The Nateland Podcast - 250: #250 School featuring Derrick Stroup

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

This week, Nate is back but Aaron is missing so Derrick Stroup sits in with the guys to talk about school and share stories of anchoring the Tug Of War and getting paddled on a regular basis. 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! Aura Frames- AuraFrames.com Exclusive $35-off Carver Mat at AuraFrames.com. Promo Code NATE.  Bombas- Bombas.com/NATE Bombas is going international! Enjoy worldwide shipping to over two hundred countries. Head over to Bombas.com/nate and use code nate for 20% off your first purchase. Vuori- https://www.vuori.com/nate For our listeners, they are offering 20% off your FIRST purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at vuori.com/nate. Plus enjoy free shipping on any U.S. orders over $75 and free returns. Exclusions apply. Visit the website for full terms and conditions.

Hello folks and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I am back, Nate Barghetti. Just to reintroduce myself, Brian Bates, okay, Slay Filling in for Aaron Weber the other Aaron Weber. I didn't even realize it till right now Yeah, Derek Stroop. Hello. Hello. Thank you. Hello We're back Show you some Nate land stuff Steven Rogers our Half of Wee is on the YouTube channel, NateLand YouTube channel. Go check it out.

Don't Sleep on Aaron. Where was special signature dish? Signature dish and Nick Thunes, they're all on there. My book's coming out May 6th. New NateLand merch, if you had. Then we got the other podcasts and I'll bring back season three of Nate Land Presents. Pretty fun. The showcase tickets are on sale if you want to be a part of that June 22nd, 23rd and 24th at the lab. You know, that thing did better than like it's fun.

Yeah. Because it was that first when the first season I was like, I was like, you know, know, I wanted it to be of value for the comedians that we use. But a lot of people, yeah, a lot of people have watched it and a lot of comics and it's like, you know, it's a place for, you know, like we had Live at Gotham. Did you have any? Were you doing any? Did you have anything? No. Alabama nights. Was it already done? Comedy Central, was it? Uh, I think basically was done by the time I got it. I mean, I did, you know, the Netflix half hour, the standups.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Axis TV had that show. Oh yeah. Goth, yeah. Yeah. Gotham, Gotham City Live. Yeah. Yeah.

I came in at a time where all that was done, but there was also not Drybar and Don't Tell not. Yeah. Yeah. I came in at a time where all that was done, but there was also not Dry Bar and Don't Tell yet. Yeah. Yeah. Don't Tell's around. So that's a good, yeah. Don't Tell Comedy's one that's out there. That's good. That a lot of you did don't tell. I did for sure.

And weird time in social media when we were just posting pictures of ourselves doing standup with a small joke written on it. that was our reels back in the day. Yeah, I remember. Stand up shots. Like Vecchione would type in jokes on Twitter to like see how they do. And then that's almost like it'd be like where you would try them. Yeah.

And now it's just put crowd workout. Yeah. Uh, you tried it on Twitter. You go, Hey, what's up? Where are you from? Yeah. People do do that. I think they call it engagement farming. You know, they find some way to get people to... some rage bait. Yeah. Engagement farming. Yeah. That's where you post something that you know is just gonna get... Your girl does?

Is that what you're going with? Yeah, no, no, I wasn't. It's where you just, you, you post something that you know is going to fire people up just so they comment a lot. Yeah. No, that makes sense. I thought that, yeah. Trolling. Yeah. Uh, yeah, I see that I've done that.

You've trolled. No, no, I've done some engagement farming. I'm sure. Yeah. I've, I've run out of Kansas city. Where should I eat? Exactly. Y'all point me the right direction.

Yeah. Hello Daytona. Your boy's in town. Where should I get some good spaghetti? And then it's just nobody. Nobody. That's the funnest part is to go see when someone does that and nobody responds to it.

Yeah. But nobody knows that. Like I was in Toledo. I said, y'all send me to your best sandwich spot. I can't wait to check it out. Nobody sent me to their best, I found my own spot. And then you go- There is no sandwich spot.

Then you go, thanks for the DMs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. You guys, I think you guys want to hear about how my sandwich stuff went.

A lot of messages I got. No messages. No one's asking. That's me. You see someone post that. I've been getting a lot of questions about, you know, what I do, my routine. No one's asked.

Nobody has ever. Yeah. Somebody requested this joke tonight. Yeah. Toledo. Yeah. I don't. People used to do that at open mics. Yeah. And like nobody.

No one. You're just doing an old joke at the open mic. Yeah. You're like somebody. It's not going like you thought. Somebody asked me to do this. I mean, I still work with comics that'll close on it. They'll say, people always ask me to do this if I don't do it.

So here we go. Yeah. I know this joke's 14 years old, but, uh, it's requested a lot. Yeah. David Telly says this joke sold it can vote, which is funny to have jokes that you, you know, you can have jokes that are being 18 years. I've done 21, right? 22 years in.

Yeah. So I've just got jokes that are talking back at this point. We're not quite voting yet, but they're getting an attitude. They're getting an attitude. They're getting an attitude. They don't like where they're at. At 22 years in, imagine you're still doing a joke from that original set. Well, it would have to be old enough to vote.

So I don't know if I have, I don't think I have one that I use. I don't have one. I don't even have one that I would remember, but I mean, I have one from, huh? I can remember yours. Yeah, but that I would still use. I don't have one. I don't even have one that I would remember. But I mean, I have one from, huh? I can remember yours. Yeah, but that I would still use. Like it would be the... Sorry, I didn't bring my compass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, I didn't bring my compass today. North, east directions. But I mean, those jokes, that's old. Yeah, it's a joke that could go...

Now, like you are bringing your compass, you have a phone. Yeah. So now it's stupid. Yeah. Now it's stupid. That's the point. Yeah, it's stupid. Yeah. It's a joke. Now, like you are bringing your compost. You have a phone. Yeah. So now it's stupid. Yeah. Now it's stupid. That's the point. Yeah. That's what you are when you're 18 and you vote. You're stupid. That's the message Dusty's sending. That's not the message I'm sending. Dusty, I think everybody heard it. I think, yeah, I mean, you know, maybe that- I thought of a very funny- 18 year old joke. You know what I thought of? I had a very funny thing last night or was it, let's hear you talking about, but like a conspiracy. Oh, Eric was talking to Eric, barber trainer. Let's just say barber. Now we're back to training. We're lifting weights. All right. Boom. That's what he said. He told me. Oh yeah.. The donut challenge is, uh, I, you know, let's see what happens.

Okay. But we're headed in a direction now. Okay. About to be, you got to do a movie. You got to look, I got to look something. Yeah. I don't want to be embarrassed. And I wouldn't be, it would be, or I myself be embarrassed of myself.

Yeah, but you got to create some new before pictures at some point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have 20 years of them, 30 years of them. You got pictures that people will share. They'll go, oh, look at old Nate and now new Nate.

So you need new befores. I have all of them. Yeah. I have every in between, every whatever. But somebody, he was saying a point, he was saying, I forget what we were talking about, he's saying something, he's like, you know, that, oh, there's molecules if so many molecules in the world, there's more than planets in the space. And he's like, you know, I mean, he's like, if there's planets in the space, if you believe that. And it

was just very funny to think like, I know, but it's funny to think you have to go be politically correct to conspiracy theorists now. Like if you say to think like, I know, but it's funny to think you have to go be politically correct to conspiracy theorists now. Like if you say you're like, I could see forever if the earth was flat. I mean, if you think the earth's flat, then I'm not stepping on your toes. It was just like the very funny, that's gonna be a pretty funny sketch idea. To do a sketch where you have to apologize, like you have to, for the most ridiculous things. Political correctness, it's not the most ridiculous, it's the idea that political correctness has gone so far that you're now like, you know, I think JFK was not the best, if you believe this, you know, who killed him, killed

him. But you know, does that make sense? See, I feel like that that's the conspiracy theorist way of putting out some feelers, letting you know, are you going this way? Because if you're going this way, this can be a different conversation. Yes. If you're a normie, if you're just a normie out here, then let's stop it now. Look, I'm not trying to start a thing. I just thought it was a very funny idea. No, no, you're getting into it.

I know, but it's just a very funny idea to like, yeah, like political critics could go so far. Best team doesn't believe in molecules. So yeah, well, it's like, but it's like, yeah, but it's, yeah, don't, don't start. We're not, I don't want to make everybody, uh, I, I shouldn't have even, you know, but I do think that's how people put feelers out there. Yeah. There's a lot of planets out there. If you, you know,

well, Colin Quinn, uh, I think Colin Quinn used to have a joke about it, like in a car, like you just are you, you just, are you, you, I, uh, people start talking about the person that just got out of the car. Yes. Like when you drop someone off and then you're like, Oh, what about that guy? Then all three of you bash that guy. Then the next person gets out. Then you bash it.

And then at the end you're like, well, I don't want to get out of this car. But it's like, you can do that where you, I used to say, uh, when you go on the road with a comic at the beginning, you'd be driving together, you'd start mentioning names, like who are we comfortable trashing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Comedy is very much a gossipy, rumory, we start making fun of someone. And so you kind of go like, what about this guy? And you're like, I'm pretty good friends with that guy.

You're like, okay, okay, not that guy. What about this guy? And you're like, that guy's been good to me. What about this guy? You're like, I don't know. You know, I don't know if I like that guy, you're like, okay, okay, you're not that guy. Uh, what about this guy? And you're like, yeah, that guy's been good to me. How about this guy? You're like, I don't know. You know, I don't know if I like that guy. All right. And then we just jump on board.

Yeah. I feel like you got to accept. I feel like I've accepted this, that I have friends that I trash talk a lot of people with, and I have accepted that when I'm not around that friends probably trash talking me and I'm okay with it. Yeah. Well, I want probably trash talking me. And I'm okay with it. They're my trash talking friends. Well, like four years ago, I woke up and realized

that I was in no group chats and it gave me cold sweats. Cause if you're not in group chats, you're in group chats. Yeah. I go, I gotta get in some group chats. Because I'm out here floating around by myself and you gotta find some groups to get in or you'll be part of the conversation. I'm not in a lot of group chats. Me, I'm not in floating around by myself and you got to find some groups to get in or you'll be part of the conversation I'm not in a lot of group chat me. I'm not in a lot of now

I'm in a few more but you don't want to not be in any yeah, that's dangerous. Yeah, we have a group And I got somewhere on my somebody else will get added in or whatever and I go well, this is not gonna be the same in or whatever and I go, well, this is not going to be the same. Yeah. It's tough when someone gets added in a group chat where you're like, what are you doing? You're like, even though we haven't mentioned that person by name, their essence is what we're talking about. Yeah.

And you're like, and you just made it too personal. Yeah. And now it's like not fun. Yeah. People it's, uh, I imagine like group that's with it. Workup settings. I imagine they, everybody does it. Oh yeah. And you have group now that I'm in the group chat world, which I love. You have different group chats for different thing. Like just what you want to talk. You have a golf group chat. You got some family group chats. You got some other, you got the comedy talking trash group chats. Yeah. And so you get to bounce, you know, you get to bounce around a little

bit, you know, and that's fun. Yeah. I like Instagram where you find you hit share and then people just pop up. And then I go, this person, this person, this person doesn't need to see this one. That is so real. It's so real. That's so funny, man. My Hispanic friends, if I get anything about Mexican food, I go, they'll love it.

I'll send it to them. No one believes you have Hispanic friends. Just said that for no reason. They're getting less and less by every day. No reason. All the people of color in my life. You're like, Derek, get out of here. That dumb accent.

We, we, I have color in my life. Oh, yeah. It's a. By Gregory? Yeah. I said Greg. Today's his last day, so there you go. Greg, dude, gum it.

Tomorrow will be a different, the next, that's why I'm not going to be on the podcast next week. Cause I refuse. Yeah. That's why Aaron's not here today. Yeah. Cause Greg's here. You go, stop.

I go, look, it's a lot of stuff. We got to bounce. We got to bounce a lot of things. Yeah. Dusty, when it comes to spinning something, it's out of sight, out of mind, right? Yeah, absolutely. That daily coffee habit, those streaming subscriptions, they add up fast without you even noticing. Rocket Money helps you spot those patterns

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Yeah, there's some comments. Oh, yeah, yeah. Perfect. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'll be able to, so I can talk about where I've been. Yeah, yeah don't know. I've been just doing, you know, I've been out there, man. I went to Europe. Yeah, there's some comments. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'll be, so I can talk about where I've been. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They've been knives in the UK. Is that right? Was it hard to find knives when you're there? I wasn't looking for any knives. I got given a knife today. Tell me to keep it, keep it under my seat. Don't let anybody find it. Yeah. Is that cool?

Yeah. I mean, that's a good old fashioned Southern gift to me. I collect knives. I got some under the seat. Yeah. Under that seat. Yeah. It's like Dwight.

I have some knives, but I don't ever carry them, but I got given one today. And then, you know, yeah, we were joking. We had, do we talk about knives? Travis, uh, but he travels on the road. We went to the spy museum. He had to hide his knife. And, uh, did I talk about that? I don't know.

Like, maybe they didn't ban it. He did it at the Laker game too. Holy smokes. He had his, he had his knife with him. And so he goes and dicks it in the dirt. And then he looks up and there's just free lockers for people's knives. He's got dirt all over his hands. He's got to remember where it's at.

He's got to now go out there afterwards, look like the other people just digging in dirt, you know, cause in LA outside the Lakers, there's probably a lot of people digging in the dirt. So you gotta be like, Oh, do you mind if I jump in here and get this, uh, get my knife out of here? That's outside of a Lakers, there's probably a lot of people digging in the dirt. So you gotta be like, Oh, do you mind if I jump in here and get this, get my knife out of here? That's outside of a Lakers game. Yeah. People, people are walking, he's digging into the ground.

People are walking past him. It's hilarious. He gets a knee stab with a needle. It's not like you go, he went off to the side. No. He's like, there are people as close as me and Bates are just right. And they're just like going, that guy's putting that knife in that dirt. Everybody just sees it.

Not to blow up a spot, you know, see Travis out, you're going to know, but there's a knife in the dirt around this building. Yeah. He go, yeah. If you go search around the building, it's not a tough read. All right. Uh, this weekend I was in West Bend, Wisconsin at the, the Ben theater, just outside Milwaukee fan brought me this brewer's hat. Thank you very much. All right. This weekend, I was in West Bend, Wisconsin at the Bend Theater, just outside Milwaukee. Fan brought me this brewer's hat.

Thank you very much. All right. Great crowd. A lot of folks came out. Look at this. What's a brewer? Like somebody brews beer? Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense.

I never thought about it till right this second. Look at that. How awesome is that? That's from Jasmine Lozano. Big fan of the podcast. That really looks like real. Like the faces and stuff. Yeah.

Can you design the faces or something? I don't know how they do that. Am I the gray here? That's you. Oh, that's silver. They got you full on gray. Got me full on gray. Yep.

Yep. Very cool. That is cool. Had to haul that thing back on a plate. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Uh, very cool. That is cool. And haul that thing back on a plate. Yeah. Easy. Easy. Yeah. How'd you do? What'd you do? Keep it... She, uh, well, Aaron kept tipping over, but I just, uh, put it in the middle seat. They've seen a lot of guys like Brian trying to protect Legos on flights. I promise you. Lego, come back here, man. They go peanut allergy, aisle three. Yeah. Yeah, you're right here. Before go, come back here, man. They go, peanut allergy aisle three. Yeah.

Yeah. You're right here. Before I even brought it out, they're like, Lego guy. Lego guy. He goes, let me guess, fragile? Come on back. And it's him and that. Everything's fragile.

I'm fragile. That's fragile. Oh God. He doesn't need to be bumped into. Correct. Everybody else got water. They gave him apple juice. They go, no, you're going to be fine. All right. That's fragile. He doesn't need to be bumped into. No, correct. Everybody else got water. They gave him apple juice No, you're gonna be fine. All right, that's too far. All right, so boarding group. Were you? Be I'm always be yeah

You haven't made it to the I guess you're driving everywhere B is not bad. I don't think I get to see that one, but C as they say C stands for center aisle. Oh, that's funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty much true. Center seat. Yeah. If you're a used to be able to get C and you could get lucky in the back and find an, uh, window or now you, I feel like you used to be, I think it's out of control now. Like where it's like, once they started pre-boarding and all this, it's just, uh, it's on, and then, you know, when they have them on from another flight and get on, it's nothing more frustrating than that.

You get on, who are these people? And they're already in the seats that you want. Yeah. And they're like, well, they came from, they're staying with us. Yeah. What? Well, nobody pre-boards more than Southwest. I mean, they get, they go through everybody and then they start going, anybody

else that's not on this flight that would like to join before the A group, would you like to come up? They're begging for preboards. I mean, they want more and more. And then when you get on the plane, they go, please fan out and move to the back of the plane. I wouldn't go, no, the thing that attracted,

I can sit wherever I want. Have y'all ever had them do that? You try to sit in the first or second and they go, please spread out. And I go, I'm gonna sit wherever I want. That's the point. Yeah. That's the point. I'll pay for that ride.

That's right. That's my ride. You can't tell me what to. And when handicapped people that are in the wheelchair to get on the plane, then sat at the aisle seat and I'm like, I got to get in there. Can you get up? Yeah. I mean, are you going to get up for me?

So if they can't walk, they should be forced to sit in the window. At the aisle. Yes. That's what you... Crammed in there. Yeah. Dusty airlines. Yeah.

And if they have to use the bathroom, they got to really think about it. You know what I mean? Or in the cargo hold. Did you go to the bath... You would make sure you would ask them before they sit down. Yeah. Did you go? Yeah.

Yeah. Go before you board. Yeah. Go before you board. Yeah. But. Go before you board. Yeah. But anyway, it was a great show. Thanks for everybody who came. Awesome. This past weekend, I was out with Mr. John Crist. We were in Fort Myers, Tampa, Florida, and then Pensacola. So yeah, hot shows. Love doing comedy in Florida. So we had, you know, the weather's all... Florida's the best.

Yeah. The weather's, uh, you know, the weather's all, you know, the weather's always good. You know, is it nice for him to perform where the crowd has the same jeans that he has on? It's pretty good. I don't even know really what that mean by that. But I kind of, yeah, no, he wasn't the only one with paint splatter on the denim. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like the pockets got a big design on it. Oh, like, oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, yeah. Tom Hardy's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had some. What is, but yeah. No, we all used to wear those jeans, but we're, we're older now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've changed, but yeah, great weekend. It was a hot shows. He sold them all out. It was a lot of fun. That's awesome. Yeah. Okay. Well, I was off too. I, um, I say too. Yeah. I was off. Uh, Aaron was

off and I was off. Uh, but I, uh, did a couple of shows at Zany's, did a couple of things at the lab. I did the all Zany's comedy all stars. And then I did the dark and dirty show. Oh, come on. Yeah. I just got on it and I did some old jokes that I used to do. I didn't really get dark with it. Vaguely dirty. Just for fun, you know? Yeah. You gotta let loose sometimes. Let it out. Out of all the stuff you stand for, well, you know what though? You get sucked into peer pressure. Well, mainly I talked, well, I wanted to just get out there. And mainly I talked about children's books, like the old school children's books,

and some of the words that they use that we don't really use anymore. Mm-hmm, that's a fun premise. That's an old joke? No, no, that was my new one. Oh, but then I did some old ones. Yeah. That are vaguely dirty, but, uh, you know, I mean, yeah, I've lived a wild life.

Yeah. I mean, growing up in books, I've lived a wild life. You growing up in Trailer Park, like you're not, yeah, you're going to be both things. It's amazing. You're going to. Turned out the way I did. It's amazing. It could have gone so many directions. Yeah. Yeah.

So many. It's wild. It did go a lot of directions. It did. Look at your picture. Yeah. Well, that guy's okay. Ain't that worse? Yeah. But I mean, look how he looks.

That's a different direction. Yes. That is true. That was a hot look though. I'm going to be honest with the M and M was popular at the time. He was. I'll be honest with you. I did this before I even knew who M and M was though. Wow.

I was ahead of the time. That's the most dusty thing I've ever heard. Yeah. He, most people would have been like, M and M had bleached hair. That's what Dusty goes, I had no idea about M and M. I just did it on my own. Yeah. That's impressive.

How quick did Eminem come? Well, I was working at Western Sizzlin', you know, and somebody said, told me about Eminem. I had no idea. So I, you know, his first song had just come. That was probably, uh, I don't know. 2000 or something. Yeah. 99, 98, 99. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Eminem. You just felt it. Yeah. All right, we'll start through

you guys' comments. Hank Hooper, Brian seems to look down on Dusty and doubt everything he says. Correct. Lame. Dusty holds to some far out stuff, but his garden and opinions seem pretty reasonable. Brian sounds like he believes everything NPR reports. That was NPR. NPR. What did I say? NPR. NPR reports. Well, I'm not sure what he's referring to here. I get a lot of this though where they go, he's got a lot of crazy stuff, but on this subject, he's right. We talked about gardening. Really?

I'm right on all of them. I don't know about the moon, but his composting tips are really good. Yeah. That's basically what he's saying. Yeah. And nobody knows about the moon. I mean, that's the thing. Are you into gardening?

Me? I went out, I mean, not living in New York City, but I loved the garden. I grew up with a huge garden. When I first moved to Colorado, I had a raised bed garden. I had a couple of them. So yeah, I, uh, I can't wait to have a garden again. So what'd you grow? Um, I had tomatoes, peppers, onions.

Um, I had some, uh, like hanging cucumbers. I grew up in a pickling family. I want to pickle stuff. Yeah. You know what I mean? I love that. Yeah, I'm into it. Yeah.

You had pick, you grew pickles. Yeah. Yeah. Well, eventually. Yeah. Eventually. Yeah. Did you grow your own dill?

Uh, no, we didn't grow our own dill. No, we had that. You remember those old, they used to come in like a packet and you just rip it open like the bread and butter, and then you'd like drop it in the packet and then you can it. But yeah, I mean, we had canned, I mean, canned everything that I could can tomatoes, canned anything you can. We had peach trees, pears, plums, cherry tree. We had a seven apple trees, a little bit of everything grew up like on a gentleman's

farm, essentially just grew it for ourselves. Never sold it. Wow. Yeah. That's what that's called. Yeah. It's essentially gentlemen's farm is going to be somebody that's going to grow stuff that's going to have all kinds of different produce, but isn't doing it to make a profit. They're just, you know, eating

what they grow and kind of living off the land a little bit. Yeah. We, we bought the home like that. When we showed up, all this stuff was planted already. So yeah, it was fun. Okay. already. So yeah, it was fun. Okay. Beth Vetter, thank you for a great show in Paris, Nate. I've been listening to the podcast for four years and was thrilled to have you finally come to Paris. It was great to see Nate Land well represented by your openers, but was sad that the whole band wasn't there. Any chance we can get a live taping of the podcast in Europe sometimes? I would also love to hear what Nate thought about Paris and if he ate any snails while he was there. Yeah, we could do a live podcast

taping and I'll just come out of pocket for that. Do it for Beth. I barely sold tickets. We had 300 people. All right. Sold out in Paris. Unbelievable. It's crazy. Paris was awesome.

Paris was, I was really excited about Paris. I always wanted to go and I just thought it was like an awesome town. You're in that middle, it just feels so old. And like, it's cause it is old. And like every, everything there is like, you know, it's a joke I have everything sold, but everything's like a thousand years old. And we went to the Louvre, saw the Mona Lisa, you know, and everybody-

I had no idea that picture was so small. It's not as small as I don't, everybody says that. It looked like it in your picture. I know, but. He was far back. No, it's, but it's a good size picture. It's as big as this George Washington thing behind me. So I mean.

It doesn't look that big in the picture. It looks more like one of those little ones. You would think that's what I thought. I thought it was gonna be that small of a thing, but I think it was like that size. It's not, everybody just says it looks small and everybody says it's small. I don't know what everybody thinks it's going to be. Well, that's what I would think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's what I, that's what I thought. I thought it felt

like that. Maybe it's like framed, it's like in a window. Well, it's on a giant wall. Yeah. That's huge. Maybe that's it. And nothing's, there's no context to any of it. You're not allowed up near it.

Yeah. You're staying pretty far back. So when you take pictures and everything, but everybody does, everybody just says it's small. That's like one of those things that you're like, everybody just says that. And you're like, I think we're all just saying it cause that's what everybody says.

And almost that's become more popular than, that's like when you go there someone's like, if you say you want to go see Mona Lisa, I feel like they're like, it's smaller than you think. Like you know, it's almost like it's not worth it. You're like, no, no, I want to know that it... Like let me go decide if it's not worth it. I still... It's still Mona Lisa. You think that's the real one or that's a replica and they have the real one back in the back somewhere? No, I bet the best place to put the real one would be in front of everybody.

Is this in a glass, is it in a glass case? Yeah, yeah, there's guards. But I mean, I would think the best place to put the real one is that obvious of a place. The back would I be more worried about. Cause you're like, that's where people can get into it. Yeah. If you wrote a movie though, I'd have it in the back.

Yeah. And go, it's not the real one. How do you know? How do you know? Yeah, like you ever see the Mr. Bean movie? I think they messed up the Mona Lisa. And he tried to repaint it. Yeah.

Good movie. Bean? Yeah, I remember those movies. Thanks for jumping in, good movie. Ben. Yeah. I remember those movies. Uh, thanks for jumping in, Derek. That's about all I had to say about Mr. Bean. I hate to break it to you. Mr.

Bean's great. Andrew Copecy, my wife and I went to see Nate in London in 2023 and we're at the Manchester show this year. I think Nate's new hour is the funniest hour of standup I've ever ever heard and what a surprise to have Greg and Mike on the show, too. Thank you so much for coming back to England and bringing some top Nate land comics with you. Thank you very much. Very very nice of you. Manchester was a awesome show. They were fired up. Yeah. Yeah. How many people were that one? They were fired up. Yeah.

How many people were that one? Uh, 800, a thousand, something like that. Oh wow. Uh, yeah, it was good. London, London was like two shows, 4,000 probably. And then Paris was the smallest at 300, two and double them. All the rest were probably about 2000, 2000 in Oslo. Uh, yeah, it's crazy.

Uh, yeah, it's, it's insane that people are there. You don't get used to it. You don't just walk out and go, you're just like, I can't believe anybody's even remotely here. But that Manchester show was awesome. They were like on fire. Yeah. They were, yeah, he was like, that was a crowd. There's like, you could tape a special with that crowd. They were just fired up. I mean, they all were, but it was like, they were, you know, I don't know how many people go out to Manchester, maybe not, it's nice out London or it's not like whatever, but yeah, show was great.

Manchester's a cool town. It was the least amount we got to spend in because we were not there long, but we walked around and stuff a little bit downtown, like fun. How was the food? Yeah, food is all great. They get a tough, they get a tough review. We had fish and chips and they were good, but we ate some good places and nice. Yeah, I did not eat a snail at in Paris. Okay. I try to think they have a cargo, a big one they had, they have a fried pig's blood and they call

it a, it's black. They call it a, uh, it's black. They call it something. Yeah, that's definitely, you definitely shouldn't be eating that. I had a, I had a bite of it. It's called something else. And then, uh, Mike Vacchione ate it every, every morning. That's disgusting. Yeah.

Yeah. Every morning. He's a health nut. He should get, uh, he should see an exorcist. Yeah. He's been different since he got back. Fried pig's blood every day. He's always slept upside down, but now.

Takes hot showers now. Yeah. Yeah, he's the opposite. Yeah. He doesn't even feel, it all feels hot to him now. He goes, you're like, nah, it's cold water, Mike. And he goes, nah, it's burning me. You're like, well, I think that's that.

Pigs. Fried pig's blood. Yeah. But it's like a, it looks like a hockey puck. So I'm sure there's some of the stuff in it. It gets worse as it goes along. Laura Beane Allen. And Mr.

Mrs. Beane's wife. Yeah. Or this was his sister. His was his sister. Laura Beane Allen, Mrs. Beane's wife. Yeah. Or this was his sister. His was his sister. Laura Beane. Yeah, we all know Laura. My parents are on a trip to Ireland

and my mom texted us tonight to tell us that she had to take my dad to the hospital in Dublin for some health concerns. A doctor came in and after examining dad, said he was interested to hear, we are from Tennessee and asked if we had heard of Nate Barghzi. Nate did a concert in Dublin and the doctor was there. I know that connection cheered my mom up. Very, very nice. All right. Yeah, that's, you know, bring in, look at that. I'm glad they, yeah, and the doctor came to the show. What's his black

pudding? That's it. Yeah, that's what they called it. Gross. Yep. Yep. Where was this? France? Like, no, I think they did it, where did they eat it the most? London, we were in London, they did it. But I think it's, I think it's all Europeans eat this. What sausages? I don't know if they all eat it. I like saying that every European's ever lived this I like saying that every Europeans ever lived this every morning. This is the only thing they uh is uh pig's blood. Wow I had no idea. Yeah. I never heard anything like that. I have not either and uh but I have now. Black uh or Blake Bryan Blackwell. Oh that's what we're talking about black pudding. This guy's got a lot going on here. There's a lot of happening right there.

I started 75 hard with Nate on February 3rd. Yesterday was day 75 and I finished. Thanks Nate for your inspiration. Your three days of commitment to the program inspired me to go the distance. He lost over 15 pounds and did not have a single Sourpitch kid the whole time. My body fat percentage dropped from 36 to 28 percent. This is basically my body. I could have had that body.

Yep. And no happiness. No, he's extreme. He's got the explanation points. He's very happy. You think so? Black Byron's pumped. You think he's happy though. He's got the explanation points. He's very happy. You think so? He's great.

You think he's happy? Great. Look at that. Well, he's happy now because he's done and he can eat those sour patch kids. Yeah. Let's get that body fat percentage back up to 36. This next guy's eating this. I was about to say this next guy.

This is what I would have been at. Yeah. What? Maybe I have Blake stand in for me. Yeah. For my movie. No, for my donut challenge. Oh, he's closer.

A fit figure for your stand in. Oh, they, well, they do need one. What are they at? They, there was an ad in, uh, I assume in Atlanta, in Atlanta. Yeah. They said they need to, I needed a stand. They put like an ad saying neighbor got you shooting a movie in Atlanta. In Atlanta. Yeah. They said they needed a stand. They put like an ad saying neighbor, I got you shooting a movie in Atlanta. So if you want to be a stand in or something, looking for, it said fit.

A fit figure. With silver hair. It did go pretty hard on my hair. But yeah. It was a... Everyone just says you're quitting stand-up. Yeah. Okay. All right. Mike Perman. No, Brett Bacon, right? Brett Bacon. Wow, look at that. What a name. Yeah, that's a good name. That is a good name. You know, and everybody's like, are you related to Kevin Bacon? And then he's got to be like, oh, it's a pretty common name. You go, and everybody's like, are you related to Kevin Bacon? And then he's

gotta be like, ah, it's a pretty common name. You go, is it Bacon? I'm curious on what y'all think of how they are now three dire wolf pups that have been born from old genetic material slash DNA. The company claims this will help keep endangered animals from going extinct, but also they plan to bring back other species like the woolly mammoth and Tasmanian tiger. Where does the line between scientific advancement and playing with God's creation need to be drawn? This is the podcast for that answer.

They're probably not doing it. They just told us that they did. Well, that's them. Now- It's a little dogs. Yeah. Uh, yeah. It was last 13,000 years ago. Since they were around here. I mean, but they just, they had the DNA. They just throw out a lot of numbers. And yeah, but where, where, why are we the ones to draw the line here? Where does the line between side scientific advancement and playing with God's creation need to be drawn? I'm just saying, I mean, what aren't they talking about? Yeah. The

wooly mammoth Tasmanian tiger. I don't think there's anything. If they have the things to bring back these animals. Yeah. I don't think that, uh, you know, I mean the wooly mammoth, that's kind of wild. Let's get a wooly mammoth there was no reason they went extinct right? Let's get a bunch of wooly mammoths up in here. Yeah. I'm excited for it. I want them to bring back the Tyrannosaurus rex. That's what I want them to do and just to see if it was ever real. Let's bring it back. Yeah. Says the three dire wolves are actually gray wolves. Yes that's what I'm saying. They're not even, they're like,

okay, but where's the line drawn? We have, we have machines that if you're dying and your heart is stopped, we will electrocute your heart and start it again. So how is that any different than creating another heart and creating your dad, you're gone. Katah, you're bad. Get rid of the machines. I support all.

I think I got a point. That's tough to argue. Yeah. I say, get rid of the machines. I'm with you. Your voice. I mean, you sound like a Alabama sports radio guy. You have to, you got to be back with Auburn Robb on the phone. I've always said, him and Alabama bill are going to go out at about The matchup this weekend in the SEC baseball Derek. Hey, we got War Eagle Eddie on the line What's going on War Eagle ready? This is your true. Do you think they should bring back the dire wolves? And because yours is slow because it's baseball. It's SEC baseball season. So you're like, you know, wait until Signing day before we can really get into things what isn't dire mean something like it's a, like an urgency.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dire straights. But you, I always said Derek is definitely a football coach. I mean, the way he moves, you could just Photoshop his body onto the side of a football field and you would be like that that fits. Yeah, yeah. We like talking about sports radio. Me and Bates always talk about sports radio.

But I told him one, I just remembered, I was listening to the day. Did I tell the Keith one? With me and Keith Alvarsat, we're on the morning radio. A long time ago. Maybe. Me and Keith Alvastat were on doing morning radio at a restaurant promoting I think our show at Zany's when we used to do a show together. Yeah. And then so we're on the radio and then I remember we're just talking like this and then Keith goes, are we on the radio? Are we on the air? Are we on the air? And the guy goes, I don't know. To have a real moment of like, I mean, we were just all talking and Keith's like, Hey, are we on the air? He goes, I don't know. And then he just looks at it.

And then there was another one I heard. This guy's just talking and they, you know, you do an ad. So they go to put an ad in and, you know, so they, like Bates would do it, you just sneak it, you used to do it, you sneak it in, whatever. So they're just going on and on, they're talking about whatever, then the guy goes, uh, out of nowhere, they're talking about football. And out of nowhere, he goes, you like Long John Silver's? He goes, not really.

He goes, well, they got a pretty good deal at Lawn John Silver. And you're like, so it's an ad. And then he goes, well, that sounds pretty good. He had a change, but he was so like on another, like he wasn't thinking about, like it was in the moment. It was just so funny. He goes, yeah, you like Lawn John Silver? He goes, not really. Well, they have a pretty good thing going right now. Three for one. And he goes, well, that sounds like a good thing. He has to get back into it now. It's live radio, so it's what you do.

Yeah, live radio. Don't just out of nowhere ask. I mean, I think I told it, I remember a lady once on a, I did a morning TV show and the guy, it was a guy and a woman and they were the two anchors and the woman was gone so the guy had his wife come. And so she just sat in and filled in and she just wasn't good. This woman's on there trying to sell jewelry, like on morning radio shows, they bring something in and this woman's like, oh, here's jewelry I got. And then she goes, and then the husband's like, oh, would you, you know, you'd buy something like this. And she goes, no, I wouldn't. And you, and that was, and you're like, you go, just say you

going to buy it. She goes, I wouldn't. And they go, well, you would buy this. She's like, I'm not going to, I wouldn't buy this. We have this at home. You're like, like this woman, you're like, no one's going to make you do the transaction on a rack. Just say yes. Just say yes. Just say I'm going to buy this woman's stuff. And she was like, I'm not. And then she kept going. She kept saying, I'm not. And I remember watching it. I was watching it live, just sitting there and you could see the husband's like, all right. Just yelling at the teeth. Say it! All right.

Let's do Brett Bacon's question one more time. Brett Bacon! Dr. Katie Dieter. Dieter. Dieter. My mother passed away and I felt so much comfort when listening to Nate Lam. Tonight I was listening to episode 109 time and dusty says that he loved the movie interstellar, even though he doesn't believe it.

And Nate says, I don't believe in Jurassic park. I laughed so hard and felt so happy. Nate's comment coupled with dusty cracking up laughing and eventually agreeing with Nate really made my whole week. Well, that's thanks for sharing that. So sorry about your loss. I don't know what to say eventually. I don't know. I didn't listen to the episode, but I feel like I would agree with you right away. Well, her mom passed away, so maybe just let her have it.

Okay. Good night. Come on, Katie. What's your problem? Listen closer. Okay. I'm sorry, Katie. I'm sorry, doctor. The fact that a doctor even let, listen to something you're on is impressive. Dr.

Dieter. Sounds like your kind of doctor. Yeah. Maybe doctor could be, you go, I got a doctor. Yeah. Sounds like Brett Bacon would be yourer. Yeah. Sounds like your kind of doctor. Yeah, it is. Maybe doctor could be, you go, I got a doctor. Yeah. Sounds like Brett Bacon would be your patient. Yeah. Yeah, Dr. Dieter, who you working on today?

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mentioning us at checkout terms and conditions apply. Malia Tate. Malia Tate. Malia Tate. I'd say Malia. Malia Tate. Derek Strupe and I are living the same life. My birthday is the 24th of December and the last two years we've gone to Texas Roadhouse for my birthday. You were saying- What a life to share. Was it the Christmas episode you were saying you go to Waffle House? Yeah, yeah. Waffle House and Yeah. Yeah. I w Waffle House and Texas roadhouse. I'm a huge fan of Texas roadhouse. I can't remember which one I mentioned, but both of them are near and dear to my heart, Texas roadhouse.

I talked about is, uh, like white people go to Mexican restaurants for their birthday and Hispanic people go to Texas roadhouse and we both do it for cultural reasons. We go to a Mexican restaurant cause we want them to dance around us. There was some Brero on our head. Okay. All right. I'll turn this way.

Uh, okay. And then Texas roadhouse, they go. So some woman named Tammy says, he haul and throws peanuts at it. We're both doing it for, you know, the, the cultural reason. So anyways, I, uh, thought that was a sharp observation fell flat, but, uh, yeah, Texas. I feel like you just go because you that's that food. I don't know. Like you go to like Mexico for culture reasons.

I don't go to the- Well, I'm saying, okay, okay, not just culture, but for birthdays, when I go to Texas Roadhouse, it seems like Hispanic families are celebrating birthdays. When I go to Mexican restaurants, I don't see Hispanic families, you know, clapping around cheese dip. I will say my dad goes to a Mexican restaurant near his house on his birthday. Yeah. Put the subreddit on his house. Oh, you left him out there to hang.

Your dad does it. I said, that's not why I go. Yeah. My dad does it. And then they put cake on your face. Yeah. And they put it on your nose. Yeah.

And then you wipe it and you get kind of, and then they'll do it again. And they take a picture and everybody's like, oh, look at him. It's a good time. It's a good time. It is a good time. They bring out fajitas, you know, I forgot about that. My dad does do that. I don't know if I know that. Turn that around. Yeah, I did.

I did. But that's a, I mean, that's a. Shows you kids, you've worked hard. Some stuff can still work out. That joke. That's right. Uh, is your birthday Christmas Eve? It is not December 10th is my birthday, but we're both, we're

both December babies there. All right. Um, but yeah, me and not necessarily the same life. Not the same. Yeah, come on. I don't think everybody that goes to Texas road houses live in the exact same life. Maybe, maybe Texas road house where you throw the peanuts on the floor is that Logan's? No, no Texas both both of them. Yeah Yeah, what's the difference in Texas and Logan's? You know, I don't go to Logan's I only go to What if I knew the exact difference that'd be so I go one of them has a brown butter and the other one's kind

Of a plain butter with one that cinnamon butter And the other one's kind of a plain butter with one that cinnamon butter. Yeah, something right there. That's crazy It is weird. You go to a restaurant good rolls. I think Texas Roadhouse might have better. They remind me of Oh Charlie's Yeah, I remember though Charlie's ones. Yeah, I used to press them together Yeah, he says oh Charlie's is unbelievable what they did to their roles. Oh, they're the best. They are. They were. It's- What did they do to them? Made them worse. Oh, dude. They were- Old Charlie's, and not everyone has old Charlie's, but old Charlie's had roles.

And growing up, they- it was unreal, dude. They were the best roles I've ever had in my life. People would go- you're going there for the roles, they'd bring you one basket, you'd be like, that's not enough. No. You go, just bring- I might eat five of these. That's why they changed them. And then they changed them, I think, to cut cost and they just are not good.

And so now it's like, I mean, I'll even go and still get them. They have like the same, they look and feel like they're going to be the old one. I wouldn't say they're bad. They're just not as good. I'm not saying they're bad. And I imagine once the me's of the world move, move on, we don't, they, they're going to be like, it's a long game. Yeah. And, but the younger generation that's going now doesn't even know. Oh, Charlie's is hanging on Ruby Tuesdays Applebee's.

They took a dip. Yeah. Charlie's is hanging on. I don't know. Why did Ruby take it? Why did nobody, the, uh, the salad bar at Ruby Tuesdays should have never dropped off. Yeah.

Yeah, I thought Ruby Tuesdays felt fancy to me. So I think that's why. I think we feel like we might've talked about this too. It's the 250th episode. We've talked about everything. Yeah, we talked about it. Yeah, 250th episode. But yeah, Ruby Tuesdays felt like,

I don't think we went to that growing up. Like it was, that was a- No, no, I didn't either. I did it until later. Yeah. I was older and then I found out about Ruby Tuesdays and I was like, oh, I wish I would have known. But Shoney's is where the salad bar was.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Shoney's was a hotspot. Yeah. It was. But Ruby Tuesdays- I went to a Shoney's in the middle of West Virginia, not long ago and it was still pretty hot. West Virginia, gotta say,

Charleston, West Virginia, home, birthplace of Shonys. Oh, I did not know that. Yeah, I used to, born in Charleston, a lot of my family lives in West Virginia. There's a Shonys that was like the original downtown by the river, the Canal River. We used to go to it growing up. Loved Shonys, a lot of core memories out of Shonys.

Yeah, I was at that Shonys and there was a guy that worked there. He was picking the lock on one of the game machines Because they lost the key and I made a joke to him and he goes yeah They lost the key and now some of my lesser good qualities are coming out to help Show is Headquartered here, Nashville, Tennessee. Wow, that's awesome. Yeah never been in West Virginia

Is the first one ever not in West Virginia. Okay. Bowlin Alley in Charleston. Yeah. I've been allowed to. Just be big boy. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah and I've seen the big boys. I have too. Such a good name, Shoney's. They're burger. Maybe still is called the big boy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Shoney's. They still good. They're still going. Yeah. Shoney's doing. Yeah. They're hanging in there. Yeah. They. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. as Barghazi and yet Nate pronounces his own name as Barghazi. But in fairness, it probably should be Barghazi. I feel like everyone said Barghazi.

Nate Barghazi. I feel like that's what everyone says. I said that until I heard Nate pronounce his own last name. Barghazi. And so when he said Barghazi, I go, well, that's how I'm saying it. But I agree. I'm not so confident. You go the other way. Whatever Nate says, do the opposite. Yeah. Barghetti is probably how it should be. And then our Southern accent is turned into

Barghetti. And so now- I say it like with an A. Barghetti. Barghetti. Yeah. Barghetti. So not even how she- Yeah. So Barghetti. That would be Barghetti. That's what I should be saying. Yeah. Yeah. Barghetti. Barghetti. Yeah. Someone gave me a way to say it and I was like, oh yeah, that's good. And I forgot. Like to tell someone. So it seems we're all a little confused. Go to a bar to get a Z. Yeah. Kind of. I don't think that's the one. I should have thought that through. Yeah. Mike. Mike Perman. Throughout the years of the podcast, I've heard you guys talk about your various comedy specials, which usually includes discussing the length of the special. I was wondering if there's a target length you feel is ideal for a

special and why. You know what? I've been saying the word ideal more. Have you? Yeah. And what reason? I don't know. I just, I've been, I don't know, I started saying it. Never said it ever. And I've been saying it a little bit more. Ideals, maybe like that. Feels good. It's like a taste of, you know of education. Could you use that as an example? Not right now, but I don't really know I'm going to use it till I'm there.

And then I'm there and then I use it. And you can go ideally. That's fun. I don't know. I don't go that. I've not done that yet. Ideally, I'd like to. Ideally, yeah. That could be the next step. I think I would't know. I don't go that. I've not done that yet. Yeah. Ideally I'd like to. Ideally. Yeah. Yeah. That could be the next step.

I think I would say ideally. And so then it's like. Ideally. Ideally. Ideally, we're not going to go over there. The Barghetti family stays over here. Yeah. I don't know. The length is, there should be an hour. And it could all vary, depends on when you're doing it. We do half hours, half hours are great. 45, 50 is probably a good amount too. It's like an hour nine. That's where I like it. That's where I like it.

Yeah, like 20. Yeah. Dry bar maybe. I think it's, yeah, 20, I mean, they can, it all just varies. Again, this is the thing we talked about early. It really depends. If you're, I think if you're putting a special out, you're trying to grab

the audience and they don't know you, it's like, I don't know if you necessarily need to put out an hour. But that's why we have the showcase. You see comics that are doing eight minutes and then some hopefully go to half hours, then hours, and you go until you want to start seeing more from that comedian. But so, yeah, so it can all, you know, it all just depends. But you're where you should do it. I think an hour is good, somewhere in that world. Yeah, I think so. I actually like like 59 because it's an hour.

But when you see the time, it looks less than an hour. I agree that I think it should be. But I did mine. My thing, my new one's like an hour nine. Cause I don't know what to cut. I like all the jokes. Yeah. All the jokes.

Yeah. No, our nine is, is, uh, uh, flex, uh, cause you could stop at an hour and you've really fulfilled it, but another nine minutes of joke, joke, joke, joke, joke. You're like, I had an overflow and I didn't dislike any of them. Yeah. Yeah. That's nowhere to put it. Yeah. And when they're all funny, it works perfect. So yeah. But that doesn't work for everybody. So it like, I, I agree with Nate, uh, since I know y'all get a lot of questions about what I think about this. So, um, but I agree with Nate on, uh, it does depend on the comic too. Um, you know, if they're seeing you, I mean, some comics would benefit from just doing a 30 minute

special or 45 minute special or whatever. And I think if you, if someone's telling you to do an hour, I think I, ideally, man, that's where you would come on. Boom. I, ideally, man, that's where you would, ideally you would, uh, do 52 sounds good. Yeah. I was like some of our specials that we're making, you know, it's like, you like that 48 I can be talked into 52 feels like doable if someone that can do an hour. You're like, let's just make it a nice tight, you know, that's a good point.

And then the half hour, it's like, yeah, you'd be under a little bit. 27 is nice. Nice 27 minutes special. It feels like, again, yeah, I think people want to watch that. When, yeah, if something's over an hour, sometimes in your head, mentally you go like, like you think, I don't know if I want to invest in that much time. Like a whole movie. Weirdly enough, even though if someone says, yeah, it's 52 minutes, you're like, I was just looking at listening to some podcasters the other day and it was like, it's 44 minutes. And I was like, oh yeah, I was like, you want to listen to that. We've had that with this podcast. We thought people want to go like, oh, I'll do that.

And there was another one I saw that's four hours. You're like, well, I'm not going to look like it feels like it never ends. And ours is too. We tried to go down. I don't think I've ever listened to a full Joe Rogan podcast because it's like three hours. I'm like, I never, at least now you would, I think people listen to it. It's either, yeah, people are seeing clips. So there's, or they listen to it over a week or if you're like, yeah, yeah, I think that's what it is. Or if you're working and you don't have to, you know, or they listen to it over a week. Or if you're like, yeah, yeah, I think that's what it is. Or if you're working and you don't have to, you know, you can listen to whatever you want.

Yeah. And if you listen to Joe's whole podcast, you wouldn't have time for an ice bath. You know what I mean? Yeah. So that's what it's about. Yeah. Maybe I'd get into that ice bath. Yeah.

Uh, you take ice baths? I don't know. I bet he does. I can't handle the cold. I couldn't have put the sarcasm on any thicker. No, I was joking. You have to. Oh, then I missed yours.

Sorry. Yeah. Did you? I can't do it. I said Derek does it because he has to because he's to cool himself down. No. He has been doing it for a few years.

No. Before it was he just, cause now he runs hot. Yeah. Is what I'm saying. Oh yeah. You get it? No, I get it. Okay.

All right. Okay. So that was a pretty solid fun. Yeah. That's fun. Uh, no, yeah. Dice passer. I I've done it, but it does.

I'll tell you what, you get out of it. You feel terrific. Well, they say like, it's, it's, you really do feel you have the most energy. You're very, I get the idea of it, but it's, it's hard to get in it. They say your body feels like it's going to die when it's in an ice bat. So when you get out to get this endorphin rush because you lived, and I don't know if that's good for you. Yeah.

Well, I think you decide for you and other people decide for other people. Uh, but, but you know, I, you know, I'll share an opinion though. Yeah. I just, cause I think it's not, can't be good for your body to think it's going to die all the time. Yeah. I, I agree with that. That's not why I do it.

I don't, I'm not going to do it. No, I don't. I would never take an ice bath because I hate cold water and I've hated cold water. Like everybody, my entire life. We have, we have charities where people jump in the water to raise money for fundraisers cause cold water is so terrible. So if I can find other options, you'll catch me walking, drinking smoothies or trying salads before I jump into an ice bath.

That'd be last resort. If I go, I can't get fired up and they go, well, this is the only option, but I, yeah. What if they told you ice bath worked like Ozempic? You don't think you would jump in there? They go, the longer you're in there, it's like, you just start toning up. Yeah. I tried Ozempic for like three months and did, I lost nine pounds and that was it. My doctor was like, you're the only person that's ever like beat Ozempic. He's like, we're not really, I'm not joking. He's like, we're not getting anywhere. And he's like, you don't really, we're not seeing the results that we're gaining weight on.

Yeah. Yeah. He was like, you know, and I was lying to him. He's like, is your eating habits change? Cause I wouldn't eat all day. Then at night I would catch up with everything. Yeah. But anyways, yeah. You lost nine pounds. Yeah. Yeah.

A month. That's not. Yeah. I mean, I guess, I mean, I could have done that. Probably. I think it's supposed to be more than three a month. Yeah. Everybody else to be extreme. Like, oh gosh, what happened? Yeah. I mean, look at Billy Gardale. I mean, yeah. I mean, everybody that has had those in pic look, I mean, it looks like, you know, I mean, they have lost a lot. I mean, nine pounds in three months. He gave, I mean, it looks like, you know, I mean, they have lost a lot. I mean, nine pounds in three months, he gave up on me. He was like, you can keep it.

Billy Gardell looks like an oil baron or whatever. Now I feel like he has a mustache and he's real thin. Yeah, he does. I mean, good for him. I'm sure he feels great, but yeah. I, yeah, I mean, but he does. He looks like an oil tycoon or something. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, to take it and not, it not work is pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Talk about it on stage. Not on stage yet. Yeah, yeah. I'm definitely, you should start talking about it.

Maybe Ozempic will send you some money to kind of show it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, they got, they go, we got a dose of the work, Bubba. You're gonna hear from a go. I like that. Give us a shot.

People are donate, people donate to charity if you jump in the cold water. I like to think that there are people with so much money, they're like, yeah, I could just give it on my own. But I want to see the poor people jump in the cold water. And we'll call it a polar plunge. Yeah, go jump in the cold water and then I'll donate some money.

Go run or, I've done a polar plunge. But the money could be donated without you having to jump in the water. Does make it more fun. Everything, but I think it's like, yeah, it's a weird kind of thing. Charities, that's why it's kind of, charities are tough because it's like, yeah, you're doing a bunch of stuff that could be, yeah, you're like, just give the money. Like, I don't know, you know, the challenges where you're doing all the, like, I think a challenge is probably going around again.

Nice bucket challenge. I think it's going around again. Yeah. It's like, you know, I mean, it's like the young people could do that. You're like, but the ones that we did the first time, you're like, and yeah, I'm not doing, you know, yeah, you're not challenging ice bucket again. Nah, you're like, there's a new, get a new thing. It's gotta be more extreme. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Boiling water challenge. Yeah. McDonald's hot coffee challenge. Yes. Oh, that'll be a, yeah, yeah, yeah. Boiling water challenge. Yeah, McDonald's hot coffee challenge. Yes. Oh, that'll be a good one. Alex Tucker. My wife and I were at the early show taping for Tennessee Kid. We got there just as the opening comedian told his last joke and exited the stage, only to come back out and be cut off by

a production team member mid joke. I now know that the opener was none other than breakfast Bates himself. Are there any other production related issues or problems with, uh, worth noting that you guys had to navigate doing standup? Uh, you had helicopters. Uh, yeah, yeah. The helicopter thing on my other special that was for real. I mean, the helicopters came, um, uh, I don't know.

You know, it's like, yeah, yeah. You just have like, you know, you could have, uh, you know, some, some is like, I mean, you do get called off stage like that, or, you know, you might have to, I think I've only done it like once or twice where I've repeated a joke, maybe in a taping where I didn't set it up right. Then I kind of set it again, but I only did that maybe once, but I'd been very early to like my live of Gotham or something. That one, it was very, it was something like a fan was blowing something in the background. You were about to walk out and they sent me back out there. Yeah. It was something very simple. I, uh, I one time on stage was telling a joke and, uh,

nobody was going with me. And I could tell that there was like some talking that kind of started in the crowd and I got upset and I started to kind of not like really turn against the crowd, but note that they were not liking the joke and how they were in the wrong. And then I kept rambling and eventually somebody in the front row went, there is somebody having a seizure in the audience. And I was up there going,

and that's why I'm trying to tell her how to go. And they are just emergency crews. And I mean, I had missed completely. What was that? That's one that I always remember. And I was opening for Burke Chrysler in arena and my mic went out. Um, and I just tossed the mic down and had to yell the rest of it.

Yeah. Well, it's perfect. Those are two that come out of the cut his mic. Yeah. Yeah. I just showed him bowling alley. I might've told it on here, but with, uh, opening and, uh, we're performing in front of the bowling lanes. I was opening for big J years ago, right outside Detroit or something. And so you perform, they had bowling going on at the other end, and a comedy going on this far, then we were at. So you just hear bowling.

Yeah. And then, so the stage is up. I'm on stage, light goes out. So now I'm in the dark. So the guy's got to go get a ladder to climb up to hook the light back up. Well, the ladder couldn't be farther. It's a big bull now. Ladder is so far away. So he goes and gets the ladder. So I'm doing I'm doing 25-30 minutes. 20 minutes I'm just in the dark. So you just haven't

figured that out. Oh yeah. He puts the ladder up there, gets it, turns light on, comes back on, takes the ladder back to where it belonged, comes back, light goes out again. I mean, last, probably I do probably five more minutes, light goes back out. And he's seen him go, he's got to go get that ladder. And I remember just thinking like, just leave the, let's maybe just leave it over here. Leave it set up. Leave it set up.

And then I had to sit and, uh, so my set, not 30 minutes set, three minutes of it was in light and the rest of it was non-light. So yeah, you deal with that stuff and you just got to, that's stuff to figure out. Yeah. I had back to back weekends in Huntsville where lights went out. At the club lights went out. I did my last 30 minutes in the dark and following week I was with you and you in Huntsville where lights went out at the club. Lights went out. I did my last 30 minutes in the dark and following week I was with you and you in Huntsville. Oh, that's right. And

the lights, then the fire alarm went off and the lights came on while Julian was on stage. Yeah. Just kept going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He handled that great. Yeah. I was in Detroit a couple weeks ago and doing a show. Man, I've been going great. And the guy sitting right down front pulls a book out. Oh. And then I see him open it. And I said, are you reading? I haven't even heard of that. He pulled a book out?

Yeah, he pulled a book out and he opened it. That's the only way Brian's audience, the age they're at, they know how to, they tell them to get off phones the old way. Yeah. So you can't read. Cause they're old school. It's all older people. Get off your book.

They go, don't you, you better not pull that newspaper out. Better not pull that newspaper out. A book. Yeah. So you said, are you reading? I said, are you reading? And people did laugh at that. And he flipped it over and it was your book. Oh, big dumb eyes. And then I said, get the, uh,

I don't know. Tell me. I think I might know. And then I said, well, why would you? Cause he was writing something. He said, you're mentioned in the book. And I was like, Oh really? What did it say? It was just nothing like we do a podcast together or whatever, but it was Daniel Rucker. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think he was childhood friend. Yeah. Who's in the book. I talked about Daniel in the book. Smartest friend of yours friend. Out the book to get your attention. He, he was making a note while he was thinking about it. He wanted me to sign it

there. Yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. Very smart guy. I think just yet not intentionally, but like, uh, yeah. Doing it to honestly, probably honestly make a note. Yeah. Yeah. That makes perfect sense. But he could tell Brian needed something to go on. He helped me. I'll say that. Yeah. Yeah. He goes, uh, but yeah. So I know I see it in segues. Daniel read it before it's out. Yeah. Yeah. He's taking notes. Yeah.

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We're talking about school. We're about to talk about school. And he went to school with this guy. Yeah. But school with Daniel. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. Um, I just, you all, you all seem to go. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. We were just talking about Daniel Rucker in the book and that it went to school with him.

I think I know. I didn't know that you mentioned that you went to school with him. That's why I lost. No, you did. Okay. Um, we're taking over from here. Dusty. Yeah.

Well, we welcome Dusty Slade. Well, does he say he's watching it like y'all guys are watching it? A few weeks ago, while you're out, Dusty mentioned that in school, he played four square and Aaron ridiculed him saying, what are you from the 1920s? Yeah. But people came to Dusty's defense saying, no, kids still play. Aaron didn't go to the same kind of school I went to. No. He went to. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Pretty high level. Yeah. School. Yeah. Where they probably didn't do four square, but he watched, he would watch the help do four square. So.

Exactly. It's we do, we do, I did four square. My daughter still does four square. I said, I learned it from Harper. Yeah. I didn't know. I was about, I have played, uh, with you and Harper four square. I said, I learned it from Harper. Yeah. I didn't know. Oh, I was about, I have played with you and Harper four square. Yeah. That's, that's great.

I think it was that same weekend. Yeah, it was Huntsville. Yeah. You know who loves four square? Nick Novicki. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Loves it. Were you a big game player growing up, Derek?

Yeah, of course. All the, all the, you know, the classics. I mean, I feel like most of them are banned in school. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, all the classic sounds like a response from a guy that didn't play. Yeah. Yeah. All the, you know, the class, I mean, I talk about, I talk about this on stage, so I'm trying not to, I mean, dodge ball, all those, be nice if you add something. I, uh, I, I loved it not to, I mean, dodge ball, all those games. It'd be nice if you had something. I loved it. I mean, especially, you know, back then we didn't need much to entertain ourselves and our like friends weren't broke up into social classes. Like you didn't have to have a certain electronic to hang out with somebody. We just, if you were all in the cul-de-sac at

6 PM, you could play the game. So there was like, you know, I mean, there's so many games, freeze tag, uh, dodge ball, kickball. Were you the, were you the roller and kickball? Um, yeah, I would be sometimes like, I like, I like you. I feel like you would be like a power roller. Yeah. Like it was obvious. Derek's team all time quarterback.

I think you would be the one organizing a lot of the games. Oh, absolutely. And also, I mean, I played a lot of these fun, but I loved like the core game. Like I loved basketball and football and baseball. And so some of these other games, I mean, I might've, I mean, tug of war. Y'all remember tug of war. I mean, in my school tug of war was huge. I remember. Yeah. That's from like the Romans did tug of war was huge. I remember. Yeah. Well you have that. That's from like the Romans did tug of war. Like, say it and I'll bet I'll come to me. Describe it. Yeah.

Well, you had like at the end at our school, you have like the big loop. Yeah. The heaviest guy in the class. Yeah. Everybody, not your, this isn't like at your. Harvest, Alabama, Alabama. Everybody, everybody knows. Tug of war at everybody's school had that loop at the end It's Harvest, Alabama. In Alabama. Everybody, everybody knows. Tug of War at everybody's school had that loop at the end.

And I was the anchor. When I got into the loop, we'd like at the whole school, like in the gym, you go, and they go, they go, Ms. Thomas's class, Ms. Johnson's class. And we go, ah, and then you go out there. And I would step into the, when I got into the loop,

cause I was a big kid, I don't have to sell y'all on that. And I would pull the loop up. The gym would go nuts because I, I mean, I'd get settled into it and I was fixing the drag, Ms. Johnson's class by yourself. No, these kids, I mean, I mean, backing them down. Tuggle war was like, that's a core memory for sure. Did you all would say you won a lot?

Oh, I won. There was one other guy, David Brown. And when me and David Brown, when it, Miss Cantrell's class, Miss Thomas class, he was twice my size, but I would get lower and use my leverage. He was just a lot bigger than me. And he would just kind of let, let the weight kind of hold on. And I'll try to, I'll try to fight again. I'll try to use my leverage to kind of let the weight kind of hold on and I'll try to, I'll try to fight again. I'll try to use

my leverage to kind of pull, but when you would watch the kids all collapse on each other and I would look at all the, I mean, I felt like a Roman glad I'd go, and they'd all look back at me. I mean, it was the, it was the best. Yeah. I want to come. Yeah. Yeah. He's huge. He won. He for Alabama Crimson Tide. He won a rib eating contest at the music city bowl in Nashville in 2005. Okay. That's a credit. Wait, did he play for them?

Yeah. He was a walk on it. Alabama is an offensive lineman. All the Brown kid, there was four of them. And that's the thing he's known for? That might be his biggest credit still. Yeah. Yeah.

No, but we were playing, they were playing Minnesota and yeah, he won the rib eating contest. But anyways, uh, did you go down there and see him? Um, I think I might have. I liked the picture. You were the, you were the size you were. I'd picture just your whole life. Yeah. Pretty, pretty close. Yeah. The height has, I've been built like the, I mean, I was, I was always the biggest kid for, for a long time, but yeah, I tug of war that brought, sorry, I got fired up. I love that the audience would cheer for you when you put the looper. Oh man. I mean, I would pull it up around my waist and I mean, the kids, I mean,

I can remember the pandemonium. What grade is this? This is like fifth grade, third, fourth, fifth, like right in there. Yeah, for sure. Oh, they loved it. Oh man. It was. They loved it. I love that. Oh man. It was, it was the best. David Brown ate 16 ribs in three minutes. Wow. You know what's so great is that you fact check this immediately. And you know, and that is, isn't that impressive?

It is. The world we live in that we have Google. Yeah. So David Brown. Yeah. Cause he had, he had a slow down. So David Brown would beat you at tug of war now. Uh, yeah, he would.

I mean, his brother, Dawson Brown also played for Alabama. The Browns were all just giant kids. Their dad was a big dude. And then their mother, Beth Brown was a tiny, tiny woman, but they were all, since we were little kids, they go over to their house, grown up, their pantry had snacks. I mean, it looked like a Costco in there. Just huge kids, huge humans still. what was the one game jacked up what'd you

say jacked up no jackpot Jack what's that take the ball and you throw it into a group you know and you go 500 and then you know whoever catches it got 500 points and then you throw it you go jackpot and whoever catches the jackpot gets to be the thrower now y'all never played jack. And then why would you want to be the thrower? Uh, I think that just means you went, you're, you've won. You're the king of the castle. What if you never say jackpot? Do you just get to throw the rest of the time?

Yeah. Yeah. And I'm probably missing some of the details. And would you just make up the points? Yeah. What's the, is there any system? No, there's really not a system. You go 1 million, but then when you would say jackpot, I mean, the

ball could be in the air. I could shove Brian to the ground. Yes, you could. And, and, and grab the ball. Yeah. Yeah. You're just waiting on that jackpot. I'm waiting.

I'm waiting on that. You wouldn't even bother to catch it for the points. Um, yeah. I mean, I guess you would just kind of like, you don't remember how I'm up cause who's keeping track. Oh, you're keeping track of yourself's points. Yeah. But I'm just competitive to the point to where I would just want to catch every

one of them, you know, might as well. Did you separate anyone's shoulder in red Rover? Uh, no, I didn't separate anybody's shoulder and red Rover, but I mean, I was a physical when you were running though, at somebody's hands, they let loose a little bit, you know they did. You know they did. It never mattered where you ran. You just ran straight. Yeah, and I mean, this is where I accelerate.

Y'all remember the fitness test we used to have to take? That's what really exposed me. I was an athletic kid. The presidential. Pull ups, sit ups. I mean, there's nothing more embarrassing than being stuck. I mean, you know, where you shake and you're stuck, you know what I mean? But no, I was an athletic kid. I was running around out there tackling kids, you know, having a good time. I bullied the bullies

back in the day, you know, that's how I was. Did y'all like school? You went to school in Alabama, right? Well, you moved there? Yeah. Yeah. I went from West Virginia, second grade, and then I moved to Alabama in the third grade and it was quite the difference. For the first day I came home, my mom said I was crying and I told her that they wanted me to bring my lunch in a sack. And I thought a sack was a pillowcase and I didn't understand what they were asking. Just learning the Southern language a little bit, you know? But yeah, I didn't like, I love the social part of school.

It's very relatable to Nate and how I struggled. I went to summer school every summer of high school. Really? Every one of them. Kids. Yeah. And see, I, I would imagine I'm just picturing you walking in with a pillowcase full of food and it looks full.

It's not some little, it's not like, it's not like what you think it would be. They said, bring it. Cause you get like, it's like Santa Claus. You come in and go, all right. I mean, I'll bring my food in. I love that the guy went in tug of war is in summer school every year. I mean, I love that. Yeah.

You're like, Oh, in tug of war. That's your time. Yeah. Not in the classroom, but in tug of war. Yeah. Oh, King. It's a price you got to pay. Yeah. Good at tug of war. Yeah. The eagle be doing school all year round. Yeah. I mean, I needed an extra month every summer to learn math. Yeah. Everybody got it during the school year. They needed to. Yeah. I needed to hang out a little longer. What was your clothes game? Carhartt? You know, I was a little preppy back in the day like country preppy but like tucked in. Tommy Hilfair.

Yeah yeah yeah I had some Tommy I was definitely wearing. Nautica. Some yeah I wore boots, jeans, polos, kind of the preppy country look. What was some of the stuff? The belt, with the loop. Oh, braided belt? Braided belt that hangs down. I would never in a million years have a braided belt that hangs down. I had a braided belt for a time,

but never hanging down. Mine did. I had a braided belt, but never hanging down. Mine hung down. No, not a chance. But I'm older. Yeah, true. Yeah, but mine really hung.

Huh? Yeah. Yeah. Because they didn't even have braided belts when he was, when he went to school. We braided them. They ain't got that far. Yeah. They, uh, but it's the, yeah, we would, uh, yeah, mine would, you, you would put a loop through it and hang down for a little bit. We had, clothing store in Lebanon, Goodies, and you go there and there's a good chance you show up. I remember Goodies. There's gonna be a bunch of people wearing the same thing.

Yeah, did you go to a shoe carnival? I don't know. Okay. I know that I went to Bugle Boy outlet when that came around and we had a Duck Head outlet. That was when I felt very fancy. Ducks Unlimited, Duck Head, I just talked about them. That's a good little store.

Yeah. That was like a fancy. Probably went to Shoe Carnival, but I don't, I mean, wherever, you know, I would get like one pair of shoes a year. Shoe Carnival used to do the wheel where you could win. Yeah, you could go in and there'd be like this money blowing in the little bobs.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Never went there. Yeah, it was like a car, it's exactly what it says it is. I wore a lot of American Eagle. American Eagle, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Never went there. Yeah, it was like a car, it's exactly what it says it is. I wore a lot of American Eagle. American Eagle, yeah. Yeah, yeah, American. That's money, right? When I got to high school and got a job,

I had some American Eagle. That's American Eagle, it's not Abercrombie. Yeah. If you had Abercrombie, it was like, they didn't do it good. They didn't make Abercrombie for people built like me. No, no, no. They really didn't.

No, no, yeah. Like the jeans, the thighs. They had a certain size. Yeah, that's right. Abercrombie was like, I feel like the kids that had some money. American Eagle was like, you're in between where you're, you know, you had... Still getting it at the mall. You still get at the... All this is at the mall. Yeah. So no one's doing great. Well, Bugle Boy's not at the mall. No, no. I'm saying that's strip mall. Yeah. Regular mall is where you're getting some good stuff. I'm saying that's strip mall. Yeah.

Regular mall is where you're getting some good stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So strip mall is where it's like, and strip mall is different now, but back then it was more- I feel like I wore American Eagle to some TV tapings.

Yeah. Like even like, that's what I thought when I would do TVs, like, well, I need to go buy something from American Eagle, cause it's so it looks nice. And then I think I do remember going into Abercrombie much later in life. Cause I was like, you know, wanted to go cause I never could go for clothes in there. And then I found out they don't have, then they, I'm like, y'all got 32s. And they're like, nah, 34s or whatever. They're like, beat it. You remember the song?

And then a guy played it. I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then come play a tuba as you walked out. Wow. Ain't that crazy? That is crazy.

Yeah, but you grew up in, in Nashville, a little fancier here than. Where did you grow up? I grew up, uh, outside of Huntsville. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Outside of Huntsville is still pretty country.

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I mean, I'm a 2000 graduate and we didn't have any really chalkboards. I think there was one, I think the science teacher had a whiteboard and a chalkboard, but that was it. Everybody else had had the whiteboards. I went to, uh, I grew up in a school that had corporal punishment. So we got paddled and we would get paddled even in the hallways. We got paddled all the time. You get paddled for your shirt, being untucked for having, for chewing

gum, for running in the hallway. If you were an athlete that was late to class, you would get paddled, paddle happy. Uh, I mean, a very strict school. I mean, our administrators did not play games. I don't mind a little paddle of it. That seems too much. Yeah. I mean, one time, one time I was late for class, I had on wind pants. And he was like, Stroot, you know, you know, that's three licks. He's like, we can do it right here in the hallway. And I go, coach, I got on wind pants. And he goes, I know what wind pants are.

And, and he gave me three, I mean, and I mean, I was bruised all the way down my. I think the idea was just that it's always around. I think that it wasn't a matter of what you can spank for. It's the threat of it always around. It just seems like too much. I know, but you're just like, it's just always around. Like it's the order in the school that like, we're gonna, you just, you never know.

You're like, it's like getting a speeding ticket. Like all the cops, you're like, yeah, you can speed and you can run this light, but you might be speeding ticket? Like all the cops, you're like, yeah, you can speed and you run this light, but you might be getting a ticket here and there. So you just. What if they were like ticket or paddling? See, I think if you were fighting in school, a paddling would be good as opposed to being suspended.

Yeah, because all suspended does is send you home and you make get zeros on your stuff. I'd be into that. When I got suspended a couple of times, I would have taken paddlin's. But late to class, let's take it easy. No, very, very strict high school. And I've-

Yeah, but it would just show up on time. And so I was gonna say this- Yeah, but there's other, I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I know, but you're a guy that's been suspended twice. So you're, we're just, this is, you're already gone. Stay out of this one. You're already, yeah.

To you, you're like showing up on time was not even, you don't even consider that nice to do. You're like, that's not even in our, we're in a trailer park. Your bus is probably late anyway. Cause y'all were probably late to pick you guys up, right? How late were the bus to go to the trailer park? Was it always late? I don't know. I don't even know. I don't even know if we had time. You know what I mean? Like, do we even have watches? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. This sounds like someone that, yeah, you were probably a pretty big problem in the school. Paddling's never sent anybody the other direction though.

It never, I've never heard anybody be like, well, Tim was a pretty good kid, but you know, they paddled him a bunch in high school when he got into drugs, you know, I, it, it helped the people that it should help, but they figured me out. They, they, they had to smoke me out. So I would, I would come in there and I asked for a paddling every time I go, just give me a paddling. And eventually they re they go, no, you're going to write this report and you're going to go to detention and we're not giving you an option for a paddling because it doesn't work. And that's what you want. So they learned that isolating me and making me do these things drove me crazy

because I wanted to get back to the show. There's third period Amanda's in there and I got some more zingers to send. And so if you could just paddle me and we can get this over with, I can get out of here and they put an end to that. And we're like, no, no, no. And once they started sending me to, once they started to isolate me, I was, they had, they had me in a headlock. I could not handle that because I wasn't a bad kid. I just was not going to miss the, I was going to do what was funny regardless of how the- Yeah. I would agree with you. Paddling doesn't, it doesn't make you do drugs,

but it does show you which kids do do drugs. It's a way to know. That's who's getting paddled. Yeah. Is that, is that, I mean, like, but do you think it helped people? Like you think there were people that would have done drugs had they not gotten the paddlings? No, I think they just got in trouble. I don't think that the drugs had anything to do with it. I think that it taught us like respect and accountability and consequences. Like for me, it taught me that if I, if I didn't follow the rules, then there was, there was consequences.

And so for me, I think it was great, but I handled it. You know, uh, I think having that, the type of administrators we had worked out for me, I think it was great, but I handled it, you know, uh, I think having that, the type of administrators we had worked out for me, they made me walk a tighter line than I ever would have, would have walked. So I do like it. I wish, you know, my kids one day, I would not be against it. They used to call my mom. It'd be the quickest phone call you'd ever seen in your life.

They go, Hey Stacey, thank you. And they wouldn't even have to ask her. She could go, wear him out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well that's yeah, everybody would, yeah. Everybody could paddle everybody back in there. Yeah.

But this is not even that far back. They weren't doing that in high school. Uh, same state. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, well, was it, was yours a private school? No, no public.

No, no. What was yours? Public. Yeah. Yeah. They probably would have paddled me for that haircut. I was going to say, I'd like to think the paddling made some difference. Yeah.

You know what I mean? What'd you get suspended for, Des? Fighting one time and, um, uh, well I got, you know, a girl stabbed me with a pencil and I had pushed her head before that. So in school, so I don't know if you know how to tell a story, but to start with pushing her head and then she's, well, you know, well, it even, she stole something from me and then I see again, I don't think you know what I told you because now we're getting to, well, all right, so that's it.

She stole something from me. I went to get it back. She, I try to get my hand in her desk. She pinched me. So I pushed her head and then I went and sat down. I never got the thing. And then she came back there and I stood up and she stabbed me three times with a pencil. Where? And once in the arm and twice in the back. And this is where lead poisoning is number one. This is your, this is a number two pencil. Yeah. This is a lead is, back then you think about lead poisoning, like you think about cancer.

You're like, this is how you're gonna die is lead poisoning. Like the last thing you want is to ever get lead poisoning. And then when the teacher came back, I said, I stood up and I said, she just stabbed me. And I went to end school suspension for a day. And then I never saw her again. Wow. Yeah.

Yeah. Wow. Hmm. That ended dark. Yeah. Ended great for me. Yeah. Yeah. You made some calls and got rid of her.

No, I didn't do, I didn't do anything, but I think, you know, there's a threshold and, you know, there were a couple of other guys in my class that were like, yeah, she stabbed us today too. But they didn't say anything. See, I'm like, oh no, you're not going to be stabbing me in here. And not say anything. There's a lot I'll put up with, but not stabbing. Yeah. And so, uh, yeah, I think enough people were like, yeah, she stabbed us today too.

They were like, we got to send her to a different school. One where they allow stabbing. Yeah. One where so much stabbing's going on that's not even an issue. Where they go, how is she? They go, she's good. They go, she doesn't stab anybody. They go, no, no, no. The school they're sending, they have to say, she's not stabbing people. No, no, no. Why would you think that? I don't even think anybody's ever done that. Yeah. She's a great girl. I'm glad you guys have her. I imagine they have to call and trick them into taking her.

Would y'all get excited about back to school supplies? Loved it. Stuff like, like Trapper Keeper. All of it. Loved it. Do you have a Trapper Keeper? Oh, for sure. Ones with like cool, like a baseball,

like that was like on fire. Oh, yeah. Like, like this kind of thing. Boom. Yeah. Look at that. Look at that Look at that. Classic. Okay. I can smell the cigarette smoke on that thing. Yeah, it's still in good shape. This is got, look at this. If you're listening, Dusty brought his Trapper Keeper. Yeah.

Look at that. Yeah. Still in good shape. The rain's holding up. Still in good shape. Trapper Keepers really helped, I mean, organization wise, it's tough to beat. You can just stuff everything in it. Yeah. Close the, close it and we're gone. And you're cool. Yeah. School shopping for clothes was like the most exciting thing ever. I had some stickers on it. What are you keeping there now, Dustin? This is a letter from the mayor of Chattanooga. I saw that. I was wondering. Is that the only thing you got in there. Yeah And some other stuff crackers Well, I'm going to bring this one time and then I never did because the mayor of Chattanooga wrote me a letter and it was Very funny. Yeah, we talked about it, but then I never brought it Would you say you got excited about shopping? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was the best you'd have your outfit laid out tonight before just So fired up I mean I cared a lot about what I looked like in school. Even if I was, you know, even if it was like a flannel, jeans and boots, I didn't

like wrinkled clothes or anything like that. Yeah. I didn't like that either. This is exciting. Do you ever have one of these triangular rubber? Oh, of course, man. That's a lot cooler options than that. That those are cool though by 2004 you probably had more other options, but I Drew I was I was all in the 90s. I was about the what year did you graduate? 2000 gotcha you do class of the new play pencil break Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. It's dumb. I should did you yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're probably better than it when I was No, I bet you all's pencils back when you were in school were tough. That's real.

Oak. That's real. Oak. By the time mine got mine was probably, you know, a bunch of particles, but yours, you could have built the boat out of y'all real deal. Yeah. Gopher wood. Yeah.

Gopher wood. They'd watch a tree disappear through the old pencil fight. Oh yeah. I got kicked off the bus for throwing I was about to say the bus was a good fighting but so you're fine with throwing them, but Yeah, I'm like, oh someone's I yeah. Well, I think that's why they kicked me off the bus I mean I got to come back but had to be a week off the bus which is really just a punishment for my mom Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's a real

So true. So you're still blaming the school somehow though. Yeah. Yeah. Well, everybody threw pencils, you know? It's like, I just got caught. Yeah. We like to sit, I like to sit, when I was a younger kid, like real young, we would sit in the back of the bus.

And I remember one day we would sit right there and we were flipping people off in the cars behind us. Out the back. Yeah, that was really fun. There was some older girls like in the cars behind us. Yeah. Yeah. That was really fun. There was some older girls like in a car one time. And I remember they started laughing and they flipped us off back. And it was like really fun. We had a great time with it.

Yeah. That's like get the trucker to roll the horn. Yeah. The back of the bus is, uh, it was a whole different, a whole different game. Your kids go out to walk a fine line with, I feel like, cause they're, you grew up pretty wild, but then they're going to be raised to be, don't be doing that stuff. Or you think you would let your kids do this? I like to let them get a little wild.

A little wild. Yeah. Yeah. But they, I feel like you're my, my parents, or I would be raised by you. Yeah. Would have been like, my parents grow up. Yeah. They go from being, uh, probably a little wild to the most Christian. Yeah. And I feel like that's how you. Yeah. I mean, well, you know, I want to keep them, you know, within, uh, you know, I want them

to be respectful, you know? Yeah. Uh, but I, uh, yeah, I'd like to let them get a little wild for sure. You know, like let let them get a little wild. For sure. I'd let them run around, jump on stuff. Yeah. Get into it, dig in the dirt. Yeah. You ride the bus? Flick off. Well, I hope they're not like that.

I don't know where I learned that from, but I hope they are not like that. Well, to Dusty's credit now, he did the Kid Rock show a few years ago, and they did a group photo at the end where everyone flipped the camera except Dusty. Yeah. There's like 12 people. I don't like that either.

Yeah, I don't. People tell you to do that all the time and you're like, no. I used to always, I was annoyed that I had to say no. You're like, why you make me feel bad? School bus? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I rode the school bus. I thought it might've been because your dad was the teacher there some, right?

Yeah. So when I went to DuPont Elementary, I try to think if we rode the school bus. I rode my bike to school in junior high. That's right. I rode a ton of school bus, but I rode it some. Really? But I would ride. Yeah, we were in Old Hickory. So I went to DuPont.upont I mean when I went to Cupertown which a girl came to my show and I don't remember is I think maybe Dublin or London I don't remember exactly but somewhere in Europe and she went to my Cupertown in Springfield Wow I was there from second to fourth grade she had my dad as a teacher that's where my dad was a teacher my dad was the paddler so he was the one one. So the kids, he had them all sign the paddle. He was the punisher.

Cause I used to always think like, kids would be like, no one wanted to get paddled by my dad. You're like, well, I'm in it with him. But he had a big wooden paddle in Robertson County and he could paddle and he could paddle then, and he did it. But a girl went to the school, but yeah, we took, I would ride with him, because we were not,

we lived in Old Hickory and the school was in Robertson County. That's where he taught, so we went to school out there. And then I went to DuPont Elementary, DuPont Hadley, middle school, public, whatever. And then we went to, then I went to DCA for high school. You rode your bike to school. How long did that take? Uh, not too long. I'm an old hickory. Like you'd go to,

we're on main roads. Uh, well you could just ride it straight down. We, I rollerbladed to school. Yeah. Or no, no, Daniel Ruck would rollerblade. Yeah. Daniel Rucker. Yeah. I didn't, you know, cause we didn't have Daniel Rucker rollerbladed and I would ride the bike, but then I got rollerblades and they weren't ones that would go up above your ankle and they're brutal, dude. Yeah. I mean, you need ankle support with rollerblades and they would, they, they would just be at the level they would cut into your ankles. I thought they just looked worse.

That it's just about your ankles. I thought they just looked worse. That it's just about your ankles. Oh, it was all of it. I thought just like you would just twist your ankle. Oh, it would, well, you would lean, you would use your ankles a lot to lean. Here comes Nate. Here's Nate. I remember once riding them.

We got them for Christmas and they bought, my parents bought the one roller blades that are just the worst. Like as you would see, you're like, well, the other kids, theirs goes up around their calf. You're like, ours is like a regular shoe. And so you would, I remember one time we got them for Christmas and so I was going to ride them pretty far from, if anybody's in Old Hickory, but Old Hickory Village to across the railroad tracks to my buddy Ryan's house and by Old Hickory Country Club, which for

the people that are from Old Hickory, they can reference it. So we would ride it pretty far. And I remember riding it and I remember just like, you know, really getting them out on some distance. Cause if you did them a little bit around the house for a little bit, you wouldn't really notice it around the, you know, but for, if you had to go some long one, it was like, I mean, I barely made it across the railroad tracks. Then I remember just taking them off and walking the rest of the way.

Cause I mean, they hurt so bad. Cause that, that plastic would just, they were plastic too. So just the top of the plastic would just cut into. Yeah. Yeah. It was tough. I think these real tums by the way. Can I have some?

I was still shocked that your, your dad was the, the punisher. You know, did I mention the last time I was on here, I have a paddling story where I went into the office and I kept telling my principal, I go, I don't have my 500 word report. I didn't write it. I didn't write it. I go, it's at the house, you know, and I forgot to bring it. And he drove me to my house and to go get my, yeah, yeah, true story. And he calls my mother, he calls Stacey and he's like, hey, your son's here. He doesn't have his report, but he said that he left it at the house. And he promises me he's telling the truth. He goes, do you mind if we swing by the house?

We get in Mr. Brown's truck. I'll never forget. We drive down. I lived about a mile and a half and I've never prayed for an accident so much of my life. We get to the, our house. I walk in, he parks in the driveway.

I walk into my bedroom. I'll never forget. I sit down at my art table and I start writing and I'm sitting there and I'm writing for about a minute and a half. And I go, I'm never going to be able to do this. So I go over to my underwear drawer and I start off with, with the, with the smaller underwear to the boxers. And I put on every pair that I have probably 10 pairs.

And then I put my jeans back on and I walked back out. I walked back out to the truck and I go, I can't, I can't find my, my report. And so we go back and he takes me into the, into the principal's office. He goes, man, I had a feeling you didn't have your, uh, your report. And he goes, I'm going to have to give you three licks. And I've been over and he, and he gives me three licks. I'll never forget. I walk out and the secretary, uh, Ms.

Rita, she goes, that didn't sound like any paddling that I've ever heard before, you know, 10 years later, I run into Mr. Brown at a, at the driving range in Madison, Alabama. And he comes up and he goes, man, I, uh, I'll never forget there at that time. I drove you to your house and paddled you for not having your report. He goes, I do a conference in mobile where I speak. And he goes, I tell that story. Cause he goes, I brought you to your report. He goes, I do a conference in mobile where I speak. And he goes, I'll tell that story. Cause he goes, I brought you to your house.

And when you, and when we got back to the school, you bent over and it looked like an ever stopping Gobstop. There was 11 different colors going up your backside. I saw every bit of your underwear. And he said, I just respected what you did so much that I just went ahead and gave you the licks anyways, but it was so fun to run into him again. Full circle moment. I thought I got away with it, but he knew exactly what I had done. And yeah, I was fighting for my life being a little rascal back in the day.

I just don't understand though, knowing that you're going to get this, these seem to got, you seem like you got a lot of paddling. Yeah. Yeah. You're not just do the report. Yeah. I absolutely hated to do anything until this day that I did not want to do. And so I would just, I just homework, anything like that. It wasn't, you know, I look back and, you know, and I'm sure I've heard Nate talk about this, but I beat myself up about being dumb in school and all this. So it just, the format and how they presented was not built for me and how to learn and how to go about things. It was too tedious for what I wanted.

So anyways, I don't feel like a lot was built for you. You said that a lot. Recliners were this shirt wasn't built for me. I like to though, that you also were like gonna do the report in the house. And then you go, no, I'm never going to get this done. Like, but you knew if you just do it, you wouldn't get the paddling. Yeah. But the, do you know how to get caught? Right. But how you're not going to get caught? You have to turn in the report. Well, you hope that he goes like, all right, we'll turn it in. Yeah. Monday. And you go over the weekend and you fake it or you write it. But it's like, you just,

you got to write it anyway. I once heard an administrator. You were flicking people off, but I would write the report. Yeah. Who are you? I would do the, I once heard a vice principal in a break room as I was walking by what terrible fate I heard him go, Derek Strupe doesn't see tomorrow coming. And so I'll, and, and as I've gotten older, now I've gotten away. They're so right. So what they were saying is like, I didn't think about tomorrow. I didn't think about if I wrote this, I would get out. I go, I don't want to do this. And then you're really on, you're really on your heels when your

principal drives you to your home. I couldn't believe it. I mean, I remember walking in there. I was like 12 thinking, can I call the cops? Like what is happening right now? But that back in the day, that's- It just shows the 12 year old mind because if the principal is calling your mom

and your mom's like, yeah, paddle him, you gotta know they're gonna drive you to the house. They're gonna get you. How long of a drive was that? Oh, just 10 minutes. Yeah, but that's almost a perfect saying that he's gonna think about tomorrow. So it's like, you just think I'll get through,

all I'm doing is getting through today. That's right. So you're going to take some paddles. Yeah. Which a lot of 12 year olds would. It's like, that's the price you pay. Yeah. If you're living in the moment.

I'm the kind of guy, like, my parents didn't spank me very much, but you know, I learned when they did, I was like, all right, I'm not doing that again. Whatever it was, I'm like, all right, I'm not doing that again. I'm not pushing them that far because I don't like that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't feel like I was really pushing, you know, I was kind of living in this Dennis the Menace world. I don't think you're wrong. He's making you feel bad. Yeah. Well, I was trying, yeah. This is coming from some hobo over there that was throwing pencils on buses.

But for some reason, he's taking it hard. Slamming girls' heads against the wall. I should have said what I was thinking when Dusty was talking and gone. I would have never flipped off a stranger as a kid. No, I would have never done that. Ever. You gotta learn how to navigate it. Losers.

Dusty would call us losers. Why don't you write your paper? Yeah, we're on your side, Derrick, and Dusty lived a life we don't know. I'm so shocked that both of you went to school with Paddling. Did you go to school Paddling? I'm so shocked. Why would you think, no, they, the first run of stopping it was with Brian. I wanted him to be included. Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate that. Paddling. It wasn't even being talked about. Should it be out of the schools? No.

When he was just getting... It was a wild world to me. It was a new idea actually. Yeah. What if we hurt him? I would take it in lieu of suspension, you know, but, because fights are sporadic. He didn't know that was going to come. But, um...

I don't think you'd be paddling a ton in high school. It was more like elementary and junior. Middle school was my hot spot. Middle school was like, that's kind of where your paddling is where you're like Yeah, you just got it. That's the only chance high school you're getting into suspensions You're getting into that kind of stuff because you can't hurt the kids then because the kids are big. So I remember my mom Paddling me and if one day it didn't hurt and then it's like well, what's your dad gets home? Yeah Yeah, that's it. It's like the pun I remember laughing. Like I like cuz you're like

your mom just can't hear that hard and then but yeah then you're like well yeah. Yeah. He's a... Oh Stephen can. You ever do the knuckle thump? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't like the the pain get you know like quarters and stuff. I mean I saw the lunch tables that did that but that that wasn't my crew. Um, I didn't play those type of games. I'm not a hard thumper. I've been playing with your BBs. Like they would say they shoot, they do BB fights. Yeah.

BB guns. And I was like, I know. I did that a little bit. Yeah. Probably have some in you, right? I do. I did get shot in the chest. I, I, we put on, you remember those old leather jackets that had the map inside

of them? Oh yeah. Yeah. We'd put those big heavy ones, zip them up and we'd, we'd shoot at each other. Yeah. I went, uh, first through eighth grade, same school, smallest school in Wilson County, about 150 students total. And then I went to the biggest school in Wilson County for high school.

And I did a show in Lebanon with Derek. You remember that? Yeah, that's where we, yeah. Upstairs in the round, we were prepared for it because we do arenas 50 people there and I just come on one side around there's like a row of one person yeah yeah it was a packed room and I had a hot show man I you did I and I walked off thinking follow that wild boy and he after two minutes on stage they they couldn't even remember my name. Derek just blew the roof off. That's very nice of you, Brian. So he's a killer. Thank you.

That's very kind of you. What does that have to do with what we're talking about? Well, we're about to wrap up and I wanted to compliment Derek because I feel like you've been picking on him. Yeah, you're so nice, Brian. Thank you, buddy. No one's picking on me. I've not been picking on Derek. Dusty's been picking on me. I've been confused about some of your decisions when you were younger. Shooting birds off the back and then he goes I would have wrote the report. Where he really got wild is when he was like I just wouldn't have done this to my parents. Yeah, yeah. I cared enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the stuff he said I think he deserved to be stabbed. Yeah, probably. I'm on the girls side, who was probably spanked at her new school. I think we have to wrap it up, right?

Yeah. Soon. Yeah, yeah. All right. Yeah, I think we wrap it up once we ask, do we got to wrap it up? I think that's a good time. That's a good indicator. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. Was that school? Yeah. Thank you all so much for having me. Yeah. Always fun coming to join. Uh, yeah. All right. Was that school? Yeah. Yeah. Thank y'all so much for having me. Yeah. Always fun coming to join.

Thank you. Mm hmm. Uh, especially, you know, I, well, I guess we're about to do where we're going. Cause, uh, this is a good episode for me for this. All right. Oh yeah. Okay. All right.

Nice. Well, cause I'm going to Denver. So I feel like this might be an episode. We get some people from Denver, Colorado Springs to watch this episode. I'm going to Denver on Friday, Colorado Springs on Saturday. So this'll be good. Great time of year to go to Colorado. Really?

Yeah. That's a perfect time of year. Yeah. I'm excited. Last week, uh, lead up to the NFL draft. I said, if you got drafted into comedy and you had no, just like these players don't have a choice just who are what city would you go to and we all had Denver pretty high on the list. Yeah.

Oh yeah great great comedy city. Oh I love the Cam Ward pick. Oh yeah. Titans. Good for y'all. That's a that's a pumped. He looks like a class act kid. I love it.

He's got his head on straight. Yeah. Zero star the number one pick. They should have talked about it more, but it's, uh, it love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. That's awesome. Yeah.

I got nothing coming. I get married in two weeks. So, uh, May 10th, I get married and, uh, so excited. Uh, we're getting married down at the beach. So, I, uh, yeah. So for the next two weeks, I'm, I'm off and hanging out. Panama City? Uh, no, no, not a lot of beads at the beach. So, yeah, so for the next two weeks, I'm off and hanging out. Powder my city? No, no, not a lot of beads at the wedding.

Our honeymoon, we're going to leave with two spray painted T-shirts on a frontier flight. Yeah. And with the invitation, I guess is just going to come pretty close to the- I've not got mine. Oh yeah. No, no, this is a pretty small, pretty small gift together. Ah, that's what they say. I'm in it. We'll see the pictures. I'm his gotten on. Oh yeah. No, no, this is a pretty small, pretty small. Yeah. I'm in it. We'll see the pictures. I'm his best man. Yeah.

There's 350. Pretty small. Yeah. I guess, uh, can we just show up? Yeah. Oh, oh yeah, absolutely. I would love that. Yeah.

Yeah. Y'all just stop. Well, you should know that the reception, there's going to be some good food. I mean, I've got, I've got quite a lot. Pimento cheese sandwiches? Uh, no, but I do love pimento cheese, but not, I don't know. Pimento cheese sandwiches. I wish had some more texture, but, uh, the cracker with pimento. Anyway, I'll shoot you an email, but, uh, yeah, y'all show up. I'd love to, love to see y'all. I've never heard someone say the bread is what ruins the pimento cheese sandwich. It's too mushy.

The club cracker gives it some crunch. Yeah. So I like, if I is what ruins the pimento cheese sandwich. It's too mushy. The club cracker gives it some crunch. Yeah. So I like, if I'm going to eat pimento cheese, I want, you know, I want some texture. Yeah. So anyways, my daughter's birthday's a party's on May 10th. We've invited Brian, so you may be invited to my wife's invited, but I, uh, so we won't be able to come.

Oh, that's tough. I think we be able to come. Oh that's tough. Yeah. I think we just sent out yours so that's weird but yeah. Yeah. That's okay. This gives me this gives me a reason to miss this birthday party so thank you. For sure. Thank you. Uh down there working anyway. Where's that? Where's the beach? You know what's so funny? You know what the joke is ladies and gentlemen? People hate wedding invites. so if I really would have invited everybody everybody would be like ah oh my goodness. Save the day. But it's so fun to not be invited and go what is there no space for me can I not get in? No no no.

I wanted to come. Yeah. I had that day off I asked for that day off on the hopes that I thought one of my friends would be getting married that day. I did not know which friend. But I knew. He canceled a show. I canceled a show. I had a big-time show for charity. Yeah. Daytime. Here in the cold, where they go, what about a polar plunge? I go, what if I just come to a show? And now they go, well, I guess we're gonna have to do a polar plunge. So now they're back to the polar plunge. And this is all over me getting married. Yeah. Yeah. Ice bucket challenge. Hmm. Uh, May 9th, I'll be in Madisonville, Kentucky at the Ballard Convention Center.

Uh, but I can still drive straight there. Oh yeah. He'll make it. I'll make it. Madisonville, Kentucky. Yep. Uh, May 16th, 17th, Wise Guys Comedy Club in Salt Lake City. Yeah.

Come see me there. Great club. Uh, yeah, my tour is starting up, so we're about to be hitting the road. Yup. Yup. So come out. Thanks for dropping in. Yeah.

Yeah. I know. I'm sorry again. I apologize. Not being here, but we're going to start shooting the movie. It's going to be very fun. Got the book coming out. Movie.

Whole, whole thing. So everything, Nate Land, we're gonna, we're getting it moving. That's exciting. Just, you know, I enjoy it. Yeah. When I'm not here, this is what the podcast will be. Just for you guys, we're a fun Nate Land podcast. Yeah.

It's beyond me. We're all professional comedians here. Most people like it better. Nate Land's the ideal. Ideal. Yeah. Nate Land's the ideal of what it is. It's just, we're all from Nate Land.

We're all just a bunch of idealistic people here. Ideally. Yeah. Mm-hmm. It's a great, yeah. We're all professional comedians here. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

We're all having a good time. Yeah. All right. Perfect. So, yeah, that's it. All right, we love you. I hope you have a great week and yeah, we'll it. Uh, all right. We love you. Uh, hope you have a great week and, uh, yeah, see you next week. See y'all. Hey!