The Nateland Podcast - 261: #261 Memory

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

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Hello folks and hey bear welcome to the Nate Land podcast I'm Nate Barghetti Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slake. All right. There we go. All right, look at this. People are gonna be so pumped. I know. I'm pumped, it's been a while, man. It's been a minute. I haven't seen you.

It's been a minute. I've been on vacation. Just taking it easy? Taking it easy. No traveling or anything like that? No traveling. Yeah, I lived in Georgia for a month and a half, two months, whatever it was. So yeah, am I supposed to say this stuff now? Say whenever you want.

It's your podcast. Yeah. You don't have to say it if you don't want. Yeah. Hey, I gotta get, well yeah, I'm getting back into it. So yeah, Mike Vecchione's low-income white special is on Nate Land YouTube channel. We got our other specials that have all been up there, Greg's, Aaron's, Thune and Steven Rogers, other podcasts, remember that? We're consumers, correct opinions with Trey Kennedy. Don't make me come back there with Dustin Nickerson. Nate Land is producing Ryan Hamilton's next Netflix special, filming at the Neptune Theater in Seattle on October 4th. Get your tickets for that. That's very, very funny. Ryan Hamilton has been doing, he's been around as long as I have and he has a Netflix special. He's amazing. We're very

pumped about that. Also, my dad will be performing at Levity Live in Huntsville, Alabama on August 24th. So go get your tickets out. He's doing it to prepare for his, have we? Yeah, even now. Oh, we announced it. Yeah, he sold out immediately. Yeah, yeah, so he's saving his special. So if you wanna, he's getting ready for that.

And then, yeah, we got- Food and drinks are cheaper there now. We got merch. Oh yeah? Yeah. We got merch there. Also, NateLand presents the Showcase Season Three is here. Our first set premieres this Friday morning

from a comic named... It's AJ Lydig. AJ Lydig. It's a Chicago guy. Very funny. He's opened for me before. He's done shows with you. He's done my guy. Very funny. He's open for me before he's done shows with you. He's done my show a couple of times. Open for Chris for a lot.

Dude, the younger guy is super funny. And I was here for a set and it was great. So I'm excited for people to see it. Yeah, you texted me. Aaron told me he's like, texted me pretty, like right after he's like, dude, showcase was awesome. Yeah. All of them.

Yeah. It was really great. I've worked with him twice and didn't know how to pronounce his name. Lydig. I've been calling him La Dig. Yeah. AJ La Dig. AJ La Dig. Also, last one just want to put, I got a Netflix coming out July 29th. I didn't even see that. I just don't want to leave that one off there. And last but not least. Oh, yeah. Well, that's yeah.

Dusty Netflix special premieres July 29th, wet heat. Yeah. It's coming up a couple weeks. It's coming up super quick. Yeah. Where were, we were gonna do a, it's good that we set it there, but we will have a much dusty focus.

That's right, we'll do it up. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be done up. I apologize for the last two months. Huh? What? Dusty focus, that's been the last two months. Yeah.

Yeah, we've been, yeah. I left you alone. I give you two months just every day to go promote this special. I know, and we've been doing it. All right. We've been doing it. Yeah, did everybody at home just mouth along with that? Wet heat.

Also, but last night, it was Dusty Netflix special. Yeah. Premieres on July 29th. They get it. Wet heat. Yeah, they get it. I'm excited for it, buddy. So yeah, I didn't mean to... No, no. I just... Don't forget about the merch we got. All right. And more

importantly, Nate Land merch. That's the most important. Yeah, yeah. Last, last but not least. Yeah, yeah. After that. And last but not least, Nate Land merch. Also Dusty, he's got something coming out someday. And Brian's roughing a little of his own merch here today, if you noticed, look at that. Well, this is not my merch, but it's all my people. Brian Bates fan club, Batesville, it kinda came back last week after a three month hiatus.

Okay. JC's got some free time. So she brought it back. It's still mostly just stuff about you, but you got to start somewhere. You got to start somewhere. Yep. I like it. Yep. Batesville podcast is back and rolling. Mm hmm.

Uh. Now I wore this because your first time back in a while I wanted you to think that all I'm doing is promoting my stuff on here. Yeah yeah no I think it's good. Yeah. I think it's good. Do you assume that the last thing said is the least important? And if that weren't there, do you think you'd think well this is just an afterthought? When I watch your set. Why do they say that? I think it seems like the headline. What does it mean? It's, it's, it's a, yeah, yeah.

So the last thing I'll say, but it's not the least important. Oh, wait. Yeah. So it's the, this is last, but not the least important. So it's the most important. But not necessarily, but not the least, which means one of the things is the least important in the list. So you got to figure out which one is it?

Is it Mike Vecchione or is it my dad? That's a tough one. I think your dad is right in the middle. It sounds like the my dad's in the middle. Yeah, the middle. Because usually they do like we're saying Vecchione maybe is well first. You look right here. You got to. We also got a handful of great specials from Greg Warren

and wherever Nick Thune and Steven Rogers. That's that's got to be that. You guys are the Steve. You guys are barely hanging on. All four of those. They're like, by the way, if you get a chance, don't even try. Don't go out of your way. But we got Greg Warren, Weber, Nick Thune, and Steven Rogers have specials out. But do not repeat. No, if you see it, click on it. But you know. That's still going out of your way. If you walk in a room and they're playing it,

stay in the room. Yeah. I think that's fair. If it's already on. Is that fair for your special Aaron to say that? If someone's playing it and you walk in that room, we'd appreciate if you stayed. At least a minute.

At least a minute. Right. Did you start your closer with, and last but not least. Last but not least, but no, to stay in upset, it's last but most. At last, last but most. Yeah.

Anyway. Okay. Yeah, the showcase stuff, everybody wants to check that out. I'm excited about the showcase, because we're getting a lot of comics, and a lot of new comics, and I think we wanna hopefully be able to

find a lot of comics through this system. It's the kind of the system I I think we want to, you know, hopefully be able to find a lot of comics through this system. It's the kind of the system I came through, Comedy Central and you, Dusty, little Comedy Central. Yeah, I did a little Comedy Central, yeah. You saw it, you were a part of it. Yeah. It was such a great, that kind of thing.

Yeah, it was the first big thing for me. Yeah. That really got some heat. So let's get some people watching those. So I did the next wave of coming. What'd you do? I did a Comedy Central. Yeah.

What? Digital short. Oh, yeah. Or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They really started doing more stuff with YouTube.

Yeah. Well, that's what I do. Actually came. Yeah. Did you do no TV comedy? No TV comedy. I did. Well, I did, um... That's funny.

You go, I did what, too? And you go, oh yeah, they're really opening it up, too. Yeah. They're really... Yeah. Well, I mean, I think they, yeah, ran out of ideas. And the internet came along. Yeah, they were like, the network collapsed.

Yeah. The internet's a thing. The internet's a thing. So they go, who doesn't wanna do it? That would be easier. No, they actually, their Comedy Central specials on YouTube did great, because that was like Norman, Sam Rill, Joe List.

Like those guys started really selling tickets from the Comedy Central YouTube stuff. But when I came up, it was on TV, was Comedy Central was this thing. And now, with Showcase, it was on TV, Comedy Central was this thing, and now with Showcase we're on YouTube, but that's what we want to create with that, is to have this place where guys are trying to get sets on Showcase,

and then hopefully we can generate and make specials out of that, and have some kind of system, start selling tickets for some of these comics, and people go see them and you know, comics have a great place. I love stand-up comedy so much, man. Everybody want it.

Like I, it's, if you're young and get in entertainment, I would tell you to figure, you're not saying everybody can do stand-up comedy. I, it's a stand-up comedy I think is very, very hard to do. But that's why I love it. Because the ones that can do it, it's the standard comes I think it's very very hard to do But that's why I love it because the ones that can do it it's the hardest to do Do you think you just finished up a movie you wrapped on yeah bread winner right piece of cake, okay? No, but I'm saying it's you do you come out of it with a kind of a newfound appreciation for stand-up or like you're ready

To get back. Yes. No, I can't wait to go back on the road. I mean I just it's all I know but with stand- mean, it's all I know. But with standup is, it's just, if you can be a standup comedian, then you can really fit into almost anything else. Not saying you're gonna be better than a, like, you know, Daniel Day Lewis, or someone that devotes their whole life to this act.

There are people that wanna go do this, and I understand. But with comedy, like what I just love with stand-up comedians is we kinda show up with like all the tools. You've written, you perform it, and you've had to do it and- You've edited it.

You've edited it, you've kinda directed your own thing. Like you've done a show and you've done it with the tension of you need laughs. you've done a show and you've done it with with the tension of you need laughs. So it's not like, it's not a play or it's not this other stuff where it's like you can go, like people, if you're at something that doesn't need laughs, it's like, well, how do you really know? I mean, you can know it's moving or whatever.

But the pressure of laughs, dude, where you're straight up like bombing, that's like, man, it's stand-up comics dude. I love it so much. I think about that with music, when you first start out and you go do some gig and nobody's paying attention because they don't even care.

With music, they can just, when the music stops, they can politely clap and move on and note, it's no big deal. But for comedy, it's totally different. You have to like be listening and people know if you're not doing well. If it's quiet and then at the end people politely clap, you go, that didn't go good.

That didn't go good. One of the maddest I've ever gotten in Nashville, we used to do an open mic after a writers round and the writers round would always go super long. And they went really long one night. And then the musicians were just sitting at the bar after, during the open mic, and my friend was up there bombing at the open mic.

And the musicians were sitting there, and they were like, "'Man, I feel like I could do better just off the dome.'" They started trash talking, my friend. I was like, "'Oh man, I was so mad at those two guys, dude.'" Cause it's just so much more than most people. Everybody, look, to really go there and stand up,

it's just like, yeah, you gotta, I mean, it's just beautiful, man. I love it. I love doing it. I love, I'm excited to get back on the road. And like, I mean, I'm going to, I'm going to go up tonight on the Nate Land show because I just want to, I'm working on this one little thing I don't know I've talked about all this before so but I just I

for all the comics are listening that are new and starting it's awesome stand-up comedy is awesome and I think you're if you're a stand-up comic I think you can transition to more things than if you're anything else if you're an actor I don't think you can go to more things than if you're anything else. If you're an actor, I don't think you can go to more things, but if you're stand-up comic, they could grab ya and just throw ya into something and you can figure it out. Cause you've had to figure it out the whole time.

Not saying every stand-up comic can do it, but I think for your best chance of survival in the entertainment industry, I think if you know stand-up comedy, you're gonna be a must-per-change. Yeah, because you're up there with nothing. Nothing. Nothing, absolutely nothing.

Like the musician who's like, I think I could do better than that off the dome, couldn't. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. It's okay to think it, but you can't. You can't, though. Yeah. I mean, with think it, but you can't. You can't though. Yeah.

I mean with, yeah, there's no, it's either quiet or it's, or people wanna leave, you know? Yeah. It's, yeah, it's great. Some rooms apparently they shake their keys at you if it's not going well. Oh yeah, well.

Have you ever seen that happen? I hear about it. Oh, I've never seen that. Yeah What kind of? I hear about it. Oh, I've never seen that. Yeah, it's maybe like Atlanta has some of those rooms. Okay. Shake the keys out, yeah. I think Derek's been there in Brooklyn

where there's some rooms where they shake the keys out, yeah. Okay. What was that noise? I don't know. It wasn't me. I thought he had a ring. I thought it sounded like a ring. All right. Anyway, that's beside the point.

All right, let's start the podcast. We're gonna do a podcast one day about stand-up comedy. That's just for stand-up comics. I wanna do one. Yeah, that'd be great. I love it that much. We did one five years ago. That's so many opinions.

I know, but I think I would do one, I would wanna do one. Like its own series of it? I would wanna do one if we can figure it out, how can we do it where, like, I would want to do one. Like its own series of it? I would want to do one if we can figure it out. How can we do it where like, I would like to, I don't know, not acting like I know. I give a lot of advice to stand up comedy. I don't mean to try to act like I know everything.

But the reason- You're doing okay. Yeah, but it's not even about that. But the reason I give the advice is because I've done every gig. I've done everything that you could have done. I've done all the shows. I've done all gig, I've done everything that you could have done. I've done all the shows, I've been to every city. Like, you know, when I go back to these cities now,

and I'm like, oh yeah, I was at that bar and did a show, then I did that, then I finally got into that comedy club, and then finally got into, or not finally, but then got into the theater, then now I'm in the arena. Like I've done, even in your city, I've done your whole system in a way. And so it's like, you just know, you know, it's like, I don't know, I just want, you know, a man, I don't know.

I want stand-up comedy too. I think we're in a great spot here. That's what we're doing with this showcase is, you know, it's guys going up there doing sets, creating an act, nothing good crowd work. You can do your crowd work. That's fine, but you don't wanna be just hung up on that. You know, not everybody can be Matt Rife.

It's only gonna be like a few Matt Rives. I saw a guy, he said, he goes, what do you do for money? Just a, it's just a new way to say, what do you, it's the same old thing. What do you do for a living? I like that, that's a new spin on things. What do you do for money? Yeah.

You know, someone told me that they, there's a lot in the corporate world, a lot of stuff, I think, is a lot of people have side hustles. They could have a real, like a job they go to college for. They can, will have a, also a side hustle. Isn't that crazy that that's the new work? Like you would go, usually go to college to get the job and you work hard in that job.

But now they're like, well then I also do this, some other stuff on the side. Yeah, yeah. Which I mean, some places you're gonna get fired, you can't do that. Uh-huh. Right? Well, some of them.

I think a real corporate, if you work for a real corporation. Especially if it's a conflict of interest. Yeah, they're gonna be like, what are you doing? You're also like, I also, I don't even know what your site is. You know, Google, for a while, they might've been one of the first're going to be like, what are you doing? Like you're also like, I also, I don't even know what your site is. You know, Google for a while, they might have been one of the first big companies to do it, but they let their employees, I think it was 20% of their time, do whatever they want. I think they just carved out maybe 10 to 20% of your year, do whatever you want. Just to let people explore their passion.

That's probably not going on now though, huh? I think it still is. Gmail came from that, just like a project that somebody did in their spare time during that time. A bunch of the stuff Google has started from just letting their employees do whatever they want. I think when you're a trillion dollar company you probably can do that. Well, yeah. I don't know if they were at the time. This was early on. It was kind of radical to do. I think you'll see companies start to do more stuff like that.

It's still gotta be, you know, you could do it, you have to have the right people that can do it. Because I don't want to be like you got real stuff on Google and then you got some guy going, well I need off because I got in, you're like you got real stuff on Google and then you got some guy going, well, I need off because I got in, you're like, no, no, no, no. I'm paying, if you're, if I'm, if you're,

your whole livelihood is paid for by me. Yeah, yeah. It's almost like you can do it. I just don't want to know about it. You need self motivated people. Yeah, you need, yeah, that are going to go, you know when to click it off and go like, yeah, I understand this is mine.

But I think they found that the other four fifths of the time, they were actually more productive because they let them do whatever they want for a certain amount. I think I strongly disagree with that. Okay. I think we got a different generation now though. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, but I think his generation is the first that did not, they're not great. My generation. And my generation, we got nap, we got nap pods in the office. We got all kinds of stuff. Yeah. Y'all trying to optimize the human. And then y'all get into the analytics at all, where you just you get you get our generation so confused with numbers. You're like one percent worked a little bit, but two percent was.

And then you're like, next thing you know, you're the Oakland A's and you're like, wait, did we not win? So we didn't win the world series though? You go, no, no, we didn't. But we remember how fun it was. We changed the game. We changed the game. Yeah.

Yeah. But you're not winners. I'm not saying all of you, Jer, I think you, I think you, the year you were born was a tough one. Yeah. You know, I had a job, one of my first jobs after college I had, it said unlimited PTO. That was a perk of the job. Pay time off?

Yeah, unlimited PTO. Yeah, well. That's worse than Google. So. Or better than Google. Well, that, I mean, I'm sure that's not true. I can't just take six months off, you know. But and I got there and they were like, look, obviously, don't try to do that

right away, but at a certain point, they're like, yeah, if you want to take a couple of months off, you can just take a couple for a company folded. All right. I think they're still around. OK, I didn't last long. But did you get fired when I started there? Like, look, it is unlimited PTO technically, but it should probably only do two weeks a year. So kind of a lie. Yeah. Kind of a lie.

Normal then. It's to get you in there. But they bring a keg in every Friday. You know, you can have a beer at 4pm on Friday. Abe, is there a limit on how many you can have? Beers? Yeah. When they bring the keg in. I hear. I think if there's a conversation about it, that's the problem.

I think, you know what's funny is I think there's that much stuff that no one cares about. Their jobs no one cares about. Because you look at, you know, just shooting this movie, right, we had a lot of teamsters, the union working that. These people were so great and they love what they do and they work 12 hour days every day. You don't feel, we didn't feel like,

you feel like they're bothered by it or whatever. Their emotions are completely straight up out of it. It was, I liked it because it was so, I mean you were very nice and you talk to them and we all kind of, it's like this movie's like a summer camp. And so you like go there and you become friends kind of with all this, the lighting person and this person. And you're talking to them all day, every day.

But it was like kind of transactional, which was nice. Where you're like, yeah, we're all in there to do a job. So there's 15 people in this room. And nobody can ask them to stay late, right? Because it's union, right? No, no, they can. You just get, it's called, I forget, it's called golden hour or something,

is one of them, where you get overtime. So they don't mind it because, I mean, yes, some of it, if you go into overtime, you're like, yeah, you're just paying them. They get paid so they're like straight up out. Like a salaried employee, they go, can you stay late? And you have to because you're a salaried employee, but you don't get any extra money.

So would you rather work at a place like that where you show up, you work hard, it's very transactional, like you said, or a place where you're a family. You know what I mean? I think transactional is the money's better. Yeah, like a keg beer. But I'm saying, it's the, what if it's the,

it's the jobs that are being made now, there's nothing to connect you to, to feel proud of. Where like when a guy used to work for Ford, those guys like would go fight to the death for Ford. And they worked on the line at Ford. And they go, no, we build nice trucks at Ford. And the Chevy guys like, no, not what we do. And I feel like people were prideful.

And whoever they worked for, they wore it with a badge. I worked for, you know, whatever, Disney or this or that. I worked for Walmart for 35 years, and they were proud of, you know. And now these jobs are like pop-up jobs that like it's something you can do now, then it's gonna disappear. And the whole industry will disappear in five years.

But back when you did it, and that's what I'm saying with the union with the filmmakers, when we were making that movie down there, that was something that was so wonderful about it, was everybody was showing up and they're making a movie and they're all, dude, this movie can't be made without all of them

because they're the way, the lighting and this and that and the camera and they're all working together and they're moving forward and everybody's got a job and everybody does their job. And I'm sure there's, we had a wonderful crew, but it was like, you know, it's like you could tell that they're, when they get done, they would tell you about other movies they made,

they were on, they go, I was on that, that was a good one. Like, and they're, they love it, they're proud of the movie. The guy, this guy Frank that was our photographer on the movie. The guy, this guy, Frank, that was our photographer on the movie, he does all the rocks movies, you know, he's like, oh, Moana, the live action, he's like, it's great, it's gonna be great. It's like, cause he was, he like, he was there

and it's like, they're, they're excited for it. And they're into the industry that they're doing and they see what other movies do. And you can tell there's a love for what they do and those people show up and put in the work and then they don't bring in your their at-home problems or I remember Laura said once that someone one of her jobs they were like here's your you know they held up their hand like a cup and said here's. And you set them down outside the door. And then you go inside and work.

And then you go back outside and you pick your problems back. Bring it home to your family. Yeah, yeah. And then take it out. But reality, the work should be like, here's your work. And then when you clock out, you put that down and then go home to your family.

Well, for some people. Yeah, but it should be, and you go, all right, I'm done with work. I'm gonna go home and be with my family. But instead now your boss is calling you going, what went on here today? Well, but I mean, that was, this wasn't like a big job. It might've been like waiting tables or something.

Like it was like, it was a job like that. But you're just telling people that you're hiring like that to be like, when you don't bring in all your nonsense. Don't bring your drama in here. Don't bring your drama in here. You come in here, work, then go out and then. We don't care how many kids you have, just wait the tables.

Yeah. Just fill the tea up, okay? Yeah, fill the tea up. Yeah. But I don't know. It's just, but I think that's the difference. And that's why they have to do stuff like, hey, we're bringing you a keg of beer.

Cause you have, cause I don't care about your thing. Your thing doesn't move me. I'm not a part of anything. You know, that makes sense? Yeah. I think it also just keeps you in the office for longer too. So there's a practical, there's a practical effect on it. But they work, the, the, the, it's kind of the same thing though.

They have to trick you into staying in the office because you don't love your job. But if it's unlimited beer. I don't think it's unlimited BTO, unlimited beer. And you and your job is able to get done drinking, I think there's a time in my life where I'm more likely to stay at work a little longer if you let me have a few beers. I'll stock pesticides all day for let me have a few drinks.

I think people still want to even the young people now they want to work for something they can. Everybody wants meaning. Yeah. Yeah, everybody wants a purpose of me. Yeah. You want to know like, oh, yeah, we're doing this we're setting this stuff up behind and all this kind of and and there's a stance behind it, like you know, that you just feel proud of. And I think that's becoming less and less. Well that is what's nice about comedy. Because you're building something that you care about. And so you're dedicated to it. Yep.

And you have to go get, when you have fans, you know you've had to go get them one by one on your own. Even if you get exposed to a new group, other fan base, you have to keep them. You can't let them go, because they're leave. And that's what's wonderful about it. That's what's great. That's why, again, the showcase, you're gonna go and watch,

and then the ones that you feel compelled to, you'll be like, yeah, let me follow. I mean, I've had people, because I just did the Lake Tahoe golf thing, and people coming up being like, I was bringing up my old CD, or I've been following you since Full Time Magic, and you know, whatever.

And you know, it's fun. That's fun, because then people are like, they're like, oh yeah, it's like, it's been a ride for them in a sense with that, you know, I'm not, their whole world's not built around it like mine is, but it's like, it's nice to be like, oh yeah, it's like, it's been a ride for them in a sense with that, you know, I'm not, their whole world's not built around it like mine is, but it's like, it's nice to be like, oh yeah, look up, I found something, look at it, look where it's at now.

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Saw a bear. Saw a bear up in a tree. Hey bear. Oh yeah. That's Ryan. Yeah, I think he sent the pictures to Greg. Greg Garcia caddy for me. He did great. Yeah, yeah. And Greg did great. He was very fun. But everybody was like, this is middle of play. This is how, uh, this is how much our score didn't matter. Is, uh, I literally walked over there and then came back and hit my shot. But I, everybody was like looking up those trees and I was like, I thought,

like, I guess an eagle or something. And they're like, what is it? They're like a bear. I'm like, good night. I can't even see it from this first picture. Uh, yeah. an eagle or something. And they go, what is it? They're like a bear. I'm like, good night. I can't even see it from this first picture. Yeah, it was a big bear, man. It's, you can't see it.

Nick was there and Nick was like, I'm gonna go see it. Well, Nick's eyesight, you can't see 10 feet. And I'm like, Nick, I don't know if it's worth the danger. You gotta get so close. For you to go there and I know you really can't see it. And he goes, ah, it doesn't matter. I'll just tell people I saw it. And so he went over there and he goes, yeah, we saw it.

It doesn't, no one knows if Nick saw it. Nick doesn't know if he saw it. Yeah, it's funny. But he was a big, big bear, man. And so, yeah, that's the kind of event that's at the American City. It is fun. But it is funny. You got people following you along and they're looking up a tree and then just the golfer's standing next to you going, what's going on over here? Like, and we're all looking at this bear. Does somebody like keep an eye on him

while the tournament's going on? No, no, they just walk around. They're allowed to do whatever they can go. It's free country, Brian. They're allowed to go where they want to go and now yeah, they just happen to see it. It was big though, you know. I've seen, there was another one spotted out there too on that and I've seen one other one one time on this course. But yeah, it was a very fun event. I played with Charles Barkley where he shot his best round he's ever shot.

Whoa. 81. And if you're into golf, I mean, it was what everybody was talking about. It was me, Charles Barkley and Larry the Cable guy. The first day he made an eagle putt. I mean, not an eagle putt, I'm sorry, a shot from a hundred yards out, nailed it, went in for an eagle.

Everybody went crazy. It was very fun to be just a part of that group. And then also, because Charles Barkley notoriously, everybody talks about his swing and all this stuff like that. And his swing was great and he played, and I mean, we were just, he was playing out of his mind. And it was very fun to watch. They talk about his swing as good or bad?

Bad. But his swing looks, it looks- It's gotten way better. It used to look atrocious. He gets in his head and stuff, but he's really, really worked on it. And he did not, he didn't have great days the next two days, but I mean really, really worked on it. And he did not, he didn't have great days the next two days,

but I mean, it was fun to be, cause that's going to be, you know, Charlie Parker is so associated with that vent and golfing and his swinging and all this stuff. So it was, it was very cool to get to just be there with, you know, just, just get to be there with this moment for this guy that like you know trying to prove everybody's figured it out oh gosh yeah it got it used to be real bad I don't even golf in that yeah yeah I show on

the Charles Barker swing the the old version of the swing if you haven't what's happening right here yeah that's still better than I can do. But it's gotten remarkably better it looks like. Oh yeah a lot a lot better. Did you shoot, what did you score? I played terrible the first two days but yesterday I shot an 80. Oh nice. And I was a mess. I only had a couple mess ups, kind of mental mess ups, but where it was just, I mean, it is crazy when you're playing. There's so many people out there and you're taking pictures and saying hi and everybody.

I mean, it's a wonderful, wonderful event, but they did. It was so many people and I double bogeyed two holes yesterday, one was my last hole, or I wish I was and I double bogeyed two holes yesterday. One was my last hole Or I wish I was 78 But I shot an 80 which is the best I've ever shot out there. Yeah, and I was playing I played yeah So yesterday I played really really good. I played bad the other days, but yesterday I played good. That's awesome, man Yeah, it's it's it's awesome, man. It's uh, I'll mark it on my calendar You know unless some unless for some crazy reason

I can't be there, but it's like it's an event that you're most everybody there. I mean my movie was I was not supposed to be there for my movie and when we did it we go, you have to. I mean I showed up on that Friday. I flew in Thursday night after we wrapped on the movie. But I made him rap on, we were like, because it was gonna wrap that Friday and it was like, no, no, no. Yeah, I'm making it. We gotta go to this golf tournament.

Well, welcome back, man. We're happy to have you back. Yeah, thanks for having me back. You're welcome anytime. Yeah. Wednesday, I had a show with the Comedy Catch and Shattered Nougat. All right.

Great crowd came out, Dusty's family came. Yeah. Yelled some stuff. They loved it. Did they yell? Well, I take requests. It was perfect. They're good laughers.

My family's good laughers. They get into it. Do you take requests? Well, I do impressions now. Oh, okay. Oh, that's fun. Somebody y'all do Dusty Slay. Oh, how about that?

I'm an impression comic now. Well, a lot's changed since he's been gone. Yeah. Brian really found, I think. Yeah, the new Frank Caliendo. He found the strength. In our presence. Yeah.

Yeah, that's why I do impressions. You can do a Dusty impression? All right. We're do a dusty impression. All right. We're having a good time. Yeah. I mean, it's really something, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, that's an easy one, but it's less impressions and more just remembering

quotations from people saying them. But I mean, some of these impressions have really been mind blowing. It is sometimes I, he doesn't. And I go, I don't know why you're here when you have this kind of talent. Uh, but it was great show. Um, uh, what did it, a Friday night came down to Greg Warren show, did a guest set on that for Nick on my way on that. That was fun.

Oh yeah. Just hung around Greg. That is a full show tonight. What time is everybody going on? Is more than that. I just asked him last week on the podcast. Yeah. If I could sell my merch.

Sell merch? No, not at all. And then Saturday night I had my 35 year class reunion. Wow. Wow. College or high school? High school, but that's not that far. College has been 31.

Yeah. So. What'd you guys do? How many of y'all left? Dusty made that joke last week. What'd you do? Bingo? It's very nice to be around a group of people that are all the same age. Yeah.

There's not a lot of this going on. You know, we're just all in the same, but you did do some bingo. Yeah, it was great. It was great. Let's just say, uh, yeah, all the bargain spots up front would take it first. There were, yeah, that's probably true. Um probably true. I've been to a few classroom unions though, and this was the- To other people's. I imagine you go to other schools.

Carlos Groves? Yeah. This one, you know, we're so old, nobody, there's no pretentiousness. Nobody's trying to impress you. Yeah, yeah. My first classroom union went dressed up, you know, which is fine, but you're doing it to try to impress people. What was the. My first class at uni, everyone dressed up, which is fine, but you're doing it to try to impress people. What was the first one you went to, like 10 years?

10, yeah. And over time, people just dress more and more casually because they're not trying to impress you with what they're doing. They've already lived, yeah, you're living a life. We're almost done. You're not okay, come on, you're almost done. Yeah, but you come in with a new baby. You're the hot top.

You're the belle of the ball. Yep Everybody there some other kids are out of college and then I have a three-year-old. Yeah That's awesome though, man. Yeah, it was fun 35 years. Did you do a set? No, where did the people ask you to? Mm-hmm. Yeah a little bit and you said no. Yeah, I don't want to do that. That's smart. That's the good call That's the right call. How many people was it? 100%. 60 maybe?

Yeah, yeah. Something like that. I was like, if you had like 2,500 or something. Yeah, get a take. Don't some schools have that many people? Yeah, yeah, sure. Maybe the whole school, but. So there's some real big ones.

We had a big class, not 2,500, we had a really big class. I mean, we had 300 something people when... How many did you have? In the whole... When we graduated. Three, three or four. Y'all went to the same place, right? Same year.

Yeah, did y'all go to the same... I'm talking to Chase. You went to Lebanon High School, right? Nate's talking, yeah. Yeah. The new one. Yeah. The new one that was built in 2012.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, anyway new one that was built in 2012. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, it was fun. For a while, I felt like my house was a hideaway for bugs. We've all been there. I don't mind bugs.

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It's just like a fun project that I got to do. So I was doing that this weekend and then, uh, back out on the road this weekend, but, uh, kind of took it easy. What about you, Dustin? I was in Gulf Shores with my family. We had a great time. Went on the beach, a little swimming. My kids got in the water.

Nice. It was great. Me and my wife went to eat. It turned out it was a restaurant right next to where I did a corporate gig in Gulf Shores one time. Yeah. I bombed at a corporate gig down there at that place, so it was fun to be back. It was great.

It was a hot trip. All right. place. So it's fun to be back. It's great. It's a hot trip. All right. Yeah. Yeah, I've been off. I don't even know if I do comedy anymore. Yeah, it's been off longer than you have. I've been off.

Are you going up tonight? Yeah. Okay. Are you doing tonight too? We're all on it tonight. We're all on it tonight. Oh, that'll be fun. Yeah, hot show.

I wasn't. I did shows. You did my golf. I guess that just means you've been gone for this podcast, he hasn't done. Yeah, I was doing, I was working. Doing shows, I did shows. Working, real working man. Yeah, I don't even know if I know how to do comedy anymore.

Find out tonight when they get an hour 50 from you. That's right. Well, you know, I gotta work out the case. Yeah, yeah. Iron it out. Uh, all right. Let's start it off. You guys comments. I'm gonna always say that, but you're in my head and I know it now because they got brought up before I just said it. I knew it was pure. Uh, not really thinking about it, but

it's like when a host gets done and goes, you guys ready to start the show? Yeah. I thought it started 10 minutes ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Adam P-Faf-Man. It's a tough one. Faf-Man. I can't be real, right?

I don't know. Faf-Man. Faf-Man. I almost always agree with Dusty, but choosing Myrtle Beach for a week over going into space? I'm with Aaron this episode. I'll be back with you next week. Dusty. Yeah. I'd like your input on that. And we were talking about space exploration as a

vacation activity. So you're given two options. One is all expenses paid. You're in space for what? 20 minutes or something. You just go up out, you get to see the earth, you come back down, right? Or a week in Myrtle Beach, they give you a hotel. Well, Myrtle Beach. Also, you gotta think about it. Think about it from the perspective of you're working. This is your, you're working 40 hours a week, and this is your vacation.

Do you wanna go into space or you wanna go for a week in Myrtle Beach? You wanna see something only 20 people have seen or do you wanna go to Myrtle Beach? Yeah, I would think you'd have to go take that. I mean, but I would say take out like fear and someone just being like, I don't want to be in a closed space. What's scarier than Myrtle Beach?

You're going space. Yeah, I think you gotta go space. I feel like you upped the time on it because the Jeff Bezos thing was, you know, a few minutes. Talking about the Katy Perry all the way. Yeah, that was not quite 20 minutes. No, I mean, even just- Yeah, but it's like, even if it's for a fight, it's to see that is like, no one's ever gonna,

when someone asks you about your Myrtle Beach vacation, no one really wants to hear about it. You know? Like no one, they're just saying it because they just, what are we supposed to say? You came back from work and they go, how was Myrtle Beach? But then, and I love Myrtle, I'm not, this is they just, what are we supposed to say? You came back from work and they go, how was Myrtle Beach? And I love Myrtle, this is nothing that gets Myrtle Beach,

but when you come back and you go, how was space? All anybody would talk about in your office was we got a guy from our office going to space. But with the Katy Perry thing, it's like, they just went real high. It's like, it's debatable. It's debatable if they really went to space. 682 people have reached the altitude of space

in the history of mankind. Think about all the billions of people that have lived. And you know. Yeah. Well, look how many, 30 million go to Myrtle Beach. How many people have been going to Myrtle Beach? Where are you at with it, Brian?

Your space? Oh yeah. You guys are all space? That's how it started last week. I said I hope this becomes I think commercial space flight. I know. Adam I hope I get you back this week but it feels like I'm... Most of the commenters agreed with you Dusty. Yeah I mean take the vacation. Myrtle Beach gets 17 million visitors every year. Yeah it shows it's a good spot. People are choosing and people are Jews and nobody wants to go to space. Yeah, at least 700 people want to space. Come on. Yeah.

All right. I saw where the largest meteorite from Mars ever is being put on auction this Wednesday. How big is it? 54 pounds. Wow. Okay. Is it like with the size of a basketball probably or a little bigger than that? Yeah.

And they think you might go for $4 million. Wow. Aaron, would you rather have this space rock in your house? You can't sell it, you gotta keep it. Okay. But you can tell everybody that's from our or lifetime any Cracker Barrel for free. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Which one? That's tough, man. If you Which one? That's tough, man. If you had this. That is tough, man. I would. Appreciate you saying that.

That's a good question. What about, Cracker Barrel's a funny answer, but what about like a one that, like free gas for the rest of your life? Oh, gas. Easy. Ah, man. I think that's a,

you were talking about having people over to the house. You go, hey dude, you wanna get a little conversation started? How about this 54 pound meteorite? Yeah, but I'd come over. I go, you mean this rock? He's the one I got solved on the way here. And then what do you do?

And you go, you want to talk about that for two minutes and then you're back to nothing and then you go, how much is gas? You go, I used to, I almost got free gas. That's your other conversation. But you know what I turned down for this rock? Free gas. Yeah. Oh man.

I mean, I think it's pretty sweet. You get to touch it. That guy's got gloves on just out of respect for the buyer. But if that's at your house, man, you can touch it. Touch something no one's touched before. Yeah. It's, it's one of those that, that, it would be cool to have it, but it would be also like hard to wrap your head around it.

You know, like you just got it in there. And then, you know, you go meet a fight with your wife, just a normal, I ain't doing, I'm not doing the dishes tonight, Rosh Hashanah, you just next to, that rocks from Mars. Yeah. Then you get divorced and she takes the rock.

Yeah. So you cut it down the middle. Now you're paying for gas to go see your kids. Yeah. How did we get that? They found it, I think, in like the Indian Ocean. No, no, it was in Africa somewhere they found it. They just knew it was from Mars. Yeah. That's for knew it was from Mars. Yeah. That's for sure this is from Mars.

That's what the villagers told them when they sold it to them. Yeah. So it's from a volcanic eruption on Mars from a long time ago? They think an asteroid hit Mars and it broke loose. Skipped off, skipped off of Mars. They said they don't think it's been here that long because there's no like growth and stuff on it.

Okay. And barnacles and stuff. But they said it had a reddish hue that was clearly from Mars. It's a red rock. You better take that gas. You better take that cracker rail. Take that free cracker. That's like when you win the lottery, when you win the lottery, they're like,

you want it lifetime or just did lump sum? You're like, take the lump sum. Yeah, lump sum. You don't want it right now. Yeah, I don't want the lottery going bankrupt. Yeah. Pluto was a planet mean right now? Yeah, I don't want the lottery going bankrupt. Yeah. Pluto was a planet and now it's not, but this rock's from Mars.

Yeah. You gotta hope they don't, I mean, what if they just come out of nowhere and go, you know what, that wasn't from Mars? Then you gotta try to sell it. Yeah. It represents, it's so large, it represents approximately 6.5%

of all Martian material ever found on earth. So, I mean, that's almost 7% of Mars. Well, I would say why would they, if, if it's from Mars, why are they even selling it? Like, why don't you have it in a museum? Yeah. We need money, man. Who needs this money?

Whoever found the Mars rock, do they not have money? How were they out that deep in the Indian Ocean and not doing well off? I said any notion, but I forgot I watched Superman last night. That's where they found kryptonite. It was in Africa Hmm. It was only in a desert. I Think it was just a guy that found it and then he sounds like in Africa. That guy is knows how to make money It's like Joe dirt out here. That's a space turd. Yeah. Yeah.

It was discovered by a meteorite hunter in the remote agadez region in the Sahara desert. So, yeah, leave in a meteorite hunter. What a job. Just walk through the Sah air desert. You'll find something. He'll be like, I found one. Yeah, 54 pounds. I'm Joe Dirt. You're Joe Meteor. Yeah. All right. Thanks, Adam. Aaron or Gerald Floyd.

Yes. He's back. Aaron referring to ice cream shops as restaurants just shows what his fine dining includes. Other restaurants don't offer free samples because they can't just keep endless amounts of pre-made food fresh. Ice cream is frozen after all and able to remain fresh.

We've had a debate in the last couple weeks about whether or not free samples. Last couple weeks? Wow. This is week three. Yeah. Whether free samples should be allowed at ice cream shops. I say this, I say you get two samples. That's it. Aaron says no samples. I just don't know why. And I don't know a term that encompasses ice cream shops and regular restaurants. So I just said restaurants

and I think you all know what I'm talking about. But no other place where you get food works like that. Why do you get to try a little bit out? Because it's like crazy. Cause it's like cotton candy. Oh, vanilla? That's crazy And I hope they have cotton candy. Yeah, well, you know what cotton candy tastes like cotton candy ice cream Yeah, I mean you have an idea don't you think taking that just you take a shot you like it or you don't that's part of the experience

No, I think part of the experience is the free sample. That's also part of the show That's part of the show your generation type stuff. the iPhone shop. This is your generation type stuff. No, but it's like, cause it's an event. You don't come in. It's an event? Well, it's like human interaction. You don't, you wanna go talk to a screen

and have a robot hand, hand the money over, and then you get it. And then, you know. Yeah, you wanna point at a guy making minimum wage and go, give me a little spoonful of that little spoonful of that. Everybody makes minimum wage at some point. Yeah. It's a young kid that's making it.

I think two samples is fair. You don't get to stand there all day sampling all the ice creams, but you do get a couple. Look, I'm not mad. I'm not picketing outside of Baskin-Robbins. I'm not that mad. I'm not far off though. Yeah.

You might actually be doing more damage. I just don't know why we do it at ice cream places, but no, nowhere else. You don't agree with this answer because it's frozen. Maybe people don't, maybe not all people know what food tastes like on the top of their head. Yeah, I'm saying you can do that with ice cream too. I'm saying- You say that I specifically.

I come in with a little more knowledge than the average customer. That's probably true. You're beyond an edgy, you're an educated guest where they go, yeah, but other people don't have ice cream all day, every day. And you go, so can they try the cotton candy? Can they try a little taste of that?

How do they gotta go? It's a treat for them. They're not just going there and trying all the flavors. Yeah, it's not a daily thing. Going, you were here yesterday, you gotta try something. No, these people go once a year, I think. Katie, I would like if you had regular food though. You gotta try, let me try some of that burger.

Let me try some fries before I get it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm saying that it doesn't work like that. They might let you try. They might. The customer's always right, they'll try it, but it's not part of the system. Can you imagine if everyone was doing that at the restaurant? What if they said, what side do you want?

And you go, can I try the fries? Could you, could you bring me a couple of fries? I want you to try it out. Try it out. Let me know what they say. Yeah. I'll tell you what I would have said as a waiter and I go, yeah, we can order you some, try it out there.

I would, I would give them a couple of fries. Okay. Okay. I'd be upset about it. Yeah. I, yeah. I would you bring it out. You just put it on a little plate. Yeah. Two fries. Yeah. Okay. I'd be upset about it. Yeah, I would do it too. How would you bring it out? You put it on a little plate.

Yeah. With two fries? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe put a little, put a little drink napkin on there just to give it a little thing, a little piece of parsley.

Just to give it a nice little, make it look good. And then I go, let me try two more. Yeah. Oh, it tastes like every fry ever? All right, yeah. Katie, I think fries taste different. McDonald's Burger King fries, very different.

I agree with you. Yeah, okay. Katie Alford, people often slept in shifts to prevent the village from becoming too vulnerable without someone being on guard. Being a night owl or a morning person is genetic and we evolved to be one or the other so everyone wasn't asleep for the same eight to 10 hours.

Whoa. So last week we talked about when the light bulb was invented, people could stay up later. We used to go to bed at, as soon as it got dark, but then they would sleep in shifts and we weren't sure why that was. This is, Katie says, is because they gotta be dark.

So, you know, we're all, I'm guessing we're all night owls here on this podcast, right? I definitely am dusty, are you? I don't think so. When I'm doing comedy, obviously I'm amped up, but if I don't have to do comedy, early to bed, early to rise?

Yeah, I could go to bed. I woke up at 5.30 today. Okay, so if we were- I'm starting to wake up earlier. I mean, I'm on a pretty early schedule now because in the movie... You had to get going, yeah. I had call times every day for two months, 730, 650.

Right. But I think as I get older, I'm liking getting up earlier. Okay. And then at night, you just realize as you get older, I mean, unless you're going to something or whatever, when you're at home, you're like, there's just not much to do.

So what do you say? Nothing good happens after 2 a.m. That's what they say, right? Yeah. I've heard midnight, yeah. Yeah. I think 10 p.m. I think 10 p.m.

Don't you have shows after 10 p.m.? Yeah. Yeah. And nothing good comes out of that show. You should go to the early one. The Friday late show. Yeah. Colin Cackett. That's a good last name.

Colin Cackett, that's a good whole name. Yeah. Colin Cackett, the Cackett family. I bet the whole town knows him. The Cacketts. I think a last name like that, the Cacketts, you don't, everybody knows him. Yeah.

That's not a name where you go like, no, we don't have that many friends. You go, no, you run the town. Colin Cackett. Sheriff Cackett. Shawshank Redemption being a bad name for a movie is a really bad take. It's writer was Stephen King.

Wait, what? Yeah, we knew that. I didn't know that. It is based on a short story called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Having a movie based on the story of one of America's most famous writers should have been enough. Okay, then why wasn't it? Why was it a box office failure? I think it's a good name but only because... You know what it is now. Yeah. If you were just blindly looking through what's showing at the movie theater yeah you would see Shawshank

Redemption and think oh I didn't go no I'm used to be what movie what title yeah but what title would get you to see it so you said prison break but I saw but I don't want to Nate hasn't seen it so I don't want to give any yeah I don't want to spoil it at all people didn't like that idea of a tie I've read another comment that said well that it doesn't want to give any, I don't want to spoil it at all. That's why people didn't like that idea of a tie. I've read another comment that said they didn't like it. It doesn't have to be that, but you don't have to spoil it, but it can be something. Shawshank's a made up word.

So the Shawshank in Redemption's like a complicated concept. What's something you would call it? I don't know. Red and Andy go to Shawshank. I don't know. The adventures of the Star Crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The adventures of Red and Andy. Yeah. But like, you know, from the same book of short stories, nice was a story called The Body, which became the movie Stand By Me. I think Stand By

Me is a better a better title than Shawshank Redemption. It's pouring rain outside. I don't know if you can hear it on the hog. Oh, it's raining. Yeah, that's so. I thought it was the air. Me too. That's one of the weird things.

Zany's Comedy Club, great club, but when it rains, that's all you can talk or think about because it rocks the building here. Yeah, I like that. Tin roof, I think. I like to know what's going on outside. Yeah. There's no windows in here. Yeah. I like that. Tin roof. I like to know what's going on outside. Yeah. There's no windows in here. Uh huh. Yeah. I would say with Shawshank, because again, I did not watch it. Uh, but it is. Yeah. I don't like the name currently.

I think you were 15 or 16 when it came out. So it's not like something you would have gone and seen anyway, probably. Right? Getting shanked. Getting shanked and then being redeemed from it. I think I get it and the Green Mile confused. They're both Stephen King. I picture them both kind of the same. And then, so I think it's gonna be just sad and boring. Green Mile filmed here, in Nashville.

You've seen Green Mile? I think, maybe. I've seen parts of it, but not really. It's way longer than the Shawshank. Yeah, I didn't love Green Mile. Oh really? It's fine, but yeah. It's good though.

I saw a meme and it was talking about the stove and it was like, you got four burners and it said that one front burner and then it showed that guy and he goes, I'm tired. It's good to be if you cook. Well, uh, Colin Cackett, I love to hear some, uh, I guess you think Shawshank Redemption is fine, but I'd like to hear some alternative titles. Cause I think, I think if they went back and do it again,

they changed the title. I think if you watch it on YouTube, comment what your title would be. Yeah. When did, who did it come out with? Was it nominated for Oscars and stuff or? It was, it didn't win anything though. Cause Forrest Gump was out the same year

and Forrest Gump just cleaned up. And Pulp Fiction was the same year too. So it didn't win anything. It's a hot year. It was a good year for movies. The Oscars were, I mean, they were making. They were cooking. Yeah, theatrical.

They was like, yeah, you're going to the movies. That's what we'll be doing. You'll be going to the movies March 13th. That's right. To watch the breadwinner, make movies that go to the movies. It's a fight, you gotta fight. Yeah, you don't wanna lose the movie theater. No. I'm not trying to. I mean I don't I can't promise that everything will be, you know, I don't know answers but I mean right now I'm like I want it to be

theatrical. Have you seen that video that played the movie theaters where Nicole Kidman walks out and is talking about the movie theater? Have you seen that at all? No, I'd like you to shoot one of those yourself. Just uh, just telling people to get back out there, man I yeah, I want to yeah, I mean that's that's what I kind of enjoyed about making this This is theatrical. I've it will go to something else Eventually eventually but like I think that's what it should be and I actually if I can Eventually. Eventually.

But like, I think that's what it should be. And I actually, if I can, if y'all make this movie a hit, and if I can get it where I can like, say more of exactly what I want, which right now I'm able to kinda, the fact that it's theatrical, I've already turned down stuff that would not be theatrical.

Yeah. That, cause I want it to be theatrical. I want people to, I want their- You want it to be an event. I want it to be an event. Like getting ice cream. I want your whole family, I want your whole family to go to the movie. I want people to, I want their- You want it to be an event. I want it to be an event. I want your whole family, like getting ice cream. I want your whole family to go to the movie, go get ice cream, go your friends, your date,

your husband, your wife. It's like a fun thing to go do, to kind of keep you sane. And then, but if we could do, if I could do it, even the way I would want to do it is I'd want to do it where you don't, it goes away for six months. So you go like the old, the old days, you go to the theater, you can see it and then

you don't see it again for six months until it pops back up on something else. Oh yeah. So then there's, uh, yeah, when I worked at the video store theater, six months later, it come out, um, on video and then a year later it would be on like HBO or something. Why was that? What was the reasoning? Just to build mystique about it? Well with DVD sales and it was like you know you had a lot more producing stuff I think you had to make a DVDs and you had to do all this stuff so it was about your I mean because I think I think we said most people made a lot of

their money on DVD sales like versus box office or whatever. So now you get like one box office and then you only get this other way. You can go to the streamers, but I think there's a way, you know, I mean, look, could you go away where it's, you got to buy it online or you kind of got to go back to this old kind of way where you own this movie versus not owning it. And when stuff's all there, we all want it all to be there, but weirdly enough, it's too much of a choice. It's, we all sit and we'll look at Netflix and click

and we'll spend 30 minutes trying to find something just to go back to Seinfeld again. Right, yeah. And you're, because it's, you kind of just want, you know, let's watch something, HBO, when you're on the road and a movie's on, you're just like, oh, just watch it. Because you just want it chosen for you.

And you're like, let me just go, I don't want to, why am I having to work also? Like why, you know, entertainment should be just like, yeah, oh yeah, I'll go to that. And you're excited about going to that. Now you're like, well, I gotta think about, all right, what movie am I in the mood for? I know this sounds stupid, but everybody's busy, man.

Everybody's got lives and you just wanna decompress and just enjoy something. And now you're like like gotta sit there and Be invested and everything's a thrill it like it's like and I watch all this stuff. I'm not saying I would not create thrillers I like that stuff, but it's like all like the movies that I'm so excited about this movie that we just did I don't think I think it will feel different than anything else. That's great It's a thriller feel different than anything else. That's great. It's a thriller. Who done it? This is an ad by BetterHelp. Workplace stress is now one of the top causes of declining mental health, with 61% of the global workforce experiencing higher than normal levels of stress. Most of us can't just say goodbye

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Apple Music this week. I also appreciate that Apple Music suggested both Aaron and Brian as my next listens. However, what is up with Brian's cover picture on Apple Music? Yeah, I know. Is it the baseball field? No, no. I don't know who this guy is, but people... It's not me. You're wondering. Is it on every one? It's on every little thing. So he's got album artwork, but if you just go to Brian Bates, the artist, that's the picture for Brian Bates. Imagine clicking on that guy and then hearing Brian's voice.

Yeah. You go, wow, that's not what I thought that guy sounded like at all. Yeah. This guy's not good at baseball? Yeah, and you know what? We're not even gonna describe it, because I'd rather you, if you're just listening, you should go look at it yourself.

Look up Brian Bates on Apple Music. That guy's named Brian Bates? Yeah. And all his stuff is kind of the same. Getting older, Uber, dating, gyms, angels. Thank you. What's a thank you? It's the first five minutes. Just thanking everybody. Yeah. Thank you. It's a thank you? It's the first five minutes. Just thanking everybody. Yeah, thank you. It's my closer. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

What is thank you? Do you have a joke on thank you? I mean, I don't know. You have a thank you joke? I think it might have been... Thank you guys on Brian Banks. It might have been when I told a story about holding a door for a soldier in his fatigues.

Oh, okay. He says something and I was like, no, sir. Thank you. Oh, okay. It was just awkward. Oh yeah. Okay. I remember that one.

Well, it's, yeah, it's three minutes long. Yeah. Three minutes of you thinking. So many people to think. Yeah. Let's give it by name. Yeah, he goes. I don't usually do this Don't read everybody's name in this in this building now everybody go around go around and tell your name that I'll thank you Yeah, I got to fill the more time. I think you know Well usually that's true. This is my dry bar

But yeah easy out which you were part of were part of. Yeah, I knew everybody. April Barnett Smith Pede. That's a sentence. I found out who it is by the way. This is Brian Killaby Bates. Oh wow, so that really is his name. Okay. That's Killaby Bates,

which I think will be a good stage name for you. Which is good, because I mean, I bet he knows about you. He gets Google alerts too of just the opposite life. He said, I had to do a show at a Christian bookstore last week. Why do these people think I'm sad? Easier to drive. I got a private jet you're getting older stuff what I'm 28 I'm killing me came for the thank you portion of the imagine he's not gonna say thank you. Do the gems section. All right.

April Barnett Smith peed. That sounds like April Barnett Smith, she peed. That's a sentence. Well then, that's what, yeah. That would be his exact sentence. Yeah. If you said, where's April? What happened here? April Barnett Smith peed?

Yeah. That's what you would say. My 77-year-old mother got a notification that her Gmail account was full. As I was helping her clear out the inbox, I realized most of her largest files were where she had used her cell phone to record her TV screen in portrait mode during Nate's sketches on his first SNL. I deleted them since she can find much better versions online and it freed up at least a couple of gigs of space. That's really sweet. That is sweet. You know what I always think that sometimes because I used to you know you'd always I think I still do because we have Direct TV but

you record you record if you're on late night, if you're on anything, you would record it. And I would always leave them on the DVR and I still got some on the DVR. And even though you're like, I could, I can go watch this anywhere, but it's just something about it being on TV that you're like, oh, it's different. It's different. I want to see even the commercials coming in and out of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy Well, that's very sweet Nick Novelli

almost I Just heard Nate for the first time over the announcements of the Nashville Airport and made my whole day Also, they said someone left a CPAP machine at security just letting air in. Could be me. Thanks, that could be either of us. Yeah, that's a tough one to, you know, it's, yeah. Someone leave a CPAP machine at security.

That's a big thing to leave behind. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Cause it just, y'all have so much stuff to carry. I heard someone left their cane one time. I think we talked about this years ago, but it's like you left your cane and I was, I was thinking, well, aren't you also explain to us why you don't need that cane? Yeah.

Like if you left your cane, do you really need the cane that much? You use that to cut the security line and then you left the cane by accident. You're going to need it to board Southwest first. Yeah, that's true. One time at BNA, the announcer comes on and goes, somebody left the wedding ring at security, you better come get it, you know your wife ain't gonna believe you. Yeah, that's funny.

Everybody laughed, big laugh in the concourse. Yeah. It did. Yeah, I bet they went, I bet he's not the one that found it, but I bet they, they went to him and said, you should do this one. Right, right. And he's like, let me do it.

Yeah. Like, cause that's not just anybody can do that. I thought that was a woman. It was a woman. Oh, okay. Yeah, sorry. But yeah. You're not an impressionist like.

No, no. What this one look like? What? Travis Webber. Come on. I'm a little worried that the entire Nate Land crew will be on the same cruise. Shouldn't at least one person from Nate Land stay behind just in case to carry on the Nate Land legacy?

It's like the State of the Union. Very true. You gotta leave one person in the oval office in case they blow up Capitol Hill. I think if the cruise goes down, that's, it should go down with us. Yeah, everything goes down. I wonder who they, yeah, they're like,

well, who should stay back? Cause it's like, if they're like, if Dusty stays back, you're like, well, do you want the Nightland world to go with Dusty Lee in the direct, like, captaining that ship? Yeah. I mean, I'm already doing the, we're having a good time. So it's like, that's already happening.

Bates might, I mean, you would probably have to stay behind. Yeah, because I'd do everything anyway. Yeah, exactly. Michael Davis, on a recent family trip, you are staying by too Bob, we can talk about that later. We ran out of rooms. Michael Davis, on a recent family trip, my wife remarked, since we are driving in the direction that the earth is spinning, does that mean we are going just a smidge faster than if we were going in the direction that the earth is spinning. Does that mean we are going just a smidge faster than if we were going in the opposite direction? I wanna get y'all's take on this

because I legit did not have a good answer to that. Then it became a family discussion with no good explanation. We came to the right podcast, Michael. Yep. Yeah. I would think so. Let's get into the physics of it all. The wind, is it the wind? It's the, yeah, the wind. I don't think it's the wind. I don't think it's the

wind. I don't think there's wind in space. But I'm saying we're spinning, you're just gonna be, you know, it's like the fans, you know, just it's all going, it's like an airplane when you get headwind or tailwind. You go faster with the tailwind. Right, so that's happening with the orbit around the sun? Generally. Yeah, generally. Yeah. Give or take? You don't know you're going any faster. I have no idea.

I don't know what direction we're going. They're talking about Earth spinning on its axis. Oh! Not orbiting around the sun. I've made that mistake on here before. I'm sorry about that. I'll sit out for a little bit. I'll let y'all take this one.

Yeah, what a... Jeez. Amateur knight. Yeah. Dusty, go ahead. I'm sorry you don't know how to go I'm sorry I'm gonna let you guys have I have the answer but I don't want to say we're not gonna like Aaron doesn't know how to talk to the common folk and you'd be going a little bit faster okay if you're going in that

direction why drive at all yeah if you want if you want it but If you're going in that direction. Why drive at all? You know what I mean? Yeah, if you're going, if you're going, but if you're going faster, you would, you would be able to move without, you would be able to move without. Why not just jump and let the, you know, just jump and let, let it spin around and you know. It's only a smidge, Dusty. Yeah. Because it's a smidge. spin around and you know it's only a smidge dusty yeah it's a smidge that's how we should travel just hops mm-hmm but you gotta take a while yeah if you do hop you could you move forward yeah yeah you think you're going any faster you think it's the same thing well think about it like the walkway on at an airport right mm-hmm I think you're going faster if you're already think it's the same thing? Well think about it like the walkway on at an airport right? I think you're going faster if you're already if it's

moving in the direction you're going in. But I mean you don't even feel it so it might not even be so it's probably the answer is no because I'm saying like but also if it's coming towards you then then what you're driving to is also coming towards you as well. That's going slower. It's spinning a thousand miles per hour. So is it that? I think it's that fast. I think it's a thousand miles per hour. Yeah, but there's real, it's real big.

It's a real big earth. So how many miles is it around the earth? I don't know. 24,000. Cause it's 24 hours. That's how they do it. I saw this today. You know if an atom, an atom, a single atom were the size of a tennis ball, how big do

you think a penny would be? Size of the earth. Size of the earth. Oh really? Isn't that crazy? Yeah. I mean that's how small an atom is. Yeah.

Isn't that fun? That is an atom is. Yeah Not fun. That is fun Why a penny though why not like a rubber little rubber bouncy ball? Well, if it Adams the size of a tennis ball Yeah, but then I'll know what a tennis ball then a rubber little rubber bouncy ball would be like actual representation He's just saying yeah, I think you're. No, I get what you're saying. Why use a flat penny? Well, I think we all know how big a tennis ball is and we all know how big a penny is.

So I think it works pretty great. Yeah. I don't think people are supposed to ask questions after they say that. Yeah, probably so. Yeah, probably so. And then you do. Nah, you're right though.

I watched the whole thing, I remembered one fact from it. I just thought I'd let you on that. That'll get some comments. Yeah, that'll be like, yeah, Dusty's stupid. He doesn't know anything. And then they'll say it to Aaron too. They'll say Aaron had a real bad attitude today. Yeah. He goes, look, I wouldn't.

Knowing and believing are two different things. That is true. Craig Dime. And Craig Nine. We've got a baby boy coming next year and a fun last name. Curious if y'all have any suggestions for us. Nine is a great last name. Yeah. I say first name Seven. Middle name Eight.

Yeah, Seven Nine. Craig Nine. How about 11? No, you know. 11. 11. From roll call. Yeah.

Nine, 11? I don't know. Nine. I think nine, I think German when I hear it right away. I don't think the number right away. But that's just on me. That depends on how Southern you are. Tommy. Nine. Tommy nine. on me. That depends on how southern you are. Tommy? Nine!

Tommy Nine? Tommy Nine? That's pretty good. Like if you go with just a classic name with that last name, like don't try to, you know, fancy fancy. Just go like Daniel Nine. Johnny Nine. Buck Nine, Buck nine. I like Buck nine. Yeah. Yeah. To be Glock. Is Buck nine a real thing? I don't know.

It sounds good. Buck nine is awesome. Yeah. Yeah. It was Buck short for something or is Buck an actual name? Uncle Buck. What was his name in that movie? Barles or something.

Barle's. Buck is Buck Russell. I thought is his name. Buckley Buchanan or even Buckminster. Yeah. Yeah. Buckminster. Nine Buchanan.

Yeah. Buchanan. My friends call me Buck nine. Buck nine's good. Buck nine's good. Yeah. That's awesome. Do that.

Craig. Buck nine. You name your kid buck nine. He's already going to, he's going to be wild. He's going to be, but he's going to, he's awesome. Do that Craig buck nine you name your kid buck nine He's already gonna he's gonna be wild. He's gonna be but he's gonna he's gonna crush it. Mm-hmm Yeah, I'm gonna be crushing he's gonna be he will be a you know here buck nine. I think of a McDouble. Yeah It was on the doorman you as a buck nine I'll go and tell you the Cackett family is not gonna love the buck nines running around They're gonna keep an eye on him Jared Wolf I'd be I'd be willing to bet my professional golf career. Oh

I know. Oh, this is always a yeah. I know who this is. Yeah. Yeah I'd be willing to bet my professional golf career that A.A. Ron cannot throw a golf ball 100 yards. To put that in perspective, most baseball parks range from 110 to 130 yards from home plate to the wall. I'd give him 30 yards, 40 yards max, maybe 50 with a roll out. That's crazy. It's as much as I want to see between Bates and Aaron,

maybe nine holes, make it happen. I want to see it happen too. I got faith in you. Oh, it's a match. I'm sorry, I said it's as much as I want to see between Bates and Aaron, maybe nine holes, make it happen. I want to see it happen too. I got faith in you. Oh, it's a match. I'm sorry, I said it's a match. It's a match I want to see between Bates and Aaron, maybe nine holes. Let's go out, let's take Jared out.

Okay. I'll do it. You can do it, Jared quits golf? Yeah, yeah. 30 to 40 yards max is so, I mean, I could throw a football farther than that. You think I can throw a football farther than I can throw a golf ball?

I think you can do it. That's crazy. I think you can do it. But you think you could hit the fence in a baseball from home plate with a golf ball? But that's 130 yards, potentially. Yeah, what about a base, you can't throw a baseball, you couldn't throw a, I mean, like, you're on ESPN if you can throw a baseball from home plate to-

Yeah, I don't think I can, but I think I can throw a golf ball farther than I can throw a baseball. Really? But not that much farther. Yeah, especially if, yeah, if it gets a little, it's not just about the carry. This is one time I believe in you. Thanks man. The one time. I'm with Jared. Was 100 yards generous to me? Of course. Of course. Yeah, but I agree with him. 30 to 40 yards is like, I could do that left-handed. Is this in the direction of the earth

spin? That's true. That's a good jump when you throw it. What if we let Jared pick which direction he wants you to throw the golf ball? I want to get Jared to decide. I want to see that. Jared, I want you to play nine holes with baits. Imagine playing, you know? No. I don't care for Jared. Jared Wolf? Why? No I'm joking. You like what he plays. Yeah. Yeah. I think I told Aaron a par three course he might get me. I think on a regular golf course though those par fours and par fives would his arm would tire out. But how far are you driving the ball off the tee? I get to play with clubs. We're playing golf, me and Bates are playing against each other.

I'm throwing the ball, he's hitting it with the club. You think who would win with clubs though? I would have to clubs. Bates would probably win at this point with clubs. Yeah, right now if y'all both play clubs. I don't know. Yeah, Bates, you can play longer, you'll be a little better golfer than I am.

Yeah. But if I'm, I have much more control throwing it, obviously anybody does. So I'm saying if I were throwing it and he was hitting with the club. I'm never gonna shank it in the woods I'm never gonna get in a bunker. Yeah, your arm is gonna get tired. Yeah, that's why we'll play nine holes. Yeah, yeah You mean I mean and I have to put yeah, I get down on the ground How far are you how far many it from the tee to a hole? Depends on the hole. You know, 400 yards sometimes.

Way less than that. Sometimes more than that. Yeah. Pretty far. But with the bounce, how far do you think you could get it to? Yeah, but it's not going to... It's coming off 100 miles an hour when it hits the club. And you're throwing it... You're not throwing it 100 miles an hour. But is Brian hitting it 200 yards off the tee? miles an hour when it hits the club and you're throwing it, you're not throwing it a hundred miles an hour. But it's Brian hitting it 200 yards off the tee.

He's going to hit it. Is he hitting the fairway? No, you can't. Yeah. But if, when Brian hits a golf ball, you can't throw it farther than he hit it at by a long shot. I agree with you, but we're talking about the consistency here is what's going to separate me over time. Cause I'm never going to throw it in the woods. I'm never going to,

you know, throw it and it just drops right back down where it was. But if you're in the sand pit, easy to throw it out of there. Exactly. You just kind of. But if it, if it, if it makes you, uh, you almost be like take putting out of it, be like, no matter what, when you get to the green, you both have to play. Like you play on a okay

I both have to putt on the green or just they assume a two putt from the from the green or whatever like you Do want to send me all right? I'll take that yeah. Well, I would say you'd almost just both Yeah, but if you both putt then you you know Do you think you could roll with your hand better than you could putt with a club? Probably. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah We'll figure it out one of these days. We'll get Jared will be here for it. Yeah Summer is here more sun lots of fun things to do outside We're all busy doing outdoor activities what you don't want to be doing during the summer spending hours cooking inside

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at a random club after buying tickets on a whim. One of the comedians we saw was a guy from Tennessee and the only thing I remember about him was he wore a Vanderbilt shirt. Was this likely Nate? Could it have been someone else hmm did he have multiple shirts on rubber bands puka-shell necklace he's all the staff maybe said he doesn't remember any of that yeah it probably is me 2008 when Keith moved there that's the only thing I would say is I don't know it was Keith there in 2008 I don't know if he was there in 2008 I think Keith was there 2008 but Keith is probably wearing a suit. Yeah. Yeah, you know

Yeah, it was you You're you're this is one of those like 99 9 yeah, this is a buck 9 He didn't say well he should have included if it was good or not. Yeah, it did he enjoy that guy. Yeah. I Don't like he left that out. Yeah. Oh, I don't, well I think it was. He left that out to be nice. Yeah, that didn't matter. Yeah.

Yeah, so it probably was. All right, speaking of remembering things from 2008, today we're talking about memory. Okay. Aaron, what's the earliest childhood memory you have? I was on my dad's shoulder. We were at a Lowe's or a Home Depot, and I remember I spit up on my dad's shoulder. I was probably between one and two. Wow. You remember one and two? I have flashes of that. Yeah. Wow. Now, I don't remember anything before or after,

but I vividly remember doing that. Yeah. And then, you know, a lot of times you'll see pictures of yourself as a child, and then I don't know if I actually remember that or Yeah. And then, you know, a lot of times you'll see pictures of yourself as a child and then I don't know if I actually remember that or if I just know from the picture, but I have other flashes, but it wasn't until way later that I can really remember things. But you know, it wasn't just them telling you the story that created it.

No, cause I told my family that recently, they didn't remember that at all, but I remember doing that. Yeah. That's super young. Yeah, but didn't remember that at all, but I remember doing that. Yeah. Super young. Yeah. But that's just one little moment. You know, because you were throwing up food. You remember you were upset.

Yeah. That is the first time you learned that it could, it could be taken from you. I think I was, I feel like about the same age. I have a little scar on my knuckle right here. And I was hanging on a towel rack in the bathroom and it was ceramic tile and it broke and I cut my finger. And I only, I don't, I mean, I only remember like, like you say, like a flash of it,

but I feel like I remember falling. Wow. You're doing pull ups? Oh no, I was like standing on the tub. You're balancing on it. And I was holding it. Oh, okay. And it broke. Wow.

Does your family remember that? Have you ever asked your mom or dad about that? My sister was in the bathtub with me. Oh, okay. Yeah. Is your music? I think so. But I still have this scar. I mean this is, I'm 43 and I still,

you can't see it when it's like this, but when I close it you can still see this scar. Is, you're remembering black and white? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. I mean I was seriously thinking about it. We had a black and white TV. Yeah, we had a black and white TV. Do you remember getting color? And do you remember that day? No, we had color. No, I don't know.

We had a color TV, but your black and white TV was like the kitchen TV. Oh, okay. So it was a TV that you just plugged in, antenna, and it was like, it was a small button. I liked that you were doing like that. Were you winding it up? No, I was like, you picked it up and carried it. like, it was a small- I liked that you were doing like that, where you're winding it up? No, I was like, you picked it up and carried it.

Like, it almost like you carried it. Like, but the black and white, we had one, black and white TV. It is crazy. It's crazy to sit right here right now. And just, we had a black and white TV that was just the kitchen TV. So it was just like, so you could have something on

when you were cooking. Just antennas, just networked. Just antennas, like you just have something on so you're cooking it, and it was all like so you could have something on when you were just antennas just just antennas like you just have something on Yep, so you're cooking it was in the whole and it was all in black and white Wow I mean I was like do you think they sell cars still with no air conditioning? Like my parents bought their first car they bought Was didn't have air conditioning because it was cheaper to buy it without air conditioning I think China makes a truck that's like super like has no frills but you can't get it here. That was like an accessory

then. Yes it was an add-on. My 84 Bronco II had no air conditioner. It wasn't broken. It wasn't built with an air conditioner. 84. Wow. The last holdout to offer a car without air conditioning was the Jeep Wrangler and then they made it standard in 2023. Wow. You can get a car, you can get a 2022 car without air conditioning. Yeah. Yeah. It's uh, so my, I think, I just don't think my memory, I have, I remember, I talk about it in my my act but when my dad brought the Easter bunny home I think I was like five then I kind of vaguely that earlier than that I do think I remember I Remember when Being told I think that I was gonna have a brother Derek. Oh, okay

I think I remember I remember that like but it's like again, Derek. Oh, okay. I think I remember that. But it's like, again, it's like little pieces and parts. And for some reason, I can kind of picture where we were and I kind of remember that, but that's... How much older are you than him? Three, three years. Okay. So Derek's birthday, just had the birthday of Derek.

All right, the birthday of Derek. It was July 9th, so he's 40. He's been on the podcast. Yeah Two minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he was born 82 On me too. Mm-hmm 43. Yeah. Yeah So it's called the reason infants can't remember You can't remember be an infant is it's called infantile amnesia Their brains haven't developed fully formed yet can't remember being an infant, it's called infantile amnesia. Their brains haven't developed fully formed yet. They don't understand language,

so you're not gonna remember something maybe if you don't even understand what's being said. And they haven't developed a sense of self. They don't even know, like do you think Olive knows she's even a person yet? I read that for at first, the baby thinks the mom is part of it. Like it doesn't even understand that the mom is something separate from itself for a while. It understands the dad is something different. What'd she think you are?

Yeah, I don't know, just a guy that hangs around. Wild bear. Hey bear. A lot of hey bears from all of just... Hey bear, hey bear. And then you go... I don't know, but that's, yeah, I don't think, yeah, a sense of self, when does that develop? Not till way later. The babies don't need to see their parents mentally breaking down at first. Yeah, it's a good thing, isn't it? Yeah, yeah.

It needs to be a haze at the beginning. Yeah, yeah. I guess my dad's pretty young, I guess. And then it starts getting clearer. Maybe he's the one that's blurry. It said three to three and a half is like when you first start the building. That's late. Well, mine was three.

My memory, your memory is one and two. No one really believes that. And then. I don't like a cool memory. And there, yeah, it could be two. I could, I don't know exactly. My parents divorced when I was two or three. It's and my parents were married.

And you remember that because they told them it was your fault. Yeah. Yeah. That I actually, that always stick with you. No, I actually don't remember them divorcing at all. That's the only memory I have when they were married. Oh, really? Where is the towel rack breaking and me cutting my finger?

Okay. Yeah. So, wow. Yeah. My sister could have been trying to drown me. I don't know. Yeah. The brains.

It's a good thing you just throw an accusation out there. Yeah. I just don't flesh that out at all. Let's move on real quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your sister went and came and saw Dusty? Or saw Brian? Yeah. Okay. I'm not going to flesh that out at all. Move on real quick. Your sister went and saw Dusty? Or saw Brian? Yeah.

Oh yeah, she probably was trying to drown you. The brain storage capacity is 2.5 petabytes. That's 2.5 million gigabytes or 300 years worth of TV. That's what your memory that's what you can remember? If your brain was fully stored with information yeah. Okay so it's a lot. Yeah. It's a lot of data. Wow a thousand terabytes I could use one of those. You got one in your head. Yeah. So how I wonder how big like that these flashes these memories we have that's probably like a

negligible amount of data, right? Um, but like, that's like a fine grade or whatever. That's a big that's a fair amount of it's a gigabyte. Yeah, that's a gigabyte or two, probably. And then when you if you reach of that's even accurate, right? A lot of kind of create a little bit. Yeah. And then do you fill it up, and then you have to get rid of stuff to get new memories? Is that how it works? I always assume there is an infinite amount of, you could just learn an infinite amount of stuff.

I mean, so far, pretty much has been that. Okay. Like you think somebody's gotten close to filling up their brain? Well, I don't know. I don't know how big a single memory is. So I have no way to tell if this is like a crazy amount of space. Yeah, that's fair. I don't think anybody's gotten close. Don't they say we only use like 10% of our brain? Yeah, but I don't know. Well, you know,

that's like saying, you know, you only use 10% of the roads to get here from your house. You know what I mean? Do you think all the other roads still work you're just not using them all at one time? You think you have good memories? I think I yeah. You mean our memories? Yeah, yeah. Word that a little bit. Yeah, you're right. I mean do you think you have a good memory? They're not all good. Yeah. I always think I don't. And then, but I think we do to, because people always say remembering our acts, like how to remember our standup. I think I've gotten a lot better is I can use my memory. I think I have a lot of good memory of stuff that's like for resourceful things that I will use. I will hang on to little, like I always like love kind of seeing what,

I always, you know when someone tells you like, oh, I bet you're going to get some material out of this and you get a joke out of this thing. And the answer to that is like, you're going, I don't know, I might, but it might be six months from now, it might be two years from now. I don't know for sure. Yeah. It's not like, unless like, you know, someone walks in and does something crazy, like if it's obvious, overall you're like,

maybe, maybe not, I don't know. I think of it like you're adding another little Lego to your set, you don't know what you're gonna build with it, but it's another little Lego piece that you might use. And so you're like, I don't know, I can't tell you. Like I'm just taking, I don't know what I'm gonna, I almost just allow whatever sticks, sticks. And you just go like, I always,

I kind of find it interesting to be like, what's the things that stick with me? And then I go try to like, for some reason, even said vice or it's, you know, like the Bridgestone arena thing was like, for some reason that was always just stayed with me. Like, imagine selling that out. Like, so it's you know like the Bridgestone arena thing was like some reason that was always just stay with me like imagine selling that out like so it's this running thing that was in a memory yeah so that made a nice question but my act but I'm good at like when I once I'm doing my stand-up act I mean I

like yeah if you asked me to go through my stand-up special from last year I don't even I mean I would be like, all right, do the water meter thing and then it's like... What'd you feel like if you got into it? You would find it? Yeah, yeah, but it would be, I've shoved it out. To do multiple hours though, you have to have a good memory. I think every successful comedian with multiple hours has a good memory. Like you might not be able to do the whole thing from, you know, full-time magic or whatever, but you, you did it and then you did another hour and

then another hour and then another hour where it's like to remember all that and remember how you tell the joke from night to night going this is now how it goes. You know, you don't, you don't go up and tell the joke and it's different every night There might be some variation, but you know exactly how it goes Yeah, but isn't it weird that you you remember your first special like I can remember jokes for my first special more than I can from Tennessee kid. Yeah, because you just like you did it for so long. I guess. Yeah, I think so and so you just then once you tape a special, it starts becoming like, you know, up until a special is

like, you don't know where this material, no one's going to see it, you don't know where it's going to be. There's no reason to write new stuff. And then once you make a special, you're like, now it's survival. And you're like, oh, I got to come up with other ideas. And then so you just go. I think it transitioned somewhere in there from short-term memory to long-term memory.

And I don't know if there's something in between short-term memories, you know, stuff that you gotta memorize for a while, but 10 years from now, you're not gonna know your locker combination or something like that. Do you remember your phone number growing up? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, me too. I don't know, locker combination. But you Do you remember your phone number growing up? Yeah. Yeah, me too. I don't know, locker combination. But you had to remember the phone number for a much longer amount of time than your life. We had a great phone number. What was it? Or do you not want to? I think it's-

Is it still your phone number? No, no, no, no. Amazing. I wish it was. Your landline? I would, yeah, if I could get it back, I would 847-2500. 2500. That sounds like a law firm, doesn't it? Call 847-2500. Man, it was a great number. Yeah. 277-0877. That's four sevens too. Yeah. It has a nice rhythm to it. 749-8262.

No, no. This guy has no idea. Because uh, Moore's Lane lot was... But my address was lot 8, Moore's Trailer Park. Now my dad's phone number and address are the same, so I wouldn't say yet. Okay. But what? Was his... Bates just... 8271. I don't know. I have no idea. Were you about to say... 4? K.L. was there in the letter.

Here on Seinfeld, that was was a number you call Peggy. I never understood that. 8271. Yeah, that's it. It's 555, which is what most TV shows use for prefix, but I don't know why they chose to do it. KL5. I thought someone used to say used to do it like that. I don't to say their the letter. I've never heard of a letter in a phone call. I just remember they do it on Seinfeld and I just don't, and I thought.

Well you can if you like, if it spelled something. Right, yeah. Right. 8271, that was it, sorry. Okay. Now it's coming back to me, I gotta, I gotta. Whew. There we go.

I gotta. Whew. There we go. It's my first memory. We don't attempt to store information in our own memory the same degree that we used to because of something called the Google effect. Our brains have learned that, look, we can just Google it and we can get the answer so we don't have to memorize all this stuff.

Whoa. You're not always going to have a calculator in your pocket. Yeah. I used to say that all the time. Whoa, you're not always gonna have a calculator in your pocket. Yeah So we pay less attention to life itself because and become worse at remembering events from our own lives because And our brain we think we could just go look it up. So a guy born in the 30s It's gonna have a way better memory than a guy born in the 90s just because I think I do yeah Yeah, just because they they know how to I do have a good memory. Yeah, do you really? He's got an unbelievable memory. Well, that's journal every night. That's kind of cheating. Well, that does help I admit Yeah, I look back so that's that's that's so much discipline to do that

I think well the disciplines a separate separate trait but I know, but it's to add to it, but his memory. It's because Brian's never been an alcoholic. Well, it's true to that. Yeah, there's still time. But he's, Bates is like the best, I used his memory as, it's like a power to me. It's like a superpower to me. He remembers, because we can, he'll remember where we were in what city, like we were doing this and that and blah,

and all this. You remember like old bits of his that he. Yeah, I'm really good with association somehow. I can. So you have the Bates effect, not the Google effect. Yes. If you give me like one detail about something, I can usually remember, oh yeah, that's when I was doing

this and that was that, and I can put it all together. So probably when you read through your journal and it's just a few facts about the day, you probably start to remember other things around those facts, right? You can kind of remember more about the day. Is that true? Yeah, and usually like on the radio,

when they, have you ever seen the contest where they guess the year, and they'll give you a song, a movie or whatever. I can usually do it just like that. Really? So are you really good at trivia? You got a real phenom on our hands here. You're being underutilized.

I've always used it. Okay. He's overutilized. Okay. You've exploited it. Yeah, I knew it was there. That's why I brought him to S. Okay. You've exploited it. Yeah, I knew it was there. That's why I brought him to Saturday Night Live when we did it. I was like, that's easy.

I want somebody to remember this. Well, I knew that I couldn't, like, I would forget stuff because you're in it or whatever, and I knew the best person to bring was him. That's awesome. But I'm not great with, thank you, I'm not great with short-term memory, like names. I'm not great at remembering people's names or... Name? I want you to, we'll test this right here, I want you to name three names from the comments that we read earlier in the podcast today. Now you just said he wasn't good with names. You compiled these, but I just want to test this. Okay. Colin Cackett.

Okay. Craig Nine. Yes. And Jared Wolf man that's pretty good can you name two more I don't think cuz those are the ones we kind of talked about come on there was that first guy was Adam like pretty close to like two famous people. Nick Novelli. Oh, that was on there too. But again, all that I'm based because he said it was almost like Nick Novicki. But that short term. It doesn't matter how you remembered it.

You remembered it. That's better than I would have done. Do you remember the guy's name that went to New York? The last one we read? I don't. This guy was a president and also just became iconic one year. Gerald Floyd. Oh yeah, I wouldn't have got that. Come on.

Talking about George Floyd and Gerald Ford. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Two famous people. Yeah. I mean, in my class reunion this weekend, I had to dial it down a little bit, just to make myself creepy. Oh, yeah. When I know more about them than they do, like, first off.

I mean, yeah. You're like, I'm the famous guy here and I know more about you guys. Yeah. I'm the public figure of this. Yeah. Well, I mean, again, he remembers when he recognized the person from the crowd at the restaurant. That's one of the more impressive things on earth.

You're good with faces too? You remember people? I used to be. I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm pretty good at it. But I mean, if I could bring him with me everywhere and have me in every meeting, it would be completely worth it.

Because he would remember every single thing. You're a stenographer that just sits there in the corner with a ring. I watched you on, I mean, SNL was only what, two years ago, your first one? So it's not like it's a long time ago. But on Dan Patrick, you were talking about the George Washington sketch.

And I remember that day getting there and you told us, you're like, we got this sketch about George Washington I have to say so much. Yeah, like I have a lot to say. Yeah, it's just funny how that Yes, I kind of think crazy. Yeah, because you talked by far more than that one in any other sketch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, I would I would literally as the only reason I mean the owner But that was the reason I brought him to Saturday Night Live

was because I knew we'd wanna talk about it and I needed, and I was like, so who would be good? I'm very impressionable. I go back to him with jokes, I'll call him with that, like when we're trying, because now it's like, I've used stuff so many, not saying it's just for me, but maybe it's because I know that he's so good at this

and I need his help because we're having to create so much other stuff to be like, hey, did we do this or did we talk about this? I mean, how many times do you go, do we talk about this in the podcast? And he says, yes. Yes. It's every, that's nuts.

But if anything, go, have we talked, you know, we did talk about, we did it with that. That alone, that's your proof. I do find now we're at episode, what, have we talked? Yeah, we did talk about it. We did it with that. That alone, that's your proof. I do find now, we're at episode, what, 261 or something? It's getting more and more, it's getting harder. Like, because we do the episode. You're running out of petabytes. Yeah, then I go watch it.

So I basically see it twice, but it is getting harder now. We've done so many episodes. If you say, hey, did we talk about this? Sometimes I'm like, I think we did, but... Have you ever had a memory that you're convinced is true and then you find out that the memory's wrong? Mandela Effect. That's what they call that. I'm sure I have. Well, Mandela Effect is a collective remembering something that wasn't true, right?

But you're on personal. Yeah, I think so. I think you do. Like, I think there's stuff in here in general. Like, I think a story can get in front of a memory. I've had stuff, I go, I swear on my life, and then it's like, roll tape, and then it's the complete opposite. Yeah. Oh, man.

How did I get that wrong? That's why eyewitness stuff is tough. Yeah, I had a couple of things here about false memories and how you can trick people into believing. I was trying to segue. Good job. One of them is they convinced, sounds mean, kids from 11 to 14 that they committed a crime

that they didn't do. They asked their caregiver, their parent or whoever, for one real childhood memory that was kind of maybe traumatic or something. They go in and talk to them about that. It builds trust. And then they're like, and then you remember you committed this crime and you did this, this, this. And many of them, I guess I did. And they start thinking

they really did do this. Did that to Brendan Dassey and making him a murderer, man. Yeah. Remember that? I didn't watch it, but I did hear about it. But yeah, why would they do that? I think it's just psychological torture. It's an experiment to show how we can be tricked into false memories. And you imagine they shouldn't do that to kids just to go, what is this for? The Nate Land podcast. We're trying to learn about memory for Nate Land.

He says, so they can talk about it and they might not get to it. It might or might not get to it. Barely did get to it. This one's a little bit less mean. They asked participants, adults, I guess, to watch a video of a car accident. And just the way they worded it,

they asked some people, how fast was the car going when they smashed into each other? And then the other they worded it, they asked some people, how fast was the car going when they smashed into each other? And then the other one, they said, how fast is the car going when they collided? And the people who the word smash was used said it was going faster. They were going faster than the word collide.

Wow. Yeah. And so can this be something that you, can memory be something that you work on? Can you work it like a muscle? I think so. I've learned, you know what I've been doing, what I've done for the past few years with my memory is because I can tend to get hung up on something and where I'll be, you know,

I could be either frustrated or I could be it's on my mind, whatever it is. And I give myself and I go, all right, I'll even tell myself I go, you know what? This is something I won't even think about tomorrow. And then I just move on. And if I think about it, if it comes back to me, then I'll go solve whatever, do something. But I've started doing that so much that I,

now I can tell myself I won't remember this tomorrow. And then I don't even like even put any weight into it because I already, I've done it so much that I know I did it on stage when I would, I would catch myself back, I remember the show in Houston where I kept myself like being on stage, like all my mind's wandering too much when I was on stage.

So I started, that was the first time I learned that you could do it. It was almost, it was so crazy. Like I was like, all right, anytime my mind starts to wander on something else, I yank it back to the story that I'm telling. And then I get exact, so then I start picturing the story. And I see, I'm talking about a donkey jumping off a high dive.

I'm picturing a donkey. I do it every single night. And so now when I'm doing these stories, when I'm telling this stuff, I'm kind of just do it without even thinking about it. Cause I've worked on it. But that was something that I truly worked on to yank myself into like, this is the thing that I'm doing now.

With the acting stuff, I kind of had it, because I was doing shows, and then I would come back and have to remember these lines. And so it's like, you just kind of go like, all right, well, this is this kind of thing. Now, it's like almost like going like, all right, I can remember all this stuff, but how do I just,

you know, I don't know, use it for that, getting that mindset right there. I'm still not like, it bleeds, I'm not great at all of it, but the memory, you can, you can go, and some of you can go like, yay, I'm gonna see if I remembered this. That's fun, it's a fun, it's like a game. You just go like, I'll remember it if it matters to me.

Not like it's important, like saying, remembering someone's name is not important, like all that stuff, but you're meeting so many people that you try to, try to just put, because you can put it in there and then just shove it back in a weird way. You know, you can now, you know, you're like, all right, I'll just put it, let me put this thing in.

I remember that. Now let me shove it back. And I might need some help getting it started. But once you get it started, you're like, well, I didn't lose it, I just kept it there. That's like listening to your old act and then being able to go do it. Like what you were saying, you could do that.

Cause you just learn to like shove stuff back to go like, I don't need this right now. So this name or this whatever, this restaurant we're eating at, I don't need to remember this right now. Cause I have other stuff I'm trying to remember. But if you're a foodie, that is a thing that you're into. So you won't remember. Like someone tell you about a restaurant, you won't remember. Like someone would tell you about a restaurant.

I don't remember any restaurant ever. Someone's was the best dinner you've ever had. I have no idea. McDonald's. Like it is, but it's like, I don't, you know, but try like try. Hot dog in Knoxville. Yeah, it was hot dog in Knoxville was the best,

but and there was one time a pizza in Chicago once that. But once you started jogging it all starts coming back. But, and there was one time a pizza in Chicago once that. But- Once you start to jog it, it all starts coming back. Yeah, it all starts coming back. Yeah, exactly. But you just shove it back, and it's almost like it doesn't leave, it's just there. And then-

If you're asked the right question, we can pull it out. It's like a filing cabinet, you start digging through it, and you go, oh, here it is. Find it. How do you think, look at your act. How come in my 23 years of doing comedy, I just talked about on the last special

of being a water meter reader. 23 years of comedy, I've not said I'm a water meter reader. And then I, upon, I happened to, upon, on one of my, is that how you say it? Happened to upon. I happened upon. I happened a pond. I happened to a pond. Happened a pond.

I happened a pond. Oh, I said to. A memory, yeah, you said I happened to a pond. I happened to a pond. I'm tracking. Yeah. Yeah. I smell what you're stepping in, keep going. Yeah.

Yep. To a memory to go of the last real job I had before comedy. You would think that would be out of the gate. My first joke would have been, I'm a water meter reader. But it's not. It takes 20 plus years for me to tell you my job I had that I left to go do comedy. That's crazy.

The next special you're gonna have a joke about what you look like. You know what I mean? You're really digging into it. Yeah, well we've done that. But that's why most of it is that. That beginning stuff, the beginning stuff is about you, what you look at, because that's all you can think of.

My first jokes, I didn't say my dad was a clown until I was five years into doing comedy, six years doing comedy, or he's a magician or any of this stuff. Like it just didn't occur to me. It was just really physical like things. It was only, cause it's- I know what you're thinking. Yeah, yeah, cause it's the only thing you even really know.

Cause you haven't even learned how to get back into your memories. But like with standup, you go, all right, that's why you have a joke that you maybe have never made it on a special. The joke, I had one special, the joke about the White House, or there should be a fence around the White House. That was a joke that I would do

only when I was rebuilding new material. And I never really did it anywhere. And then, so it was like, it was like, it never fit. And then one day it did. One day it fit where it became a special, which I always think is fun. I always look at that joke and I'm always like, look at you.

I'm always proud of that joke. Like I always think that joke, man, just thought like, hey, I'm not a star. I'm just like, I'm on the bench. I'm here for what I'm needed. And then you find a place for it. Second string quarterback. Yeah, and you're like, I'm like proud of that job.

I'm like, look, I go, look at you, man. You just hung around. But yeah, but it is crazy how you're, you know, how could you have, how could I be doing comedy 23 years and still have a joke about something I did before? Like it's insane. It shouldn't, that doesn't make sense, but it does. You know, it does make sense.

Yeah. I did wanna mention real fast, one more fact. There's something called Hopper's domestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory where people, you just name a date, August 14th, 1994, they can tell you the day of the week, everything they were doing about that day. They just remember everything?

And there's like a hundred people in the world maybe that have this. One of them is Mary Lou Hinner, the actress. She can tell you every day of her life. And then one of them's a little- What she been in? Taxi and some other stuff. I remember her. Yeah.

Can't remember. Yeah. Well, yeah. Are you saying it's my time? Some other stuff. Oh, yeah. I remember. Yeah, I do now. Now I can. I can. Yeah. Yeah. And there's a local kid who's come to some of my shows that has it. His name's H.K. Derryberry.

And he's he's got a lot of He's got some disabilities. He's blind. He's got some other stuff going on, but he could tell you any He he could recite my whole act from 15 years ago Oh really he came to one of Henry shows that I was on and and he's he's amazing Well, sounds like a nightmare guy to have in the crowd. Well, all truth is his laugh. I'm so glad I didn't say anything. No, it was unusual. Okay.

And I didn't know and I almost come, I'm so glad I didn't because I hadn't, I couldn't see, I just heard some usual laugh and it was him, but super sweet guy. And he has a mentor who takes care of him. But he remember man. Blessing and a curse, huh? I guess so.

Remembering everything. Yeah. Yeah it would be it would be hard. I do I remember a lot of stuff because I think because I can tell sometimes like with business stuff like someone will be like well we're doing it this way and I'm like yeah but you said we should never do it that way and they're like did I? And I'm like yeah yeah I go because it because it stuck with me and I'm like, yeah, but you said we should never do it that way. And they're like, did I? And I'm like, yeah, yeah. I go, cause it, cause it stuck with me and I worked very, let me call my friend Brian Bates real quick and he'll tell you, but I've been in my head, but

I think is it's hard. It's something I have to really deal with. Cause I'll have a hard time letting that go. You know, I had to like, uh, you know, where you could go, it's like something that could shape you. I had it like, you know, where you could go, it's like something that could shape you. We were like, if me being clean, right? It's like we couldn't watch stuff cursing and all.

It was all very, and I took it all very, very serious. And then so like, if my sister, younger, like, and she's like, oh, we watched this movie when I was a kid. And I'm like, well, we weren well, you're not allowed to watch it. And I would take it, like I've built my whole life around the fact of these rules. And so then when your parents or any of them, and I'm not blaming my parents,

but your parents can be like, well, you know, cause life just changes and you become more relaxed. I sometimes have a hard time being like, yeah, yeah, but that's not fair. Me and Laura can get in a fight and then later on and be like, remember, but you said this. And then she's like, I know, but it's different. I go, I know, but I dwelled on that and never forgot it.

And I adjusted around that. And then I can get frustrated when later on the person's like, yeah, man, but I wasn't really. And I'm like, yeah, yeah. And you're like, well, I, you know, that was, you know, it was like, I had a joke about my dad told me don't sleep with socks on because my feet can't breathe. Yeah. Well, I don't because weirdly enough, like, why does that stick?

Why does that stick with me? If you ate first, you're last. It's that whole thing from town. Yeah. It's like my dad did stuff like that to me, too. The socks, no socks in bed. I remember that. No reason why. But, you know, my dad told me that.

He said, well, you're going to be spending a night with the guys, you know, and you don't want to have your socks on in bed, like it's some kind of weak thing. Do you remember you told me your dad told you that when you start your car, let it sit for a while before you drive? Yeah. And then you found out he completely made that up?

Yeah, well, he just, I think it's a good practice, but my dad just doesn't, my dad cranks up his car, he's not even running yet, he's already pulled out. He told me that if the gas cap is not attached to the car, then you should put it on top of the gas pump instead of putting it on your car. Because if you forget to put it back on,

you can go, oh, I remember I put it on that at the gas pump. But if it's on your car, you drive off and it flies off. And then we went and he put it on top of the car one day. And I go, well, you told me to put it on the gas. He goes, ah, you'll be so far down the road. You won't even remember where you put it. And it's like, well, I built my life around it. Yeah, that's exactly it.

Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly. That's unbelievable. That feels it feels good just to hear someone else say it. Yeah. To be honest. Yeah. Is that so that's that is why is that? Because that's it is like it means it means nothing to the older person, but it means everything to the person that's- Because we think our parents are wise and really, and they may be, but really they're just people.

Shows how impressionable you are to our kids. Yes. But you're like, oh, that was a core tenet of how I think about the world. But it's weird that you were like- And you choose to throw away for you. Yeah, and that's why it's almost unfair to, even as a parent, like you gotta go like, well, how am I supposed to know you would like, yeah. And you choose to throw away for you. Yeah, and that's why it's almost unfair to even as a parent,

like you gotta go like, well how am I supposed to know you're gonna, for 46 years you're gonna still be bringing up the socks thing. Yeah. Like that was one night and I'm like, I don't know, I don't know why. Yeah. All the other advice they give you I forgot. Right.

Some reason I don't sleep with socks on. Yeah. Yeah. That's funny, the guy, that's so fun. All right That's it yeah, I thought Mary Lou Hinner was in Uncle Buck. Yeah, so it wasn't even who you're yeah Well when I saw her I go well, she was in Uncle Buck and I had to look it up and she wasn't So I just wanted you guys to know that. I dipped away for a second because I needed to know if she was in Uncle Buck. I remember my kindergarten class in alphabetical order.

What? All the people? Like now. How many people? I don't know, I haven't counted. Home school? I thought I could say it. No, no.

Home school. It's just my siblings. But you know. Wow. No, I'm just kidding. It's just my siblings. But you know, but I'll lose my keys once a week. We're saying 20 people roughly? About 20 people. Yeah, okay. Now it's about a quarter. Wow.

Not first grade, but just kindergarten, I can do it. Wow. Yeah. Memories weird. I don't remember the space, the shuttle crash. The Challenger? The Challenger. And I think I was in first grade.

And you're probably watching it live, right? I would think so, but a lot of people will remember that kind of stuff. And they'll be like, younger will be like 9-11. I was in first grade. They will to the TV and all this. But like for my age, the space one was the, I was in first grade, but I don't remember.

Do you remember Balloon Boy? I remember Balloon Boy. I remember, you know what I remember is in the well. I'm blanking. Jonah? No. Baby Jessica? Baby Jessica.

I just talked to someone about that. I think the girl that was doing my makeup on the movie, cause she brought up baby Jessica and he's young. You're like, you don't remember. Baby Jessica is one of my, that's my first like memory of news story. I don't know, I've never heard of that. Oh, a whale, not a whale.

I'm just trying to think that she'd get eaten by a whale. But she fell down a whale. That's what I thought you were talking about. Like a blue whale. Okay, all right. Okay, no. No, I get it. Well, I say it the same way too, but I'm just trying.

I was thinking a whale the whole time and I was like, what happened? But now I remember the girl going down in the well. Do you remember it? Yeah. I don't, I probably remember it because people have talked about it since then. But baby Jessica was insane. It's big.

Like I remember that it was a giant, giant, I mean, it was the biggest story. I remember the challenger because of the Garth Brooks song, the dance. So you don't remember it. You don't remember. No, but I feel like I have a memory of it. You were four when it happened. Yeah, I feel like I have a memory because of that video. Yeah. That music video.

Yeah. Yeah. You want to tell where you're at this weekend? Yeah, we're going back out. We've still been. Big Dumb Eyes tour. Yeah, we've been out. But now the shows are actually going to be good.

Yeah. This Wednesday, Orange Beach, Alabama. I was just there. The Wharf. Then Raleigh, North Carolina. MSG is going to be September. I don't want to be skipping over stuff.

Saginaw. go to my website check it all out we're having a blast out there on the road good time this I got some fun stories this time I think I got one of I mean you said I think I one of my better stories okay on this what I said, I think I got one of my better stories. Okay. On this. Something new. In this hour that I close on. Oh yeah, yeah.

This weekend, this Friday, Saturday, I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Looney Bin. All right. Two shows Friday, two shows Saturday, love that club. July 25th, I'm in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. All right. July 29th. You'm in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. All right. July 29th. You seeing Toby? Mayor Toby?

I don't know. I'm doing that with Derek Stroop and- I'm gonna tell him to come say hi to you. Andrew Stanley. July 29th, my show, Brian Bates and Friends, here at the lab at Zany's. And August 1st and 2nd, I'm in Goshen, Indiana at the Funny Farm Comedy Club. Stroop is in Lebanon the night this comes out. The 16th. Yeah, I don't Goshen, Indiana at the funny farm. Shroop is in Lebanon.

The night this comes out. The 16th. Yeah. I don't know if it's sold or not, but just people know that at Cedar city brewing company. I will be is Aaron Weber's parking Hawkins this weekend. Aaron Weber will be in Chattanooga, Tennessee at the comedy catch July 17th, 18th, 19th.

Five unbelievable hot shows. Come on out to the Comedy Catch in Chattanooga. Good luck selling as many tickets as I did. Okay. I need it. I got three dates that I'd like to share. This weekend, July 20th, I'll be in Winnipeg at the Great Outdoor Comedy Festival. Great festival. July 22nd, I'm be in Winnipeg at the Great Outdoor Comedy Festival. Great Festival.

July 22nd, I'm here at Zany's. And then July 25th, I'm in Las Vegas. Alright. So, we're at Vegas. I don't know. It's not in my calendar and we've looked it up before, but I always forget. Just walk around and you'll find them. There you go.

Yeah. It's on my website, DustySlay.com. You guys do the work. Find me. Yeah, it's on my website. DustySlay.com. You guys do the work. Find me. Yeah, I'm out here. DustySlay.com. It's on there. Type it in. Yep. And it'll that's where you got to go anyway. If you want to get some tickets, I'll be there. It's going to be fun. They're going to be hot, hot shows. Nice. All right. Glad to be back. Excited. Wet heat July 29th. Wet heat July 29th. We'll be talking about it more and more. Last but not

least. Wet heat. Wet heat July 29th. All right. We love you. Have a great week. See you. See ya! Hey! Hey!