The Nateland Podcast - 265: #265 - Teachers featuring Mike Vechhione & Philly

Episode Date: August 13, 2025

This week, the BAND is back together and they're joined by friend and fellow comedian Mike Vecchione. The guys debate the difference between Cracker Barrel and Waffle House, Nate introduces us to the newest member of the family, and Mike shares stories from his previous career as a Special Education teacher. Rocket Money- Rocketmoney.com/nate Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to RocketMoney.com/NATE today! Aura Frames: AuraFrames.com Exclusive $35-off Carver Mat at AuraFrames.com. Promo Code NATE.  Pestie: https://pestie.com/nate For 10% off your order, go to https://pestie.com/nate This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp- BetterHelp.com/Nate As the largest therapy provider in the world, BetterHelp can provide access to mental health professionals with a diverse variety of expertise. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at BetterHelp.com/Nate  #ad

Hello, folks, and hey, bear, welcome to the Nateland podcast. I'm Brian Bates, joined today with Dusty Slay. He's back. Aaron Weber, as always. Nate will be here. He is on his way, so don't turn it off yet. and our good friend Mike Vecke Young. Hey, thanks for having me back, guys.

It's been a while. It's been a while, yeah, since I've been invited back. But thank you for having me finally. First time on the podcast since the release of low-income whites. Yes, and there's a lot down here. And there's also a lot in the north. Also, I'm not saying that it's just down here. Higher percentage up there, right?

Yeah, I think it is. Did you look that up? No, I think we just know. I think I just, I kept calling your, I was here at the night of your taping, and I kept calling it sarcastic. I thought you were saying amazing for a while. Were you not? We were pressing flesh. We're networking.

And you said amazing a little bit without making eye contact with me and looking for someone more famous in the room. Over the top of your head. Yeah. It was amazing. It was a great, special. But Aaron used a better term, I think, than sarcastic. I don't know sarcastic's right.

He said tongue and cheek. Right. and did i do we have this conversation i was texting with you one day oh okay okay and and about how funny it was we broke saying that and we were talking about the punching down on the south yes yes the reason i think it doesn't bother me is because it's very transparently tongue and cheek right right or maybe just having some fun just an outsider poking a little fun just a man who walks into a waffle house who's never been to a waffle house before he's a little shock by it's a little fun ribbing going back and forth. It's being playful. When was the first time you went to a Waffle

house? When I was in Mississippi with Nate. How old were you? On a tour? 50. Wow, it's your first time. First and a Mississippi Waffle House. Mississippi Waffle House. That's baptism by fire. You even miss the heyday of the Waffle House. I don't even feel like it's the same as it used to be. Mississippi, I bet it is. But does it? It depends, I guess, where, yeah. The whole thing is it always stays open. So even during a hurricane, the hurricane might be the only reason it closes, the different levels of the hurricanes, I think.

Isn't that true? You tell how bad the hurricane is by if the Waffle House closes? It's a metric that FEMA uses. Yes. It's a metric. I remember the first time I thought, wow, this COVID thing might actually have some wheels

was in rural Georgia, I went to a Waffle House and they were takeout only. Wow. And I was that, I don't even, they were set up to do that. I didn't think they believed it was real. No, well, that's when I was like, oh, man, this is great.

Well, they didn't believe it was real, right? The government was forcing. The government was forcing it. We still don't know it was real. Yeah, right. The Waffle House wasn't like, oh, we're scared. Yeah, no, the Waffle House isn't scared anything, especially not cholesterol. Government overreach again.

That's what I think. It was, okay. Do you remember where in Miss, I might have been, well, was that with you guys? In Mississippi, I don't think so. I haven't been on the road very much with you. Yeah, I guess that's true. I did the Lexi, Mississippi, Nate, last year, and we stopped at a Waffle House, but I don't guess you were with us.

I went with Travis. So that's a guy you want to go to a Waffle House with. He's got a knife in his boot. He's ready for anything, that guy. He's ready for action. I loved him. I liked him immediately when I met in Travis. Did you find the Waffle House to be dangerous?

Did you feel safe in there? I felt safe with that manager walking around, talking at high volumes to a way. I could hear everybody's conversation. Oh, yeah. He had 1,100 keys on his, just walking around. That's a man with responsibilities. God, I've got a lot of locks to unlock. I love it.

You got a lot of keys on your key chain? I do got a lot of keys. Yeah, you have it in your pocket. I got a lot of keys. I got a lot of locks. You don't have to show it to the camera, but I'd like to hear what kind of... Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, I got a lot of keys. You know what all of them are for?

Well, yeah, I mean, I got, you know, I got some... These are my land keys. So I got my four-wheeler. I've got the lock to the gate. You've got them organized. This is a couple of shed keys. Okay. Is that a Tennessee Falls?

And these are some shed keys out there. Still land. Still land. And then this is the cabin door. Oh, okay. And then, yeah,

this is my post office box. Where's the key for the bunker? Well, you know, you don't keep them all in one kitchen. That's a thumbprint. You got shed, shed, shed, cabin,

shed, you know, these are my Nashville key. And then we just bought a house so we have new keys now. Right. And the car keys in it. So I'll get.

Is that Tennessee balls? Yeah, but it's, you know, it's a pharmacy care of Tennessee. I don't, you know, I don't use them, but I came with a key chain. Oh, okay. I thought, you support Alabama, Auburn, and now Tennessee. No, no, this is a pharmacy, which I also don't support. You get your medications from the underground? Yes.

Underground meds? Yes. I like it. Yeah. Well, but I immediately love the waffer. It's like a tribute to the waff. I'm sorry. I'm trying to over-examine.

plane it's it's a tribute to the waffle house really i i enjoyed it uh this guy was at the counter first thing uh the manager said he's like hey he comes to see him he goes they'll let anybody in here huh oh yeah i love that classic southern joe i love it classic southern joe i love everything about it truckers just let anybody in here these days and then i was on the road somewhere else and i went to a waffle house and they saw me at the show and they bought me my meal it's friendship at the waffle house and have you paid it forward yet does you pay it forward in some way next time you go to the waffle house no the next time i have to get somebody else's meal at the waffle house and uh do you guys uh divide it between the waffle house people and the

cracker barrel people is there a big divide between those two my dad is a big waffle house guy and he doesn't go to cracker barrel obviously i'm a cracker barrel guy you know uh love cracker barrel i do both but cracker barrel's a little bit more upscale i'm dinner you think so oh yeah is it the three market that's attached on thursday oh you do You're doing a corporate? He's in a national ad campaign for Cracker Barrel. Yeah. He's literally the face of Cracker Barrel.

Wow. But my dad is always, my dad's always been more of a Waffle House guy, but personally, I'm not into the whatever Waffle House is using to cook with these days. It doesn't do me well. It ain't butter. It's lard. It may look like butter, but is it lard? It's something.

Because that's actually reverse good for you. It's not, whatever they're using is not good for you. It's carnivore. Yeah. Yeah, but it's, I'm just saying, I don't, I don't feel good. I still love the taste of Waffle House, but I do think it's undergone a change. Yeah. Yeah, it definitely doesn't have that big health kick that Cracker Barrel has, but it's still pretty good.

Cracker Barrier has a campfire menu that's pretty healthy. I learned all about it from you. It's pretty healthy. I would say there's more of a situational divide between Cracker Barrel and Waffle House. I think a lot of people go to both, but you go there in very different times of your life. Oh, really? Yeah, you don't go to, like, Cracker Barrel, I think they're open kind of late, but you're not going to a Cracker Barrel at three in the morning.

But you're saying Waffle House is a young man's game. Well, it's a young man or just what you got going on that day. Cracker Barrow does serve beer now. So you can pre-game at the Cracker Barrow and then go to Waffle House later. Before you shop at the flea market that's attached to it? Is that what you're saying, Dustin? Well, yeah, you get loose, get loose in there, yeah. Eating and shopping?

Yeah. Buy yourself at American Flack? I want an electric ball with a ferret wheel attached to it. Yeah, a ferret tail. Yeah. You've seen those things? I have two at my house. Wilson County Fair starts this week.

So you can win one there. Well, welcome, Mike. We're excited to have you hear me. Well, thank you for having me. Little Nateland News. Nate Land presents the showcase, season three is here. We all hosted this Friday. Tune into Nateland YouTube channel for the premiere of Kellynne Erskine.

I almost said it wrong. Kellan's great. Very funny. It's super funny. Very funny guy. He had the bike lock joke that went super funny. Remember the joke about him with a bike lock? Very funny.

I could have said it before y'all did the phonetics. They got in my head. They were like, say it like this. Oh, they had it written out on there for you? Yes. I know Kellan. But I got in my head. It's a hard last name.

He knows it's a hard loss. If they didn't wrote it, I would have said it perfectly. Yeah. But, you know, Adrian's got to have something to do. That's okay. He's dealt with that his whole life. Yeah. He knows.

Anyway, Dusty, we've not seen you since Wet Heat premiered on Netflix. I've been out and about. Yeah. I went to New York for a couple of days. I went to L.A. for a few days. I've been out and about. And what's the reception been? I think it's been good.

I mean, it seems good. Yeah. You know, I'm excited. I had two shows this weekend. I did Atlanta, Atlanta Symphony Hall. And I did a theater gig in Huntsville. I forgot what it was called. but it was attached to the Warner Von Braun Center.

It's great. Great shows. What do you think of New York as a city, Dusty? And just be honest. I like it. I do like that I don't live there. And I... You don't like it that much then.

He's been as honest about New York as you were about... You're being positive about being negative. I like to visit. You like not living there is what you said exactly. I like visiting. It's fun to breeze in. Bounce around the city a little bit. Eat some food.

Have a good. time and then get out to a bit more of a relaxed environment. Yeah. Right. Likes being there loves leaving. That's how I feel. Yeah, that's the way I feel. I do like it. You feel that way also?

100%, dude. Yeah. I do like it, though. I do enjoy being there. I think it's really fun, but I do like, you know. What is it that you hate about living there? Just the people on top of each other? It just never ends.

It's an endless city where it feels like you can't really get away from it. I wonder if I'd like it more of our thinner. I honestly think if I lost a hundred pounds, I'd like it way more. Really? Because you can maneuver more in the tight spaces? You're always in the way. There's nowhere to just like stretch your arms out and scream. Right.

I never feel like I have just like a space. You're doing that a lot around here? Yeah, but there's plenty of places for me to do that if I'd like to. Yeah. Well, in New York, people just do it on the street. Yeah. Or in the subways. They just scream.

I mean, I do like it. There is something I like. like to get in the subway. It's like it's fun to zip around. I like to get in a cab. I love doing all that. Right. I think it's fun. How's your yelling? Do you like to yell at a stranger? I'm not much of a yeller. I yell at my kids a little bit. Mostly in the car. I like, uh, I go to, I went to a restaurant one time and they were like, those servers were taking turns like singing show tunes. Right. I was like, this is great. I'm into this. Yes. You know? Yeah. But yeah, I do like, I like a more relaxed environment. You go to a really nice restaurant and

New York, and the table is about as big as my laptop, and then there's another table right next. You know what I mean? Everything's packed. They're all up in people's business. Yeah. And I feel like if I, I wonder how much of that is, I didn't grow up that way versus I'm taking up more space than I should in this place. It's almost being at a Waffle House on a Sunday morning at the countertop. Yeah, or Saturday at midnight or something.

Yeah. But get involved in someone else's conversation. Do they want you to do it? I think so. I think it's fun. I'll try it next time. Bates, your thoughts on New York City? I remember one time with my mom to New York on some type of trip,

and we had to share a table with some lady on her work break, like literally staying both eat our pizza or whatever with another lady. And my mom had to start talking to her. I don't think that woman wanted us to get a conversation. She wanted to get on with her life. But that's okay. But that woman probably needed that. She probably needed a little southern love instead of just,

you know and you take a risk when you engage but even if it doesn't pay off it still pays off because you took the risk you know what I mean how many years have you lived there 20 wow wow so this is the kind of stuff you have to tell yourself after being in there for 20 years no I mean it's too late to realize you've made a mistake and that you'd be happier somewhere else well I mean that is true that is true there are a lot of uh you guys are making a lot of good points about how terrible the city is to live but um I enjoy it. I enjoy the tight spaces. I enjoy the high rents. Just charge me 10 grand a month. Just let's do it. Why not? And poor health care choices just extremely. If you don't, if you're not part of a SAG after or part of an organization, if you're just part of the New York marketplace, just give me $1,000 with an $8,000 deductible. That's great. I do have fun. I do like this. Subway, the subway is now. No, no, no, the subway. that you ride in.

Right. You can now tap to pay on your credit card and not have to get the metro card. Yes. Which I enjoy that. That's a good one. I'm much smoother with that. And the subways, be honest, they're not scary. They scare me a little bit.

Really? But I do it and I do enjoy it. But you're armed. Well, not in New York. No? You can't be in New York, yeah. It's three years in prison if you're armed in New York. Really?

You're caught with a gun. Wow. So everybody knows you're not armed. Everybody knows you're not armed, but then people have different, they people have knives, they have different, you know, different ways to get around it. Yeah, okay. And since you've been here last, you got married. I did get married. Whoa.

All right, congrats. Well, I was forced to by Nate Land. They said, if you want another special, you will be married. Otherwise, you're a weird uncle and we can't have you in the Nateland compound. You're going to be deported from Nate Land. Deported. Either marry like a Christian or get out of Nate Land. I'm just saying how it was put to me

Did they say Mary like a Christian or do they say Mary and be Christian? Mary and be Christian. Yeah, okay, that's what I thought, yeah. You're half of the way there. Yeah, yeah. Well, congratulations. Well, thank you.

How long have you been married? A few months now. Yeah. Really paying off for me. I love it. I don't know why I didn't do it sooner. Yep. Probably because in New York.

In New York, yeah, we're all just mixed together and you're kind of like animals. You guys haven't said it, but you meant it. And we're just kind of mixed. together and just you know but i did the right thing and i love her and i love her family her family is fantastic they're from the middle west oh yeah of the united states and where we're at indiana okay yeah yeah indiana is like the south without the accent yeah it is kind of like the south it's rural it's rural where they live is very rural northern indiana um indianapolis outside of

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Rocketmoney.com slash Nate. Should we talk about our weekend? Yeah, where were you? What's going on? I was home for most weekend, but Friday night, I drove down to Huntsville to do the boom, dusty sleigh night shift tour. You got, you got Lanyers? Yeah, I got passes.

Do you know how much money I could get for that? All access. All access. I sold that on the dark market. I would like to see how much money. The black market. The dark web. The dark web.

The dark market. He said everything but it. The actual name of it. It might be. The dark market. It might be a sign that I'm, I don't dabble there to that. No, that's fine. That's how you hide it.

That's how you hide it. That's how you hide it. See, that you don't know. The dark market. You're like the dark market or whatever it's called. I like what you said better. Look that. Isn't that something?

How about that? Do you have people sneaking backstage or stuff? I mean, you've got high security now in the store. No, nobody sneaks back. Because you have the system. Yeah. He invites them back. Where I do invite people back.

But yeah. How many people get one of those, Dusty? Not very many people. Honestly, I didn't even know Brian had that one, to be honest with. Well, I won't for long. Do you order your security to shoot first and ask questions later? Yeah, I'd say shoot a person a show just so they know we're serious. But, yeah, Dusty was nice enough to let me come down to a set.

Had a great time, and it was a great show. It was fun. Yeah. I remember a time that we all were in Michigan, and Dusty was headlining the club there, and Dusty was kind. There was 11 of us, and Dusty was kind enough to let all of us do guest spots. I love that. He let all of us do guests, my friends.

He let all of us do guest spots in front of him, and they were all there to see him. And then they watched all of us go up and do five-minute guest spots. And that was so kind of you. I don't think that the audience really understood that night how great of a show they saw. Yeah. I was like, this is a great show. Mm-hmm. You guys just got a phenomenal show.

That was a great one. But for you to be like, yeah, each of you guys can do five minutes. I love it. It's like an hour. Yeah. It was you, Nate, Joe Zimmerman, I think. Joe Zimmerman, Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers, Nick, no, Nick Thune, yeah. Wow.

Yeah. My guy, Alec, who was Alec Parent, who was already featuring. A bunch of headliner. Yeah. It was, unbelievable show. Yeah, it was Michigan. It was great. Yeah.

It was fantastic. Where were you this weekend? I was with Nate opening in Erie, Pennsylvania, and then Philadelphia, and then we finished out in Boston. It's a fun weekend. It was great times. Junior's last laughed. Junior's last laugh was in Erie.

Helium and there's another one there. Laugh Boston. Oh, then Laugh Boston. No, it was incredible. It was where the 76ers play. The Sixers. It was Wells Fargo was in Philly. I lived in Philly for eight years.

I actually started comedy in Philly. And then made the move to New York. but so that was great and the Boston Garden was unreal. Everything is, it's like you never get, I don't know how you guys feel in there. I haven't been on the road with you guys, really, but I don't know how you feel, but like you never get used to it. It's always mind-blowing. You figure like after a couple of like, oh, I'll just get adjusted to get used to it.

It's like you never do. It's always the most thrilling thing that you've ever seen in your life. Yeah, I figured it out pretty quick, but I get how you could. Because you're in small space. It's probably because I'm living in small space. all spaces and um on too much stimulation no it is uh it is get out a little it is insane when i was out with them last weekend like the the show that everyone kind of overlooked that weekend was an added show and it was it was only 13,000 and it felt like all right let's get through this kind of nothing

show you know it's just it's crazy well if you're doing a comedy club you'll get off stage to say hey that table is a little rowdy nature section 317 yeah and the three 17 and the three o'clock shows below my mind it's like he's selling more at three o'clock i mean i was in kansas city one time just doing the club and the openers were like well nate is in town i was on saturday yes you were on that one yeah because he said he texted me he's like come over do the three o'clock announce that your show and then and then we'll send some people over to your show yeah and it was the super bowl weekend kansas city was in the super bowl and he sold out a three p.m. show on the weekend that kansas city was in the super bowl i'm like this is i've never seen any

anything i don't think anybody's ever seen anything like that yeah pretty wild wild yeah you're out again with them this weekend no i'm in i'm in iowa at the funny bone in iowa i have my own dates i am selling at the iowa funny domoyne dumoyne funny bone dmoin funny bone dog it's a great club it's a great club i love it i love it i love it i love the people of i love it but that's kind of like you're right the midwest the cracker barrel people i equate cracker barrel with the middle west and i crack i equate waffle house with the south Am I wrong? Well, you know, Cracker Barrow headquarters is right here in Nashville.

Lebanon. My hometown. Oh, wow. Yeah. Lebanon. We really have it all here in the south. Well, it's a sweet spot. Yeah.

The Cracker Barrow and a Waffle House, the same place. But you're in. Several exits have both. Oh, yeah. And you're going to tell me that there's not a healthy rivalry between the two? No, I think so. I think they're probably. But Aaron says, like, at different parts of your life.

So if you're an old. and you're an established person with a family, you're headed to a cracker barrel? I don't mean. But they said they just got beer. What's that mean? I'm trying to think I worded it wrong. Not what's going on in your life,

but what you're doing in that moment. Like if I have, my parents are in town and you want to have like a Sunday brunch, that's a cracker barrel situation. If my buddy from high school is in town and we just saw a show or something, that's a waffle house situation. I feel like I can dip my toe in both

and be accepted by that. both. Cracker barrel has chicken and dumplings, which are really good, but you can also get dumplings as a side, you know, so you can get chicken and dumplings and dumplings, and you can't do that most places. Wow. I don't think you can do that at a waffle house. But isn't there like, it's kind of like a museum and a cracker barrel, too, because

there's old guns and old pictures, like, on the walls and stuff. There's guns, but yeah. Well, no, there's like muskets and stuff. They're actually doing a remodel. They're remodeling all cracker barrels, and they are doing a more. modern look and there's less of that people a lot of people have said that to me they said they don't like it but oh really i've not seen the new look but i haven't been in a cracker barrel last few weeks but i bet christmas decorations are already up and they're not decorations but

stuff they're selling for i mean they start feels like christmas in there yeah are they updating from the 1800s to the 1900s yeah i feel like 1880s yeah 1880s to me cracker barrels i mean they're the top dog but would be like more like a bob evans or or those places where Waffle House is more like huddlehouse or I feel like. Right. Right. Or an I hop. Yeah, we're an I hop. I hope. I think a huddle house is better than Waffle House. Oh, that's one of the dumbest things you've ever said. Wow. I, um, what does Huddle House have that Waffle House doesn't have? Well, the patty melt that they have is way better than the Waffle House. Patty Mell. And what do you think they cook with? Huddle House used to have a restaurant on James Island. And I would go drink downtown and then drive home and then stop at

a huddle house on the way home you have better memories associated with huddle house yeah it's not a better restaurant ah i don't know you're talking about it's in like the back of a of gas station sometimes yeah behind a dumpster sometimes he likes it yeah that's what makes it better behind the dumpster sometimes i don't even know they were they're making new huddle house oh i didn't even know they're making new huddle houses i thought they're almost out of business i thought we were just left with the ones we had let's just try to keep those alive that shows how a new huddle house educated you guys I've never even heard of huddlehouse. I unsubscribe from Huddell House Weekly a few years ago.

So I only see the one on the way down to Huntsville. I think they do pancakes and Waffle House only does waffles. But maybe Waffle House does pancakes now. No, no, no, no, they're strictly waffles. Yeah, I think so Huddl House does pancakes. Wow. Okay. So that's the key differentiator.

They're all crushing IHOP though these days. IHOP is taking it. Breakfast is very lucrative. Breakfast any time of the day is a very lucrative idea. Yeah. I think we've solved a lot of problems here. I'm happy to be a part of it. Aaron, did you tell us where you were?

I was at the Grand Ole Opry this weekend. The Grand Ole Opry, I got to bring the baby first time at the Opry. It was very cool. You'd take her out on stage? No, I don't think I thought about, would that be weird if I did that? Probably so. Yeah, I'm like, nobody knows who I am. I'm like, why does you bring us get out there?

If I were Garth Brooks, and I go, hey, my kid's with me. That's a fun moment. A guy they don't know brings their kid out there. Like, what's happening right now? What kind of show is this? You do think about doing that. That kid should be in bed. One of the best sets I had at the Opry ever.

It was like sold out. And I was just, you know, you're just like, it's just going well right now. And I did a joke where I mentioned my mom and my mom was there. And I go, my mom's actually here side stage. She didn't come out, thank God. But that would have been weird for us, come on out here. And they're like, well, you're not doing that well. You could start bringing family members out on stage.

But we got to take her around and get some good pictures. And it was a fun weekend. Yeah. Did the audience really cheer, though, when you said, my mom's here right now? It got a huge pop. Yeah. And I feel like that was as. And then you're like, yeah, she drove me here.

I don't have a license. Did you say good luck getting backstage because you don't have one of these? Exactly. And flashed a pass at her. Exactly. They're so great at the Opry They are just everybody there They gave

They gave All of the Opry baby blanket Oh That's not fun Wow I got two kids I've not gotten a blanket Wow

Maybe I have actually You just got to be weird about it Yeah I may actually have gotten a blanket Where were you Dussie Well I was in I've been all over As I've said

I did a show at the comedy store In LA It was really fun A headline there First time headlining In the main room Very fun Who else was on it?

Um, that's okay. I'm sorry. Was it like a lot of comics did it? No, I had a few. My guy, uh, Willie Simon, uh, was on it. And, uh, gosh, I, you know, I can't think of names. Oh, you know, sorry, you know, he did a show with Will Smith of the Dodgers. Oh, yeah, I did that show, yeah, I did that show. Nickerson was on that show too? Yep, he was. Tignitooro and Tom Papa and, uh, Jim Jeffries.

This is in L.A.? Jud Apatow? Jud Apatow, yeah. You remember all the things. famous people's names. You don't remember the guys. Well, I asked the people to be on my show that did my show. That's what's so sad about it.

But I didn't. You and you. Now, Gene Whitney, my friend Gene Whitney. Oh, really. Credle of a lot of you remember Gene Whitney. Well, another friend. I've just, we've become friends recently, but now I can't. One of my dear buddies.

Yeah, not coming up with her. She would have in a couple of shows together. She's very funny. It's a real shame. I'll come up with it. War Peak. Whitney Cummings. No, I'll come up with it later.

Can we fix it in post? Yeah. It's too late. There's no post. No, there's no post here? No, it's all pre. No, it's embarrassing. Well, so you've got a lot going on, though.

It's like you're always moving. Things are going well. For all of you guys, the podcast, like, is really, it really bumps you guys, right? Did you get a big pop on Dusty Show because of the podcast? Well, oh, yeah, not as big as I hope, though. Right. Yeah, it's never as big as I hope. I had this vision when I,

started going on the road with Nate at these arenas that everybody there would know me. I would imagine that they would. Nobody knows. Well, this is the reality is that while I think the podcast is really big for me and Brian, Nate and Dusty have so much going on outside of it that were a very small part of that. Yeah.

Which is kind of fun. Brittany Ross. Brittany Ross was on the show. Well, I saw Dusty's new hour 20 and it was hot. Is that what you were doing? You're doing about an hour 20? That's insane, man. He did the, you know what I'm talking about.

He did the voice of God, and that was about five minutes. Was it really? I walked away and came back and you were still doing it. I'll do a five minutes set, then I'll bring the host out. That's really great. Yeah, it was good. Here we go. Look at this.

Welcome in. Wow. Hello. Welcome to, or welcome, Philly. This is Philly. This is her new dog. She's fine walking on the tape. I'm a great, get in there. I'm a great dog owner. No, I love it. No, I love it. Well, she's thirsty. Well, she's thirsty, Mike. And that's immediately, I don't have a problem with it. Drink out of Vecchio's glass. That's a good omen. Yeah, this is also how Vecchio drinks out of Vecchio drinks out of Vigl.

It's poor dog. Do you give any water? They, we kept her, no, yeah, we've been giving her water. We get her, she drinks a lot of water. She's been eating very good. She knows, it's, she knows, to pee inside of arenas, unbelievably. She's one of the best at it. But, yeah, this is Philly. Philly's drinking water. Philly's drinking water like she's from Camden. No?

I don't get it. That was a good joke. He should use it this weekend. Mike's off a high because he hit the mother load of local references. In Philadelphia, dude, because he lived there.

I mean, It was like Wayne Newton. It's Elvis. Oh, it's good. Oh, that's Pete. Yeah, Abigail's there. She's not going to. Everybody's here watching TV.

I know, but this looks bad. No, it's great. It's controlled. How you doing, Philly? Girl or boy? Girl. Okay. And, uh...

Philly, you went to the wrong direction. Yeah. Yeah, so that's Philly. Philly. And very, very cute. it was uh so sometimes these well talk about his so he's just doing local references of Philadelphia

and dude it was how long oh I did I did some of my act look look you guys are all comics and I feel your judgment I feel the judgment coming at me so let me defend myself I'm into I did a couple of jokes first to establish myself

as a valid comic but then I said who's got the 610 area code and everything What? He knows our area code and like maybe you're from a 215 and they're like, oh my God. And Nick was on the show and Nick is from that area and he was blown away. He's a comedian. What's the other area?

215. 215 is in Philadelphia, 610 is right outside. So Derek Strupe kept saying he's sitting next to Nick when Mike's on and he's and Nick's like, oh my God. And he goes, and then, I mean, he's like a fan. And he's like, this is unbelievable. And he goes, he goes, I'm 215. He goes, and I moved to 610. Nick's like, oh, and he goes to Derek.

And he's like, that's literally right outside the city. Like Derek wasn't getting it. And he goes, you got to understand. That's right. He goes, it's just right outside. He was like losing it, dude. And so it was, it was, it was great. But he hit, I mean, it was just area codes?

No, I went area codes. Dusty, don't minimize this. Don't minimize this. No, he did zip codes too, all right? It was area code. I went, Wawa, which is local, but it's now in Florida, but you guys don't have Wawa's here, do you? No, but we know about it. But Wawa's an easy one for filming.

But I was doing the accent. I was like, hoagie, the hokey. Your favorite movie's Rocky? Did you talk about Rocky? No, no, no, no. Okay, way, that's entry-level stuff. Yeah, yeah. You were like, you would have been embarrassed to talk about Rock.

No, but see, Julian. And Julian did a rocky joke. Of course. So it's like we can't, and Julian's from there too. He's host and he's got to get the low-hanging fruit, right? You can dig out of it. We can't step on each other. So we have to do teamwork in front of Nate.

Nate doesn't realize it. He's in the back. He's petting his dog. I know I'll walk up to a not excited crowd is all I know. I don't know how they got there, but apparently they've been working together to get them like that. You'll bring a dog on stage, just to get them back. I got to see anybody have a.

I need a prop. go find a dog outside go and dot me a dog it was it was so fun to watch Mike do these references because they were they were not like your

like you said like you would do the Rocky and the Wawa reference Wawa is even something that is a big reference but he was doing even I mean the area coat thing to the mummers the mummers I don't even know what that

and it was yeah what's Mummers it exploded it's a it's a thing once a year on New Year's. It's these guys in South Philly. They're working class guys. They get together and they dress up and it's a big parade. They dress up as like in clown costumes and all that stuff and they play music and march down the streets. And they prepare for it all year. Wow. Sounds awful. It's, but everybody knows what it's. Everybody knows what it is. That's the important. And you were a Philly comic for seven years? Murmuring about it all year. Or how long? Three and a half. Okay. So you, you, are these old jokes or do you,

you're just like, you're just weaving. No, I mean, I was riffing them in the moment because I know Philadelphia. And I went to, I got my master's from Cabrini College, which is in the area. And night school, but yeah. It was night school. It went out of business. He talks about that. It's a master's degree.

No, we talked about it. It went out of business. And the joke was it was bought by Villanova and then bought by a superwawa. That was the joke in, pop, big pop. And I was like, yes. Better joke could have been that it's easier because, it's at night. That'd be more of a point.

That's why I should have went up and said. It was that we've talked about it. Yeah. Because I think we've talked about it in a negative way. Yeah, you called it a loose master's because it was. And it doesn't matter that the college went out of business. I was working a day job and I went to get my master's at night for five years. And I want a little credit for it.

That is impressive. Yeah. It is impressive. Yeah. Thank you. Respect the work ethic. That's a Philly work ethic. That's a work ethic.

yeah well it was it was like it was just so i mean it was just very fun man because it's always fun when you can do you have local jokes but to hear them with that many people is i that's i've never heard yeah and it was like it like man it was so it's so many people and so it's it's just it's whatever your dream of of being local jokes and whatever venue you're you're you're or whatever you could go do. He lived it. He rode the ride. It was awesome.

Because I started comedy there, and I lived there for eight years. I went through some tough times there. And to have that, like, emotional homecoming of those jokes. Is this your first time back? No, no, no, no. I've worked. But you get to go. I mean, in that arena is like, that's like, that's like, two shows.

They were both like 15,000-some people. That's crazy. And people are texting me. that I know in the area. They're like, I heard you were on the show with, I heard you were opening for Nate. Why don't you tell, like, people that I know, I've got like six texts out of the woodwork from people just from the area.

I heard or somebody's at the show and they texted me that you're there and you're opening for Nate. It's like, mind-blowing. And you're like, I come here once a year. Yeah. How about you come for my shows? You know what I mean? How about you fill in?

I need some seats filled at my shows. No, they want the glory. well his friends were like oh did he do like the murmur stuff yeah he did a lot of murmur is that what it is murmurs mummers mummer oh yeah mummers he goes was it all mummers it goes it was a good most of it was mummer most of it was mummer uh yeah it was awesome so so philadelphia they brought uh we've had it happen before it sometimes they're bring uh some rescue puppies yeah to the venue and you know the all the crew gets to go hang out

puppies it's very cool event i we have uh you if you know for my special i've talked about one in a second dog uh and i just kind of figured like i kind of was like you know what if it happens it happens i didn't want to go uh necessarily purchase one or go like forcefully try to get one it was like i want to just let's see what happens yeah if i come upon a dog and then i'll take the dog that's honestly what i thought and then so philly you Usually when these rescue dogs come in, it's a lot of, like, mixed pit, some big dogs, like dogs that are not going to be able to kind of come on the road or hang out or, you know, even be around. Yeah, loose pit bull on the, on the tour bus is what you want.

It's tough. That's what you want. I like a loose pit bull. Harper really wants to, uh, Holly doesn't always sleep with Harper. And so Harper wants a dog that would go sleep and cuddle with her. Like, so there's a lot of factors. And so, yeah, we got in there. And I mean, I was like, I honestly, when I walked in, I thought it was the woman's dog that was holding.

Like, I didn't know it would be a rescue. And I didn't think about it with the breeders, because breeding is like so out of control now. And people are making so much money that they're breeding. They rescued this person from a breeder that was not a good breeder. They took like 26 dogs from them. And they kept them in some back room locked up. It was the temperature, I think they said, was 112 degrees. And these dogs were all just living in that kind of cage.

her peeing in an arena on a hard floor, you know, that's what she was having to, she was just peeing kind of on herself. And so she didn't have grass. She didn't have grass. Dang. So it's, we think it's, they told us it was like a carcass spaniel. We've heard English shedder. We've heard a few things.

I don't know if we know exactly. But it just kind of was like, you know what? Like, you're going to, I'm going to do it. I'm trying to not, you know, just be like, yeah, we have a lot. lot of guys on the road everybody was pretty excited about it yeah sure uh she's a puppy we're gonna we're getting some help training her and i'm like i'm not bringing her out this weekend because we're gonna she's it's she's four months she i need to get her a little more trained so we can it's not as much of a burden on everybody to have to kind of be on top of her at all times

but uh she was uh she's the best we did get her some open mics and then maybe some club shows so she can work her way up to the arenas yeah she started in some clubs first Yeah, a little bit of something. There was, at first, there was a good day and a half, I did not realize. Like, they kept giving her water, and they, at some reason, people started, they were doing Fiji waters, and I was like, I was like, there's two days of this dog. I'm like, this dog's only had Fiji water. Like, it hasn't even, this dog's living.

This dog's living it. So, but it's had to tap now. It's back to reality. Yeah. And so it's, yeah, it was, you know, it's, in my mind, I mean, I mean, I mean, like we're going to see how much harper's going to take this dog from and she loves she's very excited but it's like when i'm on the road it's uh it'll be good too because i can get pulled in so many different directions so it's nice to have like i need to go back and walk the dog or take it you know

like you know just kind of slow me down now are you going to work the dog into the schedule like for like when we come on the road yeah so it's like when joe zimmerman comes on philly comes yes like coordinate it with somebody yeah if i have people that are not dog. Like, I don't know if I'd have it with you because I feel like you're... I'm a dog person. You're more of a direct... I'm going to drink this water.

Yeah, you're more of a direct... You're going to say something to everybody about that after. Wow. Yeah, look at that. I'm going to have a dog person I am. Yeah, that is a dog person. Yeah. I'm ready. And I have worms.

Mike's a rescue as well. And what does Holly think? so it was like that was the thing i brought her in last night we got in pretty late and uh and so it was like i mean i'm just throwing this dog in holly's like what uh but holly did good holly wasn't nothing crazy it's kind of like what's going on kind of ignoring her uh this dog is just too we got this dog is so chill like when you it's she goes up to everybody she's been good with other dogs she's been i mean she's very very friends friendly. It's just, you know, she's got to get her bearings.

Chase has been, that was the thing, is when Chase, Chase, basically is the one that's got a dog now. But Chase was the one that happened to kind of watch her all week. Where was this dog that you just found it? Like this lady just had it? I'm neighbor to do stand-up comedy. It was in Philadelphia. They had rescues and they brought them to the show. Oh, so the people brought the rescues to the day. Okay. You said, I thought it was the ladies. No, I was saying, I think at the beginning I said that. They brought a bunch of dogs, and this was right.

And they do that sometimes at the arenas. They bring their own dog. We're glad to have you. So you said on your special that you, if you could just find a dog, that you would take. I just said on my special. I said I wanted a second dog. My wife doesn't want a second dog. But you've been saying it publicly. Not the fine.

I said I wanted a dog. I had a joke saying. So they showed up. They were like, this guy wants it. We know somebody. Could be, but they know somebody. Yeah. Did they show up with that intent that we're going to unload one of these?

I mean, no, but they've showed up with other, like, I've had this happen before. Yeah, yeah. I mean, a lot of rescues sometimes when they show up, they're not, it's like, you know, for the situation that you're in, you can't always take everything, like you can't have a pit. And so a lot of it is all these kind of variables that go into it. But yeah, I've talked about warning a second dog, but I did not publicly say I'm letting it happen. I just kind of privately minded my own business and thought, you know, if I'm supposed to have a dog,

I'll let it happen. The dog will find me. Yeah. Yeah. Like, then, you know, uh, then I will. But I'm, I'm just, I'm asking if you had said this. Yeah. Oh, if a dog finds me, it finds me.

And then this lady goes, oh, I know how a dog can find you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You are just driving down the road in the tour bus and you saw this dog and pulled over. Well, one time we had a dog that came up on the road, but it, it was like, it was the most fun dog. But it had it, like, it had all the information, the call, whatever. And it was like a dog that you're like, this dog, like, this dude knows this dog, it'll go home. It knows how to go home. Like, it's just in the, it was just in the apartment.

So the dog that found you, you let it go. Well, it had, it has its phone number. Yeah, it was like clearly. Do you guys call? I don't think we called because it was, it was like, it was in Fort Worth, Texas, and they were having a rodeo thing. so there's a lot of like the horses and trucks and people staying in the cabins and stuff like this. So there was essentially kind of a couple dogs

like kind of hanging out. It's just animals about. It's just animals about. And so this dog was clearly like it, like, the guy knew what it's doing. The guy knew the dog. I feel like the person knows this dog will run around and go to anybody. So I'm going to load it up to make sure you know that this is someone's dog. And the dog's fine.

And then the dog, you know, next morning, it was, I'm sure it went back home. All right, all right. The dog's got a lot of personality. It did have a lot of personality. It was a very fun dog. Extrovert. Yeah, but, yeah, I did not specifically say it publicly because I figured that's what would happen. Yeah. I've just said it.

Every show. I didn't even mention it to anybody, like, in my tour. I didn't mention it to anybody anywhere. They've done this. That's if they, that just happens a lot. I saw chatter about it online. So I guess it happened at the Philly show, you announced that you had this show. Yeah, yeah. Because I saw some chatter about it.

It happened that night. Yeah. And so those people, they were wonderful as the Pennsylvania. ASPCA? Yeah, ASPCA. And they were great. Very nice. But yeah, yeah, they do that a lot.

They did it with like, you know, they said they had like Kendrick Lamar. When they come in, they brought in public. Like, people do it for these band. For anybody that comes to arena, it's like they do it. You know, and I think they hope for them to get. you know, but I don't think it happens. I think most people don't take a dog home because it's like, you're on the road.

Like, what are you going to do? Right. It's just a unique situation where you just go like, oh, you know what? This is going to be the one. And it was like, all right, you know what, let's do it. It was not the weekend to do it. I couldn't have been busier.

Yeah. And more stuff going on even outside of the show and all this. But with everybody's help with Chase, when we have enough, we have enough guys on the road that you're like everybody was a Tony a babysat promoter

he babysat yeah one night we went out and he he was like look I'll

I'll babysit so he's kept the dog that night and so now I want to get the dog's bearings a little

bit get it trained get its bearings a little bit and then I'll bring him I'll bring him back out

you know when I can when the bearings are there when it's I know we're not just making this dog be like

what is happening so yeah there we go that's awesome well dog's probably happy just to not be in a 112 degree he went from zero he went to from zero to hero he's like living the best life now we said that on that's crazy it's unbelievable he'll be able to always say though man I had a hard up for yeah he's going to use that he's going to play on that hard he's going to use that narrative and it's not fair barely yet because he's rich now yeah yeah he's got yeah now he's buying whatever he wants I wonder if Wu-Tang adopted it, because Wu-Tang was there a few weeks before, so I wonder if they adopted a dog.

There's like eight of them, eight guys, so. It's tough to say. We've had a guy on our crew adopt one last year on the last tour. Oh, so they got your number. They know they bring some dogs. Somebody's taking one. Right, right. But, I mean, out of all the ones that's happened, we've had two dogs be adopted.

Did he take it on the other bus? No, no, he took his home. But I mean, he quit the tour. Out with you that weekend and he had to have it on that boss probably. No, no, no. I think they, we did it a way that it was different where I was able to take this dog. I think he, they got the dog to his house and like it was another kind of aspect to it. I got you.

Yeah. All right. Any more questions? Is Laura happy to open the door twice now? Yeah. She opens it up twice. Yeah, she's been with the dog all. She did it all day because it's like, you know,

it's not completely potty trained yet, so she's been kind of all over it. But Laura, I mean, Harper, subbed the dog last night, woke up this morning, you know, great energy, walk the dog, like, you know, it's fun. Oh, man. Summer may be ending, but, and everyone's going back to school. Is it almost fair?

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Kelly Renee, I just saw Nate on my first night in Boston after moving from the South. I got a little emotional in the middle of his act because he made me feel so at home in my new foreign city. Thank you for the best welcome to my new life. Well, I love to hear that. Yeah, that's a lot to move here. Yeah, she might have been crying during your set.

You're probably making fun of this out of bed, and she was... No, this was Boston, so I did say in Boston, I was like, God, I love being here. It makes me want to rob a bank. I just want to feel because of all the movies. But it's got to be hard to move from the South. You're out of the wall-wall material when you got to Boston. Well, I was searching around for local references.

I just want to be a janitor at an upscale college and solve math problems. Hey. They got that one. You guys know about the mummers, right? I was just in, uh, yeah, just trying to bring it back. You try to bring local references to a new town. I'm from Philly. I bet y'all don't...

You know about the mummers? A couple people are like, I think so. That's enough. John Kessler. I just watched Dusty's wet heat special and I never thought working man could be topped, but Dusty crushed it. So much fun and still clean with a grimy little edge.

Wow. That's right, John. Thank you, John. Appreciate that. What do you want? It's a hot special. Mm-hmm. Wet heat.

Did great. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, it's hot. Yeah. Yeah. Scott Reed, Dusty Zoo Special, which is stellar, by the way, masterly demonstrates the art of the callback. Boom.

When you're writing a joke that you will call back to later in the show, do you know when you're writing it that you want to use it as a callback later? No, not most of the time. Can I set it up? Dusty, what's your process? Well, you know, not most of the time. Most of the time as you start to do the hour, the hour 20, depending on what you're doing. you, um, you know, it just, you start to remember it.

And then you do a new joke and then you go, oh, I could, I could bring that back right here. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Do you listen back? I don't really, no. But it's just that, it's just like, new joke I might go, how did I tell it on that show? When you're doing a bunch of shows in a row, you kind of don't need, you're just in the rhythm of it.

Yeah. So you can kind of like sit back and reflect on it. Yeah. That's why, you know, I mean, for me, clubs, like you can do like four or five shows. goes, like boom, boom, boom, that's where it's at. I love a good callback, though. I love it. Yeah.

Yeah, you don't want a forced callback? Right. Sometimes I force it, and then I go, nah, that's too forced. Yeah, well, sometimes they seem obvious. Yeah. I've had callbacks where if they feel too obvious, I don't like a callback. But if it can naturally kind of happen, I don't want to do it if I think you think I'm going to do it. Well, yeah, you don't, yeah, that's what I mean.

Like, it seems forced. Yeah, you're like, but if you. That's why I never said that And the dead Sleeping Horse thing Everybody would be like Why don't you beat a dead horse Like

Your last special closes On the callback though Yes But I was able to get that In a way That I think Anybody saw it Right

That's true If you can't see it You want to Yeah You don't want To call back in this new hour My clothes In this thing

Has a callback But I Callback within the bit itself Yeah Yeah Right Yeah

Yeah I'd be able to hide it. Yeah. And then it's like, oh, yeah. Yeah. You can, because you could, a very easy thing to do is have a callback that's obvious and everybody claps because they go, oh, look at that. How you called it?

You'd rather it be. Yeah, I like to stagger them, you know, have something at the beginning that you bring back towards the very end. But then also throughout, there's little ones. And it's like, yeah, you're little. Little's are not bad. You can't be, you got to feel how far you. Yes.

Because they got to remember it. They got to remember it. You can feel, oh, and if I get too far from it, then they're not, they're like, what? And you're like, remember, that's like four hours ago. Remember I set up? Yeah. I like to say that sometimes. I like to say that.

Remember that? I like to say, remember that? I like to do a phone motion with my hand. Yeah, me too. Let them know. And then you hang it up because you go, calls over. Yeah. And they go, oh, so it's all new stuff from here on out?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tom Jopson or Jopson. Tom Jopson. seems like a good guy I better better just go that's a nice guy he's not employed no he's not unemployed

Tom Joebson job son I was going for the joke yeah yeah hello check is my mic on comedy podcast I'm telling a joke too

that it just seems like a name that would be a very nice person you go you meet Tom Jopson you go I know him love him what about him

you think Jobbson is biblical or Jobson. Job's son. Job's son died. Yeah. Got a tough life. A good example of exponential growth

that Nate can relate to would be betting 10 cents to win the first hole on the golf course. The loser then agrees to double or nothing on the next 17 holes. If he loses every hole, he will have to pay the winner $13,107. Wow.

I mean, that's... That's crazy, right? That's insane. Sounds like Tom. I'm a mathematician. That's a crazy gambling game. If you started a game and you could almost make anybody get into this gambling game, and they would be like, yeah, I'll do it.

And then, yeah, so 10 cents. So then the next hole would be 20 cents. Yeah, and then 40, 80, $0.60, $3.20. What do you think? If it were me, at the end, I would go, oh, no, I'm not paying any of that. How many holes you think you'd have to get to do you realize, oh, this was a mistake? Well, because it would be like you could almost, you could, you could, you could lose the first eight. Yeah.

You could lose probably with the first seven holes and it doesn't matter. And then it starts mattering. Yeah. And then you start realizing what I've done. Right. Huh. That's interesting. You like that better in the folding paper, huh?

I do. I like it better. I don't know if I, it's still, it's hard to, it still seems crazy that it could get to that high. But, yeah, I like it better than fold. Maybe I still don't understand. Just, well, it doesn't make sense because you'd lose a little bit of paper each time you fold. Can I ask, Mike's just guess, and we can move on? I just want to hear.

I guess so. Did you hear the paper folding thing? No. You watch Nail-Land every week. You sit down and watch it? Yeah. Or the last, you were. I haven't on the background when I shower.

If you were to fold this piece paper in half and it doubles, you know, it will double in thickness. Right. You fold it in half. And if you were to fold it in half, it would double again in thickness. How many times would you have to increase double the thickness for it to get from here to the moon, do you think? If you had a guess, how many times you have to fold the paper? Oh, I know what you guys want me to say. Infinity.

No, no. I don't know. I don't know. 42. Only 42 times. That's a real answer? Yeah, that's the real. I thought it was an imaginary. It is an imaginary.

But the paper, there's not enough paper here. That's the problem. It's not enough paper to get to the phone. So the problem is that you need a huge piece of paper. Yeah, but the problem, nobody has enough dimes for Tom Jopson's example to work either. I got a, you can get that. Yeah, I got a change choice. Come on.

Come on. I think Tom is... I've racked up this much money on a coin. You would just convert it to Bitcoin. Mm-hmm. William Taylor, I went to college for physics and engineering and had to endure a lot of thought experiments. Oh, a lot of thought experiments. Oh, yeah.

Thought experience. That's how they get you in college, boy. Thought experience. Yeah, they just come in and just be like, how much air can be in a tire if the tire had a bubble on the side of it? Oh, I don't know. That's an important question if you're building a car. Oh, God. That actually sounds like a question in your college.

That's one of them were bright. Yeah, that's true. Now, in my college, we were, I'm going to show you all how to change the tire. Yeah. Because y'all will be on some rough roads, and you're going to need to change your tire. I agree there isn't always a lot of value and things like that. However, my brain equates it to going to the gym. Am I ever going to need to do tricep extensions to save my life?

Probably not. but it might help me do other things. Thought experiments like this help your brain with more advanced problem solving and critical thinking. All right, you got me a little bit of that. So like, because I need to work out and I struggle with the idea of why. Like I know it's, the grand scheme of it is to be healthy and I, but I sometimes have trouble like wrapping my head because it feels like it's something for me and it feels

had this idea that it's did we talk about this before like it's luxurious it feels privileged to work out and sometimes in my head self-indulgent self-indulgent and so I can feel that and so it's I don't know

it's hard for me to do it when I can't think why am I doing this but just for me but if I could think I'm doing it for something else your daughter I know but it's like I know that's the idea of health and live in longers but it's like the idea of you were like trying to get strong

or trying to get whatever. There's, there is things that you can be healthy, but it's like, what am I really, you know, if you're in the military and you're like, I've got to go fight for this, everything. But you might need to physically defend yourself. That's getting a little bit harder to have. There's so many other outlets too now where you can physically,

like you can keep yourself kind of out of trouble and say, yes, in situations you might have it. But if you're, but it's like you can then go like, all right, well, like, you could learn how to use a gun better than anybody on Earth and all these other things that could go into it. So then that gets rid of that kind of concept. In fact, just being somewhat able by. Three months in prison if you carry a gun in New York City, I just found out. Yeah, that's real. That's actually real.

Three years. It's three years. Three years. Three months does. But I'm saying the thought experiment of that is I've actually been having my own thought experiments because I've been trying to find the. the click to make me become obsessed with it and really know why I'm doing it because I don't have the thing

that makes me want to do it just for health free. But there's a mental toughness aspect to it too. That's what I've been leaning to. Where you're going through it and you're going through sets of 10 and you start watching your mind when you get to five and you're exhausted and you're like, I have to push through five more.

Let me see what my mind starts to go crazy. Your mind starts to like, how can we get out of this? It's like you want to push through that's so lately and I haven't done it yet but I've been realizing the even the mental toughness of as creatively as I go forward I'm now having to I would need to stay in my ground more than I ever would because there's going to be more opinions into what I want to go do and so I there's you you know stay my ground like it's not like it's I'm trying to be like everybody's trying to not make clear decisive decisions the mind and body are connected yes if I have the vision

it's and I and someone comes up and then I'm going to get a lot of like it's the idea when you write a movie if I don't want this movie to have this little dumb like stuff that bothers me well I've got to mentally be able to have the strength and the the energy to sit here with anybody that's going to try to go against me and not become tired and go like fine dude do whatever and destroy them because I can't do whatever and then destroy them in front of them. Yes.

Destroy them. Take their power. But what you're talking about is like fighting for an idea. Yeah. And working out does help with that. Yeah. It helps the mental with the physical. And you've kind of already done it.

You cut out drinking. I mean, you couldn't get to the level of the feet. But you're right with saying that. It's like I know you for years. It's like when you get obsessed with it, then you'll just do it all the time. Yeah. But it's like finding the hook. It's finding the hook.

And so I'm a little bit more. Yeah, I did. Like that helped with that. So the food aspect is kind of. like to tell them that, but then I feel, I'm so busy and so crazy. It's like, I never even have a moment to like reset. And I, I want all this. I love it. So it's like, I, you know, I think about it. I pray about it. I talk, like, it's like, it's like, it's going to come, it's going to click for me. I'm finding my way. I'm seeing how it's doing it. And I enjoy it.

I enjoy trying to find the thing to do it. And it's more of that, that mentality of going. I know if I want to stand and go like, this is the vision I want, I'm going to have most people say they don't, they're going to have their ideas. So I have to be able to knock their ideas down or except the ones that I want to do. But then the ones that they think is stupid, you know, be able to stand there and go like, I know, I think it's, but this, it's just my thing. I kind of want it to be like this and trust that, you know, got to do it. So we're see. We're see. It's either that or Nate Land will become rated R and got bought out. Either one or the other. I give up and it's all. Now, I like the idea of you winning the argument and then demoralizing the person and sending them packing.

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Yonak. Man, it's a good last name. I bet everybody calls them Yon-N-A-N-A-N-X. How do you not call the Yonaks all to buy their last name? You have to. Sam's a great first name with the Yonak. And this guy sounds like he was a nose tackle. I don't, we are completely on different pages of everything these people are.

Yonak was a nose tackle, dude. I hear crazy. Yonak is like. No, Yonac drinks, beers, shotguns beers. No, that's a guy that didn't play sports but can play all the sports. But like he just didn't, like he was almost too good at him. But he didn't, was like, he was like a gifted guy. It seems like, obviously.

And the Yonax are, so stupid. Yeah, the Yonax friends with everybody. No, we're just in different pages. Warren, yeah. To Michael, Yonac is a nose guard. Nose guard, nose tackle, no neck. It seems like Aaron just casually glossed over the fact that he was youth governor of Tennessee. This seems like a big deal.

What did it involve? Yeah, get into the world. Yeah, did you talk about this last week? Yeah, he broke this news last week. You know, the youth guys, I see it. I see it. Yeah, I mean, it's one of those things that felt like a very big deal to me at the time, but in retrospect is not. Everybody was.

Did you get voted in? Yeah, what is youth governor? Somebody posted a video of you giving your speech at the Capitol, I think. Oh, wow. Yeah, if you, similar like boy state or girl state, I don't know if you've heard of those programs. I'll tell you how I picture it. You're the highest level of the Boy Scouts. No, no.

And then you have to run for, now you have to run for, now you have to run. You're, like, above the, what's the leaders called of Boy Scouts? Like the ones that go, Eagles, the Eagles, you know, the head, the adult, that's the troop. Yeah, what is the troop leader? It takes them out. It's that nothing to do with Boy Scouts. You're above that. Okay, but I am above the.

But is the Boy Scouts, the military wing of the youth governor if you go to attack another region? Now, that is a good question. Now, that is a good question. Just, do he legalized marijuana? I decriminalized it in the state of Tennessee in 2010. People shouldn't go to jail for it, whether you want to do it or. Well, that's why we did it. But there's a lot of states have a program.

In Tennessee, it's called YMCA Youth Legislature. And kids from all over the state come, and they essentially take over the state government for a weekend. They act as senators and congressmen, and they pass bills. And there's a whole state government of high school kids. So my junior year of high school, I ran for governor of Tennessee. And then senior year, I was the governor for the whole state. kids running the state government yeah what's that look like money is now jello we got a lot done none of us were corrupted you know i mean we got we got a lot done actually yeah why would you

yeah what do you mean even were there other of these or you were the youth governor you were the youth governor i was a youth governor for my year and then the next kid runs and there's a new one every year but like so all of tennessee you were top dog of the youth i think there might have been two conferences in tennessee but i was the guy for my okay my partner you had to run again other people and other schools? Yeah, I think we've ran kids from all over the state. The election was the most fun part of it. So this guy, because you really are like.

Yeah, that dude right there. Yeah, with that hair too. Yeah, I love it. I had a camel skin jacket that I wore. Those are great shots. The election was the most fun thing because you're like, you're treated like, you're, you know, the newspapers interviewing you and you're doing debates in front of everybody. And it's like a little, like,

almost like a presidential debate, that whole thing. It was a lot of fun. If you decriminalize marijuana, like you said, is it, but you didn't make it legal. Well, it is legal if you decriminalized it, right? I think you just can't go to jail for it. You can't sell it, but you can't, if you get caught with possession of it, you don't go to jail. It's regulated at a federal level, but the state can decide we're no longer going to. So it would be.

I think there is a difference in being legal and being decriminalized. Yeah, they can still get like a ticket for it, right? You can still give them like a ticket. Like you can't open a store that sells it. But if you have it. It's illegal. Yes, that's what we can. But if you illegally, you can get it, we won't put you jail for it.

Right, I think it's still like illegal to sell, but it's like. But then why would you not like, if they came to your house and you had tons of it, you'd be like, oh, this is all my personal use. I got it I don't remember the particulars of how we did it but we decriminalize it I think there's like

they can they can say there's an intent to sell right like you could be like a certain amount you have a certain amount yeah if it's like in all individual things like you are going to sell it then it you know it's different than a little personal

some kid in the San Tennessee wrote a bill decriminalizing it I signed it into law oh okay okay it wasn't like a part of my campaign platform Yeah, I think that's what I was confused about. Okay, yeah, no. Because it seemed like it was like you, yeah, it felt like that was like what you ran on.

No, no, it wasn't like my main thing. But what were some of your other initiatives? Vending machines in every school. Free second lunch. Yeah. It's all food stuff. It goes, you know, in one of those freezers, those big walking freezers, unlocks from the inside.

Yeah. For safety. Yeah, that was a big him thing. mandatory shirts in the pool kind of yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you have to wear one air condition set on 63 yeah yeah yeah yeah the era of big government is back baby yeah yeah yeah shirts on in the pool uh I don't remember a lot of what we did we were a good government though yeah we were you know what I saw the video of you

that's impressive and even then you have that commanding voice that gets your attention I think that's why that was Way before I had to stand up, obviously. But the debates, I was like, I was going for laughs. And the debates. And I think that might have been where I want. Did you say we need to drain the swamp? Did you have like a catchphrase?

This was pre-swamp. Pre-swomp. This is pre-swam. He was trying to get, he goes, we need to build a swamp. He was going for a swamp. We're going to make Kentucky pay for it. Yeah. John, no, Kristen Mayberry.

Oh, that's a great man. I live and work. in Las Vegas and thrilled to see you guys doing shows out here. I'm certain I saw Dusty in the hotel parking lot. As I walked by, I saw Dusty walk around his car and take out some boxes of Chiquita bananas. Did I see Dusty? Or does Dusty have a twin in Vegas delivering bananas? It wasn't me. I mean, you might have saw me, you know, with the banana or two, but I didn't have a car out there and I wasn't. And you don't support Chiquita. Yeah. Were you walking around cars with bananas?

Probably. No, the last time I was out there was 112 degrees. You had your shirt off. It was a dry heat, which I'm not a fan of, and I try to keep it inside. Yeah. Wet heat now on Netflix. Yeah.

I like a wet heat, guys. Sorry, Kristen. John Blanderson. Mike Vecchioan is truly a unique talent. Nobody has his original cadence. I agree with that. His jokes have no fat. Thank you for posting this amazing special. Everyone who liked this, please go watch the attractives also on the channel. It's also incredible. Thank you, John. What made you choose John Blinderson? As a name. I wrote this myself.

John's a fan. Thank you, John. Thank you for saying something, John. There is no fat. Yeah, I try to get as lean as possible because as Nate knows in New York City, there's a gun to your head when you're on stage to get to the punchline immediately because everybody's busy. Yes. But, John, you're the best. Thank you. I agree with that, though. Very funny.

Thank you, Dusty. Yeah. And I don't think you deliver bananas. You're more of an avocado guy. I do like a banana here and there. I wouldn't have a case. Well, it's good to know that Kristen is a stalker. Yeah.

And she's following you. Yeah. Well, she's following someone else, but we should probably tell him, you know. Yeah. Tony Richardson, I was at Mike Vecione's low-income white special taping in December. It was great, but there was a tremendous storm during the first set. I'm wondering if that was distracting to Mike as a performer. Do you remember that, Mike?

No, but I was the storm. I do remember it. I remember the second show being the better show. Yeah. But I don't know. Maybe that's why. Maybe that's why the first show, because, there was a storm.

Tremendous storm. Tremendiaological. The second show was better because Nate went out and said, guys, can you laugh at this, please? Yeah, Nate did go out and lobby for me. It was the first, like, that new thing on social media where they go,

hey, my buddy Mike's coming out here. He's going to do comedy, and y'all will like it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like that, no. It was, yeah, Mike killed him. Joel Thompson. Joel Thompson. How do you know when to draw the law,

between roasting someone, for example, when doing crowdwork without offending them. I just put out a crowdwork video last night. I did, yes. I've been doing that on the road, and I like to do it at the end of my sets because I like to do my set and not put anybody on the spot, you know, cold play. So I like to make sure that everybody's comfortable, and then if there was a cheating scandal with the cold play. Yeah, right, right, right, right.

Anyway, I have people. It wasn't funny. It wasn't Philly. Was it? No, I don't know where it was. 601. Area code callback. Yeah.

Is it 610? 610? Yeah. But it's just a question. It's like 601 feels like Tampa. Yeah. I never know. Yeah, yeah.

What was I even saying? Talk about crowd work. I do it at the end. You take requests. I have people raise their hands and I tell them what's going to happen. I say let's try to get a clip out. of it. I kind of wish my guy wouldn't have included it. I kind of wish my guy wouldn't have included it in the clip, but he did, and I love him for it. And if they raise their hands,

then we try to talk and get to something funny. Yeah. That's you, your personality. You can go on stage, you go, hello everybody. This is a business transaction. Y'all paid for this. I'm going to put on a show. I hope you guys enjoy the show. I'll do it to my abilities. And here we go. We start the show now. That's exactly what he did. He said, don't raise your hand if you don't want to be talked to. Right. Well, that's good, though, because people have a choice. They have a choice, and it's the end. I already done my set, so that's why. Have any of y'all done it? Because I was a

judge on the Roast Battle show here last week in the lab. And I've never been a part of a Roast. Have y'all done more? I know you've done... I've done Roast, yeah. Have you done a, well, roast battle? I think that's a different. Okay. But it's like, first of all, it's tremendous amount of work because it's a joke writing exercise and at the end of it you're like well i could have just worked on my act you know what i mean so and then it all comes from a place where or how do you know the when the line is it's like where your intent is if you're like a if you're coming at it from a

place where it's like a joke writing exercise and you're like you know just respect the other person as a comic and it comes in an intentionally loving way then it comes through but if you're just trying to be as you know i understand the concept of roasting but if you're trying to just be as vicious as possible yeah if you don't know the person yeah you're just making fun of the way yeah and then you're trying to kind of win off of that and i hate that's not really the way it should go this one was super fun because except for one of them they were all matchups between good friends so it was very good nature that's great they were like they would hug after they were done it was it was fun yeah that's like the same thing with somebody breaking your chops someone's breaking your

chops and your good nature. Like, you know if it's coming from a loving place. But if they're doing it in such a way, like, they're trying to put you down, you can kind of feel that energy. Yeah. Breaking your chops. Yeah. Busting. Busting your chops? Yeah.

Is it different down here? You say breaking your chops? It's busting your chops and breaking your. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with you that it's like when you're, you shouldn't be just working on your act.

Right. That's the main. That's what I always think. But yeah, but it's like now. It's like people that the clips are what get social media following. And then that's what gets people. I mean, I'm not doing it, but I get it now. It's like that's how you get the following.

There is no system and hopefully we can help. But I did. I've done it on a roast before and people were like, you were great on that roast. It's like, well, but have you seen my act? And they're like, no, I don't know. Yeah. But it's like, yeah, just look at my act. It gets you the clips.

But if you don't, when they show up, you then you got to keep doing what you're doing in the video. And if you do that, then you can, that's the only thing I would tell young comics, you can do the stuff to get the clips. You better do that stuff when they show up. Right, because they're going to stop coming. They're going to expect it. And if you don't do it,

and then you try to go, no, then I'll just do my acting. They're not going to be on board that. And how much energy and time and mind and creativity you put into that, you've got to put it a lot into it. You're taken from your other thing. Everything that comes out of your mouth, borderline should be like

if it's anything that fills could be a joke you should pull it back immediately if you're on a podcast you're on a need not that some stuff does but you kind of just anything you kind of go just catch yourself and go I don't know if I need that right now like and let me save it from my act

yeah I mean I agree with you but that is how I mean people are selling tickets like that right it's like it's a whole they are but it's look at the longevity of it what are we doing you know I mean I get it I mean I'm with you yeah yeah

I mean, I try to follow that too, but I, yeah, I mean, people are, they're blowing up out here off a podcast, off, off crowdwork clips. They are, but if you really wanted to go through the weeds of it and like did the numbers of it, it's not as much as you think, I believe. I don't think it's as many as people think. Yeah. They think it is because there's, there's ones that are, but they're not as much as you, if you really started going. through it and doing it it's it's there's no way there's as much as you think they can do it maybe one time right but but what they look at it like i'm nowhere right now so i'm looking for any leg up they're looking at they're looking at it like that yeah yeah i understand i understand

it i know why you're doing it it's in yeah i want it's like uh you know we do nat lane live show come down and try to it'd be better to learn a craft that you can do for a long time i agree No, you don't, Mike. I do. I'm with it. I came up there. I came up through the same system. You came up.

You didn't. Live it, Kyle, from 2008. Start screaming my credits. Yeah. You're wearing that jacket. Noah Edden. I started my junior year of high school the other day. While my English teacher was introducing himself,

he mentioned that Nate was his favorite comedian. I immediately yelled, hello, folks. He stared at me for a solid minute and said, okay, he clearly didn't get the reference. sure he thinks I'm insane, but I'm not, I'm just a folk. Well, you know, might not have known the Hello Folks reference, just as a comedian. So that he doesn't listen to the pod? Doesn't listen to the pod. Maybe don't yell at a guy. He said I immediately yelled. I agree with that.

It's like, how about as a teacher, you should be raising your hand? Junior year, you should know that. Sorry if I had to get on you then. But I would think in this circumstance, you would, if someone, if you, you would go, you know, like, what was it, like Howard Stern? If the teacher goes, I love Howard Stern, and someone goes, hey now, or Baba Booie. Yeah, yeah. Like that, you would yell. You wouldn't raise your hand and they go, Baba Booie. You would go, Baba Booie.

So I think he did it the right way. But there's certain rules in a classroom. I have to take issue with, this is because I worked out and now I have to fight for my idea. It's a callback. It's a callback. I have to take issue with it. It is a classroom. There needs to be.

rules within a classroom otherwise you have anarchy well don't then don't be personal and say that your personal stuff what if you're trying to teach anarchy yeah that's a good example and that's from a former youth governor it also should tell you about something about your teacher though too your teacher's probably a liar right if he doesn't how how favorite how much is he really into it right you know right yeah well that's all teachers are liars is a small part of people's lives. You know what I mean? Because it's our entire life. Yeah. Even somebody would say I'm a big comedy fan. They maybe go to three shows in their life. Well, it's a mix of both, too, is like when we go to these arenas, you know, not everybody knows there's a podcast. A lot of them don't. Are they kind

of vaguely know? Yeah. But they're not, you know, there's going to be stuff. The difference of where people are, this would be more the niche section of what the arenas are when you go out more there because they, the specials and the other stuff like that. And they all feed off each other. But yeah, we need the hello folks in there. And we love them. This is an ad by better help. Today it just feels like everybody has a hack for everything, right? Cold plunges, gratitude journal, screen detoxes. But how do you know what works for you? With the internet and information overload about mental health and wellness, it can be a struggle to know what's actually helpful. Therapy, talking to someone makes a huge difference in everyday life. It can help

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So eight? Eight years, total. And then you worked in the trenches. What time was your class, 8 p.m.? I had something at 8 p.m., Nate. Yeah. Oh, were you like, I got a 1st, and I got 7 p.m., 8 p.m. and a 9.30 p.m. And then nothing, and then at 12.30 a.m. In a free period, at 10 p.m. I guess I'm going to go see a movie, and then I'll come back to my 1230 a.m.

Nate, these are classes. They weren't spots. Bounce back. Your dad was a teacher. Yeah. My dad, briefly a teacher. My grandmother was a teacher entire life. Both of your parents' teachers? Both my parents' teachers, yeah. Met in school? They met as teachers at the same high school. Yeah. Was that a scandal? I don't know. It was a scandal. They were two teachers and they were engaged within two months of meeting each other. I wonder if they had to let the principal know that they were dating. That's true. And then he wasn't the principal yet. And then within two or three years, he became. But that was a high school principal at 27. Wow. And that seems so young now.

Yeah. I was seeing these comics that I'm hanging out with that are like 26 or 27. I'm like, yeah, my dad was a high school principal when he was your age. Yeah. Did you go to the school where he was a principal? I did. Yeah, all my siblings did. Were you held to a higher standard?

I don't know. He was always pretty good at keeping things separate. Yeah. Did the kids give you a hard time? A little bit at first. Especially I moved to a different high school. I moved to Tennessee in the middle of high school. Right.

For my junior year, we moved to Tennessee. So my dad was the principal. at a new school. I was the new kid coming in. So a little bit at first, but people are pretty nice. That's good. Yeah. Did your alter ego hat help? Your hat says alter ego. Oh, I don't know. What is that? What is that? This is a company. Oh, really? It's called alter ego. Alter ego running. Oh. Yeah. Oh, really? Running. They sponsor you? No, that is his alter ego. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's perfect. It's actually a perfect hat. He goes, yeah. It's brilliant.

About all three goes, a rudder. Yeah. And mine is too, buddy. Mine is too. All right, there's 3.8 million public school teachers in the United States. Wow. About three-quarters, 77% women. I didn't know this was going to be on teachers, and I said, I called all teachers liars.

I know. You guys, nobody said anything, so it made it seem way worse. Why did you call them liars for a joke? Yeah, I was just making a joke, and then you guys all looked at me. That's a good way to get into it. Made it real serious. Yeah, I think it was tongue-in-cheek. No, I think I, yeah.

I just didn't get the joke, I think. And then it was like, oh, callback. Callback. Yeah. Hang it up now. You remember that. Once you call it back, you got to hang the, that's the, because the callback's over. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 89% of teachers in elementary school are women, and then it gradually becomes more men and would get the high school. Why do you think that is? Why do you think it's so dominated by women? Nurturation.

Caring. Maybe they don't want men around little kids. My daughter's in. preschool and I wouldn't The movie Kindergarten Cop would see you wrong That was a great film Same way you want

Yeah You don't want a men massage You're right Exactly Exactly Do women prefer women masseuses as well? I think so

I think everybody does But for like a leisure massage Now if you do physical therapy I think some dudes Say if you're an athlete You want somebody in there You might

You might want Because you just need the, then it's outside the scope of, you're in a specialty, so I think it's like outside the scope. Like, in generalities, you want, I think, a woman. Yeah, you want women want women, men want women, and then you don't want to be in that awkward situation, but nobody wants it. I got a ring dinger done in Chicago. You ever seen the ring dinger on YouTube? This is a clean podcast, Aaron. Yeah, I don't know what that means. Let's cut that. It's a chiropractic adjustment. Oh, yeah. Total spinal decompression. You lay on your back, they lock your

hips in they grab your head and yank it and just yank it back yeah it's going to ring digger wow i think what you're talking about is high school wrestling and uh thank you for that transition it sounds like that go ahead i was going to say it was it was it was a tiny woman that did it yeah to me and that was the first time after she did i wish i had just like a dude yeah just like a big dude that could do it yes because i felt like she wasn't doing it enough How do they even learn what works in that? Wait, what do you mean? Like, how do you go, like, I got an idea.

I'm going to lock their hips in and jerk their head back here. And he goes, well, we've never done this before. And they go, it's the first one. Don't go nuts. Don't go nuts. It was a guy in Houston, a chiropractor invented that technique. And now he licenses it out to chiropractors all over the country. So she couldn't do it, though.

She couldn't really get you. She, I felt like she wasn't getting in there enough. It wasn't a good enough pool. But do you look at it, like, you try a bit and it doesn't you know it does it's not all the way there it's like maybe on the next guy she'll get it a little closer and that's guy she'll get a little bit closer she tried three times i did a triple dinger yeah i think she's it's the and i you know yeah the third time it's the reason when you have like yeah it's the ring the ding or not i mean come on it's he yeah

when you get a refrigerator delivered it's not two women that show up and because she's got to break a refrigerator. Yeah, this is the guy that invented it. Yeah, yeah. That dude. Yeah, you want it to be quick and like... That's Nate's dad. And then that way, if it kills you, it's over fast.

That's what they do. They lock your hips in. Yeah. And then I'll just fast forward to this. You can see it. Oh, my gosh. Is this going to be insane? It seems painful.

Here you go. Yeah. Oh, my God. Doesn't that look like it feels incredible? Yeah. I don't know. Unless they rip your head off. What does it do?

It's totally, it's, it's, it's, look, now there's, does it make you just come back again? I haven't gone back. He goes, you're never going to have to do this until once I do it. You're going to always have to do this. Kind of. So, popping your knuckles. There's, you know, there's all kinds of people saying that chiropractors are, whatever. And I don't even disagree with any of it.

I love the chiropractor. It feels good. I love the car parker. And so I saw all these videos. I went down a rabbit hole. Then I was in Chicago and me and me and me, go, let's go get a ring danger. We went and got one. Yeah.

It was like our afternoon. And you had no back pain before that? You just sort of like, well, this might be fun. I've got chronic. Oh, chronic. Yeah. I mean, I've got horrible. I've got a million things that this would help.

I mean, this looks like an interrogation technique. Yeah. It really does. Zach didn't know what this was. Oh, he was into it too. You know what I pictured when you said it? I thought you were laying on your stomach. And they were somehow grabbing the back of your feet in your head and squeezing you up like that.

Oh, I thought they were bringing you back. I didn't know what you meant by Lock the Hips in, but this makes it very clear. Okay, okay. Yeah, I did not. This is not what I thought. I want a follow-up video with this patient. I want to know how he's doing six months later. Yeah, he's a foot shorter because it all resettled.

And his bones are loose in his body like a sack. Yeah. Here's Jack Arlo getting one. Pulled out of this carton job. I don't know if we need to go watch the history of it. So I think I'm good. Pulled the cartilage out of that guy's back. All right.

Bone on bone now. So about a third of teachers say they're extremely or are not very satisfied in their job. Yeah, I went down a rabbit hole. Rabbit hole is a great callback. I went down to a rabbit hole of teachers quitting. Like, teachers are doing YouTube videos of why they quit. And all of it makes sense. all of it makes sense because it's like every other profession it's changed over the years and now

you know yeah it seems parents are tough to deal with the kids are tough to deal with and the administration mostly backs they don't want to fight the parent they don't want to be sued so they back the parent and a lot of these parents are many of them have their kids best interest in mind but they're not correct about education that's why you go to school for all these years and get a degree and get a master's and stuff so that you know education and they have to kind of bounce the other side too is that the school and the administration needs to adjust to like everybody needs to readjust totally it can't be just blamed on like i understand the parents the parents i i do agree with that because people are going to just say whatever they want right but then there has to be

a give and take too with and i think other teachers like adapting to their way because it's a very old school union kind of idea that it's like you do this you do this you there's a lot of that in the public school system so there's got to be like and now you're having these private schools pop up and they're expensive in these other types of schools. So now there's different options that people are seeing. So like if you're just a competitor, if you're a public school system, you would go like, we need to step up our game to compete with these other schools. I agree with that. I like the idea of like a school where it's like you bring your kid, we tell you what we're going to do, what the plan is and everything. And then you sign into that.

You sign up for that. And then if something goes, and you, and you, and you, you, and you, can't mitigate the problem and you can't solve it. It's like, okay, your kid is not right for this school, take them to another school. And then take your tax money with you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the parents have like a working knowledge of their kid, and that's important.

And they need to work with the, you know, the school, I think. So that's what needs to happen. But some parents go there and they try to bulldoze and be like, I want this. I want this. And if I don't get this, then I'm going to put all kinds of pressure and all this stuff. That's a nightmare. Yeah. And you can't have that either.

And there's some that are so hands off that they look at it as like, it's a, you're supposed to parent my kid. Yes. And so they, the kids are there all day. Yeah. Yeah, there's a, there's, it's, it's all like, it goes back to, yeah, you just, you know. I'll say the idea of my parents taking my side over a teacher's is so foreign to me. I think that must be a new thing to.

Right. Like, I would have thought by the time you were in school. Who? Who would the school system? If there's like a, like a parent, the idea that a parent will come in and go, my kid and take the kid's side versus the teachers. Oh, yeah. I think that's new. I think that's, that would never have happened when I was growing.

Well, yes, but that's, I mean, you know, I think people have time on their hand more now and they're, it's not, it's not cut and dry anymore. And it's all kind of loose and everything's kind of like, you know, you can get degrees and you can get all. Like, you know, you got to think like the way everything is now, we're so, it was just. like us growing up was like we're we're not a hundred and when we grew up you were still on the tail end of this like there's no internet there's no access to even and it just all kind of work structured in communities and it just went forward like that yeah and then now you're like well we know what china does or any country in the world does because I can see and how they're doing it and then they're like well we do it this way and it goes great well it does because you are in

a village that's like beautiful and perfect you know what i mean like whatever it is and so you just have all these different like different ways and then that's where i would imagine the public school system has got to go all right we need to let's let's counteract this we what you should be doing is competing against private schools and you should be like we should be providing that kind of level to where there's not you know all these people starting their other schools or you start other schools and public schools are just going to go the other way. Right. And you get into like a mail, the mail system where it's FedEx

or people are using this other kind of thing. And then you're like, well, then that's kind of what it is. And then school is, you know, it's kind of what happened in Nashville. When I was growing up, Nashville public schools there's a ton of great schools. Right. But in the last 10, 20 years, everyone's pulled their kids out in the private school. So then what's

left is not great schools. Right. The school is also... Magnet schools. Yeah. Charter schools. The schools an extension of the neighborhood too it's like if the neighborhood is terrible and drug ridden and violent then people go well the schools aren't it's like yeah but the school's an extension of the yeah it's not it's not it's not it's not it's not it's not it's not for i don't think it's necessarily like on the teachers there's probably a much bigger problem it's not on the teacher yeah it's a much much bigger problem and it's putting the teachers the parents to fight

where you want to go someone up someone else needs to come here and be like we got to look but the teachers are thrown into these situations yeah yeah unwinnable situations And you're lucky to even get some of these teachers that, like, the fact they even go in there is, like, to be honest, you're like some of their angels that they even be willing to go do this. Totally. There's major understaffing in schools. Last year long, 400,000 teacher positions either were unfilled or filled by teachers not fully certified for their assignment. Nobody wants to be a teacher anymore. Well, no, the suburbs, they want to be a teacher because they make better money and it's better conditions.

They don't want to be teachers in the city because they don't make. as much money and it's it's rougher it's rougher conditions so that's the big misconception there's a teacher shortage in certain areas but there's not another areas yeah everybody's fighting for the same wants better jobs better situation median annual wage average is 63,000 a year some states more some less Nashville is about 52,000 but 90% of teachers say they spend their own money on classroom supplies, on average between $500, $750 of their own money every year.

Did you do that? I did, yeah. But I was like, that wasn't, that was the least of the problems, the bigger problem. I mean, different, I taught in three different districts. The kid he had to fight every day. I didn't care about the

five of them. It was every morning I walked in, this one kid out of fight him to get to my desk. He goes, that was where I had trouble. Let's go. You taught special education, right? Yeah, I taught kids with emotional and behavioral problems. So 12 kids in a class. But it's just different challenges in different areas. I taught in a city school. I taught in a behavioral school. I taught in a city school. I taught in a working class suburb, which was the best situation

because the parents were supportive, but not overbearing. And the administration was supportive. It's a very blue collar. And then I taught in a wealthier area. And that had its different challenges where it's like either the parents were not around or they talk to you like you clean their toilets. You know what I mean? So it's like different challenges in different situations. Do you think if you had done stand-up comedy, you would have stuck with education? Well, that's the thing with if you're in a bad situation, like the situation could change over time. So you're in there five years.

You're making a certain amount of money. You get married. You buy a house. It's like, well, I want to quit this now because it's a nightmare. It's like, well, now you can't because you're making a certain amount of money. you're not going to make it anywhere else. You can't quit your job now. Now you have to bite down and just figure it out because you have other people, you have a wife,

you have a kid, you have a house, people are depending on you. So you can't leave. And I saw that. I saw at the end of my teaching career, I saw that's where it was headed. They were like, you're going to, because I quit my job. I didn't like the way my year went. So I didn't like the way I was dealt with by the administration. So I said, I'll just leave.

I'll just leave and look for another job or figure it out. Mid-semester? No, no, no, at the end of the year. Middle of the class. I just get up. It's over. I'm out of here. At the end of the year.

But I could see what they were doing. It's like you could get, and the same thing with like policing and these other difficult professions. You could get locked in and then, you know, you can't leave. You just can't. You're living for your family. That's the whole system design. It's designed to, yeah, it's a trap. Yeah.

It can be a trap if you're in the wrong situation, yes. You know what an IEP is? Yes. Individualized educational plan. Did you have one? I had one myself. For yourself. Yeah, for yourself.

No, each kid in a special education classroom has an individualized educational plan. They don't get grades. They have goals. Goals within the plan. It's actually good for every kid. It's good for every kid. They have goals within the plan. Instead of grades, goals.

Oh, yeah. Goals. Yeah. I do that to myself. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so there's a lot of comedians or former teachers. There's at least two tours I know of, of teachers.

I've been on a couple. Board teachers? Really? It's a great tour. Yeah. What is it? A cruise for teachers? No, it's not a cruise.

They might have a cruise, but it's just different venues that you go, and it's all teachers. And you're on the show with, like, four other teachers. And everybody does, like, 20 minutes. Oh, you're performing four teachers. You're performing four teachers. Yeah, and everybody performs. You get to do all, like, you get to do, like, teacher crowd work. Yes.

Like, teacher jokes that you all get. Right. That's fun. Yeah. I did a show once opening for Joe Dombrovsky. I don't know if you guys know him or not. Yeah, I know, yeah. And he, his crowd just loved him.

All teachers. Yeah. Hated me, but loved him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But poor teachers is a great tour. That's fun. Just to get to do comedy in front of people that know, that you know that job very well.

Yeah. Well, it's the, like, you're doing the show in the Philly, where you get it, you're just resonating. So that's what his, what Philly was like is he got to do a arena full of teachers. Yeah. And I go, what are, if the show, jokes not going well, I go, what are you guys, part of the administration? Yeah. Yeah. Apparently, finding some schools, teachers have to find their own substitute if they're out that day.

Oh, that's not. I never had to do that. Yeah. So a Nashville teacher created a new app called Subby, where you can go on and, find you find like there's sometimes it's probably like a decent job as a comic now

because you could just be like a substitute teacher and just like pick it up now and just go like oh yeah because I always hear people some like they go I substitute teach sometimes

yeah I imagine when you substitute were you a substitute no but there was the thing was there was no YouTube back that I told my kids

like when I was teaching high school that I did comedy yeah and they were like cool and that was like my night thing but there was no YouTube there was no social media all that came

later. So now it's got to be very difficult, I believe. I would think, yes, I would think so now. To do the two. Yeah. You almost got to use a stage name or a fake name or something. Yeah, but it's hard to remain anonymous with everything. I don't want to come off like I was bashing. It's not that hard. Parents or, no, I think he did.

But I'm just coming back. God forbid a teacher have a dream, Mike. No, he was defending the teachers, right? I was defending the, I could defend my people, the teachers. Yeah. I think people don't, you know. Let's do some more not fun stuff The key and pill substitute teacher sketch

Has 226 million views on YouTube The key and pill substitute teacher support group sketch Has 334,000 views on Aaron's Instagram Oh, how about that? It has way more than that Oh well not as of this morning That's the most vital thing I've ever ever made Was I did a sketch about that

You know the sketch, the key and peel The Aeron? ARAO Yeah, yeah, that's a great one I'm still, I'm in every day somebody brings that up to me still A-A-RON. Yeah. Yeah, that's the most viral thing I've ever done was a sketch.

Where was it biggest at? Which? TikTok and Instagram. Okay. It probably has 15 million views across all the platforms. Wow. People resonate with it. But that sketch is so, so viral, dude.

Yeah. And I came out and I was in college and it was like referenced all the time. I mean, just the next day. A-A-Rone. I'm A-A-Rone everywhere. And then, yeah, D-Nice and all. All those names. It's very funny.

Yeah, it is. It's the best. All right. Movies about teachers. You got a favorite? There was a movie called Teachers. I don't remember. It was Nick Nolte.

Oh, I like the substitute with Tom Barringer. Ooh. That's a good one. Dangerous Minds. Dangerous minds. What about only the Strong? That's where they did the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The guy goes in and he teaches the bad kids and teaches him Jiu-Jitsu.

Okay. Freedom Writers. Lean on me. Oh, Liam on me is the best. Best of all time. Kill your brain cells, son. You kill your brains. Dead pot society.

Dead pot society, sure. That's another good one. Finding Forrester with Sean Connery. Yeah. It's sort of a teacher. It's a good one. How about two sir with love? Oh, I didn't have that one.

That's Sidney Portier. That's an old one. Well, I was a teenager back then. I don't think I could even think it. Like, I guess dangerous minds. A school of rock. School of rock. School of rock.

Pretty funny, low on the list, but it's still good. Dead Poet Society has got to be the best. Is it substitute like a scary movie or... Substitute is Tom Barringer. It's like Dangerous Minds, but with Tom Barringer, basically. How about Summer School with Mark Harmon? I just watched that the other... Yes!

I love that movie. One of my favorites. I think Dead Poet... I don't know. I think Dangerous Minds is maybe up there above it, I think. Above what? Dead Poet Society. Why?

Because there was this wave of movies where white, women go into black schools and... Is that what Dangerous Minds is? Yes. Was that? Freedom writers. It's great movie.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, how's it? Like, that's where you see the rotten tomatoes is 34%. You're like, that movie was huge and like, you're like, what does that even mean? Evan had that song. Culeo had the song?

Yeah, Coelio. Yeah, I mean, that's the only song that everybody knows. Dance of Paradise. Oh, it's 64% popcorn reader. I feel like it did better than... It was way better than that. Yeah, it was way better at the time.

Critics didn't like it, but. People liked it. Yeah. But, yeah, the Tom Berringer one was a playoff that. Only the Strong was a bit bad, too, but. Some TV shows. I guess Will Goodwill Hunting, is that teaching? Yeah, I would say so. Robin Williams was a...

He's a therapist. But he's still teaching. You guys are stretching. We are stretching. You are stretching. I'm sorry. I gave the complete list, guys. Everything else is a stretch.

Now, TV shows. Abbott Elementary, probably the biggest sitcom on today. Oh, I just watched. watched AP Bio with the guy who I watched that Season 1 is unbelievable Yeah, it's very funny

He's great He's a great actor He's a real drop off right away But season one was unbelievable AP bio I did watch Welcome back Cotter

Save by the Bill Head of the Class I guess say by the It's more about my kids Totally about school though Right Yeah, that's true Well then Breaking Bad

Yes Friday night lights Yeah Is about I've still never watched that whole movies? Oh, okay.

I think I've seen the movie. I never watched the TV series. You read the book? No. Those who can't? Can you watch that? I don't think I ever started it. Oh, it's so good.

You know, it's the one show that I remember Ted Alexandro, very funny comedian. And he called me one day out of nowhere and just goes, have you seen Friday Night Lights? And I go, no. He goes, I think you really would like it. I think you would appreciate that, man.

I think he was. Yeah, I was thinking about that. Like, that was it. Just a good, just a wonderful person, just going. He had a very funny web series called Teachers Lounge. He was a teacher, by the way. He was a teacher. He was a music teacher, Ted.

And he's one of our, he's a great comic. Yeah, he had a very fun web series. Yeah, teachers lounge. He has a lot of jokes about teaching. Yeah, that's funny that came up. And, yes, the very, very funny jokes about teaching. Yeah, he's a great comic. Yeah, those who can't, it was, is it the Grawlix?

Is that what? Yeah, the guys from Denver? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was their show. And Roy Scoval was the principal. It was very funny. Oh, wow. Yeah. And songs about teachers. Hot for teacher. Hot for teacher.

Oh, yeah, that's the best one. Another brick in the wall. Yes. Oh, what about we don't? No, no, that's another brick in the wall. What about schools out for summer? It's in screen. I like that one.

Schools out for Alice Cooper. That's when teachers are not involved. Yeah. Well, it's still about it, though. Yeah. all right that's teachers teachers all right we did it covered it all thank you for your service yeah no thank you for having me on the are we are we winding down or we're winding down this is it no this is

well thank you can I do a big reveal I did a reveal on stage uh yeah over the weekend crack the cracker barrel you're listening he's wearing a cracker barrel short dusty I didn't know that you were representing the face of cracker yeah the face of cracker barrel But I want you to know that I'm on board. And if you need another face, maybe somebody from the north, I'm a candidate. Yeah. Yeah. Are those commercials still running?

I don't know. I've seen them. I bet they are there. Yeah, okay. Yeah. All right. My neighbor told me they were running quite a bit. She alluded to the fact that she was sick of seeing it.

Yeah. I've seen a lot of it. Yeah. I saw a lot of that. I'm sick of you on Cracker Barrow. I'm sick of you at the airport every time I'm there. Yeah. Check your bags.

Snake Bargets you check your bags. Someone's got to tell them, man. That was one of my goals. Make sure it's your suitcase. It's Dave Burgessi. Yeah. I'm trying to get my bag. That's because you're here.

It's too much. You know what? I'm going to start calling you when you're there. So you can do it a double-dose. Just remind me to check my bag. Oh, I have flashbacks. Yeah. Just to go, he should, yeah.

I jump. He does need to check his bags. Yeah. You've heard that? Y'all heard that? I heard it one time when I was in a bookstore, and then I saw your book on the shelf in the airport. Yeah.

There is a lot of nade in there. Yeah, that's too much. Yeah, yeah. You want to talk about your week? Turn up. Sorry about this all, you know, worked really hard. Yeah, I'll be in South Carolina, nice.

Columbia, Jacksonville, and Orlando this weekend. Very, very, very, very pumped and excited. The tour has been great. And then Redding, Pennsylvania. Yeah, then it'll keep rolling, man. And we're, yeah, we love it. We're having a blast. We got a new dog.

I don't know if he's going to get all the dates, but he'll be, Philly will be there. Not this weekend, so actually don't. Yeah. This is Brian Bates speaking. Can I say thank you guys for having me on?

I really appreciate it. Yeah, we're going around. Are we going around? Yeah, yeah. Okay, well, I didn't know if we're closing. No, that's really nice of you. We are, but we're going to go. You'll have the floor.

Okay. Well, let me know when it's my turn. Okay. I'm sorry, folks. That was Mike Vickham. This is Brian Bay speaking. Let's see. The Home Before Dark Tour comes to Huntsville.

This Sunday, 6 p.m. show. It'll be over by 7.30. You'll be home before dark. Come on out. Great time. A lot of people, I did. Is you calling it that, or you just made that up right now? Now, somebody, was it somebody on here?

Or maybe somebody wrote in. And I think I just said. Why would it not be called the easy to drive to it? Well, it is. But it's morphed into a bunch of different floors. Easy to drive was the That was the tour name Easier to drive, yeah

I know Yeah, it's good It's been It's What did you just I'm just trying to help you out By going Maybe don't change

A tour name up Every five cities Well it's not Home by Dark That's good though Home before Dark Yeah Yeah

It never had an official name Because quite frankly The places I'm going These days Are not easier to drive Thank you very much So So

Anyway I am in Chicago August 31st at Zanies. That's a 4 o'clock show, so you'll really be home before dark for that. Then, uh, good thing in Chicago, right? Right? That's dangerous. Yeah, it's very dangerous. Then Cincinnati, Newapolis. And, uh, Brookhaven, Mississippi. All right. Oh, yeah. Perigool, Arkansas. You don't have to keep pulling those up. That's all right. Yeah. I'll stop when you stop. You started it. So, okay. Yeah. All right. Go ahead, Aaron.

No, Mike. You want to save him for last? No, I was joking. Because I jumped it. Because he jumped it. Because he jumped it. I was going to skip him completely. I didn't know what we were. I'm sorry.

I was confused. I didn't know what we were doing. Please, I have some dates of my own. These are, I didn't update my website. So I'm sorry about that. Des Moines, Iowa, August 15th and 16th. That's this weekend. Nice.

At the Funny Bone. Hartford, Connecticut. The Hartford Funnybone, Funny Bones love me. And I love them. I love the funny bones. Yeah. In Nashville, Tennessee, right here, the Zany's Lab right after Christmas. Awesome.

So 26th, 27th. At Comic Mike V on all social media platforms, please follow me if you don't. And I appreciate going on your tour, Nate. It's unbelievable every time. And I appreciate being on the Nate Land YouTube page. And if you haven't watched my special low-income white, I put a lot of work into it. I do not even have my own podcast. I put everything into stand-up.

So please go and watch it. I appreciate it. It's great. That's great. Aaron Weber here. The Grove Comedy Club Lowell, Arkansas, at the end of this month, August 22nd, 23rd, throwing out the first pitch of the minor league baseball team. Nah, I've been saying it for a while.

The tour's about to kick in, dude. Apparently, you gave the wrong name of the team. I did give the wrong name of the team. I'm sorry about that. The minor league baseball team in Northwest Arkansas. That's the one I'm doing it for. So that, and then that's all I'll plug now. I'm with the Opry on Friday, but...

Okay. On Thursday, I'm doing a cracker barrel corporate gig. Nice. Yeah, and then Friday, I'm in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And then the next weekend, I got a Zany show on a Tuesday, the 19th. And then I'm in Prestonburg, Kentucky, and Princeton, West Virginia. Oh, wow. Awesome.

Wow. Where in Milwaukee? Papps? Paps, yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Paps, yeah. Yeah, that's great. All right.

All right, that's it. We love you. Philly. Say bye. We love you. All right. Talk to you later. Bye.

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