The Nateland Podcast - 244: #244 Friendship

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

This week, Aaron wears shorts to the podcast, Dusty advocates for fruit trees in every yard, and Nate goes snow skiing for the first time. Then the guys get into the topic of friendship by discussing how everyone at the table first met, Dunbar's number, the "cheerleader effect", and cows with best friends.  Helix- helixsleep.com/nate Get 20% off sitewide for March madness at helixsleep.com/nate. AG1- DrinkAG1.com/nate AG1 is offering new subscribers a FREE $76 gift when you sign up. You’ll get a Welcome Kit, a bottle of D3K2 AND 5 free travel packs in your first box. Make sure to check out DrinkAG1.com/nate to get this offer! Rocket Money- Rocketmoney.com/nate Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to RocketMoney.com slash/NATE today! Orgain- Orgain.com/NATELAND For 30% off your order, head to Orgain.com/NATELAND and use code NATELAND.

Hello folks and hey Barry, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron A-A-A-R-A-Ron. I just saw that thing again this week. It's just so funny. That clip. The substance. The substance. The Substitute. Yeah. It's an all time great sketch. Ruined my life. Yeah. Yeah, but man it's good. It's so good. And Dusty Slay. Okay. They should have thrown you in there. They should have. For that sketch and then yours they just say correctly. Yeah. Yeah. Dusty Slay. My best friend growing up, his dad was Greek and he would call me Deusty. Oh. Oh.

Deusty Slug. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or is he in the trailer? No, no, no. Actually, my best friend had a two story brick house. Whoa. Yeah, it was big time.

Wow. Yeah. Real boy meets world kind of situation. Would you say... You were Sean Hunter. Yeah. He was Cory. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Real boy meets world kind of situation. Would you say... You were Sean Hunter when he was Cory? Yeah. That's funny.

Yeah. That's funny that you say the word brick. Oh yeah. Like it was... I would never even think to say that. To me at that time, it was very noticeable that it was like, oh, that's a nice brick house. It's a brick...

The tornadoes are coming. You want a friend. Yeah. It's got a brick house. Exactly. You would say, can I go to your upstairs during a tornado? And he goes, I don't think you're supposed to go. It's better

than where I'm at. Yeah. Yeah. Upstairs of a brick house is better than main floor of what I'm in. Yeah. Yeah. Main floor, that's the only floor. That's the only floor. Yeah. It is the floor. Yeah. And it's, yeah, I mean, you're scared in any

kind of storm in a tornado. Yeah. Except an earthquake. An earthquake's the one you're not worried about. Yeah, and it's, yeah, I mean, you're scared in any kind of storm in a tornado. Except an earthquake, an earthquake's the one you're not worried about. Yeah. You weren't around earthquakes growing up though, right? No, no. When I was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago, there was an earthquake at night, slept right through it.

Oh yeah? But I woke up and everybody was like, do you feel the earthquake? And I was like, nah, I wish I had, cause I've never felt one before. Yeah, I had a, there was an earthquake when I was- You're like, I fell out of bed about that time. Yeah. Yeah, he just shook.

He goes, normal. He goes, I couldn't hear it over my sleep at me, a Darth Vader mask. He goes, my bed already shakes. The room's loud already. It just sounds like the vacuum's running. They walk by your room and they go, clean leg is getting after it tonight. Who's vacuuming? It's three in the morning. vacuum's running. They walk by your room and they go clean ladies getting after it. Who's vacuuming? It's three in the morning.

It's three. How long are they vacuuming? How much, how much carpet could there be in that room? I think there was an earthquake. They said when me and Nick were in LA for the Vanity Fair thing, I got texts that were like, hey, did you feel that? And I did it. Feeling an earthquake, I think I've talked about it before.

It's wild. It's the most uncontrollable feeling, I think. Maybe because again, we're not used to it, but it's just, it's everywhere. Like it's a tornado or a hurricane. Like you're like, all right, you can go somewhere. You can't if you're in it, obviously, but like you're, it's not everywhere. And when you're in an earthquake, it doesn't matter. Go, run.

It doesn't stop. I think having vertigo is like just an earthquake for you. It's a personal earthquake. That is true. Like you're like, oh, but nobody else is like that. Yeah. So if you've had vertigo, you might be ready for an earthquake. At least an earthquake, you're like, you're all going down with vertigo.

Yeah. Nobody can walk. They're all a little busy. That's very true. I think it was wireless headphones that gave me vertigo. I stopped using them. Oh, really? I'm wired now. I'm all wired again. They say wireless headphones, if you wear wired now, I'm all wired again. They say wireless headphones, if you wear them both,

they communicate with each other through your brain. Yeah. Who's they? We know who they are. That's always the question. Now we know who they are. I like they. In the 90s, who is they was a real question.

We know who they is now. Yeah. They as many people, but we know who they are. I don't think I do,. We know who they is now. Yeah, that's a you know, they as many people but we know You know more than you know Aaron Rodgers just still does the wires for that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Sends a picture of him at the ocean with the blanket around him. No, I Just saw something like that. Like I guess because he still hasn't told people where he's hiding out.

Oh, he's hiding out? Where he's going. Where he's going. Oh, oh, football-wise? Yeah. I went from, I... Let's go Titans. I bet if I met Eric, let's see that picture,

like him just hanging there like... Lowered expectations video. Yeah. Lowered expectations. He did that, I'm a Shia. What's that thing they all do now? Where they go in the dark and- Oh, ayahuasca?

Yeah. Ayahuasca. Oh yeah. That's one that I'm like, ugh, hearing people talk about that. Yeah. You're like, and it just tell people to do it. Someone's got three kids. Yeah.

Barely survive them. They check by check. Oh, do you want me to go on a magic ride? And you think that's going to fix everything? Yeah, maybe I should give it a go. These lunatics that tell people to go do stuff makes me so mad. It's just like, what planet are you on? Do you not remember? All think about, all I think about is growing up where you're like, it's check by check, food by food. Can you imagine when you're growing up and someone tells your parents, go, why don't you take a-

Go in the woods and take peyote. Yeah, for a month. What are you, out of your mind? Yeah. Yeah, I couldn't imagine my parents doing something like that growing up. You either had parents that were doing it or they weren't. They can't, like it was... Either way, it was bad. Either like, no, that's all my parents do and I live on my own.

But yeah, the audacity, I always think when you hear someone to say, go do something like that is insane. Absolutely insane. And then they go and just talk about it as if we all did it, we would be better. Are you, what, I mean, do you not remember anything? No. Do they not remember, like, not being a picture,

kids, just the chaos of life. I've had people do that, tell me they did it and then describe it to me and I'm like, not been a picture kids Yeah. Sure, but you got the time. Uh, Nate Land, uh, uh, just a couple of little Nate Land news. Nick Thune has a brand new half hour special. Born Young. Nick's, uh, he's the best. It premiered this weekend. It's very funny. Check it out on YouTube under Nate Land Entertainment.

Uh, it's a great, great, uh, special. And uh, I know we got some people got mad because we I think he accidentally cursed in it but it's out now. I will, but we did get, we did not catch it and I don't think he realized he said it. We're not perfect here at Nate Land. I'm telling you we're gonna fix it. We're gonna fix everything but I want to be upfront about the mistake. It's not, you know, it was just an, you know, we're not. It happens.

You know, as Nate Land, we're not perfect. I'm not perfect. Brian's perfect, but the rest of us are not. I'm definitely not. Yeah. Yeah, I agree with all that. We're none of us, huge, yeah, not perfect at all. So, but we're, mm-hmm we're all going

to get better so yeah yeah characters in the trying also there's a Nate Land presents show good clean funny at the Ryman in Nashville on April 8th it is featuring Ryan Hamilton Dustin Nickerson Derek Stru, Lacey Larabee, Mia Jackson, Paula Kozinski, and special host, Aaron Webber. Oh wow! How about that? That's good. Rhyme and auditorium, big time. Yeah, that's a big one. Look, this is the kind of things, if you guys come support this kind of stuff, that's what Neyland's about. And just so she doesn't get upset about her name being mispronounced, it's just Lace Larabee. Lace Larabee. Lace Larabee.

I said Lacey, yeah. I... It's like shoelace. Yeah, I grew up with Lacey. Yeah. So that's, I know Lace. Yeah, I'm sorry, Lace. Lace Larabee.

But great show, and this is the type of stuff that we're gonna be doing. It's stuff like, I'm not gonna be at this stuff, and this is the stuff that helps, you know, drive everything that we're doing. So the more you guys support that kind of stuff, the better I think in the long run for standup comedy for what we're trying to do here.

So it's an amazing show. Ryan Hamilton's got, I mean, he's got a Netflix special. Dustin's obviously got a special with us, Derek Strupe, very funny, Lace, Mia, they were all on, they were all on. It's a podcast with us. Yeah. Dustin. Dustin Dickerson does our, yes, he does the podcast.

Don't maybe come back there every Thursday, also Greg Warren's the consumer every Tuesday, but those are two podcasts, but Dustin's there, and then Lace, Mia, and Paula, we're all on the Showcase series. So yeah, make sure the Ryman's the best. It's something that's very helpful to what we're trying to do. Are you worried the show's gonna start off too hot?

That's kind of the only thing I'm worried about. In that aura with you. Oh, you're talking about like, cause the host will be hot cause of his size. We have- The rhyman's big. It's big. The rhyman's big.

We are, we know we read Aaron's web, we read his writer. He asked for a walk-in cooler access. He doesn't ask, he's not a crazy person. He doesn't ask for the walk-in cooler. Just let me walk in the kitchen. What his writer says is, come on, I know you got one. I need a stool on the stage and in the cooler. Do you have one?

Yeah. I need access. I need the key. I need the key to the walk-in cooler. Yeah. So we will have that for Aaron. But yes, it will start off hot. Yeah.

You coming in, bud? With your, I mean, you fired up. I'm excited. It's gonna be great. Got shorts on today. I hope you do. I'm going home right after this, so I don't have to wear stage pants.

It's pretty nice. You could've just wore pants for us. If you're a guy on the news, I mean, you shorts all day, right? Oh, I mean, maybe shorts. I mean, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe, like what would you, otherwise what would you have?

Just underwear. Speedo? Oh, okay. Yeah, depending on who's next to me on the desk. Yeah. Yeah, but your anchor. I don't want it to be weird. You're on channel five and your anchor by yourself,

could he sit with just underwear? There would be someone, would everybody have to leave? Yeah, I don't think that'd be appropriate. They wouldn't, did they not do that in the 90s? Even it wasn't appropriate then. Wear your underwear just on stage? No, suit and tie up, suit and tie up top. Could they go shorts below?

Yeah, shorts. They would do, and they would do that. Occasionally, yeah, I've seen it. But Aaron, but for Aaron, they would, you think he would do it. Yeah, I think he would definitely do it all year round. Probably wouldn't even, you don't think he would ever. It's my first time I've ever worn shorts on the podcast. I don't think I'll ever do it again.

This is the most of your legs I've ever seen. All right, thank God. Yeah. It's kind of chilling in this room, but it feels- It'd be weird if you'd seen more. Yeah. Well, I'm saying, well, yeah, it would be because these are pretty small, but I'm saying This is the smallest shorts I've ever seen you wear. Do you want to stand up so everyone can see? I don't actually

That's the whole point of this desk. Yeah, you're hoping no one is going to say something. Yeah, that's tough wearing crocs, too That's oh i'm a mess. Oh, man I didn't know that crocs you always wear with socks with socks. Yeah, but he always does that He's been- But if I were doing the show after this, I'd wear shoes and pants because I don't want to disrespect the- So the day, the fun story about,

when I, so when I met Fallon, the first time, I think I probably talked about it, when he came into the comedy club, the stand, came downstairs, me, Yanis Pappas Chris Laker. We were ending a podcast Maitland. Oh, no, no, it could be better. It could be better. Don't yeah, it was horribly run It was for ten years ago. The name was it could be better. Yeah, and then it was horribly run Well, that was the point of it. I came with a name It could be better because I wanted anybody that listened to it if they go this should be better. And then it was horribly wrong. Well, that was the point of it. I came up with a name, it could be better

because I wanted anybody that listened to it, if they go, this should be better, I go, no, no, we agree. We are calling it could be better. We're starting out with, we know it could be better. You guys wrote a sitcom for you called Nate Land. That's what I was thinking about. It was very funny. We did that during that time

as we're just learning how to do everything. And then, so we did all that. Anyway, so we get done with the podcast. Yannis shows up dressed like you. He has crocs on, shorts, like, you know, clearly not, he was not going on stage that night. Me and Laker both dressed as if we were, I think we were going on. And then Fallon comes down. So then, and so Yannis was managed by the guys that ran that club. So then everybody's like, well, everybody needs to go up because Fallon's staying for the show.

So then Yannis has to go up and he's in a situation just like this. Like if Fallon came into this show tonight and like, it's like, no, you need to go up. It's like, I mean, Hal, what are you going to do? You'd be like, I've already done Fallon, guys. But if someone, if someone comes in and they, uh, Chuck Laurie walks in, uh, you know, and goes, I'm looking to make a

sitcom. You know, for years, I would just have a pair of jeans in my car for that very reason. Even I would go to like a show where I go, I'm just going to watch. In the back of your head, there's always like, they're going to come out and go, we can't find an opening. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I want to always be able to. This is one of the rare times. I'd let you wear my pants. Yeah. We could find someone's, you know, I think

if a couple of us threw in some pants. Yeah. There's a reciemestress here. Would you bring this desk out and go, your next comic will be... I'll find a podium or something. But if it was like, you got to go up, you just do it, right? Yeah. I think now I'd find a way to just make a comment about it. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's very funny. We love talking about our Helix mattresses. You do. I have had my Helix mattress almost three years now. Can you believe that? It's been a good three years for you

too. Yeah it has been a good three years. A lot has to do with the mattress I'm sure. That's true you sleep good, you feel good. You feel good, you sleep good. Good night's rest. You feel good. Yeah. You feel good, you do good. Look at this, Nate's parents just got one and they love it. All right. So, been a good three years for, you know, the Bargazzi family too.

Well, they just got it. Yeah, well, they love it though, look how good. That kind of offsets the whole point. Well, I bet things are not gonna start going bad. That's true. Yeah, there you go. If things are already going good, they'll keep going bad. Oh, here's Nate's dad said it helps with his sleep apnea.

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comedy club Friday and Saturday. Keep those cities. No one's heard of a log. Yeah. Yeah. Beverly, Massachusetts. Somebody said my tours should be called the just outside of tour. Yeah.

Just outside of, that's a good one too. That is a good tour. That is a good tour. Just outside of. Yeah. Anyway, great shows. A lot of NateLand folks came out. Um, had a

great time and yeah it was just a lot of fun flew there yep mm-hmm yeah we're home at 5 a.m. yesterday morning Wow what time did you where'd you fly to Boston mm-hmm mm-hmm and you know hit dusty up go get some coffee but he blew me off so you're in Boston too yes I was well I don't by the time you got there I had already ate and now I'm sitting back in my hotel and I'm like I don't I'm not into yeah I'll see Brian in two days yeah yeah I invited Brian out for cigars and he said no yeah yeah that's true well did you stay in No, Beverly's like that cigar shop you sent me was like 36

minutes away. It was pretty far from you. That's a hike after a show. Yeah. And again, you will see each other. Yeah, here we are. Yeah. But I mean, I wanted to go to a coffee shop because I got berated all week from last week's episode because I criticized Dusty's top five Nashville coffee shops and all the Dusty heads came out attacked me all week. Yeah. Well, I got death threats. Yeah. I wanted to show people that look. So anyway, it was a big deal. Yeah. I edited it. So I feel like you look you look like a big kid wearing that Vanderbilt t-shirt. I feel like a big kid. Yeah, you just feel like you look, you look like a big kid wearing that Vanderbilt t-shirt. I feel like a big kid. Like your, your dad brought you to the vanity game today.

I don't know why it's short sleeve. I think, and I think that's why it's like, it just, yeah. You're typically a collared shirt guy. Yeah, that is true. That's true. Yeah. I feel like Aaron now, the shorts, a little inappropriate. It's a little vulnerable. I'm excited about Vanderbilt. I'm excited about Vanderbilt.

I'm excited about Vanderbilt too. I am too. It looks like you're waiting in line to meet Will Perdue at this age. Yeah. I would so love that. Not, and I'm not talking about 1990. I'm talking about 2025. He follows us.

Ah, Will Perdue. On social media. Yeah. He's the best. He is. These are, he's our, he's our goat. Well, Darius Garland might be our... Yeah, but he played what? Four games? That's true, but he was there. That's right. Will Purdue played, so he would

initially, he would be out more. He's got championship, but Darius Garland, it is crazy how close we were to having him start. Vanderbilt, March Madness. It's exciting. We're very exciting. 2.15 I think on Friday against St. Mary's. Wow. Can't wait, we can't wait. But anyway, excuse me, last week,

Dusty gave a top five coffee shops in Nashville. Hot list. And I just questioned who would care about this and the people let me know. Well, I did not do you any favors editing that clip because in reality, Dusty did his entire list. It took a long

time and then Brian was like, well, who's going to care about it? It only took a long time. I made it look like a lot. I was getting a lot of negative feedback from you guys the whole time. Well, you had honorable mentions. He did his

wife's top three coffee shops in Donaldson. Oh, wow. So, I mean, it kept getting more and more specific. That's it. We did seven coffee shops in Donaldson. So, I mean, it kept getting more and more specific. We did seven coffee shops. I didn't even know, I couldn't name seven coffee shops. Well, you know, we live in Nashville. I think we should really put some, you know, pride into putting our stuff out on the- You could off the top of your head name seven. Oh, no. Many more. Yeah. I mean, I could name many more, I think. And he did. Really? But I put seven together.

And some for his wife. One of the seven was for her. Yeah. Kremma. How many do you go to? Well, you know, I go to a lot, you know, just depending on where I'm at. There's some good spots. Yeah. I think if you were going around the country, these are my favorite coffee shops around the country. I mean, but I think Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, local radio. Yeah. But I think that because we live here, we should give a shout out to some of our, you know, our local, local people. Yeah, I agree.

I look to go take the Dusty coffee shop tour. That's what I'm saying. Everyone said that. I just went on the record. I think his list was stupid and so is he. So, all right, let's move on. That's what I'm talking about. High team page.

Yeah. There was no coffee, let's move on. There was no coffee shops back in his day. Yeah. He doesn't come from coffee shops. They had to grow their own beans back then. Yeah. He goes, it's out of a can. He'd go, my mom's house, my mom's house, my mom's house. That's his three favorite coffee shops.

Yeah, you used to get that, you remember getting that freeze dried, like block of coffee. We used to get that at the grocery like a Folgers. It was like freeze dried just to. Oh, I remember that. Yeah, I don't think we ever had it. Yeah. Never heard of that. Hmm. Aaron? Where was I? Yeah, yeah. Where were you wearing shorts this week? I was with Kathleen Madigan this weekend and making Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, actually went to, uh, the, the, the coffee shop he recommended in Charleston.

I went there. Oh yeah. Cudu coffee. It's great recommendations. I was trashed to the list too. And then I was like, I'm in Charles and I'd like to find a piece. Yeah. Cudu is a hot spot.

Cudu is a good spot. It is a good spot. Broke my toe this week. That's the big news. Stubbed it real hard. It's completely broke and it hurts and I can feel it right now. It's part of the reason I'm wearing Crocs because they hurt in tennis shoes right now. Oh, wow.

He didn't do anything to do about a broken toe. There's nothing. It's my pinky toe. So they're like, they're like, yeah, he's got it. How'd you do it? I stubbed it on something. The other foot. You stepped on it on your own foot. Crushed it with your own weight.

He crisscrossed. He goes, I was doing crisscross. I was trying to do the break dance. Oh yeah. You stepped on your own foot. No, I didn't. And it broke his outside. He doesn't want to say it, but that's fine. No, I stubbed it on some furniture.

At the hotel? No, at the house. Oh yeah. You did break it? Yeah, it's definitely broken. I'll show you a picture later. You're having a lot of trouble. It's still bad. It hurts. You are going through it right now. Yeah, it's just once, you know, it's just not my... I think next year is gonna be great. This is a tough year. I think I'm buckling in

for a tough year, man. Yeah, I mean, man, it is March 17th and you're already just like... But you've already been on Fallon. Your special has over 300,000 views. Yeah, but I think that now it's over yeah it's been out it's over that was it it was too uploaded yeah the year was that's true yeah I should have spread all that stuff yeah too hot started off too hot and so now you're now what do you do there's nowhere to go but down yeah keep breaking bones yeah go to the hospital you gotta just get through the year. This is the end of the next year.

We're man. 26. January, February, March is going to be hot. It's going to be great next year. Yeah. Yeah. How's your year going? How's your year going?

Yeah. Yeah. That answer right now. How's your year going? Great. It's going great. Yeah. It's starting to go bad, but it's going.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Asking too much. Yeah. You got sick to go bad, but it's going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Asking too much. Yeah. You got sick in a hotel and now you're breaking your toes. Yeah. But uh, shows were good. Kathleen's the best.

Yeah. And I'm, it's just so funny. I'm in Boston this weekend and you were at the Charleston music hall, which is uh, you know, uh, my friend Charles Carmody as the director there. Great place. Great spot. Great. Charleston music hall used to let me do shows there. It's a 900 seat venue. They used to let me do shows there when I was selling 50 tickets.

And, uh, it's fun. And you agreed to that. Yeah. Well, he was, Charles was my friend. He was like, yeah, we're just the, the, the, the, I would think you'd go for a smaller. No, when there's no, when you first off. Titan Stadium would let me do shit.

Yeah. But I mean, it doesn't mean shit. When you don't know anything about comedy, when you don't know anything about anything. Yeah. And then there's no comedy club in your town. That's true. Yeah. He's like, you want to do the music?

Oh, I'm like, yeah, that sounds great. Let's do it. So I would have done it too. Yeah. Of course. But anyway, that was good. I did it with Nate. Yeah, it's great. It's do it. Yeah, I would have done it too. Yeah, of course. But anyway, that was good. I did it with Nate. Yeah, it's great. It's a great spot. You know guys know Charles? Yeah, that'd be a nice guy. But I'm gonna be in Boston this weekend. Pick up where you two guys left off. Real

Neflan takeover of Boston. Yeah. Yeah. This month. By the way, the Kudu coffee shop you said was a goat? Well, I said it's goat like or deer like. Yeah. Apparently it's his own thing. Yeah. Yeah. People are like, I bet kudu's a kudu. And it's like, yeah, sure. I mean, but it's deer like.

What is a kudu? I've never heard of this. It's a deer like. It's an antelope. Yeah. It's a deer like. It's an African antelope. Yeah.

I mean, come on guys. A kudu's a kudu. I had never heard of this animal. Yeah. I mean. Yeah, I mean come on guys Kudos a kudos Yeah, I'd never heard of this animal yeah, yeah me either I think I've seen it yeah just out and about On stuff. I mean those horns are real demonic looking you know so You gotta know that's it. I mean that's an awesome looking at yeah sure like that's it is That's a cool animal. If it's real. Yeah, you make some kind of a shofar out of those horns,

you know? What's that? Blow the shofar, it's like a, it's like a, you know, religious, you know, like you do, you blow in, you do blow the shofar for religious holidays. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Are you into that?

The first one I read it says conservation status. The thing I read it as conservative. I go, oh, it's Republican. They just know the animal. They go, all right, it looks like that. But they got a stance like that. You go, I could see that. Yeah.

This is the least concern. So they're, they're not endangered at all. Oh, wow. Oh, they give it a,'re, they're not endangered at all. Oh, wow. Oh, they give it a, yeah, they get what's NT mean? Not time. Endangered. Not that, not that bad. Least concern is LSTM.

Oh, NT. Oh, NT. EX is extinct. So is NT no trouble. Yeah. VU is very... Very... Unstable. ...underwhelming.

Vulnerable. EW, extinct in the wild. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. Animals that are just in zoos. Oh, wow. Critically endangered. Maybe let some of those out.

We got them all locked up. Let them out, maybe. Let them out. Yeah. Anyway, fun weekend man. Let them out. Yeah. Anyway, fun weekend. Okay, good coffee spot. One time they got mad at me because they serve beer there and my buddy was taking too long to drink his beer. So I was like, let's go, dude.

And so I went and got him a to-go cup and then they knew what we were doing. And then they came out and yelled at me. At the coffee place. I was like, okay, guys, whatever. Yeah, whatever you go. Yeah. Oh, but I was in Boston this weekend. I did, I forget the name of the theater, but it was a nice theater. Schubert. Schubert. Yes. Very nice, fun show, great show. I did about an hour and 10 minutes there at that show. And then the next night I went to Toronto, Canada, hour 21 minutes.

I think a new personal record. I think. We got, uh, we all, we got it on the text thread. No, like no context to it. I mean, it's, it would really honestly be only people that listen to this podcast and us for, if we were all on the text thread, we would only be the only ones that would know what that meant. Oh man. I was pumped.

But we got it. I got a thing. Got one from Bakes. Very good. Mine was a joke. As soon as I saw that, I thought I'm starting my clock. Oh, that's funny. I had to wait 43 minutes to do the joke, but you should 39 would have been funny.

I was trying to think what, how far should I go to make it seem realistic? That was the most realistic. 43 is the 43 was, I thought it was real. Where you got like, I have to do 45, but it's a slog. 39 is, it would be the funniest joke, I think. Cause it's, you couldn't even get to like, it's just a feature set. Yeah. It's like, it's like, uh, the feature could argue that he should have kept going to 39.

Yeah. Yeah. But they were both great shows. In Toronto, my buddy Derek Humphrey opened for me. And in Toronto, my wife came, because she lived in Toronto for a long time. And then about 15 of her family members came, and then she did the announcement. She brought Derek on stage from off stage.

Oh, that's fun. She used to do comedy, so for her to do a little thing like that was pretty exciting. Is that the first step she's going to be opening? I don't think she wants to do it, but it was exciting and fun, and it's a great show. I was thinking for the Nate Lang cruise, Lachlan Patterson, Graham K, Hannah do a old Canada show. How about that? Yeah. Yeah. Brian's already booking the cruise. Yeah. Oh, I got one more. That's just one that came to mind. There's your cruise director. Yeah. Brian Bates. I've got some more ideas, but that's all I'll share right now. Yeah, but it was great Boston's great. Toronto's great

Awesome had sushi in both places. Mm-hmm delicious. Yeah, I loved it I we were on spring break or was last week. I went skiing. I've never skied before It was good No, I never got I mean I was like fine, I never got down a big, I never left like the. Bunny slopes. Bunny mountain. Are there people snowboarding on the same? Yeah. Now why did you go, you strike me as more of a snowboard guy. I said I want to go snowboarding and everybody says it's much harder to snowboard than is to ski. And so then you get kind of talked into it. Harper, I mean, picked it up. She was gone. She skied a ton.

I really enjoyed it. It was nice to, when you're up there, cause you're having to like focus so much on what you're doing. So it felt like a break. Cause your mind just is like, you know, you're trying to stay up and fell down a few times. Uh, and you fall down, you're just helpless. You just go to just flip over.

Yeah. But it was like perfect. We were in Colorado and, um, it was like where it's like hot, you know, it's like 40 degrees or 39 degrees, but it's, uh but it's like almost hot. You could ski and have y'all ever skied? No, never have. One time. Really? Like when I was 25.

How'd it go? Oh, where at? How'd it go? Japan or something. You always have some weird, didn't you go to Japan? I did go to Japan. Yeah, some weird. Dude, I can't think of it.

Yeah. What'd you do in Japan? I don't know, he had about- Just a vacation? Visited a friend of mine who was there teaching English. Oh, okay. Yeah. The second language.

Brian's kind of weird. He had about a two-year window of his life where he was out there. He's went to some places. I've been to Australia. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard- Yeah, he did. Sorry, you have a bit about that.

Italy, the Netherlands. I'm a traveler. Yeah, how crazy is that? Italy, Netherlands. Wow. Yeah travel crazy. Italy, Netherlands. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. And then said, that's why it just drives everywhere now, because he's like, I've seen it, he's seen the world guys.

Come on. He didn't. I'm happy for you guys. He doesn't fly because he's like, I don't know. They study. There's so much smoke on a plane. No, it was like Cherokee, North Carolina or something.

Yeah. Smokey mountains. How'd you do? I couldn't get on the, the ski lift. It is tough. I kept going. What's tough about it? I mean, you got, it's hard to, it comes up from behind you.

Yeah. Yeah. But you just, you just sit down as it,, it almost- It like tabletops you into it. If you put a bag of sand there, I think it'd pick it up. You just said it was hard. It's, you stand there, it knocks your feet out from under you, you're sitting down. Yeah, that was my hardest part.

I had to walk up the hill each time to get back down. Dude, I tried walking up with skis on. It's crazy. It was very, yeah, skiing was very funny. Tell me this, is it, I don't know, this might be, might rub people the wrong way. I wonder, but guys from the South that have never skied, is there, do you think people from the South skiing, Southern people, does it feel kind of high end to you? Of course. Oh yeah. Yeah, like so when you, there's something to it

that, cause even when I was there, I could feel myself being like annoyed at the people that said they grew up skiing. Oh yeah. For sure. It's the most pretentious vacation activity you can do. All right. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I felt that way about golf.

I think I've gotten better. I mean obviously I play so much golf. I do too, but there's so many courses that are just nothing. I mean it's a goat track. There's probably ski mountains like that too, huh? I bet there's, so you know if someone's from the north, I don't think that at all. I would never think, they go, we grew up skiing. I'd be like, I figured they did because there's just snow up there. But if you're from the South and you grew up, you're like, yeah, we used to always go skiing on vaca... I mean, I'm borderline, we didn't really do vacations.

We didn't even take a trip far enough to get to snow ever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like just the trip in and of itself. You went to Colorado? Trips were always to the beach. Always to the beach or Gatlinburg. That was all of my. Yeah. You went to Colorado? Trips were always to the beach. Always to the beach or Gatlinburg. That was all of my vacations. I don't even remember if we went to the beach. We just didn't do trips. We did Gatlinburg, Chattanooga. Yeah, we did Gatlinburg, Chattanooga, Panama City Beach, and Dolphin Island. Well, you're one time pretty fancy.

We know where y'all spent your money. Not at the home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Where'd your dad meet? Nice cars. Yeah. Nice cars went on good trips. Yeah. But slept in a, yeah. Slept in a trailer. You're like, let's spend it on, you know, having a good time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good philosophy. Having a good time. Yeah. Daylight savings. Yeah, it's a good philosophy. Having a good time. Yeah. Daylight savings time just happened. It's the perfect time to optimize your morning routine now that more sunlight is greeting you throughout the day.

It's actually darker in the mornings now, but more daylight later in the day, so. I get more done in the dark anyway. Yeah, there you go. It's like sun, no sun, no focus on it. You know what I mean? Yeah. Even if there is no sun, it's hard to get going sometimes in the morning, but if you have AG1, that's the perfect thing you need to kind of get your energy going. If the sun's not gonna help you, at least the AG1 will. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Dusty loves coffee, but I love AG1 in the mornings.

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Cheesem. You don't think it's Cheesem? I think Cheesem. Yeah. Yeah. Pro tip on episode, Nate isn't on listening to your car with ways on and voila. Nate is now on the episode. Look at that.

Oh yeah. I guess it jumps in. It cuts in. It'll cut you off. That's pretty funny. Wow. All right. Good to know.

It'd be like a real episode. We're having fun and then Nate just jumps in with something unrelated. Yeah. Not fun. Brings it to a halt. Jacob Wilson, Dusty is the voice of reason and is held back by brisket. I will not stand for the slander that occurs on Reddit or other places. Let the man tell the truth. There you go. This guy gets it. And it's also not the first time that brisket's held me back.

No. No. That's funny. You ain't gonna get stuff like that anywhere else. Shelly Young, a year ago I visited Nashville. I would have liked to have known the top five coffee shops. However, my bucket list item was to eat a Waffle House. We don't have them in California

and they often make the news for various strange reasons. I didn't experience anything out of the ordinary, but my question is, my question is have any of you ever had a weird experience at a Waffle House? I ate a Waffle House this weekend. Yeah. At like noon.

I don't think you had to set it. Just assumed. Yeah. They go. Breaking news. Tell us when you're dipping. Yeah. I become a big Waffle House during the day. I like it in there. Yeah. It's a totally different place during the day. Yeah. It's nice. There's usually like the 40-year vet waitress, you know, and she's winding down in her life and her career and she's, you know, just a good energy in there. You go late at night, it's like, yeah, it's like a zoo. It's a zoo. I got kicked out of a Waffle House before. I went with my buddy. We both were pretty drunk. We'd gone to the bar and then we got into a fight with each other in the waffle house. This was before Uber.

He called a cab to come get him. And then I'm just sitting there now waiting on my food. Were you at the bar or at a table? At a table. And then the lady was like, oh, you have to leave. And I was like, well, I'm waiting on my food. I do this every night. And then they brought it to me in a to-go box.

And then they let me go get in my car and drive home. They just made me leave rather than letting me eat a little food. My friend was gone. The argument was over. He was being irrational and I had to yell at him and he left. Was this in Charleston? Yeah, I went to Waffle House in Charleston and they said we're closing at midnight and then after that you have to order at a window. Oh so Yeah, Waffle House is not the same this lady went a year ago

Waffle House has changed, you know some good some bad but it's it used to be a real wild place It's like the show cops. Yeah If you wanted to go revisit that you have a joke about taking a friend to Waffle House. Yeah. I used to go there a lot during the day when I sold pesticides. I've also been kicked out of a huddle house too, which is like a Waffle House. Yeah. I've been kicked out of a lot of places. Yeah. I went to a Waffle House in Charleston actually. A couple, two, three years ago, late night, there is high school prom or homecoming. Oh yeah.

That went there. It's like 15 kids. They moved tables together. Not a single one of them tipped. Oh yeah. Yeah, you gotta hate that. Yeah. And the server let me know about it when they left. That's frustrating. But it's one of those... How do you push tables together? They always go to Waffle House? Aaron's a big tipper, though. I don't know push table.

They just kind of like we're a group. I bet Aaron made up for it. Aaron's a great tipper. I'm not asking you to say yes or no, but I bet he made up for it. I did. Yeah. But that's like one of those tough, you know, I always like kind of, you're like, it's like a kid doesn't know.

I mean, you should teach them and let them know. And it's like, they go there. And I and let them know and it's like they go there and I mean you know it's like you just think sometimes you're so young you're like I don't even understand the concept. They haven't had a job yet so yeah like but you know there's also there's gonna be the various that they do know and they're being mean and stuff and there's the various that they don't know and I remember getting both of those when I waited tables you get you know had someone give me a dollar once they came over and gave me a dollar that's how they go you were great and here's a dollar and so it's like I'm not gonna get mad at that person that was my parents go

to tip yeah I've waited tables at western sizzling I mean and you get sometimes change yeah yeah and I don't think people are trying to insult you. No. Yeah. Yeah. Some are. Some are cheap and then some are generally maybe they don't know. Yeah. You got to just... That's what I always thought when you're waiting tables. You're like, yeah, I mean, I hope not to be here. Like if you're taking it that serious, then it's like, well, then move up in world of, like go get to a fine dining. Yeah. Where you're, you know, it's. Aaron is a great tipper by the way. You go to, every time I go to eat with Aaron,

I have to look at his receipt to see what he tipped just to make sure he's not making me look bad. It costs a lot of money to eat with Aaron. If you don't want to look bad. Yeah. Y'all ask for look bad. Yeah. Y'all ask for separate checks. Yeah. Or do you give the credit card and go split it down the middle? Now I go. Are you looking at the percentage? I go, I, you know, I didn't eat that much. Yeah. You go, I'm not paying for your appetizer. Yeah. You look at that percentage of the actual number

because the actual number is going to be higher. Yeah. Yeah. Lower percentage, but five times as much. Yeah. Cause those were his two appetizers. Uh, an appetizer or a waffle house is crazy. Bring me out a waffle to get started. Yeah. Get some hash browns to split.

I would take a three cups of butter and then let us look at the menu. Let's get some toast for the table. Yeah. Appreciate that man. Travis Duff. This is my formal petition. My formal, this is my formal petition to call the Nate land comments. Folk tells last week.

Our subject was folk tales. Okay. Yeah. That's a good folk tale. I don't know if it'll catch it on, but I'm going to read the folk tales. Yeah. That's a good, Folk tales. I don't know if it'll catch it on, but I'm gonna read the folktales. Yeah. Draw it up. Travis will sign it.

Yeah. Change.org. Brian Blue. Dusty said he wanted to talk to his HOA about making everyone in his community plant fruit trees. That makes me think Dusty will consider Tom Brown a folk hero. He has spent 25 years researching and rescuing lost apple varieties. He has

found and rescued 1,200 varieties of apples. He interviewed people, he interviews people in rural parts of Appalachia to find defunct orchards, orchards, to find defunct orchards. This is a long, this was too long of a thing. That's not fair. Orchards to look for apple varieties. I'm not expected to ever read that long. I'm into that.

Yeah, I mean, I think Tom Brown seems great. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I said make, but maybe I did. But I just think that instead of just so, like we have so many of these plum trees, these ornamental, what is it, pear trees, these ornamental pears, there's not a real fruit on them.

Everybody has them. It's like, why do we not have real fruit trees out here? I just don't understand why all of our neighborhoods are not filled with fruit trees that we can just go and pick fruit off of. I don't understand why we're not doing that. Yeah. Oh yeah, that makes sense. Like in a neighborhood, you just go like, hey, hey guys, let's plant apple trees and we all eat around. Yeah. Maybe it's like, you're just like, what if someone gets sick from that? You know, it's like, it all ends up becoming insurance law. Like that's what everything becomes because you always hear that the liability,

the blah, blah, blah, blah, all this kind of stuff where you're like, yeah, if you want apple trees, it's like, well, just plant them in your yard. Yeah. And so then you're- But if we all did it, then every, there would be this abundance of fruit

that we could all just exchange with each other. And everybody, instead of going to the store and spending, you know, 20 bucks on fruit, you just have it. Is it a lot of work to maintain a fruit tree or they just take care of themselves? I mean, I think you probably got to prune them, but... But why don't you just do it for you? There's pruning being... Well, I do do it for me, but I'm saying there's pruning being done already.

You're saying like if there's a median in the neighborhood, throw some fruit trees on there. Why not? And then we got fruit for the whole neighborhood. Then what are you going to say? Everybody then we got fruit for the whole neighborhood. Then what are you gonna say? Everybody, you're allowed two apples a month. Well, that's why I'm saying just every neighborhood, every yard have one fruit tree. And then you got your own fruit,

but if you wanna trade with some other people, you can. You wanna live in a commune. I told him last week, he's like Kramer. He's like Kramer. He has great ideas that are a little out there, but I know, but I think we should wear a name tag. Yeah, but it's like everybody's. No, no, I don't like that. I think people are just like working and living life, man. And I think it'd be a lot to have. Well, that's why. Yeah, I mean, it's just like all I'm saying is instead of the other trees that we already have, let's have fruit trees. But I don't think they've cut down all the trees that we have right now in LA. They have art.

They, I would say my, my dad, I would say you, they do say you need to prune them. My dad has a pear tree. My dad's never pruned it. His dad planted it. His dad died in 1966. Still kicking out still. It puts out so many pairs that it breaks the limbs of the tree. It has so many pears.

And one of them is going to fall and break a windshield and you'll get sued. You know what I mean? But it'll be a pair your pear tree. So there's no one to sue. It's your pear tree. When you run for Mayor McMinnville, I should be your platform. Yeah.

Yeah. You're going to have to build your own city and get like minded minded people to move there. And then they all drink juice and, you know, like, I think we've seen how we're talking about starts with, it all starts with, why can't we have some fruit trees for our community? And then you end up watching a Netflix documentary about it and you go, huh? Well, this is what I'm gonna do. The slayers. Yeah. The slayers.

This is the future. Dusty would look like someone that they'd admit. Oh, for sure. Either that linen shirt that you wear, you'd look like you're about to talk about stuff. Oh yeah. Little man bun going on. Give it some time.

And you gotta see a lot of people, he was nice. You could start something. Yeah, I will. A comedian could bun going on. Yeah, give it some time. And you guys see a lot of people. He was nice. You could start something. Yeah, I will. A comedian could easily be a cult. Oh yeah. We already know how to talk and then so you just kind of get some people into your vibes. Yeah.

And then that's what we're talking about. Yeah, I mean, that's secretly what I've always wanted. Yeah. I wish the best of luck to you. The comedy thing just happened. I don't know how this happened, but I've always wanted. I wish the best of luck to you. The comedy thing just happened. I don't know how this happened. Yeah. Yeah. I've had other plans. Austin Meek. Austin Mike. Me-ike. Austin Meek. On February 24th, I nearly died in a motorcycle accident. Motorcycle? What? Sorry. Sorry Austin. This is serious. On

February 24th, I nearly died in a motorcycle accident and spent a week in the ICU. One of the first things I did when I had the energy was catch up on Nate Land. There's something comforting about getting to spend a couple hours with y'all. Keep doing what you're doing, it's truly a blessing to the folks.

We have tickets to see Dusty March 22nd in San Antonio and my goal is to be healed up enough to make the show. Wow. All right. Austin, two shows this weekend. Yeah. March 21st in Beaumont, March 22nd, San Antonio. It's going to be hot. Yeah. Go out to that. I'm glad that you survived, Austin. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's interesting. I just noticed. Take a car to the Yeah. You know, it's interesting. I just noticed. Take a car to the.

Say ICU. Yeah. But when it's nobody like, uh, the NICU is the NICU, but nobody calls ICU the IQ. Uh, have you ever heard it called the IQ? It's a good question. Uh, IQ, uh, it's the ICU. I'll be honest with you. I never heard it called the NICU until this year the ICU. I'll be honest with you, I've never heard it called the NICU until this year. What did you? Just NICU. I've never heard that.

I think I've heard NICU. See, I'm not saying I'm right, but I'm just saying I don't think I've ever heard NICU until this year. Is it because your communities don't believe in medicine? Maybe. Not formal medicine. Maybe, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, traditional medicine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because you only read it on protest posters that say, NICU. Yeah, it's all hospital, right?

They're in the hospital. Yes. We don't get specific about what part. Yeah. Austin, hill up quick, buddy. Man. Yeah, hill up quick, buddy. Man. Yeah, hill up quick. Go see Dusty.

Go see Dusty. It's gonna be a hot show. Yeah. San Antonio's a underrated city. You think you're gonna, give him a heads up if you could do an hour 20. He's got a bad leg. Well, I probably will.

I'm trying, I gotta write a new joke. I recorded a special, now I gotta write new jokes. So. Bring, yeah, sit and get a little. I mean, hour 20 could just be the beginning. I mean, in Boston, I did my write new jokes. So bring, yeah, sit and get it. I mean, I weren't 20 could just be the beginning. I mean, on in Boston, I did my old hat joke. Somebody yelled out is your hair real. And I did my old hat joke and it felt good. That joke went so well. I was like, ah, that's the best joke I ever wrote. And I even said, I'll never write a better joke. Do you encourage people to yell out? No, but they do.

Just happens? I don't really discourage it. Yeah. What happens, happens. Yeah. That's great. Russell Young, the Vandy women's basketball coach is our cousin and we go to almost all the games. Can we get a little Vandy women's basketball coach is our cousin and we go to almost all the games.

Can we get a little Vandy women's basketball love for the nationally ranked team? And there's superstar freshman, Makayla Blakes. I know Makayla scored 50 points. Twice. Twice. I knew that. And the women's team is doing great. I think we're-

I knew that, I was keeping an eye on them. I know, because I don't think they were ranked, but then we beat some, she had 53 or something. 53 against Florida and then I think she had 55 against somebody else. Yeah, she'd been killing it dude. Like a- All right.

Fannie women's number seven seed in the tournament. Yeah, there we go. Who we got first? Oregon. All right. So we're on the right there. Wow. Yeah, we got that.

Okay. Then we got Duke. Women's Vandy basketball all the way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's good. We've had a rough go with Vandy's women's basketball for a little bit. And so it's nice to see. And we got a star. 50 points, man. Yeah, that's big time. And that's crazy. Let's see Michaela. Blake's. Yeah. She's great. I mean, it's really, I don't, I guess if people scored 50 points, was she the first one to? I'm sure she's not. I think she's a freshman.

Freshman scoring record. Yeah, that's nuts. Yeah. Yeah. I remember it was on. Fifty points? Fifty-five. Fifty-five points. Barrage. Yeah, it's crazy. That's crazy. Is that a record? It shouldn't be. Is that a record? Uh, it shouldn't be in the rare. It's the record is probably one year of the same player. Oh no. Yes. She had the record at 53 earlier this season, 53 points.

And then she broke her own record. 55. Wow. SEC freshmen single game scoring record. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. She's the real deal, man.

Uh, it's very, very fun. Uh, yeah. Oh, it's the most deal man. It's very very fun. Yeah, oh It's the most points scored by a freshman in NCAA history Which well it was 54. Yeah now it's 55. All right, it's at It's almost the most the whole team's ever scored in a game, too There's no reason for that. I didn't well what? Well, I think that game was over time. So sorry.

That's a joke. Why do y'all the bear of bad news? I know I'm just doing it for that reason. No, that's she killed it. Yeah. Laura Lee Parker Morton. It's a dream. A lot of names.

Laura Lee Parker Morton. I found a portrait of Nate at her local antique store. That's you in the future. That is time travel or Nate. How far? Yeah. Tomorrow, four or five. Yeah. I mean, it looks like I started to paint Nate and then just got, it was over.

Yeah. He goes, I'm not finishing this. It was like he already had a picture of his grandfather and he was like, he reminded us of Nate. So he goes, all right, well, I'll just kind of go from there. You ever feel like you see like prototypes of people? I felt like I saw like a Nate prototype at the airport yesterday,

but it was like a guy that looked like you, but things had not gone as well. You know, he looked like he was like an aggressive kind of guy. And it just, I don't know, I feel like you see these prototypes. There's a few Aaron prototypes out there, like Luke Combs is a bit of an Aaron prototype.

The football player that Kate, was it Kate Mays? Oh, that dude, I got tagged. I mean, I don't know if I've been tagged at anything more often. What was that dude on the Panthers? Yeah. Well, he signed a, yeah, this dude. I got tagged. I mean, I don't know if I've been tagged in anything more often. What was that dude on the, uh, on the Panthers? Yeah. We signed a con. Yeah.

This dude. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh yeah. That is you. Yeah. The one down there, blow it right there. Yeah.

That's the one. This is the one. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh wow. He's a good looking guy. Yeah. I think.

Yeah. Looks like Brad Pitt. He is a good looking guy. Football. Hey, first ain't the wrong being compared to professional football players. I feel like one of those many, many JD Vance memes was of this guy too. That's pretty true. Yeah. Those are everywhere. Ben Calvert, Idaho wasn't the only state to come up with the crazy ways to deal with the problem

with problem beavers. In the 1970s, wildlife officials in Huntsville released 50 alligators in the Tennessee River to stop beavers from damming up. They didn't think the alligators would survive our winters, but they did. And now people are running into them a little more often. Wow. That's crazy. Oh, wow. When... This is Huntsville, Alabama. Yeah. Aaron, when...

Wow. The episode after the Idaho episode, someone wrote in and said that beavers in Idaho were causing damage. So they put them on a plane and parachuted them into another part of. So this guy's just letting me know. That's crazy. That was a huge alligator, by the way, on that video. And I liked that it just passed by that bird. It's not even worried about that. You see that little bird? He's just trying to get in the shade. Yeah. Yeah. Trying to start anything. Yeah. That's crazy. You guys have alligators down in Southern Alabama?

I'm sure I never was really that far down. I was never, you never like are thinking about it. Like I might run into an alligator today. Yeah. More snakes. Snakes was a big one. Yeah. Snakes, fire ants. Yeah. Fire ants for sure. Yeah. Snakes, fire ants. Yeah, fire ants for sure. Yeah, sorry. I just thought of a joke. Yeah. Adding into something. No, you know what?

If y'all can remember to remind me, if I get it in. What's the deal with special? I'll let you know what I ended up with part of wrote down. Okay. At right at some point I mean about to be the specials out and stuff, but it it's a little added in something and added in part and Little piece a little little piece of you can do this into this and All right, uh this into this and alright. Thanks for carrying the weight you guys while I was writing down that podcast. Boom! Came to a halt. I was even kind of like...

I mean we were waiting with bated breath to hear what you wrote down. Yeah I mean we really milked that alligator thing. And now we're like alright let's see what Bethany Raymond has to say. Bethany Raymond. I was. Yeah. Bethany Raymond. I was a weight guesser at Cedar Point Amusement Park in the mid 90s. Oh, man. The hazards are real. My coworkers had a guest come back later in the day and punch her because she had guessed him too old.

He must have stood over it all day to make a point to come back. Guessing is really about volume and not accuracy. Yeah, that's tough, dude. I mean, that's I mean. Wait, wait. So there was a weight guesser and an age guess Yeah, that's tough, dude. I mean, that's, I mean. Wait, wait. So there was a weight guesser and an age guesser, I guess. Because he's like, you guessed me too old. And he's like, I guessed your weight, sir. Well, I think in the nineties, there was just more money to go around. Yeah, we were just guessing. We were doing good stuff. No, but I think you had to do it all. But I could see that you could make

someone. I mean, it would be, you know, and they, they put, you put a kid in there that doesn't think about, they're not thinking about, don't ask a woman's weight or ask a man's a, like, you don't have any of these kind of. There was an old Bill Engel joke where he's talking about going to a fair. And I forget exactly how it started, but he's like, he goes, the weight guessing guy said, no, you don't want me yelling that number out. Every now and then a television show comes along where you feel

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low. I've seen Nate's new hour and I would say 2026. 2026. Thank you, Drew. Yeah, that's awesome. I've been to Comedy Off-Broadway many times, Drew. You might've, I think you just weren't there and I'm sorry about that. But yeah, I've been there a bunch. It's a great, great place. Really great club.

Maybe one day we will. Yeah, you'll be back. We'll be back. Kyle Sarno, wondering if you guys can discuss how and when each of you guys met and how you guys decided to do a podcast together. I love how the chemistry on the pod is unlike any other I listen to.

Well, that leads us into today's topic, which is friendship. How about that, Brian? Good job. It's the chemistry you were talking about yeah exactly uh we started touch on just briefly a couple weeks ago when Nick was here yeah didn't really get into it I mean and little friendship wasn't a wasn't poking fun at Nick or was that intentional no it was a little bit huh I

said to Tristan I said people are gonna say that that was it was a it was a little friendship with Nick no oh yeah that's what it said on the thing. That was the title of the episode. Oh yeah. It was a special night because that's you talked about and and a little friendship because with Nick Novicki. Yeah but yeah I see what you're talking about Brian. Yeah. Come on. You're burning it. Yeah. So I think we've known each other the longest. I looked up probably 17, 18 years. I think it was. That long. It feels like it. Maybe 16 or 17 years. I think I met you. You've lived a whole life to adulthood knowing Bates. Oh yeah. And I felt it man. I felt it. It's just on there. It's just there. Cause I won't go away. He's going to be there for, I'll have baits for the rest of my life.

When did you start your, your, uh, your daily journal? Uh, January 1st, 1995. Yeah. Okay. So you have, did you have, I met a guy named a Barghetti today? I don't know if I wrote that down, but I, I think I may have told this a lot of complaints. I mean, I've known you 11 years at least. I met you 11 years ago. I think I'm in that journal bunch and I bet it's not good. I told my wife to burn it. Yeah, something happens. But I mentioned that I knew the name Bargatzee because of Ron Bargatzee, your cousin who did Vanderbilt. So I knew the name and I'd heard of you, but then you came home, I think for Thanksgiving, maybe Christmas. And I was just at Zany's hanging out and you were on,

it was like a showcase show and blew me away at how funny you were. You did the ninja joke. You did the, how video games are getting too realistic, Vince Young, all that stuff and the monkey DNA. And It was just so funny. And I was like, Kali, this guy's clean and doing stuff that, you know, I've never heard before. So, and I think we all went out that night to Bosco's. Remember that place? Yeah. Bosco's.

What is that? It was there off West End. It's something else now, but I think it was called Bosco's, me, you, Jesse Case, a few other guys went. Yeah. And then, I mean, everybody, they think some great story, but we're both Vandy fans, Clean Comics. So whenever you'd come home to Nashville, we'd go to Mike's and stuff. Yeah.

It's as simple as that. Yeah. Yeah. And then went on the road and done it. You could be the most person I've done shows with. Does it feel like it? No, no, I'm being serious though. Yeah. If you've been there, yeah, you've been there the whole, I mean, I can't believe it's been that long. 18 years. That's crazy.

Something like that. I mean, I used to go to New York and stay with you some. Yeah. Yeah, for all the stuff people think that we're not friends. Yeah. We've been friends for a long time. Aaron, otherwise, I don't know, when I met, yeah. I mean, I met you when you would come through

and do the open mics when you were in town, but never, I mean, I started, you know, I'm significantly younger than all of y'all, so. Significantly. Well, that's true for me. Yeah. Because we're talking about outsider inset. I don't kidding.

But I, but I, uh, yeah, I met all you guys just around. I remember, I don't remember when I meet you. I was going to say, I don't remember the first time I met you, but I feel like the first, I remember at that, uh, I remember you bumped me off your show. It was one of the first shows I ever got booked on. You bumped me off of it. Are you serious?

Brian Bates and friends at his eighties. Yeah. My brother was in town and I was going to host for you. What happened? And I think you, too many people got added to the show. So you bumped me. You sent me a very nice text. Classic.

Yeah. You said the show got overcrowded. I just for time, I got to cut you from the show, but you're a very funny young comic You're gonna get plenty of opportunities and I'll and I'll help you out However, I can after that and you've done nothing but that but that was our first Why don't remember that at all? I vaguely because I think Lucy suggested you yeah I didn't know that there was something already going on there. I don't know if there was at the time I think that was that was early. Yeah, but I didn't mean it like like that

I just meant I think y'all were just starting to maybe date. Brian always had an eye for talent. Yeah. I'd like to know who you put on the show, who, who crowded it up too much that Aaron couldn't be on it. I think I know. I think it was, uh, cause I think you were on it. Uh, and Zanies, there was a guy coming through and Zanies. Well, that's probably what happened Nate probably bump It wasn't a bump you nice guy. I got to 40 on this show Yeah, there was a guy coming through and Zany's told me I had to put him to the show

I think I think but what's the place over in music row? Bobby's Bobby's I don't know. It's the first place. I mean one of your first jokes that I remember is very funny is You and your roommate ordered a pizza The pizza delivery guy fell down the steps. Yeah, you had to call an ambulance. Yeah, and I think the joke was That pizza is getting cold. How do you have to wait? That was my roommate we I ordered Papa John's and then he was in the other room and ordered Domino's and we didn't we didn't know Oh, that's so two pizza guys came to the house at the same time. Oh it's kinda like your job. But yeah kinda like. Your door dash. Oh yeah. I'm quicker to get

to some of the stuff Nate gets to. Yeah. You know what I mean? Well yours just I mean that's old school that. You're observant. I wish I did that. Cause that would be that's very funny. Yeah yeah. That's way more embarrassing than two door dashes. It is yeah yeah. There wasn't even a conversation in the house like Yeah, maybe we can just get it was No, I wanted my own dudes in a house set at 58 degrees Once those pizza door once that pizza door open that they go whoo They got now this makes sense. Yeah, y'all showed up in shorts and got cut off t-shirt. It's cold there, boys. Yeah, is it?

Yeah. But wasn't there something about the lady fell down the steps or something? Yeah, one of the guys fell down the steps. This is all true. I don't remember how I ended up changing it to make it try to work it into a joke, but one of the guys tripped up the stairs and the other guy showed up. Like the Domino's guy showed up and the Papa John's guy's on the ground and the Domino's guy just stepped over him and delivered the pizza and then left and just left Papa John's guy there. The Domino's stepped over the guy? He like broke, he broke his ankle or twisted his ankle bad where he was on the ground. And just left Papa John's guy there. The Domino's stepped over the guy? He broke his ankle or twisted his ankle bad where he was on the ground.

And the Domino's guy stepped over him? The Domino's guy had to deliver some pizzas to him. Did they know they were going, is it like an apartment so they don't know that they're going to the same place? That might've been, yeah. Yeah, yeah, because they would probably think what idiot would order two different pizza places.

Well, you might say what, if you may ever wonders about stories being true, I just think this is an example. That's a story. If I, like, if you told that story, you would live in a house and you and your roommate would do it. So you'd cut out that it's an apartment. Yes. You would cut out that those guys didn't know that they were going to the same place. Uh, I, I, I, that might seem dumb and I'm not trying to talk down to you very very, but if you're a young comic or if anybody's ever curious about, uh, are these stories true?

That's a perfect example of where you would go. What really happened was they didn't know. They would never have known that each of them doing it. You know, it's an interesting thing. Also, I think my roommate ordered Jett's pizza, but I just said Domino's just cause it's a, just because people know what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you would do to streamline everything, to be like, yes, it's all true, but I didn't, you know, and then you make up the part of, you know, them knowing it or them whatever, the other stuff, the context of them two together, you would have

made that up. And then at the end you go, and then that Jets pizza delivery guy died. And you know what? You didn't even say Jets at the beginning. What's he talking about? I was having a. But Brian, yeah, you were a guy you, you definitely helped me out a lot. And still do, but you definitely helped me out very early on. So I appreciate that.

By cutting you from the show. No, no, no still do, but you definitely helped me out very early on. So I appreciate that by cutting you from the show. No, no, no. I don't, but I mean, I did my Brian Bates and friends this past week and, and I got bumped from it. No, you chose not to do it. And then Aaron got bumped by your family. Aaron goes to me and then finally I was like, Hey, are you in or out? He's like, Oh, sorry, dude.

Let me check. And he goes, I'm out. Yeah. Yeah. Got back at me. I already got the shorts on. It's all thing. I ain't coming out.

Uh, I met dusty at Bobby's and actually recently at Bobby's Bobby's, Bobby's idol hour, which was, yeah, at the time was the longest running open. I love that. My in Tennessee, it was on music row every Monday night. I did it every Monday. I used to love that mic. And I actually found, I sent you a pretty embarrassing message first time I saw you at open mic. Yeah. And then you sent me a very nice message. You stink. Like a nice, you're so funny and yeah. Yeah. Just like, like, yeah, just like a nice, I enjoyed your set. I thought you had good stuff. And yeah, you sent a nice message back. I remember you said, I was so young, you sent me back a

message that said, Don't worry, the jokes will come. All right. Because you said you you told me you have stage presence, but the jokes will, which is probably true, because I think I could talk into a microphone and be on stage, but I didn't have it is true. Jokes come. remember seeing, I mean, you see, you go to these open mics and you see so many people that you're like, what are you even doing here? Sometimes I watch people and I go,

are you even funny for your friends? No. What makes you think that you can make strangers laugh? And then you see people and you go, oh, this person's really good. You could really, you're people and you go, Oh, this person's really good. You could really, you know, you're like not, you know, there yet, but you're really good. Yeah. You know, I appreciate that. Yeah. You always have a great, I mean, you do have a great voice that's comes off as, you know, you want to listen to what you're saying. I sound like I know what I'm talking about. Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate it. Like the thing about comedy that I've seen over the years is like people will have these very successful jobs and then they'll start doing

comedy and then they're probably at their in their day job more successful than everybody else at the open mic but at the open mic they're really bad at comedy. Yeah. So they like. I was about to list an example until you said that last part. Oh yeah oh, yeah So then they feel bad about themselves in these comedy rooms You can see that it eats away at them And I just think you know if you would just quit this hobby of comedy you could just go on Feeling good about yourself and your successful day job. I remember the first time I mean 100% I remember the first time I got an applause break from a joke at Springwater. Oh yeah. And I didn't do this very often but I recorded that set on

my phone and I listened to that on a loop on the drive home. Like I can't believe I got an applause break. Do you remember the joke? No. Well, yeah, I do. But I'll tell you what. It's not a good show. It's a clean podcast. No, it's nothing like that. It's just, I don't know. Yeah, it's embarrassed. I think I'm still thinking about that show. They clap anything at Springwater. See, that's the thing. That was a brutal mic. I know. Springwater is the first time, the first day I moved to Nashville, I was like, I'm going to go to a mic and I went to Spring water and then you and Brian showed up. Really? Yeah. I was like, all right, so I'm talking about.

There goes the scene here. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah. Where was spring water? It's still around. The spring water supper club is right by the Parthenon. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Real smoky. Right next to McDonald's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah real Smokey. Right next to I didn't mean to come across like it was ever. You sent me a very nice message about it. And I was like, okay. Easy out. And I still, me and my brother came and watched the show. Did I do that show? Yeah, I did Easy Out.

This was after Easy Out. This was like, yeah. Oh, I just didn't like you then. Yeah. I can't believe he was doing Brian Bates and Friends that long. How long have you been doing it? I mean, I don't know if we called it that then.

I think it was just Brian Bates. It was just a period. No friends at all. Yeah, yeah, there was like Brian Bates. It was just a periodic. No friends. Yeah, yeah. There was like Brian Bates. It was just a periodic show. It wasn't monthly. It was just a periodic show. Oh yeah, it was yearly. Yeah, yearly. Brian Bates. Show for his friends. Yeah. Brian Bates and friends, but the friends are in the crowd.

A one-man show. Instead of and, it's for. It's for. it's for it's for Brian Bates for friends and family. Brian Bates for friends and family. One guy who didn't know what he got into. Just wandered in off the street. Yeah. Uh, and then dusty, I met you. We were on a Keith Aberstatt show. Yeah.

Yeah. And, uh, who else was like Chad? I had riding and, um, case TC coat. together. Yeah. Yeah. And who else was like, Chad Riden? Chad Riden and KC, TC Coat. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Man. Yeah. TC. That's an old school Nashville lineup right there. Yeah. Yeah. Big time. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, I think Nashville comedy and all comedy is small enough, like you're going to bump into, you just run into people, right? You just see, you just meet comics around. This is how new I was at comedy then

and how little I knew about comedy. I mean, I drove from Charleston to do that show. I mean, just the show. I mean, but I was like, Keith told me, you know, he's like, I'm doing a show in Nashville at this date if you want to come do the show. And I was like, yeah, I do. So I drove from Charleston, which is, I don't know, eight

hours. And how did you know Keith? I met Keith in New York City. Okay, through a mutual and, and so I met him and went to see him at the cellar. And Keith really helped me out with a lot of stuff gave me a lot of initial advice. So Keith is great. Keith Alberstadt, really great. Really helped me a lot. Oh yeah. We just saw him last week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then as far as the podcast, five years ago this week is when the world shut down due to COVID. Wow. And then, wow, few months later, you like, I gotta do something.

So you started the podcast. I decided to start a podcast. I wanted it to remain to stay funny. And then, uh, I called you, I talked to you about it. And you and Aaron, it was kind of just picking the people that were here. And so it was like, you know, that could be clean and they're here. And I mean, really then nobody in there. Really narrowed it down pretty quick.

It does. That's the thing people don't realize. Sifted, you go, oh, this is it. Yeah. And you go look for clean comedy. It's, uh, it's not, it's not even. It is true. It's like that could talk that I'm not worried is going to just

accidentally curse or something like that. Yeah, it's really hard to find clean people that can be clean that sometimes super clean can turn out to be a little cheesy and it's like it is a fine line and then people that are like no no I can do clean they go out and do some wild bit and you're like you thought that was clean? Yeah. You thought that was clean? Sometimes people will go like, what specific words? And I go, I just, I kind of want you to just get it.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Just kind of get, like, I mean, I could draw up like a list of stuff, but like just kind of just don't. Yeah. That make any sense? Yeah. I want you to just get what you're not supposed to do.

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very fun. Uh and I think it just wasn't really, it was like timing wise, it just wasn't really working out. We were talking to Dorfman about it and me and Kathleen talked about it and then uh but she has a great podcast now so it's like uh it ended up working out for both of us to you know kind of go the ways that we went but that's good I mean you're definitely you're different in a lot of ways yeah I think you have different interests and different stuff you want to talk about so yeah I mean it was at the time I would have been lucky to do a podcast with her. Not even still now. Yeah. What's some of the... All right. So I looked up some stuff about friendship.

What'd you Google? Friendship? Does it pop up automatically for you? When you go, what is it? Does it say what it, when you type in what is to Google, does it automatically go friendship before you even had to say it? And then when you hit it and it goes, did you mean how to make friends? Yeah, like, uh, like for Aaron, it knows what is NIL on college football? What is a redshirt freshman? NIL money. Like his is going to be, uh, what is corned beef?

These are all, these make sense. Cause Aaron, so when you're Google your computer and you type, what is, does it say friendship? Uh, a full room look like. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I, I, I, you could even Google an image of what a full room. On a friendship episode. I know, I'm sorry.

That was, I was trying to be, just the first thing that came to mind. I would argue that Aaron already knows what all those are. So it, oh, I think he does, but it's, what is, you know, but yeah. That's my god. I was just trying to, sorry. That was awesome.

So there's something called Dunbar's number. And this guy basically came up, he's an anthropologist, and he studied chimpanzees, and he saw how many friends they could have, and then he took their brain size and compared to a human's brain size and says that we can, humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships.

He said that, I don't think so. That's the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if you happen to bump into them in a bar. 150, does that include family? 150 just relationships with people. So he breaks it down even more. He's got, there's five people that are your inner circle loved ones. For me it'd be you

three, my wife, and Ben Roethlisberger. Then there's 10 and Eleanor Then it's 10 of your best friends Your solid go-to friends. Yeah Wow 50 just friends. I sent you a link to this I'm cutting all these numbers in half as you say I'm 150 meaningful relationships. And that's, those are acquaintances that we can invite to a massive party or greet without hesitation if you ran into them at the airport. And then 500 acquaintances, that's just people you know.

If you had a massive party, you can invite them. And then 1500 people you could recognize. Like just, you know who they are. I think I would have more in all these. Yeah. I can definitely recognize way more people than that. Than 1,500 people? Totally. Think about everyone from my high school, ton of people from growing up. I don't know. I can't think about it. That's a lot of people. And you think you can do more? I don't... fewer than some of these

others, but I think people I recognize, yeah, more than 1500. But I mean, is that... I don't know, man. That's a lot of people. 1500 people that you can look at and know their name and know something about them. I'd like to know how many friends this anthropologist has. Zero, apparently, sitting in a chair by himself. Yeah. He's hanging out with monkeys. Yeah zero Because he's turned around. Yeah, I Think because I got married at 48 it allowed me to Maintain more friendships and friends. It makes sense. So did they also have to be your friend? And you go that's funny you say You say $1,500, he says $30.

You only appear on four. Well, I'm about to get to that too. But no, I think, I mean, most of my friends got married in their 20s. And I understandably, you get married, you start having kids, you don't have time. You do kind of wall off from the world. You have to. Because you have to. You have to.

I got married at 48, so that's why Nate stuck with me because I wouldn't leave. You know, I got all the time in the world. Yeah, he was always available. Even when he didn't want me to be. Real what about Bob situation? What about Bates? Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah. It's a great move. So, I mean, I think it's pretty, you know, 10 good friends. So, Dusty, you think these are all way too high? I think, I don't know. I mean, especially once you get way out there. You're with two and a half loved ones.

Once you get out there with like, I think the five loved ones could be a larger thing. Yeah. But once you get out to 500 acquaintances, like what does that even mean really? You got 500 people that you're like, ah. You kind of know like you're like in the business. But these are, I feel like once you get to a number that large it's like, these are just people.

The guy that books the Tonight Show. Or the guy that, you know that He's a loved one. Yeah Love what you guys I have no idea. Yeah Guys used to book the Montreal Comedy Festival again the acquaintance. Yeah, you know, we named something we're all in Are they could be meaningful contacts? guy that Takes tickets at the basketball game. Carlos Groves.

Yeah, he's a 15 in the, yeah. I actually like this number. I think there could be more than loved ones. I think it's definitely more than five. How many people would you take a bullet for? I'd take a bullet for a lot of people. Okay. Really? It would be hard.

You'd take a bullet for Bates? Yeah. Why are they trying to shoot him? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. What do we mean here? Why? Your life should be a, your life, technically your life should be a sacrifice. So it should be for a people, someone I don't even know if I should be protecting. You don't believe him, huh, Brian? Well, I don't, I just don't believe in that mantra. Yeah. What do you mean? I mean it for myself and yeah. Get out of the way. What's the, what's the, cause it's like, some people it's like, you know, do they want you

to like, if like, let's say my wife, someone were going to shoot my wife, right? And then I jumped in front of it and took the bullet and now my wife's like, oh geez, now I gotta, you are, you are making the money and now I gotta do all this on my own. Let me take the bullet. And he's got another bullet in the gun. You're gonna kill her. I guess it's like if somebody goes, so somebody needs both your kidneys. Let's think about it like that.

That's a good way. Like to survive. How many people would you do that for? I'd give no one both my kidneys. Why not? Like if you're- Well, that means I'm gonna die. That's the whole point of the- I don't think I'd give away one of my kidneys.

I would try to figure it out. If your daughter needed a kidney, I think one is- and you were a match and- I'd go, I don't think I'd give away one. I would try to figure it out. If your, if your daughter needed a kidney match and I'd go, I don't know what's happened to your kidney. He goes, no one needs their kidneys. Yeah. That's the government wants you to keep your kidneys. You don't need either one of them trying to steal it.

Yeah. It goes, trust me, you're better off without kidneys. They can't track you if you don't have, you know what I mean? Because they don't know where you're at when they do the kidney. That's how they keep track of everybody's kidneys. Why do you think they won't let you get rid of both of them? Tell me that. Yeah. So if one person, if a person needed one kidney and they posted on online, Hey, I need a match. How many people do you think you might go get tested?

See if you were a match and actually do it. A hundred. That's a lot. This is what I would do. I would share that on Facebook so that they could get reach a bigger audience. I did my part. You're not going to get tested. Right.

I would, I would go give all y'all bone marrow. I'll do that. I do think you need both kidneys. You can survive without one, but I do think you need both. You do need both. I think two is ideal. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, so when you get, like, I know someone who gave theirs up to their dad and then, you know, a couple

of years later, their dad dies. And I'm like, now you live the rest of your life with just that one kidney. Maybe get it back. Yeah. I mean, I wonder if he's on his deathbed to go, Now you live the rest of your life with just that one kidney. Maybe get it back. Yeah, I mean, I wonder if he's on his deathbed ago. Yeah. He was an organ donor. He just go grab it right back.

He left in his will. Yeah. Because obviously, my son's kidney's back. Yeah. I'm an organ donor. Yeah, me too. You do that. I took that off.

Because you don't know what he's doing. Well, my friend that works at the hospital told me that if you have an organ donor. Yeah. I mean, do that. I took that off. You don't cause you don't know what he's well, my, my friend that works at the hospital told me that if you have an organ donor on there and then you have a car accident or something and you're, you're unconscious, they're quicker to pull the, pull the plug on you because they're like, we need these organs. Hmm. Yeah. Oh, that makes sense. If you're not an organ donor, they're like, well, let's give him a go.

Yeah. I read a story about a woman who, uh, wake them up and make them sign up to be an organ donor, go back to sleep and then that's it. This grandmother, they, when she passed away, they donated her body to science, to like a scientific organization. And they found out, this is morbid. They found out that scientific organization sold her body to the military. Then they use that to test bombs.

Oh, gosh. That's crazy. That's wild. And they were pretty upset about it. Yeah, I'd say so. Yeah, I mean, you can't just trust. Imagine you're in the military. You're like say so. Yeah. I mean, you can't just trust. Imagine you're in the military. Yeah.

Grandma? Yeah. T-minus not me, ma. Stop it. Stop the clock. That's so funny. Yeah. Uh, this guy also Dunbar here.

He did a lot. But are you good? I bet you could ask for that though. Oh yeah. Give my body to the army. Like I want to go to the bomb stuff. Yeah, it seemed like you'd have to ask for it. I'll get mine to NASA, like shoot me up in the space, see what happens to the body of

radiation or something. Yeah. Oh, by the way, they go, what's this eclipse? We weren't expecting another one. Why is it so cold? The AA Ron eclipse happens once every 48 hours. And they have to go get you. When they go get those- It's about every time I come around here. So then they got to go get you because you're just stuck in this cycle.

They got to get a big fishing net, grab your bottom back. They got to move you over. Reel them in boys. Get them behind the sun. Get him behind it. Push him. They're pushing you like a float that you're trying to grab a float. Satellites are hitting you. Those astronauts scheduled to come back tonight, I think.

Oh, tonight? Yeah. SpaceX is going to get them, right? They're there already. I watched the, this weekend. Oh, I just see that they're hugging each other. How many of them is it? Did you see the photo where they all did the dusty wave? No.

I think they did that intentionally. But there was like, there was supposed to be two, and then there was like, like last week, you guys were like, oh, there's more. There's more guys up there, but it's only two that's been stuck there. They couldn't come back. What are the, that doesn't matter.

Some more went up and if you can find the, I should have sent you the- You gotta think that if you're up there and you're just the two and other people come, you're like, hey guys, this has kind of been our space for a while. Oh yeah, it'd be tough. Don't come in here. Yeah, yeah, it'd be tough. Don't don't yeah, don't come in here

Yeah, you're probably territorial about it. Mm-hmm. The Internet isn't it's bad here. Yeah, but it happened. Let's go. Yeah So talk about them being friends. Yeah Friendship that is friendship. Yeah, they're gonna have a bond You know forever is only so much you can talk about Yeah, I bet they got into it dude. Oh, there they are They're all having a good this guy's always up there. This guy's always involved. That's the guy from here, which one more Okay, you're thinking that's that guy Mark Kelly. Yeah, maybe that's not Mark Kelly That's they're all up there. Yeah. That's the new crew members.

And then the people are already there. I think the four and blue just arrived. Who's the two that had been stuck? The guy that's not doing the dusty way. I think that woman, right? It looks like her. Yeah. In the back.

Yeah. Who's not doing the dusty way? Oh, the guy from Mount Drew. Oh, the Mount Drew guy has been up here the whole time. Yeah. Yeah. He and the, and the woman are the two that got stuck. Yeah. They put this woman, the woman in the back is the one who's been up there the whole time. Yeah. Yeah. He and the, and the woman are the two that got stuck. Yeah. They put this woman, the woman in the back is the one who's been up there the whole

time. She should be front and center. She should be front. That's ridiculous. That is probably in a prompt to, uh, you know, that's like one guy got shorts on. Oh, the guy in this corner, the guy in the far right, he's always up there. He's got shorts on. Yeah, that's Aaron. Hey buddy, you go to space? Yo, hey, pal. Put some jeans on. I don't know. I want to be comfortable. Dress it up a little bit.

Golly. I don't believe this. Were you at home this morning? Wearing cargo shorts up in space? We're taking a picture for the world. What's on his leg? Why is that not floating away? I mean, it's wrapped around his leg. It's wrapped? What's on his leg? Why is that not floating away?

It's wrapped around his leg. Yeah. I can see it's wrapped. It's like a blood pressure. Yeah. Now this is a picture of people hanging upside down. You could do this at any, they can do something like this. Who's the guy in the top right? He's always in these things. I don't think you've seen, I don't think you've seen. No, it, I don't think you've seen any of these people before. No, it's the same guys. You've seen any of these people before. The guy in the shorts, the guy in the top right, and the guy on the far left. They're in all of these. They're in every one of them. They're always in the space films. They're character actors. You're thinking of, you're thinking of a different... I know who he's thinking of. You're thinking of the guy you said.

Mark Kelly. You're thinking of this dude. And he has a twin brother. Nah. Yeah. They're both astronauts. Actually, maybe. Yeah. He's a senator now. You know what? I am. Yeah. You're thinking of the, and you probably have seen the brothers. Yeah. That guy's up there right now. He's in that picture. He's still wearing the red. Just under the coat. Yeah. Look at that.

That's a totally different. Why is he looking at a different camera, that guy down there? Where's he putting his hands? There's another camera right there. The three guys in the red look like they run a morning show. Yeah. Like they're up there from the buzz. Well, that's great. It was pretty cool watching though, though, because they're the space station is going 17,500 miles an hour. Yeah. And then the rocket is going the same speed and it has to like dock.

Yeah, it's crazy. It's pretty crazy. And you saw all that? I mean, I watched it. Yeah, the NASA showed it live. It looked like they weren't even moving because they were going so. They're both going the same speed. Yeah. There you go. There she is. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So that's cool. What if you get over floating? You know, it's going to be an alien mask. Oh yeah. Oh wow. Oh, he's got to come in with a show.

Yeah. Where'd you get that? You had that up there the whole time. Huh?. Oh he's got to come in with his show. Yeah. Where'd you get that? You had that up there the whole time huh? Yeah. He just got there. He's like I'm going up I'm gonna take the mask. You wanna do the mask bet? And they go please don't. No I'm gonna do the mask bet. Well here's the moment where they show up. This will be fun. Look at that. Okay. Hey, they take pictures. All right. All right. Oh, where you been? Oh, why you up there? Whoa. Oh, yeah. Look at the. Awesome. Yeah.

She's from the Boston area. So in the news this weekend, they're all there's a school named. She could have got back a week earlier. She could have come to my show. Yeah. Should be there for Aaron's show. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. First, what do you think she does? First thing she comes back. It's gotta be that.

What'd you do? Take a warm shower. They won't be able to walk for a while. I think you struggle to walk when you get back. Oh yeah, especially when you've been up there that long. You haven't been up there way longer than you thought. So I think you're gonna, it's gonna be a bit of a period. I don't know how you don't have claustrophobia.

Why are all these people hugging? I don't understand what's happening. Because they've been up here for eight months and they docked and now they're going to take you back home with them. When you be excited to see a new person after... Who's rescuing the people? The people in blue? The people in blue just showed up. The dark blue, yeah. They're staying. And who are the red guys?

I don't know. Cosmonauts maybe? They look like Russians, don't they? I think they... No offense. Yeah, I think there are some cosmonauts there, and their space agency is called something like Rob... Romulus, Romulus or something. Okay, okay. And then... I mean, imagine, imagine, what if you're not, imagine Dillard's is like, those are our shorts. They look really clean for have been up there for that long.

I would like to see them. She looks clean. I would like to see them look. She has her hair. Well, they have ways to clean themselves. Yeah. Yeah. But they, they only prepared for eight days. Her hair is straight up right there.

I mean, your hair is gray. She looks like she's been up there for. And she didn't have gray hair when she. No, I bet she didn't. Rough like that. Yeah. She looked rough like that when she went. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, it's an exciting story. It's a fun one. Congratulations to those astronauts.

Can't wait to see you back home. Yeah, welcome back. Back home on planet. They're not back yet. They're coming. Get on back here, guys. They're coming. They're coming. Get on back here, guys. Yeah, they're coming. They're coming. Get on back here and then stop this space thing. Yeah, and then we'll have Butch on our podcast. I'd like to know what they accomplished. What did she... That's the first question we can ask you.

Like, while they were up there. Like, you know, you're like up there for eight days. We're on the International Space Station, right? But then you ended up getting a little extra time. So what did you get done? Same clapping. They just got here. Oh, what the... They just got Aaron Uh, like what were you doing up there?

Yeah. Yeah. You know what? I think a lot of stuff. Yeah. I think pushing buttons and doing things, man. Spacewalks. Yeah. They conduct research, maintain the station, uh, perform space walks. And then they have daily routines and personal activities. Okay.

So like data that, uh. Yeah, so nothing really. They conduct a wide variety of experiments in microgravity, including studies in astrobiology, astronomy, physical sciences, material science, space weather, meteorology, and human research. They do a lot. I thought space didn't have weather. No, they could look at the weather. Well, I'd like to know what they came up with.

So they let you know. That's because we can't see the weather. Well, I'd like to know what they came up with. So they let you know. Mm-hmm. Just because we can't see down here. Well, they get a good view of it, you know what I mean? They get to see it coming. They get to read it and they'll be like, yo, you should see what's out over there. They should have really been able to give us a heads up on some things. Well, I think they do. I don't know. It's like we know what a hurricane's coming. They should have been on Twitter and we should have been able to go to their Twitter account and go, what's the weather like? Do you think they know about a hurricane before?

You would, I guess, right? They would know about it first. I think we monitor all that from satellites and stuff, yeah. Keep track of them that way. We know like two weeks ahead. All right, the friendship paradox was first observed by sociologist Scott Field. And he said an individual's friends have more friends

than that individual. And it's just a basic math equation. I mean, basically, if you have a lot of friends, let's try this. It can be explained as a form of sampling bias in which people with more friends are more likely to be in the one's own friend group. In other words, one is less likely to be friends with someone who has very few friends.

Does that make sense? Yeah. I mean, I guess you're not a very nice person. Yeah. You're just not a person that has a lot of friends. You're not going to search out for more friends. But if you do have a lot of friends, then you're a guy that is friends with a lot of people with a lot of friends.

Yep. The cheerleader effect is, uh, says that some people tend to look more attractive in a group than they do individually. That's true, Aaron, right? Cheerleader effect also He is a group. Yeah. I even think that was too far. Come on, Destin. I've always, I think that's too far. I tell you what, we're going to It is too far. It's not true

That was cut we should cut that out Dump dusty Did you see the Mario Lopez clip where they talked about his special? Yeah. And then the woman said, he's cute. Yes, sir. And all these women wrote in this week saying they're, she's right. They love them. People are starting to figure it out.

Yeah, they are. They say you look like Brad Pitt. Ooh. Do you? I've gotten, you've gotten Brad Pitt? I got probably over a thousand comments calling me Brad Pitt with some modification that hurts my feeling. I'm familiar with those kind of comments. You look like Brad Pitt if, you know. Yeah, like I get like Walmart Billy Ray Cyrus, right? So I know what you mean.

I get what the fat equivalent of that. Yeah. Anyway, I like it. Eight Brad Pitt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty good though. Yeah. Anyway, these. These scientists did a, you know, research on this and said that individuals are one and a half to two percent more attractive in a group than when alone, seen alone. Oh. Because I guess the just the idea that you have for other people like you. What do they go these scientists what do you ever they ever go hey what's the guys let's do some cancer stuff. Like what's the point of this? Exactly. Like why would you even I like I don't. You want sociologists working on cancer or do you want them doing stuff like that? So that the sociologist is a scientist? Yeah, what's the type?

It's a social science. I don't know if they're they're not like I Don't know. I just think you like but if you have money splitting for both Then you just go like we're gonna just keep we should do more cancer stuff and like stuff That's gonna kill people versus a guy that just goes like, if you don't have a bunch of friends, I studied this for 40 years. If you got one friend, no other friends, you don't have friends. But if you're one and the horse can jump over a donkey and you're like, what? And he spent 80 years doing that. Forty million dollars of funding. Yeah. And you go, what? What are you doing? He goes, a guy that's not a nice guy doesn't

have friends. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How'd you study doing? He goes, a guy that's not a nice guy doesn't have friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He would, how'd you study that? He goes, I wouldn't watch people. And a guy that's sitting alone in a corner is less attractive than a guy with a bunch of friends. I watched chimpanzees. Yeah.

Well, you'll like this one, Nate. Researchers at Northampton University studied cows to see if they have best friends. They pinned the cows up for 30 minutes, one with a preferred partner, a best friend, and once with a cow they did not know. And during that time, the heart rates of the cows were measured.

And if they were with their best friend, they had more heart rate and more stress if they were with a cow they didn't know. How do you even know if the cow knows or doesn't know the cow? Well, you watch them hang out. You ask them. I think that it, that would, to me, that is not friendship.

That's familiarity, right? Where you're like, I'm used to this cow. That's probably true. It also probably is I'm getting the heart rate goats up the, cause if the first time you're with your friend is the first time you're being moved, you're not as nervous. Yeah. And then 30 minutes later, you get moved again.

Yeah. You're just nervous about the situation. I don't think there's awareness of like that. I didn't they, I mean, how on earth do you sit there and go, all right, well, them two are clearly buddies. I think if you see them hanging out, they're playing, you know? Yeah, I know. But, but like, do cows play that much? I don't think cows really play.

Cows do. I think they have a good time. I think they have a good time. I've never seen a cow play. I don't think they have a good time. Yeah, I don't think they... Cows do play. I believe you. I've never seen a cow play. Does Holly recognize other dogs in the neighborhood? Uh, yeah, she gets excited about like Felix's dog. Yeah. The dogs that she knows. What do you think that they're friends or do you think that she's just being nice to the other dogs? I would think that they're, I don't think there's any, uh, I mean, I guess there is friendship, but it's like, she's excited to see him to play with that dog.

But I mean, I think a dog is different than a cow. Like, I don't think you watching cows and just being like, all right, clearly them to get along and then you put them in a, you Like, I don't think you're watching cows and just being like, all right, clearly them two get along. And then you put them in a, you know, the hard part of this is a lot of the, if you're on the heart rate, you're like, well, you're moving this cow around. So already it's going to be a little stressed out. All good points. Yeah. All right. So this is at the elephant sanctuary here in Tennessee, how one wall, Tennessee, that is Tara, the elephant and Bella, the dog, and they became best friends. And it's a very sweet story.

They hung out with each other. Um, Bella, the dog got injured. Yeah. It won't say how, but I think we can maybe guess in her. Same way I stubbed my toe. Yeah, exactly. And she was hurt for a while and they had to keep her indoors to heal. And the elephant hung out by the fence.

Uh, every house, every day watching. Yeah. Going, when you get out of here, I'm going to finish this job. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, then they were injured. Yeah. And then they reunited. Um, so that's fun. It's a very sweet going to finish this job. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, then they were injured. Yeah. And then they reunited.

So that's fun. It's a very sweet story. That is fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's nice. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. All right. Do you want to talk Aristotle before we get out of here, man? Aristotle? Sure. That was the class I took. The friendship, the history of friendship. The history of friendship from Aristotle to Facebook. Oh, wow. You should have been leading this. I forgot about that. What's the takeaway? I'll say the one thing Aristotle said about friendship, and Aristotle believed, you know,

we're all a function of our time. He said a lot of things that have aged horribly. Okay. Basically, he said only men are capable of true friendship. But he's... What's aged? But I think I think one of the main things I remember three types of friendship there's friendship of utility where your friends because you both use each other in some way this is like if you're friends with your mechanic or somebody you're friends

with but there's a transaction between the two of you, right? And then there's friendship of pleasure, where you both derive some type of pleasure from the other person. And then there's what's called like perfect friendship or true friendship, where you get nothing out of it other than just the friendship. And he basically believed you can only really truly have that with like two or three people. It's like impossible to have that depth, like to have that deep of a friendship with a ton of different people. That's one of the, so he wrote, I mean, he wrote a ton about this. I could see that because it's, it's, you, you, your, your lives kind of have to be the same. He said you have to, the phrase he used is, I always remember, you eat salt together. As in like if two people have gone through the same kind of traumatic experience, that

can be the catalyst for it. It's the kind of stuff you read in college. And I think we're only designed to like live in smaller communities. This thing that's open to us now, I think, is hard for us. Like the fact that we can see what's happening in the news in another country instantly, I think, hurts us. We're not supposed to see all this traumatic stuff all the time. I don't think so. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. I was gonna say the idea of like even caring about what thousands and thousands of people think about you is so alien to how humans have lived forever until like 15 years ago.

Yeah. Which is pretty crazy when you think about it. It's such a new thing. But we're grateful you're here. Thanks for listening. Yeah. I mean, actors used to up until 15 years ago, just you might get some hate mail. But that was it. But now you post an advertisement on Facebook and people go, I don't like this guy. Did I tell you a guy comment? I did an ad, I can't remember if we talked about on the pocket, but I definitely told

them, I did an ad for a show and the, and so this guy just commented pass. And so I go, let's see what's going on in this. Clicked on his profile, terminally ill. And he's posting updates about it. Yeah. But he had to let me, you know, he's about to die and he's like, pass. He didn't have much time. Yeah.

I ain't going to do this. Yeah. He goes, uh, yeah, I know what I like. Yeah. I'm not going to waste a day on this earth. I had a, I showed up at a theater one time and they go, hey, we got, we heard about you, you were commenting on Facebook

and we got some security for the, I was like, what? And they were like, yeah, some guy was like threatening to come down here or whatever. And I found it and this guy was like, yeah, he said something like that, pass or whatever. And I was like, yeah, I was really wondering if you were gonna, you know, I'm just kind of commenting, just being fun. I was like, yeah, I was really worried about whether you were gonna make it to the show or whatever. And I was like, yeah, I was really wondering if you were going, you know, I'm just kind of commenting and just being fun.

I was like, yeah, I was really worried about whether you were going to make it to the show or not. He, and then he comments, how about if I just show up down there? Shut your smart mouth. So now the theater is like on security watch for this guy. And I was like, geez, I didn't even say anything. Really? He's so mad.

People are insane. How about I show up? Dusty goes, yeah, well, I'll see you there. Come on down. Tickets are still available. Yeah. Yeah. Get a ticket. Yeah, I would encourage that. Um I did Dusty Slay's top five country songs about friends. All right, did you? Kinda, some of these aren't country, yes. Just Friends in Nashville. I wish you told me you were gonna do the top five.

I woulda did one too. Well you can do one next week. Okay. That's What Friends Are For, Dionne Warwick. Okay. We're doing Astronauts next week, so do your top five. Friends by Michael W. Smith, you know that song?

Friends, Friends Forever. That's a hot one. You've Got a Friend. That's gotta be up there. It's a snow country. I know, I know. Now we're gonna get to country. Yeah, we're trying to do.

Number three. Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks. Not really about friends though, is it? It's got the title. It's got the word. All right. Number two. All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down

by Hank Williams Jr. Great song. That's an incredible song. Number one, all my rowdy friends have settled down by Hank Williams Jr. A great song. That's an incredible song. Number one, all my rowdy friends are coming over tonight. Also by Hank Williams Jr. Both incredible songs. Yeah. All right. Incredible songs. You like those?

That those redeemed it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, you've got a friend by James Taylor. That's more of a romantic. Oh, I thought I said that. It's a bit. You probably did. I wasn't listening to it.

It's a bit country. James Taylor's a bit country. And I like it. Yeah. I'm a James Taylor guy. Okay. Yeah, he's that. It's a bit- Oh, you probably did. I wasn't listening to you about that. It's a bit country. James Taylor's a bit country and I like it. Yeah. I'm a James Taylor guy. Okay. Yeah, he's great. Yeah. He's a folk.

All right. All right. Thank you, really. That was good. We did it. That was good. All right. Friendship.

How about it? Friendship's good. I recommend it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. You guys are my friends. We all like hanging out even when we're not on the podcast.

It is true. That is true. We all text. It is true. Yeah. We do text. We text. Yeah.

Yeah. I would consider you all very close friends. I would I confide in you guys as I think you guys as well. We talk about stuff that friends would talk about that we wouldn't share with other people. We're real friends. Somebody commented on a special. It goes, you got a real Nate Barghetti style too. But then somebody commented, well, yeah, they're close friends. And then she responded, well, I don't know about friends. They're more like work associates.

I doubt they hang out. Yeah. Like who's this Abigail? All right. Uh, going out to everybody. I'll be in Vegas, uh, this week. April 5th. I'm in Columbia, Tennessee.

Getting the easier to drive tour back at Packard playhouse. Then April 11th and 12th, Detroit house of comedy. Nice, dude. It's a great club. This weekend, Thursday night, Hartford is Aaron Weber talking. I'm in Hartford, Connecticut on Thursday at the Hartford funny bone. Come on and see me Thursday and then Friday, Saturday, Boston, Massachusetts all weekend. Laugh Boston. It looks like the

Saturday shows are going to sell out. All right. It's pretty close. So grab those tickets. Come see me this weekend, Hartford and Boston. Okay. This weekend, I'm in Beaumont, Texas on Friday and San Antonio on Saturday. San Antonio selling very well, but I've been told everyone's having a difficult time selling tickets in Beaumont. I've heard that too. But... It sounds like a place I would go. Do come. It's going to be very fun. It's going to be a hot show. And then I've also requested to do a few clubs. I'm on a theater tour.

But I've requested to do some clubs because I want the reps to do a few clubs. I'm on a theater tour, but I've requested to do some clubs because I want the reps to write some new jokes. So the next weekend I'll be at the Virginia Beach Funny Bowl. So come check me out. Not doing causes. Not doing causes. I didn't reach out though. I don't know if my agent reached out.

I don't know. There might've been a bidding war and then Virginia Beach Funny Bowl won. Yeah. One out. Yeah. All right. Well, from my friends and you, we consider you all friends. We're all friends here. We love you. Uh, have a great week and see you next week.

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