The Nateland Podcast - 24: #24 | What Happened in 2004?

Episode Date: July 15, 2026

This week, Brian has a problem with the Grand Ole Opry bathrooms, Aaron shows off pics of his childhood invention, and Dusty gives his review of the movie Moneyball. Plus, the guys discuss TIVO, the Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction, the Red Sox finally winning the World Series, and Taylor Swift's fame as the guys delve into the year 2004.Chime: Chime.com/nateJoin the millions who are already banking fee free with America’s #1 Choice for Banking. Head to Chime.com/nate . Quince: Quince.com/nateMake your summer wardrobe easier. Go to Quince.com/nate for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. Factor: http://Factormeals.com/nate50offHead to Factormeals.com/nate50off http://Factormeals.com/nate50off and use code nate50offto get 50 percent off and free daily greens per box, with new subscription only, while supplies last until 09/27/2026. See website for more details. This Episode is Brought to you by Better Help.Don’t let stigma stand in the way of support. Start therapy with BetterHelp. Sign up and get 10% off at Betterhelp.com/PUBLICFIGURES

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Welcome to the Public Figures podcast. I'm Brian Bates. As always with me, Aaron Weber. All right. Hello. Dusty Slay. All right.

I'm Brian Bates. Like I said, I'm going to be at Comedy off Broadway this weekend, this Friday, Saturday in Lexington, Kentucky, two shows Friday, two shows Saturday.

Come check me out. Aaron, where are you going to be? Aaron Weber here. I'm going to be in Royal Oak, Michigan this weekend, the suburbs of Detroit at Comedy Castle. The Comedy Castle, Great Club, never been there before, July 16th, 17th, and 18th at the Comedy Castle in Royal Oak, Michigan. All right. Meet me Saturday night in Atlantic City. All right. New Jersey.

Okay, I thought there's going to be more to that. Just on the board. Just in general? Well, I don't know the name of it. But Bruce Springsteen says, meet me tonight in Atlantic City. Oh, I'm at the music box. The music box. Meet me Saturday in Atlantic City. Wind up. Or Borgata. I don't know. There's a lot of names. The Borgata, yeah. All right. Well, welcome, guys. We had last week off. Thanks to Dusty. Got you guys a day off. Got you guys a day off. I got to go to my daughter's swim lesson because it's always on Mondays and never get to go. So thank you for that. Is it still your swim lesson? Or have you tapped out on that? No, I'm out. Yeah. Yeah. Can you do it though?

Nah. You gave it up. If you fall out of a plane in the ocean, you think it'll be all right for a few minutes? Fall out of a plane. I mean, really, what else are you learning how to swim for at this stage in your life? Just if my daughter, you know, wants to go somewhere. Oh, can you do that now? In the deep, no, no, that really.

But now she does well enough. She can rescue me, so, you know, problem solved. You can hang out on the shallow end, for sure. Yeah, yeah, I can wave at her. But, yeah, it's been a couple weeks. What you guys have been up to? It feels like a long time since I've seen you. Yeah, since I was here, I think I was at the Golden Nugget Casino in St. Charles.

You already did that. I already did that one. We talked about it a lot, actually. Did we? I was off a weekend. Spent some time in McMinville. Could have been working. And then I went to, this past weekend, I went to Charles Town, West Virginia, to the Hollywood Casino.

It's great. Hot Shell, took Connor Larson with me. Went out and sat at the, we went out set at the dog track after and had cigars and it's raining. So it's pretty weak dog track. Not dog track, a horse track. Dog tracks in shorter Alabama. There is a dog track. Yeah. You know about that? Greyhound tracks. I've been to a dog track before. I think there are a few and far between these days. What I was saying to Connor was I go, as we were sitting there, I would compare what the dog.

track looks like versus the horse track. And I would say to him, I'd say, you see those pretty attractive women over there? The dog track? Not there. It's really the main difference. Yeah. I go, you see these wealthy looking guys over here? Not at the dog track.

That's right. But the dog track's probably your more kind of people, right? I thought it was. You got recognized a bunch there? No, I went when I was 21. I went a long time ago. Now a lot could have changed. It could be a hop and spot.

But back then, it was terrifying. They went in Goodwill Hunting. Remember that? They did. Yeah. I went on my senior trip to Florida. We went the dog track. Is that where the infamous story happened?

The worried? Yeah. Same trip. Same trip. Yeah. Same trip. Yes, sir. Well.

Oh. I was going to talk about what I've been up to. Okay. I was going to tell you. Well, I was going to tell you that in addition to doing a show, I also watched a movie that we talked about. Okay. Go ahead. You know, because we had talked about watching movies.

That's right. So this weekend, on my flight, I watched Moneyball. Boom. I got a little delayed. Okay. And it gave me enough time to watch the whole movie. Now, can I ask you, do you want to talk about it now or do you want to? Okay.

How much about that season, that team did you know before you watched the movie? Almost nothing. Okay. A friend had talked to me about it. long time ago. I think before it was even a movie. He talked about this guy. Maybe you read a book or something. Billy Bean. Yeah. And I liked the movie. I thought it was very good. You guys ranked it very high in your favorite sports movies of all time. It's not doing that for me. I said it's my, I think the best baseball movie of all time. See, I like Kevin Costner. I think it's for the love of

the game where he pitched the perfect game. Sure. It's great movie. That's my favorite one. But this is my big problem with it. I, and I almost never say this about a Brad Pitt movie. I don't really like Brad Pitt as the guy. I almost like Brad Pitt in every movie that he does. But when throughout the movie, we're seeing this guy who played baseball was like supposed to be this phenom and then had no success really in baseball. And now he's kind of like down and out. He's pitching. He's a GM for the worst team in the league and he's like he's divorced all the while you're like oh this guy's brad pitt this guy you know every time he's supposed to be all down and out you're like well this is one of the best looking guys in the world and his ex-wife is robin right yeah i just don't i never

feel sorry for him because i go at any point you could just walk out of here and get some kind of better job you're obsessed with baseball and that's your problem you need to get it together they're probably get with some type of modeling agency, see if you can't make yourself a little money. But I had a hard time feeling sorry for him. I needed a bit of a more of a beat down looking guy in the movie. That was my biggest. So you're saying Brad Pitt was so attractive,

it took you out of the movie. Yeah. It changed the way you think about the character. Just for reference, I haven't pulled up. Here's the real Billy Bean. He's not a bad looking guy. He's a good looking older guy. He's no Brad Pitt.

Well, no one is. That's what I'm saying. Get me a more. Billy Bean looking guy. That's all I'm saying. I'm sure, I'm sure Billy Bean was honored by it. Of course. But we're going to make a movie about you and Brad Pitt is playing. But you know what I did like. And I'm not going to, I'm just going to, you know, spoiler alert. But it's like, I like that he didn't take the money. I like that. At the end of the movie, I like that he didn't take the money. I think I, that was great. I love that. That he stayed.

and he stayed with the Oakland A's and never won anything and now they're not even in Oakland anymore. Yeah, I mean, but I, and that's, it's even better for me that he just was like, no, I, I like being here. And I got to tell you, love Jonah Hill in the movie. He's great in that movie. Jonah Hill is the, in that movie is the type of friend that everybody needs because he's like, they're having an argument in the thing. And he's like, I don't want you to do this. I don't like what you're doing. And then later he goes, do you agree with him on this? goes 100%. I love that. I love that. You argue with your friend, but when you're faced with some

adversity from somebody else, you back your friend up. Well, there's friendship dynamics at play, but he also works for Brad Pitt. I just love it, though. He backed him up. He backed him up. Well, it was kind of his whole idea, so he better back him up. I think he's kind of a fictional character, too. He is. It's not really a Jonah Hill in real life. Yeah. But I liked it. I do think we could have used a, you know, like, I don't want to say other actors are worse looking, but like a, like a Dennis Quaid would have done a, Dennis Quaid's a good looking guy, but Dennis Quaid looks more like this guy. And Dennis Quaid plays a more beat down looking. When you ever see Brad Pitt in a movie where you go, gosh, I feel sorry for this guy.

I don't know if you're supposed to feel bad for him. I think you are. Keep in mind, that was 2002, so Billy Bean probably looked a lot better in 2002. I think you are supposed to feel sorry for him. No, I think you're supposed to feel like this is a man who's driven. Yeah. And this is him as a young man. He's a good-looking younger man. I would say, if anything, they made a worst casting choice for the actor that played the real Billy. You know, the young Billy Bing.

Yeah, yeah. But it's like, I don't know. It just, it took it out. It ruined it for me. I don't know if you could hear it. It ruined it for you. No, no, no. I like the movie.

I love the movie. I had a great time with it. But I do think we could have done a. A different. I think that's perfectly fair. It's raining real hard here at Zanis. I don't know if you can hear it in the microphones. There's only two movies.

There's two movies that Brad Pitt's been in that I, I didn't. It didn't, it took me out. And that's, that's this movie and Troy. Like, I didn't like him as a gladiator either. I was like, or whatever he was. Yeah. Troy. Yeah.

Yeah. I didn't like it. He wasn't a guy named Troy. And it wasn't. No, he was Achilles, right? But he just was. It's just still like I'm seeing it. I'm going.

Troy Johnson. This is Brad Pitt. This is Brad Pitt. Well, I feel that we have Brad Pitt about every movie where I just think that that's Brad Pitt. See, I don't. I think he's such a good actor. He's very good actor. Most of the time it doesn't take me out.

But those two. I just watched it to play the movie F1. Yeah. You guys sing that? With him and Christian Bell. No, I haven't seen it. Right. Not Christian Bell.

The racing movie? Oh, I'm thinking of Ford versus. Ferrari. I haven't seen F1. But it was out last year. It's about F1 racing. It got nominated for, he like, nowadays, they make sports movies so much more realistic. Like, they got him out there on the racetrack, you know, really racing. But his, if you guys haven't seen it, then I'm not going to keep on. Moneyball, that's really him in the conference room sitting down talking.

So he's doing his own stunts. I was going to say, I didn't love his character in F1 because he was the no all wise, but yet not really a team player kind of guy. Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm glad you watch it. Thanks for checking it out. Just a real quick one, just to let people know. I also watched the prestige.

All right. Loved it. I didn't know need to get into it, but I watched it. Loved it. We'll get into it another time, but I want to hear your thoughts about it. Loved it. All right. Well, I watched Uncle Buck.

All right. Tell us about it. Didn't love it. What a weak take. Well, I'll tell you why. I mean, look, I don't want to say I hate it because everybody loves Uncle Buck. I don't want all the hatey. John Candy was too handsome the whole movie.

That was the problem. He was too ugly. Now, I love John Candy. And I'm not saying the movie's time. I thought the movie was fine. I didn't love it. Some of it is just because when you watch a movie for the first time set in 1989, it's just a different style of movie.

But more specifically, have you seen Uncle Buck? No. Okay. So I'll talk about you. I've seen it a million times. The teenage daughter is one of the most unlockable characters. Sure, but she's an, you know, she's an angsty teenager. Yeah, but you kind of have some redeeming qualities.

I agree. Like she's never until the very end. But we're talking, what's he there for a weekend? You know, he's not like he spent the summer with it. I don't know. I'm team Brian on this one. But you're not seen it, though. But I'm saying the entire movie, she's terrible to her mom at the beginning,

that she's terrible to him. But she hasn't. Her character has an arc, though. It's not really an arc. But let me ask you this, Dusty, and this is a broader question. Do you think you'd be watching it a little differently if you watched it for the first time 37 years later? It's possible. Yeah.

But it's, you know, there's a real, there's an, that character has an arc. They're unlikable the whole movie, but because, you know, she's going through some teen, angsty stuff. I think you're blinded by nostalgia. That's what I think. And then at the end, so she's, you want to watch it and weigh it. That's right. She's got a boyfriend that clearly this guy... Bug.

Bug doesn't have a great intention. And Uncle Buck warns her, but she's not going to listen. And of course, Uncle Buck was right. Yeah. So Uncle Buck, he kidnaps the boyfriend. It's one of the greatest sins of all time. Put him in the trunk, tapes his mouth and his... Yeah.

...to get in jail. He should be arrested. I don't think those girls would agree. Well. Those girls, he was trying to take advantage of. I don't think they would agree. Yeah. It was fine.

I'm not going to say I loved it. What I did find very interesting is it came out in 1989, same year as Field of Dreams. And Kevin Costor's wife and daughter are both in Uncle Buck. Wow. Did you know that? No, I didn't know that. Amy Madigan, who I just realized was the same lady who won the Oscar last year. That's right.

Who was Amy Madigan in it? Uncle Buck's girlfriend. Chanis Koblowski. Oh. She was... That's Amy Madigan. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she played...

Some of the worst pictures of her that you could get. Well, she's older and she played a pretty terrifying character in the movie Weapons. Oh, okay. But she's cute and Uncle Buck and filled a dreams. I love her. She's married to Ed Harris in real life. Yeah.

Although when I Google, is Amy Madigan related to Kathleen Madigan? It says, yes. It says that it's her sister-in-law and that Kathleen references her off to her podcast. I don't think that's true. I don't think it is. I don't know how it could be. I feel like that would have come up at some point. Well, I don't listen to every episode of Kathleen's podcast.

I know, but I feel like I'm just talking to her. She's cool. She also drives a pretty sweet Bronco too in that movie, which I wish I had. She runs a tire store. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure I would have loved it as a kid. But we're not kids anymore.

We did away with childish things. It's so good, though. It's like the scene where he goes down and defends the kid at the school. with the principal Yeah, that's such a great scene Okay Here's a quarter Have that rat in all that go down town

Have a rat and all that thing off your face Yeah, she's got a warped Oh come on Brian That's disappointing Well, it is disappointing You would find that funny A woman with something on her face And you want a rat to know it off

What kind of person are you? She was a mean lady I think all the kids at that school Would agree with my tank It's got McCulley Calkin. Yeah. Just let me know since you hadn't seen it. No, I saw it.

I just had it pulled up. Well, I... Probably John Candy's best movie. All right. And now he's dead. Well, I haven't seen them all, but I certainly like planes, trains, and automobiles better.

But I saw that when it came out. That really puts a damper on the whole rest of the podcast. What? Brian's take on Uncle Buck. Well, what about your take on Moneyball? I liked it. I liked it a lot. That was a really good movie. Most of us picked a bank at 16 and never looked back.

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I knew that would upset you, but I'm just being honest. And then Aaron did not watch Greece. Yeah. No. I think you should watch Greece and Uncle Buck. Now, once you're back to flying. Tell me more. He's already making fun of that.

get out of here. Yeah. Yeah. It's 65-year-old John Joel. Hey, I'm a junior in high school. You guys. You guys don't get it. I like Greece.

This movie's going to stink, man. I like Greece. Now, if I'll watch it for the first time now, I don't know that I would, but I like it because it gets grandfathered it in with nostalgia. Okay. I just think you guys are saying nostalgia when it's like, it's just, they're good movies. Like, this is good comedy. This is John Hughes.

I love John Hughes movies. I'm just saying this wasn't my favorite of his. But you accept that. watching it later in life for the first time, you're going to have a different relationship with. If Brian were younger, I would accept it. But Brian were younger, I wouldn't know what to do. Yeah. We have to end the podcast. And I only mean, I only mean if you were younger and like you didn't, you hadn't watched a bunch of movies like this. You're saying, oh, I just, it's an older movie and I just couldn't get into it. I agree. It should be right in my willhouse. It's a comedy, you know,

it's not a serious, but it's, you know, it's got some serious. It's got some heart to it. Okay. I think it's wrong for a movie to have heart. Well, it's wrong to emotionally manipulate you. That's for sure. A little heart is okay. I thought it was going to have, I'm sorry to keep dwelling on this. No, that's all right. But I thought it was going to have, there's a scene early when he's there.

He's looking through the photo album and he sees that she, the sister-in-law has folded his picture out of the wedding photo. Wow. It's a very sad, you know, she doesn't accept him. Just to make it fit in the frame. And now you see why the daughter. has such problems with her mom. Her mom's coming in, folding people out of the family. That's why the daughter's having this problem. And then her being kind of the outcast of the family now bonds with another outcast of the family. Two black sheep. And it brings the whole family

together. Yeah, I'm Team Dusty now. Sounds like a great movie. Uncle Buck coming over for the weekend redeemed himself and his whole family. And I like, I also like the line with where he goes, yeah, stop smoking cigarettes. I'm on to cigars now. That line alone is probably enough for you to love the movie. I did the Grattle Opry, and I've got a real beef with the Opry. Oh, I can't wait to hear it. You think they're ruining country music.

Keep going. No, it's worse than that. Something didn't set well in my stomach, and I had to go to the bathroom. Wow. Well, that's not the wow part. No, I mean, just to have bathroom problems at the opera. Yeah, I got there, you know, clear.

All right. Have you gone on stage yet? No. Okay. Do you want me just let you tell the story? Yes. Okay. If any place in America should have music piped into the bathroom,

it should be the grandel opera. But it is the quietest bathroom in America in there. And I go in there, there's three stalls. I pick the farthest one away because that's just naturally what you want to do. Right. And as soon as I'm in there, a performer on the opery comes in. He's pulling on my door because, and he sees his lock. Instead of just going one over, so there's a buffer, he goes in the one beside me. And I know who it was because I could see his boots.

Whoa, Randy Travis. And I'm not going to say who it was, but he was on, you know, on the show. But anyway, I'm like, dude, give me a little space or whatever. co-piloted with somebody from the Oakridge Boys. Somebody that was already been on. Did they blow it up? Or it's tough to tell from what you'd been doing. I kept flush.

It was a mixture at this point. I kept hitting the flush button on the back of the thing just to try to, you know. That guy's side. This guy, this musician's telling the story right now. He goes, I know it was. I saw his shoe. And he kept flushing. He needed 14 flushes.

I can't tell he had his Quincy shoes off. Quince. They said charge him from the water bell. Now, that is a good bathroom, though. It's a very nice bathroom. It looks like it would be perfect. But I've never thought about that. That they need to have music playing in there.

Yeah, it's very quiet in there. Have the Opry show. A lot of times there's, you go to the Opry, sometimes there's a real energy backstage, and there's people warming up in their dressing rooms and there's just music playing in the hallways. It must not have been one of those nights, huh? It was just quiet back there?

At least surround those dressing rooms. I feel like that row that leads out to the opera, that's the one that always has people playing. Yes, yeah, where they're like jamming it. Because that's like the A-list. The main artery where you've got to walk through. Yes. Yeah.

They put the comics back, Room 6, the ha-ha room. Back there with the frame pictures of Henry Cho and Gary Muldeer and Minnie Pearl and all this. Yeah, yeah. So you got either, I know, yeah, that bathroom right there. That's tough, man. Why didn't you play any music on your phone or anything? I was just trying to get out of there as quickly as possible. Was it the popcorn?

You think that did it to you? I didn't have the popcorn because my tongue. Oh, I think he's not going to get a war again. Yeah. Can't be out there on the stage with popcorn cardal stick to my tongue. They say the Opry popcorn is famous. They talk about the popcorn back there. It's pretty good.

It's good. It is good. A lot of butter and very salty, and I think that makes, you know, everything tastes a little better. Yeah, you're probably right. It'll kill you. So then I threw out the first pitch at the Nashville. Yeah. Now it was July 4th. On July 3rd, the game got rained out.

So they emailed me that night and said, hey, we're going to do a double header tomorrow. Can you come for the first game so we can just give you a guarantee time of when it'll happen? Yeah. So I said, sure. So basically what that meant was there was nobody there when I got it. Gates opened at 3.30 and I threw out the first pitch at four. But to make it worse, look at pitching. That's pretty good.

I mean, it does look good. I mean, yeah. Brad Pitt had probably recruit you in Moneyball. The guy gets on base. Yeah. But what ended up happening was. His defect is that he throws funny. So because the game was rained out the night before,

the guy who was throwing out the first pitch was also on my. So there's two people throwing out first pitches. That's a totally different dynamic because now you feel the pressure. Yeah, exactly. And on top of it, it's this big, tall, good-looking guy. I don't know who it is, but he looks... Billy Bean? Much better than I do.

He's a former Vanderbilt quarterback that then went to USC and then signed with the Titans. So I'm like, oh, my gosh, I got to follow this guy. And he throws a strike. So the pressure's on. How was your pitch, Ryan? It was good. It was good. I nailed booster right in the stomach.

Nice. Knocked his hat off. He didn't catch it? He caught it in his feathers. Yeah. He got buried his feathers. I had so much heat. He couldn't handle it.

I mean, that's such a cool picture right there, Brian. Yeah, that's an awesome picture right there. And if you crop it, you can't tell no one's there. If you were wearing baseball pants, you could think that, yeah, you're a professional baseball. Well, if we just make it like a... Try to do that. Like right there.

Let's see what that looks on. Then if we zoom in enough. Make it like a baseball card. Yeah, look at that. The no gloves at tell for sure. That's a 92 Don Ross right there. He's so good. He doesn't even wear a glove out there.

They're not going to hit me, so why do I need one? Did the other guy have a glove? Dude, bring a glove for the first pitch is so funny. I don't know if anyone's ever done that. Seinfeld did it? Did he? I think so. Seinfeld took his glove out there.

Well, and you're a billionaire, you can take one out. out there. Yeah. He took his... When you're not, you wear a leaf raking jacket out there. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, that was fun. Yeah, that's awesome. And the guy who threw out the first pitch before me, I looked him up. He made some news a couple years ago because he's former Vanderbuk quarterback on his podcast. He said he was at Jason Aldean's bar one night. And a member of the mafia came up to him and offered him $300,000 to fix the game. Wow.

And told him that almost every college football game is fixed. It's rigged. Wow. Well, yeah, obviously. I've been saying that since we started this podcast. Yeah. Isn't that interesting? He said Alabama especially.

Dang, that's hard to hear. I'm going to choose to ignore it. I know that part's untrue, but. Alabama's on the up and up. They've never done anything. Well, I just, I don't mean that that that's not the case, but to say especially, I don't believe that. Okay. Especially the team that won the most over the last two decades. Well, you've got to have a team to rig.

against sometimes. If you don't have a good team, what do you? Yeah, what's the rig when you win every game? Right, exactly. You know what I mean? I guess you're right. I guess you're right. Yeah.

So anyway, that was fun. Thank you to the sounds. I'm wearing. I'm representing this is Lebanon, 12 and under girls, little league softball. They won the Tennessee State Championship. They're now representing the state of Tennessee in the Southeast regional. Okay. I had a chance to go to Little League World Series.

Wow. And it's Little League? It's Little League softball. And they play Virginia this Friday. Look, I got some shows coming up with Virginia, but sorry, Virginia, you're going down. To the girls from Lebanon, Tennessee. Well, congrats to them. But I do think that's what is ruining youth sports for people.

It's like these poor parents. They've been out here spending all this money, making these kids, you know, go to all these kids. You know, I hate it for them. But this is just regular. It's an all-star team that just this is how it's always worked. I'm pumped for them. I don't think it was a travel team that suddenly became. I'm excited for them.

They are raising money for the travel. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Everybody's like, oh, man, I just want my daughter to go pro. I don't disagree with your central point, but I don't think that's what this is. I don't think that's an example of what you're talking about. Yeah. I just want the girls to have fun.

and not have to worry about the stress of the world series. When I played Dixie Youth Baseball, Montgomery, Alabama, East Montgomery. And the fundraiser they would do every year was you had to sell Camp Stew. That's how they raise money. Almost like a pyramid scheme where you bought a bunch of Camp Stew and then you had to sell it to people. The Camp Stew was so gross. They would cook it in these. Caldrons. It's all these, you know, these Alabama dads would get together. And they had this huge

caldron with like a ore for a rowboat. And they'd just throw anything in there. Shrimp. It didn't matter. It was just rice, whatever it was. And they'd stir it up. And then they put it in these styrofoam cups. And it was so gross that our family was so embarrassed to sell it to people. We wouldn't sell it. We would just buy what we had to. And then it would just sit in the fridge for months. And for months, I would have Camp Stew for much. Oh, gosh. That sounds terrible. It was terrible. It was really bad. I mean, I got to think you just throw it out, you know. We ended up throwing out most of it, for sure. But that was the big fundraiser, man. That's too bad. Camp stew. We'd always sell world's finest chocolate. Oh, really? Wow. You guys don't know that?

No, I know. I've never had the world's finest. I'm trying to picture you as like a kid walking up to people at gas stations selling chocolate. Funny thing is, well, I don't know what they sell it for. Now, last time I saw it was still a dollar. Yeah. It was that when I was selling it in 1982. Can you imagine selling a candy bar for a dollar back then? Uh-huh. Not an easy sell.

That was like $100 now, right? Yeah. So I didn't go to any gas station. It's not quite that old. But I remember going to Charlie Daniels Day. Charlie Daniels puts on a volunteer jam every year. Oh, I've done that. And of course you have.

Sam. I wasn't performing as an eight-year-old, I did go sell candy that day at the thing. All right. You just stood out there and make some money? My mom would say she would pick out the people for me. I should approach. And she said, go, that looks like a nice fan.

Go over there. It's just fat people. Well, I was going to say people that seem nice. People of size. You go, are you sick eating that third world chocolate? Get some of this world's finest. Yeah. My mom would just put me by the funnel cakes and just,

These are all nice people out here. Well, anyway, good luck to Lebanon, Tennessee. What's their nickname? Do they have a team name? I don't know. My guess is that this one is just Lebanon Girls All-Stars. Or Tennessee, I guess, at this time. You want to have a name.

You want to be like, I don't know, like the Hawks or something. They're just a Lebanon girls softball team? That sticks. Remember when Nolensville and Goodlandsville, literally boys, they went to the World Series in the last. I vaguely remember that, yeah. I think they're just the, what, you know. How long ago was that?

We won the national championship in 2012, maybe. How many of those kids are in the pros now? I don't think they're quite old enough yet, right? I think there is one kid that made it to the majors. Okay. All right, I love that. That's a good little farm system for it. Yeah.

Dusty, add it to your list of things Dusty isn't what. Youth sports. Well, I want youth sports, but I don't like youth travel sports, and I think it's ruining it for and taking advantage of parents. I agree, but this isn't travel. This isn't travel sports. Well, they are raising money. Well. They're traveling to Warner Robbins, Georgia, to play in this. All right.

Should we get in these comments? Yes. I do go to the Lebanon farmer's market sometimes, so I guess I should be careful. So you have a vested interest. Well, it's not the Lebanon farmer's market. Well, to me, it is. Go to the Middle East, buddy. Oh, can I share some more?

Yeah. Signing news with you guys? Yes. August 23rd, 24th, 25th, Nateland presents the showcase season 5 hosted by us. Oh, yeah. November 10th, Dusty's book, we're having a good time. Oh, yeah. It's on pre-order now.

Okay. Grab a copy. Get it. But really, the most important news is next Friday, July 24th, Nateland presents Brian Bates. All right. All right. I know it was coming out this month.

That is some good news. All right. July 24th. My new special, Worried. Worried. Oh, I love it. Yeah. I love it.

Comes out on the Nate Land YouTube channel. I love that. I didn't know it was coming out so soon. I can't wait for the YouTube comments. What do you think will be, Dusty? Well, just the name Worried, I feel like people are going to go, oh, worried about these views, I bet. That would be right. they would be spot on.

I'm worried now just because you said that. Yeah. Well, I know. You got to always anticipate. Have you watched it yet, Brian? No. Yes. Yeah, you feel good about it?

I do feel good about it. I do feel good about it. I love that. Yeah. That's awesome, man. Yeah. So I'm very excited about that. And we'll have more about that next week.

All right. All right. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and mail at at Natelandpodcast.com. And I want to see this. Yes. I've done two shows in the much Zanis, did a show, and then last week it's Comedy Catch and Shadernaguer,

which I forgot to mention. Great show. Thank you for everyone who came to that. I love the comedy catch. Yeah, Vince Fabra was on it. He said it was nice doing more than six minutes on a show. So thank you for everyone who came to the comedy catch. But I'm very proud of this.

I'm not doing anything from the special at these shows. Wow, I mean, that's a big step. Yeah, I mean, it's not good, but. The show's tough. Yeah, the show is tough. No, I mean, that's a huge milestone. You got to start somewhere. I mean, to get there before the special comes out.

Yeah. A couple weeks ahead of time. That's great, man. Yep. Can I? Probably not. Do you have anything supported? I'd like to start the comments by starting with a comment, not on this sheet.

I don't think. Okay. I don't think it's on here. What's it about? But this one was sent to me by someone. It's a screenshot here. This is from Brittany K. Chris.

Okay. Says Dusty is rude and disrespectful to Brian and it's getting hard to watch. Well, thank you, Brittany. And then Carrie Lynn L says, I agree. Wow. Thank you. I would also, but just to follow up with that, I'd like to, let's see if I can find this. People are catching on.

I should have looked for this before, but maybe too late. But I was going to read something that Brian said to me. This might be what they're talking about. Yeah, exactly. You're going to read through your personal correspondence? Okay, here it is. This is it here. This is a text I sent to Brian.

I've got Moneyball and the prestige loaded up to watch this weekend. I'll be ready for the podcast. Brian says, the sacrifices you make for this podcast are admirable. Well, I stand behind that. So take that, Brittany Crace. that's in private, okay? Dusty's like, guys, I'm working hard for this podcast. I'm going to watch two movies for you.

Two really good movies. Yeah, but, you know, Aaron didn't do his part, so thank you, Dusty. Exactly. Guys, let me tell you something. One thing I love about summer is how easy everything feels. The days are a little more relaxed, and I find myself reaching for the same, comfortable, go anywhere, pieces again and again. That's why I keep coming back to Quince.

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All right. Thank God I didn't. There had been an hour of us talking about movies most of the audience hasn't seen. I think the audience has seen all of these movies. You think what percentage of the people listening right now have seen Uncle Buck and are conversing enough to enjoy a conversation about it? Well, you added the conversing. But I'm saying watching it 99%.

Just no. Let's take a vote. Just no way. How are we going to prove this? Comment, comment if you've seen it. Comment if you haven't seen it. Well, we've already lost all the people who turned it off during it. We've got to ask this at the beginning.

I don't think just because they haven't seen the movie, they're going, these guys talking about Uncle Buck? I don't know. Aaron turned us off. kidding around. I'm kidding around. I think they've all seen Greece. I think they've all seen Uncle Buck. Probably lower chance they've seen Moneyball on the prestige. I agree with you. I agree.

Okay. But I'm sorry I'm so disrespectful to you, Brian. I didn't realize that he was getting like that. Well, thank you. Was it Brittany? Brittany. Thank you, Brittany. And who agreed with her? Erica Lynn. Thank you, Erica.

You can cut the tension in here with a knife. I agree. It was palpable, man. Louisiana episode coming. I just read today where Meta is building a $50 billion data center in Louisiana. All right. On top of an orphanage? 50 billion.

Think how crazy that is. Yeah. Getting ready for some mass surveillance. Getting ready for raccoon eating burgers, part two. Well, that's what they tell you. They go. Well, we need it so they can make more AI videos. But really, they're going to.

William, this is from Louisiana. So William Feitster, Feitster, you think that's right? Yeah. Fun fact, in middle school geography, I learned that Louisiana grows a little bit every year due to all the topsoil that erodes from the Midwest. It gets carried down the Mississippi River. I was able to find a historical map in my textbook and discovered a noticeable difference between that and a modern map.

I felt like I'd just cracked a national secret. That's interesting. I never knew that. That is interesting. I also don't believe our maps, though. Okay. Next comment comes from

Shana Weatherhead. All right. Love that name. Yeah. I think she's a big fan of weather. Oh, Weatherhead. Shana Weatherhead is a Minnesota native.

She would know some weather, man, who went to Adaskah State Park. What do you think, Dusty? Yeah. Ataska.

Ataska State Park, thank you. Every summer as a kid, I was yelling at y'all when you were talking about where the Mississippi River starts. The headwater for the Mississippi River is in Ataska State Park in Minnesota, not Minneapolis. Well, you know. You look dumb. What a moron. I'm just basing it off the song, Big River by Johnny Cash.

He says, St. Paul, Minnesota. And that's right there with Minneapolis. Shawna Weatherhead. Shawna Weatherhead. He doesn't trust maps anyway, so why does it matter? But Johnny Cash? I was playing around with this. Thetrusize.com.

This is a map where you can take any country, state, and drag it around to see how big it is. Because you know that this is like the way we think about the world. This is a projection that accounts for. Big scene from that in your show. In the West Wing, absolutely. Look, if I take Alabama, the state of Alabama, see how small it is down here. but if I drag it up to Greenland, look how big it appears when it's that high up.

Isn't that crazy? I love that. That's wild, man. Because of the map being flat? Because of the, yes, because the mat is flat, because it's a non-flat thing applied to a flat map.

Gotcha. Yeah. Keep going. It just falls off the edge. Well, it's not the map. See if you can go to Antarctica and it'll let you in. All right. They won't.

They might let you on. It just goes down and gets stuck. on the tip a little bit, but they won't let you in there. All right. Robin. Robin Pudlack. Okay. Robin Pudlack.

All right. That's a good name, right? Pudlock, yeah. I get it, Dusty. The old TVs would allow you to fall asleep because the screens weren't as big or bright. There's also the idea of having less channel options to choose from that teaches us it's okay to turn off the TV if you show it, if your show is not on or try out something new sometimes. It's definitely nostalgic. Yeah, I mean, I'm able to hook up Roku to it, so it's like, you know, there's...

Sorry, Robin. Yeah, see, next comment comes from. So it's not nostalgia for me. It's, uh... What about the bigger and brighter? You think that's accurate? I think the TVs now are bigger and brighter, yeah. But you're saying there's also something different about the kind of light that's emitted from it.

Yeah. Okay. Blue light. Blue light. I'm old enough to remember when TVs would go off the air at the end of the... I'm not. I've only heard about... that. That's crazy. Can you? No. I mean, it would be very rare that if I'd stay up that late,

but like, you know, they go off. They would do like the national anthem. There's a scene in the movie Boomerang where Eddie Murphy and Halliberry, they fall asleep on the couch and wake up and that's what's playing the national anthem because it's just to show how late it. Would it just be an American flag waving or something? I think it would be a Statue of Liberty maybe and then it would go to static. Wow. And just come back on in the morning? That's so crazy. I love that. Now there's breaking news every hour through the night. Yep. West Mays, I bet if Dusty started drinking again,

he'd fall asleep more with the TV on. Well, that's true. I mean, that's true. That would be the least of those problems. Yeah. But I, that is true. And there was a lot of time where that was going on. But also there was, you know, there was time when that wasn't happening.

And I just feel like I could, I don't know, I like an older TV. I got a couple of them now. a couple older TVs and it's pretty awesome I think that is awesome I've said this to you many times and I'm sure he comes off as an insult but I swear I don't mean it to be

you remind me so much of Kramer yeah because he was always doing like he was always a step ahead he was always like onto something that nobody else knew about very often he was Kramer ended up being right Yeah Kramer got it. Yeah on the show on the show

He got it Your stand up reminds me to stand up The character Kramer was great. He was great. Yeah. You know his first name? Cosmo. Yeah.

Yeah. And you're great. Thank you, Brian. Thank you. Yeah. Wow. As mean as you are to me, I still think you're good. Well, see, that's what hurts it.

See, now you've said that to me. And now you'll make a joke. This Jennifer Crace is ready to, Britney Crace or somebody. She's ready to pounce. The whole Chris family. Yeah. Ross Woods Jr. Oh, Roy's brother.

Yeah. Popeyes isn't named after the cartoon. It's named after Popeye Doyle, the character from the French Connection. This is crazy. I had no idea that this was the case. It was a character played by Gene Hackman in the 1971 movie, The French Connection.

Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits founder, Al Copeland, said he named the fast food chain after Popeye Doyle. That's a great moment. That is why. Yeah, that's cool. I had no idea. He just really loved that movie.

Yeah. It won an Oscar, I think, and was a... I hate to say this. I've never seen it. But is it there a car chase that's, like, incredible? Yeah, I'll be honest. This was a movie that I was, like, real amped about, and I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would.

But I'd watch it again. But if I... On an old TV. Yes. If I opened up a barbecue restaurant, I wouldn't call it Billy Beans. You know what I mean? as much as I like money. Might be a good side.

Yeah, exactly. Barbecue, Gillette. Get some billy beans. Yeah. Miriam Hogue. I usually love Dusty, but his take on storytelling and emotions is easily one of the worst takes I've ever heard. Here we go. Now we're getting to it.

The art of storytelling makes us more human, not less, by teaching us how to relate to each other in ways that are neurologically similar to our own memories. Plus, Bible. stories are historical stories. Should we not get emotional about those? She knew how to get you there. Well, historical stories are one thing. If you're actually telling truth, but so many of these movies, they're all manipulated. They all know how to do the right things to trigger emotions. And it's not just about telling a story and relating to people. They're emotionally manipulating you. That's what they're doing. Now, sure, I'm into storytelling. I'm into stories. And sure, stories cause emotion.

But there is a lot of emotional manipulation going on. I think you say you liked poetry? Yeah, I do like that. Isn't that kind of the whole point? I don't think so. Then why aren't they writing prose? It's like they're trying to communicate emotion and all kinds of things. Sure, I mean, you might be like, this happened to me, and I want to tell you about it.

And I want you. That's how you want things to be written. And I want you to know what I was feeling, but I just think that movies now are so geared, they like, they add in things that like unlikely scenarios just to make you feel different things. And, you know, it's total manipulation that they're doing to you. So I just want you guys to know. And Miriam Hogue, I want you to know that it's not my take on storytelling and emotions. It's my take on movies and how they're using our emotions to manipulate us.

And songs. Yeah, songs too. All art. All art. Except stand up. But not all art. I'm saying they've found a way to take what's beautiful. And then they found a way to go, all right.

Oh, we really like the storytelling here. How can we make more out of this? How can we get people to make decisions in their life? based on these movies. We'll change the whole way they think about things through a movie. You ever talk to somebody who watched a documentary? And then they go. And then they're quoting all of it as fact now. It's the same thing. Yeah. You've never done that. I say, people say. You guys make fun of me because I go. People say. People say. What does St. Augustine say about it? Well, I, you know, I read that on my podcast and I liked it. I don't know. He's quoting St. Augustine now.

Well, someone sent it to me, and I enjoyed what they had to say. Let's see. I love that bringing in St. Augustine. Augustine. Well, this says St. Augustine. So this is what someone said to me. In the Confessions, it says from book three, I was captivated by theatrical shows. They were full of representations of my own miseries and fueled my fire.

Why is it that a person should wish to examine? experience suffering by watching grievous and tragic events, which he himself would not wish to endure. Nevertheless, he wants to suffer the pain given by being a spectator of those sufferings, and the pain itself is his pleasure. What is this but amazing folly? A member of the audience is not excited to offer help. God bless us with the range of emotion. God, blessed us with a range of emotion, but invited only to, I don't know what that last part is, but up until the amazing folly, I love it. That's great. I love you, bringing in and citing Catholic historians, Catholic theologians. I think that's great. I mean,

I'll show you some Aquinas after this. I think that's a great take, though. We're going to get into it. It's like you're watching someone else go through these awful sad things, and then you're feeling really sad when that sadness is not earned. You didn't go through the sadness. You're just like, gosh, that was so sad you cry, turn the TV off, and then going about your life. Well, I don't like sad movies either, but what got us first started about it was us crying, you said, my big fat Greek wedding. I said a scene from Hoosiers, which is a very lovely scene where he helps this guy out in a Christ-like way. Right. Big fat Greek wedding is lovely, though. I want to make that very clear.

That is a lovely little thing. But it's not sad. No, but it's emotional, heartwarming and fun. Yeah. But I'm saying, I don't like sad for sad sake either. Yeah.

Hoosers is great. Doessey said it's bad, let me try to paraphrase this. It's bad to reflect on or try to, it's bad to reflect on bad things, horrible things, and to elicit emotion from that.

Is that fair to say? Yeah, I just think why, like we've been, God gave us these emotions to feel at all times, like when necessary. But we're like inflicting them in a time when it's not necessary. Otherwise, we would not be bringing up these emotions. We don't need to practice them, you know. So it's like if I just going on about my life and then I go, oh, I'm going to watch a movie at lunch. And now all of a sudden I'm crying. My body has gone into this state of sadness when it didn't need to.

You're so close to being Amish. You're like a year away. I'm just saying, Miriam Hogue, it's like, try to at least understand what I'm saying, though, Miriam. That's my point. It's like historical stuff. And even that, maybe you don't need to be dragging up those emotions either. But at least you're reading about something that truly has.

happened according to the author of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it would be wrong to write about it poetically. To make it up. Okay. And just to make somebody emotional. Okay. Because that's what, I mean, movies, every time there's like an Oscar-nominated movie,

it's like heavily emotional. Yeah, yeah. And it's like, you can spot an Oscar try from a mile of west. Sure, sure, sure. You're trying for that author, right, too? Songs episode, Carmets. Edwards M.D. I've got a doctor who is this.

Doctors are a doctor in the house. Just when I think you guys are at the pinnacle of entertainment and could not possibly get even funnier, you proved me wrong. This was absolutely one of the all-time funniest episodes. Thank you for continuing to bring big laughs to us common folk. Wow. Well, finally a doctor to weigh in. And he's exactly right. This is one of the best podcasts of all time.

He's exactly right. Doctors know. I think he's a surgeon. I love that he won't tell us his first name, but he wants us to know he's a doctor. Well, he's a common folk. Mariah Elder. Hilarious episode.

Your new theme song is fire, but the Paw Paw Tree song is a hit. I agree. I agree. The Paw Pawtry, my son, he likes to listen to my AI songs. Yeah. And the Paw Paw Tree song comes on.

He runs around. He loves it. It's like he gets real punk with it. He's ready to break stuff. I have a new joke where I break down the lyrics to the pop-paw tree song. It's like five minutes, but it's kind of... Oh, yeah. I'd love to hear it.

Oh, it's starting to make sense why you love the AI stuff so much, because you're against art creating, like, invoking emotion. Yeah. That's why the AI stuff is so appealing, because you feel nothing listening to. Some soulless. Yeah. Exactly. Well, the AI song was great, Dusty.

A lot of people wanted to be our theme song. I saw a lot of comments about that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you guys should lean on. me for creative takes more often. Jeff Holke. Holtke.

Did Aaron refer to himself as bread pit? Classic. I never did. People have said that to me all the time. Bread pit? Bread pit. Yeah. Or the less creative,

Brad Pitt, ate Brad Pitt or something like that. That's actually one of my least... Fat pit, which isn't even a good rhyme. That's one of my least... favorite joke types when people go he looks like he ate brad pitt it's like because if you eat someone you don't look like them i imagine i've never eaten a person but it's a hot take but i think if it's brad pitt eight x it's like you look like a fatter version of yeah but you don't but you don't like you don't look like them if like if you eat a lot of hamburgers you don't really take the face of a cow

Good thing, too. Yeah. It's a good thing thing. That would be tough. My buddy used to have a bit. He said he looked like Peyton Manning. He's like, if Peyton Manning got strung by bees, and it's like, well. Did he look like that?

I don't think so. I mean, he's just a tall guy. That's by, I know what you're thinking. Yeah. This guy had X and Y had a baby. That's why when I did a lot of jokes about looking like people, I said, people say, I look like this. And these are comments that I got off YouTube. These are not me sitting around in a room going, that look like this. Because it was you, you'd be like Brad Pitt. Yeah, exactly.

Susan. Brad pita. I'm glad that caught off. For a second, I thought you guys were not going to recognize it at all. And I was going to feel real dumb about that joke. Honeyball. Susan Matterpole. Dusty saying to dip grilled cheese in the tomato bath had me spit out my coffee. Hysterical.

All right. Dusty's got, he has some good ones occasionally. I'm telling you, y'all sleep on Dusty, but this guy brings the funny. Old Miss Materpole here. Materpole. These are fake names, dude. Materpole and Weatherhead. I hope she's a teacher.

I'm friends with Puddlack. Miss Maderpole. What is this next one? Can I use restroom, Miss Materpoll? Adam. What do you use to prop up your tomato stocks? I got a Materpull. What was the bathroom policy in your elementary school?

Do you remember? Were you allowed to go whenever you wanted? Did you have to ask? What was it like? You definitely had to ask. Okay. And I think we... Say, may I use the restroom?

You had to say that? We probably, you know, I was public school, so it was probably more like, Hey, can I go to the restroom? Something like that. I got to go take a. Yeah. Did you have a hall pass? I got a pee.

Did you ever have hall passes? Yeah, we have a hall passes. I've never had a hall pass. Oh, yeah. I had a English teacher, Miss Fakes, who was one of the finalists for the teacher. That's what Dusty called all those teachers. Mr. Fraud. So, you know, the Challenger explosion, the teacher that went, she was.

a finalist to go with the Challenger explosion. I'm not an explosion. On the Challenger. Yeah. And. A finalist to go on the explosion. Miss Fakes would have been a shoe in for that, though. Because of the name?

Yeah. She can keep her mouth shut. Yeah. Miss Fakes. And her hall pass was a little toy space shuttle. Oh, that's cool. You just had to have that with you. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What'd you do when he got to the bathroom? Just put it in your pocket. It was too big. It was like, I don't know. What'd you do? Just sit on the sink, I guess.

I don't remember. You bring it back. Anyway, she, uh... It was funny. I would remember teachers going like, no, you can't use the bathroom. Oh, yeah. I do remember it. Can I use the bathroom?

No. Yeah. I'm like, well, I guess I'll just... You're like, do you see what I just ate? Yeah. I never got told no. That's probably an issue. you send them in there.

Adam Faffman. There's a lot of Fafman. I think the P-E is probably silent. Adam Faffman. Maybe the other two F-F-F-M-A-N-N. It's P-F-A-F-M-A-N-N. The extra N at the end. It's like, come on, dude.

What are we doing here? At least it kept it simple with the first time. Man. Every time I play Dusty Slakes Country Radio on the job site, everyone comments on what a great playlist it is. great last name this guy is. You know, that building's not getting built quickly. The true playlist for the workin' man. However, I have to agree with Kathy on the singing. Every song I know well, I start to question if I know it when he starts singing. Well, that is true. Well, you started

well. Fathman, but he lost it at the end. I'm a heck of a singer. You know, Kathy chimed in. She did. She commented. What she said. She was concerned about the songs episode, but she made it through. Oh, good. Seemed like she's in good spirit. I was worried about Kathy because Dusty came after her pretty hard. I woke up in a cold sweat thinking about Kathy the other night. And it's kind of a movement started. Most people aren't recognized at the start of the movement and then it builds and then you become a hero.

That's kind of what's happening with Kathy. More and more people are getting on board. Yeah, Kathy's become a real hero of this podcast. Like people really reference her and this has got to be a big moment. We've got to have her on the podcast. I'd love to have Kathy on. But I think in general is you don't ever want to ask the people what they want and then give it to them. You give them what they need and convince them that they need it.

That's true. That's how we do it. That's true. It's a good playlist though, Adam, and I appreciate you playing that. It sounds like the worst construction crew of all time. Well, it may be. Papa songs. Well, that's a good song right there, man. Hey, turn that up. This is called, let's say, it's called Dusty Slays, uh, Dusty Slay's Country Radio. I'm glad you had to look that up. 3,328 sales. I mean, that's legit. That's a legit playlist.

Yeah. And it's no fluff in here. I picked all these out. No skips. I even, no, there's no need for skips. And I even made the order.

I mean, you can shuffle if you want, but I made an order that's not. Say chuffle? Here's the next step. Is there any, you can do chuffle or not? Shuffle.

Shuffle. Shuffle. Now, is there, any kind of rhyme or reason to the order of these songs. I think that would be the next step to build some kind of narrative progression. Because what I want is some recognizable country music songs. You got a hook. Yeah. And then also, but I don't want too many of those at the beginning. Because you go, oh, this guy's just doing top 40. Right. So you mix it up a little bit and, you know, you give them a little, little bit of something here and there, a little new and old. And then no

two in a row. You know, like the same artist. They don't get. You know, they don't go back to back. If you get to the very end, sometimes it will be back to back because I've just recently added those, but I got to, you know, I got to find a place to mix them in. So you put some thought into it. Yeah, I mean, it's a good, I love that. It's a good play list. Okay. One of the best, honestly. Jonathan Fisher. Final comment. Aaron said that in 2003, he was in the fifth grade, specifically they played football in 2003 in the fifth grade. That means he's referring to the 0304 school year. Aaron would have been in the sixth grade for the 2003-04 school year.

I know this because he graduated a year after me. I'm 16 days older than him. Okay. Do I know this guy? I don't know. I know this because I live next door to him for years. I don't know who Jonathan Fisher is. I got to be honest with it.

I appreciate you fact-checking Aaron, though. I did. I think a lot of people have rightfully pointed out, I've been in the fifth grade for the last three years. But I finally sat down and figured out exactly where I am. So when we talk about this next year, year, I will know for sure where I am. Well, I find it interesting because your birthday is November 13th, right?

Yes. Mine's November 3rd. The cutoff when I was in school, and apparently it was for you, it's October 31st. If I was born four days earlier, I would have been in the other class. We would have gone to school together. But, you know, same with him. He was born at the end of October. So he was probably one of the youngest people in his class, was I was one of the oldest

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But thank you, John. Oh, I didn't get my notes. I appreciate that. My notes are in my backpack. But today we are talking about the year 2004. What a year. Dusty is firmly in Charleston now. That's true.

Are you doing improv yet? I think I took improv classes in 2003 at the end of 2003. Okay. So I'm rolling into 2004 gearing up. A little improv. This is the year I'm going to do a little stand-up. I love it. So this is, in many ways, this is the beginning.

It's the beginning, but I, you know, it's like, if you live in New York City and you're like, I started comedy in 2004 and you're hustling it, you could do more in a week than you did in months, right? More than I did in a year because it was no stage time. But at the time, are you telling people like, yo, I'm doing comedy? Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course. Yeah, I was like, I'm already the best. That happened quickly. I think Nate moved in New York in 2004.

Yeah, that's when things got started for him, too. What are you doing in 2004? Working on the news? They're working at the news. Okay. I can't remember anything adventful that happened. Are you entry-level position at this point?

No, I've moved up to like a management position. Okay. Okay. I've been there for nine years. And you're on salary at this point, I'm guessing? Maybe. Did people call you Mr? No.

Oh, okay. Mr. Bates. They were my friends. Okay. So, yeah. But you weren't. like, I've been promoted, guys. Yeah.

To where they have to call me, Mr. Yeah. No. Sir. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no. So you were, what do we just figure out?

So 2004, I was leaving one grade. Leaving sixth grade going into the seventh grade. All right. This is when adolescence starts to hit me hard. Oh, good. This is when, this is when things get. What does that mean? I mean, I think this is when, these are your awkward years, man.

Sixth grade. Middle school for me. You know, I would say seventh, eighth grade, ninth grade. And then you start to figure out who you are after that. But there was a couple years there. That is true. It was pretty tough. That a 50-year run.

Noticeably musty to myself the first time in seventh grade. I want to give you an idea of what I looked like in seventh grade here. Here I am. Wow. This is me. Wow. This is with the hovercraft I built for the science fair. Wow.

My grandfather and I built this. That's an old shop vac motor into a piece of wood with shower. curtain on the bottom. I have cinder blocks on top of it to demonstrate how much weight the hoverboard can hold. And that's, uh... Wouldn't need the cinder blocks now, though. Yeah. You know, I'm just putting on a show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is science theater here. This is awesome. Yeah. So that thing, it, uh, it didn't have, you couldn't control it. You kind

of had to manually move it around. So that cord, you could, yank that cord around and kind of drag it and it would really get going. How did it, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, how did it hover? So that's a piece of wood that's cut into a circle. Yeah. There's a shower curtain underneath it. Uh-huh. Okay, I can see that, I guess.

That shop vac motor pumps air into the shower curtain, and there are little holes in the shower curtain, so it creates this cushion of air below it. And my grandfather, who I've talked about, was a physicist. He did a calculation on how much weight it could hold. And it was like thousands of pounds this thing could sustain. So those cinder blocks aren't really doing anything. I just thought it was a good visual demonstration. You can tell the haircuts pretty tough.

It's a tough time for me for sure. It's pretty amazing, though. I had knee surgery this year. So I think I'm rehabbing. Can't tell, there. So I was. Look at me. Look at me all agile up there on that thing.

Oh, man. This is such a classic look, though. These, what is it? New Balances and the khaki. shorts. Oh, yeah. That's the old. What kind of shirt is that? Catholic school uniform. That's our school uniform. Okay. And the t-shirt under the under the under shirt. Oh, yeah. And then that's our school logo at their MC, Montgomery Catholic. So that's me. I think I just got home from school. And my mom goes, I got the camera. Let's go outside and show the hovercraft. That's really cool.

So there we are. So that's, that's, when I talk about 2004, that's who's doing it. That guy with that haircut. That's a good visual. Just, I don't remember. asking for a bowl cup. Somebody sure gave it to me. Yeah. Yeah, that's tough. That was a look, though. I don't even think it was at the time. Oh, okay. I think it was, I think I was struggling. The Alabama bangs going on. Yeah, Bama bangs. But not really, I always think of it having a little bit of a swoosh to it. There's no swoosh. Yeah. Straight down. Yeah. So it's a, yeah. Well, that's cool. That's a cool pit. So that's me. Well, what happened with the hoverboard? I mean, that's... It caught on fire one day after school, me and my cousin, AJ. We were

I think we pulled that cord a little too hard and it caught on fire. And we had to put it out with the hose. And it was done after that. But we got a good run out of it. Did you win? I don't even think it was a competition. But I made it. I remember we brought it into the school and did it in the hallway and everybody was riding it and stuff.

You know, my dad was the principal of the high school. So he took me in one Saturday to like the gym. To use it on the gym, like gym floor, that thing, I think was pretty awesome. Yeah. You know? And then it just burned That's incredible The trash can

I'd be making like paper Airplay Coming in with a hovercraft Yeah I mean That I mean They had to know That your grandfather did it And not you

So it would be tough to be like you You want But that's Well he did He did a lot of the Engineering He did a lot of the Like cutting up the engine

And stuff like that Yeah But I was standing next to him I put on a welder's thing I mean And that's wild. Yeah. Pretty cool.

There's no video of it? No video of it that I know of. It might exist out there somewhere. But that's our backyard. That was the, that house behind us. That's the gill straps. They were about 140 back then. I think they died in that house.

Yeah. We put up that fence. And they died in the hoverboard fire. Why'd you put up that fence? I don't know. I think we like, we need a little bit. of privacy. I was glad that we did. Gilstraps calling the police on you all the time.

Making some type of hoverboard out here. There's just some Montgomery trees back there. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Do you remember, I'll start with some tech stuff. 2004, Nintendo DS handheld game console came out. It came out in 2004. According to this. The DS.

I remember when it came out. I never had one. Oh, we had an original Game Boy. Okay. And then I don't know if we ever got like a newer version of it. But the DS was huge when it came out. Still is. All right.

What about this? Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. Oh, yeah. GTA. Did you play that? Yeah, not at my house, but when I would go to other people's houses, it was almost there. I played it a bit.

I never owned it, but I would play. If it was available, I'd drive a car around and I'd run over people. And now when you see people getting carjacked, you don't even care. Yeah, exactly. but desensitized to it. Yep. You can see how that would happen, though. If you play Grand Theftado a lot and lived in a sketchy neighborhood,

you would be like, well, yeah, I'm seeing this every day. In that case, it's almost smart to play it. Yeah, you got to. I'm less scared walking around. That's true. Half-life 2? Oh, man. Yeah.

Yeah. I was playing a lot of video games at this point. Halo 2? Halo 2 was a real paradigm shift of my life. that game Halo 2 was unbelievable my buddy Hayden Wired had an original

I was it 360 at this time he had an Xbox with Halo 2 and we used to play that for days unbelievable game yeah we played online a little bit my older brother was very good that game it's hard to

overstate how big that game was people bought X I think there's a typhoon coming over the club right now that's pretty crazy you tell me you wouldn't fix this you had infinite money you like the charm i love it yeah i feel like every time we it rains we reference it and nobody can ever hear it yeah yeah yeah bringing it up i bet they hear this a little bit that's pretty tristan's good okay katy's good she she's there you know now they're just messing with this but halo two don't laugh katy yeah halo two was awesome yeah it was awesome uh what about said doom three

was one of the most anticipated games of the year, but critically unsuccessful. I don't remember Doom 3. What about World of Warcraft? Oh, yeah. I wasn't playing Wow yet. I didn't play for a few years, but yeah. What's that? Wow.

I was just funny about Wow. Yeah, yeah. I didn't play until Waddle K came out. Dusty, you're 22. You still playing video games? No, I think, you know what? I think I ended up. Just whittling?

Some of the timeframes, a little sketchy. you, but I think sometime in 2004, I moved to the Sergeant Jasper, which is a big building downtown. And I didn't have a ton of friends. Sorry, it was a big building, though. I thought it was like a speech. Did you play video games? No, I turned it down. It was, uh, I was at the Sergeant Jasper.

Well, at the time, there weren't games of SJ. A lot of big buildings in downtown. Yeah, it was called the Sergeant Jasper, though. I didn't get vague with it. Okay. And, but the, I bought an Xbox and I had two games and I played for a little while and then I moved to, later that year, I moved to Folly Beach and gave that up for good. Yeah.

I used it as a DVD player for a while. Yeah, it was a great DVD player. Yeah, I had the first Red Dead Redemption and a Red Dead revolver. And then I had a some game where you could, you know, I don't know, you could, you were like, I don't know, he killed a lot of people. There was a video game we rented from Blockbuster. I'm trying to track down what it was for years. It was a game, I'm not kidding, I just picked it randomly,

where you were a guy and you farted on people. That was how you attacked people. I wasn't playing that one. You were just like a little game. You were just like a character that your attack was, you farted people. And we couldn't believe it. We played it all weekend and we returned it. I've been trying to figure out what it was for you.

Years. Wow. But it's a weird thing to Google. Yeah. You know, a video game where you fart them. Yeah. I'm not trying to find new ones. You take that to Chad, GPT.

Yeah. If you know what the farting game is, let Aaron know. But it, yeah, I mean, I was, I had a little short stint with the video games there, but then I was out. Yeah. But if I didn't run across a house that had any kind of Grand Theft Auto, that's a game that is pretty fun. But I don't, I don't like to do the missions. I just drive the car as fast as I can. Just open world, just go out there, just terrorize the city for a little bit. Yeah. It's, you know, you say it was used as a DVD player. It was such a big thing that it could

play DVDs at the time. I was watching the West Wing. I was just watching it. There's an episode where a character is talking about he's getting $700 back on his taxes. and they go, what are you going to do with your $700? And he goes, I'm going to buy a new DVD player, and I'm going to have enough money left over to buy my favorite movie. Wow. $700. Wow.

So I think they were like that expensive in their early days. That's insane. So when the Xbox could also play DVDs, I think that was a lot of family's first DVD player. Well, I think that was my thinking behind it. I was like, I could play some games. I don't have any friends. And then I also can watch DVDs. You're not making friends.

through improv yet? No, I started making them. Okay. But it took me a minute because I moved to Charleston with a friend. Okay. And I was working at Office Depot. There was no one for me to be friends with. Where was your friend working? He was working at MUSC, the medical university of South Carolina. He had a good job, and he was around lots of cool people. So you moved there very differently. But he, yeah. Do you have a girlfriend? He also moved his girlfriend up. Okay. So they didn't want you to come. Our plan all along was for me and him to move. And then he slipped his girlfriend. friend who is now his wife and they have two kids and he's still one of my best friends but we had we had a rocky beginning yeah he still shouldn't have done it he shouldn't have done it no he shouldn't

he should divorce her now but i'm glad he did because had he just been my friend like he said he was going to do and uh then i probably would have never taken improv classes and that's how i found out about stand-up comedy wow yeah and i could have you know gone on to you know just live a normal life Brian, I would be sitting here alone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and I ran to this guy at Lowe's today.

A little weird out. He's so drunk. He's a good playlist. Yeah. I turned it down. Do you think if it wasn't for stand-up comedy, you would have visually moved back to Opa-Laka? Yeah, probably so. I mean, I don't know what I...

You would have moved back like William Wallace coming back. Yeah. You went out, you conquered the world. Now you're coming back. I'm here to raise a family. family. I don't want to be involved in anything. Yeah. And then they kill your wife and then you have to lead a rebellion. Yeah. Now, I want to, it would have been great. I read on, yeah, I'm one of my favorites. I sent you a list of the top grossing movies of the year. Yes. But I read online, I want to get your

guys opinion that 2004 might have been the best movie year ever for comedies. Okay. Interesting. So here's a list of some of monetarily or just comedically? No, comedically like that have held up. We can look at this list or I'll just take it. I want to you. I want to. I want to. I to hear some of them. Mean girls? Mean girls holds up. Still a great movie. Classic of the time.

Have you ever seen Mean Girls? I have. Yep. It's, yeah, I would say it's still a classic now, yeah. They just did a Broadway musical, didn't they? Yeah, but, you know, it's not canon. Anchorman, the legend of Ron Bergerger.

Okay. Same year. Now we're talking. Yeah. You didn't like Mean Girls? No, I did like it, but I don't keep it in my classics. I watch it once a week. probably once a year.

When I went to see Anchorman the first time I was working in TV news, I was a little disappointed because I thought it was going to be not so whatever it is, you know what I mean? Real behind the scenes. How I felt when I saw the movie waiting. I love Anchorman now, but the first time I saw it, I'm like, well, this isn't real TV news at all. It was part of you just jealous that you didn't have that kind of,

you weren't in that kind of crew at the news station? You're like, Christine Applegate does not work at Irish. Yeah, that's, sure. Do you remember Chris Parnell's character? Yeah. My girlfriend said that would be me, like, just the second guy in command that just kind of. So, Anchorman, Sean of the Dead. Oh, that was great.

Love that. Yeah. I love that. Napoleon Dynamite. One of my favorites of all time. Dodgeball. Dodgeball is a good one. This is a good year.

White chicks. White chicks. I never saw white chicks. Team America World. police. It's a big movie. Big movie. Along King Polly.

Another big movie. I didn't see it. This is the middle of like that Ben Stiller. He's on a tear. Yeah. Dodgeball and Along King Polly. Yeah. And Vince Follin too.

Yeah. Right? Yeah. The two in there are they like the kings of comedy at this point. Yeah. The term shart. You don't know that term? Yeah, I know.

Can we say that? Probably not. I think it's okay. Okay. I'm saying it's okay. Okay. Well, we can decide. It's okay to me. I'm just wondering.

You say it later if we can. Anyway, it didn't originate from that movie, but it became in the Zygdust, the mainstream from that. That brought it to the mainstream. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, Philip Seymour Hoffman is so funny in that movie. Yes.

Yes. He's an underrated comedic actor. And do you remember who is? Also in Moneyball. You know, I feel like you guys talked about it. And I liked him just fine in Moneyball. But honestly, I felt like, what a waste of Philip Seymour Hoffman. He's so great that I'm like, I don't know.

Well, those are such nothing scenes, but he's so good in him that they are. Yeah. That's how good he. Not much of an arc for him, but I did like in the moment when he finally goes, put the guy into pinch it. But just the little things where he's like, I don't care about righty versus lefty. Yeah. I do. Yeah.

Yeah. He's so great. He is so great. So anyway, those are a list of some of the comedies that, I mean, that's a pretty classic list. That's a great year. That's a good year for sure. And that list, I mean...

And is this the beginning of kind of the DVD boom, I'm guessing? We're in the middle of it. Yes. Because all these movies, they do well in the theaters, but then it's a DVD rush. I feel like every kid in America, you're getting a movie like this. Well, that's why they say we don't get more comedies, because the comedies didn't necessarily have to do well in the box office. It helped, but they would all get, you know, the residual off the DVD. stream of money.

And now that never comes, so it's not worth it to take the risk on a comedy. You don't get it from streaming? I guess so, but I think it's just out of that. I think you get some payment, but not like, not like the other. That list I sent you, like Friday Night Lights was like 48th. Wow. I mean, that's a pretty strong year for movies in general. The number one movie 2004, Shrek 2 grossed $441 million.

That's a good one. And it came out in May, so that's half the year. Spider-Man 2 made 3.000. 373 million. Passion of the Christ made almost 400 million. I saw that on Good Friday, my grandpa. You seen that, Dusty? No. It's based on the book. Yeah, I never will see it. It's a great movie. Yeah, I mean, the village, we've talked about that recently, Fahrenheit 9-11. Oh, the grudge. I went to see that with my friend. I watched it on an Xbox, my friend Hayden's house. I went to see, this was back when I was, you know, I saw the grudge with my friend, and then we

movies hopped and watched Saw. And that was probably the last horror movies I ever watched. Those are two pretty intense ones. Yeah. Yeah. Saw especially. We did them in the same night. They did about 18 more saws after that.

This was me and my friend when we were, you know, I think we were. Naked? No. I was a different friend. I don't act like you don't have a history of this. Wait, what? Wait, what? Remember?

A couple of years ago, 2002 hitting his buddy, or? Well, no, that's, I'm still an opal, I guess. Yeah, okay. Oh, you've grown out of this in Charles. Yeah, I'm not doing the naked thing as much. You're fully clothed in Charleston. Okay.

Still some times, but not as much. Okay. Not on movie, though. Yeah. But, uh, I'm sorry, I interrupted you. But it was my friend that I moved there with. And I think we had, um, Got into a fight, moved out of apart.

Because we moved there together, and then we moved out of apartments. And then I think his girlfriend moved home. And then they had a fight. So then we became friends again. That's good. Yeah. And then we moved to Folly Beach together. I think we either, that might have been 2005.

We'll save it for then. But we moved there later after the Sergeant Jasper, big building downtown. The big building. I don't know. 15, 10, 10. Grant was like 10. 10 million, yeah,

five million, but I had to stay there for a decade. I had to sign a lease for this decade. But, you know, I was so younger back then that I... Starts it down. I'm going to give you guys a little quiz.

Yep. It's a four-question quiz. It gets harder. I love it. Are these multiple choice or open-ended? They're open-ended, but we're going to go back and forth. Okay.

I'll start with you, Dusty. This is the competition? Yes. Between me and Dusty? Yeah, and they get harder each question. Oh, God, I can't wait. Dusty. 2004, there was a presidential election.

Who won, who was elected president? Oh, 2004. George W. Okay. Beat whom? Oh, okay. That's part of the question. Okay.

Aaron, who did he beat? John Kerry. Correct. Skull and bones. Okay, second. Dusty, who was George Bush's vice president? Dick Cheney. All right.

And the final question, who was John Kerry's? John Edwards. You guys nailed it. Got all four. Where you go? Is that the whole quiz? I said it was a four-question question question. Yeah.

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at betterhelp.com slash public figures. That's better H-E-L-P-D-C-com slash public figures. Okay, in the 2004 Super Bowl, the Patriots defeated the Carolina Panthers, 32-29, when Adam Vintyrie had the last second field goal. And do you remember, though,

what kind of trumped it from that Super Bowl, what everybody was talking about? It was the week before, right? No, this is something that happened during the Super Bowl. Oh, this is Janet Jackson and Justin's Inberlin. It was the wardrobe malfunction. The wardrobe malfunction.

Yeah. Classic wardrobe malfunction. That's what I've always said. I was just thinking, though, can you imagine? My pants. The pants failed. It wasn't the pants. Yeah.

He's just saying if it was him. Well, I mean, for him and the whole clothes. Did you watch it with your buddy and y'all did your own? I'm sorry, I keep one. Can you imagine if you're out of it? Ventry, you had a game welding, game welding. You really making it seem like it was something. People haven't watched other episodes.

You're making it seem like it's something. Well, a brief summary, Dusty used to pick his close off with another friend. Yeah, but at a party with other people. It wasn't just the two of us hanging out. They're not freaks. They're doing it with large. Then the other people would leave. Well, no, they stayed.

It was the only place you had to go. Yeah. This was the party. There was nowhere else to go. Can you imagine, though, if you're out of Venetary, you had a game where you fill goal, the next day. Did you see that kick? Man, did you see halftime?

Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. It's hard to imagine that causing that much of an outrage now. Yeah. Right, because our society's crumpled so much that they're like. In some ways, yeah, yeah, for sure. So something, nowadays we're like, I can't believe she was wearing that much clothes. You believe it? What is this?

Mormon? Here's an interesting tidbit about that. TiVo was a relatively new thing, and it was the most rewound thing in the history TiVo by far. Wow. Because there were guys like, do you see, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, did I just see what I saw? Rewind it. Wow.

Do they have the data on that, or are they just assuming? It said a company representative stated the audience measurement guys have never seen anything like it. The audience reaction charts look like an electrocardiogram. Wow. Well, I bet. Nate has a joke about TiVo,

but I was kind of the same way. I could not get my head around how you could pause live shows and rewind it. Did you have TiVo at this point? Do you think? I think my first DVR came from the cable company that I was using.

I don't think I ever had a TiVo. No, I didn't either. Did you? No. You would record stuff on VHS from the TV. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

That way they don't have your data when you're rewinding. Yeah, I don't like the TiVo knows what I'm rewinding on. I did not remember this, but Janet Jackson, right after the Super Bowl, was supposed to perform at the Grammys, a tribute to Luther Vandros, and because of that incident, they took her off.

Oh, wow. Yeah. She turned it down. Yeah. I'm sure she was so bummed. I bet they still paid She goes, is they still paying? 15 million

Some TV shows that ended And some TV shows that started in 2004 Ended Friends Oh wow That was big One of the most Did you watch Friends when it was on? Some of the early seasons I did

And then I stopped I don't think it was something I was like allowed I don't know allowed to watch or what I never watched it when it was on I've since seen the whole thing I have to I liked it It wasn't

like a big cultural moment when it ended. Like everybody watched that finale, right? Yeah, it wasn't as... Not quite like the Mashed finale, but up there. It said it wasn't as much as Seinfeld or some of the others. Well, I think the last couple of seasons, people lost a bit of interest. Like so many shows. It went way too long.

52.5 million viewers. Compared to... It was the fifth most-watched television series finale in American history in the most-watched TV episode of the 2000s decade. But if it had ended two years earlier, it might have been number one. on. Maybe. Yeah.

Yeah. You'll never know. Where are they now? Some other shows that ended in 2004, Sex and the City. It ended? Mm-hmm. Of course it came back. Of course.

It did movies and then it came back later. Frazier. Wow. The practice. The practice I never watched. Star Trek Enterprise. The Drew Carey show. I love that show.

Rugrats. Rugrats. Rugrats is bad. I think I was a little. a little too old for ruggard at this point. Some shows that premiered in 2004. Lost. Okay.

That was a, I mean, right at the gate, that was pretty much a huge. And everybody, that was a water cooler. Water cooler, yeah. So I was trying to think of. It's like, everybody, did she, she lost last night? What day, do you remember what day of the week it would come out on? I watched the DVDs, but season one, unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, it was a great show.

I did not watch it when it was on, so I can't remember what I mean. But you remember people talking about it. Oh, yeah. I tried to watch the, the, The finale? Yeah. Like, try to catch up at the very end. And obviously, I can't appreciate it.

And I don't think they thought the finale was that great. If you, like, missed, let's say you hear people talking about it at work and you're like, oh, I'd like to watch that. How would you catch back up back then? Would they air reruns? The DVR, maybe you had recorded it. But I'm not able to have DVRs at this point. You know, how would I catch back up with loss? That's a good question.

You just be lost. It's all part of it. You're getting the full experience. It's meta. We don't know what's going on either. Some other shows that debuted, Entourage, Desperate Housewise, Veronica Mars,

House MD. Wow, it seems like 2004 was the beginning of the downfall. Some great shows in that. The Apprentice. You don't like any of this? Nah. You don't like House?

House was awesome. I don't know what. You don't know where Hugh Lorry played. He's the doctor, and he's like, you know, he's troubled. He's a complicated figure, and he's mean to everybody. And he does, you know, something illegal every episode, but he's the best doctor in the world, so they let him do it. Okay. I never saw it. I did, I do remember hearing. It's a nice, if you like procedural shows like that, where you can just kind of jump in and watch an episode or each episode, there's some new case that's brought to him and he has to figure out what's wrong. You like that. Well, you don't have to wait every episode for the next time. Yeah. Drake and Josh. Did you watch that? Yeah, of course. You comment on it every week. Of course.

What about this? Ned's Declassified School Survival Guy. I never really watched that. But you know it. Of course I'd know it. What about this? Unfabulous. No, I've never heard of it.

What is Unfabulous? It was another. Emma. Emma Roberts? Yeah. All right. Julia Roberts' niece, I believe. Oh, how about that?

I have no idea if that's true. Top-rated Comedy Central show, though, in 2004 was the Chappelle show. Okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Amazing. Those DVDs were big, too. I remember in college.

I got the Chappelle show on DVD if y'all want to hang out. We were like, wow. Yeah. I have two copies, just case one gets scratched. Of which season? All of them. Oh, okay. Yeah.

At the Golden Globes, 24 won best drama. 24. and the best comedy was the office, the BBC version. Really? This is what I first learned about it. I remember watching the Golden Globes. I'd never heard of it. They showed a scene and it was so funny.

Ricky Jervais was so funny. And I'm like, man, I'm going to watch this. And I went out and rented the whole, I think the whole phase. It was only two seasons in a special. And it was great, right? And it was so funny. So good. I still think it's, I mean, I love obviously the American version, but the British version is so funny.

I think it's better. I think it's better, too. And I watched it after watching the American version, and I didn't think I would like it. Yeah. The first episode, I was like, I'm not going to like this. But I do think it's better. It got me. Yeah.

I watched it first. So the first American, because the very first episode, the Americans worked for war the same, I believe. The pilot is? The pilot is. And obviously these new characters, I'm like, they don't, they're not like them. But then it where, I mean, I fell in love with the American version. Right. But the office American went way too long.

It went a few seasons. We just wear out these shows. At the country music awards, Kenny Chesney won entertainer of the year. And his album, When the Sun Goes Down, won album of the year. What's that song? When the Sun goes. It's with Uncle Cracker. We'll be grooving when the sun goes down.

Feeling all right when the sun sinks down. It's a fun. Fun song. Over the water. Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down. This is for you, Kathy. When the sun goes down, we'll be grooving. Uncle Crackers having a real moment at this point, too.

Is he? Oh, in 2004, yeah. She meant now. I don't know, maybe now. I don't know. But, so that was country music, what was going on. But a 14-year-old girl from Pennsylvania, her dad relocates to Nashville so she can pursue country music. Her name was Taylor Swift.

Wow. In 2004, she moved here. And she signed with Sony ATV tree music publishing at 14, the youngest person to do that. But then she did a showcase show at the Bluebird. And Scott Borchetta was there. And he had just started a new record label called Big Machine Records. And she signed with Big Machine. You ever eat Bruchetta? I have Applebee's.

You just have a Bruchetta burger. And I was probably, I was probably eating that in about 2004. Ian Charlson. I would go to Appleby's sometimes to get a bruschetta burger. That it all connects. That is true. It all connects.

That is true. Do you think that's some great insight? Do you think Taylor Swift is the most famous woman in the world? Yeah. Yeah. Over Dolly Pardon? Yes. I don't think so.

Yeah. That's interesting. I just saw people were buying trash from her wedding. Yeah. On eBay. How much it costs? I'm asking, what did you buy? I didn't buy any.

I think they were selling it for $25 bucks of pop, and they sold out. Bags of trash. Yeah, but does that, I guess it would depend. Like, famous, like, yeah, that's insane. Yeah. But, like, well-known. Well-known. Name-wise, I don't know.

So what's the metric that you would use? Ticket sales? If ticket sales aren't applicable. No. Okay. Just name recognition. Name recognition. Yeah. I don't know. She's up there, man.

Yeah, for sure. But I would think... I mean, she's up there with anybody, not just women, but I mean, she's got to be one of the top... Who else is there? Now, I kind of missed... Two women. But was... I'd say Oprah's up there. Oprah. Was Dolly Parton mainstream pop star in the way that Taylor Swift is?

She was an actress. She had a few movies. I know that for sure, but I'm wondering if she was... No, never as big as what Taylor Swift is now. She's just stood the test of time. and it's more beloved now than ever. Yeah. Right? But even I think you can make the longevity argument with Taylor Swift now.

I mean, it's been 15 years since. Do you cry during the wedding? Oh, yeah, too. I wasn't at the wedding. Do you live stream it? They did live stream. They've been very protective of it. 15 years since what?

What do you think? I don't know. I guess 2000. Yeah, I mean, she's been. It's probably 20 years that she's been pretty successful. Yeah, yeah, yeah, since she's been at it. Yeah. At a certain point, you have to make a longevity.

argument for her, too. I mean, obviously not as long as Sally Parton, but if, you know, if things don't slow down for another 10 years, that's insane. Jennifer Lopez? She got the whole Latino world. She's very famous. Yeah, I agree. I would say, until a couple years ago, Queen Elizabeth. Yeah, yeah, I guess. I mean, if you're just talking about name recognition. Right, right. She's on, like, the money of, like, 30 countries. She is on the money. On the money. Is that what they mean by that expression? I guess so. When you're on the money, you're spot on.

On the money. The expression, the idiom on the money means being exactly right. Okay, it's typically, yeah, I know what it means. Originated in the U.S. during the late 19th century. It likely comes from horse race betting or gambling, where you putting your bet on the money meant backing the winning horse. Okay. All right.

Back to horse racing. That's how we started this. That's how we started this. Look at everything comes full circle, man. Everything does. Some celebrity deaths. Okay. Now that we're back where we started, let's talk about dying.

Ronald Reagan? Ronald Reagan, 2004. And then Nancy hung on for a bit, right? A little bit longer, yep. Marlon Brando. I never knew much about him. He was an actor. he played Superman's dad

did you know that? No, I didn't know that What's his face is dad? Jorrell Who was Superman at that time? Christopher Reeves Oh, is he played Christopher Reeves' dad? Yeah, Christopher Reeve also died in 2004.

Wow. Whoa, who played his mom? Do you remember? I can see her. I don't know if she was What's the guy's name again? Marlon Brando? No, the Superman.

Christopher Reeves? Yeah. Who played his mom? Susanna York Classic Susanna York Right up there with Taylor Swift and famous And famous Savannah York this woman right here

Yeah It was an English actress All right She really nailed it She won't die for another seven years She really nailed the part Yeah Ray Charles

Oh wow When did the Ray movie come out Was that later? Pretty soon after I think the Was he involved? Did he ever meet Jamie Fox? I think they didn't meet

I think he died while they were shooting it. Dang. Yeah. Yeah, movies are stressful. Ray Charles was awesome. Rick James. Oh, man. We're losing a lot of icons.

Rodney Dangerfield. Oh, gosh. He was a great. I don't think he gets the respect he deserves. That was pretty good. Yeah, it was good. People will say that didn't get what it deserved. Yeah.

People will say that. in the comments. Because I don't get no respect. Some celebrity bursts. Millie Bobby Brown. Oh, okay. So, yeah, these are people that are

22? 22 to 21, 22. Yeah, depending on when the birthday is. Cocoa Gough. The tennis player? Yep. Victor Wimonyama. Wow.

How about that? You know him? I don't know any of these people. Victor Wimniyama, they call him the alien. Dude, I'm going to show you a picture what this guy looks like.

Do aliens look like it's Look how tall he is man Wow 7 foot 5 And he's Nimble dude He's like he's so athletic Wow

And he's so good but he's just Look how tall he is Gosh Seven foot five Think about those socks he's wearing Gosh Imagine sewing those in a sweatshop somewhere Gosh

Gosh Like pants Those are ankle socks Yeah Yeah, I guess he's in He's 22 Golly The iPod mini came out in 2004

I don't remember the mini as much The shuffle would come out later, right? Mm-hmm Okay Firefox Mozilla Mozilla Firefox Oh yeah

It's a great browser Gmail started 2004 Gmail was big I remember Gmail coming out And their whole thing, Gmail, this teaches the big moments in my life. Yeah. With Gmail, their whole thing was hovercraft. Do you remember email before?

You probably had hovercraft at gmail.com. The webcraft. Do you remember email before Gmail? It was like you had such, you had little space. You had to delete emails. Oh. Because you would run out of storage space on your email. That was a big thing.

And then Gmail came out and they were like, you basically have on, you have two gigabytes of storage, which is not a lot now, but at the time, it was like insane. And then you'll never have to delete emails again. Wow. Revolutionary. That is. So 2004. I mean, I mean, I it is. Yeah, I know. I reckon we all use Gmail in this room, right? Yeah. Hotmail. Your hotmail. What's email? Brian at AOL.com. No, I use Gmail. I remember making jokes about Gmail, though, because 50 cent had the G unit. Yeah. And I would say, you know, Gmail like it's like, you know,

G unit is like the, you know, gangster. So it's like gangster male, gmail. You know what I mean? Early dust. How long did you do that? This wasn't a joke. Oh. Well, it was.

You were doing this on stage? Just in life. Okay. It's just for parties. Yeah. Where are the Simpsons? Yeah. People got it back.

Yeah. Yeah. You guys don't even like Uncle Buck. It was a good joke in 2004. It's a good joke now. I'll share a little sports. I don't want to bore you, but just some quick things. Yeah, sure.

We did 45 minutes on Uncle Buck. We can talk sports for a few. We did talk Moneyball, though. You did, yeah. In 2004, there were three college football teams that went undefeated. USC, Oklahoma, and Auburn. And Auburn got snubbed. Yeah, I remember that.

USC blew Oklahoma out. Yeah. Which is crazy to think about because the joke everybody makes now is the SEC gets preferential treatment from everybody. That would just never happen now. I think Auburn now has that national championship. They retroactive. Do they claim it? Because they had to vacate it?

I think so because USC got knocked out because of what, Reggie Bush. Yeah. And then they... It seems like Oklahoma would still get it. I feel like they determined that Auburn would have beat Oklahoma. They just said they would have beat them So we're going to give this to you Auburn officially claims the 2024 national championship

That's right you get it The 2004 national championship Undefeated 13 in no season Yeah How about that? That was Jason was that a Cadillac Ronnie Brown It was Jason Campbell the quarterback at that time

I think he was Yeah they were a good good team Big college though I don't even know what you're laughing at you. It's stupid into that. It's too good. The meme is, the video has swept the internet.

Oh, you're talking about the guy, I turned it down. Yeah, yeah, turned it down. I love the people made fun, they try to make fun of you the first time,

like saying you were doing some accent because they were saying, turns it down. It's like, that's what he says. He's turned it down. I mean, come on. So big collars.

Matt Liner, won the Heisman trophy. Yeah. The first player draft in the NFL draft was Eli Manning. Eli, by the Chargers. And then he said, I'm not playing there. Yeah, I'm not going to play with the Chargers. So they traded him to the Giants.

Who did the Chargers end up with? Philip Rivers. Oh, yeah. That was a great. That's right. Philip Rivers, Eli, Manning, Ben Rothersberger, all went pretty early in the first round and all had arguably. Really good careers. Yeah, Hall of Fame.

The first player taking the Major League Baseball draft was Matt Bush. things didn't work out for him. But the second player drafted was Justin Verlander. Wow. Who's still playing. Who is just announced he's retiring and is in the Allster game this weekend. Yeah. Or last night, I guess.

The Boston Red Sox and it is 86 year losing streak, winning the World Series. Right after Moneyball. Wow. Right after Moneyball happened. Two years after. Two years after. Using the same techniques that they used. Some of them.

That's what it says in the movie. I remember. You know what's so fine? I'm going to blow your mind about that money ball movie. The Oakland A's also had the MVP that year, and he's never mentioned in the movie. Wow. And they had like some of the best pitching in the major league, and they're never mentioned in the movie. Yeah.

So he would leave that stuff up. Was it Germain Die, right? Jermaine Die, right? I remember Barry Zito. Some might say that's kind of an emotional manipulation of sorts. Some would say that. Yeah, yeah. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.

I mean, of course, Miriam Hogue. wouldn't say that but uh wasn't the MVP but he was uh good very very good you know what it's funny i was working with connor now he later looked it up and i'm glad he did because i told him i was telling him we flew on the same flight and i was telling him that i just watched money ball and i go it's really great i go i love that he didn't take the money and he goes yeah only to leave a couple years later and take the money and i go what and we talked about that for 30 minutes and then when we get in the car he looks it up he goes he goes goes, oh, actually, I guess he didn't.

And I go, well, I'm glad you looked that up. Because I would not have looked it up. And I'd have gone in Guns Blazing on the podcast. He's a part owner now, minority owner of the A's. He's white. I can't find my list of top songs of 2004, but I think I sent you, vested you the top songs of 2004. Yes, you did.

Let me see if I can come up with it. Let's pull it up here, top songs. Okay, the first one is obvious. This is a big middle school dance song for me. Oh, to the window. I mean, that was up there. Okay, sorry. I just saw a little job.

No, but it's, yeah, but I'm sure. I mean, that song. Wow. Who were you dancing with in middle school? I mean, you're just kind of, it's just an amorphous blob. Yeah, you're just getting after. He's just on that hoverboard out there, ripping it up. His dad let him in the gym early.

What's up, girl? You want to take off on these cinder blocks and what makes them wait for you. in my school cafeteria man the reason by Hubasank was number six God what a great song that was The way you move Oh yeah

That was a good song Some good songs out here I don't know Usher You know Usher Yeah I do know that song You don't know I like the way you move Oh yeah I do know that song

I like that way. I like that. What about Freakalik by Piedie Poblo? Were you bumping that at the news station? I did have some Pity Pobble. Take your shirt off. Twist it around your head. It's been like a helicopter, North Carolina.

You guys know that one? Mm-hmm. Come on, guys. Of course. Don't leave me hanging here. No, I'm going to hear you sing it. Dirt off your shoulder by Jay Z. Big one.

All right. I don't know any of these. Yeah. First cut is the deepest by Cheryl Crow. I do know that. You know that. That's the first one I've really. Yeah, yeah.

Let me scroll all the way down to the bait. songs here. Oh, Twister. He was just at the Hollywood casino the night before me. Milkshake. You remember that song? Yeah. Uh-uh. My milkshake brings out the boys to the y'all. Oh, yeah, I know that song. Jesus walks by Kanye West. A lot of these have, they've lived on over the last 22 years. Ludacris has a song about telling people to get out of the way, you know, and. Who's specifically? Yeah, he just, anybody, really. But I saw a poster for him. But I saw a poster for Move, friend.

Yeah, get out of the way, friend, get out there. That's good. And there was a cardboard cutout of him at the Atlanta airport holding a sign saying, how was your travel experience? I just think that's a nice character arc he's had. Ludacrous? Yeah, he's in commercials. Yeah.

What an evolution. Yeah. To go from moving. They're like, get out of my way to, how was it? I mean, I've been to all the area codes. and what does he have on all the air it goes he's got he's got a lot going on i don't know the song so tell me what what does he have he has women i've got women that's what he calls or gardening tools i've got women in different area of the coasts a shovel yeah yeah i've got shovels uh general motors

phased out the oldsmobile oldsmobile rolled off the smil line of so while all these fun things are happening in pop culture there's some real dark stuff budding in the background. There is. Yeah, a lot of Americans are about to be without a job

pretty soon, huh? About four years away from the housing crisis. GM is cutting vehicles from its line. But yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

A giant... Just dancing while the world's falling. A giant earthquake and tsunami hit the day after Christmas. Wow. Where? Do you remember this?

Which one was it? One in Southeast Asia? Oh, it was a real bad one. Yeah. It was a real bad one. to give me some more context. The one that is one of the worst natural disasters in history. Obviously, I would never joke about that.

There was a movie, what, right? Sounds bad and whatever it was. A movie? Was it, wasn't there a movie about the tsunami? I want to say it was a... About the tsunami. Johnny tsunami? Blue Lagoon?

What? The family that got separated, and they found their way back to each other? What's it called? Boy in the striped pajamas. What are we talking? Peter Pan? I don't know.

Can you just see it? I thought Matt Damon had a... The Impossible? Is that it? Okay, yeah. Oh, a little Tom Holland, a young Tom Holland. Oh, also Harry Holland and Sam Holland. And Naomi Watts from the Ring.

And you and McGregor? Is this the movie you're talking about? I guess so. I thought maybe Matt Damon had one, but I guess... Maria Henry and their three kids decide to spend Christmas in Thailand. Okay. However, their luxurious holiday. turns into a nightmare when a tsunami swells up unannounced thereby separating the family.

I mean, 81 on Rotten Tomatoes. Is Naomi Watts not Jewel? Wait. She looks like Jewel. He looks a little bit like Jewel. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But she's an actress.

She kind of does her own thing. Yeah, she looks like Jewel, though. Maybe she plays Jewel. She was a mitt for her. Yeah. Maca Colkin plays Kid Rock. Yeah. Maybe.

Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe. I think so. Yeah.

Let's cut that as a clip. One million news. Tough pick for Geraldine Chaplin here, and then it doesn't help that the role name is old woman. That is tough. If you're Geraldine Chaplin, can we get another picture? Look at those eyes. What is going on with all black eyes? I mean, I don't even think she had to audition.

They've made a part for her. That wasn't even good. be an old woman in this. That's too bad, man. All right, we can wrap it up there. We can wrap it up there. Off something fun. Yeah, the tsunami. Yeah. Old woman.

Well, all right, so this weekend I am at Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky. Two shows Friday, two shows Saturday. Great club. It is great club. And I'm with Mark Shelfu's with me. Oh, nice. Yep. And next weekend,

I am at the Funny Farm Comedy Club in Goshen, Indiana. Abe Albers with me there. All right. You swing by South Bend? It's close. Maybe. Goshen's close. Maybe.

And then that's July 31st and August 1st and then August 2nd. I'm at helium in Indianapolis. All right. Aaron Weber here this weekend. I'm going to be in Royal Oak, Michigan at the Comedy Castle. I've never been. I've heard great things about it. I'm excited to be there this weekend.

July 7th. 16th, 17th and 18th at the Comedy Castle. Nateland family friend, Jay Flake will be with me. So coming out and see the Black and Mild Tour in Royal Oak, Michigan the next month, heading back to Phoenix, Arizona, August 28th through the 30th

at Desert Ridge Improv, coming out and see me. All right. I'm going to hit you with a couple here. Oh, geez. Tonight, I'm at the Opry. Nice. This weekend, I'm in Atlantic. Don't go to the bathroom. Okay. This weekend, I'm in Atlantic City.

July 22nd, our let loose open mic that we've started going here at the lab at zanis it's been hot people are loving it yeah the last one that we had it was really hot people love it we got a lot of bucket spots if you want to do comedy this is the time to do it and just come see a fun show uh i'm also then i'm gonna be i got my uh then we got another let loose on the fifth i mean it's every other week now uh i'm be in Providence, Rhode Island, August 6th through the 8th. Zanies, I'll be here on August 11th. Then I'm doing some Air Force bases.

I got two weekends of Air Force bases. Wow. It's going to be great. Any Space Force this time? Maybe. Yeah. Rounding out with a casino in Hobbs, New Mexico on August 29th. So just throwing a few out there.

Come out and see us. We're all professional comedians. Doing a variety of things from casinos to Air Force. force bases to comedy clubs to uh what are some of the spaghetti dinners yeah spaghetti dinners you did a couple of those sure and uh we'll do anything i just realized i'm wearing a dolly parton the truck stop the new one she just opened oh did you go there i stopped there yeah how to go it's all right yeah you stopped there or you drove an hour south to i had a show in alabama i passed it and i went on the way back because she was seems like she was really talking some smack about it was it was it was it was

wasn't a Buckees. Yeah. It was like a nice love... Dolly can't do no brisket. With Dolly Parton merch there. She can't do no brisket. No, she can't do no brisket. Yeah.

She can't do no brisket. They're only open 9 to 5. Is that good? Working 9 to 5. What a way to make a living. Thank you guys. God bless. I'm running the show.

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