The Nateland Podcast - 235: #235 Social Media ft. Trey Kennedy

Episode Date: January 15, 2025

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All right. We got a fun guest in today sitting in with us. I've not officially met you until just now. Just did. Trey. Trey. Yeah, Trey. Just in case. This is Trey Kennedy, everybody.

Thanks for having me. We thought it was John Crist. Oh, there you go. Just found, just right now, figured out it wasn't John. Yeah. Hey, that's all way more talented. He's been waiting about two years for that. Yeah. How was it with John this weekend? I just did his pod. Yeah, that's what he said. Oh yeah? Yeah.

What did you do? Just talked about you. Yeah. What did you do? I just did a podcast. I just did a podcast. I just did a podcast. I just did a podcast.

I just did a podcast. I just did a podcast. I just did a podcast. I just did a podcast. I just did a podcast. I just did a podcast. I just did a podcast. I just did a podcast. I just did his pod. Yeah, that's what he said. Oh, yeah? Yeah. What did you do? Just talked about you. Yeah. What did y'all do? This week we gambled. I mean, I gambled. That sounded bad. I did. I didn't mean it like that. I'm not, you know, it's, we golfed and that's what I meant to say. We were golfing.

It's a bit of a gamble on your emotions. Yeah. Golfing is. We did, we play a game when we, when we do golf. I'll tell you what, I got lit up. Chris played out of his mind this week. Oh yeah? Really?

In golf. He can golf. I mean, this week I got, I got lit up by but he was making everything. Wow. And so he played I mean it's probably the best it's the best I've seen him play I play with him a lot and it's the best I've seen him play so but I'm sure he'll tell everybody about it. He talked about it enough this weekend. Yeah, he surprisingly enough he didn't mention I'm sure he was. Oh yeah. I'm sure you handle it. Well Nate. Oh Can't imagine ago you were sick. Yeah, it was working on comedy, you know, oh, yeah

I let him know he pops on we had him pop on to do the late shows in Vegas So it was a yeah Vegas was fun It was fun. Let me read this. We got a little Nate land news Nate land presents DC improv Sunday, January 6th, Julian McCullough Derek Strupe and Joe Zimmerman They are doing a show one show at 7 p.m If you want to see those guys go see them I'm there the before that and then I'm leaving and they are staying because they will be with me that weekend and then they are doing a longer set so you can see Julian Derrick Strupe and Joe Zimmerman Sunday 7 p.m. DC improv. It's a hot show.

That is a great show and then Dusty one-hour special February 28th at the Walker Theater low ticket alert. First show sold out I think. Second show, there's some tickets. Yeah, there's some tickets. Get those second, get those tickets and see the next big special. And then, yeah, and then my tour starts Big Dumb Eyes. You know, that was, this weekend did Vegas six shows. We got, we got somewhere. We got some, we're getting somewhere. We're getting somewhere. We're able to do, uh, I'm pretty pumped. Yeah. I mean, I still stink right now. Q and A is coming together. The Q and A, I only did Q and A. I didn't do it the last day. I was able to do an hour without a Q and A. That's cool. So, uh, which was

nice. I did do a Q and A, but, uh, I think I still do it at some of the clubs because I think it's a fun. It is fun. And I won't be able to do it. Yeah. That's what I say. I go, I think this is fun for y'all. That's how I say it. Yeah. I go, I assume y'all have stuff that you've always wondered what I, no, it's, but I was able to- How do you start a Q and A? What do you say? I just, it's, but I was able to-

How do you start a Q and A? What do you say? Oh, I just, it's not good. Okay. I just go, I'll kind of finish one thing that I have a closer, man, having a closer dude. I got a great closer. Okay.

It's so unbelievable. Wish I had a closer. Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't know, you wouldn't know what to do with it if you ever had one. So- Where does it go? Yeah, he goes, okay. I don't know. You wouldn't know what to do with it if you ever had one. So, where does it go? Yeah.

He goes, yeah, you don't know. I mean, you got to, that's not your thing, dude. You leave on the low note. No one can tell if you're about to wrap up or it's the middle. Uh, they just go, leave them wanting less. Your closers, they go, I think we're about good. That's the audience.

My closer is my merch pitch. That's every... You would always do a merch pitch closer. God, comics would get good at merch. I had a good merch pitch. But it wasn't my closer though, but I had a good merch pitch. It was right before the close. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I just would talk about my shirts and I don't know, it was all good though. I got laughs

and it was, it boosted the show and yeah. I used to annoy me because you had about 20 minutes on shirts and then 20 minutes on hats. And then you're like, Hey, I've got some hats and shirts. I built this whole act. Sell stuff and it really worked. Yeah. It was hot. I had a hot merch thing. I mean, I was working it. Do you still do merch stuff now?

I do, but I don't do a pitch. Pitch. Okay. It's no time. Yeah. It's no time to put it in. Trey, do you do a pitch on the road? You know, I've, I don't do a pitch.

Should I? I think a pitch is fun. Like, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was on. If you can write it in and it's. Yeah. Yeah. First time Trey. If you're selling stuff, you're selling stuff, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I was on. If you can write it in. Yeah, first time Trey.

You're selling stuff, you're selling stuff, right? Yeah, I do, I take, actually I did my first pitch. I played, we got back on the road because we had a baby girl. I was in Madison, Wisconsin. Oh, congrats. Yeah. Yeah, cloud, no.

Hey, congrats everybody. Yeah, it's a huge accomplishment. We all have one. We all have one. Can I? Nothing new, Trey a huge accomplishment. Yeah, yeah. We all have one. We all have one. Nothing new, Trey. Bring some new stuff to this. Two under two, that gives you some oohs and ahs.

Yeah, okay. That is something. That is something. Yeah, right. Two under two. So, yeah. But I had a... John was two under two, first two holes in the nigga.

And I swear, is that why you brought it up? Yeah. It's funny as hell, to say. I want to say, I don't, Trey does not have kids. Not married, he did that on purpose. Yeah. All right. Sorry.

Go ahead, Trey. But I had a, I'd launched like a, I'm trying to do a wine thing. So I did a pitch on stage, like by my, the first night I did it, it was like the most pathetic kind of like, just if you want to. Yeah. Your heart wasn't in it. I like it. I like a pitch like that though. Yeah. A heart wasn't in it. I like, I like a pitch like that though.

Yeah. Pitch like that. That makes you feel sorry. Well, you're embarrassed to be doing well. Also it's like, you're not putting it on the, I hate when a merch pitch is like, like making the audience feel like, Oh, I guess I got to support this guy. I'm like, if you want to buy it, buy it. It's good stuff.

It's the best stuff you could get. I don't know why you wouldn't want it. Doing you a favor. Yeah. It's like, I say, Hey best stuff you could get. I don't know why you wouldn't want it. I'm doing you a favor. Yeah. It's like, I say, hey, maybe you're thinking, I gotta go out and get a hat. Well, now you can do it tonight. You know, save yourself a trip.

And I use the kit. I'm like, I had 202, so it's a lot and it's expensive. So that's why I do that. Here's wine. Ah. I think that's true. It makes sense, right? Yeah, I think it does. I think it's great. What are you doing with wine? What do you do? You started a

wine thing? I started, yeah, I announced it in October. It's called Basic Cellars Wine. I was just trying to, I don't know, because I- You have a wine, what is that called? A wine- Like a box one. Vineyard, vineyard? Vineyard? I don't- Vineyard. Vineyard. You have a vineyard, vineyard. I don't have it. We partnered with like an existing wine company. They didn't feel a vineyard feels like what it was initially called. And then as it went along, they got fancy with it. Oh, wine got elite started drinking the wine. Vineyard. That's what it is.

That's what it is. Yard of vines. Yeah. Yard of vines. That's a great point, actually. Yeah. I feel like that's amazing because it's, initially I thought that was stupid, but you were right. That's how a lot of this works out. Everybody, sometimes it takes a little bit longer for people to realize, maybe a couple weeks. Yeah, but I mean, I've been here for five minutes. You've been here five minutes. I'm getting better at. Yeah, right. Yeah. So anyway, we were, yeah, we were in Vegas and, but yeah, having a closer though, dude, it's, this is the quickest I've ever had a closer. Like that's a laid out closer. Like I don't know if it really has any other place.

I'll be interested to see in a year if it's, but I can't imagine, I don't know where else it's going to, it's almost, I'm scared I'm going to get tired of it too. Then I got, cause I've had it so. Put it on the shelf for a while. You ever do that? Yeah. If it's already good to go.

We don't have something else back there, but we ain't got something sitting back there, but we got, you know, I tried to sell Trey's wine. Maybe, maybe I could try that, but I don't know. Yeah. I got nothing else. Nothing else that feels like, you know, we can get off, but maybe if I find something else. I was on the show, Trey's first time ever on stage.

Oh, when was that? Twenty eighteen. Wow. Six thousand people in Dallas. Trey had never been on stage. Walked out. Where? At what venue? The Verizon.

It was called the Verizon Center at the time. Grand Prairie. Yeah, yeah. I've been there. That place is awesome. It was awesome. Very cool. That place is awesome.

Yeah. That's an awesome spot. The set was rough. It was? First time on stage. I mean, I didn't even really do a set. Did you go up before before I'm just kidding No, I mean it what I not done an open mic anything like that

So let's I didn't even do a set if people if so Trey You want to explore like Trey Trey just say Trey is I've never met him. So I didn't yeah, I know I go way back I know yeah explain to Trey, you know I've been making videos for a long time and I met met John Crist because we were making videos and people mistake us for each other. They still do. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We look alike. Obviously. Both selling wine. Uh, you sell wine. He's a wino. It's a lot of the same stuff. Yeah. We just, a lot of synergy. And we,

and so I was just a kid making videos and he, he blew up and he's like selling these tickets and doing, you know, these big venues. And he was like, come on the road. People know us together. You should come on the road. And I was like, well, I don't, I don't do that. I don't know what to do. And he had me out and in hindsight, this is insane because he just, I was like, what am

I going to do? He's like, just, I'll just call it, we'll kind of be out there together and we'll like riff out there. And I was like, and you've never been on stage. That's John all day. Yeah. So I had not, not in that format. John's act is like, well, figure it out out there.

He goes, I let the crowd figure it out. No, I had done stage stuff, but not like that at all. Like what? I did, I did a lot of, but not like that at all. Like what? Like, I did a lot of- Spelling bees. I was in college, I did a lot of singing and I was like in an improv group. So I had done, but not really, right? And so I just waltzed out there and you just kind of lead it.

I just was like, I was out there for six minutes. What was your improv troop name? It was, we didn't have a troop name, which is a shame. Christian's trouble. Yeah. Yeah. After you did the six minutes, is that when you thought I'll do a 6,000 seat venue? You went straight to that.

You go, I think I got it. I didn't even do a set. I just walked out and John's like, here's Trey. I was like, hi. And he'd like, I'd kind of like make, we'd make fun of each other and walk off. So we did a show in Houston that weekend, right after the devastating floods of Houston, the famous floods where JJ Watts, say Harvey, remember? Oh yeah.

Yeah. Where it was like big deal. This is maybe there's still water on the ground. Right? So that's not true, but it was fresh off the flood. I'm sure somewhere. Trey goes out there and he's got, yeah, he's got a, him and John will wear these jeans that are just, they're like too high off the ankle.

Roll them. Yeah. You know, high waters. Yeah. And he says, you've got the flood on that jeans is great. And Trey goes, yeah, well we are in Houston. That was my first ever joke. Smash it.

Yeah. You love it. I love it. I think it was topical. So it's good. It was timely. They play your political applause break. Yeah. I love it. I think it's topical. So it's good. It was timely They put your political applause break. Yeah. Yeah, I was all a blur. Yeah Really?

Environmental no, but it was a wild week and I was so I was like, uh, I hardly spoke to you guys I was so terrified. I feel like you guys was how naive I was you had like I don't know you had million followers on whatever and I'm Ross and I was like, I've been doing comedy for like a year and a half and I was like, yo, it's right. I think you could make like t-shirts. Jimmy Hendrix was like, yeah, I'll think about it. He's got an empire. You should make t-shirts.

I forget. Yeah. You were still working. You were still grinding a day job. You were like, I'm gonna get back on the bus. That was very early on. Anyway, now Trey is doing his own thing. He's doing theaters and musical guys making videos. I did the podcast.

Dusty's done the podcast. Yeah, Dusty came on my podcast. Thanks again. It was a good time. Awesome. But that, looking back on that, shout out to John. He was good to me and like, we're trying to like show me the ropes a little bit. And I, I mean, I didn't, but I didn't know why I was there. But how did, how did you and John first meet? He, uh, oh, he jokes about this.

He, it was like 2017. So it was both kind of like getting a bunch of videos viral and he ton of like mistaking ton of people, mistaken us for one another. And he reached out, he DM me, but I guess I didn't see it. And Emma, his sister, y'all know, she reached out and I saw it. So he forever, he'd be like, oh, you saw the cute girl DM'd me,

you hit her back, but not me. I was like, well, I didn't do it that way on purpose. But we just kind of linked up, he was in LA. And so we made a couple of videos and viral, people liked them. So we just kind of stayed in touch making videos. And he had me out with him 2018, 2019, I came back for a couple and actually did some standup. So yeah, it was, I appreciate it.

Great. Then he took a break. Oh, he did? Yeah. Oh, wow. You were really nice though. I remember you hit me up just kind of like, dude, I hope, hope you're not getting too much slack for this. And John was great and it was fine. No one was whatever.

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Nice weather. Yeah, it was great. Did two shows at the Luminary Hotel. You stay there too? Yeah. That's nice. Yeah, it was awesome. It was awesome.

You still go down there? What time you go to the show when you're at the hotel? Show's at the hotel. What time's go to the, what time you get to the show when you're at the hotel? Show's at the hotel. What time's the show? Seven. Six and eight. Six and eight. You get down there at 445?

We gotta do a mic check. Yeah. What time do you get down there? Five. No. He rolls in at 555, right? I was later than that. My opener started at six. I rolled in about 6.05.

Oh, that's good. Oh, big time. Whoa, wow. I do get there early. You do roll in like that? Late like that? I came down then went back up my room. Oh, okay.

Much of a football. Wow. That's pretty nice. It is nice. You can go sit in your own hotel room. It's like something about sitting and then you're about to go be on stage. The condo in Wichita. I'm sorry I stepped on that.

Yeah, you know, but you get jumpy. It's a pretty solid joke. Where are we going? Dost, go ahead. I didn't hear it. What'd you say? I said, you know, it's fun to be sitting there watching TV when you're about to go on stage

in front of 10 people. You go. I didn't hear the 10 people part. you could go do your act in your room and it's a little bit different downstairs. Well, there was more than 10. Thank you very much. No, there was 10. He's killing it.

Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. I would say that club in Wichita where the condo, the bedroom shares a wall with the club. That's crazy. So you can be in bed and You hear the show going on the other side of the wall and I did that and you can hear the whole show you can

Hear it. Yeah, right there. I mean like the comic is five feet behind you. You're in bed I was in bed when the when the Host was up. I was in bed. How hard is it to get into take that with your alarm nap? Was that your alarm, the host? Yeah, I did. Hey, we got a great show tonight. Aaron Webber's asleep right there, like a bear. It's 7 PM.

He fell asleep. He, yeah. In a condo with no windows, no good ventilation. That's true. Two other comics in there. A lot of sadness. Yeah. That club has since closed. It's depressing. It was a good club though. Yeah, I wasn't I liked it. Okay

I'm kidding Fort Myers was great two great shows a lot of folks came out What's Fort Myers? What's the club? It was a hotel. Oh, yeah, they have a club. They're snappers. Okay but this was an event space in a hotel it was a hotel. Oh, yeah. They have a club there, Snappers. Okay. But this was an event space in a hotel. It was a, they usually use it, stadium seating, well, theater seating. Theater seating, yeah. But they use it for culinary, like, demonstrations in class. There's like a kitchen down at the, on the floor. So you were in a

kitchen performing? They, like, behind the island. Draped it off the island. Yeah, it was down on the floor. So you were in a kitchen performing? They like... Behind the island? Draped it off the island. Yeah, I was down on the floor. But it's the first time they've done comedy. That's cool. How much time did you do? An hour each show. All right. Yeah. Trey, were you anywhere fun? I was supposed to play the club in Huntsville, but it got snowed out. Oh, really? So I... I didn't think they snowed, did they? Snow's tough on Alabama. Snow's tough on Alabama. They got like six inches, yeah. Yeah, six inches in a city like Huntsville will shut things down.

We were shut down all last week because of the snow here in Nashville. Yeah, so I was at home with the Fiat 202. Just putting in the work, super dead. I was just in town doing spots at the club here. Big football game this weekend. I won't talk too much about it, but it was unbelievable. Unbelievable.

And, uh, we got one more to go. We were all watching, uh, you know, I was telling you, it was Greg Garcia was, uh, with us and, and he was, he was like, I, he was like, uh, if I knew Aaron a little better, I would have texted and been like, Hey, you got time to chat real fast? Just write with like 30 seconds left. And I was like, we should just call them and then just see. All right. That's why I was joking when I said I was going to text you with a minute left and go congrats. Oh man.

I mean, that, cause I mean, that's infuriating when the game's not wrapped up and it is like, dude, if we texted Aaron now and go congrats, man, you get so many people that Nick Novicki, he can't wait to text you. He'll text you congrats first quarter. I mean, he loves it. He, I have to go, I go, Nick, do not talk to me until after the game. Yeah.

Cause he'll be minute in. He goes, Vandy's looking good. We lose by 40. And then, you know, he's like, whoa, really turned around. Yeah. And I'm like, Nick, I swear. When the Titans beat the Ravens, when they're the number one seed in the playoffs, we watched it at your house and Titans are up by, I don't know, 10 or something like that early in the fourth quarter and Ryan Malone shows up because

oh it's over. Yeah. And I got so upset just him saying that because I thought he was gonna jinx us. Yeah, yeah I don't like it. I don't like it. Dusty? I was in town Friday, Friday got snowed out but I I did this weekend at Zany's. I did four spots at the club. I had no shows. I did a spot. I did two guest spots on Katherine Blamford show. And then I did a spot on killer B show, the, the Nashville legend killer B's. And then I did a Zany's comedy all-stars. So four shows at Zany's in one night. That used to be unheard of.

Unheard of. It was so great. And yeah, it was just fun. I was practicing this. I was actually, I'm doing the Tonight Show on Thursday. Oh. So I was practicing a set. And each time I did it, it got worse.

By the fourth time, I was like, I don't even know if I should do The Tonight Show, but I rewrote it and did it on Sunday and it was great. Yeah, that's good. I think it's good sometimes to, you know the hard part when you run a set, it's because you're only running that set. Yeah. And so when you go up there with a job to go, I'm just trying to time this out, it's a weird kind of thing. So you almost have to, when you run a set,

you have to have a couple of jokes just to get the room going, then get in, and then you get in the set without them even really knowing it. Well, I like- Because it can go bad. Yeah, I like to do it that way so that I, just in case the audience is not hot when I get to

the show for whatever reason I agree I I would always go run my set in the work you need a bomb with your set I always go run it in the worst situation and I would usually bomb with it I bombed too many times yeah yeah yeah to where I was well that is may not be a good set and that's yeah I know that's, yeah, I know. That's the problem is because it's, you do have to then eventually like go, I need to say something and have a couple other things just because I need to get some gauge on the real timing of this set. Because it's just a weird, like you just come out

and it's like, even if you didn't say I was running a set, it's just, it feels like everybody knows oh yeah and so it's every everybody's kind of like it's almost like they know cameras are out or something and you're like well they're not we're just practicing but and then they're going to vibe they're going this is what you're gonna do this is what this is your idea of your best five do they bring you up or did you tell them I was doing a slideshow uh do they bring you up as the no no no just Just as a guest. Yeah, Dustin walks out and goes, obviously I'm doing the Tonight Show this week. Here's what I'm gonna do.

Normally, you know I would be on the road. I'm a headliner. That's right. I'd like to be doing an hour 20, but tonight I'm doing five. I'm doing five to give you a taste. Who else is on your episode? Oh, actually Kenny Chesney is on the episode. Whoa, wow. Big time. That's fun. I actually wanted to try to write Kenny Chesney jokes for the thing. But for me to make fun of a song, like to break down a song, there's got to, I don't know, and

his songs are good or they're kind of funny songs. So you can't make fun of a funny song. And then, I don't know, there's other songs I like. I like Kenny Chesney. Yeah, and I would think just go do a set and assume that not everybody wants to see you. Kenny, you do this very specific that night. Well, that's true too. Yeah.

Breakdown of a song nobody's heard. That is true too. Yeah. Where does that last guest get off? Yeah. Yeah. And there's no context to it. You just walk out and start trashing Kenny Chesney. And then also Brian told me, uh, Brooke Shields is on the episode too.

Is that right? Yeah. Well, I guess it kind of obvious when I asked you who's on the show that I knew, but yeah, yeah. Kenny Chesney, Brooke Shields. Yeah. Hmm. Uh, that's a hot show. It is a

hot show. Is Kenny playing? I don't know. Have you ever met him? I never met him. I've never met him. I'm trying to get it set up to meet him though. Yeah I would like to meet him. Yeah I'd like to meet him. Yeah he's one I would love to meet. You got a story for him. Why? Why I have a story with him. Kenny Chesney? Yeah but I think we've shown shown it. And we talked about the song. The back where I come from. I played it at the... Oh, okay. But I never got to meet him and like say that. Just so you... Let him know. Yeah, so let him know. Yeah, I got a song, a story for him too. He's got a song about an alcoholic. And I'm like, now he does have a song about an alcoholic and it's a good one. You know,

that song where he's like, what does he say, now I can't think of it, but he's like talking about going to AA, the old man sit up in the aisles and I've been living a life with it. I don't know it's a good song. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm here. It's a simple things in life like the kids at home and a loving wife. You get it. Yeah, I remember. That may get us flying. I love it. Why? You get it. That may get us flying. I love it. That was pretty close to getting you. Yeah. I love some Kenny Chess. The devil takes your hand and says, no fear. Have another shot. Just one more beer. Yeah, I've been there.

Have y'all seen him live? No, I have. Yes, actually. Yeah. He plays Arrowhead in Kansas City like every other summer, like 4th of July weekend. It's a big deal. It sells it out. It's amazing. It's so fun. Is that, you live in Kansas City? Yeah. Are you from there? I'm from Oklahoma, originally.

I thought you were from Texas or something. No, Oklahoma, born and raised, and then went to Oklahoma State. You just look like Dude Perfect. You know those guys? Yeah. I just did a thing with him. That's pretty solid. Yeah. Is you could fit in for Dude Perfect.

Yeah. I do. Yeah, I've met those guys. They're really super nice him. That's pretty solid. Is you could fit in for Dude Perfect. Like, uh. I do, uh, yeah, I've met those guys. They're really super nice guys. And I feel, I did post something with them and got a million DMs of people like what you, you're them. Yeah, yeah. So I'm hoping I'm on the understudy in case one of them. Yeah, something goes down.

God forbid, yeah. Uh. Yeah, shout out Kenny. Yeah. I, have you met him? No, I've not met him. Yeah. No, no, no. What was the dude perfect thing? Do you want to talk about it? You were hanging out at their new headquarters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why don't I know? Is it? Did they need another bigger one? It looks like the same thing. I'll read. Well, let's do the show the Vegas. So we got, Dusty's got a hat on. We had some people come to the Vegas show. Oh, yeah. Vegas show is so good this weekend, man. And so everybody dressed up as one of us. I played myself. Harper on the far right.

Bron Bates. Is that the Star Trek head? It looks like it doesn't. It looks like the Star Trek head? It looks like it. It looks like the Star Trek head. No, no. The other one that's like a little something. Oh, Klingon. Yeah.

So, yeah. Come on, man. And then. It does look like that though. A lot of ripples. I'm wearing the same. I think Warf is his name. The Nate one's pretty good.

Nate's dead on. Nate's dead on. Dead on. Yeah. I don't appreciate that this person wore a fat suit for me but uh, I think she nailed it. She nailed it. And then Dusty Slay. And then look at that. Look at that. Got the hat on. Boom. Wearing the hat. Yeah, y'all thought it was real hair. It's not. Dusty's got his real, I don't know. That's fun. Yeah, they were awesome. He is going a little too high with the wave, I think, here. Right? Yeah, he is too high. Looks like he's asking a question.

Yeah, you don't want to get it too high. You're like, well, yes, you, sir. But I think impressions are a little exaggerated. Right, right, right. Obviously with Bates, they toned it down. Not the case. But, yeah. No, it's, yeah, everybody. That's really cool. Thank you, guys., it's, uh, yeah, everybody.

It was very, very, very cool. Yeah. Uh, I like that camera. All right. It seems like they would have one of the women play the guy with a long hair and then maybe have the guy play me or Aaron. Uh, that's right. Yeah.

I think, I think having the older guy be used a little on the nose. Yeah. I think they want to mix it up. That's a woman Yeah. I think having the older guy be used got a little on the nose. Yeah. I think they wanted to mix it up. Is that a woman? That's a woman there. On the left. You're talking about being dusty. The older guy being dusty. I'm talking about the guy that's dusty. I mean the obvious choice would have had him be Brian, but they're like that's a little too obvious. Is that a real beard that he has? No, it doesn't look. I'd like to see what if he really looks like Brian. It's like you could have just did it. You could have done. Yeah.

He's like, no, I'd rather look like Dusty. Yeah. He wanted to be cool for one. Yeah. He's like, well, I made the hat. Yeah. All right. Oh, that's headphones. Looks like you're hiding a baby under. Yeah. Like a little baby's head, like she's got it in the... It was, yeah, she's got a t-shirt on with a horse. Pretty fun.

Yeah, that's awesome. Alright, we started off with your comments. Christine, I've seen every episode of Nate Land multiple times, and Nate has never been so giddy with such pure joy more than the moment he got to prove Aaron wrong about Elvis and iconic Nate land moment. You big Elvis fan, Trey? No, I can't say I am. Yeah. But what's the argument? Aaron's really taking a lot.

He does. Aaron doesn't think Elvis is that big of a deal. It's garbage. He thinks it's lip-sync. That's big of a deal. Yeah. What was your take? Of course me.

The notar- he ain't notarized better than Elvis. I got word for word. He's been taking a lot of heat for it though. Yeah, I think. Have you? I have been taking some flack. I've gotten more messages of support. The people are-

Okay. People are giving me private support, which I understand, given the circumstances. You said Elvis sucks? The Elvis people are out, dude. Yeah. Facebook, these people. I'll tell you what, I would think we have a lot of Elvis people. I would think a lot of our listeners-

Come on, man. You do. Yeah, we have a lot of people that love some Elvis. And it's very platform dependent. Facebook, Elvis is their favorite person of all time. And they're like, man, I thought I couldn't love Nate anymore. Hearing him defend Elvis. Now he's my all time favorite. And he goes, kick that fat idiot off the bucket. Send him to jail house rock, but I feel like guys, you're all

age and younger though, if this is what you're saying, I don't care about Elvis. I will. Well, yeah. Kick you off too. Yeah. I guess it'd be careful. You're going to be done.

There it is. I just said, I think he's more of a cultural icon than a musical one. I don't think his music is age as well as other people. I get what you're saying. Like Sinatra. We're still listening to Sinatra. But was that on the holidays? It took a turn when he thinks the same thing about Sinatra. Yeah. I thought he was going to agree with me. And he was like, yeah. Aaron doesn't think anything before his existence is pointless, is what I would say.

That's right. Yeah. And then everything after. The Bible. I am all that matters. Yeah. Me, me, me. He believes in the Bible, but only the iPhone version.

Yeah. He doesn't think Elvis can sing. That was where he lost me. I made fun of his voice a little bit. The Dusty used to dress up as Elvis. So anyway, it's been a whole thing. It's been a whole thing. But I just wanted you I just want you to know he's got a lot of support out there for people. Yeah, that's good. I was worried about you. You are right and going I can't believe nobody agreed with you. Shame on Dusty for turning his back on you in the middle of an argument.

A lot of stuff like that. So well you you kept heightening the argument to a place where I was like, I gotta get off this. I'm not wearing my space suit here. I'm losing oxygen. I gotta jump off. Trying to have a fun podcast. You know what I mean? Yeah, just trying to. That's not what we're about, Aaron. Nathan Bright-hopped-ooped. Nathan Brit-hoop. That's a tough one.

Bright-hoop. That's a tough one. That looks like what my name was before and I changed it to Bargetti. Yeah. Don't care what the numbers say. Aaron is 1 million percent correct about Elvis. Now that's the kind of statement I like. Yeah. I go and I don't care what the facts are. Yeah. Yeah. Don't show me the proof. Yeah. So we looked at Spotify, Spotify, people listen to Spotify. It's enormous. People listen to it. 47 million monthly listeners. And he thought it was going to be like. I thought listen to it. 47 million monthly listeners for Elvis. And he thought it was going to be like really... I thought Beatles would be 100 million, Beatles 33 million. Yeah, Beatles is actually shocking.

Now, what a lot of people told me is that, who knows if this is true, that how Spotify calculates the monthly listeners as it looks at the previous 28 days. So what we were seeing heavily skewed by Elvis's Christmas album. Now I'm just gonna, I think we should look at those numbers again in April or May. I like that. I look forward to it. But then April May feels like a Beatles month. Yeah, they're big in the spring. Well then that's here comes the sun skewed. Yeah, so I want a little... That's true. What would be a neutral month then?

September, fall's not really a good month. I would say July. Okay. Or Elvis is like America, so then maybe that would be, July could be, maybe July, July doesn't feel like Beatles. I think February's a good one. Okay, yeah, we'll wait. February could be good. Think about all the old people though

that are Elvis fans who aren't on Spotify. Yeah. Think about all the old people though that are Elvis fans who aren't on Spotify. Yeah I think April May seems all that's Beatles all day. I'll wait till the numbers. I bet that's when they would tour. Or what they want them. April and May. Yeah yeah I'll wait till the numbers are good for me and then we'll look at them together. Yeah. Clint Jergens, Elvis Dusty broke me. I wish we could hire him for an event. You can hire me for an event. Yeah. Would you do Elvis? No, I don't think so.

I mean, if the money. I bet there's a. There's a price. There's a price. There's a price. Your price is much different than it was back then. Yeah, that's true. I don't even know that they paid me back then.

Back then it was one bud light. I think they rented the suit and gave me a bar tab. Yeah. But it was, that video was bumped up. I shared the video on my personal YouTube because that's, I didn't upload that video, but I shared it on my personal YouTube and it's bumped up. It's not gotten views in 14 years and now it's seeing some sunlight. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, I will say I did see this clip, but I had watched every second of it. Yeah, it's a good clip. You looked like a good time. A girl I was dating at the time made that video, so she, no offense to the other women in the video, but she took all the attractive ones out. There was a lot of attractive women at the event,

and I posed with them too. No offense to the women who weren't attractive enough to be removed from the video. Yeah, but trust me. As some woman goes, look, that's me. And I don't mean it like that, but you know, it's like, just saying, there's attractive levels and there were more attractive women at the event. Yeah. Yeah.

Was it an event? It was, it was the roller derby team. It was Elvis Bingo. Oh. I was, I was Elvis and they were playing, the roller derby was playing. Female roller derby team. It was Elvis Bingo. I was, I was Elvis and they were playing the roller derby was playing female roller derby. Yeah. Yeah. All week long. Somebody said, Marge, we saw you on Nate land. That's why I watched the whole video. I was like, there's gotta be some hot girls at this bar. Yeah. That's a boy. Yeah. We got to watch this all the way through. Some strong women were probably there. Yeah.

There were some strong ones. Yeah. Mark Bigley. I was born in Hawaii while my mom was pregnant with me. She and a friend met Elvis and a couple of his entourage walking down the beach. They sat down and had a short conversation. He patted my mom's stomach as if to say hello. This was in 1969.

Your dad's Elvis did. Mark, I don't know how to tell you this, but your dad is Elvis. Yeah, patted her stomach. Pretty cool. That's pretty, yeah, that's pretty crazy. Elvis, yeah, it'd be 90, right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not saying I don't believe him, but that's an easy one to lie about.

Well, I mean, his mom would have just told him this. That's what I'm saying. And the mom could easily lie about that. Yeah. Yeah. I got it. Yeah. I got an, uh,

seems weird. It seems like a weird lie. I would say that weird cause it's a cool story. I know, but I would say to me, I would think they would just say we met and hung out and whatever I did her saying he patted on the stomach. I believe that. I mean his stomach, I believe it. I mean, I believe Elvis. Yeah, I believe it.

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for Nate to meet Dude Perfect and what was his favorite part of the new headquarters? Yeah, the Dude Perfect was awesome to get together. Those guys are, you know Trey, they're awesome guys. Are they? Yeah guys are there. They're you know, Tread. They're awesome guys Are they yeah, they're really sure Trey agrees. I've met I met three of three of the five Yeah, so at least the majority are nice good people like him and then so You know, it's funny CD lamb was in that video and he was at Vegas We saw him in Vegas. I didn't go I didn't talk to him if I would have known he was I didn't realize he was in that video and he was at Vegas. We saw him in Vegas. I didn't go, I didn't talk to him. If I would have known he was, I didn't realize he was in that video or I would have probably said something to him. But yeah, we went and it was

awesome. They were very, very cool. Their headquarters is huge. It makes you want, I want Nightland to have the same headquarters. I mean, when you walk in you're just like, well, I want this. Like, how can we, I don't even do any of this stuff. But it was, it was like crazy. Yeah, I mean, it's just so impressive of a thing. Are you in this video? Yeah.

What, what, what sport did you do? I'm at like 150. I did a basketball thing. I just did like comedy. I think I'm at a minute 50. Everybody gather around. Tell some jokes. Really? No, I did that. So, you know.

Oh, like a bit. Okay. Yeah. That's an awesome cut to a tight. Yeah. And then I did like a far shot and then... It's good. It's good. So, and then I did a couple of little pop-ups, like just funny stuff. But they, yeah, so I got to bring Harper and my niece and nephew and then a couple of my nephews and so it was like, you know, it was like unbelievable for them to all get to see,

you know, get to go do it. So it was a special day and a special trip. And yeah, Dude Perfect's awesome. And so I made a basket, their new gym's good. And Ryan, have you seen the, there's a, one of the basketball goals that's really high that they show. I made it in there.

I don't know if you see it right here, but I made it in the, it's a basketball goal that moves Mine was not moving but it's very top. It's very tall and I made it. So there you go and did yeah All right. No, I think I had a long ride to school for Ryan here Let's do a little bit of both. Yeah, I've mentioned this before but John Chris made a dude perfect spoof video in it and Aaron is very, very funny in it. So.

Oh yeah. I remember that. Way back. Yeah. That was a good video. Yeah. Oh, I remember y'all. What was it? What did y'all call yourselves?

It was. Bro epic. It was. Cause I remember bar stool. Y'all got the bar stool bros are coming at you. Cause they did a, I think those guys did, y'all got the Barstool bros are coming at you because they did a, I think those guys did a bit very similar at the same time where they were like, we're bro sweet or something. Oh, okay.

Yeah. That was good. I went down that slide. The original idea is always get copied. You know what I mean? Yep. But our idea was copying another idea. It's hard to... Yeah.

Ciro Gonzalo Sepulveda. Ciro, Siro, Siro Gonzalo. Giancarlo. Gian... Oh. Delete me setup this user. Ciro Giancarlo Sepulveda. Sepulveda.

I just downloaded Babel to learn Spanish. Yeah, yeah. I haven't started it yet. Yeah, neck for it. Five years after this not being a sponsor. Yeah, but I thought I was like, maybe try, I met Cody Rhodes. Yeah, I was gonna say, is that Cody Rhodes?

Yeah, I met him. What language are you doing? I haven't even started, but I did. Yeah, it's pretty good. Spanish, I was going to try Spanish. I haven't done it yet, so. But that's the big first step, downloading the app. Yeah. Next is signing up.

Yeah. Plus you're learning to speed read, so you got a lot on your plate. Still got to read that book. I have to give props to Aaron. I'm currently sitting in a Southwest flight with an open middle seat. I'm a big dude. And I used Aaron's technique of picking a row with another big

guy sitting in the window seat. I set myself in the aisle seat and watches everyone pass by. We had the only empty seat on the flight right here next to us. Hello, big folks. Yeah. It really is a good strategy. I admire you for using it. Yeah, it really is a good strategy. I admire you for using it because it is a little, it does hurt your feelings a little when you're the only seat next to you. Yeah. But if you just lean into that,

it doesn't have to be just fat people either. You can, any undesirable. Yeah. They smell bad or they look weird or something. Yeah. Anybody. I find the only potential problem is that you get kind of like the worst person, right? If like you get- Because if he's fat, he's probably annoying. Like the person- No, I mean towards- It's person of size. Towards the end of the flight, you get the person that's like, well, this is all we got. It's a little bit of a roll of the dice, right? You ever been stuck with three fatties?

Yeah. What if, what if they, oh, if the guy goes in and he goes, I guess this is our seats. And then he sits in and I mean, yeah. Oh, he like thinks he goes, I thought it was our section. I thought they made it. I go, are you kidding me? Y'all making us sit together? And then he just has to go in.

His butt never really touches the seat. He's just, cause he can't get all the way down. And then they have to come move you to balance the plane. Oh, and then they got to move up. Guys, you can't sit on the same side. They've never seen three armrests all pulled up. All of them. Yeah.

He does that little trick. Maybe you ever knew. Do that all the time. Yeah. The three armrests all pulled up. All of them. Yeah. He does that little trick. Maybe you ever knew. Do that all the time. Yeah. The aisle armrest. The aisle armrest. One seatbelt extender all the way across. There's no room in between.

No. They go, yeah. Y'all are in, and you're in Exit Row and they go, guys, I don't know how to say this, but you can't. Windows fogged up. Yeah. how to say this, but you can't. Windows fogged up. There's a lot of heat. They do the math and they realize that they're in the seats where they first start the food service, y'all know what row it is.

It's the first row back from accent room. That's how they usually do it. It is a little bit of a risk, but very, very rarely is there not at least one open seat on a Southwest flight, even when they come on and say, you know, we got a full flight today, ladies and gentlemen, so that doesn't really mean it's full. Sometimes they go, we got a very full flight where you're like, well, full is binary, so you're already being a little.

What do they mean? Full is heavy. It's a heavy flight. We're at capacity. Yeah. Do you ever look at the guy and you guys kind of give like a. I'd give a, I almost every flight this happens. I give a little nucks to the guy.

Ships fall out. You make sure to do it. You hear a crunch? You both have chips in your hand. What, what do y'all both look at each other and lift those little middle arm rest up? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Of course. It's like a, of course, uh, flood over into that other seat.

Cause sometimes you still touching. Just our knees. Yeah. Uh, you can celebrate a little too early. Cause you go around and you go, Oh, we're good. Oh yeah. And then some idiot runs on the plane last second. Right.

And I've had that happen all the time. So I got excited. This is the last time I flew. I got excited with the guy next to me and, uh, and he looked excited too. And I go, don't count, don't count your chickens for the hatch. And he goes, Oh, I know. And then, and then when I already started moving, it was like, we got out of there. Yeah.

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need to stand here while the boarding happens, that's great. Yeah. And then the flight attendant will stand in the middle seat in the exit row. Yeah. And that's, that's, that's a big one right there. You like them when they, I like when they do that. I go, you need a place to stand. This is, this is great.

You stay right here. Yeah. It can come across. I go, you need a place to stand. This is, this is, yeah. You stay right here. Yeah. It can come on. Sounds a little weird. You need a place to stand. You can straddle me. Yeah. Start whistling at her.

I get kicked off the plane. Uh, all right. Uh, Adam, uh, path. No, I was going to say some names come in here. Three hours at the Lebanon DMV. Yeah. Did I start to understand Brian a little bit? Oh yeah.

You know what I mean? Just zero urgency. Oh yeah. Just nobody, nobody knows the answer to anything. They have to like, yeah, three hours is 30 minutes to them. You know, they, you're gonna interrupt to tell that. Yeah. By hours is 30 minutes to them. You know, they- You're going to interrupt to tell that? Oh, by the way? I do date with like that.

Yeah. Yeah. Three hours ain't nothing. Well, I had a thing- That's all they have to do. I got, I got, renewed my license and I didn't get the paperwork for it. Ron goes up there to watch. He buys it. goes up there to watch.

They do you have to pay for parking because too many people get up there and they try to get up there and just watch. And so they can give advice and help everybody out. Oh, I got my, what are you doing up here? The courtroom's closed today. So we figured we'd come here. When I was a, hold that thought area. When I was a kid, my grandparents, they would go to the park on the square in Lebanon, just horse and buggy, watch people drive around, shut up, bestie.

And it was kind of fun. Yeah. You see people, you know, I get it. Yeah. Yeah. My, my granddad would whittle. Oh yeah. That's nice.

God, what a great time. Simple times. Yeah. Yeah. So shut up. Nobody's whittled in years. I'm sure people whittle, but I bet they do it now on, because it's. They do it on TikTok and stuff.

Yeah. It's like, you know, it's a video. Yeah. Timelapse it. Yeah. Timelapse it. Unless he doesn't do anything. Unless he sees it on TikTok.

Well, there's a lot of ideas. What are you going to do? TikTok's gone. I don't know. It makes me sad. It's a fun. We'll get into it on. Yeah. Time lapse it. Unless he doesn't do anything. Unless he sees it on TikTok. Well, there's a lot of ideas. What are you gonna do? TikTok's gone. I don't know. Makes me sad. It's a fun... We'll get into it on... Oh, okay. Yeah. What? Oh, yeah. I guess we're doing... So I want to get my license renewed. I did it on the kiosk like Brian did. And then I got a receipt that said you need to see, you need to see somebody at the desk. What ended up happening was my license did get renewed. There's an error with the machine. I didn't get the paperwork. So I'm waiting in line for two and a half hours to tell somebody. And so I tell the woman and she goes, boy, I don't know. So I go, I will, if not you, who? Like this is your whole thing is the boy. I don't know.

Were you really two and a half hours? Literally two and a half hours. Wow. I got there 12 45.45 and I didn't, yeah, I didn't get out of there till 3.15 or whatever. So that's why I was a little late getting here today. And so I go, well, what should I do? She goes, well, let me email Tennessee tech support and see what they say. So she emails them and then we're just standing there.

I go, are you waiting for a response for the email? She goes, yeah, this is how we're doing it. You're sending an email to like not a specific person, like an admin at Tennessee.gov and you're like, what are we doing here? So I go, I had to leave to come to the podcast. I didn't get my license. Oh wow. The woman was just, she had no idea what to do. But I was like, that's, that's lab. So you got to go back tomorrow. So you got to go back in the morning. Maybe get your act together and don't wait till

your license expires. Yeah, that's true. You got to have, look, look, look. Talk about urgency. Of course I take, of course I take the blame for putting it off until now. Yeah. But it's, it's very funny. It wasn't funny at the time, but it is now. Yeah. To wait for two and a half hours and then they go. Just send an email. Yeah. Boy, I don't know. Let me send an email.

That answer is so frustrating. Boy, I don't know. It's like, this is not fun for me. I'm not having a good time here. She was nice. She was a friendly person. Yeah. But just no urgency.

No like- I'd rather you be rude and efficient than friendly and not know. You know the day yours expires? Cause he just, you just said yours renewed. I just got mine renewed. Yeah, like you keep it a date, like you look forward to it. What's my birthday? It's my birthday.

Yeah, but isn't it like every- Every eight years. Yeah, and you love it. Well, I'm going to look forward to the next one because my current one, I'm doing this, so the next eight years. Yeah. Oh yeah. We got it right there.

We got it right back there. Yeah. Yeah. Look at that. Yeah. You shared that online. I thought that's a good picture. That's how they always look to me.

Adam Pfaffman. Wow. Pfaffman. Some names today, man. Pfff, right? How did you Adam? How did he F-A-F-F? He teaches sixth grade Sunday school. Pfaffman. They got to go, hey, teacher Pfaffman, Mr Pfaffman.

Reverend Pfaffman. You've got a silent P, a silent F, and then just to top it off, another silent N at the end. USA. I mean, yeah, like half those letters, you don't pronounce them that word. I'm guessing. Maybe it's P Faffman.

They gave him his name, his name was Faffman, F-A-F-M-A-N, and then they go, you can have these other letters. And he goes, I'll use them, I'll use them later. I'll put them wherever. I'll put them there. I teach sixth grade Sunday school at our church. All the boys were talking about Nate's Christmas special and his new Netflix special and how they all watched it.

Love how your comedy reaches all ages. Thank you very much to all the boys. Appreciate you watching it. Fafman, Adam Pfffaffman. You know that first day of teaching where he had to write his name on the chalkboard. And he kept going. They were like, God, look at this guy. His teacher's like, I don't think that's right. He starts with Adam and they're like, all right, it's not that bad.

Good night. He just keeps rolling. Kyle Morrison. We saw Nate in an arena, Dusty in a theater, and Brian at a comedy club. I'm curious what venue is y'all's favorite. Each seems charming in its own way, but the club just feels right for comedy. Yeah, I saw Aaron at Dollar General. Well, not all of us are doing arenas, so we don't really have really a take on... A gauge. I mean, we've done them, but headlining is different. It's a different feel.

The club is probably the best because of the comic you saw, but yeah. I like the theater. I've, you know, I never thought I would, I always told Aaron, I don't want to do theaters. I said, I like comedy clubs. And then I said, don't worry about it. And then I, and then I did a theater and I was like, oh no, this is better. But I do like comedy clubs in its own way. And because they're, it's fun. It's like real personal. You're right up in there. Like clubs like comedy off Broadway that you were just at.

It's like, people are right up on you. And it's like, you know, it's fun, but the theater is great too. Yeah. So parking's the easiest at Brian's show. There you go. I'm talking about the Comedy Club. I'm doing the Comedy Club too. He helps you out.

The arena, we did, I did... Sorry. Go ahead, Dusty. I'm just saying, doing Nate's show at Bridgestone, that's incredible, but yeah, it's a different thing for Nate than for us, right? We're up there for seven minutes, Nate's doing an hour, so when you're up there for seven minutes, Nate's doing an hour.

So when you're up there for an hour, you really get to feel it out. Yeah. Why'd you give us more time? Sorry about that. I spent the first three minutes wondering why the stage wasn't rotating. And they told me it was the round.

And... Yeah, I thought you figured it out. Yeah. No, but so I just mean, it's a, you don't really get it. I don't have a feel for what it's like to be, to do arenas. That's my point. I was going to say you got your start in arenas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I went back to clubs. I did arena once for like, and there's like 300 people there. Really? Yeah. So that was fun. Was that for your own show? No.

Memphis Grizzlies had me do their family fun night or something. Oh yeah. So that was, and it was the day Kobe died. Oh, and they still did it? Yeah. So, that was a tough gig. Yeah, keep the fun going guys. Yeah.

Grizzlies, they were terrible. So there was like no one there and you, it was like a faith and family night. The saddest day for basketball. Yeah. So there was like a few youth groups you could tell they were like, yeah, like that. And you almost think they would just wouldn't do it. Yeah. I really got texted me. He's like, we don't know if the game's happening. We know if anything's happening. And the guy was, he was cool and all, but like as I was coming out, he's like, just do your best. Sorry, man. Sorry.

Just act like you haven't watched the news. What, how much time did I think, it was legit like 45 minutes. Not good. So that's why I hope, how are the arenas good? Yeah, I've done FedEx for him. It's no big deal to me, but yeah, that's three half. I like arenas. Uh, yeah, I I've done every, every kind of, you could, I've done every venue and be as small can be as yeah.

Seen it all. Yeah. Uh, and they're all, I get asked this question, send it a lot. It's, they're all, they're all great and they're all great in the thing. Now I'm in comedy clubs like I just did. I'm going to Omaha and DC Improv, Funny Bill, to work on this new hour. And then Vegas' theater is awesome.

They all feel great, the arena. I do look forward to getting back to the arena. Because I think this act is gonna, I'm gonna be able to use the cameras a lot, like with just facial expressions and stuff. And so the screens and really play with them. And the way we're setting it up, it's gonna feel like there's gonna be a lot, like with just facial expressions and stuff. And so the screens and really play with them and the way we're setting it up, it's going to feel like you're, there's going to be a lot of screens and I understand that, but I think if you, if you just watch the screen and go with

it, like, and just, I'll be able to like really use expressions to get laughs and stuff like that. And so I, I'm very excited to, for this run in the arenas. I, you know, but yeah, I like it. They're all awesome. And they're all great in their own right. And it's a matter of, you know, go see it where you want to go see it. You know? So yeah, you can go see it. Jake Stevens, how do you feel about McDonald's abandoning the iconic white red and yellow straws for the clear ones? I for one hate it. It doesn't feel right.

It seems like Coke, the Coke doesn't even taste the same. Now, did they, when did, I don't know if I've noticed it. I don't think I've seen it yet. And I mean, I had McDonald's, uh, I think, I don't know if I've noticed it yet. Were you in the moment or were you just going through the motions? Uh, I don't know if I was in the moment, but you just going through the motions? I don't know if I was in the moment, but it's, I, uh, it doesn't stick out. I think I would notice it. Can you go see if that's true?

Somebody sent me this picture that I thought you guys would like. It's a McDonald's, uh, serving Krispy Kreme. Yeah. Oh, how about that? Yeah, that's man. That's like the Avengers teaming up. Yeah, that's, that's, that's a tough one for me right there. You can bring that up for your buddy on the plane.

Like you'll never guess what I got on both these things. McDonald's quietly switches classic yellow red straw for the new flimsy option. Yeah. And it's not paper, so it's still plastic. I feel like I still, maybe I'm just, they haven't made it to us yet. Uh, so I don't, maybe I haven't noticed it, but you know what, dude, maybe I have no, cause they got the clear cup now, right? Maybe I have noticed it and I just haven't.

Notice the shame. I maybe, I think I have noticed it, but I don't know if I've, uh, Others complain the clear straw had a strange taste, similar to petroleum. I think that have noticed it, but I don't know if I've thought too much about it. Others complain that clear straw had a strange taste similar to petroleum. I think that's coke. Yeah. 1000% affecting the taste of my drinks. Awful change. Come on.

But the snack wrap is back, so you take the good with the bad. Josh Harry. I'm 43 and grew up the road from Dusty in Valley, Alabama. Growing up, my family always referred to sandwich bread as loaf bread. The first time I used the phrase loaf bread in front of my wife, she looked at me like I was not normal. This is completely normal, right? I'm sure Dusty toasted many a piece of loaf bread at Jim Bob's back in the day. Well, this guy tweeted this at me. My mom grew up in Valley and I mean, we called it loaf of bread, like a loaf of bread, but we never called it loaf bread. We called it loaf bread.

You called it like, you're like, oh, I want a sandwich on loaf bread. He's always good for... Is that right? You're like, I want a sandwich. Make me a sandwich. Well, make me a sandwich. What kind of bread? Loaf bread. Is's always good for. Is that right? You're like, I want a sandwich. Make me a sandwich. What kind of bread? Loaf bread. Is there a lot of, we didn't have a lot of options

of bread around my house. Yeah, I think we said there- So loaf bread is like sliced, like Wonder Bread, something like that. Yeah. Okay. But what other bread would you have? Sliced bread is pretty new. Yeah, yeah, that's true.

What'd you say? I didn't hear what you said. Sliced bread was pretty new for you. I don't know when it was invented, but. We call it like loaf of bread, like get a loaf of bread. You get a loaf of bread. Get a loaf, yeah. Yeah, but I don't know that, I mean, I don't think my mom,

you know, I imagine is older than Josh Harry. Well, he's 43. Oh, okay, yeah. Not guaranteed. Slice bread, 1928. I bet by the time I made it to Lebanon, big boy Bates was, bread Bates was getting into that guy, you know. Bread Bates.

They go, you hear about that loaf bread? That probably took a long, that took a long time to get to it. Like, you know, they have to get that around, invention of sliced bread. And look how quickly it caught on though. By 1933, over 80% of bread sold in the US was pre-sliced. Wow. What about Comedienne Red Skelton? It got hot.

It's amazing it's that much of a selling point. Because you can get the bread, but then once they pre-sliced it, it says the bakery sold 2000% more bread. So it was that big of a selling point just to have already cut bread. Maybe not everybody. They might even have knives in every house in 1928. That might be one of the few things you need. Like a sharp knife, sharp enough to slice bread. They might not have had a bread knife.

Yeah, exactly. But I would think it's just the annoyance of slicing bread was. You know, there were people like you're paying extra because you're too good to cut your own bread. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Be a great fancy boy. Yeah. You go, it's easy.

Got to get that loaf bread. Yeah. Todd Weinberg. Weinberg. Josh Harry too. That's a good name. Todd Weinberg. Nate, can we get an update on former intern Cole?

Yeah, he's at Auburn. He's probably, he's about to go to college. Are you almost done? Yeah, he's probably almost done. That's crazy. Yeah, crazy. He announced his college of choice on our podcast. Just like a, oh wow.

So, yeah. He put on a hat. He... Oh wow. So, he put on a hat. Yeah. He put on a hat. Yeah, put on a hat. Yeah. And his brother Jackson, the Air Force, gonna fly fighter jets. Crazy.

What's Cole doing? What's he majoring in? He's gonna be, I don't know. He's in the, yeah, it's like maybe finances or something like that. Like it's a, they're both very, it's a very smart family. So they were all very smart. But yeah, he's, Cole's at Auburn

and I think he's having a good time down there. We see him when they come back for the holidays and see, and then Jax at Air Force. So you had to come back to Nate Land, cook the books a bit for us? Yeah, I mean, you know, the job market is tough out there. So, you know, if we can get tough out there. So, you know, we can get an Auburn grad, get a college. Big time. I go, we're putting in the offer for Cole.

I think we'll be competing. Yeah, up against Deloitte. Yeah, KPMG. And then, Nate Land. Shannon Waltz. I took this photo of my kids and realized my new granddaughter, Sylvia, looks exactly like a very worried Bates. My sister and I got a real giggle out of this and wanted to share it with y'all. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That's a cute baby. Sure is.

Yep. That's how it started. I even have that shirt. Yeah. Well, thank you. Yeah, I like it. I like it too. Love that. All right.

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at checkout that's joindeleteeme.com slash Nate and enter code Nate at checkout. That's joined delete me.com slash Nate code Nate. Um, all right. This week, as we've already alluded to, tick tock supposed to end this Sunday, I believe, and let's, is it that soon? Yeah. You broke it to me like that. I didn't know that news.

You really broke it to me. You thought it was still a hypothetical kind of, yeah. And I think there's, yeah, there's a date the January 19th Wow Now I guess the Supreme Court. I mean, I don't guess they've made their official ruling yet as of this That's sad news taping but that's my biggest following. I just hit half a mil on Wow. Now it means nothing Congrats, I do wonder how a mill means nothing to try. Well, what do you have Trey? On TikTok? I have 4 million. That's going away. That's

how it works. Yeah. Whatever. Are you going to try to I mean, you have a few days to try to convert those people over to your other platforms. Now, I read that if you have a VPN Aaron, I don't understand that but you do you can still do it Well, so as I understand that the ban it's all you'll disappear off your phone It just means it's like you're kind of grandfathered in but you won't be able to download it again but then it just no one's like running it so it's gonna just Deteriorate. Yeah, they won't update. Right. They won't, they won't be fixing bugs. Okay. Oh, I like that kind of a,

kind of like running it into the ground. Yeah. I like that. That is actually might be when dusty thrive. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Unless someone decides to just straight delete it or something, but yeah, it's kind of crazy.

All of a sudden it is a big, is that your biggest following or no Facebook? Well, I'm lucky Facebook and Tik Tok are, are more important to me. I mean, it's still not good. It sucks. I mean, it's actually, I mean, I'm sure everyone has a following. You said Facebook and Tik Tok. Instagram, sorry. Yeah. Facebook and Instagram are like, if they deleted Instagram, I'd be super bummed because that's,

I feel like that's the most helpful for me at least. Yeah. Yeah. But Instagram feels the most real to me still. Yeah. Where it feels like it's the most real people. I don't know if that's accurate.

Yeah. So it's yeah, with TikTok. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what happens in the creator world. Because I mean, people are going to like this people that are only on TikTok. It would be interesting to see what happens in the creator world. Cause I mean, people are going to like, there's people that are only on Tik Tok, are they not even. That's so yeah, there's definitely a ton of kids who only on it or if it's like 90% of their income, you know, I mean, there's a lot of kids who probably just like, dang, yeah.

What ball ages, kids, adults. Trey, you're in a unique position to talk about this, because your first platform where you got a lot of followers, and I remember seeing you on this way back in the day, was you were huge on Vine. Mm-hmm. Right? And then Vine went away. Yeah.

What was that like taking all those people from your, I mean, starting over? Or did you convert those people? Or how did that work? Yeah, I started over, basically. And that was a good learning lesson. I was just making TikToks in college and I had, I had almost 3 million there and it just,

they just straight delete there like on this date, it will disappear off the face of the planet. Wow. TikTok, TikTok is really stuck in your mind, I think. I feel like every app that you're trying to reference, you say TikTok. Yeah. Did I just say it again?

You said TikTok, yeah. You're making vines. Yeah, it's clearly affecting me. Yeah. Yeah. Better help. But vine, desire, I deserve to live. It seems like you're taking it well. Yeah. But I guess it was good learning less with Vine because when that ended, I really didn't have a following elsewhere. I had to kind of start from square one. What did you do? Like go on Vine and say, all right, I must be here. Like, was there a formal ending? A last post? Yeah, there really was. They had a date. And so I was fine. And every single kind of Vine was just like, follow my Instagram. I maybe had 50,000 when I ended,

but I had 3 million. So luckily I was able to keep going, build new followings and keep, I post across five platforms on purpose now because this happens. So it's kind of wild. Wow. But for this, so there's any TikTokers out there, I was able to keep it going. I think if you're good at making content,

it can work on any platform. I mean, if you can do six seconds, then the rest should be easy. Hopefully. I mean, I didn't do six seconds, then that rest should be easy. Hopefully. I mean, I didn't I wasn't convinced of it. But luckily it worked out. Yeah, it's just great. And now we're reverting back to it. I feel like kids are making 10 second videos. Yeah, because it's because reels are where it's at. Right, right, right, right. Because reels is a little bit more like tik tok, right? You just can scroll and like look at

the video. Yeah, YouTube shorts. Yeah thing. Yeah. Yeah, just vertical scrolling Oh, yeah, YouTube short even X when you click on a video. It basically becomes tick-tock Yeah, they're trying to rolling through. Yeah, it's like Facebook the same way. So Haven't been on Facebook in forever Facebook I see your post pop up you're killing it on there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't that wasn't you who messaged me back Yeah, yeah, if you get a message you still get a lot of that It's a look people hate on Facebook, but it's still I was still the most used platform. I mean, it's you have 1.5 million Nice that's great

That's nice. That's great. You know, see that event I just posted? I'm doing something for reading. You're doing an event called the Celebration of Reading? A Legacy of Literacy. That's the next special title. It's at the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation. Wow, what a gig. Yeah. April 1st. Yeah. Oh, it's a joke. No, it's not.

It does look like it's a joke. I get it now. It's funny it's on April 1st. But it's, yeah. Let's get some of these. I will be there. Top fan. Mary says, Nate, you're great and very loved.

Thank you, Mary. She's a top fan. I appreciate that. Top fan. I read some of the comments. Based on that comment, I don't want to read the others. Yeah, we're on, yeah, we keep an eye on, we have an idea on Facebook. I try to somewhat be removed because it's a, you know,

it's just a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot and so you try to, you know, I can get in stuff where you start, I don't need to be looking at stuff about myself this much. No, no. And like, it's in a bad space. If you're fortunate enough,

if you can just have someone do it, I mean, that's the dream. Yeah. But yeah, that's good. I mean, it's a lot of comments. So Facebook is, yeah, it's very active. It is still. Yeah, Facebook is still like happening,

but I'm like, I don't really get on Facebook either, but it's really happening. So then, yeah, is our podcast Facebook is good too, right? Like it's like... The fan page? Yeah. Yeah, like 7,000 people. There's two of them, two fan pages.

Oh, really? Why won't they join together? They don't like each other. Oh, really? Yeah. Competing. Elvis, are you serious? No, but the other one's a lot smaller, but I don't't think I just don't think the small one knows about the big one. Oh, they

have to know. I don't know. Yeah. Uh, so when you make a video for something, you're making it in general, are you making it for one specific one or is there, is it kind of like for all kind of for all, Sometimes I think Instagram and Facebook have a similar vibe and TikTok's a little different. So sometimes I make a video kind of like, I think this will be better on TikTok versus Instagram and Facebook, but really just posting it everywhere.

I don't get crazy and make certain platforms. Is there one thing that you can post it and it goes to everything or do you got to individually go put it in? There are those services. I've never used them because I like to really pay attention when I'm posting and being involved and react because then there's some videos I post to one platform

or not the other based off of performance. Instagram will give you the option to post to Facebook because they're owned by the same people. But then on Facebook, the handle won't tag that person because it's still the Instagram handle. Facebook is kind of, it's so big and stuff but I feel like no one does anything but complain about it. It's difficult to use. Analytics are weird and all that but now it's, I mean this day it's, I used to make longer videos and it's all about just making like vertical 40 second videos now. Does anybody do horizontal anymore in any platform?

No, I mean YouTube for like those Mr. Beast type, those YouTube's now world where you just make like 30 minute videos or YouTube shorts and then the I feel like any Instagram, TikTok, all that. No one's no one's uploading long videos. I get annoyed when a video is horizontal. I'm like, yeah, but on YouTube, my phone YouTube, it is still nice though. I get annoyed when a video is horizontal. I'm like, yeah. But on YouTube, YouTube it is still nice though. I always forget which one is what. Horizon. Horizon.

It's a great way to think about it. Horizon. Oh, okay. Horizontal. Horizontal and then vertical. Jump. You're vertical. Yeah, there you go.

Yeah, that's really bare bones discussion. There you go, we fixed that one. Yeah, right. He goes, check solved. Mr. Weedy. So how do they want it? Vertical. Most videos now.

Vertical. It's just how we watch stuff now on our phone. Everything's vertical. But YouTube can be like TV. So you can go, you can put it on your TV, watch YouTube, and then so horizontal is still good on YouTube. They're filming all this. Yeah. Uh, landscape.

Yes. Horizontal. Yeah. 16 by nine. 16 by nine. Yeah. 4k, I believe. Are you, do you have like, uh, you have a team?

I do have a small team, a couple of the photographers, editors, come, uh, assistant, there's just like a four or five of us, but you have a room with like a whiteboard where you just get into it? Not that much, but we do sit around. I have a couple guys helping me bounce ideas. My wife did a video with you and John one time. That's right. In a church. Yeah. Back in the day. Yeah. Wow. Forgot about that. Forgot about that too. That was fun. Great gal. Yeah. Yeah, she is.

Yeah, she's all right. The first social media, there's a little bit, well, I'm not gonna ask you, it's a trick question. Morse code. Oh. 1844, but they would use,

you know, like they would shorten words. Like they didn't have an O-N-G. Sure, sure. But they had little initials that meant certain things. BRB, LOL. SFD meant stop for dinner. What was it? SFD.

SFD. Like out to the kids playing or something? I think it meant like, I'm tired of telegraphing back and forth with you. I'm gonna stop for dinner. Yeah. It's like, I'm tired of telegraphing back and forth with you. I've got to stop for dinner. Yeah. Oh, GM meant good morning. And there was an article saying how some of these people who could telegraph via telegraph, I was thinking you're on a ship or something.

Just flagging. No, like you can do it visually right now. I don't know what I'm that's wrong. Probably. But there's a lot of but there's a lot of There's a lot of fake SFDs Yeah, you're just lazy like ba ba ba ba ba and he's like, give me a break but there's a beam because we're having early day there was a newspaper story in

the 1840s saying how these people they rather be friends with people on, that could telegraph Morse code back and forth within their actual friends. They'd rather chat that way. And those articles said, now people just say whatever's on their mind. There's no thought. They just send stuff out. So in many ways it was like social media.

But it's, yeah, with Morse code, what would you, how would it even get to the other place? Through a wire? Some wire, electronic, yeah. But your wire would have to be connected to that place? I don't know how it works. Would you have to go knock on the door and go, will you take the other end of this wire? Yeah.

Hold it. Yeah. Like how, like, I mean, yeah, I don't, over wires. I don't even know how it works now. I mean, it's just invisible. Transmits electrical signals over wires where the sender would press a key to create electrical pulses that would travel along the wire to the receiver, which would then translate those pulses into audible clicks or printed dots. So I mean, this might be so dumb, but to me, it seems like you have to be right on the other end of that of that wire. So I don't know how you link up with somebody there across the country.

You have to meet someone unless they all had a wire that went to a town. But then how does it go? You know, a picture that went to a town, but then how does it go? You know, a picture of one building in a town. Telegrams relied on a network of wires strung along long distances to transmit the electrical signal. So it was like, yeah, okay. You could like link up to like a hub and do it that way. That's crazy.

So it doesn't have to be one to one. Yeah. Like an old internet coffee shop. But how does it know? I wonder how it knows to go where are you just putting it out there in general? I have no idea Pretty amazing technology when you think about it. Yeah, I mean they were doing this 1800s yeah, like how would you you would think every day you'd be talking to someone that's like I don't know who I'm talking You have to introduce yourself at the beginning of yeah like I'm talking. You have to introduce yourself at the beginning of it. Sorry, wrong number. And you're like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, like, yeah.

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the first real social media that was 6degrees.com. You guys heard of this? No. Started in 1997, went till 2000. It was basically six degrees of separation. It was kind of like MySpace and Facebook where you just link your friends

and they know these many people and things like that. It was short lived, but. Never heard of that. Then there was makeoutclub.com. So this all started as dating stuff it seems like. I don't think Six Degrees was. I think it was Makeout Club probably though. I wish I'd known about Makeout Club. I didn't know about that back then. This isn't catered to youth. This is like to be mutual friends. I could have used that in 98. That would have been fun. When did you, do you have internet in your,

in your house all your childhood? Oh no. No, I mean, I don't even think the internet was really available until probably, I don't know, 99? Yeah. So do you remember getting it for the first time? Oh yeah. Yeah.

You remember too? Y'all are both remember? Yeah. Do you Trey? Trey, you're mine. I didn't have internet in college. I really, I don't, no, I don't remember. Yeah. I don't remember the day like guys we have internet now.

I don't. Yeah. But you guys are about the same age, right? Yeah. So you've had social media your whole childhood. I think my senior year, I think people at AOL, like I remember some, I remember people having dial-up, dial-up. Yeah.

Stuck like, yeah, maybe it was 98, maybe 99. Yeah, like I maybe I was out of high school. I remember when we got a cable modem at our house, that was a big day. And I remember the guy sitting in front of our computer and he goes, name any website. And my dad goes, ESPN.com. And the guy types it in and he goes, watch this.

And he hits enter and it takes like six seconds to load. And we were like, oh my God, we thought it was the fastest thing in the world. But we had AI and I can use the phone and a phone at the same time. Yeah. Well, life changing thing that was. Yeah. But AI was big. Hey, well, it's the, did you get home from school?

Yeah. Fire the thing up. Yeah. And then I'd say that transition to my space. Yup. And then at the time- You remember Zenga? We ever on Zenga?

I had a very active Zenga that I'm embarrassed about that I've looked for and I can't find it, thank God. But I had some thoughts. Sixth grade, I had things to say, dude. Oh, I wish you could find it. They were not good. Please don't look for them. If you can find it, please send it to me.

Genuinely do not do that and then Then by the time we got to high school. It was you were just starting to be allowed to have a Facebook Mmm, cuz it was right. It wasn't open to the public yet, but they had just opened it up to high schoolers So I remember that and then by the time college it's The wild west everybody's doing everything but I yeah, we've seen kind of the whole growth air mouth like that. Yeah. And you were probably paying attention to it because you were using it. Where we would not have been, we were just kind of like, oh, okay. I remember having to get a

MySpace page for comedy. Like that's like when I started you I remember yeah we didn't have I mean dude yeah it's crazy YouTube wasn't even a thing when I started comedy so. YouTube came in 2005. You still got a MySpace music account where you're yelled at by clowns on here. Similar artist Ron Funches. Mm-hmm. How about that? I just saw him. When I started at the TV station I worked at. You always accept cookies? I'm 50-50. Sometimes I go no. Sometimes I'm feeling generous. You know I trust Justin Timberlake. I trust what they're doing. Yeah I always try to say no. You know I actually thought about that one. I don't know why I hit accept.

Yeah. It just felt right to do it at the moment. I have no idea what it is. I don't really know either. And I never know what to do. I want to just accept it. I'll accept it. Sometimes I'm like, if I got some time,

I'll go in there and figure out how not to accept it. But then the one thing says you have to, well, it's the ones that we need to run the thing. You're like, well, y'all never needed them before, but now I guess you need cookies. So I don't even believe that. And then... Yeah, it's all a scam.

They just want your data. I mean, that's all it is. Well, some stuff you need, you need the cookies to operate. That's literally the way it is. If you want whatever your website you're using to remember information that you've inputted like on a previous page or something like that, that's how cookies work.

So you don't have to redo it every time. Yeah, so stuff like that. You're right, so everything's bad. That's what cookies is. Everything is bad though. I mean, it's all about getting your information. They remember it for you, but for them. Come on, Desi, we're having a good time over here.

We are having a good time, but just, you know, it's- Well, when I started the TV station- Come on, Des. We can have a good time, but in reality. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, isn't TikTok getting canceled because of this? Because they're like, right. And that's what I'm saying.

Yeah. Finally, we got a little bit of freedom of information out here. And they're like, let's take it away. Oh, I thought it was because we're getting spied on or something. No, it's for the exact opposite. Yeah. Because Dusty, it's for the exact opposite reason. According to my TikTok videos. Well, that's that's what they tell you, right? They tell other go, we're protecting you, but go eat McDonald's, but we're protecting

you. You know what I mean? They're like, they don't protect us anywhere else, but they're like, oh, we're protecting you now. Even Mark Zuckerberg now is like, Hey guys, remember when I said we weren't, we weren't hiding information? Uh, well we were and now we're not going to do it anymore. So I don't trust any of these social media things.

So I don't trust TikTok any less than I trust the rest of them. I mean, come on guys. Come on guys. Come on guys. Who are we kidding here? Get it together. I mean, I need to bring it to a halt here, but I just need you guys to know. Yeah.

They're all spying on us. I think we all know. They're all a spy. I think we all know. Yeah. That's the cookies. Yeah. Well, anyway, this story's not that good. I've been trying to tell it for... Oh, really?

Sorry. I want to hear. Dusty did us a favor. He did do us a favor. When I started at the... Oh, God. It's about you? No.

Let's move on. No, no. I do want to hear it. I want to hear it. I do want to hear it. He started a TV station. 1995. The internet was just becoming a thing. You heard rumblings about it. Yep. And the guy who worked at our TV station was smart enough to buy the domain for news channel five.com. Now there's a new channel five in every city in America, but he was the ones he got it first.

So if you look at the ABC affiliate here in town, they're wkrn.com. If you look at the NBC, they're wsmv.com, but we're new channel five.com. Wow. Because of that guy. And he didn't, that's crazy. Did he ever get anything for that? He never sold it. Huh? Yeah.

Well, he bought it on behalf of the station. His job was whatever role was to do things like that. Oh, no. But good on him for good on. Yeah. Smart enough to buy it for buy it, but not he should have bought it for himself. Yeah. Sold it to me.

Yeah. He should have maybe did maybe realized, oh, that was such a good move. And then maybe he did buy other kinds of stuff. Oh yeah. I keep trying to buy Hello Folks. Oh yeah, I have treykini.com because my dad bought it when I was like a toddler. Oh really?

Your dad was thinking ahead. Yeah, dude. That's not my, my dad's like the ultimate pair guy, but he bought me and my sister. He just bought our names just cause just in case. You know, that's funny. Cause that is, uh, Brian Bates.com. 120 bucks for Brian Bates.

Oh, it's got taken. Is that you Brian? Is your Brian Bates? You own it? I'm Brian Bates comedy. Can you buy that? This is saying, this is a gig and we can probably get it for 120 bucks. Taken.

Yeah. Why don't you go get it? Sure. Yeah. See, it's not being used right now. Somebody's just sitting on it. It's all you. Yeah.

They're waiting boy. He goes, not yet. Wait, what's your website? I give you $120. He goes, nah, nah, I'm holding up. Somebody saw I'm blowing up and they bought it. They bought it. That's what they did.

What do we think? Now it's. What do we think? Yeah. Aaronweber.com. Same guy bought it. I wonder, I wonder if that's really real or if you get down to it. He's like, Weber.com. Same guy bought it. I wonder if that's really real or if you get down to it, he's like, actually

the guy, he Googled you and we had to go get something for me. I had neighbor, I have neighbor get see, but cause I, again, fortunately it's like when you get it, my name's so yeah, my domain is ticket. I will sell it for $120. Uh, this guy's pretty confident. He's like, I can get you any site. I'm a great negotiator.

Give me Nate's number. I'll call him up. Yeah. Uh, but I w you know what? When I got mine, it's like it w it would, no one would have even grabbed mine. Uh, yeah. NateBargatsi dot fun for two bucks. Yeah.

Yeah. Some other ones that are meaner. Uh, but, uh, yeah. So mine was easy to get cause no one would have got it at Nate land. Uh, we did, uh, we had to go do some negotiating for Nate land. Really?

Yeah. Yeah. He knew what he was doing. We should have hired him. Nate land. I was trying to get Nate land before Really? Yeah, yeah. He knew what he was doing. We should've hired him. Nate Land, I was trying to get Nate Land before Nate Land was even started. I was already kind of trying to find Nate Land

and it was taken. And then, so I always kept an eye on it and then I always tried to keep looking at it and like seeing it. And then we just went and just did it recently, right? And the guy, and we got naiteland.com and they're like, you're kind kinda hoping like they don't know. And they're like, does he know?

And they go, oh, he knows. And then you go, golly! And then you gotta just pay a price. Wasn't $120. I think that's just to get you started. Maybe you shoulda used this guy. Yeah, this guy coulda got it for you front. Yeah, that was the mistake He's got his right

Dusty sleigh dot Beauty for I have dusty sleigh.com Yeah, how would it take? Would you sell it? Yeah, I mean, yeah, man. That's how it for me. I wonder if it is I wonder people it's smart to buy your kids names It's called domain squatting. Yeah Well, yeah, maybe I'll go do it after we record this podcast Oh, yeah, you gotta do it. We gotta do it by Wednesday or it comes out. Yeah. Yeah

Better hustle Unless they chart they make you do cookies or something Unless they chart, they make you do cookies or something. Well, I accept them. I've accepted that the scam is out here. There's a certain amount I have to accept. There's no point fighting it. But you know, you just be aware of it. You know that you're being had. But you just, that's what I'm saying. Like they take your picture every time you go to the airport. Now they're taking your picture. That freaks me out a little bit.

But it's like, what are you going to the airport now they're taking that freaks me out a little but it's like what are you gonna do you can refuse you can refuse a lot of stuff at the airport but it's a hassle and they want to make it a hassle but it's like do you need to take my picture every time I gave you a driver's license and I'm standing right here yeah you don't need to take the where do they take your picture when you're going to check in oh just a quick they say oh we delete it every time. Yeah. But I'm like, Oh, uh, like in the security. Yeah. I don't think I even realized that they took your picture. Every time.

I guess I did. Not every airport, but a lot of them. And it's fairly new, but yeah, it's like, yeah, they're doing it every time and it's like, you could fight it. You could say, I don't, I don't want that to be done, but they'll make it really hard for you. Yeah. But they know you have to catch a flight.

Yeah. You're going to go, all right, I'll do it. You got, you know, you're going to go, I'm going to go, I'm't, I don't want that to be done, but they'll make it really hard for you. Yeah. But they know you have to catch a flight. Yeah. You're going to go, all right, I'll do it. You got, yeah. But you should, they get my flight in for tomorrow, brother. I got, I got nothing really for this. He goes, yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready. Cause I don't like the X-ray machine that you got to stand in, you know, for various reasons, but you know, so you have TSC pre-check and you don't have to do it, but if you get randomly selected, you got to stand in, you know, for various reasons. But, you know, so you have TSC pre-checking, you don't have to do it, but if you get randomly selected, you got to stand in it. And I, I've refused before, but you know, you're very polite. You just go, I'd rather have the pat down, you know, I don't want to stand in the thing.

And they just make it such a big deal that you're like, if finally, after a few times of me saying no to it, finally, I'm like, I'll just stand in the man. I'll just take the radiation, just hit me with it. You know what I mean? I mean, I don't want you. Who needs those last two years of life? Yeah, they just get you, they try to embarrass you out there

to the point where it's like, all right, all right. Just, let's do it. So MySpace launched in 2003, by 2006 it was the most visited website on the planet. And then by 2008, Facebook had passed it. And I read why they thought that was. MySpace executives said that they had a three-year advertisement deal with Google for $900 million. And said while it was a short-term cash windfall,

it handicapped them in the long run because it required MySpace to place even more ads on its already heavily advertised space, which made the site slow, more difficult to use, and less flexible. And MySpace could not experiment with its own site without forfeiting revenue while Facebook was rolling out a new clean site design,

which is kind of talked about in social network. Yeah. Wow. Interesting. Cause you know, the MySpace guy, he sold and he just got out. Yeah. Tom. Yeah. He just went and he's just like, uh, world taking photos. He's just living the best life imaginable. He made like half a billion. He's just chilling. Yeah. And he, so he just was like, he just never worked. Yeah. He's like in his 20s. I think it's crazy How does he know he's probably pray already? Yeah, yeah, it's probably 40. Yeah. Yeah. He was born in 1970 Awful little yeah

It's probably like I wonder if Yeah, if you would even really know him. He looks young. You know? I only really know that one picture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He didn't start it when he was 33. So, you know.

He looks like Jack Johnson a little bit. So where does he say he's at right now? He's just doing nothing? He's gotta be doing something. Yeah. He was Aaron's age when he started and now he's basically Mike. You see his Instagram.

He's just, he just takes like, he's like a photographer. Let's please be right. Yeah. Yeah. Look at, he's just jumping out of a plane. Just living the dream. Yeah. Yeah, man.

Just doing what, you know, if you were a kid and somebody said, you got, you got, you got 500 million and you just live in that life. And he goes, all right, I'm going to do it. So you guys missed the MySpace a bit. You guys were a little older and didn't care. No, no, we, I was in, no, I live in that life. And he goes, all right, I'm gonna do it. So you guys missed the MySpace a bit. You guys were a little older and didn't care. No, no, I was in MySpace. But you weren't like, we were in school, I would imagine like stressed out over my top eight friends.

No, we were, I do remember. You still have one. Yeah. You update your age, Aaron. I got pretty into it. No, I got very into it. And it was, I remember, I do very much remember in, when you had your top eight friends, like who you put in there.

And it was a big deal. And it would even be, when I was doing it, would be a little politically driven in the fact of like shows. So you're doing it on, you know, like you're doing it this comic that you're hanging out with. And like, so I remember, I do remember worrying about that. And like that mattered. Aaron, someone said that your MySpace page says

if Notre Dame was the national championship, you'll pay off your student debt. That's been in my comedy bio for years now. Okay. And it's been a funny line because we haven't come close and now we're one win away from. That's why you're not sure if you want them to win. Yeah, why would you even make that as a thing? What do you mean? As a bet. What does it say? It's an actual bet. It's just like a little line again in my biography. Yeah, you graduate from Notre Dame, still owes them thousands of dollars. He promises to pay them back when they win a national. Oh, okay. That's funny. Yeah, it's just a stupid thing. How close are you? Not a number, but how close do you think you are?

You know, this thing with these loans is you feel like you're paying it off, you're paying it off, and then you look and you're like, yeah, I made a dent in this thing. You might say that the loans are a bit of a, what's the word? Pondsy scheme. Scam? Scam? Yeah, yeah, it goes. No, no, because I took out the loan when I was 18 and I was aware of what I was doing.

Right. I had full consent when I took out the loan. Yeah, but- So I never thought they're scamming me. But even now you're like, you feel like you're paying it off and then you're like, oh, now I'm still- It's not going anywhere.

But that's just how interest works. I can pay off more than the amount and knock out the principal. But you would say that you're probably, I bet you are smarter than a lot of 18 year olds. So a lot of people are not aware of the amount of interest that are on these things. I would not be here when you're 18, you're a legal adult. You can, you sign a contract, but you can, it could be, it could be legal.

I agree. Still be a bit of a 100% taking advantage of people. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. I've never denied that. That's yeah. But I don't for it, Aaron.

Yeah. You've always been, you know, with the State Farm thing, with all the fire stuff, you thought that's a good move by State Farm. That's right. They timed it well. You quote, you go, I mean, how good are they? As we talked about the fires and how bad it was, you called me and go, I'll tell you what, State Farm, top of their game.

No one's saying this. Top of their game. It's called capitalism. Yeah Greg Garcia's got a great State Farm story, which he might stop He might be coming through at some point. I'll let him tell okay, very funny. Yeah, but tuition should be higher I've always said that yeah Yeah, it is like you go to college train. We eat Oklahoma State. Oh, yeah books. Yeah. It is like- Did you go to college, Trent? Weed them out. Oklahoma State? Oh yeah.

Pokes? Yeah, I stayed in State. Justin Smith. Saved some money. He's a comic-man. Oh really? He didn't go to Okay State. He's the biggest Oklahoma State fan. He's the biggest Oklahoma State fan. Yeah. Oh yeah, but my whole family went, cousins, sister, parents, aunts, uncles. It's a big deal. So yeah, big fan. Had a rough year. What's it like? Growing up in Oklahoma and you say you want to be an influencer, probably not taking too well.

No, I mean, I didn't really grow up thinking I'd do this, but I started to do it in college and I did. We lived down the street from my grandma and grandpa. We grew up Southern Baptist, all that, and I was home from college and I'd kind of doing all these videos and my grandma, she like called me down the street. She's like, I need to talk to you. And we're sitting in her like rocking chairs on the front porch. She's like, Trace, someone at church, she came up to me, she asked if you were gay. And I was kind of laughing and my grandma was like, that's not funny. She's like, you're doing these videos. So yeah, that was more of the vibe where people around me were just like, I guess he's gay now.

He's really getting these videos. I mean, you think of, yeah, I went to college almost state. I was, you are speaking of social. I don't know if it's on the list, you know, Yik Yak? Yeah. Yes. I remember Yik Yak. You were in college with Yik Yak.

I want to hear how it was for you. It was the worst thing to happen to our college. Are y'all the exact same age? 33. I graduated college, I was high school, I was 11, college 15. You're younger than me. You're younger.

But Yik Kat comes out. I'm just at 32. If you don't know what that was, it was like an anonymous localized Twitter feed.. So basically like if you posted to it, only the people in this, like, you know, radius of 10 miles would see it and to be anonymous. So you get, so, well, unless you've been doing a version of that for quite a while. Walkie talkie. But in college, you know, you're, I'm in a college town.

It's a small, big, big school, but small town and Yik Yak gets going. I'm going on Vine and I'm at the top every day with just roasting me. Just brutal. You thought it was the opposite. No, I mean, I'm grateful looking back because I was early to everything, but I was making these videos and I was just getting bullied mercilessly. These yik-yak every day.

My buddies, it's like the rule thing where like my buddies are trying to support, but they'd like pull it up. They'd be like, Trey, don't look at yik-yak today. You know, they're like losing it. But they're like, this is super mean. We even did. There's like these I was in this like theater show thing that the fraternities and sororities did. So I got up and I was I would sing my like lead part and I get off and everyone gets on you attack. It's like drinking these socks Within 30 seconds my whole crews laughing and like what's happening, but what was your attack experience? It was mostly just people saying really bad things about girls that

Extremely Extremely bad. So I heard that it was like it became popular in high schools too I can't imagine how bad it is for high school to have just an anonymous place where you can just say whatever about yeah because the way it worked is you would you would read them and you'd either up or down vote it so if the top you'd load it and to be the top post so it's just a bunch of people around me and like we hate hate this guy. Yeah. So the girls at OkayState were very thankful for you. Yeah, they were.

Like, at least I'm not, I'm like four, but Trey's got the first. Yeah. Yeah. He took the brunt of it. Shout out. Yeah, they did. But it was, it's good. I mentioned this before.

You knew what it was? I'm about to say why. I mentioned this in a previous episode. A few years ago, my buddy bought it and brought it back. Oh, wow. Yeah. Remember you talking about, yeah. So what's the, what's the update on that? Do you know? I think he may have already sold it. He's one of these, the buys companies tries to, but whatever, and then sells them off. But, um, you know, they,

they put in a lot more parameters to keep people from bullying. It's a creative idea, but it turned, it went south quickly. Yeah. For sure. Cause I remember like with anything, it started kind of cute and fun. Like this person has a crush on this person. Yes. And then boy, one person goes, Trey Kennedy should kill himself.

And then it's like a thousand up votes. Like, yeah, here we go. Yeah. It is the up votes on anything that, yeah, the are the upvotes on any, you see a negative comment about yourself and you're like, ha ha ha. But then the likes are upvotes. Yeah, that's what stings. This many people? No, one person thinks that. Yeah, this many people like this statement?

And they didn't want to, they go, I just didn't want to type it. Yeah. But I agree with what he's saying. Yeah. But I, yeah, Totally agree. Someone said it finally. If uh what's what does it mean when it says uh when you get ratioed? That's when you have more comments than like likes. Yeah. On it. So, more people are making fun of the

post than like engaging usually. Oh, yeah. Got ratioed. It got ratioed so that mean they're making fun of your post so they don't agree with your post or they... Yeah it's kind of like instead of your post didn't incite a lot of likes and shares and incited thousands of comments saying you're an idiot. You're an idiot. Yeah all right. Is that still good engagement? Well yeah I mean I don't I don't I don't get ratioed, but there's a lot of people who make a living by me. Yeah, for sure.

Just rage baiting you. There's on, on X, I mean, people are getting ratioed all the time. A ton of followers. And what do you get? Are you making your money? Where do you think you make your money from? YouTube or all of it or? All of it.

Yeah. So it's interesting. Like the live shows, the touring is great, but I'd say, uh, it's kind of like 50 50, my socials versus the touring. And then of the 50 on social, I mean, it's like brand brand partnerships. Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. You know, where they, you know, I've got a few going right now. They're like, Hey, we're like, uh, Hey, we're, we're doing this holiday campaign for Amazon's

products. Make a sketch, including it will pay you. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's, that's what I was doing when I was figuring this stuff out and kind of like, I can't believe I can pay the bills doing this. And it turned into a fan base, which turned into selling tickets and, and then when you, you have any t-shirts? Did I ever sell t-shirts? Did I ever sell t-shirts? Did you ever get t-shirts? It's a joke.

Yeah, I'm joking. How's your merch gang? How's your merch gang? That's what I'm saying. It is a funny story back then on Vine, of course they hit up all the Vine kids, like you should do merch. And they, I was clueless, like 19,

and I'm like, okay, and they just sent me some corny merch that just got my face on it. And I'm like, buy my merch. And yeah, oh, yuck, yeah, I keep going. Yeah, I'm just like, okay, and they just sent me some corny merch that just like got my face on it. And I'm like, buy my merch. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're selling merch. What an idiot, you know? Oh, but yeah, I see. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They put in the parameters. No bullying. They were saying that's all that article. They were like, race. If you had made the shirts anti-Trey Kennedy shirts, you might've really cleaned up and cut. Yeah, I should've leaned.

It's a soft move right there. And just quite, and like do a burner account. Yeah. Like screw this guy. Yeah. And just buy my shirt. You think a lot of, so when Vine went away, you think a lot of, there was probably a good bit

that people just dropped off and it was over. Yeah, that's what I've always said. I have a kind of a, I'll never do this, but someone should do this. Just find those Vine kids who were killing it. And I guess those who disappeared and those who didn't cause like the Paul brothers were Vine kids. Bo Burnham, I remember.

Chris D'Elia kind of popped on Vine. I mean, he was still on Netflix and stuff, but he was big on it. Sean Mendes got discovered. Wow. Trailer trash Tammy. What about like those social houses? Do you have stuff on that?

Oh man. That was a TikTok movement. That was just those like the weird TikToks moved away from this a bit, but it was really, really big. Everything on there was just like dancing and being like a hot boy or girl. And so they just throw them on a house and all be. And they like live there. So it's like that big brother. It would be like an investor, kind of a slimy investor guy. Be like, guys, look, you get to live in this LA mansion that costs a hundred grand a month to rent for free.

Yeah. And in return, I get you brand deals and I take most of the money. Yeah. 70% of your brand. And you're just making videos for that. Yeah, so they got BANG Energy, shaking their hips or whatever they're doing. You thought about setting one of those up? Yeah, well, I'm glad I have you all here today.

That's real, the worst content out of all time. Real soulless kind of stuff. Every post, he's like, that's another scam, I wouldn't do that. Yeah, soulless kind of stuff. Of course like, that's another scam. I wouldn't do that. Yeah soulless kind of stuff. Of course. Yeah. It's the worst.

No, what you're talking like the content house. So aren't you glad it's going away? Do you feel like tick boxing? And it's gross too, cause they're all like teenagers. Yeah. They don't know what they're doing. Isn't there a documentary or something about one? I think there was, I think a Netflix.

It's on Netflix. Yes. And they, yeah. Didn't look good for those people. Yeah. I think it's like the parents trying to go get their daughter back or something and she's in this house and then- Oh, that cult. Oh, that was legit cult.

Yeah. It's a legit cult about it. And that's ongoing. Those, they're still in it. And boy can they dance. Oh, they're still in it. The guy can I some talent. Yeah. They're still in there. Facebook now has over 3 billion monthly active users.

Uh, that's so Facebook's top 37% of the world's Facebook's the top. No one's even is no one's even close. And Facebook, Instagram or the same, same thing. Same by my parent company by Zuckerberg. And then so it's them too. And then that's like, yeah. Well, they also own WhatsApp, which is. Yeah, I don't. It's not super big in the US, but all over the world.

That's how they communicate with each other. I think 2 billion, I think I read for WhatsApp. It's crazy. Oh wow. It's huge in India and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. On Instagram, I looked up the top influencers on Instagram,

who has the most followers. There's two separate pages, one just for soccer players and one for everybody else. It's like eight out of the top 10 are soccer players. Ronaldo is first, Bessie second. He's also the biggest on Facebook. Who's the other ones? Like in soccer players, I don't know. But Selena Gomez was, I think number one, none. One is, cause I've looked this up cause it's fascinating. One's a cricket player.

So that's real big in India. So he's got like 200 million followers. We would have never heard of them. You know, it's, I think probably way more than that because what does, do you have like what Messi has? Messi's got 500 or something. Ronaldo has 647 million followers. Messi has 504 million.

I mean, when that many followers, I mean, it's really funny because you have to go like, you really can't just post something. No, you can like influence whole economies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have to kind of, and it's, yeah, I mean, it's, yeah, you have to kind of, and it's, yeah, I mean, that's so crazy. Well, do you remember years ago, Kylie Jenner did some offhanded little tweet or something like, does anyone use Snapchat anymore, LOL? And their stock price tanked that day.

So I'm sure she had a talk with her team, and it's like, they do have that impact. It's frightening. Yeah, that's insane. And she knew what she was doing. She had shorted the stock. I could see her doing that. That's why I can say the things that I say.

Cause nobody's listening to me. Right. It's great. I can call everything a scam. Cause nobody cares. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's about to lose his biggest following.

It's crazy to think though, like if you got Ronaldo or Messi, some of these guys. So if they, if they became more like Dusty, I mean you're in some big trouble. They would change the world in a positive way. Yeah, yeah. They would change the world in a positive way. But you could be in some big, big trouble as like, because it's just too many... Yeah, they would delete their accounts right away. Yeah.

Yeah, and shut them down. Man, that's pretty interesting. Yeah, they would delete their accounts right away. Yeah. Yeah. Shut them down. Mm-hmm. Man, that's pretty interesting. Yeah. So, Callie Jenner had the most liked Instagram post ever. It was a picture of her daughter. This was in 2019. And then an account, World Record Egg, posted a photo of an egg with a specific purpose of getting more likes and it did it. Yeah, was that with Tank Sinatra? You know Tank? You know Tank's a fan of you, I've seen him comment. Yeah, I know Tank. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's great.

I thought he did the egg thing. He does Influencers in the Wild too, which he might have. I think the most, the followers on YouTube is mr. Beast. Oh, yeah Absolutely. Yeah, he dominates man. Yeah, where do you make the most money? Which one would you make the most money on? like you told someone that was starting like you some if someone's young and they want to be an They want to be a content creator Where would you tell them to focus you to if you're If you figure out YouTube and you're getting views every video, you're making a lot of money.

So yes, if someone's young and they want to do it, it's like, and YouTube's probably, it's pretty safe. Like as far as not going away or anything. Right. It's like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, seems like they can't go away. TikTok's a big- Your stuff can go away on that platform though,

because they have pretty strict guidelines. Yeah, I get that. But I'm just saying if you want to hang your hat and really put in the work, you don't want to put it in to go- because it's hard because you get Vine. Everybody's like, oh, I just figured Vine out. You said you had 3 million followers on Vine. And then it's all new. You don't really know what this even thing is. And then they're just like, oh, I just figured Vine out. You said you had 3 million followers on Vine. And then this all new, you don't really know what this even thing is. And then they're just like, it's gone. And then you're like, oh, and then you got to be a real business that you got to go. I either, you know, it's happened with comics being COVID was a big thing. Like it was a, if you didn't figure out how to keep going, a lot of comics, it hurt a lot, a lot of people,

because they stopped being funny and creating or whatever it was. So I would think that's how all that other stuff. So you'd be able to, the TikTok news, when you heard it, were you upset or you just kind of like, ah? I'm just kind of, yeah, whatever, that's what it is. I do would say if it like events, if they were like Instagram's on shut down,

I'd be a little more like, oh, I gotta figure some stuff out. But TikTok's so important, it's gonna affect me. But yeah, I didn't mean whatever, what are you gonna do? And luckily, yeah, I got a self movement, so it's fine. But yeah, it's crazy. Did it make you like, with TikTok going away, is like, you know, doing the

live shows and doing that stuff. Is it, it makes you kind of dive into that more like you're like, all right, I don't want to be held because I, what I love about stand-up comedy is they doing it, but it is you're selling tickets. So what's great when I have it now, even try to make movies or whatever you're trying to go do, you can go and go like, well, I have, my career is based off just people coming to see me. And like you're, and which is such a,

you're able to like go like, well, I'm a direct to this person. You're not relying on. Yeah, well, yeah, that's a hundred percent. I've always done like well enough, which is great and grateful, but just relying on McDonald's to call me and pay me. I've been able to do it consistently, but that was never, I always wanted a thing. And so trying the live shows and enjoying that and getting that to work,

it's a huge piece of mine. If I didn't have that, I'd be like... Yeah. I think life stuff is going to be, I think that's life stuff is gonna just keep going through the roof. Keep going. And you're gonna, you know, cause I was like, I've been thinking about it a lot, like, cause you're, it's everybody's like, all right, you look at like TV, social media probably hurts TV.

Movies, I don't think, you know, people still like to watch a whole movie and be kind of taking it. And a movie can take don't think it, you know, people still like to watch a whole movie and be kind of taking it. And a movie can take you out of it, but social media, all the times you would watch TV is usually you're eating, you're around the house, you're doing this, you know, all this kind of stuff. And sometimes people, social media is kind of like taking that away, the kind of nonsense,

like just flipping and zoning out for a second and enjoy it. All a purpose. My whole comedy is nonsense. I'm not trying to say it's, there's a purpose, but it's, so, but live stuff is now, cause you're, people want to go do something. And so they want to, and you can just go get to them. But it's like a weird, I don't think you can go down,

or like a lot of like business in Hollywood or me. It's a weird thing that I don't think you can go down and like just completely jump on social media and be like, all right, we're going to just do this. That's a specific thing. If you stop doing social media, if I was like, all right, let's go make something with Nate Land and do some sort of, I would pull you, I would be like, well, I want you out. I don't want you to, cause your brain for creating for social media

should be different if I'm making a TV show with you. Or a movie. Like it should be completely, cause it's the mindset is, you know, it's like writing a joke. When you write a joke, you have an opening, talking about closers and openers, you have an opening joke.

There's a one, it fits at the opening. You're like, it just feels like an opener. And so my mind works in that way for that. And then you have something at the end that's like, well, it fits in this way. So if you're like, hey, let's do something. You're like, I don't need you to do it like that anymore. I need you to do it. Be creative in this longer kind of way.

And I feel like they try, I think sometimes people try to combine, you know, they grab someone that can't create, you know, can't do anything for a long time, and then they try to make them force them into a long form thing. Well, it's like, well, they can't, they, you're not training them to do it. You're like actually crushing that person that is a creative person, but you're making them do stuff that they can't you know that they're not trained to go do Just like a lot of comics are not trained, you know older comics, especially they didn't come up with it at all We're not trained to go Have great big followings

Because we don't are like it just it was a mindset Yeah mindset to go do it But you got to be able to go in and out of it where you have to, you know, your mindset's gotta be kind of different. No. Yeah, I mean, it's shifted now, but Aaron and I have had these discussions before. I still had the mindset that TV

is the biggest thing you could do. Get a sitcom or something like that. Whereas you've pointed out numerous times, there's so many bigger platforms online, social media, that's obviously a much bigger deal than any TV show you could have. A hundred percent. Like, you know, we're getting, my PR people are trying to set up a bunch of stuff and they're hitting me with this or that opportunity and like whatever national TV news thing.

Like, all right, that's good. But like being here. You turn down the Today Show to do this. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. No, this is a thousand times more helpful. You have a big special coming up. Yeah. And so thanks for having me, I'm this. Yeah, exactly. No, this is a thousand times more helpful. You have a big special coming up.

Yeah. And so thanks for having me. I'm honored. Yeah. January 24th Hulu put my special up. So. Hularious. Hularious.

Hulu is making the big push. Yeah, big push. That's awesome. We're really getting it. Someone else needed to get into it. So yeah, that's Grow Up. So it's, I'm excited. I shot it last April, so it's been Grow Up, Destin. I'm excited.

I shot it last April. So it's been quite a journey, but you know, we made it happen and I'm excited. It's about my time. I shot last April and then mine came out Christmas. Your wins comes out January 24th? January 24th. Exactly one month.

Yeah. There you go. Yeah. So, but yeah, I mean, you do, doing, it's always good opportunity to get on certain shows, whatever. But something like this is- How have you got a new hour? I, so I just, I had, I got off the road August, because I had a daughter in September. So it was

very off the road until, I did some stuff in Kansas City, but I did my first kind of weekend in December. I was supposed to do this weekend when I canceled. So I'm on the step one of the new hour. Uh, yeah. So I'm building a new hour. Building a new hour. I'm a little far on that. So I'm a little bummed cause I was like stoked for this weekend. Yeah.

Yeah. Before it came out to work that, but we'll figure it out. Uh, that's good. Kansas city. Uh, there's a couple of clubs there that are pretty great and great. And, uh, I'll, I'll hit up convenience. Let me hop on their shows and stuff. So we'll work it out. We'll figure it out.

Yeah. We'll let you hop on with our shows. No, I appreciate it. We got a show in 30 minutes. Can I show a 30 minutes? You know, I was in and out. I was, I know, uh, the producer texted me, but I, uh, I'm heading to the airport. Oh, really?

Oh, you can't think that. I don't know. I mean, I wanted to come do, I'm heading to the airport. Oh, really? Oh, you're kind of like that. I know. I'm fine. Well, no, I mean, I wanted to come do, I did some other stuff. It's a great day, but got to get home and, but I would love to hop on a show when I'm back. I appreciate it. All right.

Well, we'd love, or we were good, right? Yeah. Just some, pitch some shows. Uh, yeah. Yeah. I'll be, uh, big demise, big tour. The big demise. big demise. Yeah, and then DC improv that whatever date that was January 26 It's Julian McCullough Derek's troop Joe Zimmerman

They're gonna be with me when I'm there and then they stay and do their own show on that Sunday. So go check that out January 25th Is this still recording though, we're still recording these we losing the lights and what about audio it's it won't be clean But we're still getting signal Yeah, you can it's just not gonna sound as good for the last little bit of the episode because you're just getting from the camera Yeah, we're just getting camera. We're just doing some show pitches, right? Yeah, just doing some show pitches. Yeah. Through the old fashioned way.

Through the old fashioned way. That's crazy. Can I see like a voice memo? Would that help a lot? Yeah, you could. I feel like the audio is pretty good. I'm serious. No, I know.

That'd be better than that. I am not convinced. I thought it would be trying. Yeah, it's going to be fun to do it. Just say where you're at. We're doing this one. You hear, right? I can't hear anything. I thought it would be trying. Yeah, it's gonna be fun to do it. Just say where you're at. We're doing this one.

All right. You hear it, right? I can't hear anything. Oh yeah. Okay. And I like it even more. You gotta wing it. Uh, I think it's, is it back now?

Yes, it's coming in now. Check, check, check. Check, check. Check, check. Check, check, check. Check, check, check. Check, check, check. Check, check, check.

Check, check, check. Check, check, check. Check, check, check. Check, check, check. Check, check, check. Check, check, check. Check, check, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't the power go out a lot on rolling? All right. We're back. We're back.

I think we should leave all that in because that was fun. That was fun. That was, you know, it shows that it's real. Yeah. And we had a good idea with the voice. Yeah. No one asked. But I did it.

Uh, yeah. Well, people are not good in a, you that was a good idea. It's a gust. Yeah. Well, people know you're good in a tight spot. Could you say this to me, Dad? Yeah, he puts his real hand on it. I guess. Next week, it's just Trey. We're gone. And it's actually better.

Yeah, I know. Brian? January 25th, I'm doing the Honest Fox Comedy Fest in Marietta, Georgia. We just added a second show, so let's go with that. January 31st, Mestardo in Birmingham. February 7th, I'm in Marion, Illinois. February 8th, Quinton, Virginia. February 13th, Winter Haven, Florida.

February 15th, Cocoa, Florida. Mm-hmm. Am I promos? No, yeah. Wow. Yeah. It comes to me. Special January 24th, Hulu special. Yup. Am I promos? No, yeah. Wow. Yeah. It comes to me.

January 24th Hulu special. Yep. Watch it. Thank you all so much. I'll be in, check my side. I'm on a few dates over the few months. I'm in Louisville, February, March. I'll be in Orlando.

I'll be in D.C. in April, Spokane in May. The Huntsville is going to be in June. Oh, that's right. Perfect. This weekend, I, Zer and Webber, I'm going to Detroit, Michigan, the house of comedy. One of the most unfortunate scheduling issues of all time by show Saturday during the lions game, which is in Detroit. Biggest lions game in, I don't know, maybe ever.

Yeah. So, uh, you know, I'll be there. What are you gonna do? I don't know. I don't know. I said I'm open to anything, any solution you wanna have. Show the game.

What, you have just one show? Two shows Friday, two shows Saturday. So just one will be, just one will be me. The rest will be me. Well, that's wishful thinking, but I'm excited to be there. The rest will be good. That's wishful thinking. I'm excited to be there with all the excitement going on. Come out in Detroit. I've never been to Detroit. I've never even opened for anybody in Detroit.

I looked and saw. First time in the city. And then next week we just added this. In the main room here in Nashville, I'm doing Aaron Weber and Friends headline. And Wednesday night, you never know who's going to pop in. I got some friends. You never know who's going to pop in. I got some friends. You never know who's going to pop in. You might see some familiar faces.

So come on out Wednesday, January 22nd here in Nashville. Zany's. 22nd? 22nd. You available? Yeah, I just thought you said the 21st. You haven't shown the 21st? That's Dusty's show, right?

Oh yeah, that is. Yeah, I got a show. But it's sold out show right? Oh yeah that is. Yeah I got a show. But it's sold out right? I don't know usually sells out. I got a show at Zany's on January 21st. The show does usually sell out. The Dusty's Grand Old Comedy Show. So get tickets you know. It's gonna be a hot show. But this weekend Night Shift Tour continues. I'm in Birmingham, Alabama. That show is sold out. On Friday, Saturday, I'm in Pensacola. There is some tickets available. Next week, Evansville, Indiana and Indianapolis. And Indianapolis, low ticket alert. Oh yeah. You gotta let them know.

Yeah. And then, you know, tomorrow I'll be on The Tonight Show. So provided that that goes well, my shows will continue. If it's a bomb, who knows, maybe it all ends. I got a little taken alert this Saturday too, but me's a little different. Yeah. All right, yeah, we do the Nate Land Live show here every Monday.

All right, Trey, thanks for coming by. Yeah, thank you, Trey. It's awesome. Check out Nate Land Hulu. Thank you, Trey. It's awesome. Check out the Hulu. Alright, we love you. Have a great week. Yeah.

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