The Nateland Podcast - 271: #271 The Yips, Madison Square Garden & The Emmy's

Episode Date: September 24, 2025

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Hello folks, and hey, Bear, welcome into another thrilling edition of the Nate Land podcast. Obviously, I am Aaron Weber, alongside my co-hosts, my friends, my compadres, my compatriots, my fellow warriors in the battle to it's Brian Bates to my right Hello Lost all the energy I had when I started that sentence About halfway through but Dusty Slay is to my left Okay

Nate Pargetti will be joining us very shortly But we are going to kick things off Before we get right into it Thank you for listening, settle in, grab a chair You know, pour yourself a drink Turn the volume up We've got a lot going on It's going to be a great episode

A couple of things I want to tell you about a lot happening in Nate Land. Nate Land presents the showcase. Season 3 is in full swing. The episodes have been doing great. We've got an amazing, amazing addition to that coming out this weekend. Tim Convey, who you might know from the Consumers Podcast, right here on the Nate Land Network. Tim Showcase set premieres this Friday morning, September 26. We also want to remind you about Ryan Hamilton's Netflix special, which is being taped October 4th at the Neptune Theater in

Seattle, Washington. They got two shows. Still some tickets left. Make sure you check that out. Also, while you're clicking around YouTube, go over to Dusty's thing. He's got a, he's got a new video, an animated video that he just had created and put out for one of his, you know, to me, one of your legendary old bits. It's a 10-year-old joke, but I got it animated. It's the letters of the alphabet. And yeah, I mean, it's not, you know, it's not for your kids, but it's, it's, this is, this is dusty from 10 years ago. Yeah, but it's not. It's not great. No, it's not crazy. It's about the alphabet. Yeah, it's good, though. It's good. I put it out. It's out, you know, today's Wednesday. It came out Monday, but, uh, that's such a, I get some views on it. Like, I don't know the word for it.

There's so many moving pieces for that joke. Do you think you could do that joke again if you had to? Well, that's the thing. I thought about re-recording it, but it's, um, I just don't want to do it again. I did it a few times and it's like the reason I put it on that album is because I don't want the joke to be lost. Right. I don't want it to be like, oh, I used to have this bit. I want it to be recorded, but I never want to do it again. But, you know, the audio itself, you know, it has like 100,000 views on YouTube. But I thought if I could really get some video behind it, maybe it would, you know, bump it up and get it some love.

And, you know, I don't know. I just put it out right now. So I don't know how it's doing. But just the audio version has 100,000 views on YouTube. Yeah. That's amazing, man. What are they viewing? Well, on YouTube, you can just click, and it's like the picture of the album cover.

And then you can just hear the bit. Yeah, so go check that out. It's really a great joke. I think about it. I think about it often. Thank you. When I see letters. What's the album cover?

It's an older picture of me. Making that fudge. Mixing up some money with that whisk, short hair. Yeah. I may go back to that look. I'd actually like to go back to a look where I slick my hair back. I don't think you should. I think you should go to that look.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blonde hair, slim shady look. Experiment around with it. Also, we're going to talk about our weekends here in a second, but I do want to say Nate has a full weekend of big dumb eyes shows coming up in Hollywood, Florida, and the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden. That's this weekend. That's crazy.

Three shows of Madison Square Garden with special guest Jimmy Fallon. a pretty crazy guy to open your show. I got some Madison Square Garden fun facts I'm going to share. Okay. I bet Nate won't care. I'll be at the Hartford, Connecticut Funnybone next weekend. I could use some boost in sales there. Just thought I'd get that out.

All right. Are we doing that now? I'm going to be at the helium in Atlanta. I've pushed for dates at the beginning of the show because I think that's going to be the most effective for us. It's definitely the most effective of you if you're the only one who does it and squeezes it in. I'd like to do it, too. Should we do it right now before Nate gets in? I already did it.

I mean, I already do it. You're like, I'm good, actually. Y'all do whatever you want. Go see Dussie at the Heart for Frontie. What's been going on, Brian? How are you doing, man? I'm good. How's your weekend?

I just got back from Parigal, Arkansas, at the first United Methodist Church hot show last. It wasn't just for church members. It was for the community. So a lot of folks came out. It's going to make a joke. But Nate's out here. A lot of folks from Little Rock came over.

Does it? Nate was in Little Rock last night. Were the people from Little Rock? No, but I was going to say there was because I just wanted a more authentic show, you know. Yeah. But anyway, it really was great. A lot of folks came and it was fun and I had a great time. Definitely drove a route that I've never driven before.

Yeah. How do you get to parable? It is kind of on the Missouri, Arkansas. statewide. So you go to Jackson, Tennessee, and then you just start going northwest. Okay. So there's no easy way to get there. Yeah, Peregold, right there by Jonesboro. Not far. Right next to the home of Cheryl Crow, had a big sign that said hometown of Cheryl Crow. Her childhood home. Childhood home, yeah. Yeah, she didn't stick around. I don't know how long she stayed there. But the town went over.

That was their claim, fame, at least on their signs. I was going to say, both of you have a decent chance of their one day being a sign like when you enter your hometown city where it says the home of in my you already have the keys to the city just in opa lika they took they had we i guess we had a miss america or at least a miss america contestant she was you know she was miss albama yeah but she might have won miss america and they had her name on the on the city limit sign but she had some controversial remarks recently okay so they took her name down so i was thinking i was I wanted to comment, hey, there's some room now, guys. If that just happened, I don't think they're taking a chance on you.

They're like, we need to take a break. I think they'll be into my controversy. Okay. Lebanon, you got a good shot in Lebanon, man. Yeah, I got this coming out of Lebanon. You know, we've had a couple of guys just the last three years get drafted in the NFL. All right. You had a guy land on the moon or something recently?

You had a guy land on the moon in Opelika. I mean, I'm sorry, not land on the moon, an astronaut. You had an astronaut from Opelika. Yeah. The guy you're talking about is from Mount Juliet. Right, right. But you're one more Lebanon. You know, the signs, I don't know if it still says that, but it did for a while.

Home of the N.A.I. National Champion baseball team, Cumberland Bulldogs. Okay. Cumberland dominated for years in college baseball in the NIA level. Oh, all right. Yeah. So that's one of our claims to fame. So you're not getting up there. Well, they're not quite as dominant as they used to be.

So, yeah, I think I could get on there. I was trying to think. Who else? There's not some rapper named Haystack. I know Haystack. You know Haystack? Oh, okay. Well, that's holding you back.

I guess he grew up in Lebanon or something. Coco Jones. I don't know, Coco. She's a country singer, I think. She grew up in Lebanon. All right. So it's a harder list of crack than I thought it was. It's too close to Nashville to not have some stuff happen.

Yeah. Like Mount Juliet, Charlie Daniels lived there. Yeah, they already got parks named after everything. It's a good park. The Charlie Daniels play park? It is a good park. It's a good park. Mm-hmm.

It's a good park. So that was my weekend. I was in Perigul. All right. I was in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend. Shout to the Desert Ridge, Jim Prove. Great weekend of shows there. Then I went to Denver, Colorado. Last night, two shows at Comedy Works. It was just an unbelievable weekend thinking everybody came out. Jay Flake, everybody seemed to love on the podcast last week. He was out with me and people were very nice to him. And it was just a fun, fun weekend. I swung by and saw the Los Angeles Angels play the Colorado Rockies for a little bit. I was going to ask the two of your opinion on this. Mike Trout, who's widely considered one of the greatest. baseball players of all time, hit his 400th home run this weekend. And the guy that caught the

ball decided, I want Mike Trout to have the ball. In exchange for the ball, you know, they gave him some autographed bags and stuff like that, but he said, I want to play catch with Mike Trout on the field. Wow. And he went out there and Mike Trout did it. And everybody's so divided. People are going you should have kept it and sold it you're kind of crazy for not doing that right and then some people are like this is the coolest exchange that i've seen yeah from a fan like now you get to tell your kids you played catch with mike trout yeah on a major league baseball field i thought it was awesome i like it too don't sell your soul for just some money go play catch with mike trout did you see an estimate or what it might have sold for no i mean nobody knows the numbers are he's probably

not going to get to 500 just because he keeps getting injured and he's a little older. Yeah. So this might be the last milestone ball for one of the greatest baseball players ever. But it's not going to be six figures, maybe. Okay, maybe. I was going to say, it's not going to be life-changing money. I mean, life-changing, but not the point you're going to retire.

Exactly. It's not a million-dollar ball. Yeah. I don't think. Yeah. I don't have a problem with, I'm sorry, Dusty. And give the ball back to the guy. I mean, it's 400th home run.

I love that. I said a couple weeks ago that I would not necessarily give a home-run ball to a kid. That would be an example of one-up. would not. I mean, kids number three of those options to me. Yeah, if it's an actual meaningful ball. Yeah. Kids way down past three. All right. Sell it. Mike Trout. What's your third option, does it? Give it to a girl you have a crush on. Okay. You know, give it to, I would give it to your friend at work, anybody but some kid. I'd give it to Philly's Karen. Yeah, yeah. She's been going through a hard time. I was like, here. She's a

another one. Exactly. Huh, that's interesting. I thought you were going to say, you caught the ball. No, dude, I would have, no, you would have heard about it before then. I'm telling you, man. That would have been crazy. We weren't at that game.

We came the next day. Gotcha. On the Black and Mile tour. On the Black and Mile tour. That's right. Somebody brought a Black and Mile. We signed the box. Yeah.

Somebody brought it to the shows. So thank you to everybody came out in Phoenix and Denver. Those are two of my favorite cities. my favorite clubs it was it was a great weekend yeah about you dusty where we got i went to redding pennsylvania or reading pa as i as they say and uh wilkes berry pa which apparently in wilksbury there's a bit of a controversy on how you actually pronounce it okay i was about to correct you but go ahead because they say some people say wilks bar some people say it's a french guy and it's wilks bari oh and uh but they had a shirt they gave me and it said you know it says not willks

Wilkes, and then it had like a crowbar, and not Wilkes, like a bear. Huh. And then it said, it's Wilkes, and then it had a berry. All right. That's interesting, because we got comments saying it's pronounced like bear. Yeah. I mean, there seems to be a bit of controversy, even amongst people I talk to there on how to pronounce it. All right.

So, I don't know, but the show was fun. I had a lot of fun. Me and my buddy, Derek Humphrey, and we had a great time. Derek has a special out on YouTube that he put out a little while back. It's called Late Bloomer. Very funny. Not a clean comic, but he worked clean for me. And a very funny guy.

We started comedy together. And so it's fun to hang with my buddy that we started comedy with and cruise around and see a little bit of Pennsylvania. Yeah. Yeah. It's a bad digestion weekend for me. So I didn't eat any exciting food. I basically didn't eat the. entire day on Saturday.

What brought that on? I don't know. Life. I don't know. Yeah. Just a, you know, just constant torture of my stomach. Yeah. Yeah.

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First comment comes from Andrea Hunt. Andrea Hunt. I think Andrea Hunt. Today is finally the day after binging every single moment of 269 Nateland pods. I am all caught up and ready for episode 270 on release day. Well, welcome aboard, Andrea. Welcome. It's Wednesday. You're listening in real time. We're happy to have you aboard. That's all 269 episodes. Wow, that's big time. You hate us by now. You really did it, Andrea. Way to go. Yeah, I don't think... A couple of those were slogs, huh?

You know, TV shows, obviously, if it's a few seasons in, you want to start at the beginning to see the whole thing But I don't think I would ever thought with a podcast. I need to start in episode one. But people do. Well, you got to get all the inside. It makes me think maybe we're too self-referential sometimes. You know what I mean? You got to know why a guy even after 170 episodes still says, hashtag dump dusty.

You got to know why a guy. I think they could see one episode know that. Why a guy is that committed to the bit? I think he actually really hates me, to be honest with it. That guy? No. I think he's, yeah, I think he does. Because sometimes I'll see where people really comment.

They really say negative things about me. And then he'll jump in hashtag dump dusty. He's also, not only is he constant, but he's also a pile on guy. Oh, okay. He goes, oh, here's a person that's saying something really deep and personal to him. Let me pile on with a hashtag dump dusty. Yeah. And that makes me feel good.

Well, it hasn't been trending yet. So the hashtag's not catching on. No, no, I mean, he's, you know, probably a loser, but... We don't wait if it's a heat. That's for sure. No, I think so. Yeah, it's got to be a guy. You would think so, yeah.

Yeah. Joe Fush Jr. What a name. Fush ball. Fush bag. Joe Fush, Jr. I just found this. podcast a week or two ago. I can't get enough. I've always been a Nate and Dusty fan.

Oh, geez. Since I saw them on their seasons of the stand-ups, but I had no idea they would be this funny at podcasting, too. Keep it up, guys. P.S. Aaron is my favorite. He's so funny. All right. Oh, yeah, this guy's great. Well, I was going to apologize about the joke I made after that message, but then you get to the end and I go, eh, nah. How do you think I feel? Yeah, I know. That's true. You know who my favorite is? Joe Fush Sr. I'm a big Joe fan. Yeah. That's really nice. Tyler Morrison, Aaron, I saw you at the Desert Ridge Improv this weekend, and you absolutely crushed. Thank you, Kyler. I can tell which show you were not at.

I was first row laughing my head off, but kept getting distracted by how nice your eyebrows are. Do you get them sculpted by a professional? Can we zoom in here? Let's get a real shot of it. Let's get a tight shot here. I'll tell you what, Kyler, this is already the most I've ever thought about my eyebrows. So I've never had anything professionally done on my face. I don't accept the...

They do look good. Yeah, well, thanks, I guess. It's like Seinfeld when... I've always said he's an eyebrow man. How's the rest of the face? The eyebrows really draw you in. Take a look at those eyebrows. I had a wild...

I had to yell at this couple in Phoenix. Oh, yeah? I'll show you all the video off here because the Phoenix Club is very cool. the video is in your email inbox by the time you get back to the green room. Wow. They send it to you that quickly. Now, the crowd is not miced.

So you look kind of insane, especially in my video where I'm just yelling at nobody. But probably about a 15 minute interaction with a couple. Really? That just would not stop talking. And it became like the guy could clearly hear me. There's only like 60 people there. And he just would not turn around and stop talking. So I just yelled at the back of his head for like,

15 minutes. I got some funny moments out of it, but I was pretty annoyed. I would hope so. I had a 15 minutes. Pretty annoyed. I got a couple of good ones. Not the same club, but you know, we had that incident in Phoenix I brought it up immediately. I go, it's something about the heat in Phoenix. It just brings a dry heat. It brings out the worst in people. Enough. You need a wet heat to keep you in check. I mean, we had a really terrible show because people were just hammered. Yeah. And would not stop talking. But some of your incidents have also been in Phoenix,

yelling enough. Now this, maybe the heat's getting to you. Think about that? But the enough thing, I was doing the right thing. This is still him, but he's in the audience now, able to tackle the rowdy audience members. Yeah. Yeah, this guy.

Then at the end, he's that, we're on a first date. And I go, well, if you go on a second one, promise me you won't go to another comedy show. Yeah. Or maybe, yeah. I mean, who cares about your date? this night's not about you.

No somewhere else. The woman started yelling stuff at me that didn't even make sense. Once it became, they eventually turned around. She was like, you got, you got yours,

I'm gonna get mine. I don't even know your time. What doesn't even mean any? It's like, just leave. I don't care, get yours, but get out.

I was like, I got 10 minutes left in the show. Just leave. I'd like to have 10 minutes without yours. We're on a first date. It's like, okay,

well, you guys seem like nightmares. and perfect for each other. They were so annoying to me, but then, you know, like I'm talking to people after the show and everybody's like, man, that was the funniest part of the show

as you do. You're like, oh, galilee. See, I hate that too because I go, oh, you mean, you like that better than these jokes I've been working on

and crafting for the last year and a half. I'll give it to them. Nothing's funnier than the moment. Like, if this thing's happening right in front of them, then it's fun that it's right. You know what I mean? I get it.

I get it too, but they were just trying to be nice. Yeah. And I'm overthinking a compliment. But thank you to everybody came out in Phoenix. I'll be back with my eyebrows. Dan Spargo.

Nate Land is in Nashville. Where might Nate World be located? Let's think about that. I mean, Tennessee? Just keep it close? Old Hickory. I don't know. I don't understand the question.

All right. There's Disneyland and Disney World. Oh, okay. Oh, what's our sister city? Okay. Well, I don't know. It has to be sister city. Just another good place to have, say, Austin.

Yeah. Go do Kill Tony and Nate Land. Yeah. That's a good question. I don't, I don't know. Where would Nate World be? I don't know. What's the difference?

Aren't they essentially the same park? I have not been to Disneyland. Okay. I've only been to Disney World, so I guess I couldn't say for certain. And did it come up on this podcast, the Land, L.A., L.A.? Yeah. World, O-R-L, Orlando? That's how you can tell the difference.

Do you know that? I had no idea. I didn't know that. Because I was always mixed up, which was. Okay. I always thought it was fun to me that land, because world seems bigger than land. And so world was in the South and land was in California. That always felt good to me.

I go, we got the, you know, we got the big one. Take that, California. I know. It's like, but that's when I was a kid, I remember thinking that. Yeah. Diana Hartwig, Dusty saying the Super Bowl half. time show is too long, while also saying he wants to do a two-hour set is real comedy. Ooh. Well, I mean, you know, uh, yeah, I guess, but it's like the halftime show,

half-time's normally, what, 15 minutes? And then for the Super Bowl, it's 30. So it's too long. You double it. I mean, the whole. A set's usually an hour and you want to do two. But who says it's an hour? Well, who says halftime show half times 15 minutes? Well, the rest of the season says. Well, the rest of stand-up comedy we do an hour. But that's what I'm saying. Who says that, though?

Who says that in the NFL? Somebody comes up with a standard and that's what it is and you want to double it. No, but that's what I'm saying. You're getting beat right now, just so you know. But a lot of comics do 45 minutes.

Yeah, newer ones, but. And over, I mean, overtime. I think it's debatable. I think it's debatable. Overtime does not necessarily make it better. That's true. That's the concession of a man who knows he's losing the argument right there.

If you just go, it's debatable, then you've lost the argument. Well, I'm just saying with the NFL, they at least say half time is 15 minutes. Yeah. With an hour, you're saying, well, that's what we... None of it's real. It's all made up. We've kind of decided on our own. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome in the Nate Land podcast. Nate Bargettsey, back with us.

Fresh off the Emmys, happy to have you back, dude. What's going on? Thanks, man. I'll let you take over. Been chilling out. Yeah. What are you all just talking about? I was debating.

I don't think. I'll never listen to it. I wouldn't worry about it. It's the last comment, Diana Hartwig. Actually, you would like it because it's critiquing the amount of time Dusty does on stage. Oh, Dian, Art. Dusty's saying the Super Bowl time is too long while also you want to have a two-hour set. It's real comedy.

That is funny. Yeah. And I'm saying that it ruined my comment last week. You're the football game. Well, yes. You're that football game. Exactly. This is the middle of the football game. But he also said that overtime does not make it better.

Well, I'm saying that a game is not necessarily interesting just because it went to overtime. And a show is not necessarily better if it's longer. Well, I agree with that. Yeah. But a good show that keeps going is what we all does. Did you set a new record this weekend? No, I didn't. Oh, that's too bad.

Ran out of steam. Well, actually, I did. And I don't know that anybody else felt it. But to me in my last show in Wilkesbury, I was like, I feel like I can end this. Yeah. So you can feel it when you're just like, that's enough. Yeah. Yeah.

You can always tell when you're just like, we. Because especially when I was in, when you're in clubs, and then they don't know you, you could go like, you did 45 minutes. You're like, they wanted 40. So, yeah, I did five more than they wanted. You can just tell that everybody's kind of like, all right, that's. kind of wrap it up well that's what i felt like i felt like i did five minutes too long that's exactly what i felt like i go if i'd cut that little bit then my whole closing bit would have been better yeah

yeah we're opposite i mean i can't i'm a 60 guy i just stay it doesn't matter i feel like i could i could have an an hour 80 of material and i still would get to 60 it's like a It's just the rhythm. An hour, 80? I don't know. I started saying... Two hours and 20 minutes. I think he means 180 minutes.

I think I meant 180 minutes. Three hours. Three hours. Yeah. He's three hours. Three hours. Two hours, three hours. I could have all of it.

But it's like in my head is like, I'm just like, it's, it's, it's, you know, it's really the audience. So it's like a timing, like it's the, the, the, the, the, the, the, you know, it's, the, the, the, the, the, them they they decide the time almost like the rhythm and uh and just so you're also doing a bit of a longer show before too right like the comics before are doing so it's still a long show yeah but i just was never a comic that did i was never a comic that went over my time ever so even if i did eight minutes i never went over i know sometimes here when i pop on i'll go longer than i can say but it's like now it's like well i don't

I don't know what to tell you. Like, that's the reason I'm popping on is, because I don't know. But, yeah, when I, I always did, how much time do you want me to do? And I did that time. I never, it was like, show me the light. What do you want me to get off? If you're doing 45, I'm doing 45. Like, it just never, I never was a, you know, could be not for the best.

Maybe I should have learned it. Like, just the same way I was. never a crowdwork guy like i don't spin off a ton up there it happens yeah but it's not a lot and uh it's rare and i never count on it and i never plan for it and it's just a pleasant surprise if it happens yeah but it's uh i'm never going to i i'm very prepared very prepared i know exactly where we're going and what's happening and it's the order And I've thought very, you know, so I've just never been able to, like, if I go up there without a preparation, I couldn't go up there and just, it would be terrible. Yeah, I can't go up without preparation. But yeah, I get a little distracted. A lot. There was a lot of sneezing and coughing going on at my show. And it felt like someone sneezed into someone's head and it made them cough. And I was like, what's going on out here? Are you guys sick?

Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's. Yeah, I could never just, like, I got to know where I, even when I tell a joke, I got to know how to get out of the joke. I don't good trying to just find it, like, or whatever, you know, so. That's just, but I mean, it's just the way I started. Yeah, right. You know, I think comics can go up and free flow a little more, and I think I've tried to even work on it.

I still think about working on it now. Then I'm like, I'm just already in too deep. Yeah, you're also doing, like, Madison Square Garden. Two shows a night a lot of times, right? So I'm doing one show. So I'm like, I want to do all my jokes. I'm trying to work on.

But that's where I've never had more than the jokes I have are what you hear on stage. I do not have other jokes. I know a lot of comics that did. Yeah. Where they would go, if you did a comedy club, and then you went to the alt room after. Did the open mic. And they would like do it. And did the open mic, they'd be like, well, I'm going to work on some other stuff.

I never have other stuff. What I, the comedy I have is what's on the table. And so it's just, I'm using all of it. And then when it's done, I go grab a new thing. And yeah, there's some jokes that could maybe hang on that maybe wouldn't have made this special. So you could have a couple hangar honors that I find somewhere else. But in general, I'm never, what you see on stage, there's not a 10 minutes on the side that's just like, well, if I can get to it. I just don't think I write like that.

Yeah. Because I don't write. I just, like, you know, I just kind of think about it all day and put it. I mean, I was thinking about it this morning. I think about opening with another joke that I moved to the back. And now I think I want to go open with it again. And so then I'm like, then I start thinking about that. And how could I, how does it get into it?

And it's almost like you're not thinking of the actual joke, but the flow. Right now I'm thinking of the flow. And so it's like, all right, I'm just moving. And like when I start doing the hour, it's like I start moving pieces. Yeah. So then if I'm like, it feels weird here in the middle, well, you know, just you can't always, I don't want to drop it, but I got to move it. And you're like, well, where does it move?

I think this is going to have to move to the front because there's not really a place for it. And so I'll have to just maybe open with it. And then, you know, but then everything kind of moves back and you got to piece it. And then you're like, all right, can I move this chunk? You know, that's the fun. I opened with a chunk that was like way in the back of my set, and I feel like it threw my whole thing off. Yeah.

I was like, I'm going to try opening with this instead of this other thing that I've been doing. And it was fine, but in my head, it messed me up. Right. I was like, what am I even doing? It can mess you up, but it's good to do that. Yeah. Because then you have to have, you got to build other jokes to be a closer. Yeah.

Because the hard part is when you're like, all right, I've got to be able to close on this. Yeah. And so, like, I have, the closer I have now is the closer. But, I mean, if I didn't have it, the joke I have before it, I could close on. But it's like, I don't even deliver it as a closer because I don't have to close on it. If I did, it would end much differently. Yeah. But I can, like, I have a little tag.

on it at the end that's like not the biggest laugh in the world just something and i would have to just get out you know especially i was closing on it so you just go but because it's not closing i can kind of i get a kind of tag this closer which normally i wouldn't get to because i would need to get off yeah you got to yeah you got to be able to get off you just want to get off and it's just boom yeah like i just that's cool that's a new comic just get off and just, bam, make sure that last joke is just, good night. You're an easy way to get out. That's the, I think sometimes people get where they end on a, all right, I guess that's all, you know, kind of ends on like a weird.

Or doing these Q&As that people were doing at the end. It's like, how are you going to end the show and then go, all right, what about a? Well, because they don't have a closer. Oh, yeah. So then their Q&A becomes the closer. So then they're just, all they're doing is searching for the biggest laugh in that. that situation. So that Q&A lasts longer or shorter. It depends. If they get something early, they can go, that's enough. All right, we'll see you. But all they need is a pop and like,

you know, how can I make fun of someone? How can I make the room? Like, you know. That's a quote. I love seeing a newer comic try to like, they go, I'm just trying to get that big laugh to get off. And then you're like, it's never coming. Yeah. Just get out of here. Yeah. Yeah. And when you're young, it's not there. It's like, but still, do you have your save the best thing you got for the end. Do something. Like, you know, at the beginning, it might be just making fun that you're terrible.

You know, I know I'm terrible, but I got to go. And, you know, whatever it is, have it. You don't want to rely on it. Realize that you're, it's a Band-Aid, and you actually, it needs to be an actual joke. It doesn't need to be a situation in the room. It needs to be your act. But that's why your clothes are so important.

And that's why you've got to have a, Closer in a five-minute set, the same way you do and an hour set. You've got to have a joke to get off of. Or an hour-80 set. Hour 80 set. If you're up there doing that. Let us know when you get to that, hour 80. Hour 80, yeah.

You might have a, you'd probably have an intermission. Yeah. And maybe I would get a half-time, as Diane would suggest. Yeah. Yeah, what do you think in the halftime? Someone comes out and talks serious. Yeah, I think so. Reads a book.

Read the book. Yeah. Someone not having a good time. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe someone comes out and complains about stuff going on in the lobby. It's just you with the wig on? You could do.

Well, it'd be funny if you go do an intermission and then you go out in the lobby with them and you go. And you're just all, you're eating popcorn. And you're like, all right, I think I'm ready. They all come back in together. I like that. And it's like your crowd is just like, you know, they get a full dusty. Yeah. They sign up to go to Dusty Town and they get Dusty Town.

Yeah. I eat popcorn. It's in my beard. It's on my shirt. It's all around my feet. It's more personal than you're, you know. It's an evening with Dusty. Yeah.

Yeah. I like that. All right. All right. Where are you all at? Mr. Bill. All right. Dan Spargo.

I'm going to say, Dan Spargo. Oh, Nate Land is Nashville. Nate World be located. Where did you all say? We didn't have a good answer. We didn't have a good one either. I had explained to Dusty what he was saying, and then we kind of got off on Disney.

I didn't know that's what they meant either. I thought they meant like if we were to expand to other planets. Oh. That's what I thought they meant. But I realized pretty quickly that that was dumb. Yeah. Well, Disney World's in Florida. So it's like if Nate Land's in Nashville,

yeah, I don't know. We've got to get to that. Maybe it would be all Nate Land and then, you know, because you really would want Nate World. to be in Nashville if it's the signature one. So I'm going to blown everything up, Dan. Yeah, he messed up, dude. And you go, go, I don't know if I'm able to do it now.

You've got to change your letterhead. Yeah. Yeah, Andrea Hunt, great, Joe Fush, Jr. That's a fun one. Yeah, I'm not a fan of him. Joe Fush. Fush. I like him just because you said that.

I don't know what he said, but. Well, he likes everybody. Collar Morrison. Oh, really? Really? Well, he didn't mention me. That's tough. Oh, he didn't mention you in it.

Yeah. Oh, that's all right. He might not have. You know, you're never here. That's fair. He doesn't know you by now. He made me, yeah, I missed an episode. All right, Mr. Bill 2000.

Brian, oh, here you go. Brian should do his own podcast and interview regular people who do regular things. So you interview himself. He's got his seriousness about him, still with a great thing. still with a great sense of humor, Brian could easily stand alone from these other nitwits. Thank you, Mr. Bill 2000.

That's what we're talking about. All right. Yeah. He gets it. Yeah, great idea, Mr. Bill. Yeah. He gets it. Finally, somebody.

You three nitwits. Oh, just regular people. Yeah. It's just two people without a sense of humor talking to each other. What do you do for a little? I mean, you would both sound like you do

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Get 10 free meals and one free item for life. Wow. That's a good read, Dustin. Thank you. Brandon Mistler. I was listening to some older episodes and I couldn't help but notice Aaron said on the Dakota's episode that it wouldn't be that hard to raise quintuplets. Just curious as we near his daughter's one year birthday, if he still thinks raising four would

be no big deal. That's a good follow-up question. Yeah, I don't remember saying that. Well, you said it. I'm sorry. Roll the tape, guys. The first surviving set of quintuplets was born in South Dakota. Wow.

South Dakota once again. Four girls, one boy. You imagine have five kids at once? Yeah. It's a lot. God to be done then properly I could do it

you could it's not that hard the cross sections of America what is the thing you says that every other week I think raising yeah five kids would be difficult

but don't at a certain point when they're old enough they can just occupy each other I didn't mean this if I were to defend it I don't remember saying this I think what you said was I think that's the woman

problem. Hold on. I might have it here. Quote. Yep, Aaron, that's the woman's problem. Unquote, who pays the bills. Something like that. I don't know if it's a mix of that. I can tell you that we have two kids and me and my wife both are stressed. Yeah. So if you had three more, it wouldn't be that hard. They say three's the hardest. Once you get past three, it doesn't really change it much. I thought was the terrible twos. No, I don't know, no, the number of kids. Oh, that was a joke. We found your regular guy.

I guess I haven't been on long, so it's been pretty. We had a new strides. You've been out there. Stuff's flying that shouldn't be flying. I want to apologize for that. Mike Gugino, Gugino. I was attending a conference and wanted to to just be outside during a half-hour break without talking to anyone.

Since I didn't want to look like a psycho by just standing and staring at nothing, I pretended I was on a phone call with all of you as I listened to your podcast. I laughed when you guys did, and I interjected some very funny comments, which were entirely ignored, by the way. It's a good new way. Yep. Yeah. When I was in eighth grade, I got dropped off at the movies to meet a friend,

and I realized right after I got there that I was dropped off like two. hours early. It was before cell phones. So I'm just sitting outside the movie theater. I don't have a cell phone. I'm two hours away for my friends being there. And I didn't want to look like I was just sitting there, just like this guy. I went to a pay phone and pretended to talk it to the pay phone for a while for the exact same reason. That almost sounds like, I feel like I might have done. Yeah, it's like you could do that net where you just want to not just stay. And man, sometimes you just want to stare. You just want to go sit. I can I can get going. where I you see you're staring at nothing but in your head just and you're like I just

want to stare like in a lot going on yeah I mean just off in the distance no kind of off the distance but I'll do it sometimes over I'm probably done it to Valerie and Chase where I'm like they think I'm looking at them and I'm it's I'm looking past them mm-hmm and I can see sometimes that they're like do you want us do you need something and I'm like no no I'm just I'm I'm I You know, it's something else. Yeah. So you get a lot of stuff done. I was driving around today, no radio.

Just I had enough. Really? I had enough I had to do in my head. Just kind of was thinking some stuff through. Those can be nice. Car rides with no radio, that can be nice. Yeah. Classical's good, too. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, you don't, yeah. Yeah, just something. Zone out. Zone out. It's best to do it on the interstate. Caleb Kay, I'm a high school football referee, and Jay, summed up being a sports official perfectly. Also, when Aaron said that Jay only watches the officials during the NFL games, he is 100% correct. Being an official has changed how I watch sports.

So we had Jay Flake on the podcast last week, who's a ref, baseball, football, and basketball. We're talking about you go to a sporting event with him. he's just watching the umps yeah he's not even really watching the game we did it this weekend we went to a rocky's game and we were just talking about where all the umps were lined up for every play and stuff like that it's interesting to because you're not even thinking about that as a regular guy yeah yeah you know and then you went to one more game with them you'd be like all right jay you're like i'd like to watch the game yeah i saw a clip from the detroit tigers where they uh they hit the referee look like they hit the behind the plate ump oh yeah

with the pitch. I was into it. I love that kind of stuff. Like the catcher missed it on purpose. Yeah, it looked like it. Because the catcher, like the ump, like made some bad calls and then threw the coach out of the game and then a little while later they hit him. Is this how you felt before or after Kill Tony?

I would, uh, yeah, I mean, this would have always been, I mean, I... Always into it. I don't like the officials. Yeah. I feel like they ruined sports. Now, sometimes, you know. You got to have. someone out there, man. You've got to have somebody out there, but they make some really

terrible calls that I feel like are unacceptable. You're talking about the professional level. Yes. Okay. Because I've seen this. In Little League, I've seen people do that where the coach will tell the catcher to miss it and hit. Yeah, it's like, I always feel bad for officials. Little League. Me too. It's a, what do you want them to? I mean, like, it's complete chaos if you don't. And then I would imagine they yell at them more. I was talking about that this We can actually, by being a ref, like, you know, where, like, football would maybe be a good one to be, because you can kind of blend it, like, unless you're the main guy that has to talk the whole time. But even if you're him, you're always kind of, there's a lot of refs out there.

Yeah. So you blend in, like, where basketball is like, you're just getting pounded by these guys. And then maybe baseball, too, if you're, because you can kind of be away from everything. and I say college and above, I don't feel sorry for them. Anything under college, it's like, yeah, you're probably not making a big salary to be doing this. I don't think they're making a big salary. I think these guys have regular jobs. NFL, I think they.

I think some NFL does, but I think some of them don't, and they have regular jobs. In college, I know they do. I mean, unless they choose to retire, but during non-season, they have jobs. Yeah. But they're just doing it for the glory then. Yeah. How many umpires? It was the first original Uber Eats was you'd go get a referee game.

Yeah, I've considered all options. How many umpires are in a major league game? There were four on the game that we were at this weekend. I think they had six when it's the playoffs, right? Oh, yeah. They put a guy down each line. Now, Jay was saying some of these games, he'll show up and they go, you have to ump the whole game. He's the only ump out there.

He's behind home plate. So he has to call if somebody's out at second from home plate. How old are they? It's like younger. Yeah. Like 12, 13 or something, yeah. Yeah, but if it's like boys, it's like serious. Exactly.

Yeah. And people will lose their mind. Oh, yeah. That's what I mean. There's just what I, it is a, it does take a, you know, not all of them. I know some of them make it about themselves and you can see that. But yeah, for some refs, it's like, it takes it, you know, you got to have some kind of heart that you're willing to go have to deal with an irrational. parent that's just maybe not living in logic and that's like even coaching are so annoying

yeah parents are so annoying yeah yelling on to the field and they're like dance moms but it's the same it's the same phenomenon yeah Kevin blalock blaylock it's better if I say it that way yeah but if it's blaluck without the law that is just blah Kevin Blah. I wish, if I was his family, I would have got rid of that first L and just gone Bollick. Yeah.

Kevin Bollock. Yeah. That's a good... I think so. Blalick is like, it's kind of what? Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's like a choking noise.

They should have fixed that somewhere along the line when they came over. Yeah. From where? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, wherever you came over. I lock, you.

I'm a football, baseball, and lacrosse official in Kentucky. youth sports are always the worst for fan and coach behavior my theory is that parents and coaches don't yet realize that their kids are terrible at sports as the level of the sport increases not only other players more talented but players and fans alike become more aware of their own skill levels and argue about calls way less that's interesting it makes perfect sense it does make it that's good to hear yeah uh drawing and stuff I had a coach pitch one time

I had a coach pitch one time from my son's team and I got the yips I was beaming batters and throwing the ball 10 feet in the ground and the plate it was the most shameful experience

of my life I played a lot of baseball growing up so I knew how to throw it was just the pressure of the situation and gunman what's the yips? Oh man

that's so funny it's like when you just can't throw the ball straight in the way oh god yeah get the yips and coach pitch Oh man

I like the beaming batters I love that Yeah He's like No no I got it I got to talk He just happened to He's just going No no

Over and over again Just like My bad my bad And I mean these are five year olds That are scared I mean they're scared Because a grown man Is just throwing

Their head Yeah And he can't And he goes Hold on Hold on hold on Hold on hold on I got it

It's his own team Yeah They have to bring in another dad. They have to go, they have to go to the bleachers and go, is there a father here that can throw? Get warmed up. Is there one, anybody out there? And everybody's like, I mean, 50 hands go up.

Yeah, we all can. And he goes, oh, no, that hurts worse. Oh, that's so funny. And he's throwing to his own kids? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You throw to your kids team. So you're hitting your own team. Yeah, exactly.

So funny. He's trying to throw just strikes down the middle. Yeah. You're trying to, you want to. him to hit it. It's all, it's like softballs that you're just kind of like, you're trying to get, you're trying to teach them how to play baseball. Yeah. He's kind of is, you know, and he's brought, you know, in his head, it's like, you want to get, someone in the crowd goes, throw underhand, like, just throws out the suggestion, but he's like, I can't, you know,

he played baseball. I mean, he's, he's coaching, that's so funny, man. His poor son. Oh, my goodness. I wish you were a comedian because you could close that. That's a, that's a closer right there. That's so funny. That's so funny. It's, uh, oh, man. If you were just watching that game and he'll like, what is up with this coach? And I mean, and then they finally get out of the inning and he's got to go back. Because once you hit one five-year-old, it doesn't get easier. Yeah. Yeah. It's harder. Like then now you're like, man, how big these kids are? You start thinking they're big. Yeah. You're yelling, you're, James, why don't you back, just back up a link.

Crowding the plate. Because you don't get, you don't get a base when he get, when you get hit in CoachBeds. You got to just stay up there. You got to stay up there. And the umps, like, frustrated. Everybody's just so frustrated. But no, everybody's trying to laugh it off, but everybody's like, God, and he's got the yips. And the, dude, when you get the yips, he ain't coming back from the yips.

they're you can get them in golf you can get them in baseball like I had them I had them and I talked about it in softball right I would overthrow first base and I got them so bad in my head that I mean I would just I would be like shortstop and I'd grab it and be a basic play and I would launch it 30 feet over the first base it would go into the opposing team's dugout and just and it was and it was a basic throw if you if I if it wasn't that moment And you woke me up out of sleep, I could make that throw. But for some reason, in that moment, you're just in your head that you're, like, it's you're lost. And I don't know what's going on.

Yeah. There's a player on the Braves, Tyler Matzick, you got the Yips. Professional baseball player got him. It's just out of nowhere. And during the offseason, he went and did some intensive with Marines to, like, try to improve his mental health. Yeah, and he came back, and he was a key part of that when they were in the World Series. So he got him, like, so he got him, like, indefinitely, like... Just couldn't crack it.

Just couldn't crack it. Yeah. Oh, he was a pitcher. He was a pitcher, yeah. Because Chuck Knoblock, I don't know if you remember him. Yeah. He played second base and got him in Kevin Blalock? No.

Wasn't that his name? What was it? Yeah, Chuck Knoblock, sure. Yeah. He got the yips. He was played in second base, I believe. Middle of the game. I mean, that's so close to first, but still couldn't hit him.

Yeah, I did it too. It's second base. I mean, I would overthrow it at second base. You're, I could have run the ball to the first basement and got him out. It was that bad. Wow. It's like you're just thinking, all you're thinking about is that, you know, and like in comedy, I think you could get it in anything.

Like, if you could probably get in comedy where you could feel yourself start, when you go on stage, you start wandering. I used to do it. I really worked on trying, like, getting rid of it. Yeah. But it's like where you can go up there and just, you know, you can feel your self-sabotaging. You can feel that on stage. where you, you know, you can be telling a joke and you're like, you're almost done with this

joke. You better hope it goes good because this is it. You don't have another, and you can feel your brain like being mean to your own self. And you're like, why am I doing it? And you got to like kind of work on it. It's essentially that. But with, you know, so this one movement, what did he do to fix this? He wouldn't have did stuff. I remember reading about it. The twisties. Yeah. For a gymnast. Yeah. It's like dangerous if you get the hips as a gymness. because you're doing all these flips and Simone Bowles. Simone Bowles got it. Did she have it?

They get slipping and they don't know where they're at and they forget everything. And then it's like obviously that's your upside down. Jeez. Makes it more difficult. It's wild. Yeah, I would, yeah, that's interesting. He just went to Marines and.

I'll be kind of like you, Dusty. I didn't realize it could carry over to the next. I would have thought a reset would have fixed the problem. No, no. People get it chipping. and then I mean that's why golf is a big one and then I had them golf sometimes you've got to know what they are

and so like if you're like all right so it would be the yips and then I know I know I'm like jerking my hands through so then you're like if you know the problem then you go all right I'll just work on that problem but it's like it's like something you just have a trigger that makes it you know I could have it in golf at times

where I think of the contact so much of like when the club hits the ball and you need to be not thinking about that and so then the whole pressure is on that point of it and then you could so right at that moment where you actually need to be the loosest you're the tightest and so you're just like you just jerk through it and you need to be loose yeah it's crazy yeah i'd like to read that um uh brayden brayden himings and Hemingson, Braden, Hemingson. That's tough. Yeah.

Well, it just keeps going. Yeah, it doesn't let up. It doesn't let up. That Y doesn't help that last name. I can tell you that. I have two boys aged 14 and 12 and travel baseball. Last year, we did a combined 145 games. This year, we're on track through the same, but our final tournament will take us from Nebraska to Nashville. All right. That's almost a full major league season.

That's crazy. I know. That's, I mean, it's like a tour. I know. So last week, we mainly, we talked about youth sports, but mainly it was about reffing from Jay's perspective. So I thought I got more stuff to talk about youth sports. I thought that was a good lead in because these travel teams have gotten out of control.

So many people, I have friends who have kids to play baseball. I mean, their whole summer, obviously, that much. much is gone. Yeah. The whole family, for the whole family, too. Yeah, if you have more than one, then you're splitting up. Mom's taking one somewhere. Yeah.

Dad's taking the other where. Imagine your family investing that much in you, and then you're like, dad, I don't want to play baseball. Well, yeah. It's too late for that. Yeah. Yeah, that's all of it. Yeah.

I think all kids are, I always hear that, you know, Harper's in the horse, and like, but she loves it and does great, there's times where, like, I think, People told me, like, their daughter would grow up and be, like, obsessed with the horses and then just one day, boom, done. Yeah. And then, or, but it happens with anything. It's like, yeah, they love softball. They love this. They love that.

And then it's gone. Yeah. You can get burned out with stuff, man. Yeah, yeah. Like, I mean, like, if you're that kid and you're like, you keep running me around and it seems like you as the parent like this more than me. Yeah. And I don't want to play. Now, Michael Clay, your friend Michael Clay, my friend, Michael Clay as well, he and his wife both coach, I believe, their daughter's team. So they make it a family affair and go everywhere together. And they do travel. She's good. Yeah. So that's, you know, if you can do that, you're at least all together experiences. Yeah. Yeah. I think I played, like when I played Little League Baseball, I think I scheduled was 10 games, maybe. Yeah. Maybe eight. Yeah. It was not long. And then if you. And we skip practice. Yeah.

Yeah, did you play every game? No? Yeah. Our team had 8 to 10 games. I got in some of them. Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember how many games we had.

It felt like a lot then, but... They played like Twitty City. Yeah. That was the ball. That was here. But the guys that were good played all that travels. Like, I never... Yeah, we played.

I played, you know, the... What you... You know, like the... It'd be like the regular class. in school I did no AP in any team sports right just we played at the same you know same place yep me too uh what is that we're looking at I'm looking at my my league I played baseball and growing up yeah the whole season lasts a month yeah it's probably like yeah 10 games here mm-hmm I mean 145 dude so the average the teams is called dick sporting goods

yeah this is just whatever company sponsors this is like a little kid yeah this is minor league yeah I played for Witts Barbecue I prayed for McCory surveying oh yeah Cory survey I was always yeah a long cutting service

they kind of figured you'd be head in that direction yeah they go let's get them young yeah I mean if you got that would be funny if like they did pick kids based on who they think's not going to make it to college. And they go, we'll take that one. It's not that good. You're like, but he's going to be a...

Well, you know, I talked to a guy about surveying. That's what it is, McCory's surveying. Yeah. And they say there's a lot of math in it. I don't know if that was... Is there really? So it's like a serious job. I don't know if that's the thing for me. What are those guys doing? Those guys are just stand out with the tripod? Well, I actually thought it seemed like a good job because you stand out, you're outside. Getting some sun? Yeah. You can ground. but they say it's like you do those measurements and then it's just so much computer work

and math I just I don't know what are you surveying probably you know distance like when you want to build something you know like acreage and such yeah how far is it it has nothing to do with the cars going by I don't think I thought they're keeping track of us

they're always looking at us when we drive behind I think they're just trying to I mean they're about we're talking about land surveyors I'm talking about the guys on the side of the street with the little tripod thing and they're standing I think I said it wrong and it made it sound like McCory serving like we were waiting

tables. No, you said I got survey. Is that not a survey or what I'm talking about? I don't know what that is. I don't know if I even know what it is either. I was just going with the joke. Well, I think they, you know, they stayed. I was pot committed with a joke and I didn't really matter what it was. Well, they go, well, I thought it was

an easy job too, like because I thought well, you know, and I talked to a guy who did it and he goes, well, it's just a lot of computer work now, like paperwork and like you do your measurements and then you got to go and do a lot of I've done I've done this well this is what I was talking about I did yeah well I work I remember work in construction or

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So the average family in the U.S. spends a little bit over $1,000 a year of their child's primary sport, just their primary sport. then the secondary sports about $500. So they spent about $1,500 annually on average. I think I played against sports. That's a great thing for a show. I mean, a store.

What is it? I think it's people can sell their, right? Their old equipment to them and then people can come and buy used equipment. So it's like you're just always kind of, because you know, you're like some are using it the whole time, some are not. That's a good.

I feel like our sign-up was like $30. and you got the shirt and you probably could wear the same pants a few years. Yeah, sure. They may need some new cleats, the glove you had for a lifetime. Right. Yeah. And then your younger brother had it after that. I feel like, too, I came up where your position mattered how much money you have.

Like if you're, you know, you're like, can't play first base? You're like, we can't, we ain't buying a first base glove. So then you're, you just go, oh, you're out of your mind? No, you're going to be right-filled, shortstop. I was a catcher, and I did have a catcher's minute. I don't remember if it was ours that we bought or not. But I don't remember I didn't own the equipment. The catcher always seemed like the coolest position.

It was awesome. Yeah, it seemed like the coolest people were the catchers. But we, I didn't own the equipment. I always, they, they, they, they, they, they was their equipment. We have bought Harper's. Yeah. So we, yeah, like she has her own catchers gear. Yeah.

I did not. I used theirs. I feel like the league just had it when I'm, I was growing up. They just had it in the dugout. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I think ours did too. Because then I remember when I went to 13-year-old, it was the equipment that they had

was too big. They probably knew that you were doing well, and they were like, let's make Harper the catcher and you'll make them buy them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we got your backstop back there too. Do you have to buy your own baseball field? Is that a normal thing that they got? I'm now a co-owner of this baseball field.

Is that a normal? Is that? Yeah. I loved it because you get a buy, I mean, it's, we go to our softball games. I mean, I got one tonight, and I can't wait. Breaking in a glove, remember that whole process of getting in the glove? They do a thing now, dicks. I know.

Don't you, that kind of takes the magic away from it? Like, the whole ritual of. Well, you wrapped the thing around it, you slept on it, or you. Shaving cream. way. We would just put, you know, rubber band and put it under the mattress and all that. Yeah, yeah. And now you pay 200 bucks and they just steam it there in the shop and it's ready. Yeah. I think everything gets to, yeah, well, I think it was just because there was no solution. So it was like, now it's even hard to get kids even want to do it because you're like, well, they also have an iPad. Yeah.

Where, you know, back then you're like, all you had to do was work on that glove. Yeah. There was nothing else. So could the brand of glove just do that for you ahead of time and save you $200? It's $200. We'd still be doing it the old school way. I can tell you that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's $160 bucks to do it. Yeah, my mom would be like, you'll be

working that in yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Mind me, yeah, that's still a lot. That's a lot that I bet a lot of people still do it. Yeah, buy a $200 glove and then you pay another $200 to get it red. These gloves, bats are unbelievable how expensive that i i even thought it was i thought we were in the wrong section i couldn't you go oh this is for like pros and stuff right yeah i want to say it's like five hundred dollars for some of them sure and then you're where you go look at it i mean i was i i was like well this isn't right like i if you told me i was like i don't know 80

100 bucks and then i mean there are bats that are that but then these other parents are buying these bats that are, it's insane. Yeah, my parents would have been like, you can strike out just fine with the $80. Yeah, yeah. I don't think we ever owned a bat. We never had. I just used what the coach had. I just used, yeah, whatever was in the back of the coach's truck.

Yeah. You're not getting ahead anyway. Easton was the big bat when I was kids. Yeah. I think it still is. Yeah, I remember. Yeah. DeMarini, that was like the Cadillac of bats.

Yeah, it was after my time. One kid on the team would have one. And he'd be like, oh, man, it's awesome. Yeah. So the average child spends less than three years playing a sport, quitting by age 11. Yeah, that's about me. Didn't your dad tell you not to play? Soccer.

Yeah. Yeah. And basketball. Yeah. He told me not to play soccer because I think he didn't want to go and not to play basketball because he knew I couldn't play. Yeah. And not to be in band and not to be in the Boy Scouts. Why those two things?

I don't know. Does you want to be in the band? And not to be, uh, join the swim team. Um, I just don't think my dad wanted to take me to those things. Yeah. The, uh, the youth sports growing the fastest lacrosse, which, believe me, we didn't I have in Lebanon when I was growing up. Oh, man. We didn't have an Alabama.

What, lacrosse? lacrosse. Oh, no. No. I don't even. Does Harper School have it? I don't know. Probably just not till high school.

Yeah, high school. I'm sure they have it. But I, yeah, that wasn't. And flag football. You know, she mentioned to me the other day that she wants to play flag football, so that was pretty fun. They played girls and boys together? I don't know. She just said she wants to play.

I think it's in high school, and so I'm pretty excited about that. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be the Olympics, right? I mentioned that last week. And NFL players are going to get to play. Oh, really?

Yeah. But Aaron raised the point. Does that necessarily make them the best players? Maybe there's guys who are better at it. I bet there are guys who are unbelievable at flag football that can ever play in the NFL. There's like a whole league of guys. Like I was watching... You're still going to be...

I mean, dude, but if you get like Jamar Chase, like, who's going to be able to defend him? But do you think Aaron Judge would play in the professional wiffleball league? I think it's like the same kind of thing. I think... Well, if it's the Olympics... Now, I don't think it is because it doesn't seem like maybe it was being taken as serious, so you're not going to do it. But, like, think about the college players that would go do that.

You're going to have receivers that, like, couldn't get drafted that are going to run four-fors. So, and then they have hands. And, I mean, you could fill the, just the SEC alone could fill out your flag football team. Right. Where you're going to have some quarterbacks that are just, you know, look at, like, Danny Warfell, who played professionally, but professional career wasn't like his college. Because college career is, like, the best ever. Like Johnny Mansell. You go get Johnny Manzale.

Like, I mean, he could, right now, you're like, who's going to be better than him in another country? Yeah. But professionals get to play. I know. But I'm saying, like, if the high-end profession, so if Lamar Jackson's like, I'm not playing flag football. Some of them, I would imagine, are not going to take it. It's going to be like, dude, this is ridiculous. I don't want to play flag football.

Yeah. But the next level down is, I don't even know what other countries. could you imagine trying to grab Lamar Jackson's flag yeah I mean I wonder if they get soccer players like that's probably what they'd have to you know you get some track play I mean I think these guys are athletes in other country but if you just you just have someone played four years in the SEC that maybe didn't make it to the pros if you if the high if maybe the NFL's like were you know what about just like really fast like you know like almost like gymnasts that were like real fast and elusive and nobody could catch them there's like front hand springs down the field yeah like a Barry Sanders type yeah yeah well he's saying a gymnast I don't know uh yeah I don't know what you're talking about a gymness I'm saying they're just fast and elusive and so you're just saying like somebody like that they wouldn't never I would say an NFL player because they could get crushed.

You know who you'd get? You ever see that on ESPN 8, Ocho, whatever, the tag? They prove professional tag. Oh, yeah. I'd go into that. I spent hours watching that one night. It's really, you ever see? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Small, elusive people that could never play NFL, but impossible to get the flag. I don't know if, yeah, I don't know if, yeah, I don't know how fast. gymnastics are like it's like you know but maybe that's the wrong sport but i mean just elusive people yeah yeah they have professional tag where they've got two guys on an obstacle course and they start at other ends of the course and it's just these guys you have to make 20 seconds or 30 seconds lame thing i've ever seen you think this is lame dude yeah but i i mean i'm into it i'd watch it but yeah watching them jump around oh i would destroy you at this dude would you oh no way oh my god i mean I'm out of shape, but I'd get you almost instantly.

Yeah. Aaron would, I mean, once you had to go through something where you have to squeeze through. Yeah. That's a lot of up and under. I don't know. I'm just saying, that's going to be, that's going to be the hard part for you. There's a mental component to this too, though.

I see that, but are you going to be able to go, like, you've got to go up and under a lot of things. I'm going to twist some ankles on the way. Oh, that guy's, oh, man. that's what's going to happen someone's far right can you imagine like this is what people are listening to this and they're just in a car right now going

what do you listen to him there's a podcast that's watching professional tagging oh yeah jump on in it's great intense chases from WCT yeah these are the highlights from the world chase tag company the other ones they just tag them one of the greatest

I mean the fastest growing youth sports is e-sports. They're now offering college scholarships. What kind of sports? E-sports. Video games. A lot of these colleges now

have e-sports teams, you know, and they compete against other schools. That's crazy. It's kind of, you know. Yeah, it's kind of what. I like it. Do you?

I mean, these schools have math. They have mathlet teams and stuff. It's basically the same stuff. You know, they have a mock trial team. Yeah, but that's like... It's just another event you can compete. Yeah, I get the idea of it being another event but and there could be

I guess money it doesn't matter I don't care it's they should do it they should have it it's just you're going down a road of like video games what do you you know yeah with the other stuff there's actually a professional

level you could reach at some point well there is in what do you mean there's I think a video like saying like you be a lawyer yeah or math like I mean you're good really good at math now you can be a professional video game yeah there's about there's probably three of them So you better be good.

I think it's such a bigger world than y'all are giving it credit for. There's no way the average, because of Twitch. So you have streamers, here's what I'll tell you. If you get into that video game, what I would imagine, say that's an artist-type thing, right? I mean, we are all an artist-type thing. Here's what's going to happen. You're going to have to get on Twitch. You're going to have to do something.

You have to do so much more than just play that game good. If you want to be a comedian, you have to do so much more than do well on stage. You have to do all this other stuff. No, but you can do just well on stage. But you can, you're selling tickets. So this is not a, I think with stand-up is an act. It's like people are paying to go to this. If you're watching a streamer on play professional sports, I'm saying it's going to be hard for you.

You're going to have a window, and I think that window will close. versus with stand-up, you could do it for your whole life. But I'd imagine everything else that comes with it, it's not going to be just you're an amazing player. This is saying there's 81,000 professional e-sports players are registered. So I have to imagine that's way more than comedians, right? Yeah, but I mean, they're professional is going to be like, But there's probably more than 81,000 registered comedians.

That's true. It's like anything. It's like you could do it and you're like get to a level where you're comfortable doing it and you can have money and you make money from it and whatever. Yeah. The amount of work these guys have to, A, the amount of work you've got to put into it to be that good is you'd have to play every day all day. Yeah, that's what these guys do.

This says there are no efforts by gaming leagues to identify players. before middle school in order to compete with other countries. Well, that's interesting. Again, to them early. Yeah. Yeah, but what it's, yeah, I mean, I don't know, it's like just think you're going backwards. I got a relative that plays video games all day every day, and I don't think they're professionals. At least make some money out of it.

Yeah, exactly. At least be good at it. Yeah. Sports that are decreasing football. Yeah. uh 20 2021 was the first year in america fewer than a million players participated in high school football oh even at the high school level it's down i thought for sure with super young kids it was down i didn't know that i guess it makes sense that's what i found interesting with the

NFL is like the NFL is like the NFL is uh you know they're so dominant right it's the most watch thing, no one can compete with it. And then I think they're getting cocky in the fact that they're going to these other countries now and they're having these games where they're like, you can't touch us. So we're going to do a game in Mexico. And you're like, I understand trying to expand it, but then you're like, all right, well, if I want to watch the Jaguars game, I get up at four in the morning and watch, and you're making a team fly all the way. I understand globally wanting to expand it. But it makes it

kind of weird and they're getting arrogant. They're like Amazon Prime. So then you're like, well, go find that. You've got to find all of them now. They're trying to use football to build other brands. It's like to build other things and where you want to go like, they've got to be careful

because this could be the beginning of the end in the aspect that you go, you start spreading out too much, then people are not really going to have a connection with the team. You don't have a one star that's not going to help your sport or multiple stars. You had Peyton, you had Tom Brady. You mean, you have this kind of stuff now, but you're, you know, those guys are not all

there anymore where you're like, all right, you know, you're going to count on this person for this many years and this whatever. And so it could be, it seems, I'm not saying that it will, they, they're giant. I understand how it's the biggest thing in the world, but, or for, you know, know, for us, for America. But it's, you get a little, you start going, you know, you start doing stuff where you kind of start poking people where you're like, what, when was the game? And they're like, there's Wednesday in Paris.

And you're like, what? And then I go, like, when did I get a lot? You know, or my team is this. You get a little arrogant and you go, well, Thursday night, you got to go now download this. And then you want to watch the games on Christmas? Well, now you got to have Netflix. You want this game You want Sunday Red

Well there's Sunday Red zone We're doing ads now Even though you're paying Like it's all this stuff Where you're getting a little bit And it could be The NFL is the brand Maybe it's the

They're getting influenced by these Because they're such a big draw But you want to go People will People and that's how it starts Something like that And if they start undercutting you there You spend so much on stadiums

And you have less home games because you're playing in, you know, and then if you got a less than a million people playing right here, then you start going down, I mean, this is, you know, you could get in a problem where you... Now we're watching, next thing you know, we're watching professional tag.

That's our sport. Well, sports are going to. Professional tag is awesome. All right. Don't throw that under the bus. You can play professional tag and football. Yeah. You know, it's not...

I would say sports, so you've got to be somewhat there is evolving but you got to also be, don't be arrogant because you kind of like baseball in a sense could have maybe

had a little bit of that where we're America's pastime and all this and there's an arrogance that you want to go like well where are you at right now like it's not you're not the most favorite sport

you're not all this stuff and then because you're arrogant and you go like we're never going to you can't touch us and then it's you're seeing it like all these NBA like you start getting

a little wacky and it's going to be hard for us to follow and you kind of forget that you're like yeah dude we're not all jobless we have lives then you charge $10 for a beer at a game and are more oh i bet it's way more than that i don't know but i bet it's more than $10 and it's like i don't know i just well yeah yeah it's all of it where you it's insane it's insane i got two hamburgers and two tater tots at the rockies game it was $60 this week wow and then your team's not good and then you start going like You know, you start, because the older you get, too, your team's not good.

You go, I'm not, you know, I used to, when I was young, I would watch, what did you say? I said, did you eat it all? I want somebody else a hamburger too. I didn't eat two hamburgers and two tater tots, 60 bucks. That's insane. Well, it was with bacon, too. We made some. There was it.

It's your fault. Yeah, it's still crazy. It is like, yeah, you went, you went in. I thought it was that you figured you went all in. But you kind of all, you fold that. What are the meat you got back there that you can put on a hot dog that I won't look insane? You fold that into the experience. You know, I'm going to go there.

It's good. I'm going to spend a stupid amount on something, you know. You do, but it's like, you understand that's part of the experience. You do it, but when you build your company up. I don't think it's right. Look, I know. I'm not getting to the logistics of the spending. I'm just saying it as a business, but you have 82 games, right?

182 games, right? Or something. 160. 181 home games. So 81 home games. The problem of that is like you need people coming to everything. So that's a big expense to turn those lights on and you need people to go to everything. Like the NFL, you're like, you've got 16 games.

You're like, all right, they're not even doing that at the NFL. But you can fill it, but you got to sell those tickets. So if you get too big and too spread out, it's always like, it always talks about TV rights. That's the part I don't understand. I don't like TV rights because then you just hear it's like TV rights they're making billions of dollars and then they're but then you tell me no one's watching TV I think they're only watching sports they're watching live sports I know they're watching live sports but it's I don't know how like yeah it's all I don't know well it's all going to come crumbling down soon so you have to worry about it the sport that has the most vacancies for scholarships yeah I did that for you well it is true uh the sport that's most vacancies for scholarships you may want to guess sports vacancies for scholarship like the easiest to get a scholarship women's golf yes women's golf really yeah if you can break 90 and like if you can just if they we

harper plays golf i don't know if she'll want to commit to it to go to college but i mean a lot of them say like if you want a scholarship if your daughter can play golf I mean, she'll get a scholarship, and maybe not to a Vanderbilt or to be, you know, schools that have these fall state teams. Yeah, Vol state, like, but they, they need them. I mean, even in the high school level, they, you know, they don't, they're just not enough women. That's, I think a lot of sports, I would have ever thought of anything like that, but if you did think about it, if you're going to college, like, you can find ways to get scholarships. I remember a buddy, Kenny was a cheerily. leader, Mel cheerleader.

We made fun of them. You get scholarship for cheerleading? But yeah, we still make fun of them. He has to deal with that. But he did. That's the real cost of it. Yeah.

But he, you know, if you can handle that, then you can, but you could find, you know, there's ways that, like, you know, going to college. This episode is brought to you by IQ Bar, our exclusive snack sponsor. And that's a coveted spot on the Nateland podcast to be a snack sponsor.

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That's Nate to 64,000. Message and data rates may apply C-terms for details. Do you think if your kid was really good at one sport when they were young, do you think you'd want them to focus solely on that sport or try to play multiple sports? I say focus. I would say play multiple, sorry. Say focus? I would say focus.

He says play multiple, but yeah, I mean, you want to see what's out there, right? You want to see. But if you're good, don't burn out. I know. I would say, yeah, but you need to be more likely to burn out that way. You're going to burn out that way because they're going to get tired of that sport. And you want them to be doing everything. If you're working, if you can make it to the even Division 1 almost to play college football, you can play every sport, essentially.

What about the risk of getting hurt, right? You're like, you're good at one and you could get a scholarship. Yeah, that's true. But I think it's probably better for your body to have all the movements. You want to twist your ankle out playing tag? Well, you're going to, well, I know, I did read that, that you're more likely to have an injury doing the same repetition you're around than playing other sports using different muscles. Especially if you're like a pitcher or something. Yeah.

I mean, Antonio Gates played basketball, did not play football until it was like junior year, I think. Something crazy. Something crazy. He's in the Hall of Fame as the tight end of NFL. So that's, if you're, if you're. He's a big guy, though. Yeah. But if you're good enough to make it to the professional league, you're on such another level that like you're not even trying, like Alan Iverson. You've seen those clips when they show like Alan Arifson also playing football and you're like he's not even, it's not even, he would, they're not even competing. I was watching LeBron's high school football highlights this weekend. Actually, I just randomly saw a five star recruit in Ohio. Let's say, though, that the sport is basketball, but they want to play football.

That, like, you know, that seems like a big risk. Yeah. That could be. Yeah. But then you, but, I mean, again, if they're that good where they're going to go somewhere crazy, A, you got let them be obsessed. So if they're, like, obsessed about one or the other, my buddy Adam, he played for Belmont and then played a little overseas in basketball.

But he was obsessed with basketball. And so he, and now he would only play basketball. So, you know, nowadays you're probably playing so much travel ball that you really only have time for one, I would imagine. But I think it would be better. I think most kids, you know, Patrick Mahomes, like if you went and said, what did you play, they're like they played every single sport. And they dominated every sport.

Well, he could play Major League Baseball. Yeah, and they almost didn't have to work on it. Like, it's such a different level. that you're like, these guys, it's beyond grasping what they can do. It's like seeing some of the Olympics, where you go, like, I know they put in the works, they have to compete, but they could almost get to the Olympic level just because they were born. And then if you want to really make it, then you do got to compete like a crazy person and work harder than everybody else.

But your talent alone, you know, if LeBron, never, you know, it's like he could have played college basketball if he sat on his couch and did nothing. He could have made a college basketball and figured it out. Antonio Gates figured out football. They get kids from other countries. They never even held a basketball. And then they come start for a Division I basketball team because they're just that gifted. Yeah, that kid at Duke this year who just got drafted NBA. Well, let's say you're not that gifted and you really need to focus to get to the next level then i think you would but i think that kid knows like hey i want to go play college whatever yeah so if i'm going to go if i'm going to

that's what he's against so he has to use hard work and go and not saying he can't he can then go do it and that has that you know that extra you know there's a lot of players that have that where they're they got that extra drive that extra thing they work hard they do this and blah blah whatever and they're just not given the talent. But I think that's how you get greatness is when you have, you have the work ethic of that, of a person with not the God-given talent,

but you have the God-given talent. And then they work harder than you, like a Kobe and, like, LeBron, George, like when you did that, that's when you get this one-of-one because that's so rare. You're either going to be given, because there'll be a lot of people that you're like,

you know, there's guys that could, you know, the greatest player that ever was, that ESPN thing, the football player. Like, you've got a guy like that where you're like, this dude just could, you could wake him up out of bed and he could run for 200 yards against Nebraska in the 90s. Yeah. Like it was, it's on another let.

They're not even, they're born different. But the work ethic or whatever it is and they get caught up and that's the thing. So you've got to have those two things. And those are two hard things to, you know, they don't come naturally. They don't come. I'm one of the few that has both.

You do? He's at the highest level he could be. I could cruise. Yeah, that's true. He's at the... I'm headed down now. It doesn't really mean that you're going to be Michael Jordan, but he's at the baits is the... Out of all the baits that were made, he's the best of the baits.

And it's not even close. He's the Michael Jordan of all the possible brides. Of all the, yeah, out of all... If you look at Bryan's that are doing stuff. Who are some other baits that we have? Norman, honestly. The kicker for the lions, I think Josh Bates. Yeah, and so you could argue who has a better career.

You know, I didn't know that guy. You go, I don't know. I mean, it might be me. It might be him. He's got longevity. Yeah. That's true. You're spouting the truth, buddy.

Yeah. Let me see if that guy's kicking in his 50s. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Dusty, will you let your kids play sport? Yeah, I mean, I'd be into it I don't I don't think I'd let them play football

But I you know Obviously one's a dog My daughter but I don't know I don't think I'd be into football but I had two girls on a football team Did you? Yeah, two girls two different years Two girls

So you can do it Yeah, well I wouldn't let my daughter do that Yeah And I wouldn't I probably wouldn't let my son play football Nah Yeah like when they're like seven Yeah Maybe when they're seven if they're running around

They're often bigger than the boys of that age. Sometimes, yeah. But yeah, I'd like, yeah, the other sports, yeah. I just wouldn't, I don't know. I don't want my kid to get a brain injury from some spear to the head from some kid that's a maniac. Yeah. Yeah.

What about participation trophies? What do you guys think about those? I'm against it. Yeah. I think you teach your kid not to value trophies that much. Yeah. And then you can give them whatever you want. You give them a little thing to put out there.

Yeah, I mean, the pizza party at the end of the year, sure, but there's no need to give out trophy. have any trophy from back then. But you got trophies as a kid, right? Yeah. And it meant a lot to you at the time. I don't think so, because I knew we didn't really win anything. But it was

just a cool, hey, we finished the year. Yeah, you go, like, all right, here's you do like the, maybe of your team, like, you know, your own little team gets trophies. But yeah, but I think we knew the different. I mean, the idea of participation trophy is like, you do know.

If your kid doesn't know that trophy is, that's on you. Like, you should tell him that, you know, he's got to know, if I got a prestigious trophy, I knew it didn't mean anything. Yeah. Yeah, you teach him the difference between that and if you win the championship, you get a real trophy.

And if you're really small and you make it through the whole season without quitting, that's something. You're participating? That should be the name of your next CD participation trophy. Wouldn't that be a good thing for... You have so many names lined up for me.

I got to put out like 20 specials. Well, they got to get to work. A lot of branding ideas. Yeah, a lot of branding ideas. I mean, I think for the sake of the trophy business, let's give out some trophies, right? We got to keep these places in a lot. But I'm just saying it meant nothing. I don't know.

Maybe it did mean something. Alex Bluto has a very funny joke where he says, people are getting some participation trophies, shouldn't get a tombstone when they die. That's true. Yeah. But yeah, it's like, it's funnier than the way I just told it. Do you have? Yeah, no.

but do you have in this in this context it was sad do you have any trophies from your childhood like that like if you actually won something maybe you kept it but do you have any trophies from like you know rec league baseball where you just finished the season not as an adult but I remember as a kid on my window sill I had all these things and I used to as a kid they're proud of them yeah they're like they're mementos from yeah through the years you know a home run ball up there or whatever and it's all just yeah i had a home run ball that's something but my family was never like you have meaning because of this trophy yeah i don't think most people do i don't think most families i agree with you i think it's i think it's made to be a bigger issue than it's

yeah most everybody knows everybody's regular everybody's normal and they know their team stinks yeah yeah everybody knows yeah they know the record we're all kind of imagining this person Bastion Manuscalco, there was some video he put out where he was saying he was at his kids basketball game and his kids were getting beat real bad. It was like 14 to 2. And then the next thing you know, he looks up at the screen and it's 10 to 2. And he goes, what happened? He goes, oh, well, we didn't want to embarrass the other kids too much. So we shaved off some points. And I think that's ridiculous. He thought it was ridiculous. He was like, just call the game early if you need to but don't well i think where he his kids play basketball i think that stuff

happens a little bit more yeah maybe so i don't know where they point shaving well that kind of it's it's like where yeah in the i mean if you're in the south ain't nobody yeah nobody's taking points away from like you're not going to run into that unless it's like a wealthy school like it's something insane yeah but you're i just think it's yeah that kind of aspect it comes from probably the parents it's not the kids it's definitely the parents and it's going to be just circles

and then it's going to be circles as far as a regular person I don't think there no one's even remotely in the grand scheme of it dealing with it and it's just got a blown up you know

what about club sports that wasn't even a thing when I was a kid but now I think a lot of kids Adrian son plays club sport football right instead of in high school what's that mean

just like a private league okay not like the rec league uh is it like the rec yeah okay but i think it's become a much bigger thing what do you mean as opposed to

playing for your high school yeah does he play for high school too middle school middle school yeah he plays rec instead of middle so he's working his way up to try and grow up for the team in middle school okay okay all right yeah because it says it was a lot bigger

I played rec league baseball basketball uh soccer but it was all before middle school. Yeah. This says it a lot of club sports offer specialized training. So like if you're, you know,

really good at a particular sport, particular position, then maybe they can focus more on that position. I've never heard of this. Well, you need to learn some stuff. All right, before we wrap up, so you're at Madison Square Garden

this weekend. It's crazy. What? Oh, yeah, it's crazy. Is it, yeah. Do I need to say stuff of the Emmys? Yeah, go ahead. Well, I mean, do you want to do this?

I just had some fun facts. I'm very excited at Maddo Square Garden. I am at Madison Square Garden this weekend. Yeah, it's unbelievable. Have you done anything there before, me? No. Have you been there? I've been there.

For games or what? Yeah. So I've never done anything. That's awesome. Yeah, it's going to be crazy. I'll be at the Ryder Cup, too. It's in Beth Page. So I'm going down, and it's going to be a mix of both.

Where's Beth Page? In Long Island. long ago. And so, yeah, it's going to be a while. I want you to share some of these facts with maybe the audience or Jimmy Fallon or whoever. Do you guys know why it's called Madison Square Garden? Because it's on Madison Square. Nope. Oh. It's not a square building. It's not. It's round. And it's not a garden. Madison Square Garden. Okay. And it's on Madison Avenue. It's, it's, Madison is James, President James Madison. That's who is named after. It used to be. It used to be. This is the fourth location for it. The original was a garden, and it was square. Okay. But then they've moved locations. Yeah, that makes sense.

It's the oldest arena in the NBA. Second oldest in H.L. You'll never guess what first is. So I'll just tell you. Is it not a team you know how to build suspense, right? It's a team you know. You just would never guess that St. Louis Blues. Winnipeg Jets.

St. Louis Blues. Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena. Oh. I'm doing, really? That's the oldest image. Climate Pledge feels like a real, a newer name. Yeah, definitely. The arena itself is old.

It's just that the hockey team just recently started playing. I'm going there. We're going there soon. Yeah. They've not been moving that name around. It was called the trash burning arena in the 70s. Yeah. All right, this is important for you, Nate.

The arena's built at top Penn Station, so it has a large, large four with enormous springs to prevent vibration. when you're on the floor. So that's good. So when you're up there, you won't fill it. You won't be bouncing around. What does it see? How big are the shows?

20,000? Yeah. I mean, it's none. Yeah, I don't. I mean, but mine are all, yeah. Like, it's like 16, like, I don't know what they are. It's the second, 15, 15, 13, you know. Second busy, busiest concert arena in the world,

but last year, in terms of ticket sales, the sphere in Las Vegas was number one. Bristol Arena was number one a couple years ago. The locker rooms, this is important. They're all round. They're in the round. So no player feels less than the other player. If you're all in a circle, nobody's ahead of the table.

It's a bit of a participation trophy. But I bet the guys in the middle know they're in the middle. Like, you know what I mean? When you walk in. You know who's good on the team and who is. Yeah, yeah. If you go in there and, you know, it's like John Stark's. Patrick Ewing.

Yep. You see what Patrick Ewing's sitting, you're like, I bet that's the main spot. Yeah. Right. Is that the same idea of the Knights in the Roundtable? It's the same concept, right? All right. Not one person's ahead of the other.

I like it. Yeah. Billy Joel set the record for most performances there. He did a residency. He started in 2014. Did it once a month, every month. It's crazy. Did 150 shows.

Billy Joel's great. I saw some people. trying to hate on him on Twitter. He's awesome, dude. His music's so good. You watch the documentary? No. Everybody tells me, too.

Yeah, Michael Wyman had a tweet that went viral making fun of Billy Joel. Oh, yeah. What's he said? Something about, if you like Billy Joel music, you like show tunes and something, I don't know. It's just something snarky. I disagree. I don't like show tunes. And I love Billy Joel.

No offense to Micah. The longest game in Madison Square Garden history? Nate, you want to guess? Was it a college game? Yes. Yukon. Yes. Versus, I could have went to it.

Oh, I thought you did go. No. Oh, whatever mine. You and Joe List went. It was a whole story. It wasn't like 13 overtimes or something crazy? Yeah. It was the big league's tournament.

Yeah. Syracuse and Connecticut, six overtime game. Yep. We were there for the early session. That was the night session. And so me and Joe List go, we're going to go there for the early session. It's a famous story in a comedy. We're going to go to the early session.

uh then we're like we should just go to the night session too and then you know and so then when was it 2009 9 yeah and then uh jo list been you know back we drank and then joe list was drank a lot that day and he and he he had his girlfriend at the time was like they were supposed to go do hot yoga and i was like just just tell her we're at the we're going to stay here and watched the other games. And then he was like, no, she's going to get, she even said, it's okay. Go watch.

So it wasn't even because you had spots. No, it was got to go to hot yoga. He wanted to do hot yoga. Well, he was, he wanted to, he thought she would be mad if he stayed. Okay. In hindsight, yes, he should have stayed. Yeah. But, sorry, but he left.

And so I didn't go either. And then it became that game. He went into hot yoga. He did it and was like, I mean, just smelled like alcohol. But he really sweated, though. Oh, yeah. But I mean, she was not, I think, I think she was, he got in trouble because she was like,

she would rather him not come to that. Yeah, then show up like that. But, well, the game ended at 122 a.m. I know. Wow. Highest attendance for a single event, UFC 205, Alvarez versus McGregor, 20,000 people. Sebastian had five sold-out shows last year and just last month

an Indian comedian named Zakir Khan did the entire show in Hindi every comedian on it did it solely in Hindi yeah I met him you did he came to the you do you do a guest spot no no but I he came to my show at the Boston Garden cool he came

he came to yeah he came to my show of the Boston Garden and I got to talk to him afterwards and he was to go do Madison Square Garden like super cool dude he's like enormous then yeah yeah yeah that's cool yeah cool cool well good luck man that's exciting it's fun so share all that yeah you've got so much going on it feels like sometimes we don't get to focus on individual things that that's what we were I was laughing at earlier is like you just did the Emmys and now we're like just casually yeah I met Madison Square Garden this weekend it's just it's all insane everything kind of blends into each other it's all insane yeah I mean I guess the Emmys just like I don't

You've done so much since then. Yeah, I don't. Let me ask you this. Name a celebrity that you thought would be crazy, that'd be hard to talk to, who ended up being super cool, fun. You know what's funny is I didn't really get to talk to any of them, because you're just where you're at and where they come on stage, I just was not near any of them.

I said, well, to Walton Goggins, we talked for a second, and he was cool. uh and but it's like other than i did not uh see john oliver was great oh you talked to him yeah he was like because he was very funny with like the thing uh and i talked to him you know and i don't know if we've ever really talked we've been in the same city for a long time in new york and that but uh yeah i don't i don't know i don't know if i would have an answer i'm trying to because it just i mean he was crazy it was like i wasn't a part of it, even though I was hosting it. I just wasn't

mixed in. Because I remember with the Golden Globes, you said Kieran Culkin, super nice. Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. And somebody I would just think would not be a normal person to talk to, but you said he was really cool down to earth. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I just, I was trying to think who I

yeah, I'm trying to think who I. Leanne. You were telling me Leanne up there was cool. Yeah, you were telling me she was a nightmare. Leanne was tough. yeah no yeah yeah yeah doing up we had a whole thing with leanne that we were going to do and it just didn't time wise work but it was going to be a very funny introduction thing and it just didn't work out yeah i don't know i don't know i think if look if you have some if people ask some emmy questions everybody's comments were just kind of the same they've never watched the emmys till this year

because of you and they all thought you did wonderful thank you obviously the ratings showed that yeah you guys showed it with the ratings which is huge and that That was a huge win for myself career-wise, and that is a big, big thank you to you guys, because that stuff does matter. I mean, it was, you know, I come in, I'm not, you know, even though I know I'm doing the garden and I've shot a movie and I've done all this stuff, but I've had to do it all kind of with on, like, with me being the lead of it. It's not been necessary in that typical Hollywood world.

They brought me on. It is the idea that I'm kind of an outsider of that system that they have. So the biggest thing that showed was that the ratings went up. And which helps me, you guys showing up helps me. And if you, you know, if you trust that I can give you the entertainment that you want, like that is how I, that is how I can. Because now I can sit and they know that, you know, there's an audience there and that I can then go, all right, we got this movie.

If this movie does good, it's like, well, then I can, I mean, I can really, I think, you know, get in there and really make a lot of stuff that I, you know, think we'll have a lot of appeal to it. So, yeah, thanks. And the Boys and Girls Club thing was like a fun. You raised a ton of money for them, too. It was. They were getting flooded with not just what y'all gave, but a ton of other people flooding in and giving them money, too. Yeah, they got, we had some, yeah, a lot of the reviews did not. like the Boys and Girls Club thing.

But I didn't, it came from a a real place of heart. That's all I want. Everybody at home loved it. Everybody at home liked it. It was fun. It was entertaining, seeing money go down and all this.

I thought it would be a fun, I kind of, in my head, I wasn't trying to put anybody on the spot, I wasn't trying to make someone donate money. But in my head, I kind of thought, like, make it fun, do it. what John Oliver did, where John Oliver, like, stuck it to me and made me have to pay more money. And I was, like, really trying it to just be this. We had the kids there. It was, we're not

using the charity as a tool. Yeah. It was, it was almost, they asked me, comics, the thing, too, is like, they asked you to come up the way to make everybody go shorter. Comics, I don't think are good to ask that, because you, I will try to really find a solution. Yeah, yeah. And you want to go, like, oh, you don't want to, I mean, CBS was amazing. They, they, love, they love. But like some of the people that talked about it, you go, all right, so don't find a solution. Like, you want to go, y'all don't want any of this messed with. Right. You want to do what you want to do. You know, I found the most efficient way to handle it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You go, okay, like, I would have just not, just tell me that, you go like,

hey, we just want to do it our way. And then we're going to tell you these things. That's what I kind of figured out afterwards. I mean, CBS was very happy. I think people at home were very happy. They watched it. I wasn't trying to overshadow any of their speeches. We could have made a, I mean, like there was a lot less money not right like it could have went down i honestly what i thought i thought what happened in the room and i thought it was i thought it was going to be you know i don't know netflix donating or apple like you know it the shows that won it wasn't even making it's like i expected that kid to give money which i covered for that kid yeah yeah but it's like i kind of thought that's what would happen and in my head i pictured it as they could then go long but

then be a hero. So it was like a win-win. So it was like, and then the night becomes about love and you're giving to these kids that are there and all this kind of stuff. And I don't know if I just didn't explain it enough in the room or explaining enough, you know, it's like I'm just, I don't, you know, I don't know if, you know, I don't know. They might not know enough about me, like, because they don't know me as a stand-up comedian, but I'm not around these people all the time. I don't, you know, So I think it was just I had it in my head one way, it kind of came out

another way, but the reasoning was there. I wasn't going to give that money at the end. Like, I wasn't thinking I was going to have to, but the way it went, I was like, well, I can't, you know, I'm not going to not. You know, and but yeah, then a lot of people, boys and girls club were awesome.

They got it. They were pumped about all this. They were pumped about it. They got it. Like, they knew there's no ill will. There's no any, it's like just trying to, I was trying to have a very giving night. And I wanted even to protect. So if someone was giving these long speeches, I just thought they could be like, and Netflix will cover my overage. Or something stupid. I kind of, I just thought, you know, in hindsight, I thought, but I think I could have explained it more, to be honest. Well, I liked that y'all tried something. All the people in the comments, any negative thing that I saw,

all the people in the comments were positive. It was crazy. But like anything, like if a publication put out something negative, you go read the comments, everybody's positive. Everybody's like, why only watched it because of Nate? Yeah. Yeah. So.

It was, it was, that stuff really, really matters. You might not, that, even that little aspect of something can, it helps me. Because then I can go in and when I want to do other stuff, I am now walking in with a track record. to then take some swings at movies and TV shows and game show or whatever I'm else I'm trying to make. You don't owe it to me or any of that,

but that's just the truth of how it lays out. So thank you guys for watching. But yeah, I did see some, and it was funny. It was like the people at home, everybody that watched it, the comments, it was funny, because there was a lot of it would say, like, the controversial way, and I've not had any controversial stuff. It is pretty funny, but my only controversial thing is the boy. and girls clubs got 350,000.

And you go, you're right. That was not ideal. But it's everybody in since, even there, they liked it in the room. People were like, how was it in the room? And I was like, I don't know. I thought it was, I don't think it felt too crazy. I mean, I know they all had that worry about losing money. But it's like, again, it was like what I said.

It's a game I made up and I can't change. It's made up. Like, it's like, let's be, you know, let's, you know, let's, you know, let's have. have fun and, uh, I don't know, but, and you were telling me off air, you didn't really donate that money to boys and girls, though. No, I made them pay me the over. Yeah. Yeah. That's a misconception. No, no, we got, I gave them the money and, uh, now he's starting to Patreon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All your money goes to boys and girls club, everybody. Uh, no, yeah, we gave, yeah, we gave, yeah, we gave them the money and, uh, yeah, they were, the boys and group was awesome. That's awesome.

That's great. They've had people win Emmys out of the boys and girls. was like jb smooth was like we were really thinking about the money too that's the other thing we in the moment in the room we were just like who went over how much time this that like we were really into the game of that more than anything else so maybe that also where they were like you know sometimes where it felt like it went i would have maybe done a couple things different but overall i don't think i would have done that much more different maybe i would have explained it try to get everybody understanding more of what I was trying to do in the room. We almost did something.

I almost sent an email out to the night. Like I was trying to just, and it just didn't happen, but I was trying to, like, kind of just so everybody's aware of what's going on and being like, hey, let's have, let's have fun with this. Let's be, you know, that's just, you know, if you've ever needed a time to be just dumb and silly, it was like that night felt it the most. So, all right. Yeah.

That's awesome. That's awesome. We're great. Yeah, I guess that's it. Yeah, Madison Square Garden. And you're at... All our dates are, too, in August, I mean, for next year has been released. Come out, the tour has been great. It's been super fun. You know, I talk about stopping stand-up at some point. But, I mean, after this tour, I do, I mean, I can never promise when I'm going to, how long I would take a break. I do, I need to go make some movies. I need to go do some stuff. So I am going to, after this run, I think I will be off for a while. And I think you're in Florida also before Madison Square Garden.

A date there. October 10th and 11th, I'm in Cleveland. October 30th, Rochester, New York. Where's Cleveland? Well, it's in Willoughby and Brunswick, which both are suburbs of Cleveland. I would say, is it a name of something? It's like Let's don't get in the weeds here

He's coming to Cleveland I think one of them's a flower shop I can't remember now Oh I'm sorry It's like an art studio or something Yeah Just go to the website Yeah

And buy the ticket that says Cleveland Aaron Weber here October 5th Atlanta Georgia at the new Helium Comedy Club Which I've never done before It's an Alpharetta technically But it's Greater Atlanta

That's October 5th just one show in October 10th and 11th, Huntsville, Alabama, Levity Live. I haven't been there when it's Levity Live yet. Oh, yeah. Or the full on, like, the stage is different and everything now. So come. Huntsville and Atlanta. Come on.

Yeah, I heard the food prices and the drinks cost less now. They've gone down, yes. Yes. I'm going to be next weekend. I'm in Hartford, Connecticut at the Funny Bone. I'm going to be there with our friend Zach Townsend. That's going to be exciting. So do come check that out.

And then I got a lot more dates. On the 30th, I'm at Zanis. I've got another show at Zanis. So, very exciting. Of September. Yeah, is that what month we're, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. All right, yeah. Right over here, Ryan Hamilton Special, Seattle. Vandy. Vandy boy. We're doing it's fun. You're scary, man.

It's fun. Yeah, it's a fun, fun, it's a fun time. I'm happy for you guys. Finally get your first win. Yeah. I'm happy you guys Yeah

It's hard It's hard to win Yeah All right Fight us back Thank you Love you Have a great week

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