The Nateland Podcast - 266: #266 The Generations ft. Ryan Hamilton

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

This week, the guys are joined by fellow comedian Ryan Hamilton to learn about Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and more as they discuss the Generations.  MUD/WTR: mudwtr.com/NATELAND Start your new morning ritual & get up to 43% off your @MUDWTR with code NATELAND at mudwtr.com/NATELAND! #mudwtrpod #ad     Helix: helixsleep.com/nate Go to helixsleep.com/nate for Labor Day Sale: Best of Web Offer August 15, 2025  to September 8, 2025 for  27% Off Sitewide Exclusive for listeners of The Nateland Podcast!   Factor: FactorMeals.com/nate50off Eat smarter at FactorMeals.com/nate50off and use code nate50off to get 50% off your fist box, plus free breakfast for 1 year.   AG1: https://drinkag1.com/nate Use my link to give the new AG1 flavors a try, plus a FREE Welcome Kit: https://drinkag1.com/nate #sponsora

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Hello, folks, and hey, bear, welcome to Nate Land podcast. I am Nate Bargetsy, sitting here with Brian Bates. Hello. Aaron Weber. What's up? Dusty Slay. Okay. And sitting in with us is our lovely friend, Ryan Hamilton.

Thanks, Nate. Welcome back. Thanks, buddy. It's a whole council here. We look out that we're going to make decisions. This is it. Very serious. We're the judges of the next comedy.

We come up, the opposite of kill Tony. We just go, yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on, you can still do it. That was good. No, that was great. That was great. It's called Help, Nate. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

CPR. are. Well, just we're reminding you guys. Nate presents the showcase season three is here. Tune in the Nate Land YouTube channel for the premiere of Nathan McIntosh. Very funny. Very funny, dude. His showcase premieres this Friday night.

Also, we are taping Ryan Hamilton's Netflix special. Yeah. That's a big deal. Two shows October 4th at the Neptune Theater in Seattle. Great Theater. Yes. it's a very cool spot yeah we chose it for that reason yeah it's a nice one a few tickets left for the 7 p.m and tickets all available for the second show at 930 so make sure you go do that it's a big

one it's a big one for us is this Nate land's first Netflix this is a big well I'm honored you better not bring this whole thing down Ryan oh boy it better be good I'm honored. I can't wait, buddy. I'm honored. Thank you. All right. Well, we've been,

I don't know what I was doing. We got Philly back today. Where she been? Adopted a dog. I saw that on Instagram. Named it Philly. Yeah, that's her water. Oh, yeah.

Well, great. Well, we may have watched that. I think we washed it. She drank out of it last week. We watched it. Maybe. Yeah. I'll take my chance.

That's the gas cup. The gas always drink out of it. of that. We don't know if it gets washed in between. Oh, I see, I see, I see. Well, yeah, we didn't. Now people are going to be watching if I actually take a drink. And then for weeks after to see how you're doing. I guess we'll see

how thirsty I get. Yeah. Yeah, better keep it your voice starts going. You need to drink again. I don't think I'm fine. I'm okay. I think it's the humidity. Yeah. So, yeah, we got just got her back. I let her

go and see if she came back. See if she really wanted it. Did you? No. That would be, could you do that with a dog? He just go, you open the door and go, do you really, do you really love me? That's how I always do. We took her to get her, uh, trained.

Uh, she's got worms, so it's fun. Oh. Yeah. Take a drink, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, but now she's, uh, yeah, she got trained. Uh, and so we got her back and, uh, she was excited to come back. and yeah

Wow, that's exciting You guys all pet Philly there huh? Yeah Now I heard you say something like you would You kind of wanted a road dog Is that the idea?

Yeah, so you're gonna take? The idea of it is To kind of have a dog To kind of come out with me on the road That's great It's gonna be my daughter Is very excited too So it's uh

It's gonna be some balance with that Yeah You know Philly wants to She wants to, She's always wanted a dog to sleep With her in her bed Yeah

And our other dog just doesn't want to go up there. Right. And this one seems to like it. Okay. So we're going to see. Yeah. Either Philly or Holly, some dog I will occasionally be bringing out on the road.

That's nice. I'm going to let Philly get a little bit. She needs to, she's been on such a whirlwind because she, you know, she was in Philadelphia and then traveled me. Then she just went to training. Right. So this week, she's not going to come. And then next week I think we're doing a little more training because with, she had the

worms. It was like, that was the reason her, she was kind of like chilled out. I was very, I was like, we were like, man, dog's pretty chilled out. He goes, yeah, it's got worms. You go, oh, that's, okay. A real road dog should have a few worms, though, I think. Yeah. I think a lot of them do on the road. Yeah. Yeah. I think everybody's got worms out there.

Yeah, we probably all do parasites. They say we all have parasites. Of some sort. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But, you know, that's, they say the most common cell in your body is foreign, it's not your own cells. The most common type of cell in your body is bacteria and other stuff. Who's they? Dusty. Yeah. Aaron doesn't listen. See, it goes other ways too, Aaron. If I told Aaron that, he would say, that's not true. Yeah. So I like that you brought

that. I'd like that you brought that in today. I'm trying to think if I would believe you. I believe you, but I like that you brought that in. I don't think I believe you. More common than red blood cells, white blood cells. Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Other people's cells? Not other people's, but like bacteria and stuff like that. Wow. There's a lot of red blood cells.

Bacteria has a lot of cells in it. So you're really multiplying it. Hold on. Hold on. I got to find it. This is saying something different. I got to find that. I played a trivia game this weekend. That was one of them.

Every time I come on this podcast, we get deep into science. Yeah. We really go to it. That's what we do. try to step it up when you come here right i like it i like it to show off a little bit we just heard as aaron looked this up he just goes hold on it's not giving me the answer that i want let me fix that keep trying i'll fix it hold on somebody lied to me this week oh yeah look at that what's blood cell it's most abundant blood cell so i like dusty he's like i still believe you

i believe you more now yeah yeah yeah that's the bad dusty yeah all he is is He's like, yeah, then my answer's never show up. They don't want them to tell you the truth. They don't. They don't want you to know. You might want to go try Duck, Duck, Duck, Go, if you want to see the real, maybe type it in there. I think Duck, Duck, Do is compromised now, too. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Once they start advertising it, like I was seeing it in LaGuardia, they were like, oh, get on Duck, Duck, No, no, you've lost it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But I guess they, I mean, they have to probably because, uh, do they, they have to probably because do they not make any money? I don't know how that works. Yeah.

Because if Google you make, how does Google make their money? Ads, a lot of it, I think. How else would it be? Duck, Duck Go doesn't have ads? I guess they do. It's just there's not a lot of people on Duck, Duck Go. I think there is quite a bit now

because they think they're not being tracked. Right. But, yeah. Oh, maybe. And there's no escape. I would think if you're on Duck, Go, is it because you don't get like cookies, and stuff like you can just accept everything

because when you're done it's done I think it's like if you use Google maps like Google can go in they can see everywhere you go everywhere like they can see where you live where you work everywhere you go when DuckDug Go is supposed to not be tracking supposedly yeah but now you feel that Duck Duck

Go is tracking you I don't think there's anything not tracking you now that they're advertising yeah Doug Doug Go is talking to Google I mean we're not talking middle of nowhere so Google goes out so Google goes up to Duck Duck Go and goes, hey, where's Dustin? You go, I can't, you know, I can't tell you where he's at.

We know. And then they go, we know. We know where he's at. And he go, come on. And he's like, look, I'm not, I'm not going to tell you. And then they go, we're going to go this way. And he goes, I wouldn't go that way. I wouldn't go that way.

He goes, I wouldn't head that way. Yeah, it's like the game. It's like the Duck, Duck, yeah. We were on the Duck, Duck, for a little bit, but now we're on the go. Yes, exactly. Exactly. I knew it as duck-duck goose. Yeah, duck-d-d-goose.

Yeah, I knew it as that, too. I don't know why we said, I agreed to that, but I knew it is duck-d-goose, too. Goose is just go that kept going. Okay, you know what I mean? Right, right, right, right. Goose. Yeah. Here's an article from the BBC, more than half your body is not human.

Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists, which includes bacteria, of viruses, fungi, and archaea. All right. And it's the BBC, so you know it's trustworthy. Let's put that. We can file that in the, I quit Karen, the longer it took you to find the answer. I just had to wrap it up, had to put a button on it.

You know, now we're ready to move on. Yeah, but we don't even know if it's true. I found what I was looking for. Yeah. It's funny you standing that way, I guess, if you have a lot of bacteria. Yeah. James Gallagher, a presenter All right

So, yeah, I got Philly back I was in I'm on my side I am Florida Florida I was in Florida Yeah, Jacksonville Great, great shows

Jacksonville's on blue Orlando We're somewhere else right You threw out the first pitch At the Jacksonville game Jumbo shrimp Columbia South Carolina Yeah, Columbia South Carolina Awesome

I did It was cool because So Jacksonville Their whole setup They got the arena And the baseball stadium We're next door to each other And then across the parking lot

Is where the Jacks play So it's all right there Wow And the So they asked me To throw the first pitch out And I was very intrigued

Because they go The show was at The show's at 7 p.m. And the first pitch was 6.52 and then I'm like, well, I'd like to try that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd like to see how that goes.

So we ran over there and did it, and it was really, really close. And so we were, but... How was your pitch? The pitch was good. I threw hard this time. I like that you have the confidence to throw from the rubber now. Yes. It's like you're never going in front of the mound ever again.

No, I mean, this one, the guy was like making all the... He was fixing the mound. I would have if it was like a, you know, a guy trying to make the mound. If I go staying on it, he's like, I got to go do that again. I would go in front of it. But no, I went to, they were like, go to the mound. And then I, but I committed to a hard throw. So I threw some heat, which was good.

But it was a little, I still dragged it over to the left. I was throwing nice heat in the pitching warming up. And then, you know what, I think it is the mound because you just got to get used to you're throwing down. How high the mound is, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I threw it hard, and then we went into this show. So, yeah, it was super fun.

Shows are awesome. Man, it's the best, dude. That's amazing. It's the best. Went to Universal and Disney. This weekend my family came down. That's what I was like. Yeah, well, you're in Orlando.

I go, they ain't coming to Reading, PA next week. No offense, Redding, but, but there, yeah, they came down. So we went into Universal and saw the new Epic. The Universal was a new theme park called Epic. Oh. Pretty intense. And they've been on in there. A lot of stuff.

Mario World, How to Train Dragon. It's a brand new part. They haven't had a new park in 26 years. Wow. And so it's the Nintendo World was very cool. like a lot of fun rides and they have like a mario go-kart thing you would think they would have that yeah yeah they had a they had a train that was yeah i mean a roller coaster that was mario cart that's cool and so it was yeah it was a super awesome party they had this one roller coaster

called the star duster and it's this it was enormous and it was intense i haven't rode a roller coaster that intense in a while wow and uh yeah like when you got off you're like i mean it's a lot What kind of stuff? Like upside down or like fast? Really only one upside down, but a lot of like up and down and just so fast. So fast. So fast. Wow.

And so it was, uh, it was pretty intense. This is what I'd like to see at a Mario cart. I'd like to see you're going along and then there's a banana pill on the track. You hit it and then all the carts spin, right? Yeah. And then later there's a green shell that chases you or red shell that chases you. Yeah. I think that would be fun.

Yeah. Maybe I wouldn't go there then. So. But it would be. No, you know, it's built into the rod, right? They actually had a roller coaster that does spin. Yeah. But it wasn't that one.

But the one that we did, it had like track is broke. And so it's crazy because the way the roller coaster is it's attached on the bottom. So you're really not, it looks like you're on this track that's completely broken in a bunch of different spots. That's cool. And, I mean, it gets you every single time. Yeah. Because you just turn a corner and the tracks broke. And then, I mean, so you just have a.

like a moment of like it and then you just go over it and uh so it was done yeah it's unbelievable they had power blocks that you could go run around and jump up and hit oh that's fun uh yeah really cool part wow making a roller coaster seem like it's broken that's the scariest thing you could do oh yeah oh yeah and it would get you it'd get you because you just be you think you about to go over it so wow yeah hey you're wearing a suit there is this new this is new I noticed that online, and I thought this is new. Yeah, how did it feel, Nate? How did it feel?

I think it felt great. It looks good. I mean, you always worry about, like, your material and stuff and, like, you know, you don't want to be too good or too whatever. As a comic sentiment, but you do worry about the suit. Yeah. But these shows are getting so big. It just doesn't feel right, to be honest.

Like, it's like, it's, you know, these people are coming out. They're very, very excited. I'm trying to meet them with the professionalism that I think they meet me. and so you know I don't have a tie on or anything but got a fun shirt underneath it it makes you feel good is that the shirt you're wearing now it is no it's not this is another one but yeah it looks like it but it's uh if I still had it on I go wear it all week yeah uh yeah so I started wearing that uh more it shows and you know you still got some stuff that's maybe but it's just a kind of an elevated look uh just you know I'm the

shows are just so big man there's so big that you're you know it feel like it's the right thing you do yeah yeah so uh yeah it is nice you're you're a suit guy i wear a suit a lot i'm trying to decide what to wear for the special that's why i was kind of i think suit is you think suit yeah i'm i was thinking about doing casual i've been talking with seinfeld about this and he he he wants you to do he doesn't he's a he's all about oh sorry yeah i'm chatting with jar bear over here no because uh he's we're always talking about what to wear and and uh he said something very funny he said nate shows are amazing these guys out there but and they're all wearing their raking leaves jackets yeah that's what he called it the raken leaves jacket i said i think i might

wear a rake and leaves yeah he likes it i don't think he's ever raked lives that's why he calls it a raking leaves jacket yeah he we were laughing about that but i think i don't know in a stadium it feels like you can do a lot of looks, I feel like. Yes, I think it, I think with clubs, and I think, again, it's a buildup in the way you do. I mean, especially when he came up, suits and that stuff was more popular. Right. And I think as stand-up became, you know, it was conversational and all this stuff. So it's, and as these, I mean, you look at the picture, it's such a big room.

And these rooms, they're getting so, so big. And, you know, you see people dressed up and, you know, people go out. I know they, you just, I want to do everything to show them the, that I'm giving it my all. Yeah. Just because I know that they got babysit. It's a whole, whole thing to go out. So, yeah, that's when I started doing it in really the past few weeks. I've tried it sometimes.

You know what helped was when I did that, the Christmas special, I wore tuxedo. You kind of want to because you meant to tell you, when you put on a suit, it's just not that much to think about. Yeah. As when you're putting everything. on. I mean, I have some other stuff that's a jacket and looks, it's not all just a suit. There's some other things that are different looks. But it's, when you put on a suit man, you just like, you put a jacket pants on and you use that shirt and their shoes and then you're, you're not thinking about anything. It's amazing. Yeah. Now, do you feel it changes your performance

a bit when you're in a suit? I don't know. I think my performance is just changing with just where it's at. Right. So I think I do feel more you can feel a little bit more confident and i'm dressing to the occasion that we're at yeah if i go up at zanies here like i'm not necessarily going to wear a suit if i'm right club weekend you're not gonna yeah i'm not going to do it but for that where that is and how we're in the round and i'm moving a lot lot more now uh oh i really play to the cameras yeah so it's you know like i'm i know where they're at and i'm hidden them and you know facial express so it's uh it's a it's a it's very fun. It's a performance. You get to use all the tools that you want to use as a comedian

at the beginning when you could do facial expressions because everybody's so up close. And now with screen and how big it's gotten, I can go back to using those tools. And I'm more comfortable using them than I was when I first start. Right. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. It looks good. It's great. What about you? When you do spots around New York, do you feel different than... I just ask, yeah, sometimes I feel different when I put a suit on on stage, you know. I don't do it that often anymore.

I mean, when I'm doing a theater show, sometimes I'll wear a full suit or like a casual jeans with a suit jacket or something. But when I'm on the road with Seinfeld, we wear suits. And I feel different. No leaf-raking jackets.

Are you offended by that? I mean, I just think it's... I've never heard that term. I just think that's so funny. I thought it was so funny. I love it. I wear a leaf raking jacket. It's like we're always looking for like...

You're raking a lot of leaves? Well, not these days. Okay. I had leave breaking days in my life. I just feel like it's really hard for comedians to dress because you got a suit or then like you kind of need some jacket. Yes. You know, it's like if you're just in a t-shirt and it's hard to find that jacket and

you want something that looks good but is not distracting. Well, your persona is kind of built into that. Right. Not distracting is a bit. big one. Yeah. So sometimes the suit is the least distracting thing that you can wear because everybody can like see it and then they go, all right, he's wearing a suit and then they move on. Yeah. Where if you have letters on it or if you have like logos or a lot of stuff crazy on it. I'll get a lot of like, like the Orlando Magic gave me an awesome Orlando Magic jacket

and I used to wear, I would try to wear something like that. But it was like, it's very busy. And so you're like, it's fun to walk out there at the beginning with it. Right. But if someone's trying to watch an hour, I don't need you have focused it on the jacket or if it being so busy or you, I'm trying to make you, like, leave, you know, in a sense, reality, not reality, but I'm trying to get you on a ride. But if I'm doing eight minutes, I can wear it, right? Yeah, of course.

Well, Julian. I mean, yeah, they're in the bathroom anyway. So, yeah, it doesn't matter. You should dress like them that are in the bathroom. It's you can wear your raking leaves jacket I get the raking leaves It's something about like you know magazines Like you they show people wearing leaves

But it is like a rich guy trying to describe like I like that you're also like you know in magazines So people are wrecking leaves I think it was just making a joke And I think for the reason It sounds like you are taking it Crazy serious No it's just funny to

No it's a term that I don't think anyone's ever used And I think that's funny Yeah All right, as long as you think it's funny. It's okay, funny, but he's, yeah, he's like, oh, yeah, Nate's guys. He's, they're just wearing leaf-wrecking jackets. I think he's making a joke. It wasn't specifically about, yeah.

I'm making a joke, too. He's talking about all laughing. Yeah, are we? Yeah. Yeah. Every time, every time I'm around Ryan, I start picking his brain about Seinfeld. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Don't look like you don't know that, because. Yeah, that's true. You do. Oh, yeah, we went to lunch. That's all we do. went to lunch a couple months ago yeah sorry i forgot my wallet but um he said i had breakfast yesterday morning with sinfeld and that's all i wanted to talk about was the rest of the time i like talking about it too because he's always you know it's just like talking about comedy yeah yeah yeah

because every conversation is about comedy so it's like it's fun to talk to comedians about it yeah yeah i always having conversations with them going i want to tell my friends about what we're talking about it so it's like nice to talk about it yeah yeah i agree yeah um dusty doesn't agree. No, I do agree. Dusty's hung up on the... No, I think it's funny. Yeah.

Okay. Guys, I'm making a joke here. I'm not friends with Seinfeld. So I get to... Seinfeld's still a celebrity to me. So I get to make fun of him. Oh, sir. You guys are like, oh, this is my friend.

I would make fun of him too. No, I agree with him. I'd make fun too. I just didn't... I thought it was like taken. Like, I think Seinfeld is just making a joke. I don't think Seinfeld is going to call me and go. Oh, I heard you're talking about my leaf.

Well, you don't even wear jacket on stage, so you're a joke. You're a step below You're a shirt though You wear a button down Sometimes That's basically a jacket I'm kind of going the other way I like to dress down

Yeah But I'm almost doing what Burt Kreischer does You're so close It's coming halfway up Yeah I'm gonna start I'm just just a jacket

No shirt underneath I may bring a rake out with me I may rake leaves on stage Well you do like collecting leaves Yeah, I rakely never wear a jacket when I do. Oh, okay. I rick leaves.

What if it's cold out of? You get hot raking. That's true. Raken's hard work. You may start with the jacket, but it comes off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're doing it right. You know, I tried mud water.

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His first was 2008, and his second was now also in Slend. He hasn't had one for almost 20 years. I mean, golly. well it's not right it's not leaf jacket funny but it's decent I'm a

I treat you like a celebrity I'm a fan of your still so but I didn't even know what to ask money wise in 2008 and I think I priced myself so low

that word got around the town and this was a Christmas party I got booked for four Christmas parties in two days in Salina Kansas in 2008 none of them went well they were all terrible

there was one that was so bad that the lady, she's like, I want to surprise our staff middle of the day lunch and then the way there she said we got another party coming up in spring let me get your number and we head back

I'd like you for that one too it went so bad that we just sat in silence the whole time on the way back Oh, in the car driving back Yeah, she picked me up

and how long was the drive? That's a good question I don't know, 30 minutes Oh yeah I mean I wonder yeah Was it a 10 minute ride or two hours? So, I mean, yeah, it's like...

Yeah. Yeah, it was just for blue color. It was just a bunch of guys in a little of one. Did you put headphones in? I don't know. Anyway, this time... Big Bo's headphones? 2008.

He was just going over a set list again in the car. He goes, I got my calendar open. If you were going to go ahead and tell me that spring date. I never heard from her again. But this time it went much better. No one seemed to remember me. It went great. It was fun. Stayed in Wichita. I think it's the first time I've ever been to Wichita.

So you did for the same people? No, but it's such a small town. Like, I really thought somebody might. That's your spot, Salina. Yeah. Five corporate gigs you've done in Salina. They were overwhelmed when you walked in. You're like, Tommy.

You know the whole town. Tea dog. Tea dog, what's up? Remember me? And they're like, I don't know. I bet you do. 2008? 2008.

Uncomfortable night. In 2008, you did four gigs. and then now you did one this year. So you've done five gigs in Salina. Yeah. That's a lot in Salina. You've done all the gigs in Salina. I think that.

I'm known as Salinas' favorite comment. Yeah. But anyway, it was fine. I stayed in Wichita and there was the arena across from a hotel. And I'm like, I wonder who plays there. And I look out the window and it just says, Nate Bargatsy, big dumb eyes tour. It was almost like Seinfeld with Kenny Rogers Roasters.

I just see blue and yellow lights coming through my window. It's just your big eyes. Yeah, and then last night I was in Huntsville at Levity Live. First time I'd been there since it's Levity Live. You used to be Stand Up Live, Levity Live. A lot of folks came out, had a great time. Thank you for everyone who came. There we go.

How was it different than when it was Stand Up Live? Just the backdrop is... But still the same? Greenroom, same. Drinks are cheaper now, I would say. They've redecorated the green room a little bit, but it's the same green room. They get rid of all the signatures on the wall? No, they're still there.

Okay. Yeah, it's just covered. Your name's still on the wall? Well, I saw your name on there. I feel like that, you know, a lot of clubs, they limit who can do it. And I feel like with that one, they let it just go to anyone who ever even walked in the room. Yeah. And it got pretty out of hand. Yeah. That's interesting. You don't like that I'm up there, do you? No. No, it's not you. But you see people that like, they don't even do comedy anymore. They maybe did an open mic there. Yeah. And they've taken up a lot of space. the wall. And it's like, if you go to a place where it's like only the headliners can sign the wall, you read and you go, oh, that guy, that's, you know, I like them, I like them. But when it's everybody, it's just a bunch of mess. Yeah. It is a mess. It's not as, you know, when you go, you had a comedy magic club and they have this, which is on the wall and you're like, it's cool because you're like, oh, wow. Yeah, you recognize the names. You recognize the names and then it makes you, like, feel like you've accomplished something where. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

if you go there and it's just, you're like, you know. Anybody that, like, friends of the comic are on the wall. Yeah, right. This guy was hanging out. Yeah. Yeah, maybe you should be like, you should headline. You should have to headline. I think so.

One night or a whole weekend? I guess you... It's tough for my sake. Yeah, yeah. What do you want to say? I guess you got to give them one night, but... Yeah, you have, you have a, you do have a lot of one night guys come through, though. I think they should give them a template.

And it's like a thing, and it's go, if you do one night, you get, you can put it in this. And then if you headline, you get bigger temper. Some people write their whole, they'll cover up the whole. I know. And I'm like, come on, guys. Yeah. Come on. I saw yours.

It was pretty big. I don't think so. You put individual dates for every time you're there. Yeah, each time I go back. Sold out. Sold out. I didn't do that. Okay.

I don't think I did that. All right. I don't think I've never sold on a show. I don't think. I was just at Chattanooga, and they said, sign the wall, and I said, okay, I'll sign the wall. But they said, we only let people who sell out a show sign the wall. So they actually have criteria out there. I didn't know that.

There you go. And I signed by your name. I found your name, and I signed. Okay. I have sold out in Chattanooga. Yeah. Apparently, you're on the wall there. And I said, the whole weekend, or just one show?

And they go, just one show. I go, okay, I guess I'm able to sign the wall. You were close enough, but we mine. I like that if they let you. I've had it where you sign, but we've had it like where you're... I remember Chris Rock, I did open for him at D-Pack in Durham. Uh-huh. And they let all of us sign the wall with him.

I thought that was a little, because I was an opener. And you're like, you know they want just him to sign it. But I think they kind of were like, no, everybody can sign it. Yeah. And you're kind of, that's a little loosey-goose. You're like, you almost want to go, I think you should probably keep it to just, I'm not signed it. Yeah. I'm not one to tell you, but you kind of want to go.

Yeah, the arenas are cool because they're like very individual and you get to see everybody. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. With clubs, I like putting the date each time because then when you go back, you can really track, you can go, oh, yeah, I was here these times. you don't have to re-sign the wall, but you write your data in there and you go, yeah, and you can see when you were there.

I'm just thinking of this now, Acme in Minneapolis, have ever been there? Only for an open mic. Oh, they have a grid system. So you get, like, this is where you sign your name. Oh, yeah. And then every year, they have every week. So you can see who was at what week.

Oh, yeah, that's awesome. You know what, I was the same way with Acme. Weirdly, like, it's funny that you've only been there once for an open mic. I never went there until the very end when I was going to theaters and I requested at me because I just never got to play it. I wonder though, it's like,

I don't know if it's like if you're, like it's weirdly, if some people schedule, some people's, as they come up, it fits like where they're in it all the time. And then it's funny that you say that because I also was the same.

And it wasn't any, it just for whatever reason, I think I might have done all of America, whatever, you just end up not getting in whatever. And that was like, such a famous club. Right.

And so I remember right before I was going to theaters, I was like, well, I want to do that. Yeah. Club. And I remember they had that, yeah, seeing that. That thought that was awesome. It's great. Because then you can go through, you see how long people have been headlining at that club.

And it's very cool for us comedians. I didn't open mic five minutes. It was great. I loved it. I mean, I would love to go there. But, yeah. Yeah. One of the thing Leavley Live has now is a clock in the back of the room, which is great.

Oh, yeah. So you can see how I've been up there. Yeah. Yeah. Count up, countdown, or just... Count up. Yeah. Yeah.

That's nice. Count up. Yeah. Yeah. Then you know how long you went over. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Where were you at?

You were in Chattanooga? Yeah. And then Sunday, I did a pop-up show here at the lab, which was really fun. Yeah, that was great. We did 4 p.m. on Sunday, which made me feel like I should do all my shows at 4. Yeah. That's what I've always said. It's great.

Yeah. 4 p.m. only. Really? I know. Not 4 p.m. and then a later show. 4 p.m. I could do three, and then let's call it a day. Yeah, yeah.

That's great. We do three. You do three o'clock? Yeah. When you're doing three in a day? Two in a day. Two in a day? Yeah, we can't do, we've never done.

Never done. You can't do three. Can't do three arenas in a day. I'm sorry. Come on, Nate. You've tried. Yeah, no, we do two. You do a three and a seven.

Wow. And then if we have a third. Turn the room around. Yeah, we have a third. You just do the next day. Right. But, yeah, if it's, you can only do three and a seven on Saturday and a Sunday. so a lot of times you have to just go like one Wednesday one Thursday and then you might go somewhere else

okay these past few days we've spent two nights in Orlando uh rather than doing two shows in one day yeah yeah i don't uh we were just there Saturday and Sunday yeah I don't mean some might not just do it for whatever reason or right it's a lot to do it so if you know if they can't do it they're just have it go those two days but yeah yeah yeah a three P.m. shows are great. And I think people love them because they, you know, it's like, I mean, it's five p.m. Yeah. You're, it's great. Go eat. Yeah. Depending on the city, they can get out of there before it gets dark. Yeah. There's no risk. Right. Yeah. I loved it. Yeah. Aaron, where'd you go right now? Right. Right now. I'm not going to lie to you guys. That was a close

one. Yeah. I'm sorry. I wasn't out of the way. That's all right. I didn't realize. I thought you You were dialed in, man. You were dialed into the podcast. Yeah. Where were you this weekend? You went in there and sang what song do you sing? Horse with no name. That's a, if people at home, they're like, do you hear a horse with no name?

In the distance. In the distance. I was at home this weekend. It was a grand old opera. It did some shows there. It was great. Okay. Pitting the road again this weekend, but I've been taking it easy.

All right. I did a cracker barrel. corporate gig down in Orlando a lot of fun i was in Orlando yeah i did uh oh wow yeah what night were you there Thursday night okay i wasn't there too yeah i did uh for like the corporate for the managers yeah more yeah all the big time all i met yeah i mean i know everybody at cracker barrel wow yeah it's a big deal and uh okay that's kind of nice you can walk into any cracker barrel and go the manager knows me yeah i you know boot barn i've done the boot barn one for the managers too so i feel like boot barn and cracker barrel i got you know i got the hook up yeah at least with saying hey to

people right i don't give me anything free but i'll be able to say hey any boot barn you walk in everybody's kind of like yeah look who's here i know that's what i'm saying and then i did madison wisconsin at the overture theater which was very nice madison is such a great city it really yeah i hung out after a little bit downtown really great see dustin icerson i know he was doing the club we text but yeah yeah yeah didn't workout and then i did uh milwaukee wisconsin and um the paps uh really great theater it's a great theater uh milwaukee i've had a you know i went went to an old i went by an old club i used to do with the comedy zone called uh it was called jokers it's closed now now it's a place called

silk was it underneath yeah it was underneath and uh and then i went by the hotel that i used to stay at. And it's all so run down over there now. It was run down then. But it's so sketchy now that I'm like, I cannot believe that's where I was staying. And it was, I went to Milwaukee for the first time. I had not even been out of the south that much at that time. And I drove to Milwaukee. It was raining. I went to my hotel. There's a bunch of homeless looking people in the lobby. And then I kind of checked into my room. You're a homeless looking person. Yeah. Well, I wasn't back then. And I checked into my hotel room, which was, looked like it had been broken into in the past.

And I got in my sleeping bag and laid on the bed and wondered how I would stay there that night. Wow. And then went to the club and it was not good. So it felt good to be at the PAPS. It felt good to be at a theater and go, look how far I've come in 10 years. Yeah. It felt very good. And is that why you went there to have that experience?

That is why I drove up there to those places. I had a little extra time, but it was pretty shocking to see. It was worse now than it used to be, but it was, gosh, I was like, man, there's no way I would check in there now. Wow. Every car in the parking lot looked like it had been involved in a destruction derby race. No headlights. No headlights. The people getting out of their cars looked like.

like they were just going in there for a few hours. It was a disaster. And I was like, this is great. Let's go downtown Milwaukee and, you know, get a little scared there too. Downtown Milwaukee is so beautiful, but it looks like that not a lot has been going on in the last few years, which is too bad. They're beautiful buildings. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But just doesn't seem like a lot's happening.

See the Fawn statue? I did see the Fawn statue. Fonds, Fons. Yeah. And I really like it, but I was like, we could use an industry of some sort. You know, it feels like it used to be like they would probably do a lot of manufacturing. It's where Harley Davidson was started. Oh.

But. I like Milwaukee. I always have good shows there. I had a great show. I feel like it's kind of underrated. Yeah, the show was great. The hotel I was in was like, I mean, it was so beautiful, but just seemed dated. Yeah.

You know? Yeah, yeah. It's one of those where it's like, yeah, it just bums me out a little bit because I'm like, it, it, like, seems like it could be doing better. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I feel like a lot of cities are like that now where you go there and you see how, Cleveland is like that for me in a way where the cities are beautiful. I'm like, this is, some work really went into this.

Yeah, yeah. You know? Yeah. Makes me sad sometimes. All right. Well, thanks for coming out in Milwaukee. But I had a great time And the shows were great

And I do appreciate the people coming out But I'm just saying I think that You know, even in your own hometown Wherever you might be You couldn't look around and go There was a time when this was going better than it is Oh yeah

Yeah So you know what I mean You're not trash You're helping I'm not trapped but I'm just observing You know Yeah Yeah

Yeah I got you're traveling You know a guy who like basically threatened to kill me on the street That's all I'm sorry. Well, now we're just getting to the bottom of it. Just start with that. Yeah.

That's what I'm just telling you. Yeah, I'm just telling you. What had? He just said it was crazy. Yeah. You know. Yeah. I had one of the worst accommodations ever in Milwaukee, too.

I went to the condo, and it was under a dance club, and you were sleeping, like, in a speaker. Oh, yeah. And I got in bed, and the sheets were all wet. Yeah. They had not put, they had not dried the sheets. Yeah. Oh, bro. So, yeah.

It's like, I had one. yourself yeah that's what i told myself so i got if i put the sheets of the dryer i'm standing there and then somebody i didn't know walked into the condo oh this must be the comedy cafe when that was around that place and he was digging up in the kitchen counters and he goes and i go hello he goes yeah i just got to get my stash and then he grabbed whatever it was and left and i was just standing there you're there at the same weekend isn't that crazy uh no i i actually did an open mic in company this is crazy yeah well comedy condos are crazy like Yeah, that was a crazy one.

And there was a door leaning against the wall that it was just a door, and there was a new door. And I asked the guy, what happened? And he goes, oh, somebody got angry at the comedian, and they kicked the door in last week. So we had to put a new door on. Wow, wow. So was the show downstairs?

No, it was like they owned the club also. Yeah. They owned this nightclub dance club. And so they just put the comedians at the top of this dance club. Yeah, it was bad. It was one of the worst in Milwaukee. Not Milwaukee's best. Yeah, those stories are, we all got one of those stories.

You know, I was walking down the street after being threatened to be killed. And a Nateland listener, Allison, and I think her husband, Gio, came running out to greet me. And we took a picture on the street. And it was very nice. They were there for the show. And they're big fans of the podcast. Nice. So there was some positives.

But they were from Chicago, I think. So they came in. I'll tell you, that's a good ratio. One to one, people don't want to kill you and people that. Yeah. Did you do anything to prompt this guy? No. Well, Connor Larson was with me and he kept, like the guy kept saying stuff like about mental health.

And I kept walking. And Connor kept being like, we can't understand you. You know, and the guy, I don't know why you're even doing that. And the guy goes, mental health. And I was like, Connor's like, and then he threatened to kill us. Okay All right Well

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Has it? I've never found Jackson. We had the absolute best time. One thing that seemed to catch everyone off guard was the Duval chant from the crowd. It sounds an awful like booze. It has been the weirdest local tradition or chant from a crowd

that any of you have experienced across the country. Yeah, so they go Duval, but they do the do. So I knew what it was, but the last time I was there, they did it right when I walked out, and I did think it was a movie.

Oh, wow. They do that at your show? it's they it's like you bring up like I don't know it's not like the it's like you bring up anything Jacksonville like yeah so in the Eagles

when I played Philadelphia there was right when I got up there's one and I might have said something like uh I think I made a joke about I go I'm here from the Titans to get A.J. Brown back like you know and then and then that just is like

E A. G. L. Right. They do it. Yeah. And then I said I was like You've got to let them just do it. It's like a dog. You've got to let it run. Yeah, yeah. Now, just let them get it out. Don't fight it.

Let them do it. Yeah. You get a lot of that in Alabama. If you bring up college football, the roll tides just don't come out. Yeah. You're like, you got to just get it out right now. Yeah. But who's Duval?

That's the county. It's the county that they play in. So that's third champ. Yeah. Yeah, Jacksonville was awesome. Kelly Pertle. Thank you, Nate Land, for introducing me to Ryan Hamilton. I've been catching up on his shows.

I freaking love Ryan. comedian and a human being. Oh, that's nice. Thank you, Kelly. Very nice. Lydia P. Dusty with the new glasses. Was it new? Yeah. It look awesome.

Yeah. Yeah, thanks, Lydia. Yeah, that's a good notice. Thank you guys, yeah. A lot of people. I don't think I noticed. That's okay. I don't expect, you know, other dudes to notice.

Any reason for the change? I just, you know, I had to get, you know, a new prescription. And you have to go see the eye doctor. And you have to go see the eye doctor. And then. And then, yeah, you get to, you know, you get to choose some new glasses. And my others were pretty raggedy. I still wear, I still got a couple of pair that I wear.

Yeah. Doesn't look good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, yeah. Thank you. Would you ever do Lysick or you?

No, I don't think so. I don't want people digging around in my eyes. Anything. Yeah. Not even your eyes, just in general. Well, yeah. But I don't, yeah. I mean, I feel like it's like, it's like one of those things where it almost feels greedy to me in a way, right?

where you're like, you have vision, but you're like, you know what, it could be better. So you go in there and they start cutting on your eyes, and then they go, oh, messed up, you're blind now. Yeah. And then you go, I could have settled for just glasses. Just glasses. Yeah, just some glasses.

But instead, I had to go, no, put a laser in there. Yeah. And I know people do it, and it probably would be successful. Did you? Yeah, yeah. I did it, I mean, a long time ago. Does it wear out? They have to do it again at some point.

But now look what you're calling your eyes, you know. Yeah, big dumb eyes. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I have no respect for me. I can feel mine starting to, I think. Yeah. Just recently, because I went to the doctor, and I was always like 2015 vision, which is insane.

And then the last time I did it earlier this year, I was 2025. So it's like, it's starting to turn. What's perfect? 2018. 2020. 2015 is better than 2015 is better oh wait maybe yeah I had one

maybe I was 2015 yeah but then 2020 is yeah perfect 2015 is like an eagle okay you're unbelievable okay only doctor said he's only seen

a couple people with it I swear that's me wow yes the one eye doctor I went to I know he said it but he's just telling you that The one-eye doctor. I like the idea that he's a one-eye. The one-eyed eye doctor.

I think there's only one eye that was the 15. But said, maybe I wasn't 15, but I was pretty close. And he was like, I've only seen two people that are 2015. My pediatrician told me I was the strongest boy in the planet, too. You could be a lollipop after. Hey, this guy wouldn't have lied to me. It's a one-eye doctor. Yeah.

S. Padgett's stuff. I started my 23rd year of public school teaching today. Thank you for this week's podcast. My call to attention in classes, hello folks. My students hear me say that. Their response is, hey, bear. Of course, I have to explain to them where this comes from and they have had to explain it to a few adults as well.

So I'm slowly working on introducing the entire building to the Nate Lane universe. I love that. That's great. That's awesome. Yeah. Way to go. Trevor Burkett

A seventh grade math teacher here In a way I feel like teachers are somewhat on the same level as comedians With trying out their lessons Each class ended evolving from class period To class period I'll try different jokes or examples With different classes and see what works

So by that last class I've perfected it I could see that We talked about teachers last week Yeah Oh okay And if I'll get a heckler you can send them to the office.

You can't really kick them out of the show but just for a little while. That's nice. This kid wants to be a comedian. Yeah, it's a teacher. Oh. Grown man.

And you can't go. Oh, seventh grade math teacher. Yeah. And you can't go. But good luck, Trevor. Trevor does sound like a little kid's name. That's what I got in my head. Trevor just keep plugging away, buddy.

Brian Farr. I cannot believe that between five comics, not one person could recall the best movie about teachers ever made. Does no one recall Mr. Holland's opus? We're not into band, guy. Yeah.

It, more than any other movie, follows a teacher's life across multiple decades. You know, my, the, like, teacher we had at our school, whatever you would call this kind of guy, his name was Mr. Holland too. Oh, really? Yeah. Was that his name?

Yeah. Yeah. His name was, yeah. Whatever, Mr. Holland, and then Mr. Holland's opus came out. I remember that. That had to be weird for him. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I don't know. I wasn't in his class, but I don't remember.

Aaron, did you like Mr. Holland's opus? It's okay. I haven't seen it a long time. Why? It just seemed like a kind of movie you'd like. It is the kind of movie. It is, because it is band. I mean, he's a music teacher.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think I saw it. I would watch it just to make fun of him. I'd heckle Mr. Holland through the TV. Yeah. What's his last name opus?

What's opus? Opus is like your masterpiece. Oh. So this was his opus. This was, yeah, Mr. Hollins. I'd like to see it. Yeah. So he was an aspiring musician, and then that didn't work out, so he became a teacher.

So his opus was really his students. Is that right? Wow. Yeah, yeah, I guess I mean, I haven't seen it in a long time. I don't remember the plot, yeah. I don't think that really. he makes S. Padgett stuff, or Trevor Burkett really happy. You're like, oh, I wanted to be a musician. That didn't work out, so he became a teacher.

Yes. Yeah. Joseph, a point that I'm not sure the guys grasp of the paper folds is that with the 41st fold, you're only halfway to the moon. The 42nd fold is half the total distance all on its own. That's exponential growth Yeah, we get it, Jesse Yeah The 43rd gets you all the way back home It's true, yeah, 43rd gets you all right back

So Ryan Yeah If you've listened in the last year Yeah You know this? Well, I know, I don't It doesn't matter I'm sorry

Yeah, I won't worry about it Will from online I've got to thank Aaron for mentioning the yard ball I got so excited when he mentioned a small other ball just for throwing and playing catch. I ordered two that day. My coworkers know I'll always have it in my hand

and quick games of catch in the office has brought us together. Thank you, Aaron, for turning me into another ball guy. How about that? How about that? I'm spreading the gospel a yard ball out. Sure, his boss loves it. Yeah. Just throwing ball all day.

Well, you haven't worked in an office in a while. That's what they're doing in these offices now. there's very little work in these offices everybody they got nerf guns they're you know they're not even sitting in chairs they're sitting on medicine balls corporate america is this is what it is now you're going to be throwing a ball around yeah that's all they're doing i talked about the yard ball on the podcast and i you know we just talk on this podcast i never think as nate used to always say people are listening right the the guy who invented the yard ball deemed me and said heard you talking about the yard ball he's sending us all custom yard balls oh good all right that's what i'm

talking about because i heard they're pricey i feel like this guy's bragging about it he bought two two yeah it's worth it somebody posted it and said they can be a little pricey and uh i'm sure it's a good ball but i'm happy to be getting one is what i'm saying yeah yeah thank you aaron yeah um quality's expensive that's right you know what i mean it's a great ball yeah is it that pricey i mean it's $20. They're more than that. Yeah. But it's like a hand stitch.

Yeah, it's like a nice, awesome ball that will go last for a long time. That's what I'm saying, though. But a ball, you know, you can get a couple of racquet balls for, you know, a few dollars. Yeah, but there's not the same. We got one this weekend because I was trying to get, we got like a little softball because I was having done that first pitch. And it's like we all missed Aaron's yard.

And we missed the yard ball. Yeah. Because even this, this ball was like, it was hard. You would need a glove. even though it was soft it would just be a little bit hard if you just sat there it would feel weird

it'd feel like you're throwing a baseball back and forth where errands is like a perfect mix like there's so that's why there isn't really a ball it's like a soft ball but softer

yes but that's softer ball a softer ball exactly but it's got some heft to it it's weight it's weight it you can throw it it you can throw it far I mean it's really unbelievable yeah that sounds cool

So there's a lot, if it's, you know, there's a lot of stuff that goes into it. Right. It's not just like a racquetball, you know. Yeah. It's a quality ball. Yeah. Rocket ball is very fun too. Yeah.

But you can lose them. Those are you going to lose. I hit a guy in the eye one time with a racquetball. We were in a cabin and we were throwing it from wall to wall because they're so bouncy. It would bounce all over the walls. And I hit the guy right in the eye on accident. Off the wall or straight into the eye? No, just straight from my hand.

It was, uh, I felt very, very bouncy. Nate knows a guy if he needs some eye special. Yeah. Is that Nate's doctor? Matthew Parrish, the preacher at the church this past week said one of his favorite homework assignments he gives to couples during marriage counseling is to put the kids to bed and watch a Netflix comedy special

and said Nate and Dusty's name specifically. Good clean comedy that couples can laugh and enjoy together. I was tempted to blurt out a hay bear or we're having a good time, but decided to just go with a good old-fashioned, amen. All right. That's cool. I appreciate that.

That's very cool. Church? Yeah, I mean, that's a progressive church. Yeah, you're pushing it. But, yeah, I'm into it, though. Spinsling shirts. Yeah. You're either, they shouldn't be saying your name

or you're leading that church. There's no in between. Yeah, I'm more for the office, these guys with the Nerf guns and stuff. Card balls. Yeah. Yeah. Chad Davis, our family of six is looking forward to seeing Aaron this weekend in Lough, Arkansas.

At our local club, Dusty is depicted in a huge mural on the outside of the building. Yeah, I got to, it's Lowell. Lowell. They're going to be bringing me up and being on the outside. I got to know. People got to know where to find it. Lowell. Just to remind Aaron to qualify to be considered for the mural, you need a, you need to,

need a standing ovation from a sold-out crowd. No pressure. I don't know if I ever got that. I think it's going to be a while. Have you seen your mural, Dusty? I have seen it, yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah.

There it is. It goes back inside. They put the hand up too. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's a big mural. Yeah, that's a big mural. That's cool.

And how many do they do? They got a bunch or just one? I think there's four or five. Wow. It's four comics and then one of, other guy that, I don't know who that guy is. Is it like a sold out thing or something? I think he just, that's just who Bill likes.

Yeah. Bill just likes us. Yeah. Dusty went there when the club opened and did it a lot before it really took off to what it is. The old club. I was the last comic to do the old club before it closed. He gave me a bunch of steaks out of the coer. Are any of the other comics up there on the wall here at Zanis?

I don't think so. So you're only one that has two. It's Greg Morton, Linda Stogner, and Stuart Huff. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's an eclectic. Yeah. I like it.

It's all four people that have never played Acme. That's true. Yeah, it's true. I don't know. Greg, maybe. Greg might have played old. It would be funny if you, because it would be funny if you go. And I've been on, I'm on this side of it, too, that I'm on.

I never did, but it's like, you can see a face that you're like, yeah, yeah, we're definitely not the ones that have, you're always at the other club. Oh, yeah. I'm not saying that's the other club, but it's just, you know. That's the only one. Yeah. Yeah, that is the club. That's the club.

But yeah, I've, yeah, when I go to Minneapolis, I play St. Paul. Oh, dear. Yeah, so I'm across the river. Okay. Yeah. Chad Davis, or no. and Moores. I had a late-night drive home from work trip, so I took Aaron's advice and put my phone on the dash and turned on Dusty Special. Laughed the whole way from Pensacola to Birmingham,

two places that know about wet heat. I bet you weren't the only one on that drive. It's how long Dusty Special is. You can listen to it all the way from Pensacola and Birmingham. Wow. Well, that's... He hadn't finished yet. That's the idea. That's the idea. He finished on the way back. Aaron Weber here. Between my busy tour schedules and all my summer plans, sometimes all I've got is a couple minutes to figure out what to eat.

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Yeah. And that's how it. And it was his generation. Yeah. And who had, where does Tom Brokaw get off? Yeah. Is this a generation that they sent off to wars? Yes. Yes. It's the World War II, January. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, we got to give you something. Right. Just ruined your lives. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I'd say that he was, you could read, he was a newscaster, which nobody, nobody knows, you know. I go, if you know who Tom Brokaw is, it's a real room device. because nobody knows, or you really know. Yeah. But there were just three of them. There was Tom and Dan and Peter, all disciples of Christ,

just three solid white men who would read you the news. Yeah. And, yeah, Tom broke out. He wrote this book called The Greatest Generation, and it stuck. I really think that that's where it came from. It is. Yeah. It is.

Yep. Yeah. Did nobody just, nobody referred to that generation as a group before that? I don't think people were talking that much then. it's like in a weird way you're like yeah i don't i don't think people talked about had probably enough information about just even the world and i think that's right and so it's that's what's crazy when you think about how new we are as even a world and like communications and seeing other hearing about other countries flying being able to get to these other countries

and all this kind of stuff it's very new very new and we probably shouldn't have that much information it's probably not good to know everything bad going on around the world all the time yeah yeah you know because it's like too much if you do care it's too much emotion yeah like you're always got to be like oh i feel sad for people because there's always bad things going on right and it's like we should just be sad about like what's going on right around us there's enough sadness usually in the general area i agree I mean, it's like, even with social media,

we know, everyone knows everybody's political views now. Yeah. Very often. Yeah. You know, my parents' generation didn't,

yeah. Didn't know anybody's political take. Yeah. What do you call people older than greatest generation? Do we even go back to that for? I didn't, it's called the lost generation.

Dang. And that's people, uh, that fought in World War I. Okay. From the loss to the greatest, just like that. Yeah.

There's only like a couple hundred people left. alive that were alive during World War I. There are people alive? There's still people alive. There's nobody who fought in it, but there are people who were at least alive during the world. The oldest person alive today was born in 1907.

Wow. She's 117 years ago. Wow. So she, I mean, we're, they put her in a home. Yeah. Yeah, probably. She currently resides in a nursing home in Spain.

the nerve of them even in Spain you expect it in America but in Spain you think you know what maybe they would keep them Spain feels a little more family oriented

yeah I think even I think there's a time limit and she's and they're probably all right you've outlived your grandchildren

yeah so we're gonna her children are probably in nursing homes her children are probably maybe dead probably yeah probably yeah i wonder yeah what is like her i mean yeah she's like that old she probably had kids at

15 so they're 100 yeah oh yeah that yeah i bet her old i wonder if she outlived her children all of her oh yeah she's bad to have oh she died oh really oh you're gonna blame that on me oh it happened you're killing people retroactive in real time she died last year yeah she's a hundred So AI's a little... She had three children. And so, like, what did it say? Like, you know, what did she... Yeah, when did she have kids?

Did they say when she had kids? Yeah. She got married in 1931, had three kids. Yeah, so she died in 24. So, I mean, yeah, I mean, her... Her children had to have... Yeah. 11 grandchildren.

It doesn't have the dates of them here. Yeah. to be that old though it really is a shame that there's not more than 11 grandkids you would you know just think you lived a long time you would think you'd have 11 kids I'm sure she has great grandkids too though her husband died in 1976 and you think at the time I mean that was a 45 year marriage you got's a good long marriage yeah and then she's around another 38 years no yeah almost 50 years oh yeah well 48 years yeah wow wow yeah she yeah she yeah she yeah she yeah she yeah she yeah she She lived longer than the marriage after the marriage, all right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. She lived for another 40 years. I bet if you're like that, you could have got remarried. You probably don't even remember your life. Like, it just feels like a movie. Mm-hmm. You know, because it would be too hard to, you know, be like, you remember in 1940?

You'd be like, what? Like, you almost can't tell if you've seen something in a movie or if it's your, and you know she actually looks pretty good for one 17 yeah crazy do you know what I mean though yeah she looks like an old lady but a hundred and 17 years old yeah yeah I know people in their 80s who look like yeah yeah still miss you only got they made her blow her candles yeah yeah she only got one she was my age when World War II started wow that's crazy did you guys know any of your great grandparents how far back did you guys know any i knew one of my great-grandparents yeah i barely knew my grandparents yeah i had uh three three

that i met three great-grandparents wow that's a lot they died pretty young but i but i remember i remember meeting them when you were when i was young yeah yeah yeah that makes more saying yeah i think so too i don't i am i'm i can't remember too but i might when i was yeah i knew my great-grandmother pretty well until I was in my like mid-teens I think how long does she live she was born in 1901 I think and I think she lived like 89 years or something like that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but it's amazing to talk to people it's great to talk to people of an older generation just to talk to them because you do realize how much happened in their lifetime like the people who are old now I mean, the world's changed more than, I wonder if it's changed more than it will change in our lifetime, you know.

Oh, I think ours will, because it's going to, I mean, because you're just going to, with the technology now, it's going to be just like. Keeps going faster. I mean, like, your life might, like, you know, it's like the humans probably can't. They went through like so much, like, strain and, like, wars and like that kind of stuff and you couldn't just access to stuff. But, I mean, we're, it's, I'd imagine with technology, it's going to be every, I mean, because look, every year, think about, like, even how quick it's been from us, just getting a video game. You know, like, I had a Sega Genesis, and then you had Super Nintendo, and all these games came out, and they were like, it was crazy that you could play these games.

And then I remember the first, like, Xbox, and you're like, look at this Madden and stuff. to be now you have AI and you play a video game. You can't even tell if it's a real game or it's not a real game. Yeah. And it's just going to get crazier and crazier. And that's only been... I don't know if it'll get crazier from growing up to riding, from riding horses when you're kid.

Right. That's what I'm asking. Now you can take a plane anywhere in the world. Her life change. Oh, yeah. So much. Cars is pretty wild. Yeah.

It's a pretty wild thing to say. Do you think that's a crazier jump? horse to plane from car to driverless car? No, but that's pretty wild to say. It is. I mean, we're going to see some crazy stuff, but I just think like when this person was born, so much happened in the 1900s. You were maybe more prepared because like it's, you know, everybody talks about it so much now. That's true. Yeah. So you think like, yeah, I mean, I figure one day you're going to be able to get in a helicopter and fly to your work or, you know, I don't know. I'm open somewhere. Huh? You'll get like beam somewhere. Yeah, I'm

open to anything kind of from half like from when i was a kid like we like you know you had tv that was like just a few channels to basically carrying a tv in our pocket that has everything is pretty crazy yeah that is crazy black and white i mean yeah black and white color was like what the 60s or something yeah and then it was like they was like a big deal that introduced the color and now you're so in my parents life they went from black and white tv to they watch on their phone In bed. I mean, we actually got to that where the teachers would be like, you're not always going to have a calculator in your pocket to where we do always have a calculator in our pocket. Yeah, that's true.

That's funny. Yeah. So that, Great's Generation is roughly people born between 1901 and 1927. And there's no official body that determines these groups. Yeah. It's just kind of, you know, social science researchers, as it said. Tom Brocah, just random people can kind of create this. But they went through World War II, the Spanish flu.

One lady survived the Spanish flu and COVID. Oh, wow. The start market crashing. Here we go again. All right, so the next was the silent generation. The silent generation? Yeah, I never heard of that. So we go from the lost generation to the greatest.

Yep. To the silent generation. Yeah, because the greatest is a little mouthy. Yeah. And then, so the greatest brought down their parents who raised them and said, no, they're lost. And then their kids, they go, it's dumb kids. This is kids born roughly between 1928, 1945. So they were born during World War II.

This is my parents. Joe Biden was silent generation. They call it that. The silent generation. I would think he was in the lost generation. They call it that for a few reasons. They also call them the lucky few because there were a lot more kids being born during this time because the war was going on. Okay.

So there are a lot smaller group. A lot fewer kids being born. What did I say? More. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, a lot fewer kids being born. I was like, what was happening back on? Yeah, I was trying to figure it out.

Yeah, I'm glad you correct me. then there was the baby boomers this would be your parents people born uh between 1946 and 1964 okay yeah yeah um so the idea of baby boomers is they come back from war boom let's have some babies that's right so the population doubled the united states during this period wow wow wow uh 76 million babies born during this generation uh president clinton was the first baby boomer president but he waited a while to say president I don't think he was the first one

president Clinton was the first baby number one and then it was generation X which is I think myself Ryan that's me I'm Gen X well what's those years yeah what are the years for Jen all right we'll get there born roughly between 1965 and 1980 okay

but now we're getting to some subgroups so in between baby boomers and Generation X there's a group called Generation Jones

and they were kind of on the people on the fringe and that's where the phrase keep it up the Joneses first started these were people

that started looking at what their neighbors had and you know started to get more materialistic what was

when was that that's in between baby boomers Generation X yeah then we get into Generation X was 1965, 1980

they also called it the latch key generation because that's when kids started coming home from school. Right, I remember hearing a lot about that. Parents weren't around. When I was a kid. That's where it started to... Yeah, they would call us... That's when both parents started working. Whole country started to slip away at that time. What's

latchy? Latch key? Like you're latching the door. Like, come on with the school bus and there's nobody at home. You had your own key, like to the house. They would call you because you had to come home. All started to go down the drain. Yeah, yeah. It's also called the MTV. Milwaukee was doing great before the latch kid.

Right. Yes. That's where Milwaukee was everywhere went down yeah it was also called the MTV generation because kids grew up on MTV

how big of a deal was MTV to you guys your childhood it was big it was I would we didn't have it

it's like we didn't get cable I never had it either I was allowed I wouldn't be allowed to watch it but like you would go to it

if your parents run home it was big TRL it was I mean I was very Carson Daily TRL that

yeah MTV was everything. When I first went to New York, I mean, I remember the first thing I did was would go look and see where they did TRL. Really? Wow. Yeah. Like I was like, because in Times Square, they would show that window

and all that MTV was... What's TR? Total Request Live. Oh, yeah. I've never, like, to know how big Comedy Central MTV, VH1, and CMT and BET, all those Viacom, to know how big they were, I've never seen anything like,

be so big and then like basically irrelevant now it's like really wild to see well MTV I think was the first one and it was by far the most revolutionary I would say yeah because they I mean those things are huge music videos were really the beginning of it and there used to be Friday night videos yeah you ever hear about Friday night videos well I didn't have cable either so that's what I would have to watch yeah yeah yeah was country music television they had a lot of videos age one had a lot of videos. Didn't Henry Cho host that? He hosted for a couple of years.

He hosted on NBC for a while. Yeah, interesting. BET had comic view. I used to watch a lot of that. 106 and Parker used to watch. They used to do rap battles with it. Comedy Central had the Comedy Central Presents and a lot of fun TV shows. Yeah.

So these things were all like culturally that really important. It was so great. Yeah. It's when video games first became prevalent. among kids Atari Right Atari

That Mario Kart reference you made earlier I didn't get it Well you had Atari Mario Kart I like the old school game It's not this new stuff From the early 90s

Super Nintendo I think was the first Mario Kart And it was unbelievable I knew Mario Kart I never played it So I don't have the same impact with Mario Kart As I hear other people

have it. It wasn't in my... You're maybe three years older than me? Yeah. I just never played it. So that's a big deal for little kid ages. So yeah, I mean, Mario Kart was my age. I remember it. I know a lot of people played it, but it was yeah, I don't remember. It's huge. I still play. I have an N64 at the house that I still play. 64 stepped it up. N64. Yeah, it took it to a different level. We had a PlayStation 1

that our aunt gave the family and then my brother unilaterally traded it to a kid in his class for an N-16. without consulting the family at all. Wow. Oh, wow. He was just like, I think this is the right move for the future of the family. Yeah. And boy, did he nail it. I mean, nobody plays PS1 anymore.

But that N64 is timeless in a lot of them. But even then it was... I don't know if it was a smart decision at the time. 64 was great. 64, I mean, it was really great. You had, I had friends that had it, and you had, you could have the four controllers that you could play with. You had Smash Brothers. The Golden Eye.

Yeah. I felt Blitz. Yeah. I played on that thing. was a WWF game where it was like you could do royal rumble and have four people operating wrestlers at the same time. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. I think PlayStation 1 would have been back then. Well, those were the two kind of comparable things at the time. Yeah. So it made sense as a trade, I think. It was like a one-to-one trade. Yeah. But the N64 aged way better.

Yeah. I agree with that. Yeah. Absolutely. But PlayStation 1 was like crazy. I agree with you. When it came out, we were furious when he did it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he was a visionary. He was, he was smart about it. Yeah. But it's pretty crazy to just do that without consulting any of the other family. This is the family's thing.

The PlayStation 1 seemed to get raggedy pretty fast, because that's what I had. And over time, it really seemed to get ragged. Well, the N64, the graphics were cartoonish, so they've aged much better, right? Yeah. All the PS1 games are realistic graphics, and they look horrendous now. I had taken. How did you ever play on this? I had Tekken, though.

Tekin was on Louisville. Teching, fighting game. Street Fighter was on N64, right? Yeah, and Super Nintendo, yeah. Yeah, oh, and Super Nintendo. Street Fighter 2 had so many variations. There was about 10 Street Fighter 2s. Right, right.

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The Oregon Trail Generation. Yeah. I have a joke about it. from what age what years so this is the people in between Gen X and millennials they're also called the lucky ones but no no years though

I have a joke about it it's it's right around 1980 okay some people think this is a good joke there's a good joke Ben it's still relevant now it works yep yep it'll always work

and they're also called zenials yep and lucky ones is the good it's uh they called that because they started with an analog childhood but a digital young adulthood oh yeah so it's you know what that means it's yeah but i mean i'm born in 82 i would say i mean i fit into that too i was born yeah well it's not a perfect science you're trying to you're trying to get in it wasn't digital when we were around but it's it's it's that three years

matters a lot as you just said a lot happens in three years a kid and it's uh it was i mean I mean, now I feel like it's more like two. You're born in 80. I'm 82. You're, I was born 79. Oh, 79. Okay. And then.

A couple of guys born in the 70s. Yeah. Yeah. I graduated high school in the 90s. Wow. Three of us here. Still doing comedy in the 2000s. And then, yeah, when were you, 70?

76. Yeah. Yikes. Did we even do that one? I don't know if we even covered that one. he's in his own oh no I got it yeah

you found it okay yeah it's in there we're cataloged you're in there I can't recall I can't remember my memory's going yeah so it's

but in ours was your yeah you like you grew up a good part of your remembering 79's different that is a different decade well my brother's 80 my brother's 82

yeah So it's 82, yes, you still grew up with this old kind of thing, but you got to think by the time you're born, I'm three. Like, I kind of start remembering stuff. So then you're like three more years, you're six, seven, eight, and then, you know, I can keep going. You tell me when you... This guy's good.

You stop me when you want to stop him. He's in the pocket. But you're just like, you grew up, like, you really grew up in the old school. kind of way when you were born and like there was nothing kind of this newer like I was born into Atari Atari already existed yeah my first system as a kid was regular Nintendo did you I remember getting in a tar we had an I remember getting an Atari I didn't I think Oregon Trail was around but I never really played that's the difference yeah it's the difference I never really played

it yeah Oregon Trail was everything I was watching Shark Tank this weekend Mr. Wonderful Kevin O'Leary He claims he's the guy that got Oregon Trail into all the schools. That's how he made a lot of his money. Was he just get on out there? Because we all played it. I played it. Yeah. She remembers the actual Oregon Trail.

Yeah. She was on the Oregon Trail. Yeah. Yeah, did you play? She's from Spain, but yeah. I think it was probably in high school. That's where she lives now. Yeah.

Do you remember when it came out? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I certainly remember when it came out. Your buddy, one of your buddy's house, his kids were on it. what are you boys getting into yeah so we're it's it's very fun

because I mean that's I I remember I the reason that when I wrote the joke about it I meant to some it was like a you know like general meeting in Hollywood where you just go meet some producer

or nothing but is this lady we started talking we were the same age and she goes and she's the one that there was an article called the lucky ones and then and then I looked it up

and then I started thinking about it, and I ended up having a joke. I kind of really forgot what the joke was. It was a joke. What is, why is it, I still don't understand why they call them the lucky one. Because we got to experience, uh,

the old school way and the new school way. Oh. And so what we grew up with memories in both. Oh, okay. Like real memories. They're the last people to have. Yes.

They're benefiting from the technology now, but weren't corrupted by this kid. That's right. So we're, yeah, it's like a little bit. it's almost a weird way you're uh you can maybe yeah you're not like so and like you know you're the older before us is so like well when we did it we did it we're not adaptable yes yeah i think

we're very adaptable in the fact that we were you know when i was in high school my senior like we had aOL right like that kind of stuff happened at the very end so we were really the first people trying like getting into this stuff got it okay also calling the Star Wars Generation. Oh. Generation. That's where I call on. Because they grew up on Star Wars.

Generation Catalano. Do you ever hear this? No. Never heard of that. For its reference to character, Jordan Catalano, played by Jared Letto, from the teen drama, My So Called Life.

I have heard this. I did not see that, but actually now I did. I remember my so-called life. Yeah. I don't think I watched it. I mean, I remember about it. I never watched.

It was one of those things where I was like, Man, we didn't have any of that cool stuff, but I remember hearing about my so-called life and the Simpsons and MTV. I wasn't allowed to watch Simpsons or... Me either. I wouldn't be allowed to watch MTV either.

You'd watch it when your parents weren't home. Yeah. We just couldn't get it. You couldn't get Fox? No, we lived out, we had an antenna that would go up in the sky and it got NBC, CBS, and PBS. And like a tornado channel?

Not even ABC? Yeah, like a tornado. Like a mudslide channel. I forgot to mention Generation X was called that because Billy Idol, it was the name of his punk rock band, Generation X. Is that where it came from? Yeah, that's the one theory on where it came from. Is he that age? Yeah, he'd probably be a baby boomer, I would think.

But his band was popular then, and so they called it Generation X. Why is it my generation called Generation Y then? We go from X. We're getting to you, Aaron. I'm a millennial, dude. It's all about me. Well, that's probably, yeah. It is known as generation.

This is people born roughly between 81 to 96. So this would be dusty. Yeah. And Aaron. 91. Call millennials, because these are the group that, at least the early ones, became an adulthood during the millennium. So you were hallowed when 2000.

18. Yeah. So you fit it perfectly. Graduated high school year 2000. Looking like that. That's what was going on in 2000. Oh, man. Yeah.

I never noticed those before. Yeah. Even when you pointed at it, I was like, who? Which one? I can't tell which one is dusty. I was dressing like... I only got dusty by the process of elimination, to be honest. Yeah.

The only way you can get dusty is you've got to eliminate everybody. Wow. They were called the unluckiest generation as the average millennial has experienced slower economic growth and more recession. since entering the workforce than any other generation in history. It's the world you guys left for us. They're weighed down by student debt

and child care cost. Oh, us? I didn't go to college. Oh, us. I don't think I matter. Yeah, me either. So I got no student debt. So I didn't, you know,

Nate didn't leave it for us and I didn't pick it up. Yeah. Then, oh, and millennials, oh, yeah, oh, you touched you that how they got his name. 2016 was the first year any millennial was eligible to run for president. Did we have one? We've had some. We've had some young guys that have ran for president.

Yeah, they got, Jay, oh, J.B. Vance, is he? He's the first millennial vice president. Is that right? Yeah. Tadically, he's on the cusp. Yeah, well, and he probably, did he ran for president? No, he did. Oh, Vivek?

Vovig ran for president. Yeah, so he's... Pete Buttigieg? Yeah, I guess he is too. Yeah. Then we're getting into Generation Z, born roughly between 1997, 2012. So Harper is on the cusp.

That's a big thing. That's crazy, 1997, 2012. Like, that's when I graduated high school in the year she was born. They don't remember 9-11. That's... No. Well, before, if you were the...

Yeah, yeah. Oldest one. I bet if you're four, you could maybe. I just actually read something with, funny enough that you said a little thing about Scotty Schaeffler. He was born in the golfer, Scotty Schaeffler, was born in New Jersey, and they moved to Dallas, Texas. And they lived in New Jersey, and they left after 9-11.

I think he was six years old. And so then he grew up the rest of his life in Dallas, Texas. They left because of 9-11? I don't know if it was because or what it was, but it was when it maybe, I don't know. like it was uh but it was when that kind of that was like whenever that happened i mean when it happened that's when they moved so i mean he would have you know he's it's funny to a real example of that like i mean i bet he would remember it mm-hmm you probably remember everything or you remember something happening yeah um they're the first group to get

their news mainly from social media networks oh generation generation z yeah like i know everybody but when they became that's the only way they have ever known yeah what so you all would have to either read the paper yes or just watch like just watch

the news yeah to know that anything's happening that's yeah i talk about that i go you newspapers are hard to describe they were like huge books published every morning for yesterday's news if you wanted to be informed on the past. You know, we can scroll the day, but you had to carry everything. It would cover like two-thirds of your body just to be informed, you know? On yesterday. On yesterday. Yeah, they, uh, yeah, I mean, I remember, I still have it. I have the newspaper from, uh, 9-11. Oh, wow.

Or when the next day, I remember buying it. That'd be funny that day you ran out and bought it. Yeah, well, I just remember buying it. It was like, oh, it's not in here. Yeah. It was just such a crazy thing, so I went and yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, you want September 12th paper, right? That's what I'm right. Okay, right. September 11th paper is probably pretty normal. Yeah, it's just normal. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, but I

bought it and I was like, oh, you better go back. I think I got to find it, but it's, yeah, that'd be pretty cool to go back. But that was, I mean, that was 2001. And it was like, you know, that's it. Do you remember a TV show? We were talking about just a great premise for a show. I think it was called Early Edition. It was about a guy who got tomorrow's paper every day. Oh, that is a show. Yeah, it was the guy from Friday Out Lights. Kyle Chandler, right? He was a star of it. And you just think, like, what would you do if you got tomorrow's newspaper? And I think in this world, a few people got this newspaper, and

some of them would do good and try to help people. And then some would just, like, go to the horse races and gamble. Yeah, that's what I do. I'd just get lot of tickets. Because at that point, you're not gambling you're just winning money you're investing oh so it's okay i would think you would know then you're not gambling yeah i would i would think you would do both you could do both i'd do a little and you would go yeah i'm going to use advantage of this and then let's go help because you need the the resources to yeah you got to get money that's true yeah what did he do he tried to help people every day he would find somebody you know gets trapped in a house fire and he would go trying to save but if he's not winning a little money at the horse race it's not a realistic

Yeah. It's not realistic. You don't win the lottery every time, but you do win and then you get your friends to win. Yeah, you go find the lottery that's going to be stupid. Yeah. Yeah. And then you go buy it and then you... You're done. Yeah. Spotify Consumer Data suggests that Gen Z is more nostalgic for the 80s. Stranger Things is really popular among Gen Z. What is Gen Z? Oh. That's 1990. 87 to 2012. Yeah. So this is, these guys over here. So wait, they're more what nostalgic? For the 80s. Oh, they just like the 80s.

Yeah. Do you all like the 80s? I do. I feel like 90s is overwhelming what people miss. Hmm. I feel like that's funny, because I grew in the 80s and I think it's the 80s. I think it's, I think it's 90s too. Yeah, I think 90s, everybody thinks that's when the country was the best.

I think 80s probably feels like the 70s to them, like it was. would have us or something like where you feels it feels so far removed that it's like cool 90s feels like peak america to me why do you think the aughts doesn't have as distinctive a thing as 90s or 80s early 2000 because it's just going so quickly you don't ever have anything to really hold on to yeah right so like before all the technology before we could get to the technology it was everything was a slower move it's all pre-internet mostly yes yeah and then once the internet came and then the access came it's like what are you going to do i mean you have i mean it feels like yesterday i uh i bought a flip phone you know and that was that was like

it was crazy to take a picture yeah yeah and then now you would be you'd be a punch in the face you have the flip phone like it's there but i mean it goes that quick yeah to where it's insane remember the sidekick yeah we saw somebody with a sidekick yeah oh yeah you open it up and it's a camera yeah i always i never got a blackberry i always i always wanted a blackberry oh yeah i never had one either yeah some people think the world ended in 2012 when the mayans predicted that it would and now we're just kind of hanging around just kind of existing it's all oh really they think it's all over and that's why nothing like there's a rapture but nobody got taken yeah yeah yeah like like no one we didn't even notice yeah it's almost yeah it's like what

it's like it's all got to just phase away yeah huh that sounds like a guy that had to come up something because it didn't end in 2012. Yeah. And he goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, hear me out. Hear me out. Then there's Generation Alpha, people born between 2010, 2024. This would be Daisy Slay, Eleanor Bates, Sam Slay, Olive, Weber. Right.

But Harper is technically Azalfa because she's right on, people born between 2010, in 2012 they're right on the cuss so she's following in her dad's dad's footsteps claiming two generations what does alpha mean generation zee and generation alpha yeah and why do they say why or we just starting over what are you in between you're in between a generation a z and is there a reason like mine was like you grew up with this uh why um why okay i understand what you say um It just, I don't have it here. Okay.

But, yeah, they're called Xalphas. Generation Alpha is the first where the kids are major allergies in food. And by 20, by the 20. That doesn't sound very alpha at all. No. Maybe the wrong term. It sounds like Generation of Ada right there. Yeah, we're allergic to everything.

one in 12 American children by 2010 had food allergies peanut allergies the most prevalent It's funny it's like That's because our food's bad Yeah I was getting dusty That's what we have

Well we blame it on the kids Yeah Yeah it was my favorite joke of that special What are you talking about? Yeah I defend the peanut allergies Yeah They're all GMO peanuts out here

Yeah It ain't these kids fault I mean you're Dusty what do you think about this So 36% of American children have some kind of type of allergy but some people think

it's because the food's too clean and we need to be exposed to more potentially bad food nah yeah I don't think that's we need no there's too much glyphosate in the

in the soils and everybody's I mean people do talk about it I think you do need more I think sickness is more like that's why I was think

your immune system yeah maybe I think comedians have great immune systems I think we're not typically as sick as often as other because we're on the road constantly eating badly you get exposed sleeping in wet sheets exactly you're just exposed to so much crazy stuff that you just can tend to like kind of power through a lot because you're not you're just every day you're in a different time zone a different city a different yes a different that and so you're able to handle it and when people are not traveling

and they go somewhere, they can really get beat up by it. Yeah, it makes sense. I mean, I got, like, because I was, it was even knocking with it, I was sick, but someone, when we filmed the movie, they were like, once you've done to film the movie, you get sick. Everybody gets sick. I didn't get sick. I mean, I was touring during the movie.

Wow. And then I stayed on tour. So it's like, my body's just, I mean, look, it's, yeah. You got people from all over the country sick, but you didn't. Oh, yeah. He goes, I started COVID. That's on there. I am COVID.

Like entourage. He goes, I'm Queens Boulevard. I'm COVID. I am coronavirus. But no, I do, just on, I do think I, there's too much stuff in our food. I don't think it's the kids. I don't think they're not exposed to enough. But also the last generation, they would get diarrhea and just die.

Yes. You know what I mean? So we're also doing better in a lot of ways. I think I explained it badly. I think it's kind of suggesting what he's saying that they need to be exposed to more germs. Don't wash your hands every time, Dusty, when you go to the bathroom, stuff like that. No worries on that. But I, yeah, I mean, I don't know. Yeah, there could be something to that, but I think that there is. Their environments are too clean. There is like too much pesticides in

our water supply. And, I mean, I think that's just, that's not even like a conspiracy. This says the Amish in Indiana, only 7% of the kids have allergies, whereas 36% Yeah, and they grow a lot of their own stuff. Zero percent of them get tested for hours. Yeah. So we have no idea. That's a fair point. All right.

And then the last one's Generation Beta started this year, 2025 to 2039. It's the first generation that will only know AI. I mean, I guess our kids will only know AI, but AI is going to, from the out of the gate. That's a tough label to put on the generation. Well, what if you, y'all's kids might be like me. Yeah.

Y'all's kids are going to be like me, words you're kind of a especially olive you're you're better than the others yeah the lucky ones you're the you're the lucky ones because you're kind of in between it used to be that the we would name the generation it seems like like I don't remember being called generation X until we were like grown oh yeah I never even heard anything called yeah yeah yeah and now we're like labeling them before they're I think so you were even talking about this stuff I think they retroactively went back yeah and did a lot of right yeah like Tom Broca's book came out in the 90s I yeah yeah that's probably yeah that's yeah the way everybody talks about it now it's like horoscopes

yeah where you know right it's this is like a this is like a blue collar guy that doesn't want to believe in horoscope so he goes well i'll do this one and then this is people in an office playing with their guns coming up with this yeah it's kind of like predicting the future versus studying the past yeah you know the idea of a newscaster writing a book that that's why we call at that is crazy now i can't even think of anybody like nobody could have that well yeah but i mean i think you could if you've called the right if you call anything the greatest you got a lot of people that are like yeah yeah we are the greatest generation i mean yeah uh the big dumb eyes generation they would call that the goat generation they would call the goat yeah yeah but it's like the

going forward is like they're not going to get good names because it's already What comes after beta? The end. Omega. There you go. There it is. That's generations. We did it.

We did it. We learned a lot. What do you think is actually the greatest generation? I think that generation. You think that one? Just for what they went through during World War II. Yeah. I'll give it to them.

They've earned it. World War I won. a picnic but that's true yeah that's true but there aren't as many fun movies made about yeah exactly we love to study world war one or world war two yeah but i don't know if there was something about that gender like i i specifically know spending time with my grandparents it felt like they were like all kind of united like it felt like that generation to me was all of the same a similar mindset which i don't know if that's existed like that ever since yeah well they didn't have social media yeah to divide them to make divisions yeah yeah all right anyway

funny stuff funny i'm bringing the heat today boys they were wearing those yard right hear more about this on the netflix special yeah this is kind of what it's all about yeah yeah uh all right Yeah, we're on. August 31st, Zaney, Chicago, 4 p.m. show. Really? Yeah. There you go. Dark tour.

Yeah, that's Labor Day weekend, so you don't have to work the next day. But either way, you'll, yeah, you know, you'll be there. September 5th, Cincinnati, September 7th, Indianapolis, September 13th, Brookhaven, Mississippi, September 16th, Franklin Theater here in the Middle Tennessee. and September 21st, Parigold, Arkansas. You have a show that night, the Simmons Bank Arena, I think, and Little Rock. So it's a little lights because I'm at First Methodist Church, Parigold. Are you the same town? Is it near it?

No, it's three hours away, but I bet I'll get some of your people. You're going to pull some. Yep, I'll pull some. I got, well, the special in October 4th, that's my big one. Yes. Yeah. Seattle, Neptune. soon yeah so that two shows two shows special come out to that it's going to be unbelievable thank you

yeah that's a good one we also got bagas coming up at wise guys i just added a show in salt lake city at wise guys thanksgiving weekend chicago lots of stuff but seattle is the big one yeah yeah love seattle thanks me too this weekend low wool arkansas at the grove come see me perform at the building with Dusty's face and hand on the side. After that, we're in Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta, Charleston, Tampa,

all over the place. This is Aaron Weber, by the way. Lowell. Northwest Arkansas, it's going to call the whole area. The NWA. NWA. Oh, really?

This weekend, Prestonburg, Kentucky. This is my easier to drive tour. And then Princeton, West Virginia. I'll be there. This weekend. 22nd, 23rd.

Next weekend, I'm in Biloxi, Mississippi. I never met in Biloxi. Yeah. And then after that, on August, whatever, September 4th, yes, I'm doing a show in Auburn, Alabama, which is right next to my hometown of Opelika, Alabama.

And that show is close to being sold out. So get some tickets if you want to come. It's going to be great. That's great. Yeah, all right. I think I'm in Baltimore and somewhere. this week Columbus

no Reading Pennsylvania Redding Pennsylvania Baltimore or Columbus Ohio yeah yeah yeah this weekend

and then uh yep uh all right have a good one we love you see it

bye bye Hey!