The Nateland Podcast - #27 Best Time To Be Alive

Episode Date: December 30, 2020

2020 has been a hard year for sure. But as we head into 2021, we look at reasons why this is still the best time in history to be alive.    Co-hosts: Brian Bates ( https://www.instagram.com/brianbatescomic) & Aaron Weber ( https://www.instagram.com/realaaronweber)   Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail] #nateland #natebargatze

Hello, folks. Welcome to Nateland podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber. We are here. We're back. We made it through. i hope you i hope you had a wonderful christmas hope you had a good time everybody you guys did y'all had a good one everybody good traveled a lot uh did you yeah you loved it did you go everywhere traveled everywhere dude here he goes here it goes how many states were you in left your mask i at home. I was all over. I left it at home, dude. I don't have to. Did you go to any town that cares if you wear a mask or not? No. I went to Dallas.

It was a major American city. Everybody's wearing a mask. You stopped along the way, though, some places. Did you drive to Dallas? No, I took a plane. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. That's good.

That's good. No mask on the plane? Were you a guy that wanted to be confrontational about it? No. And you don't wear it and hope someone... You wear it and show it to the owl? Hoping someone goes, where's your mask? The mask don't mean anything.

And you start yelling at them. All right. No, he wears a mask. I don't... What if someone takes it serious? They might. They think you don't. Yes. So, yeah, we had? They might. They think you don't. Yes.

So, yeah, we had a good Christmas. We did it here, and that was it. I did what you're supposed to do. We Zoomed our family. I Zoomed Louis Katz, my buddy Louis Katz, very funny comedian. So we're going to get into the comics. A lot of stuff happened this week, actually, especiallyashville and uh so we're gonna talk about that uh we're just waiting to talk about it after the after the comments so we're just gonna go ahead and get into it uh because

we did the krispy kreme challenge we did it which we can't talk about that because i'm sure a lot of a lot of these are about krispy k. Some. We did do it. We went. Yeah, I think the video was good. The video was funny, at least. I think Brian was the clear winner. Yeah, I think so. I mean, I won. The letdown that you gave two boxes of letdown. If we're talking just sheer numbers, I won.

But, Brian, it didn't faze you at all, man. I was watching back. I was like, you look perfectly fine. Yeah. I'm training for this, man. Could have went to 12. You think you could have got to 12? I'd been hurting if I got to 12.

Yeah. I don't think I could physically do it. Chocolate was a mistake. I knew it after the first bite of the first one. Yeah. But I've had Krispy Kreme twice since the Kris krispy kreme challenge yeah i've had it twice i've had a total of uh seven of them twice so i mean it didn't you know i didn't want to do any long-term damage to my krispy kreme eating i'm i the most consistent. That's probably true.

Yeah. How did you guys feel on stage that night, a few hours later, performing? I was fine. I eat so bad that my body recovers quick. I mean, it's just like it is what it is. I usually eat real healthy, so I usually. So you felt it. You felt it a little more than you did.

I felt it for a few hours afterwards, but we had enough cushion between then and the show. Yeah. I felt all right. Yeah. They just raised a lot of money for the food bank that night. But I'm glad we got it out. I mean, that was a long, you know, this could be,

what are we getting old with? Everybody falls off now. Yeah. No one's listening. We should have played it for years. Casey Miller. I'm seriously not trying to get sappy, but the Krispy Kreme Challenge came out the same day we had to put our nine-year-old dog down.

It was the worst day ever. We came home afterwards and sat in our house in silence. I posted a memorial tribute to our dog, Reno, and sat in my chair and cried. Then I saw this. I can't tell you how much joy I felt. Seeing you guys doing something so dumb for your fans made me feel better. I showed my husband and he smiled. Our days have been dark. This really helped us to laugh. And laughter truly is the best medicine, even for a broken heart. Thank you so much for great content that doesn't make you feel like you have to take sides. It's an hour and a half of fun.

You guys are awesome. A great trio. Merry Christmas, Nate Land. Well, thank you, Casey. We're sorry to hear about your dog and glad you at least got something. You at least got your mind taken away. That's what we're here for. Right.

We're not solving anything. No. Tersegor. Uh-oh. Tersegor. Listen, guys, I married sore. We have a lot in common,

most notably that we think this podcast had potential but lost it around two episodes ago. We don't listen to it, just comment on it occasionally. Feliz Navidad. Wow. That's awesome. We're bringing people together.

They might hate it, but they got to tell the story that we brought them together. Wow. Wow. Wow. Turr, Lurr, and Soar, Sigur. That's very fun. Congratulations, guys. It's nice of Turr to take on Soar's last name. Yeah.

Yeah. That's, yeah. We don't. Soar, Lurr. Could have been the other way. I don't know if we even know what kind of couple this is, but they uh they're together good for them good for them terse gore bob loblaw that's from arrested development oh is it yeah scott bayo's character on breast development was bob loblaw so they're having fun with that bob loblaw i was like man

what a name this podcast is like an answer to a question that's never been asked. We might put that in the bio. That's a terrific summary. I mean, wow. That is our mission statement. Yeah. That's what's great is, you know, they always ask, someone's like, what's your podcast?

I'll do all these interviews promoting this podcast. And they're like, so what's your podcast? I'm like, I don't know. It's like, it doesn pie i'll do all these interviews promoting this podcast and they're like so what's your podcast i'm like i don't know it's like it doesn't matter none of it matters you know and i might say that it's like an answer to a question that's never been asked that's i mean that's you know uh all right kyle m dear Nathaniel, I am a teacher in China, and I can't go one more day without you using the word good as an adverb. The correct word is well. I've heard five-year-old Chinese kids speak better than you. One of them even has a guided horse. Perhaps bridle path should be catching these. Where, Kyle? Well, Kyle. How about I tell you, I'm not really sure what an adverb is. So how does that make you feel? He gave an example here.

I didn't even pick up on it. Where was it? Underneath it. Where it says, here's an example. Oh, I read. Oh, here's an example. Incorrect. He plays golf good.

Correct. He plays golf well uh look i'm not an adverb guy and i don't talk about adverbs i don't think i've ever talked about them he thinks of pronouns and now i say good i say good a lot but i will say i do know that when I'm saying good, that a lot of times it's not good. But I do it, it's saying it different, which sticks out. I'm in a job of words.

So he plays golf well. I'm not going to talk like that. That doesn't fit. It's funnier when I say it's good. Good is what's funny. That's what's funny. If it gets under your skin, that means it's probably a better way of being funnier when I say it's good. Good is what's funny. That's what's funny. If it gets under your skin, that means it's probably a better way of being funnier. All your Chinese kids, you're not going to make it in comedy.

Talk to them a little bit. I'm sure they speak better than me. But we're not competing for the same job. Good on them. He spoke well. Aaron Weber. Going to save everyone some time and admit I mixed up St. Nick and St. Patrick. Guy's has the same name as you.

I woke up the night after we recorded the podcast in a cold sweat. I said, I realized what I did, and I'm going to get so much flack from people for that. I immediately got like four tweets about it. Like, you call yourself a Notre Dame alum? You call yourself a Catholic? You're getting – Whoa, yeah. So I had to hop in the – I had to nip this in the bud. So I went on there and commented that, and a lot of people picked up on it.

A lot of people noticed. There's too many people listening man they get it dude hey well on you for correcting yourself uh you like that callum yeah you happy now? Marty Wall. Sounds like a good, sounds like an uncle. Marty Wall. Do you know him? No, I disagree with you. Oh, sounds like you would know him too. Who's going to dinner tonight?

I bait his buddy, Marty Wall. They went to college together. We get there. Marty's been there for an hour. He got here early. I like how Aaron is coming into his own. The first few podcasts, he didn't say much and seemed like he didn't care to be there. Now he pitches in a lot, and it's hilarious.

I agree, Marty. Thank you. Yeah. What's your problem, Aaron? You'll get sick of me real soon. Why don't you care to be here? You just wanted to be here? You got other stuff going on.

I just didn't want to come in. Dude. What if I came in episode one, came in hot and just talk the whole time. It'd be like, all right, me and Brian are going to talk real quick. Yeah.

I would have told you to your face. I mean, I took the computer away from Brian. I'm fine with, I'm fine with, uh, correcting things. That's true.

That'd have been like, calm it down. Thank you, Marty. Yeah, Marty's right, though. You have gotten better. So we'll let you know. Marty, keep an eye on it if you don't mind. Varen starts slipping.

I'd like a little heads up because maybe I miss it. Maybe I'm in it, and I need you to eventually be gone. Well, he mentioned St. Patrick's Day last week is Santa Claus. Yeah, that's true. Maybe a little less. Yeah, maybe getting too much. Maybe your secret genius is almost like... That's completely eroded, by the way.

Nobody's been saying that for a while. Eroded. These words that are is that a secular word? we don't we yeah I just don't say these words

I would never say eroded your back is the genius yeah that's all it takes on this podcast it's a sliding scale I'd push you back up I'm a team player

that's like giving you an alley oop I'd just help I got. I'm a team player. That's like giving an alley-oop. I'd just help. I got an assist on that. I appreciate it. Yeah, you're welcome. Here we go. Amanda Rosvogli.

It's actually not bad, man. It's not bad. That's probably what I would have said. She turned around. Right? Yeah, I think that's good, actually. I think Amanda Rosvogli, I think she'd go, yeah? And she would just be like, I'm like, is that how you say it? She's like, yeah, that's good actually i think amanda rosvogli i think she'd go yeah and she would just be like i'm like is that how you say it she's like that's close enough she wouldn't even try to correct me hello folks love the podcast and all of nate's work as someone

who has opened gifts on christmas eve i wanted to clear up some of nate's confusion over this i'm hungarian and in hungary christmas is that baby Jesus delivers gifts on Christmas Eve, and they are open that night. Santa Claus or St. Nicholas or St. Patrick actually visits children on the eve of December 5th. Children clean their boots and put them in the window for St. Nick to fill with treats if they were good or coal if they were bad. Krampus also comes this night stealing children who were bad.

I can't remember if it was Brian or Aaron who said it might stem from a Central Eastern European tradition, but they were right. That was Aaron. You thought of it because of the children stealing. Is that correct? That's the only reason you thought that?

What is that, Russian? That's St. saint nick's day that's what i was talking about where you leave your shoes out yes outside your room hungarian hey uh december 5th i mean what are you are just you're like someone that celebrates their birthday for the whole week like you you're like all right this is enough we got to do it every night 25 It's the 25 days of Christmas, dude. Well, it'd be the 20 days. Yeah, they start on December 5th. That's not when it starts. Well, that's when the night actually starts. That's when Toyotathon starts.

Are you confusing it with Toyotathon? Are you? That's what you are. You like Toyotathon. Did y'all celebrate that? We did have a Toyota growing up. Toyota Previa. You got a pretty good deal on it at Toyotathon.

This episode is brought to you by Toyotathon. We do Toyotas, and we do them good. That's awesome, Amanda. My dad, they told me he got Christmas Eve presents. They did Christmas Eve presents. He also was raised in rough childhood. So we just said our parents did it, and now you found out your parents did it. I think they lied to my dad. I think my dad only got stuff Christmas Eve, and his brothers. He goes, you know, for some reason, I got mine outside on Christmas Eve in the yard. Did everybody else do that? Adam Harold.

Wait, what'd you say? Well, I was just pointing out that we pointed, we just said last week that we thought our parents, that was their tradition of Christmas Eve. And you kind of ridiculed us for it. But now it sounds like your parents also did that. Yeah. Well, I'll stand by the ridicule. Adam Harreld, the shame of not eating 36 donuts is nothing.

One time I claimed that I could eat a whole box of Sam's Club members marked fruit snacks. Sam's Club bulk box of 100 pouches of fruit snacks so on new year's eve we had friends over and i became the main event yeah i ate 63 and had the most colorful night in the bathroom of anyone that night consider yourselves lucky that's very funny that's such a funny thing to say you could eat i would say i could eat that that. That might be the next one. I was going to say the old me would have read that and gone 100 pounds. 150 probably.

Now I'm... 80? The number is 63 pouches. I'll be honest with you. We might be able to give this one a go. Those pouches are unbelievable. You still got to do those little donut holes. I do got to give you donuts. This is a world record.

Did you, someone did a video of that? Mm-hmm. And they only got one, right? She got. Yeah, we reposted. What was her name? Do you know? I can look it up, but she got to her second one.

Couldn't quite finish her second one. Yeah, it's the no water. That's the obvious, the key. That's the kicker. That's like drinking a gallon of milk or something. Someone tells you to do that, you can't do it. Mm't do it these pouches might be it might be next christmas uh what if that's what we'll do every christmas we just try to eat a bunch of stuff and we get better at it aaron that's the goal of this podcast you come out of it at the end of it

you're better i could do 10 pouches type 7 diabetes but we are eating a ton of donuts and type 7 well i'm just making up that's that's uh called it i know i'm saying it was funny oh did you yeah i wasn't i don't think you got it i don't know if you you know to go back to call or or what's his name? Walter. What was his name? Marty Wall. Marty Wall. Please mark that down as Aaron being not getting. It's one mark against you. Joe D.

Makes sense that Nate thinks the statistics are made up when he calculates the guy having a two out of four chance of winning an Emmy equal to 99%. Look, my words come out quicker than my brain can stop them. And that's where we get. In your defense, someone else commented on that and said it would be 50% chance. But there was two winners, so it'd be more than 50. It'd be more than 50, yes. It wouldn't be 99. No.

But it'd be more than 50. It would be more than 50. Yes. It wouldn't be 99. No. But it would be more than 50. Because if there's two winners, he's two of the four. What would that be? 75? 75%? Maybe. Yep. 75%.

It's definitely 75. Let's go to the fact checkers. 75%. Max Reiner. I tried fact checking Nate's comment wayne gretzky mail i couldn't find a single thing about it then later in the episode he talks about scientists making things up need beehive and aaron to start holding him accountable hey they let me fly man max i just i just floated out there i think that's true i googled it last night and couldn't find that yeah well they don't let you look stuff you think he wants that announced wayne gritsky put a stop to that

someone told me yeah i don't know when i heard i heard that along it was before the internet when i heard that well you couldn't prove that when you couldn't prove you just believed everything you heard so i got a lot of stuff still stuck up there that, you know, has some old boxes. Brian Kennelly. Surprised Nate didn't point this out, but if St. Nick was so humble that he snuck into someone's family's house to help them without them knowing to avoid hurting their pride. How did the story then not only get out, but get out to so many people that it became part of one of the biggest holidays ever. Seems like old St. Nick must have went about flapping his gums quite a bit after that movie. I don't know if I understood any of that sentence.

Well, he's basically... But if St. Nick was so humble, they snuck into some family's house to help them without them knowing to avoid hurting their pride. All right. How did the story then not not only get out but get okay yeah i was reading it and i was somewhere else uh that was one you ever read something and you're like i'm not in this at all yeah so i'll go i like that that actually a great point that is very funny that would be that you could do i mean brian if you ever get in comedy you can do that get in comedy is he a comedian uh who that was brian kennelly i meant him yeah i think you should get out of it

and actually open up a spot i thought you were talking about me i was about to write this down no i think if you'd open a spot up for brian kennelly we need another i was just so happy you were calling me by my name. Yeah. It's like, thank you. Finally, some respect. No, you could do that as a joke. That is a very funny joke. Yeah. That is a very, the idea that that's a,

that almost, if someone wants to see how a joke can get started, like that's how, that's how I would look at his joke and see that. That's that thought process to think, yeah, how did, I mean, you got so many people. He's like, I don't want to be obnoxious. And you're like, yeah, well, we're all celebrating. Paul M.E. Mueller. I knew a Jamie Mueller.

You guys left out the best story of St. Nicholas. He punched a guy at the Council of Nicao. Nicao. Nicao. He wouldn't have turned around a guy named nicael he just he's like he would just keep walking and then this is a town right but if a guy was named nicael today the council of a guy named arius was going on and on about how jesus wasn't equal to God, the Father. It really grinded Santa's gears, so he proceeded to slap or punch Arius in front of 300 bishops and Emperor Constantine.

Ho, ho, heretic. Heretic. Heretic. heretic heretic i meant to take that line out and i forgot sorry really i have a word with abbreviations over here after the show uh the council agreed with saint nicholas's view and that's how we got the nassim Creed, which many Christians say every week. Some good Catholic history, right? Yeah.

Church history. Is this your first time hearing it? No, Arius, the Arian heresy, dude. I know what I'm saying, because you don't know anything about your own people. Paul has commented on every show yeah and uh i appreciate all his comments and this was a very good one i missed this but yeah this was a good one he got me i mean he got everything this one got it this was the whole aaron's never heard any of any of this and even though he's ho ho heretic

that sounds like you got to go to the doctor for that. Have a heretic. You're like, oh, that's not good. Brooks Neal. Imagine hearing Jordan talk about how many rings he's going to get, and then he never makes it to the finals. That's what Nate and Aaron did with this challenge. In 1,000 years, when history class is being taught on another civilian station,

in a thousand years when history class is being taught on another civilian station, this will most definitely be germane, but it won't be remembered as clutch. I'm not even sure if I know what germane means. I think Aaron's used that word. Yeah. Do you? Y'all use it quite a bit? I used it on the last podcast he made probably before.

It just means relevant. Oh, so Brooks is making that up. It just means relevant. A lot of inside jokes packed in there. Yeah, that was a lot. Yeah, wow. I don't think I forgot that. me for it. It just means... Oh, so Brooks is making... It just means relevant. A lot of inside jokes packed in there. Yeah, that was a lot. Yeah, wow. I don't think I forgot that. Brooks brought it. Brooks brought the heat.

Good job, Brooks. That's great. All right, yeah. Well, we did it. I mean, that's... That was all of it. We're about 15 minutes in. Oh, yeah?

Yeah. All right, let's read a couple more comments. We're making sure. Mike Wilson, as a doctor, I just felt I need to clarify, there is no nutritional benefit to eating your poop. It contains all the things your body didn't need and pushed out. I don't know how Aaron or Bo staff let the comments slip by by so easily this has quickly become my new favorite podcast you are all awesome mike wilson a doctor i go to him uh i'm gonna start going to him that's the kind of questions

you bring to your doctor that's this that would be that's the kind of questions if you're a doctor in just some small towns you just get people i I watched an episode of, what's the Bear Grylls show? Man vs. Wild. Are you going to act like this is a documentary? No, this is a straight up television show. I watched this show about Survivor. The game show?

Yeah, no. It was Bear Grylls. Okay. He picked up a huge piece of elephant. Yeah, i remember this yeah and squeeze the water out of it and drink that yeah i mean there's nutritional value in there that's what he's talking about eating it well if you eat it you'd get the water as well you just get a bunch of other stuff well the circumstances that he was in versus just... A monkey at the zoo? You're right.

A monkey that's got it, like living its best life just at the zoo, you know. You don't think it is? I think sometimes they have hard days. I think one zoo got killed because of that kid thing. But besides that... You think that's the only monkey who's having a bad time? At the zoo? They get one little island and that's it?

But I think zoo, well, most of these animals at the zoos, they're there because they can't survive in the wild. You know, there's an elephant sanctuary here down in Hohenwald, and they take people's used Christmas trees, real trees, not artificial, because the elephants eat it. There you go. You going to tell me? What's the matter, Ian? And they take people's used Christmas trees, real trees, not artificial, because the elephants eat it. There you go. You're going to tell me, what's the matter, Ian?

You're going to tell me that these elephants aren't living their best life? You're right. You're right. I think these animals are good. That's clearly germane to what we're talking about. Yeah. On the flip side of this, I... It really has nothing to do with our term. Yeah.

this i uh it really has nothing to do yeah i uh the you know the the they let uh what's the the killer well shamu like so one of those they let a killer one of those wells back out in the wild was murdered immediately really yeah by a dolphin they're still someone thinks they planted something on the dolphin but no it was killed because it just didn't you know 60 minutes did a piece on a guy some billionaire who was buying up zoos just so he could take the animals and put them back in the wild most of them they don't make it just i mean just getting slaughtered. I mean, look, we talked about Tiger King. There's definitely bad things. But overall, zoos. I've gone with that Columbus Zoo.

They're there. It's good. It's people trying to do good things for these animals. Of course. And they're hurt and they can't survive. They really try to reenact all those. Well, it's not an animal hospital. It's not just a bunch of sick animals.

But they do have hospitals for the animals. They do take care of them, but they don't just go around the wild, go, oh, this one's hurt. Let's take it to the Little Rock Zoo. Well, there's a doctor that lives in the wild, and the animals go up to it and goes, I have a fever. I'm going to need to spend the rest of my life in a zoo. You don't tell me an animal loves a zoo.

They're not a lion that lives a long, long life. They're injured, and that's how they get there. Like the one in, there's eagles in, we went to it, Dollywood. There's a whole exhibit with these eagles, but they can't fly. And so they could never make it. I don't know if they, I'm pretty sure they can't fly but they clip their wings so they don't leave no no they were all they're injured you think so you all think zoos are just terrible no i'm just i'm just making a joke about that just kidding around no you do you do no you go to zoos i go to zoos a lot which is

a great lead into our next question yeah how often are you going to the zoo alone that is crazy holly carden how often are you going to the zoo alone that's crazy i didn't even we were just talking about zoos i didn't realize that that was the next question yeah last week you said we're debating which ones the exhibits you go see like the snakes or whatever you know uh if i go alone i might a few people are like you're going to the zoo alone oh i go alone all the time i mean all the time i don't like this week uh no if i'm home with my family obviously i'll go my family but oh maybe you're on the road we get your opener you might go with the opener but i could go i'd go alone that's when i've gone. When I'm on the road and you're like, I got all day to just be by myself.

Walking around a zoo alone is great, man. Especially, I mean, like going to a mall. I would look at it. It'd be better to me. It'd be better than a mall to me. If you could conveniently just kind of go in and out of a zoo and walk around alone. I would love every second of it. People need to be alone some.

It's not bad. It's not bad to go do something alone. I would love every second of it. People need to be alone some. It's not bad. It's not bad to go do something alone. Holly Carden actually did my album artwork. She's a really gifted illustrator. There you go. Good job, Holly. Riley Box. The podcast has slowly become Brian doing research

and creating topics. Nate coming up with hypothetical situations and Aaron wheezing in the background. I'd say it's at its peak keep up the good work especially you brian you hold it all together thank you brian i'm gonna get to that last line i know i put that in but the rest of it raleigh wrote raleigh's like those are not my words george reiser hi folks so yes you do have people listening in austria hey yeah and yes we're doing all right as a country thanks for caring just wanted to clear up a few things about crop us and saint nick's day by the way aaron december 6th someone else said december 5th i know they got leave was

december crop us wasn't as scary as a kid mostly hung out in the back while saint nick visited he asked you if you behave that year you said yes and got some treats transaction complete uh so crop didn't really dive into it you could just lie to the you could lie to him he didn't fact check you at all he didn't fact check crop is just you good you go yeah you're you know and there's probably actually only getting the good kids that probably go, wow, I couldn't have been perfect, so I'm going to say no. And then he's still in good kids and the bad kids. So he actually rewards.

Because the bad kids are lying. Yep. The bad kids are liars. Wow. It's a dark turn. Kelly Jones. I'm with Aaron. We need structure.

I came from a family where we took turns and thanked everyone in my husband's family. Went at it like animals. My first Christmas with them, I was stunned and shocked by the chaos. That is very funny to think. Like if you go into, you marry into it and you're like oh let's go see what their christmas is like and you're this proper you unwrap it you throw the paper away immediately then it just goes somewhere else it's just a zoo yeah it's probably good to have marry into you want to have both so be like our family's not crazy you know i i did a joke about that like uh some i don't know

if i ever said it anywhere but i was like. You always say, you always think your family you marry, you're like, those people are crazy, right? We're not. We're normal, right? Look how nut job they are. And then you're like, well, you're probably the nut job family. All right. Thank you guys so much for the comments.

We love it. As always, leave them on. You can email nateland at natebargetzi.com. Twitter, Facebook. Are we on facebook yeah yeah uh instagram youtube of course youtube youtube all of them we get a lot of them we've been getting hundreds well this week because we released christmas and crispy cream challenge we got about 400 total so i mean that's yeah we talked about 400 total. So, I mean, that's, yeah, we talked about this, right? Like about, you know, 400, because we can't read that many. Yeah.

And so, yeah, make them good. You know, make them good. That's what, you guys bring just as much fun to this podcast as we do. Some would say more. A lot of people would say more. Actually, 400 people would say more. The fact that somebody made a YouTube account for Ter Seagor. Ter Seagor. Ter Seagor.

Well, they got married, dude. No one just didn't make that up. Do you not believe in their marriage? Okay. You don't believe in their marriage is what you're telling me. That's clearly a real thing. On the internet, you think they would lie about this? I'm sorry.

I watched Office last night where he goes, which is all information that comes from everyone in the world so you know it's true so you know you're getting the best information all right it has been it has been a crazy year 2020 uh this is it this is the last episode 2020 we did it we made it through this year i'd be shocked if we make it through next year it's i uh we've had a bit of a week here in nashville specifically nashville uh we can start off uh i mean i don't know which one to start off with the light-hearted one i guess uh are not light-hearted to me is very personal to me, but my mural. So it's Zany's.

I don't know if a lot of people in here might not have seen it, but our if they don't know our, my home club, all of our home clubs in Nashville, Tennessee is Zany's. Zany's comedy club. It's a club we go to a lot. It's where we work. It's where we, you know, is one of the first clubs that headlined me and i really like kind of came up through uh zany's when i would always come back home and so very graciously that i my my face was painted on their wall with along with i mean

george lopez john witherspoon joe rogan brett uh uh mom said brett kreischer because they always make fun of burt kreischer uh you know i mean uh chelsea handler chapelle like a million you know a bunch of comics and so the my face was on the wall is it was on a very good prominent spot it's a big picture it was i mean this was honestly a gigantic honor one of the bigger honors I've had in comedy, if not the biggest I've had, very just felt terrific about it. And then a dump truck drove through only my picture. Only my painting where this trunk goes

it goes to we've got it up now if you're watching but you can also see it on we're posted on again on all the social media stuff it's

I mean it's unreal dude how much it just hit my face I mean you get George Lopez right to your left, right? And he's totally untouched.

Totally untouched. You would have, if we were real people, you would go, is John Witherspoon okay? And he's like, I'm fine. I got a little scratch on my cheek. And he goes, what about, where's Nate? You're like, oh, Nate's. He didn't make it.

Yeah. Yeah. Did you check? I don't even have to check. He was hit that hard. It's over. It doesn't matter. So we went down there and did a little interview on Channel 5,

Brian's old stomping grounds. And they were down there, and we saw it. I got a brick. The brick's here. It's in the room. Oh, get that brick right there. they were down there and i saw we saw it i got a brick the brick's here it's in the room oh hey get that brick right there uh the we we grabbed this is my eye uh if you want to see it this is just the does it look like my eye i don't know if you can see is that looks good uh the guy that painted it his instagram is uh 1.4.4.0 1.4.4.0 yeah uh the

paintings are unreal man yeah i mean that's that's what that's the part that hurts is he's so good at what he does yeah that every one of them looks so good and we're showing some of the stuff is mitch headberg up there henry cho joey diaz joey diaz i've seen some murals at different comedy clubs these are the best that i've that i've seen these are they don't look cartoonish or by far you know by far the best by far the best of any comedy club. They are unbelievable. The fact when you can say who everybody is. The only reason you wouldn't know is because if you just don't know who the person is. That's the only reason you wouldn't know who they are.

There was me. And then, dude, he ran over the potted plants. Yeah. Well, interestingly, they put those up because this has happened before. Yeah. Trucks run into the club. Or just a car hops the curve and you're in line. It's going to take people out.

Oh, good point. Yeah. So they had to barricade it. So what happened was there was a dump truck. He's parked up the street, and there's porta-potties right across the street from the door of the Zany's on the other side of the street. So the guy driving the truck wants to go to the bathroom, gets out of the car, starts walking to the bathroom.

The truck, there's a video of it. I mean, it looks like the truck is trying to sneak by. He's like, shh, shh, shh, shh. Yeah. And the guy's like just walking has no idea and it just goes off i mean there's dude the fact there's no cars right there there's nothing else right there and get some steam going and then just right i mean dude that knocked the barricade down yeah and then the i mean it was it was on the stage it was on the stage aaron texted me

and i posted this but he was like hey nobody's hurt but a truck just ran through the wall his 80s and i was like whose mural was it please tell me it was nate's i said your luck man pretty much only hit it was only it's like they had it out for him, honestly. Right in the middle. We're looking into it to see if Turler was maybe behind the dump truck. We don't know for sure. There's some conspiracies about that. But it's unbelievable that it was like, you know.

I mean, it was on the news all day. They kept going back live from Zanies. It was a very funny thing to be like, we just, at that moment, which is crazy, because then we have everything going on. But at that moment, there was just not enough going on. And they're like, let's go back to Zanies. How's that wall coming back?

And they're like, well, we're boarding it now. Like, there was just kind of, it's a just kind of – Yeah. It's a fun story. It is. It's a fun story. Yeah. Do you feel a little bad for the – out of all the places this guy could have hit? Oh, yeah. He hit a club that it's going to make the news, get celebrities tweeting about it.

Yeah. I mean, I just felt bad for him. Well, I mean, everybody's good to see how good – you know what? bad for him well everybody's everybody's good to see how good you know what it's funny it could help him in the fact that it's uh it could help him in the fact that people are going to see his work now i mean because all this went and now you're going to oh you're talking about the artist yeah what were you talking about oh the jump trick yeah i feel bad for the artist obviously for the dump truck as well he's like what kind what kind of trucks do you use? I'll tell you, we use some powerful trucks. Yeah.

I mean, the truck looks. It's a Peterbilt. The truck looks great. Yeah. I mean, he just backed out and drove away. We're not even sure he knows the shit. So we're looking to track him down to let him know. Hey, you ruined a building.

They asked me to Faceetime him i go hey does this face look familiar uh it's yeah it's uh yeah he said the guy the guy was kind of like you know he's like he's like kind of laughing it off but he's like what i mean what are you gonna say you know what are you gonna do yeah it's like ah the one of the crazier pictures of the green room in the green room so the green room is right next to it and you just see that tire we were all there the night before performing yeah you had a great show was this after the Krispy Kreme no no we did that on Monday and then this happened Tuesday and the the episode hadn't come out yet but it was in between when, so this is the day after we ate those donuts.

Yeah. Yeah. I think this is the next week. Oh, yeah, yeah. You're right, because we saved it for a week. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. So anyways, they're going to get a new picture.

Might change the picture up. Maybe it's bad luck, that picture. So change it up to a different one. Maybe put a different comic there and then move you to somewhere else. Don't take me away dude that's the best but you're on the john chris side where nobody sees it yeah that's a hot spot dude i'm in a hot commodity look look at all the action we're getting over there killer bees is right there i mean we're all that is a great one oh it's the best spot or it was for sure that's why

it's getting hit right Life comes with risk. And I wanted to, and I'm in the, I didn't want, they put me in the prime spot. On the news. You said a lot of comics have been canceled in 2020. You didn't know yours was going to be by the dump truck. Well, I was like, this has gone too far. Yeah.

You know, that lady, when you said the reporting of it it and you said like she said like how was it with andrew she's a guy he just made a lot of jokes yeah and then i came down i'm like and right when i get done i was like that was funny right like it's the only thing i asked brian and then you're like yeah you're interviewing a comic you're not going to get a straight answer out of these people right and nothing could happen to a comedy club without everybody that gets interviewed is trying to be funny. Yeah, they wanted to make it a serious story about 2020 and how hard it's been, yet another thing. And she interviewed Andrew Dorfman, the owner, and he said, what happened here? He goes, big truck hit wall. That's a great answer.

Andrew, who just done his first set there in 20 years, the night before. Yeah. Yeah. And then this happens. Well, we won't let that happen again, Andrew. Yeah. That dude, that's so funny. He said big truck hit wall.

Yeah. Big truck hit wall. Yeah. That was his answer. I mean, that is, they go, well, what did it happen? You're like, I mean yeah that was his answer i mean that is they go what did happen you're like i mean that was he nailed it that's what happened uh i grabbed a brick took it home it's on my mantle oh yeah aaron i got one too did you yeah we got my dad my dad is up there i've been grabbing like 10 oh yeah was he really Was he really? Yeah, he grabbed a few more. My sister wanted one.

And then I think we were going to sign some or something. I don't know. We were doing something like give them away or something. Someone wanted one. It's kind of fun and funny. It's the most historic building in Nashville to me personally. Yeah. I mean, it means more to me than.

You should check out the Ryman. It means more to me than the Ryman, than the Opry, or any of these other places. It's like everybody that I ever cared about is performing. In your business. Right. Just to me, personally. Yeah. It definitely means the most.

Yeah, I agree. I mean, Zany's is... Yeah, it's a very special place. Everybody loves Zany's. It's been there forever. every comic you can imagine and they have posters of seinfeld being there in 82 i mean it's jay leno like for new year's eve before tonight show so i mean everybody's been there and it's uh one of the best clubs in the country and you know the fact that we get to go there as much as we do and kind of get a play around and you know brian dorfman and george

guys that own it i've been very close with them and uh very close with brian and then so brian i mean it's just the fact that brian's the pro artist, one of the more pro artist people I've ever dealt with in this business, which is a thing. You know, him, my lawyer, is very – I mean, everybody I've – the people that I have. Bob Loblaw? The team, Bob Loblaw. But, yeah, you know, when you get into all this stuff and you have any success,

you get a lot of people that are on your team or whatever and so everybody's great everybody's but like dorfin's extremely pro artist uh my lawyer lev ginsburg is super he's he's the most pro or i mean dude he'll lose it on someone if you have i mean he's like he's like defends me like my mom. Like, you know, like if you try to say something about me, my mom will destroy you. My mom's not having it. You do not talk about our family. And which has always been, my mom's always,

she always got kicked out of baseball games, little league baseball games. Oh, really? Every game, every single game. I mean, it was was and we'd just be sitting there and uh he'd be are you here tell me that's a strike she's right behind we're in rotary park and uh hermitage you probably screw that so tight and the trump and then the ump looks at her and she has to go watch the rest of the game from the car and so we'd always have to my

dad they would have to park by center field because he knows my mom will eventually end up back in the car. So she can then see the rest of the game. Because she was getting, I mean, she went with just not even really unpacked. Like, do you need a chair? She's like, no, I won't be here long. I'm going to give it to this umpire. And that's like my lawyer. So, all right. little little crazier luckily not as uh like a as sad of a story as it could have been uh but we also had the uh explosion

on christmas day on second avenue second avenue to the people that are not from nashville broadway second avenue second avenue was the street for us growing up. Way more than Broadway. Broadway, I never even. What's funny is I would go downtown, but I would only go to Second Avenue. I wouldn't even go to Broadway. Broadway was all the honky-tonk bars, but you just didn't get to go there. Yeah, it was definitely more gritty then.

Yeah. And Second Avenue was the street that you would drive up and down. Yeah. And high school. Wild Horse Saloon was there. Wild Horse Saloon. I saw a wild horse. I saw a horse get loose on a horse carriage there.

It's a wild. This is a picture from that wild horse. And we'll show the bombing in a second. There's, it was, I remember I was, we were, I want to say me and Laura, we go eat one of the, or suddenly we get a drink at the top of the bar and you can look down onto second Avenue and a horse and buggy was there and his horse is just losing it. And the guys on the back,

just like trying to get it to calm down and it's just making circles and then just takes off down the street and someone's like stop people are screaming stop it and i remember thinking i mean it's it's like a car it's a horse it's yeah you know thousand pounds two thousand pounds this is a great jason this comic jason good that i started with he had a great joke about how much horses weigh like how much his horse weighed he's like thousand pounds fifty thousand pounds i don't know who knows like you know because it is such if someone said how much is one way you're like i don't know a hundred thousand pounds two tons i don't know i don't know how much any of

this stuff is uh but it was running down i remember just the lady being like stop someone help him and you're like, how? It is a wild horse. How can we help this horse? And the guy just back there like, hey, why? Just trying to get it to calm down. And it just took off and ran into a car. Wow.

All right. Yeah, but that was, you know what? You'd have killed for that time this past Christmas. That's Nashville, man. That's what we do. We have horses. Right. I just remember when I was growing up in high school in Lebanon,

if we got to go to the Spaghetti Factory, we thought it was the nicest restaurant in the history of restaurants. So the Spaghetti Factory, which was destroyed by this bomb. Was it really? Yeah. And we would go there. It was a prom. That's the only time I ever went there.

That's what's crazy. We talk about eating. I was talking with Shea Mooney. It was his birthday yesterday from Dan and Shea. And Shea will be on this podcast at some point. But we would go eat with him and his wife and his sisters. And they're all from, Shea's from a small town in Arkansas. He's 500 people from his town.

His wife is from a small town, 190 that's unbelievable yeah she's talking about going she was like when i was growing up like chile's was crazy yeah like it was like they went to chile's it's like i mean you're it's it's like going to the french laundry place they make fun of newsome they went to but like it would be in your head that's the equivalent oh yeah you can even wrap your head around it an la place and uh so like yeah like chain stuff yeah i remember spaghetti factory i think we'd go there as a prom and you're i mean it's like i don't even you know if the bill was 80 you're like i mean i don't i can't afford right you didn't even break money when you were on the proms. Yeah, I didn't even have enough money to go to Cooker. You ever heard of the Cooker?

No. What is that? That was a big restaurant. The Cooker is where it was at. The Cooker was a nice, it was a step up. It's like a step up from Outback. Yeah. So like, yeah.

Which Outback is a pretty big you know oh charlie those places are great they're great and i know yeah look we're yeah we're all fans of this i know we're on the same page yeah we're on the same yeah it's uh but uh uh going to spaghetti factory yeah i remember yeah it was it's nuts it was a very fancy and i don't even you know now is it even still considered that or i think so many awesome restaurants now i have a company christmas dinner there once yeah a few years ago i loved it yeah yeah it's great so that uh yeah so that happened on christmas day i mean it was crazy so brian you had you uh has had a place right next to titan stadium yep close to it yeah the guy i know still lives there and i immediately texted him and he said

he was actually up already that morning felt it hurt it obviously shook the building pretty bad but and then he saw the smoke and you have some damage on your the not his unit specifically but the building itself has some structural damage and it Not his unit specifically, but the building itself has some structural damage. And it's about a mile away from the blast site. That's how big that bomb was. Wow.

That's so crazy. It's like Krakatoa. I mean, you could hear it a long way. You could hear it a long way. I mean, I knew people in Mount Juliet, Wilson County, which is 25 miles away, and they heard it.

Yeah. Or felt it, felt a shake. Not heard it, but felt a shake. My mom's friend said she heard it in Maldivia. My mom told me this Christmas day, and I ridiculed her friend. I'm like, Mom, that is the crazy. There was no way I thought that was true. I owe her a big apology.

I would have reacted the same way. I still question whether she heard it. Well, I've heard of Michael Clay, who listens to the podcast. Well, I've heard of Michael Clay, who listens to the podcast. Yeah. Michael Clay and his daughter, Moxie, who also is a big fan of the podcast. And they felt it. And they live in Lebanon.

They felt it. Or heard it or felt it. Yeah. Well, our buddy, Tanner Newcomb, who's a comic here in Nashville, he works right down there. He works the graveyard shift at a hotel. He was down there when it happened. Oh, really? On 2nd Avenue?

Yeah. He said it hurt his hearing. It was so loud. He's got it back. He's fine. Was he close enough to hear the warnings? I think he... I haven't talked to him yet in person. We texted a little bit. I think they told him to evacuate before. They were going around telling people to evacuate. So he was right in the thick of it.

Wow. Yeah. I mean, that's got to be crazy, dude. It was such a, it's, you know, look, thankfully no one was down there. There's all this warning. I mean, that also adds into just everybody's, what they think happened. I mean, they caught the guy and i think he just didn't like 5g uh which doesn't work well they didn't catch him they think he's 5g uh i haven't

called it either he was just bad that it didn't work as well no i'm just saying it doesn't work it's just funny that it's you're against 5g no supposedly this guy that did it that died in it yeah i thought you said they caught him. No, I don't know. They didn't. Yeah. They didn't, but they didn't. He doesn't like 5G.

Like, they think 5G, they think people, you know, which who knows if people think that or not. Yeah. I'm saying 5G doesn't work. My phone is the 5G phone, and I take it somewhere, it just shuts off. So, I mean, that's what's crazy. All the phone, that's the craziest thing though, to me, is 911 was just shut down. I was hearing to Knoxville, Tennessee,

but I mean, all middle Tennessee could call 911. If you had AT&T, whatever AT&T you had did not work. See whether it's your cell phone, internet, like we didn't have internet we have verizon cell phone that's where i learned you need to mix up the companies can't put all your eggs in one basket can't put all your eggs my neighbors just left they went to uh they did new jersey duane diane where you park your car in the driveway uh the myers they went to no new jersey they they did go to New Jersey.

They're family. They're from there. So they were thinking about, like, should we go drive up to Jersey? They were driving. And then they just were like, they couldn't. I mean, they're nothing. No phones, no, you know, you got to just sit with your family. Learn a lot of stuff.

So, yeah, it ended up being a wild week. And, you know, and thankfully everybody's fine as far as, you know, the people that live down there. Yeah, all that stuff is super damaged. And, yeah, the bomb is so crazy. Such a big bomb. That's the, yeah. How do they not catch that guy up to

that point? We can head down those roads. Those conspiracy roads. He was playing Downtown. The song Downtown. Petula Clark. Downtown. Downtown. I don't know the song.

Downtown. That's all singing I'm going to do. Now do you know it? I'm going downtown that's the song where you going downtown I'm going downtown in an earlier round sugar we're gone

did you know it I thought you would know it but last week you guys didn't know roll off the barrel roll off the barrel from the 1840s yeah i don't know yeah sorry yeah i'm sorry i know your dad listened to that music but see that joke that joke was i'm not calling him that old his dad's that old so that means he's that old see that's how comedy works aaron you get it now saint nick uh there's, yeah.

Yeah, I'd know Downtown. You would know the song. Play the Downtown song. Can I play it? Yeah. I don't know. It's totally going to get flagged. You can't play it.

15 seconds. Oh, you can play 15 seconds of it. That's enough. Oh, that's enough for me to recognize it? Petula Clark. She sounds like someone that's going to read a Cinecom in it. That sounds exactly like her. It does sound like a folk, for sure.

You probably got to go a little bit farther ahead. I don't know if you should have started. Are we wasting our 15 seconds? Yeah. Okay, I know that one downtown yeah alright kaboom

right after that that was yeah he played that in the morning uh that is that is evil

I don't know why he didn't sing that yeah that is evil why would you have to play the song downtown and then you know you are downtown he's not a fan of downtown

clearly and yeah he's trying to send a message yeah he didn't like you know look traffic's tough dude that's how i would talk to him before he did it look if i try to talk him out of it and you're like i'm gonna i'm gonna blow it up man i can't handle it i'd like hey man look yeah it's getting crazy dude i don't like it down here i agree agree, dude. Traffic is crazy. Have you been to Spaghetti Factory? Same, what it used to be. I get it. But I don't think we need to. You don't want to do something like that.

You know what I mean? He's like, I'll do it. I'm going to do it. I'll play the downtown song. Like, no one even knows that song. No one even knows that song. There's no reason to do something like that. I'll give a warning, too.

What are we talking about? And then there was another one in Lebanon, Tennessee. Yeah. That one, I'm not sure about. Yeah. It was in between Lebanon and Murfreesboro,

the community of Walter Hill, Rutherford County. Yeah. It was, it was a, it was a vein, like a, like a FedEx. It's not FedEx,

but it looks like a FedEx truck. Yeah. It was a box truck that I guess they said was playing the same song. Yeah. And. I mean, do you think that happens where someone just hears that and they go yeah i heard that song and then he starts i mean it happens that's like when journey after the sopranos don't stop believing became number one on itunes everybody's like oh well there's still gonna people that see this it's a you know it's a weird look i mean we make jokes about all this but it's actually the look. I mean, we make jokes about all this,

but it's actually the only bombing you could actually make jokes about because, I mean, he died, and he clearly wanted to, and no one else did. And so, you know, I mean, besides that, you're a little scared, a little nervous. Besides that, yeah, I mean, people are making, you know, it's like making jokes jokes about it you know um yeah you guys bailed on me whatever helps you sleep at night dude yeah yeah i'm taking

this seriously you know when it happened i got a text from aaron said finally and i didn't even know and i was like i didn't know what it meant. It took me a few hours before I realized what it was. I got one from him that said, mission complete. Yeah. I was like, I don't know what this is about, but I guess Nate's mural got hit again. Have you all gone through Aaron's Amazon?

He orders some weird stuff. None of it makes sense until it makes sense. You know what I mean? Like all the parts, you're like, what is this even going to do? And he just said, you will see. He got bumped from open mic by Tanner Newcomb. He was like, I'll show him. I'll show him.

This feels good. Like all of us back together. Hello. So this episode of 2020 is coming to an end uh and so we you know here we just talked about something that bad happened 2020 look we know uh everything on 2020 now if someone talks about it it it was not a good year it was not a good year at all and we all went through hard times and our a lot of people went through way more hard times than I did. Everybody's hard times are their own personal hard times.

Some people go through them worse than others. And I feel nothing but sympathy for everybody. The actual person that has to struggle through stuff, that's who I feel sympathy for, not the grand scheme. But it's like, yes, if you're listening to this, you and you and you, I feel bad if you had to go through something and you had to deal with more. But we did not want to just talk about negative stuff in 2020. So the idea of this episode will be to tell you why this is still the greatest time to be alive right now. Just to give you some look, and I don't think any of our listeners will take this the wrong way

because I think everybody's level, logical, level-headed people, and they don't. If someone finds this somewhere else, they might. Again, not saying bad stuff happens, but how about some positive? It's you're still currently and i'm not saying he's like someone's gonna someone falls out of a building that guy it wasn't the best time for him to be alive but in general broad strokes right by far never a better time to be alive right than right now right yeah you're absolutely right i did some research on it if you just look year to year you could certainly argue some years are worse than others. 2020 was definitely a worse year.

Yeah, and 2019. Yeah, and for many, many metrics. So broad strokes though, we were talking decades and sometimes centuries. Undoubtedly, the world is going to be a much better place in most of the areas that we consider. And I don't think people think about that. I know that, you know, I feel like if you tell someone this, they're like, yeah, of course. And you're like, I know, but tell yourself that, man.

Be in it. Remind yourself. You know what? It is. And I should be, at least be happy for a second. Don't just be miserable. Don't just, you know, it's like trying to, you can throw yourself your pity parties. I get it. But also when you walk around, just try to be like, all right, you know it's like trying to you can throw yourself your pity parties i get it

but also when you walk around just try to be like all right you know what this is a good time and if i'm down on my luck this is the best time to try to turn that around you have the most opportunity to turn this around so let's and you know let's enjoy 2020 the best year I've ever had. So from what I read... No, I'm not saying that. Just turn around. You know what, guys? It's amazing. There's companies that are through the roof right now, 2020. Amazon, if you're Jeff Bezos, that guy is like, I mean, he won't have a better year.

2020, honestly, might be his best year ever. So we have him on the podcast he's he's gonna be he'll be the only thumbs up on this podcast is one jeff baby he's like these guys what these guys get it dude they get he's a zillionaire um i was reading about this some stuff surprised me most people would say the world's getting a be worse a worse place to live yeah and as there as if there's another place to live in that's what the world's the worst place to live you're like where else where do you want to go yeah outside of that kind of our only option right now this is it look mars obviously we might already have people on the table we do have people

on there you don't believe it i believe we haven. We haven't even – is that a podcast? No, that's – Well, we talked about it a couple weeks ago. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we have one that we have. All right. Sorry. The prevailing thought is the world's getting a much better place,

but we have so much more access now to media, social media, TV media, all of it, that we know so much more about the bad stuff happening. It's not that it's worse. It's actually getting much better, but we just hear about the bad stuff so much more. We're more educated about it. I'm rethinking this whole episode now. It's actually the worst. Now that is true that the media, 24-hour media, 24-hour news and social media. Yeah, you got rid of social media, we'd go back to living an amazing life. You wouldn't get stuff out, though. I mean, you know, I say that.

That's probably not true. But it's, yeah, that's very much true. But it still doesn't mean that you'd rather live now than you want to live in 1900. No, no, no, no. Now, of course, now is much better. Yes. It's just that we hear about the bad stuff

much easier. But it doesn't make it worse. No, he's just saying there's a perception. It gives you a perception because you hear all about it now. You're able to hear about everything. You're not going to get a newspaper from Syracuse, New York in 1900

and find out somebody got murdered there, right? But now you see it all over Twitter. Right, yeah. But just because you hear about it doesn't mean that it's worse. No, he's saying it creates a false perception. Yeah, so it's fake. Yeah. So we're all talking about the same thing.

I think, yeah. Was that a flip side? Would that have been a proper flip side or germane? Could you have used any of that? Oh, man. I'm glad we're back on the same page because I felt we got lost there for a second. Yeah. On the Gregorian calendar, do you think 2020 was worse?

As a secular year, that's not like other years. What do you think? I don't know, man. All right, here's some numbers that, look, I have no idea if these are true or not, but I'm going to read them because they sound good. Yeah. Every day, the number of people around the world

living in extreme poverty, which is recognized as less than $2 a day, goes down by 217,000 people. Every day that happens. That's awesome. This is according to- Those guys, by the way, extreme, I mean, extreme poverty is doing better than what we're doing on this podcast. We're still at zero. Not out of 10- This podcast is in extreme poverty we're below extreme poverty we would look at those people and go

god what's that like that must be nice to be up there how many of you get two dollars a day are you kidding me right now nine out of ten Americans polled said that global poverty is worsening but instead over the last 40 years

the world has seen the greatest poverty reduction in human history in 1981 42 of the world lived on less than a dollar 90 a day now it's less than 10 to do that see that's that's the so like if you polled everybody if these polls again we've made fun of polls and who knows if those are even sure right but just so we can have a conversation uh we got to make up something yeah we everybody, if these polls, again, we've made fun of polls, and who knows if those are even right. But just so we can have a conversation, we've got to make up something. These polls are just we asked just my family, immediate family. And that would be funny, every poll. If all the polls were fake and we found out, it's all just,

who did you ask? He goes, just around the holidays, I just asked my aunts and uncles and cousins you see this is just your family it's like yeah it's a good it's a general they're pretty middle they're they live in they live in minnesota and so they're probably the rest of the country and you're like all right uh but that that example is good as everybody thinks it's worse but that that is why this is why i like this topic as an episode because it's just to go like no man it's getting better there's no that's we have uh positive being positive is everybody just puts like negative everybody i try to live by a way that i assume everybody i'm about to meet if i meet someone I assume they're probably smarter than me, which is most everybody. Statistics show that's true. Yeah. We did a poll on that. It's 100% accurate. 100%.

God, 10 out of 10. Can you believe that? So you need to meet someone and you go like, I'm assuming they're smarter than me and they're a nice person. Because generally, your percentage of meeting just a maniac that's going to punch you in the face from nowhere are unbelievably low unbelievably low so just maybe assume everybody's smart and people need to you need to enter in that space like when you go into something go into it with a better even the dumb ones they're gonna know they know something you don't i've heard that said before assume the other person in the conversation know something you don't i've heard that said before assume the other person in the conversation knows something you don't know yeah which is almost always true right

yeah so yeah yeah we i mean we talked about like just you know oh like just yeah be open listen you know look the bombing stuff i was saying this downstairs like there's a lot of conspiracies about what happened this bombing and uh you know you. And it made me think when I was reading them, I was like, I do think you need some conspiracy in your life. You need some whatever regular news, but I don't think it's bad. You need someone to be like, I don't even think those buildings are real buildings downtown. You need something to go like, all right, well, that guy. You just need a balance to kind of go like, I don't want to just get jammed this one thought. Everybody's saying this one thing.

I do like to hear from one other person to be like, let me just figure it out on my own. Yeah, but by the time this podcast comes out in a couple of days, it could be a whole new theory on that. Oh, I mean, yeah. I mean, whole new theory. Yeah, exactly. According to the World Bank, which sounds made up, the World Bank, but around- The human fund. Money for people.

Money for people. That's what this sounds like. I got you guys a gift card to the World Bank. That's where you guys' money is at for this podcast. I deposited straight into your world bank accounts you don't have that hooked up yet i didn't even know i had one yeah y'all got so much money in there i can't believe it the number is five five five five five five well according to the world bank around 88 million people were thrown back into extreme poverty this year because of

pandemic, which is terrible. But it only takes us back, it doesn't set us back to the dark ages, it goes back to 2017, the rate. And the way the world's improving will be right back to the best poverty rate in history by 2023. Boom. So it's a slight setback. Yeah. I mean, look, if you're one of those 88 million people and you're listening to this podcast you are not happy right now i can tell you right now they they are not thrilled but i get like it works this everything's got to be kind of talked in broad strokes right you can't individualize everything or we're never going to get anywhere so everything's got to be kind of talked in these broad things.

So in general, yeah, everything's good. We all have friends that are laid off. And then some are getting jobs. Brother-in-law, he's going to get a new job. He was laid off. I think he's getting a new job. So yeah, things are getting better. I mean, kind of along those lines, in 1961, food supply in 54 out of 183 countries was less than needed.

But now that's only true in two countries. So world famine has greatly been reduced. We're getting fatter. Well, we are. We're getting fatter. We, during the pandemic, ate a lot of donuts that weren't needed to be eaten. We thrived. Life expectancy has greatly increased, but in the United States, because of what you just said, we've slightly ticked down.

But we're one of the few countries. That have gone down? Slightly, yeah. Because we're eating Krispy Kreme Challenge? Yeah. Most countries are going way up. Yeah. This podcast alone changedreme challenge. Yeah. Most countries are going way up. Yeah. This podcast alone, change the numbers.

Yeah. Imagine like 700, if some say 700 AD or something. Are we in AD now? Yeah. Yeah. 700 AD. I know y'all look at me like I say something wrong, man. And then I question.

The fact that you even say it makes us look at you. I thought you were about to say 700 pound guy. Did he go 700 AD? No. I'm saying the life expectancy there in 700 is probably 40 or 35. Oh, yeah. Like 20, you know. In 1900, the world average was 31.

1900? Even then? And it's not so much that because everyone was dying at that age. So many people died early as a child that it set the average down. If you got to a certain age, you couldn't live to be 50 or 60. Yeah. But so many people died in childhood that it put the averages way down. Because babies were not making it.

Because it was, yeah, you're born. You know, they have, you know, 1900. You think about 1900, I'm like, yeah, you had to be born in a tent, right? They didn't have, you know. And you're like, no, they had buildings, man. You're like, did they? I feel like that's what's going to end up being what, if you say 1900, that's what everybody's going to think.

Like my daughter, when she's old enough to leave, she's like, 1900, it's like, well, you guys, like, why? Because dinosaurs ate them? That's what you would think. Yeah. Why they live? Because dinosaurs are snatching them up. You're like, yeah, part of the reason.

That's what I'm going to say to her. Is I'm going to go, yeah, that was a gigantic factor. The T-Rexes were obviously gone, but the raptors, you couldn't find them. And they sneak up on you, and they want you to get them. In the year 1800, so 220 years ago, 43% of the world's children didn't make it past the age of five. Wow. So almost half.

Almost half of the world's children? Good night. How do you even get that stat? Then they pulled everybody? How did they get that stat? That's the best guess I have. I mean, 1800, they were probably keeping records at that point, right? best guess i probably kept i mean 1800 they were probably keeping records at that point right i guess i'm sure it's clapped a lot for

they clapped at each other like the margatzi family does that's how we do it yeah yeah i don't know i'm sure uh the race now down to lighten the mood baby genocide over here that's the name they should call him. Baby genocide over here. We went to Jefferson Davis' house as a field trip. He's a comic. Growing up. Oh, the Jefferson.

I thought he was a local comic. He's very funny. Yeah. These are the kind of field trips you're taking about Gabrielle. We go to the first White House of the Confederacy.acy yeah and you're just in his family's home and they're like oh yeah his daughter died right there she fell off the steps his son died over he had like 12 kids and eight of them died you're just like wow yeah this guy that's sad like this guy yeah but that was just normal it was just like yeah half your kids die it's like it's like it's like

cats with a litter it's like some of them are gonna die yeah yeah like i mean baby alligators i think don't make it like a baby turtle their percentage is tiny yeah i think look of a baby turtle percentage of making it if it when a turtle's born dodds it and their the mom leaves them and then they got to get to the ocean on their own and it's and it's it's a tiny yeah one in ten thousand survive to adulthood estimate yeah i mean yeah pretty wild i didn't know that. Huh? See, you learned something right before the year wrapped up. You thought turtles had it easy. Easy living. I love that you knew nothing about childhood mortality rates,

but turtles, you're all over it. Before you read that, you knew that 1,800 is only 50% of kids made it? I did not know that, but I also didn't know about turtles. I didn't know the baby one, but I knew turtles. I know turtles, I mean, they don't even have a fighting chance. I think if you're born as a turtle, if you open your eyes and you're like, I'm a turtle, dead, coming, and then you're like, that means you just have no chance.

That's what I picture. Just don't open your eyes. When you open your you just have no like that's that's what i picture just don't open your eyes and just when you write when you open your eyes just be like please don't see weird hands and then you're like and then you ask the people around you to have a show on me dude don't say it don't say i have a show and he's like yeah you have you have a show on you we're not making it one of us is making it he's like dude, dude, there's 10,000 of us. And he goes, one of us. One of us. He goes, how's that impossible?

The water's right there. I mean, you see it. It's not like they go across the Appalachian Mountains. I mean, it's like you can throw a football the distance they got to go, and they get wiped out, dude. They just can't do it. It says by seabirds and fish. Wow, that's a tough life.

Anyway. Just open your eyes. Oh, crap, I'm a turtle. That's the least one. I mean, if you're a baby lion, you're like, all right. And they have have a what are animals just in general what are animals babies what's that were they higher than the 1800 humans all animals maybe i mean just in general dude how many animal babies i would say an elephant baby

maybe has the best chance uh oh like a you know i'm so glad you have the laptop now yeah deer i mean thankfully they broke it down by different types of animals i don't think there's just a generic that's life all animal that's what we're looking for right no no i was looking at like oh we're looking for life yeah expect an amazon parrot 80 years that's isn't that a big thing that people buy parrots and then they die the the owner will die before the parrot? Well, maybe. Because you buy a parrot, you're not buying a parrot at 10 years old. You buy a parrot when you're 40.

Yeah. And everybody's gone out of your house. And then that parrot lives to 80. We just got a puppy yesterday, and it's live expectancy is 20 years. And I was like, this dog's looking at me like, Oh my God, dude.

Yeah. You got to take care of yourself. I think the dog, I know. I think the dog's getting closer to Ruth just cause it knows that you, you know, you're not going to be there maybe physically, but definitely not mentally here for the whole run.

She was looking at me like, at least show me where the food is. Just, just show me. Do you know where the food's at? Yeah. at least show me where the food is. Just show me. Do you know where the food's at? Yeah. Let me show you where the food's at. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's the, I want to see. These are the 15 animals with the lowest chances of survival. I've never heard of any of these animals, which I guess makes sense. That makes sense. Because they're all dying. Survival of the wild are in zoos.

They're not even making it out of zoos. Oh, man. They just weren't meant to live i guess i mean could you how do you not survive in a zoo that's where we're helping you and they can't help themselves yeah well the mouth you should call better help is what they should call better h-e-l-p.com slash name and they should talk to somebody to go what what do you think it is man why can't you it's it's it's 30 yards you got to get what's the is there the the lower low chances are raised due to at least two of the following factors uh polit it's political of course political instability in the site of course

politics are in everything you can't just get away from it. So this is interesting. So the opportunity of establishing an insurance population. I don't. Okay. I thought I knew what that sentence meant. In zoos for these 15 species is low due to high cost or lack of breeding. So they can't get insurance for the animals because their survival rate is so low. So they don't have a lot of these.

Yeah. So it's. Am I reading that right? Yeah. I don't's... So it's... Am I reading that right? Yeah. I don't know. You don't think I'm reading that right? I checked out. I didn't even listen to you.

I didn't. This is the first time... I don't think this is insurance the way we think it's insurance. To be honest. I thought you left early. Oh, hey, Aaron. I... So, mammals...

Mammals, mouse, a rat, and a gopher. Those are not doing good. They have a hard time. The birds, I don't know any of them. The climbing rat. The Amsterdam albatross. You should say there are much more specific types of mouse. It's not just all mice and then rats i know but i'm so you think someone's going what kind of mouse and i go the

mount lefo brush for mouse and they go all right well thank you because i definitely know yeah that mouse has a lot harder time you think there's someone at home listening to this going like well that makes a lot more sense because it's not a typical house mouse that has got his life together and is born into a nice family if it's a mount lefo brush furred mouse do you know where those people come from those mice are just know that one champagne climbing rat their life might sound luxurious but they ain't making it out dude it sounds good it's all a facade that's a big word uh tropical pocket gopher and obviously you can tell why they're not making it the pocket is literal they're in pockets people keep them

tropical pocket gopher is there other animals what's uh amphibians up there go looking like mostly frogs is there better what's up with? Is there better? That's very, no, some numbers. I don't, I don't, I just want to see like some numbers that say, is it,

you know, like the one in 10,000 sea turtle that you can't, that you can't make it. I feel like you're Michael Scott. He's Pam, Pam. Look up how long animals survive. She just makes up some numbers to tell him.

Yeah. He could do that. He could make stuff up. It's the – this is – yeah. I mean, why does everybody got to write a paper about everything? You know, you click on a – Now you see what I got through researching this stuff. I mean, good night, dude.

Just someone just throw out a number. They just – everything's like, all right, I dove into this shit. Well, I don't – good night, dude. I'm just trying to look up some quick facts. Look at every website you click on. Here's a 40-page. Get out of here, dude. And charts are ridiculous, by the way.

I've learned that during COVID. I don't understand a chart. None of it really makes sense to me. I don't know what the numbers on the side or the bottom really are. And none of them make sense. I'm tired of hearing the numbers on the side or the bottom really are. And they, none of them make sense. And they need, I'm tired of hearing like, well,

out of one, every 10,000. And everybody's like, well, that's high. Here's a good graph. Uh, what is this graph?

I have no idea what it means. This is, this is, this doesn't even make sense, dude. I, we got a graph problem in this country and these people that make these graphs and they're you know they're so i feel like there's a graph community

that's so into it that they like a graph person's like dude that graph is so perfect and and to a person that's like i don't ever graphs are just not in my life i don't really use them a lot and so you need to calm it down a little bit. Because the last time I saw a graph was in elementary school. I said, you can't be throwing all this nonsense out at me. I sent Aaron a bunch of graphs for today's show that I thought might be helpful.

We have a bunch on here. I've got them pulled up. Yeah, I know. I'm just saying, he just says he didn't like them. These are very intuitive. They're nice looking. They're organized. That's a normal graph. Okay.

So that shows what the life expectancy was in 1770. Was 30. Was like 28, probably. Yeah. Depending on which country you lived in. It was around 28 to 35. Yeah. And now in most developed countries, it's anywhere from 60 to up to 80 in Europe, 60 in Africa.

The graph across time, we kind of just stay at the same average till a little at the 1920s or so. Till the Roswell crash. Yeah. I was going to ask what happened there that everything started trending upwards. Walmart. When was Walmart, May? When was Walmart? ending up walmart when was walmart may what was i think it was later in the 1920s i don't know aaron that's a good question do you remember going to your first do you remember when they're being put up 1962 walmart found it that late uh i mean that's a good question i don't a lot i don't

know the answer to that, but I think a lot of vaccines happen. I think they cure polio. Yeah. Smallpox, which last week you said, instead of making the world's smallest Christmas card, this guy should be working on smallpox.

Yeah. So, so I guess he's, he's like, so he's like, I'm retired. He's good. But life expectancy,

as you see, has went way up, uh, since the 1920s. Yeah. So, good for you, guys. A woman in South,

no, that's just one. I guess anybody in South, no, it was a woman, I'm sorry. Average woman in South Korea by the year 2030 will live to see her 90th birthday.

Wow. What's their hip size over there? Is that the hip? They're not hip. They don't care about hip size, right? I don't know. In Africa, the life expectancy has went up 10 years just in the last decade.

And where? In Africa. Yeah. Yeah, Africa is making, well, they're making big strides because I feel like they are, like they just have a lot more places that are way like old time. And then, so now they're going to get gonna get yeah water is becoming better for them my brother does a lot of stuff god international yeah i got a lot of missionaries my church so a lot of powerpoints that i got a question now yeah i'm giving them money for something

fixing water fixing water yep they're beginning my brother we gave uh someone we like uh they raised money uh we did one the giving thursday they raised money. We did one of the giving Thursday. They raised money. It's like, I think it was some lady had to walk forever to get water. Like it's insane how far these guys have to go to get water. And so when they're able to build her something to have water. Clean drinking water. Her life expectancy shot up that day.

Cancer, which you've talked about on a previous episode. Why aren't they doing anything? There are making progress. In the United States, the cancer death rate fell by 25% from 1990 to 2014, saving the lives

of 2.1 million people. That's a pretty big chunk. Yeah. Yep. 25% is a lot, but it's, you know, let's get on it.

Let's. So they're making strides. Let's get on. We got a lot of doctors listening to this. Mike Wilson, what was his name? Yeah, I's get on it. So they're making strides. Let's get on. We got a lot of doctors listening to this. Mike Wilson. What was his name? Yeah, I think that was it. Was it Saftar Khan, too?

Yeah. Dr. Mike Wilson and Dr. Khan. How about you guys team up, cure cancer, and call it Penguin. This will be a vaccine. Everybody's got to go. I'm here for the penguin. Speaking of vaccines. What's a penguin's life expectancy?

Do in Antarctica and also in Alabama. Do both. Arkansas is where the. Yeah, Arkansas. See, do life expectancy. 15 to 20 years. That's it. Not bad.

Some live considerably longer. I thought they can live longer than that. So I guess that means nothing. How do they die? Let's see that. Heart attack. Wow. It's all the blubber.

How do most penguins die? If they die on the sea ice, their bodies fall in the sea when said ice breaks up in the spring they get eaten by scavengers like skuas yeah i don't know what that is like you're getting emotional during that they're birds i'm just laughing skuas a bird so they get eaten by other birds yeah how long the skuas live they're like oh they live forever well yeah i mean it's uh so the bird skua doesn't kill the penguin it just eats it when it's dead yeah they can wait because i mean they're dying left and right you know they walk they just wobble around and they don't get anywhere to go you You know, can't hide. They're in Antarctica.

You should go to Arkansas. And guess what? They would be like, have you ever been killed by a skua? They'd be like, I don't know what that is. Been run over by a truck, though. Vaccinations. 86% of all one-year-olds in the world now have been vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough. I think I had whooping cough as a kid.

Those three are big killers, I think, around the world. I think I did. There's a good chance whooping cough hasn't been around since the 1820s, so it could have been something else. Oh, well, you just went back to... Yeah. That's the child mortality rate And how it's It's

Dropped Drastically Are we still talking about babies dying Alright So Look how much better things are though Yeah they are Is this all

What is your research on Just I mean You're like What are we going to call this This episode I don't know Baby death

I guess Like good That covers most of it Fertility rates have fallen baby death, I guess. Good, that covers most of it. Fertility rates have fallen. Had to look at what that meant. And we're still on it. We're still talking about baby death. Technically. This is a good

one, though. People were having way too many children in countries where they're overpopulated and couldn't have to feed them. But now fertility rates among women are way down in these developments. What? in countries where they're overpopulated and couldn't have to feed them. But, um, now fertility rates among women are way down in these development. What? What's going on over here?

I don't know, dude. He doesn't, something got him going. It was something got him going with him. Oh, I'm trying to think what you said that would have made him laugh. You said people are having too many babies in countries where they couldn't feed them.

Sorry. Keep going. Did that make you laugh? Just the whole situation. Yeah, the whole situation is that we keep – Brian being like, yeah, people are having too many kids. Thankfully, they're having less kids now. They just look so annoyed.

Yeah. The whole thing was funny. I've asked to get off baby deaths, and we can't veer off of it i mean he thinks he keeps going off of it he goes all right dude i'll calm it down uh fertility rates are pretty low and all right dude i'll take it easy people are not having babies in other countries and i'm like good night like every sentence that comes out of just more babies that are not being born. I just want to make this final point. I'll move on.

Yeah. I mean, like you got to stay in today. You're running up. Everyone thinks the world's global population, we're going to be way overpopulated. Yeah. But according to UN research,

it's going to stay, it's going to level off and by the end of the century we're going to be at 11 billion which sounds like a lot but um but it's not going to we're not going to be overpopulated like a lot of people think but go to montana and there's plenty of room up there yeah the overall population thing i've never bought into that i mean that's when you go drive places you're like it's overpopulated in cities. We have so much land. Anybody can go anywhere. You can drive.

I mean, go to, isn't there parts of, when I drove across the country, you would drive in parts where there's no, they would say, I remember one place, it said, you got to fill up for gas because there's not another gas station for 200 miles. Maybe 100 miles, I don't know. It could have been two exits. because there's not another gas station for 200 miles maybe our 100 miles i don't know yeah you know could have been two exits but it could have been i think it was like there's no more flying jays and it's just i was like ah no gas station he goes no there's bps and stuff there's no flying

jays like i like a flying jay he goes i know that's about 100 miles away you go all right they just don't do them right here and he goes goes, no, it's just not. They never really took off here. But I do remember driving. Because I remember Laura got in an accident right when I – she called me. But I'm not going to have any cell service as I was driving. And Harper was four or five months old. And Laura got hit. Just a little car accident so she calls me and

she's like we got in a car accident and i'm like kind of like what like what's going on and i'm i'm like entering an abyss yeah and like the last thing for the abyss is like we're in a car accident and then that was like it and then uh but it was it was just like it was nothing she was fine what's the next graph we have not to he would want in a baby survive that story unlike what brian's rooting for so uh baby killer over here go ahead and read the next thing that's good um every day 325 000 more people gain access to electricity wow it's amazing how many people 325 325,000. That's awesome.

Good for them. As they just cut it on now. This is the first thing we see. Yeah, the first thing they hear is this podcast. I ain't what. I'll go back. Oh, there you go. That was overrated.

We don't need it. Every day, 300,000 more people gain access to clean drinking water. Wow. Good for them. Each day, 300,000 more people gain access to clean drinking water. Wow. Good for them. Each day, an additional... That's a very funny thing to say. It's such a gigantic thing for them. It's good for them.

Good for them. Each day, an additional 650,000 people are able to get online for the first time. Access to internet. Yeah, good for them. That's a big one. That's a big one. Yep. They live in just a nice, easy life.

To them, life is better. And they're like, wow, we get to check the internet. Everything's the worst. Most people think 2020 is the worst year ever. It's actually, according to these statistics, the fourth best year ever. The three best years were 2017, 2018, and 2019 in terms of – So it's just every – so the next year is like – so what's the next one? It will be 2018, 2019, 2021.

Yeah. It just basically just keeps going. Is there ever one that skips? I mean, I think there's bound to be some like 2020. I think 2021 will probably get back to being the best yeah that'd be like 1993 you're like oh yeah that makes sense uh yeah maybe 2020 is violence is way down conflicts are on the decline i mean that shows there's been two major countries fighting with each other almost every year since the 1500s, but none of that's going on now for a while.

When the Spanish flu happened in 1918, 1919, World War I was going on. So not only are you dealing with a major pandemic, you've got a world war. So you can't just tell everybody to stay six feet apart. Yeah, they're having to get after it. Yeah, that's tough. And that's how it spread so quickly. One, because there's soldiers all over the world. And then when they came home, it ticked up again.

Well, it was hard to tell them. You had to send pigeons to go get back. That's how. And they don't even know where it originated from, but it was called the Spanish flu because Spain was not in World War I. They were neutral. So their news, all they were doing was reporting on the flu. Yeah.

So everybody was like, golly, Spain is just, it's terrible over there. Where the countries involved in war, it said they were censoring their news to make it more positive. So they weren't sharing all this information. So it got called Spanish flu just because they were being more honest about what's happening. Oh, that's why. I didn't know that. Yeah.

Yeah. I would have said because they caused it directly. The first reported case. It sounds like you started there. You go, yeah, because they started it because they hated it. Well, they made it in their labs. The first reported case was in the U.S., actually. They're Spanish labs of 19...

Back then, in 1918, medical professionals advised patients to take up to 30 grams a day of aspirin, a dose now known to be toxic. Wow. They could handle it back then. There was men back then. You can't handle that much aspirin? can't handle that much aspirin i would if i would if someone goes don't take 30 milligram aspirin i'd be like well you need to be specific and say how many pills that is because i'm i need you to be like oh don't take five of them eight of them what is it 10 milligrams no you take for aspirin an ibuprofen is like 200 200. What did that say, 30?

Yeah, 30 grams, not milligrams, grams. Come on. I mean, then you know what? Then I'm dead. I hope you're happy, aspirin, because I'm dead. Because you try to get to, because you want just. That's 30 grams, dude. It's consistent today. I know, but you're saying 30 grams.

I know, but to go like, well, don't eat 30 grams of aspirin. I'm like, well, it says milligrams, so what am I supposed to- I'm supposed to do the conversion in my head? How much? What is it? How many pills would that be? Four grams is too many, it says now, and they were telling people to do 30 a day. If 30 milligrams, how many milligrams makes up a gram?

I have no idea. Millie? I'm looking it up now. You're looking it up. A thousand. So 30 grams times 1,000 is 30,000. I'm talking it out loud in my head as I'm doing it. 30,000 divided by?

That's 300,000. Oh, yeah, 30. This is how we get the wrong statistics that'd be 150 pills uh 200 milligram pills that's a lot yeah that's a lot they were telling people to take that yeah i mean that's worse than the doctors telling a pregnant woman to smoke. They're just going, you need to take 150 pills. Can you imagine being a doctor back then? And you don't just go. You go, you should take, what was they saying, 30 grams?

30 grams. You should take 30 grams of aspirin. And then the guy is like me that goes, all right, but I don't really know. So what is it? How many pills is that? He goes, it's 150. And you don't think one doctor goes, that just doesn't sound right. Sounds like way too many.

When I hear it like that, that sounds like way too many. Like he goes, I've been saying 30 grams, so I don't think, you know, I kind of got used to it and I don't think about it. And then when you made me break it down, see, it's guys like me that are dumb that come in and save the world. Because we go, well, I don't, you know, because the doctor's like just signing out, here's 30 grams of take-em-out. He doesn't know.

And then I just go, yeah, I don't, I didn't go to, I mean, dude, if I couldn't make it out of high school in 20, in 1997, I definitely probably, I mean, I would have never made it out. I would have made it through second grade in the 1900s. So I'm going to have to be like, you have to break that down a little bit more than what you just wrote. And he's going to say 150 pills. And I go, you want me to take 150 pills? Two to three times a day.

Two to three times a day? You want me to take 150? 450. Yeah. I go, dude, I don't know. So just eat them? Just eat these all day? Is that what you want me to do?

Do you want me to go? Should I go? You're saying like, so when I go to the movies and they go, do you want candy? I go, no, I got to take. I'm kind of eating aspirin right now. So it's kind of my thing. And everybody's like, finally, they go, yeah, that is too much. This says many of the deaths attributed to Spanish flu

were actually caused by aspirin poisoning. I mean, on the news, they're telling you 150 of them. They don't even sell that in a bottle. Yeah, 100, I think. Can you imagine going, or you buy the ones that are like the 10? It only sells you 10 aspirin. I'll take 15 of those, please. Is this for like a month?

You're like, no, before I get to my car. Yeah, I'll be back tomorrow. Yeah, I'll be back tomorrow. Are they in stock? You guys get it? That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot.

People are working fewer hours. people are working fewer hours. 31 of the richest countries in the world says 14% decline in hours worked per week per worker. There we go. There's more work getting done, though. That's what I want to know. I think so. I think sometimes more wrong work getting done.

Yeah. More work's being done. I have a theory there's a lot of uh procrastination going on and a lot of just like nonsense work getting done like i don't think stuff's getting as uh stuff doesn't get finished like it should even whether whatever it is you think more so now than before like years ago yeah i've never you know obviously i never thought about what was getting done years ago but but they they wrote songs getting stuff done. Isn't that a song?

You know? I think now, think about all the bad songs. A lot more bad songs getting written. Like a lot more just nonsense getting put out. Like in songs now, the words, aren't words being taken out of songs? Like it's just like a chorus and then they just yell, blah, blah, blah, the whole time. This is your example? Yeah.

Think about, you think he's going to go, the Bomber guy played Downtown, which is like basically he's just talking because it's all lyrics. Yeah. He can't play something now that's just eight words. The song has eight words. And then just sounds. They call it gibberish. Work, work, work, work, work. That would have been weird to play.

Work, work, work. Yeah, just saying that over again, you'd be confused by the messaging. You'd hear it so much. It's all like gibberish rap. They talk about gibberish rap, how it's just. I've never heard of that. Mumble rap? Mumble rap. Oh, okay. How Hannibal did gibberish rap, I's just i've never heard of that mumble rap mumble rap oh okay how hannibal did gibberish rap i think all right but mumble rap or something yeah no one

could have all that's that's almost like you said you're not into the words for music right so it's just if you're just making noises that's good enough right but this is some of the best music i've ever heard in my life right now i I think we finally got it. Since this podcast launched. Look, I think we had too many words. He wrote a song. I wrote a song. Are we going to get to hear that? Yeah, Walker Hayes.

Me and Walker Hayes wrote a song. About for the podcast? You know, after I talked, but no, he heard it on the podcast. I said I wanted to write a song. Yeah. And then me and him got together and we wrote a song. Have you recorded anything? Yeah. Yeah. I have the song. I'm not wanted to write a song. Yeah. And then me and him got together and we wrote a song. Have you recorded anything? Yeah.

Yeah. I have the song. I'm not playing it. I don't know. Now, I'm going to tell them now. Can you tell us anything about it? No, it's not. It's a country song.

It's not like funny or anything. It's like trying to be like a serious song. What's it about? Yeah. Just a relationship. I don't know. You know? It's like, it's talking about just like a boy and girl, husband, wife. Okay.

Anything like that. I love songs. Love songs. Love songs. All right. Love songs. Yeah. I had trouble when they said, what's the genre?

I was like, you know, like husband, wife. And they go, so romantic. I go, oh, yeah. That's the word. See yeah that's the word see that's the good thing that he talks about me using well good yeah i don't use the word that's the like the word that moves everything along they i i make you have to think about it that's why you do it that's why i do it and it was a good experience it was a well experience. Farming technologies improve so much that we can now provide more food with less farmland. Farmers today can produce.

I think everything, there's one guy listening to this that hates everything that we've mentioned. He thinks all of it's the problem. Yeah. You know, people have written books about it and they all get pushback. A guy did a TED Talk. People don't like it. Hearing that the world's good. ted talk people don't like it hearing that the world's good yeah they don't like it especially if it's coming from a wealthy white man saying yeah yeah because they think you're saying everything's fine that's why it's obviously

guys what if everybody just gets behind this and they just show him reading on this and they're like all right man i believe it now you know know? I believe it. He would have hair. You know, that was always LeBron. Like, if someone was so rich. Like, you think that with Tiger Woods. You know people that get hair. LeBron's got his hairline. LeBron James.

I was going to say his own LeBron James. But his hairline is now farther than it was. But Tiger Woods, still bald. He could still wear a hat, though. I know, but you still just think Tiger Woods has a billion dollars. He can get it done. But it makes me almost like with Tiger, Tiger's just kind of a nerdy. He's cool because of him and his image and all this stuff,

but Tiger's kind of just like a nerdy dude that's kind of his own like i don't think tiger thinks that he would ever think to get hair yeah he'd be like i don't i don't care i think he's also if you're playing golf you're with a lot you're with older older men right you're playing lebron's playing with a bunch of 18 year olds that's the world you're gonna do you don't think not being in a world of young people with great hair? No, I think he wears a hat, and LeBron doesn't wear a hat would be more. I don't think he's going Tiger's life. Well, I made that point earlier, and you dismissed it,

so I'm trying to come up with another good point. That was a good point. I didn't – sorry, I didn't – yes. Good job, Aaron. That's all I ever wanted, dude. Yeah. That's all I ever needed. Sorry, I didn't. Yes. Good job, Aaron. That's all I ever wanted, dude. That's all I ever needed. All right. Disregard the other point.

The other point. Double down on the hat thing. Tucker plays more bald people, so he probably wants to be bald, right? Like he feels out of place. Is that the? I was just saying maybe there's less pressure. Well, definitely because he can always wear a hat. But I mean, the thing is they have to take their hat off

when they shake hands. Yeah. And that's, you know... Wasn't there a hair company that wanted to sponsor a podcast and wanted me to do a trial? Yeah, they might still be in play. I don't know. No, I don't know.

Yeah, didn't you want... Yeah. Were you going to do it? I didn't want to. Would didn't you want, yeah. Were you going to do it? I didn't want to. Would you do it? Hey, if you want me to do it for the podcast, but my wife didn't want me to. Do you want more hair? At this point, no.

You don't care? Your wife doesn't want you to. It had like a list of side effects. Oh, really? Huh? Yeah. Yeah. Better looking.

Is that the side effect? More money. You lift weights heavier? You're like, I don't know. What's the problem? I'd like to see some of these side effects. You would do it, and you would only get the side effects. Like, it would be so much.

He would just be all side effects that it's like you'd be reading, well, here's the good thing that it is. It's just like those are possibilities. Like, you can get more air, and you're like, that's like you'd be reading, well, here's the good things that it can't do. It's just like those are possibilities. Like you can get more air and you're like, that's, you know, we would talk about the actual effects as side effects and the side effects would be like, you really need to focus on those side effects, dude. Like it's going to be a serious thing. I just envisioned that side film where George ordered that stuff from China

and Kramer was putting it in their video in it. That'd be you doing it to me. I got a bud. You want one more? Yeah. What are we? Are we at? We're about an hour 50 right now.

All right. Education. Education is way up around the world. How many more of these do you have that is positive? Like, is there a few more? You had a lot more? There's more democracies in the world than ever before. Yeah.

As of today, about half of the human population is living in a democracy. Yeah. That's good. Let's see. Maybe it's not good. No, it's good. Violent crime is... I'm trying to think of the other guy that goes.

Is it good? Violent crime has dropped dramatically. I think I already covered that. Yeah. Risen During COVID In the United States It's up this year Especially in cities

Overall Overall It's way down since 1990 Yeah Like by 75% or something Wow Yeah I think it's because they

Can't pump your sneakers anymore With the tongue Everybody was stealing those sneakers And now I don't know i just want to maybe i used to have those sneakers in the 90s i thought 90s and i'm like what did i have in the 90s and i thought that you remember the shoe that you would you would pump it and it'd fill air in your imagine presenting that theory in front of congress or something hey this is just a proposal look i think i'd have a hill to climb but you know that big that's how it started but this is just a proposal. Look, I think I'd have a hill to climb, but that's how it started.

But this is why I'm here. You guys remember those shoes that you... And they go, no, just show a picture. I go, I didn't bring anything. Remember those shoes? Yeah. You can bring anything, any picture. we're looking up on our phone no i don't want to connect my phone to the bluetooth uh i'll just describe them and he's like i know could someone else look it up because i really have the description in my head and you guys are not describe it?

You want more? I'll just do some quick broad strokes of just positive. All right. That's a lot of stuff. We didn't get into anything. Yeah. I taught this research. We talked about turtle lifespan for about 30 minutes. Yeah.

Just sitting here like, man, I spent my whole week christmas morning i'm just yeah well what you think is i don't think animals lifespans have gone up i think they've stayed consistently the same generally speaking honestly our guard our gotten worse we're doing great we're doing great but in the violence category we have zoos where we laugh at them look how good we're doing now we used to be scared of lions and now we throw paper cups at them oh well the tide has turned that's what i say to all right uh so i'll do the last one here education enrollment all education levels way up around the world it was 74 just making it through primary school in 1970. I didn't know what that would be.

I didn't either. No, it's like elementary. Yeah. I had to look that up. See, I knew that. All across all levels, this went up. A half a century ago, the majority of the world's people were illiterate. Now, almost 90% of adults can read.

I mean, yeah. So, we're getting there, buddy. We're getting there. I mean. We're still at 33% of this room has trouble with it. Is that right? 33%? Yeah.

33.33 repeat. Yeah. Well, you guys get et cetera. 33 et cetera percent. Can't you say et cetera? You don't think et cetera works right there? Sit down. I'm trying to figure out what you mean.

For numbers? Yeah. For numbers. Et cetera, et cetera. Et cetera think et cetera works right there I'm trying to figure out what you mean for numbers yeah for numbers et cetera et cetera what is it 33.33 et cetera

well because the three just keep going right they do they do keep going that's true I've never

thought of it that way you just put a little line on top and it means repeating pie is I've never seen

that line I don't think people are using that I don't think people are using you know what I't think people are using that. You know what I'm talking about. Pi is 3.14, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Well, those numbers... It's a good way to remember it. It's a good... That's what you should tell a teacher. Et cetera, et cetera. He goes, I know, but let's get into it a little bit. Do we need to? You know they keep going.

All right. All right. Well. It's a great time to be alive. Yeah. It's the best time ever to be alive. Unless you're a turtle, is what we figured out. Or a pocket gopher.

Those guys are having some pretty rough times. So just donate some money, guys, to the pocket gopher. Those guys are having some pretty rough times. Donate some money, guys, to the pocket gophers, to the Jeff Leoff mouses. If you see a house mouse, don't give them money. Those guys are doing a lot better than they're letting on. Look up,

find a specific mouse that is struggling, and then donate money to him and your pocket gophers uh all right yeah 2020 it's been a fun year look we still we we got this podcast another thing being able to talk to all you guys too has been uh better for us i mean truly all the comments we get we uh you know we go through them they're very very funny and they're i mean how funny they are is truly the the all the folks that listen to this i can't tell you enough how when you see comments and comments on youtube and stuff they're always so negative and usually awful and the fact that you

guys write these that uh are very funny that we read them we know a lot of people love hearing these even more than the episode but But that's enormous, man. That's a pretty crazy thing to experience. But that's what I love seeing. And that means that we have the best people ever that listen to this. And we're all the same. We're all just sitting here listening to this dumb nonsense. So, look, I hope 2021 just continues to get better for you and uh we will we will talk to you

will we be wait we'll be 2021 will be the next podcast yeah it will you got a special coming out in 2021 21 21 i have a special coming out he's getting married you're getting yeah yeah maybe we'll see we'll see uh we got a poll on that if If you guys want to vote if Aaron can do it or not, or if Lucy figures it out and finds someone better. And then you have a show? Do we have shows? Do you have shows or anything? I'm headlining Zany's January 13th.

January 13th. It's Aaron Weber and friends. Come out. It'd be great. Brian's wide open. Yep. 2021, I am wide open. Yeah, 2021, if anybody wants to book Brian,

aka Baby Killer. Yeah. All right. Thank you guys again. Always, we love you. We will see you next year. Thanks everybody for listening to the Nate Land Podcast Be sure to subscribe to our show on iTunes, Spotify

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