of Who's in that I've heard it Who's in it though Sean Penn and you don't know that movie? No.

You think you're talking about I Am Sam? No, it was up for Oscars and God, why am I drawing a boy on her name? Susan Saran. Yeah, I'm going to go watch that. I don't think I've ever seen that, but that looks good to me. Just based on the poster?

That's the kind of movie that I'm into. Just based on the poster? Yeah. Do you know what kind of movie it is? It seems drama. Okay. But you're just based on the poster. You're like, I'm watching that tonight.

Not tonight, but soon. Okay. Yeah. Directed by Tim Robbins. Yeah. Her partner. Yeah, Tim Robbins is great. Whoa.

Okay. I thought, yeah, you guys didn't even get the joke. I said some fun movie. I mean, it's very dark, very depressing. Oh, okay. That's not. That's fun to me. But Roger Deacons is the cinematographer.

Who was the cinematographer on the Shawshank Redemption? Starring Tim Robbins. There's a bit of a reunion. She may have won an Oscar for that role. Yeah, so you know that's going to be good. 12 years of slave. All right. Another fun one.

the water boy Waterboy is fun one of my favorites Kathy Bates said she loosely based that character on Dusty Yeah The devil Well this is more manipulation That you have a character like Kathy Bates

In that movie And then when somebody says These very obvious satanic things are from the devil They go Oh you're like Kathy Bates and Waterboy And it's like well You know she's right on some things That is true.

Some restaurants from Louisiana. Popeyes. Pop-I's. Love that chicken for Popeyes. Love that chick from Popeyes. You know, they said that was a based, I heard that was written by, I don't know if it was written by, but based off a Dr. John song, remember that? I was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time.

I don't know that. Dr. John? Dr. John. Legendary New Orleans. Yeah. Do you say New Orleans or you say, New Orleans. I say New Orleans. So do I. I don't like when people do the New Orleans. New Orleans, I don't know. I mean, what's the right one? Is there a right one? I say New Orleans.

New Orleans. I don't think there's a right. Legendary no-al musician Dr. John created and sang the iconic love that chicken from Popeye's jingle in the 1980s. Yeah, the original one. He's not doing the current one. His distinct gravelly growl and piano playing are still heavily tied to the fast foods. musical legacy right here. I want to hear what this sounds like here. Love it. That's good. Yeah.

Love that cooking at Popeye. Yeah. I have never heard that version. I only know the modern one. Yeah. Oh, bad chicken from Popeye. Yeah, that one. Yeah.

It was originally called Chicken on the Run. That was the original name of it. The restaurant? Yeah. Chicken on the run? Yeah. Okay. I think Popeye's better, I think.

Raising Kane? Do you think Popeye, do you think that they were, because Popeye's the cartoon character, just ate spinach? Mm-hmm. He didn't just eat spinach, but that's what gave him a power. Now, did they sell spinach at Popeyes? I bet they did. Did they do it anymore?

Maybe like, maybe not spinach. Turnip grains. Something like that. Popeyes does not serve spinach. The fried chicken chain is famous for traditional. other than sides like red beans and rice, coleslaw, mashed potatoes, and Cajun fries. So not affiliated with the sailor at all. I just had some Popeyes the other day.

Was it good? I don't know if we talked about it because we talked about it one time on the podcast and I said how much I didn't like it. So then I went back and I got some. And you liked it better at the second time? I liked it better. But I'm still, Raising Cains is great. Okay.

You like Raising Cains, Aaron? Yeah, I like it's fine. I mean, I feel like it's really expanding a lot. lot. Yeah. When first one came to Nashville, like, a few years ago, and now there's, I feel like they're popping up everywhere. Yeah.

They got one downtown, right? I thought, I don't know, do they? I don't know. I thought it was a relatively new establishment. It started in 1996. So it's been around for 30 years, but I feel like just the last few years, it's taking off. 1996, though, seems right around the corner.

Yeah. It really does, though. You think, oh, 90, it's a 90. 30 years ago. I know. It's a wild. Wow. Smoothie King.

Smoothie King. That's why the Smoothie King Center there. That's right. Not a fan. Really? Never been a fan. What don't you like about it? It's all powders.

Okay. You know, if you're going to get a smoothie, go somewhere that's going to blend up some fruit. It's hard to find a smoothie, though. Well. Right. Depends on where you're at. If you're in a good city, like Nashville, you can get a smoothie.

No problem. Right down the, and Donaldson, there's that place that I listed as one of the top coffee places in the, city what is it sunshine bakery sunflower sunflower bakehouse they do smoothies do smoothies great smoothies make a top five list yeah and then we'll get back uh I don't know that another broken egg cafe okay yeah I know that yeah I see it a lot when I'm on the road yeah we're got a few of them here I do do we yeah Hermitage has one for sure I uh I do think of Louisiana is its own

cuisine its own it's got its own thing it's got a lot of different I love Cajun food as a A person... Gumbo. I mean, my family is from Mobile. So, I mean, yeah, it was gumbo, jambalaya, all that growing up. Huh. It's one of my favorite food. It's great, but as a person that no longer eats pork and shellfish, there's almost nothing.

What about a po-boy sandwich? I like a po-boy. Me too. Okay. Banadas Foster? You don't eat, do you eat shrimp? No. Shrimp is a...

It's an unclean food, yeah. Huh. So, yeah, I'm trying to think of what you could do. eat, I guess just garlic bread. Steak. The last time I was in Baton Rouge, I walked by an oyster place, and I was like, I was so into it that I was like, I even stopped to do a little extra research to see. Well, it's oysters.

And oysters is an obvious, unclean thing. But I looked it up and it was. So I just went and had a steak. So cow's clean. Cow's clean. Okay. Cal has four stomachs and only eats grass unless you're feeding it other stuff. Yeah.

So then it filters it all through. Okay. Oyster is just a glob of, delicious glob of something that just soaks up. Can you have salmon? Salmon is a salmon clean? Yeah. Catfish isn't. Catfish isn't.

Shrimps not. Shrimps not. Scalics. Pigs. Pigs aren't? Pigs are not. So yeah, man, you're out of, that stinks, dude. But, you know, chicken, chicken is debatable.

honestly. A lot of people debate it, but I eat chicken all the time. Where are these debates happening? Well, you know, it's just kind of based on what animals are eating. I just like the picture like a, I don't know, some symposium with guys in toga's arguing about whether a chicken's clean. I like to get to the bottom of it. I believe you. What about bananas foster? I don't have, never had bananas foster.

I think I've heard of that. Is bread pudding a new wall and a new old old and something? I don't know. Cajun, my favorite. I don't even think I can kind of get a Cajun accent. We'll try. I'm trying. No, ah, that's terrible.

Yeah, yeah. I can't even kind of get there. Sounds like Randy Newman. You know, maybe spend some time, you know, working on it and then come back to us. I just want to hear a woman speak. It's a dude. I think just the world rich, by the English. I don't think I'm going to get there.

Well, that's French. But that's Cajun French right there. Yeah. Yeah, you want Cajun English. Cajun English, actually. That's, that's, okay. Yeah, sometimes they're well if you're catching or foolware. Okay.

I'll work on it. Yeah. Adrian sent me a list of questions. Let's, let's ask. I don't have the answers to these. Let's ask them. I like how you really let us. know what, Adrian turned.

Well, these are dumb. I want Adrian. Yeah. Yeah, you can usually see. Why does Louisiana, this sounds like jokes. Why does Louisiana have parishes instead of counties? I don't know. Because it's French, right?

That's a French thing, right? Yeah. Did you send the answer? Or am I supposed to... No, I forgot the answers. Oh. Yeah. Louisiana uses parishes instead of counties because of its historical foundation under French

and Spanish rule or the Roman Catholic Church and local government. were deeply intertwined. There you go. There you go. Right there. I like that. Oh, this is a good one. I know the answer, but why are graves above ground?

Not all graves, but a lot of graves. Because it's real soft and... Hold on. What's the question? Why are the graves above ground? Yeah. They're not. In New Orleans.

In New Orleans, the graves are above ground. I don't know if everywhere, but... Like in a mausoleum type thing? Yeah. They don't bury them in trees. Well, no. then what do you mean buried above ground? So you think it's either underground or in trees?

That's the only two options? What is another option? Like us right now? We're about in a tree and I'm not underground. You said wire graves. It's like a mausoleum. They don't bury it. That's what I said and then nobody said it.

They just sit them on top. On top of what? They don't even use a casket. They just take the body out there and you stand around and then you go, all right, see you. Y'all are all laughing, but like what? What do you mean? Well, I don't know how to. This guy's just...

We don't, you don't, they don't bury them. They put them in some type of above ground. Camazoleum. I guess, yeah. Okay. I thought we all said yes when you said that. I don't think anybody said anything. I don't know what that is, but...

It's where you walk in and they, it's almost like... Why don't they do it? Because of the low level and the flooding. Oh, yeah. The whole state is washing away. So the graves would wash up. I sent you a news link. They just did a study that said New Orleans,

you better start relocating now because it's going to be underwater, I think by 2070 or something. Oh, 2070, so you got some time. Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. That sounds like something somebody says that wants to buy your land. That's going to be gone in 40 years. I did see a conspiracy theory I think you'd be all about, Busty, what was the big oil spill?

Was it Exxon? BP? Yeah, BP. Yeah, sorry, BP, that out having the Gulf, there's a conspiracy theory that certain powerful people caused that because they wanted to ruin the economy and get everybody out of there so they could snatch up the land. Come in and buy the land.

Yeah. Interesting. I mean, that's probably true. Yeah. They don't care about nothing. But I mean, does that concern you that New Orleans is going to be? Coastal Louisiana faces sea level rise of about 10 to 23. feet. It's pretty big range.

Yeah. According to this analysis that was published. I think Florida was supposed to be underwater by now, according to some people. Around 70, they've already lost 2,000 square miles of wetlands since the 1930s. Around 75%

of its remaining wetlands. Wetlands or wetlands? Nateland? Nateland? Are set to be lost and its shoreline could retreat inland by up to 62 miles. Could, could, could,

Could, could, could, could, could of would or should. Roughly a football field of wetlands disappear every 90 to 100 minutes due to erosion and rising sea levels. So it'll be gone before. That's according to 80. Every 90 minutes a football field goes away. But like probably like spread out in a way that it's like, yeah, you're taking this much. Yeah, yeah, just football fields disappear. And where's it going?

Just underwater? Just underwater. It seems like it's getting wetter to me. Well, it's hard to build stuff. A little less land, a little more wet. Wow. So are they doing anything about this? Telling people to relocate.

Who's telling, I mean, Louisiana's not telling them. This is what, I saw this video one time. They were talking about how everything that you build, concrete, roads, all these things, glass, it all needs sand to build. And you can't use desert sand because the way it blows around in the desert, it makes the sand. like circular particles and you need more square particles to be able to build so you need ocean sand so they pump this water out of the ocean all the time to build things on land so it's and then the oceans need to like replenish themselves so it's like our coastlines are almost like

caving in on us because we keep taking sand from the ocean to build things. Interesting. Yeah. It's not good. Yeah. What was. I mean, Hurricane Katrina. Do you guys remember Hurricane Katrina? I sure do. Yeah, we got a lot, in Montgomery, we got a lot of transplants from it. Yeah. Evacuees, I guess they're called. I just thought about Curb Your Enthusiasm, J.B. Smooth's character.

That's why they move there, right? He's a Hurricane Katrina, relocatee. When I started. Is that right? I don't know. Relocke. Somebody who relocates. Refugee. There you go. I think that's the proper term.

You don't have to live like a refugee. No, baby you don't. When I started in TV News, the TV News market size, Nashville was behind New Orleans. This is before, obviously, the boom of Nashville. Yeah. And then after Katrina, New Orleans was behind Nashville. Really? So many people relocated.

Wow. Since then, they've lost 25% of the population, according to this. I think they're starting to come back now. I know, obviously it was that movie. I mean, not a movie, a show, HBO show that was set in New Orleans after Katrina. Do you remember that? No. No.

Well, True Detective was set in Louisiana, but there was a HBO show. It was the guy that was also on the wire. Trimbe or something like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a guy that made the wire. It's his first show, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was good.

But like the Superdome, which seemed like it's been old my entire life, but now it looks. pretty good because they did so many renovations to it after the fact. So I think it's hanging in there. Some more questions from Adrian. Why is the plastic baby hidden in cakes? The king king cake. Yeah. Baby in the king cake. Is it to bring you good luck? No, it's, well, we see kingcakes growing up because my family is from. Not necessarily to even say. The way you said it, too, to bring you good luck. No, we used to eat Kink growing up.

Let me tell you, we did not have a lot of luck. It wasn't for good luck. Well, it's to symbolize in some way. I don't know the exact story. It's a symbolize. It's the baby. It's Jesus. Oh.

The baby. Okay. Something to do with Jesus. And you hide one in the cake, and then whoever gets it in their piece of cake, they have to make the cake next year or something. Okay. Something like that.

So you don't want to get it. But it's a Marty Gris. It's a Marty Girl thing. Okay. You do want to get it. It's kind of fun to get it. You got to think sometimes somebody gets it and they're supposed to make the cake and somebody goes, nah, I'll still make the cake.

Yeah, give it to somebody else. Okay, it's a, okay, king cake. It's a Marty Growl thing. So we wouldn't understand. Well, no. No. It's traditionally served from Epiphany. Epiphany until Carnival.

I don't know what that means. Carnival, that's Fat Tuesday, right? Okay, until Fat Tuesday. Traditionally, a small plastic baby symbolizing Jesus is hidden in the king cake. The baby symbolizes luck and prosperity to whoever finds it. All right. I never talked about luck. We didn't talk about.

We were in a luck family. Okay. We were a hard work and grit kind of family. Oh, so the King Cake baby, you see. to be the mascot for the pelicans. That's right. Why wouldn't they have a pelican? Is there a guy?

I don't know, because this is kind of fun to have a little plastic baby instead. The person is also responsible for purchasing next year's cake or hosting the next Marty Grawl party. How about that? Doesn't sound like luck to men. It says it's a huge choking liability. I remember we were always worried about it as you give it to young kids. Yeah.

They choke on baby Jesus. Yeah. It'd be not good. So is that kind of what it looked like? It looked a little bit like that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not into it. What don't you like about it?

I don't know. I mean, you know, I don't like the idea that we're putting baby Jesus in a cake. And then we're all like, oh, hope you don't choke on it. I don't like it. You don't like symbols, do you? Yeah. Or metaphors or anything like that. Yeah.

Or feelings. Yeah, yeah. You just want a room with just white paint. Yeah. And you just kind of look at it and feel nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds good.

Say we're having a good time. Yeah. Make that your whole moniker. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's the whole point. I have to tell people because otherwise they don't know I'm having fun. So it's kind of interesting.

The Zephyrs. Do you know what the Zephyr is? Yeah. It's a light breeze. Okay. And then they relocated Wichita and it became the Wichita Wind Surge. The Wind Surge. Things picked up there.

That's true. It became more of a tornado thing. out there. Oh, I do have a top five country songs. It's time for Dusty Slakes. Top five country songs. About Louisiana. You know, you asked me about this and I thought, well, maybe I'll be able to pull something together, but it actually was quite easy to

make, and I know that I might be missing some. There's a couple of Charlie Daniels references. I just talked about Trudy, but I think they're in Texas and I think, you know, so I think, so none of that is, but I came, I'm not going to name them all, but I came up

with about 20 songs. Okay. Well, let's do five. So 15 honorable mentions. Let's do a top five. But I'm just saying, I got a playlist. And by the time it comes out, I'll have, you know, Dusty Slays, top five country songs about Louisiana. And then you can go and listen to all these songs. I've got a few I want to mention to you if you don't mention them yourself.

Okay, because there's even a Randy Newman one. And I don't know if it's necessarily country, but Louisiana 1927. Also an Aaron Neville version, which I do think is better. Okay. Okay. So we'll go. We're going to start with number five. Number five. I'm not as big of a fan of this song. But people love it. And I feel like it's very popular. So it has to go. Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Louisiana woman, Mississippi man. Okay. It's not a bad song. It's a good song. It's a good song. It's a good song. It's a good song. It's a good song. It's a good song. And, but these next four, I love these. All right. The next one, number four, Dusty Slay's Top Five Country Songs about Louisiana.

Number four, Mel McDaniel, Louisiana Saturday Night. Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down to bow. You kick off your shoes and you throw them on the floor. Dance in the kitchen to the morning light, Louisiana Saturday night. It's so good. Oh, nice. They play it at LSU football games. Yeah, it's so good.

Okay. Yeah, it's great. All right. Number three, Hank Williams' jumbolaolaolaolaola fish, pine, a filet gumbo. Because tonight I'm going to see my meshes on me. You don't know this one? I don't think. Hank Williams, Jr.? Hank Williams, Senior. I don't know this one. It is Hank Williams' most recorded song. Oh, I think I do know. I just didn't know your version. Come on. That's spot on. Okay. even

what's her name Kathy? Even Kathy was like Okay, I'll get down with it. Yeah, yeah, she changed her mind. Okay, all right, number two. This is this is not number one on this list,

but this may be one of my favorite country songs of all time. Yeah, like number two. It's number two on this list, but it's one of my favorites all the time. Oh, okay, okay. It just, number one has to be there.

But number two, Rodney Crowell, leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight. Now, the Oak Ridge Boys have a cover of this, but the Rodney Crowell version is the best. This is such a good song. It's about a girl in Louisiana who meets a traveling salesman, and she's trying to leave with him. I mean, it was number one on the charts for a while,

originally covered by Emmy Lou Harris. Yeah, she's good, too. Yeah. But the Rodney Crowell version is my favorite. Okay. All right. And then... Oh, Grudge Boys Day, too.

Here, let's do an honorable mention. This guy I'd never heard of, but I found him while looking these up. And I like this song. You know, there's a few. Guy Clark has one called Baton Rouge. Little Feet has one called Lafette Railroad, Lafayette, Willie Nelson, City of New Orleans.

But this one, Wayne Toops, O Louisiana. And I may be saying it wrong. That's the honorable mention. Oh, Louisiana. Wayne T. UPS. Yeah, rain Toops, Louisiana.

Oh, Louisiana. Yeah, that's a good one. Wow. All right. I got to tell you, the picture, since we're judging things by the picture, that's a tough one for this. It's more like a comic.

I mean, that does look like a road comics. This guy has some real Cajun, though. All right, here we go. It looks like he's done some companies on gigs. Number one. I thought that was number one. No, that was honorable mention. Oh.

Number one, song about, Louisiana. Jerry Reed, Amos Moses. That's one of the best of all time. Now Amos Mojure was a Cajun. He lived by himself in a swamp. He hunted alligator for a living. He just knock them in the head with a stump. Toot him. Thude him. Yeah. The Louisiana law going to get you, Amos. It's a great song. That's a great list. Can I ask you about a few others? Yeah. Colin Baton Rouge by Garth Brooks. That's a great one. And if Garth, This is my rule. Garth Brooks won't allow his music on Spotify or iTunes,

so I can't put it in my playlist. So he doesn't get to be on my list. But it would have been in top five because it's a great song. Take that, Garth. Yeah. I don't know what is. Garth, if you're listening. Yeah.

Mr. Brooks. I don't know what his reasoning is, but he doesn't get on my list. What about Crescent City by Emilio Harris? Oh, you know what? Not on the list. I didn't even know about it. Is New Orleans.

The Crescent City. It's one of its many names. New Orleans. Nola. Nola. Yeah, Nola's good. What else you got? Is that it?

No, I got some more here. Anything about moon pies in there? Is that a New Orleans thing? No, I think that's a Nashville thing, right? A goo goo. Goo. Okay. Moon pies or Chattanooga?

Maybe South Carolina. The Big Easy. Moon pies are Chattanooga. Wow, my bad. It's also New Orleans. I've called the Biggie. I got a couple more dusty. Louisiana Rain by Tom Petty.

Oh, I don't know that. I'm about to look that up right now, though. And down at the Twist and Shot by Mary Chapin'Carpin'Carpenter. Oh. Saturday night, and the moon is out. I'm going to head on over to the Tristan Shelf. Find a two-step pot and around a cage and beat. When it picks you up, I'm going to find that beat.

Out in the middle of a big dance floor. Aaron is, if you're listening, Aaron is twirling his headset. Oh, you know what? Maybe Alabama. If you're going to play in Texas, you got to have a fiddle in the band. That lead guitar is hot, but not for a Lusiana Man. Okay, that's a loose loose one there.

All right, Aaron does now put his hat over his head. It's time. Here's another. This is debatable if it's country. I'm going to give you one more. I'll give you one more and then that's it, okay? Born on the Bayou by CCR. Credence Clearwater.

That is a great song. That is a great song. Yeah. Down on the Bayou. Born on the Bay. Born on. He's born and he's down there. Yeah, he's down there.

You've got to be down there. He's down there for sure. If you're born there, you've got to be down there. down there. Well, that was Louisiana. I think we covered everything. Yep. I think we got down to the nitty gritty. More than we should at some places. More than we should of in some places. But that's kind of what we do. We've listened. We've loved. We laughed. And we've learned. Do you guys know Amos Moses? Either you guys know Amos Moses? You never heard of it. You never heard of it. Maybe if I heard it, I would know it. We'll play it after the podcast. But we can't get it. We can

get it taken down for copyright. It's such an incredible song. Yeah. That five, top five list I just told you. I'm sure it is good. Share the Spotify link so we can check it out. Everybody can get in there. Well, that's public figures. That's what we do. Thank you guys for tuning in. I, this is Aaron Weber speaking. I got some dates coming up.

You can come see me in Royal Oak, Michigan, at the Comedy Castle in July, August. I'm coming back to Phoenix, Arizona, the Desert Ridge Imprope. Then I got a big tour kind of that kicks off. I'll be all over the place. So Aaron Webercomcom, you can check out all my dates.

I'd love to see you out there on the road. Brian, where could people find you? This Friday. I'm here at the Lab at Zanis for Brian Bates and Friends. Come start your July 4th weekend. Here with me. Saturday, Saturday I'm throwing out the first pitch at the Nashville Sounds game.

Awesome. Then July 9th, I'm in Chattanooga at the Comedy Catch. July 17th, 18th. I'm in Lexington, Kentucky at Comedy Off Broadway. July 31st, August 1st. I'm at the Funny Farm Comedy Club in Goshen, Indiana. And August 2nd, I'm at Helium in Indianapolis. Okay.

I got a couple of things. on July 7th. I'm going to be here at Zanis. That's going to be great. I'm trying to, and then on July 8th at the lab, we have our other show, our new show called Let Loose with the Open Mic, where we're going to have more bucket spots. And we also have booked comics on it, so it's a very good show.

So check that out. And then just a couple of my road dates. Charlestown, West Virginia on July 11th, and in Atlantic City in New Jersey. on July 18th. Nice. So. Yeah.

All right. Okay. Good deal. That's it. Everybody have a happy Independence Day. Have a great weekend. And we love you. We miss you.

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