The Nateland Podcast - 274: #274 Art featuring Nick Thune

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

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Always die safely. Hello, folks, and hey, Bear, welcome to another thrilling edition of the Nate Land Podcast. We're here at the Nate Land Studios, live, Nashville, Tennessee, Music City, now Comedy City. And I'm sitting alongside my co-host, Dusty Slay. All right. And Brian Bates. Okay. And sitting in with the core three is our old friend, our old pal, good friend of the podcast, Nick Thune.

Nick Thune, welcome back, buddy. All right. Welcome. Yeah. Oh, I thought we were all going to kind of. Nah. Someone that I often get mixed up for. Do you get mixed to people sometimes think that you're me?

I don't know if most people that know me know you. Oh. Okay, well I guess we run in different circles. Well, happy to have you here, man. This is exciting. I'm excited to see you guys. It feels like it's been a while.

I don't think it has been a while, but sometimes it feels like, I don't know, I lived a long life over the weekend, and it feels like it's been a while since I've seen you guys. Feelings aren't facts. That's something that, you know, they'll tell you.

Better help. Well, we're off to the races here at Nate Land Studios, buckle in you seem like you got a little son were you out hiking yeah i did i did go on i did go on a hike yeah one of a long hike yeah killed me this weekend oh yeah yeah it was it was intense how far about six miles but it was it was a lot of a lot of uphill what did you say i was i joked i said six tenths of a mile what was the ground like was it cement or was it no it was outdoors it was in the woods man cement's outdoors too i guess so yeah this was uh my i was i was in high Huntsville this weekend at stand-up live shout out to everybody who came

levity live at levity live yeah did I say stand-up live yeah um well I did live stand-up but it was at levity live oh yeah you did that's what I meant to say you stood up live and golly the prices are so much lower there lower than they used to be that's that's what uh-huh uh here I had a great I saw you watch the baseball game in the green room I did I started there was a game I don't know if you saw it Dusty there's a there's a playoff baseball game that went to 15 innings, was it? Yeah, you're Seattle Mariners fan. Must be a good game. Congratulations.

Used to be. This is the best Seattle Mariners season in 25 years. Yeah. So, it's pretty crazy. It was a game. It went 15 in the green room. It was on in the green room. It was on in the green. I mean, it was unbelievable. And it's playoff atmosphere, so it felt like every pitch had the weight of the world on it.

Let me out. How, what was, were they did they keep scoring in each inning? No, they weren't scoring. The defense was on both sides was phenomenal. And it was like any moment except for you know every time the bottom of the inning every time that the the tigers were up or no the mariners were up it's they could have just walked it off but they just kept the tigers kept doing it kept doing it there wasn't scoring but there was bases loaded there was and then it was

like it was a lot of action it was the most exciting baseball game I've watched it long time three up three down sort of thing but dude it we were like let's finish after the show we go let's finish the game it was the ninth inning let's just watch this and then we're going to innings and then we're in 11 and I was like we went and met the staff we had dinner somewhere watching the game during that then we left and the game's still going on and we just I mean it just it was awesome it was one of those like I remember thinking I'll I'll want to have said that I watched this game so I so I made sure to watch you know for three hours yeah yeah it was a five hour game but I watched three hours yeah at one point they go and that was the Detroit

Detroit Tiger's 250th pitch of the game. Yeah, it's just crazy. It's just crazy. But anyway, that's where I was, I was hiking in the park out there in Huntsville. And it killed me. Yeah. But I was happy I did it. And you had to do a show after.

I had to do a show, but I had a lot of time in between. We did it early in the morning. But here we are. Back at the Nateland Studios. I want to give you a couple updates here. A lot happening. Nate Lane presents the showcase. Season 3 is coming to a close.

This Friday, October 17th. tune into the Nate Landi YouTube channel for the premiere of John DeToy. Oh, yeah. The yo-yo champion of the world. We've talked about literally a world yo-yo champion, former yo-yo champion, a friend of the podcast here.

We've talked about him on the podcast. He's done shows with me. I think he's done shows with all of us. Not with me. Dusty would never have him on his show. Does he do yo-yo on stage? No, no, I'm just kidding. John's great.

On the show. John's great, but I just like how Aaron just put that on us. I go, no. You've never done the Nate Land show? No, I have. I have. And John's great. I've taken him and Paula on the road.

Yeah, a few times, mainly because of Paula, but we try to help people. John has to come along. No, John's great. I just, you just were like, yay, with all of us, I go. Well, take it easy. Well, be sure to check that out. Nate Land will also be producing Brad Upton's next hour special on January 25th. It's two shows at the Den in Chicago.

If you're in the area, make sure you grab tickets for that. Also, the set that just came out, John Novissad from Denver, he just won the Big Sky Comedy Festival this weekend. So he's just on a tear right now. So make sure you go check out that set. John's the best. He's a very funny guy. And Nixon, Nick's with us because he is going to be out with Nate this weekend. You're launching out of Nashville.

You're going to be heading to Lincoln, Nebraska, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Texas, Tulsa. Check out the tour vlogs every week. to see what those guys are up to. It's a hoot and a half out there on the big, dumb eyes store. Is that written down? No, that's me vamping a little bit. New dates have been announced for 2026. Go out there and see a show.

A lot happening. And we're happier here. We're happier along for the ride. Tell me about your guys' weekend, man. What did you guys get into? I was in Cleveland, Ohio. And, you know, I was with Nate last week in Cleveland, two nights at Rocket Arena.

And this week, I was at Stella's Art Gallery. It's Skyview Lodge. But unlike Nate, I sold mine out. I don't want to get into numbers, but who's the better comic? But I got this shirt. This is from Doug and Denise. All right. They said, what could be more Brian like than a cool championship shirt of the losing team in the first round?

Also, if you could see this handwriting, you would assume these people are 80. Oh, that's good handwriting. They might have been 80. And then they... I mean, that's beautiful penmanship. That is beautiful. It does look like it was written. home during the Korean War.

And then they said, they said, give me too, our championship for this week is you coming to Cleveland since our team is done. Oh, that's really sweet. If you're listening, it's a Cleveland Guardians

t-shirt, they got put out in the first round. And they had a great season, though. They did. So it was a short road. The road to the championship. Yeah, it was a dead end. And they got this 75% off, I'm sure.

But anyway. And the Guardians were who was in North America first, right? yeah yeah when columbus landed here he met with the guardians they didn't really guard much they weren't able to guard it they weren't able to guard it today's guardian day actually all right oh it's columbus day today isn't it and indigenous people oh right my bad my bad my I'm slow I'm slow my bad okay all right so that's where I was I was in Cleveland so thank you for everyone who came out nice dude what about you Nick what he's been up to man it's been a while

when's the last time you were here have you been in the new studio yet I have been in here once. It's been over a year. I couldn't believe it. I think it was when you taped your special, which available now on the Nateland YouTube channel, Nick Thune's very funny special. Brian and I opened. If you're wondering why the crowd's hot right away. Yeah.

That's why. We actually used a lot of the laughs from your set. I don't think that's true. Yeah, they did. They didn't record yours. I don't know why. I think there was an audio something had nothing to do with you. They got your dad introducing.

And then they something. happened right after he did that classic comedy you know they go they go comedy clubs always go we'll film your set don't set up your camera we'll film you know yeah we got it and then they go ah i don't know what happened but the audio went out halfway through your set you know the joke that you wanted cut off yeah yeah the crowd wasn't mic also it's 360 p and there's a watermark on it and it'll be six months before we get it to you and 50 bucks yeah and you have 50 buck exactly i love how they're really starting to think they're making money off that it's like yeah Yeah, okay.

No, we did both open. It was great. I can't believe you haven't been here since then, but yeah. Yeah, it has been since then. I got into a car accident last week. Oh, no. Yeah. Your fault?

No. Okay. That's good. Yeah. No, but it feels like my fault. Were you wearing your glasses? grew up Catholic. Ma'am.

No, I wasn't wearing my readers. I should have been. Oh, okay. I should have. I bet the Yeah, it's the worst But my car is totaled So I've got a

Oh, it was a bad accident Yeah Wow, it was in Los Angeles Yeah, I mean, I got hit I got T-boned And I was alone in the car The worst part about it was It was right in front of my house

And my son was upstairs And I was going to get him Like a cinema Why am I just learning that you have kids You didn't know that? No, I had no idea Yeah Okay, sorry, keep going

He's 11 Wow So Nick's a he's a comedian I do know that Okay I still know anything about his personal life He heard the accident Because I was getting him a cinnamon roll

And he rushed to the window And the guy that hit me It was already out of his car But I wasn't And so he I didn't find this out till later Like called his mom crying Thinking that I was like Badly hurt

Yeah And then he like ran down and I was fine But it Sinan Rolls survived I didn't even get to the cinnamon roll Oh you're on your way there He hasn't eaten sense That's why he's crying

Yeah He is hungry Yeah listen I go He doesn't want me driving. Mom, can you start getting a cinnamon roll? Mom. Dad got hit. I'm milking it for everything, yeah.

But, no, I get a new car, which is fun. You know, why not? I've had the same car for 11 years. So it was time. So it's a good story. So this is like, yeah, it all worked out. Yeah, yeah. I'm not injured or anything.

Yeah, and they're probably giving you, you know, 150 bucks for an 11-year-old car. Yeah. Insurance. I'm going to find that out later today, how much money that was the woman, was Apologetic? You think it was a woman, huh? That says a lot. I'm just realizing you never said that.

I'm sorry. It was a man. Was he apologizing? My bad. Let's see apologetic? Yes. He apologized immediately. Okay.

It's one of those things where he came out and he's like, I'm so sorry. That was all my fault. I'm like, I wish I was recording that. Yeah, they say you're not supposed to say it. They say that you're not supposed to say it. Even if you tee-boned someone, you get out and go, I don't know what happened. It could have been either of our field. wait for the cops to sort this out and then you sit in your car and don't say anything he lives on

my street too which is yeah and he was we were basically he was taking a kid to a soccer game I was about to take a kid to a soccer game it was like you know and I know what it's like to get in your car and you're putting in directions and who knows either way in a bad wreck like that before uh one time I got hit from behind with my son in the car we were on our way to go camping this is great actually so we got hit and out like Bakersfield and it was bad like that my car seemed fine it was just the back of my truck their car was totaled all the airbags so i go out get all the information i was like all right well i'm going to take off i'm not going to let this ruin my camping trip so i leave and as we're driving i think maybe

i should call the police and just make sure and so i call the police and they go yeah we're actually on a hunt for you right now as leaving the scene of an accident whoa and i was like oh well i'm not i'm here and they're like okay we'll tell them we'll call them off but Yeah, if you just leave, you have to, like, report it or something. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But I was like, I want to go camping. I don't want to sit here on the freeway waiting for this lady ruined her car. It's her fault.

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is a long butt time no no no no Nope. We'll mark that down. Sorry, guys. That's all good. Yeah, 20 years ago, I started trying to go up there. And I almost got it. And then I got into an argument with Tommy, who was the booker at the time.

Okay. And I basically was like, yeah, I'm never coming back here because he sucked. And then he got fired eventually for stealing money, like 100,000 worth of dollars. Yeah. 100,000's worth of money. Is that how they do that? What do you think this money was worth? 100,000.

Yeah. But yeah, so I made it. And it's fun. It feels like a family. I feel like, you know, it's weird. It's like the camaraderie is pretty great. Where's your name on the wall? Is it next to some other cool names?

No. No? It's not, it is by cool names, but it's on a part of the wall that no one sees except the comedians because it's out in the back parking lot on like the back because it's all full. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's awesome, man. But you're there, though. Frankie Kiones is right there, you know, some good, yeah.

You just had Marin's podcast too, right? When the special came out, I did it. Okay. Yeah, it's like, it's ending. I know. You got that in it. You got that in. Yeah, I want to see that documentary.

I keep seeing that is out there about his, are we good or something like that? I haven't seen it. I don't think it's out, but it's coming out. Okay. He's been promoting it. I was watching a big fan of the office, so I was excited when they launched the paper. and right out of the gate, there's Nick Thune. Yep.

Episode two, I believe. I think so, yeah. That's crazy. I watched the first episode, tapped out. I didn't know. What's the paper? I almost made it to you. The paper, it's like another show in the office universe.

And I think there's even a character from the office that carried over. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oscar, everyone's favorite character. Yeah. Well, Oscar's great. He's the only one that's great.

He was everyone's favorite. He's the only one grounded enough that would make sense in the new show. Yeah. It's like it's a little less cartoonish. It is less. You can maybe have Creed or somebody who doesn't have a big part. Yeah. Bob Vance is at the very beginning.

But Creed, the office ends with Creed getting arrested for being a serial killer. Oh, okay. Yeah, you know. It would be tough. It'd be tough to explain, yeah. I never made it all the way to the end. Oh, the end's great. Skip the whole last season, but go to the,

finale. Oh, I'll watch the finale. Yeah. But that was really cool. See you on there? Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, and I just did an episode of that show The Florida Man, which I don't know if you guys watch that. It's really funny. It's the Danny McBride show on HBO where they do. You know the Florida Man stories?

Sure, yeah. So every episode is a true Florida man story, kind of like drunk history, they tell the story and then people like us act out the story. Oh, I love that. Yeah, it was really fun. I used to love that show drunk history.

I stopped doing it, but it was awesome, man. Do you ever see that show? No. They filmed some in Charleston. Oh, really? Yeah.

Oh, they do? Yeah. Yeah, because that's where Danny's from, right? He lives there. Yeah. I love getting drunk, but I don't believe in history. Yeah.

I still believed in history when I was drinking, you know, but I don't think I knew anything. Also, Nick, last time I saw you, which I think was when we were on the road with Nate

back in June, I asked you, if the Mariners and the Dodgers with the World Series, what would you do? And it looks like, I mean, that could happen. It is very, yeah. So what are you going to do? My son has already said he's rooting for the Dodgers. But he's born in California.

Yeah, he grew up. Dodger fan. I mean, I would root for the Mariners. I mean, you told me you got to. Yeah. And it's like, also the underdog. I mean, it's, and I was there the year, you know, in 95, I was like at those games that like that was like the year.

it was like, oh, God, you know, when, not when Griffey and everybody in Edgar Martinez, A-Rod and, yeah, that was big. So, yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy when a team that seems like it's built without stars can go this far. Just the guy that 60 home runs as a catcher. I know, but did you know, no one knew that was going to happen. No. Yeah. But you talk about Star Power. I wonder if Dusty, did you hear about this guy at all? I know you don't follow baseball, but I'm wondering if like sometimes people can transcend the sport in a way. No, I completely zoned out when you guys are talking about. The longer you guys talk about baseball, the further I drift from you guys.

That's what we do it. It's like us with gardening and most of your interest. Yeah, anything else in life. There's a guy, there's a guy, there's a big dumper on the bear. The big dumper. That's what they call it. Oh, yeah. Because he just has a large, he has a big butt.

You know, if people stopped gardening, we wouldn't have any food. If we stopped playing baseball, we would focus on gardening and eat better. I don't know. I don't know if everybody who follows baseball would go. what do I do with all this free time? How much food do you think these guys eat that has to do with gardening? Jeez.

Come on, man. I think Brian will have a salad now and again, but I've seen Aaron eat one salad, but I was actually... How many meals have we had to get it? A lot of meals, and I was pretty disappointed that day. He had that stuff. Leafy greens,

Leafy greens best of your stomach. I just assume that you guys all have Nate's appetite. Like, Nate, I've never seen it, Nate eat a salad. Nate eats like a four-year-old. Yeah. He eats like a four-year-old that found $10 on the sidewalk. And he goes, you know, I still remember during that drive-in tour, we're at a drive-in movie theater, and we got a bunch of food from the concession stand.

And it was like concession stand food. It was like, hamburgers, fries, you know. And Nate was like, I think this is my favorite restaurant. Like a Little League baseball concession stand does have a good hamburger. I do like, but I feel like those times are changing. It used to be good. It's all Cisco now. It is all Cisco.

And I've been saying that for a long time. You actually have been. People are finally catching on to the fact that everything comes from Cisco now. Every restaurant, unless, you know, there's a few. But most restaurants, it's all the Cisco truck. I just watched a video. I'll send it to you of this guy. They got food from restaurants all over the country.

Yeah. They ordered the same thing and then brought them all together. And it was like the same. Wait until you just more and more things that I've said will start to come to in the yoga. Well, some of them haven't panned out. They will, though. We just keep track of the wins. I listen to Dusty's podcast.

We're never having a good time. Is that the name of it? I was thinking of change in the name. It's called the We're Having a Good Time podcast, but I get a little. It's called I used to have a good time. Yeah, I get a little ranty on him. Back in May, he's complaining about where's the son? when are we going to get some heat? I want the heat. And then this week, he's like,

it's so hot out here. I'm so tired of the heat. I've owned up to that, though, to my own hypocrisy with that. Because I was saying that, but it felt like this year, it was like cold, cold, rainy, cold. And then one day out of nowhere, it was just unbelievably hot. Yeah. Like, it was like we went from like winter into the middle of summer. Well, Bill Gates pulled the lever down. Yeah, I think so. And it just was like so hot, and I couldn't handle it. I couldn't.

I think I'm getting older, but I couldn't handle it. Do you feel the weather in your joints? I just, because that's your, kind of looked over here. That is a real thing, right? Is your knee hurt and you go? It's going to rain today. Yeah, that is a real thing. Not really.

But I think, yeah, I didn't know when that starts happening. I kind of look forward to that. Yeah, okay. No, I don't. Okay, I'm sorry, man. I'm sorry. Hey, sorry, yeah. Nick, you ever feel something in your knee?

And you go, there's a squall coming. Every now and again, no, but every now and again, I'll take a, like, I'll go up a step and I'll hit one step and my knee will be like, yeah, not this one. Really? I mean, I do that. And it's like my knee would have probably gone out if I tried. Wow. But then it'll be fine again. Like, it's, I don't know why.

It's, I'm sure it's something. something I'll have to deal with surgically at some point. Yeah. Yeah, I do that. I feel like my knee's about to give away. That feeling where you think there's another step, but it's the end. Oh, the worst. You look so dumb in that moment.

You look dumber when you think there's another step or when you don't know there's a step. I think you look dumber when you don't know there's a step. When you trip as opposed to, oh, I thought there's another step there. I actually went to, back to baseball, Cleveland. I went to the 1997 World Series in Cleveland. What were you there for? It was just one of the buddy. Oh, that's awesome.

We drove up there. It was the Indians and the Marlins. Marlins won't, but the game we went to, the Indians won. It was the coldest World Series on record. Oh, man. Snow flurries. That's when I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Okay.

I have a story. I stayed on the first floor. Have you heard this story? I didn't realize there was multiple levels. Oh, yeah. So I just walked around the bottom floor all day And then they're 10 minutes before they close They're like we're closing

And I see people coming downstairs It's like what's going on up there It's the whole rest of the museum Covered the next five floors In the last 10 minutes What was the bottom floor all just like It's mostly the gift shop He's like man what a rip off dude

Rag time stuff I wish Yeah somebody should have said something to you They probably were like Let's see how long it takes them The whole staff was in on it They should have gave you another path You're an employee at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

You see Brian just making circles. How do you say to him? Hey, do you know that there's a, how would you say it? I go, hey, just want you to know, there's four floors here. I didn't know if you knew. I've seen you down here for a long time. I think you just got to say it. You got to go, hey, listen, buddy.

I don't know if it's your first time here, but there's, you know, it's four floors here. Yeah. Feel free to browse around. Or you yell out, you know, you just go. I'm going to the sixth floor. You know, you do something like that. So he goes, oh, what's that the sixth floor? Here's what I'm wondering is if you realized it right away and you thought, okay, I'm going to spend,

if you kept going back to the same things, or if you realized, oh, spend like 30 minutes on each thing that I see, knowing how much time. I don't remember. I just remember thinking, this place is cool, I guess, but it's not that much to it. I can't remember what I paid to get in. You just have to sprint through the rest of the. Yeah. But I went last weekend when, well, I was there, was there, was next. And you got to enjoy it.

Yeah. Yeah. He had all the floors this time. Yeah. Did they open it just for you guys? They did let us in. If you show your badge that you're performing a rocket arena, they let you in free. Oh, so you did get a free trip in the end.

This was your redemption trip. That's a cool promo. Anyone performing at the arena gets in free. I wonder if they advertise that. Maybe they shouldn't be advertising that. Yeah, because everyone's going to try and perform there now. Yeah. Everyone's going to try to get a headlining date.

So, yeah. Well, you guys didn't ask about my weekend. Well, we're still working our way down the table. Yeah, but I was off. But I did win best local, our best comedian by the national scene. I saw that. And I think Nate. You got the media's pick.

Yeah, you're a media favorite. You're not the people's favorite. And you've always been that way. You've always been establishment and not people. I'm just kidding, dude. I'm very happy. I was waiting for Nate to come back so I can make that joke. This just says best comedian.

It doesn't say, it's obviously awesome. It doesn't say media pick. Well, it's the scenes pick. It's cool. I was just making a joke. Yeah. Who was running up funny. There were no runner-ups.

They just picked me. What did you guys get? I didn't get anything. You're a big fan of the national scene, I know. What'd you guys get? I can't believe. Dusty, he's joking. But what did you guys get, though?

I've never got anything. I don't read the Nashville scene like most of the city. I got a participation trophy. Well, I'm just saying, guys, I won. And then Nate won first best stand-up comic. So this podcast, we're rocking it. So you guys got to get up in there. Try to get the media to pick you or some fans.

I would never bow down to the media like you had. yeah okay guys the joke is that's obviously not the case that's the joke i was making and i'm very happy for you it's a very cool thing it's evident now why you're not winning anything from the did you have to live here to get nominated you do have to live here yeah so we don't know what would have happened if i was involved you would have you would have yeah you would have got at least second at least second yeah i'd hope maybe first by the audience but if it's Clearly, you haven't seen what I picked me. Well, congratulations.

Yeah, well, it's a little light for that, Brian. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not being too late. No, it's not too late. I'm not being sincere, but it's not too late. It is too late. It is too late. It is too light.

Well, it's something to shoot for someday. You were also the best comedian in Charleston, right? I was. I wonder how many guys have won the best comedian in multiple cities like that. well i don't know i don't know guys that's something to all right you want to get these comments yeah i just thought well i was trying to build up to a cooler thing and then you you kind of suck the air out of it but i was going to say that me and Nate both won in this thing so this is good it's a good look but you really suck the it's a great look you suck the air out it's a great

look and you and i'm being overly serious um and i think For comedic effect. You guys are really taking it the wrong way. I'm also wearing my Heimann shirt. Whoa. A little golf shirt that they sent you. They gave me the shirt and I forgot about it. Speaking of Heimans, I'm going to be in Charleston, South Carolina this weekend, home of Highland's seafood.

And I think that you... And I'm going to go by there and say, Dusty Slay sent me. You should go eat there because you, last time you were there, you went to Fleet Landing. Yeah. Which is a great restaurant. But then Zach Townsend was in Charleston. And he was like, where should I go? and then he goes, oh, and then by the time

I got back to him, he goes, oh, we're at Fleet Landing. I go, it sounds like an Aaron recommendation. Well, he was like, yes, it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, now I want to go to Highman's. Yeah, well, he looked in the Charles Magazine, the critics picked Highman's, but the fans picked Flea Landing. Well, you messed up.

You messed up. You got to go to Hyman's. What if you're in Charleston, this weekend, Witsend Comedy Club. I've never heard, Hyman said so many times, meaning what it means. I don't know what it means. It's a seafood restaurant. Okay. Last name. The last name's Hyman. It's probably a confusing conversation if you don't know. But yeah, that's a seafood restaurant that Dusty worked at and has talked about in a lot of his bits.

You went? Yeah. Yeah. When I was in Charleston, I went to Hyman's, and I went in there just to find somebody who knew you. And I met, I think, the woman who runs it. I mean, it hurt her and her husband. Oh, I don't know. Is it a family? it is a family but i didn't know his wife to ever be there okay well there's an older lady who said she knew you and um what was it name rita yeah rita rita yeah she's just friend of the family i think rita the grita i don't remember is that really what they're yeah she's a hostess she's like a greeter she just kind of walks her reader and somebody sent in a comment i was saving it for a future episode

but they said that they went to hymen's just this past week and that they said uh do you guys know dusty sleigh and they're like know him and they took him back and showed him a back room and they said he performed at a Christmas party or a Christmas party here. Whoa. Oh yeah. How much other stuff are you saving for future episodes? Well, I bring it out when we need it. Yeah. Yeah. That's a weird thing to save for future episodes. I mean, I got a whole longer stuff. There's stuff I save for guests. Brian's got lots of secrets. It's not secrets. It's just like when we have special guest on, you know, I save it the right occasion. So that one I was probably saving for

I don't know Lots of secrets Restaurants Christmas parties Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah That was for the Christmas episode Yeah I performed at quite a few Hyman's Christmas parties

I didn't perform I didn't perform I don't think I performed At the one at the restaurant though Okay They might have said that but I don't think I did All right well maybe that's why I didn't put it in Yeah But then I felt like we needed it now

So Pulled it out Well, I'm there at Whitson Comedy Club this weekend if you'll come out to Charleston, South Carolina. I'll be in Wilmington, just above you. Oh, how about that? Swing by, come to both. Yeah. A little road trip.

How far. Yeah, how far to those? About three and a half hours. Come see me on Friday. Come see you on Saturday. All right. Yeah, that works. Yeah.

I could use you on Friday, too. I could use it. Yeah, me too. Me too. Also, I want to say real quickly, before we move on, that, uh, I could use you. We have a fundraiser show, and we've talked about a little bit on this podcast, but it's next week. It's the 22nd. It's put on by me and my wife, mostly my wife, but it's for an organization called PWSA, PWSA USA.

It's the organization for Prada Willie Syndrome, which our daughter has. That show sold out. It's sold out for next week. They've raised $140,000 already for the organization. organization, which is pretty crazy. If you go to Prader's... How much of that do you get? Silly. I get zero. I get zero. We got a 50-50 door deal. We got a lot of... We got a lot of very nice people donating their time to make that a really great show.

So I do want to say, if you want to read more about it or donate or anything like that, Prader Silly, P-R-A-D-E-R-Silly.com, as all the info on there. But I'm excited about that. That's next week. Nice. At Zanis, right here in Nashville. Who came up with the title? of that website. I came, well, I came up with Prader Silly as a joke and then Lucy really ran with it. Okay. Who built that website? Not me. I bought the domain name and pointed it there. Gotcha. But the condition is called Prader Willie. And I was like, yeah, the show should be

Prater Silly. You know, like a Bazinga. That kind of type of habit. She was like, yep, that's it. Oh, man. That's awesome. This episode is sponsored by Better Help. October 10th, as you all know, is World Mental Health Day. And this year, we're saying thank you, therapists. BetterHelp therapists have helped over 5 million people worldwide on their mental health journeys. That's millions of stories, millions of journeys, and behind everyone as a therapist who showed up, listened, and helped someone take a step forward.

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or where you're all going to be or what do you want to do? Oh, I'm running it. Yeah, shoot. I was looking to you, Brian. I know. You just got the energy like you're controlling it. I always thought that he was the one that did every time.

No. I mean, when Nate was here, he would kind of start it and run it. I saw a comment last week that said, please don't let Dusty run the episode. We need him to bring the comedy. Oh. It's when you're... Bring the funny, yeah.

It was... You start to read it and you think they're insulting you, but they're actually giving you the highest. compliment where they're like, give Aaron and Brian the clerical work, let Dusty be there for the jokes. Well, I appreciate that. It was written by the Nashville seat. Sorry.

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dot com my headphones are too loud now are they really yeah maverick picture when he yells like that how does that make you guys feel it sounds fine

nothing I don't feel anything anymore yeah was I yelling just now well I think my headphones are too loud what did I what did I yell mail oh my bet

male no it feels better no it feels better now but it was like it really hit me I can really, yeah, I have trouble modulating my volume sometimes. No, it's fine. No, it's fine.

Everybody else said it was fine. Okay. Yeah. Maverick Pitchford. I thought it said pitchfork the whole time. That's why you laugh when you first saw it. Yeah, I've been looking at that for a long time. Maverick Pitchford.

You need to borrow his readers? Maybe. It's official. I need two glasses. I forgot. I need two glasses. I love it. Maverick, Pitchford, it's official.

I can't listen to this podcast in public anymore. When Dusty reminded Brian that he said he didn't know anyone from Connecticut, then pointed out he just said his wife was from there. I lost it. Spit my coffee out in the middle of a coffee shop. Worth it. Thanks for the laughs. Thanks, Maverick.

Again, it sounded like it was going to be bad at first. I can't listen to this podcast. And I almost stopped listening right there. Well, Maverick, that's what I deal with on this podcast all the time. I, uh, people act like all, everything I say is crazy and then Brian doesn't even know where his wife's from. Apparently not. And, uh, Nick Novicki. People pointed out Nick, which either I didn't know or at least forgot. That's excusable, though. Your wife? Why? Because of the. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Carrie Knowlton. I live in Connecticut.

and was unaware that Subway originated there. It's also surprising because we call them Grinders, not subs. So, yeah, Grindr way is a much worse name for a restaurant, I think. Why do you, how do you think the app Grindr affected the name of that sandwich? Yeah, I think a lot of people started calling them hoagies after that, you know. And a lot of, you know, men, you know, husbands that got caught with Grindr on their phone. Oh, that's my hoagie up. Yeah. I'm just trying to get a sandwich.

You know I love sandwiches? Is that one not what this is for? I thought this is where you meet men that bring you sandwiches. Donna Jenkins. Guys, I love the podcast, but I couldn't let this one pass. How did you do an episode on Connecticut without mentioning the holiday classic Christmas in Connecticut? starring Barbara Stanwick.

What an oversight. Also, the show Gilmore Girls was set there. I did know that. Stars Hollow. The show premiered 25 years ago and is still having, is having a huge resurgence. It is. I apologize for that.

I should have thrown that in. Yeah, you should have. Christmas in Connecticut, though. I think that might have only been popular in Connecticut. Yeah. And Barbara Stanwick, maybe I should know that name, but it's not bringing a bell.

I think she's from the 40s and 50s, maybe. Oh, okay. Yeah. If this is an ironic message, it's very funny, Donna, but I've never heard of this movie. I wish somebody could look it up. But you're reading. That'd be great. I like how he's like, I think it was from the 40s or 50s or something. I don't know. I think she's a bolder. Maybe you can shine some light on my thought process because it's a difficult balance I'm trying to strike as the guy with the computer. Because I feel like a lot of the great moments in this podcast, a lot of the, the funny conversations with the three of us are when we don't know the right answer to something, right?

Yeah. So how long do I let that simmer or do I just immediately look up the right answer or do I just let us kind of think about it? I think that's just life in general, right? Remember, you know, you just used to go, who was that and that? And then no one ever knew and you couldn't look it up and then you go, you just didn't know. Yeah. And we think now we go, yeah, but now we're learning.

But we don't need to know who Barbara Stanwick is. It's not going to enhance our lives. No, it used to, and I was, I'm, I'm, this book I'm reading right now, like, this guy's in a cab with a girl on a date, and it takes place when cell phones were just starting, like, you know, apparently anyone had him. And he's starting to say, like, you know, they're not having a good date. And he's like, and I looked over at her. And in my mind, I thought, and she's in her phone.

Oh, yeah. But then I was like, oh, yeah, no, she was like looking at her compact makeup thing, like, you know, whatever. But there were no phones. So she couldn't step into another world and text her friends and all of a sudden do that. She was stuck in a bad date. She had to just be in the moment. Yeah.

Yeah. Wow. She had to look at herself in her compact mirror and go, what are you doing? Michelle Cuddy. Aaron was so spot on. That's great. Leave it there. Yeah.

And impressive. Oh, no. There we go. Yeah. And impressive with presidential facts. And then five seconds later says that Connecticut was so important. in the Revolutionary War because of events like Lexington and Concord. But unfortunately, that's Massachusetts.

I love the mix of really good knowledge and mistakes mixed in. Comedy gold, even if unintentionally. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. I thought my whole life that was in Connecticut, Lexington and Concord. I had no idea. I wouldn't have known to correct you. You know, shot heard around the world. Isn't that what they called it?

It's too bad that all those places aren't, they don't have like, because of Gettysburg address, they actually, there was an address there. you know you knew yeah but all these places yeah who knows you also said jokingly

I'm about 99% sure about Connecticut being the show me state yeah and we didn't make that obvious it was a joke

and a lot of people called us out on it isn't that Missouri yeah I didn't know it didn't sound right that it was Connecticut but I didn't know

I got like three bits I do in everyday life that never get a laugh but I just I hang on to him somebody says I was in Ohio oh the sunshine state that gets nothing or you go I was in Omaha oh the windy city never gets a laugh the other one I do is when I got people in the car and I'm turning like I'm just merging to another lane I like act like I'm doing a big turn on the steering wheel it's never

gotten a laugh oh the best my this is my favorite I still believe in it the you know you know when you drive over the um the things that you can't reverse over the like we're turning a rental car yeah Like anywhere you're wherever they have that like you can't back up like you go over the first part do this next time you're doing it this is my favorite thing to people because everyone in the car is aware like oh we're driving over those things now right when you drive over with the front wheels hit your brakes and act like you're putting in a reverse and go like that oh no no no no no no oh that's good it's a nice it's a nice little kind of like that yeah see that I think this is why that works and your other jokes aren't working because when you go, when you go, oh, the sunshine state, I think people in their head go, Ohio, I don't think that's right, but they don't know. So they're like, and you say it confidently and they go, I don't know, maybe it is. That doesn't sound right. But people know Louisville Kentucky's not the big apple. Yeah, but I just think there's something. They might think, oh, maybe that's what they call themselves, you know, like it's a joke. And then this thing,

I don't know, you'll have to explain that thing again to me. Do you know, I'll tell me what do it. I'll do it. If you're listening, I'm in his hands up. I'm in the car. So he's turning them. You know, like you do a big turn where you do this with the steering wheel where like you. Yeah. He's I do that, but I'm only moving over one lane, but I act like it's a huge turn.

I don't say anything. I just do it. The only person to ever even acknowledge it in the car was Monty Mitchell. And he goes, what are you doing? And I go, it's pretty funny, right? And nobody's thought it was funny. But I'll do it next time we're in the car together when we go out to eat together and I get a salad. Brandy Fuzzy Schwartz

What are you heading in the Cali Fuzzy Schwartz All right Fuzzy Scho I'm in a yeah the big band in the 30s It sounds like she's wearing like shorts made of fur Oh fuzzy shorts

Yeah I wish the end credits were still over the blurred video That kept rolling so we could see how fast Dusty got away from that cat Oh yeah Yeah yeah pretty fast Yeah, anytime an animal comes in here, I'm ready to live. A hairless cat on when Fuzzy didn't care for it, apparently.

Oh, hell. She knew that I didn't care for it. That cat was not fuzzy, tell you that. No, that was, that cat, that's a weird cat. Oh. I am not into hairless animals. It's an odd-looking thing. It's odd-looking.

Yeah. I guess I could understand how somebody could find it cute. Those cats have propitia? Is that what that's called? Alopecia? Alopecia? I think propitia is to grow hair. Yeah, I mean, I hear.

I don't know. I wonder if that's so alopecia is, you don't have hair, but pro pisha. Are they saying ala's like negative? Yeah. Allah. Negapia. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Rachel Johansson. Dusty, it broke my heart to hear you question the Wright brothers in the first flight. Please learn more about the Wright brothers, because I think you would love them. They were kind of misanthropes. When they first flew, no one... What's that? I'm just misanthropes like, that's going to mean so.

Oh, okay. I'm on board. When they first flew, no one believed them, so they had to go to great pains to prove it. When the first crowd saw them fly a plane, the crowd started screaming. Yeah, I mean, I bet. But, and I'm sure they're great guys, but I just, I don't, I don't believe it. I just, you know, at some point someone had to fly first. I get it.

But I just never believe whoever they say did it first. I believe somebody else did it. And then somebody else was like, no, we can take advantage of this. We can kill this guy and do it. Yeah. We'll do these two guys who run a bicycle shop. Yeah. That would make sense.

Well, but that's the thing. They tell you they run a bike shop. It's all up front. Yeah. Yeah, but where's the money coming in from? All right, exactly. It's like a mattress firm. It's like a...

Yeah, exactly. Who is Polos? You ever buy a mattress from a mattress store? I just use Helix. We all have Helix mattresses. But one time, I bought a mattress from a mattress store, and they had to order it. And it was a real hassle. Because I called the...

This was Temperated. And I had to call the hotline, and the hotline was like, oh, did you order it from the store? Yeah, we can't help you. I thought the buildings were like huge. Do they not have mattresses in there? Not the one I wanted. Oh, man. It's a real hassle.

Next comment. Jawahu Roberto. J. Roberto. It's J.O.A. What do you call the squiggly line over in a? Tilda. Is that what that is? Swinton.

I don't know. J.O. Tilda Swinton O. Roberto. I'm not sure how many. people in Brazil are Nate Land fans, but I'm doing my part spreading the word about how great you all are. Dusty mentioned that he is not so confident about the Wright brothers' achievements, and I want to say that he is right. Oh, yeah. Every Brazilian already knows that Santos Dumont is the one who actually invented the airplane.

It is time for the world to know the truth. Jowal, I just want to say, Gisculpe. Well, I... A little Portuguese. I appreciate you, because I'd never heard the name. Santos Dumont, but I assume that this is correct. But you're immediately on board with this. Yes, I am. But Santos is claiming, just like the Wright Brothers claim. He was the first one to do.

Why do you believe him? Well, because I'm saying he, Santos doesn't have the backing, right? So I think that makes sense to me. Some guy, I don't know if Santos was poor. I'm thinking he was poor. And he figured out how to work this. And then they go, ooh, how can we make this an American achievement. Probably. Alberto Santos de Montt. He died in 1932. He's one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development

of both lighter than air and heavier than air aircraft. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers. He's a rich silver spoon. He dedicated himself to aeronautical study and experimentation in Paris, where he spent most of his adult life. So this guy is a rich kid, a rich kid who hung out in France. One of the most famous people in the world, early 20th century. He's a national hero in Brazil where it is popularly held that he preceded the Wright brothers.

Wow, a lot of road, schools, monuments, and airports there are dedicated to him, and his name is inscribed on something I can't pronounce. How about that? Well, how about that? I've never heard of this guy. I was wrong about him being poor, but... But you just look at his picture, and I kind of believe that guy flew first. I think so. Look at this guy.

He looks like he's seen some things in the sky. I mean, he looks like he's on opiates, to be honest. Yeah, his eyes are pretty glassed over. Yeah. Those pupils are screaming. Isn't that back, I don't know when this picture was taken, but I was always told these pictures, you'd have to sit there for like 30 minutes

while they did the picture, right? So that's why none of them were smiling because he can't hold the smile. Norm McDonald had it, did you see that? He did that on Letterman where he was like, his grandfather has one picture, and he just looks angry because he's just saying,

I got to get back and feed the hogs. Yeah, I got to get back up to the sky. I wish I knew how to pronounce this Roberto guy's name. Joal.

Joal? Let me look it up. It's, okay, it's pronounced joeal. Joao. Joao. Joao.

Joao. It's, the way it's written out is Z-H-H- dash wow with a nasal owl at the end of the sound. Why did you even know that, Dusty? I just want to give him his due because he had Dusty's back. Yeah.

Right? Yeah. Let's hear where this sounds. I'm so old. I can't even hear it. In Brazil, it is said, Jolw. Jou-W-W-W-W.

That doesn't sound like how people are saying. J-Wong. Yeah. Thank you, J-Wan. I like that name. I love Brazil. I've been there. Probably not going back.

I'm happy that we're getting the word out about Santos Dumont. That's right. You started it. This is going to be a podcast that breaks it. Yeah. Max goodness. The most goodness you're going to have. Maximum goodness.

When Aaron reads ads, it feels like your buddy experienced something amazing and is selling you on the experience as if you were there. Whereas Dusty's ad reads like you were part of a group project in school and one member didn't participate at all. And when you get to the class presentation, you all decide he's going to earn his part of the grade and tell him to do the oral presentation. Yeah. That's how I learned to read out loud. Yeah.

Really? By doing these ads? By not participating. Yeah. And then they would be like, you read, like in your class, this really happened? Yeah. I used to host trivia, too. Yeah, yeah.

That's where I really. Dressed as Elvis? What's that? Is that when you're dressed as Elvis? No, no, I was, then I was doing, I was hosting Elvis Bingo. Oh, okay. Okay. You just do trivia as yourself. Yeah. I was like, fortunately, they didn't make me dress up as Elvis every week when I did trivia. That was in Charleston, right? Yeah. I was, I was that guy. The guy that Max Goodness is describing, that was me in, in the, in college, we had a lot of group projects. And I would do, I would contribute nothing. I'm going to say that until the presentation. You get a,

a lot of compliments and I on your ad reading and I think that's because I compliment you so often. I think people go you know what? Dusty's really backing up Dusty's always right. And I, if the rest of the podcast could get on board with that sort of thing. I think this would be a supportive, more supportive

podcast. Oh, like they were complimenting you more often. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were all supporting each other. Well, I mean, I feel like he got praise for his ad reads and you got a comment where you got praised for your comedy. Yeah. And then you also got a article.

Yeah, well, that's true. That is true. So you're in the lead. I've got nothing so far. I'm the one that picks the comments. Yeah, but I would imagine there's a lot of good compliments for you that you leave out. You're a humble guy. Yeah.

Yeah. There's not, but thank you, Dusty. Dusty's always right. That's what I say. Dusty's always right. Danny Eben, as a woman with a disability, I'd like to respectfully speak on the accessible bathroom thing. We can't just hold it in the same way. I've run into some very aggravating and embarrassing situations that could have been avoided had an able-bodied person not

been in the accessible stall. Hope that helps. Well, it does help, but I also, I stand by the idea that just don't take all day in the stall. Just use the stall and then get out of there. Don't pull out your phone. Don't be on there. I think all, I'm having a lot of trouble with these headphones. I think all stalls need a little switch on it to let people know, hey, people are waiting. Let's wrap it up in here. I sympathize with you. You think they need to have a switch? Yeah, I think so. Huh. I think because if you go to the, because if you have a good stall system where you can't see through the cracks, you're just sitting in there. It's nice. Yeah, it is nice, but you may not know. You settle in. You may not know people are waiting, right? That's how I like to go. Yeah. I don't

like to know people are out there. People come up and they go, boop. You're saying you need a little bit of pressure. I don't, hey, hey, there's. Yeah, I don't want any of that pressure. Yeah. We said we want a ring doorbell camera and then a screen so you can see who's waiting. Maybe we can make that happen.

Yeah, come on ring doorbell. Yeah, or Vivant. Remember Vivant, they were a sponsor 15 years ago? Let's get Vivin on that. But Danny, uh, yeah, that's a great point, Danny. We sympathize with it. It's a good example of, you know, I never would have thought about that. So I appreciate you to letting us.

Never would have thought. that people of disability needed the disability stole we knew that but but but we were talking last week we were like well everybody has to wait yeah why do why do we like why don't you have to wait the way other people have to wait yeah like well because our situation's different mm-hmm because they can't go on the majority of them yeah they can't go on a regular stall some of them appreciate that danny evan daniel watson i would encourage erin to look up on son doronts Anson Dorrance Before claiming Gino is the most dominant coach in college

Well you know what you're encouraging me Daniel I'm going to go ahead and look this guy up Anson Durrance Typed it isn't wrong Absorb difference Retired coach Okay he's a retired American soccer coach I'm going to stop you right there

I don't I could not care less with this guy Daniel yeah don't bring I mean like not to be so like We don't care about soccer, but we're talking about basketball here. Don't bring in. We're talking about the big four. Yeah.

You know, the big four sports. This guy was born in Bombay. Another reason to not care about. I'm just kidding. Yeah. No, he was the head coach of North Carolina women's soccer where they were just unbelievably dominant. They went on a 101 game unbeaten streak.

Yeah, that's crazy. 21 of 41 soccer championships. Yeah, that's insane. That's insane. Women's soccer, a bit of a blind spot for me as a sports fan. I'm sorry about that. I'm glad. It's crazy because they get all that TV coverage.

Yeah, that is more dominant. By the numbers, that's more dominant than Gino. What's the competition? The guy we mentioned last week that we can't say is like Gino Ariema. Yeah. He was the head coach of Yukon women's basketball. And then who else is even in the conversation? John Wooden.

I could make an argument for Saban just because I think it's like a different era and it's just football's different but anyway good to know I'm learning a lot see this is what this is all about trying to we're all trying to become better people educational podcast

we're all trying to become better people here Ella Pillsbury that can't be the real last name if it is I hope you're involved in that family yeah Because otherwise, wow, it was a brutal, brutal childhood. Killsbury, you hope that if you were a fat kid and your name was Pillsbury, you got to be real thin.

Ooh, man. You were wondering why anyone would want their phone number published in a phone book. Actually, if you did not want it published, you had to pay a fee to have an unlisted phone number. Things were different back in the day. That's crazy. You know, I kind of remember this now. Yeah, I remember it too. But what was nice about the phone book back in the, it's like, really like I'd be at my dad.

dad's house, right? And he had, in LaFed, I mean, it was a very small phone book. Pamphlet. And you would go, oh, I need to talk to, you know, Frank Jones or whatever. And then you just flip through, there's Frank Jones. You call him, you go, hey, Frank, blah, blah, you know. It's just easy to do. Well, you don't have to go, do you know Frank's number. Frank's number's in the phone book. And if you didn't answer, his address is in there, too. We used to do, I mean, it was made prank phone calling so easy. too yeah yeah you know you just and okay we're gonna call random number yeah and we know their name what would you do what were your prank calls do you remember the script i remember so what we got

i got a hold of a um a phone book for the a dorm at seattle pacific university okay and so i started calling with my friends each dorm saying i was with the um this was like a 99 right or 2000 or something saying that I was with the computer department or whatever, what is called. And we're having an issue, and we need you to change your, and I'd walk them through basically a step on, like, you need to get to your computer. Okay, go to settings, go to the mouse. Okay, I need you to click it to left-handed. Okay, good.

Okay. And now I need you to put it as slow as you can, the speed of it. Okay, good, good. And now I need you to lock your screen. Okay. And back then, if that happened, it would take you about five minutes to get your screen. Oh, yeah. you're just like you have to be like and then you get there to do it and you hit the wrong

you know and just get confused it was just you know simple stuff that's fun stuff yeah that's more elaborate than anything after that sounds like yeah i mean that's like you're like well on your way to uh a different road could have led you to scamming people out of money yeah we were recording them too and like yeah yeah adding a little backstory to the character yeah i loved it what would you do with the recordings not i mean nothing show them to your first friends when they came over? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You drink and you go, hey, listen to this. Next comment. Faith Warwick. Warwick done. Remember him? Oh, yeah.

Faith Warwick. I'm beginning to think next year's Bargettze bowl experience on the Nateland Cruise is really just part of Dusty's new mission to reinvent the halftime show. But hey, I'm all for it.

Well, everybody's doing it. I don't think it's my idea, but I'm for it. I think we all should have our own halftime shows. Well, there are some alternative halftime shows that are coming about, I've heard. But yeah, we're going to be on the cruise. And from what I understand from Nate, we can't see the halftime show. Oh, we're going to be on the cruise during the Super Bowl? Yeah.

God, I hope the Titans aren't in it. Hey, we got a new coach, so. Oh, is there a new coach now? Well, we got fired. Okay. So we'll see. I'm sure the... By the time this comes out, I hope we do.

I'm sure the Instagram feed is filled with the comments to get the old coach back. Vrabel? Yeah, that's what everybody used to do. They go, on the Instagram, they'd go, we need a new coach, and they'd go, I hear Mike Vrable's available. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I did that. Well, he's come to town this Sunday, the Patriots come, and I think the ownership was like, look, if we get beat by him and fire our coaches it'll look like just because of we're able so let's go ahead and fire him now yeah i think it's a good move i don't even know who the coach was but uh things are

not looking good i think it's a good move i'm keeping it a buck right now i mean they won they didn't they did they did they did win one but it was very close at the very end they didn't even win the cardals lost that yeah crazy yeah that was an insane end of the game yeah guys You might think you have a solid handle on your budget. Nick, you probably think you have a solid handle on your budget, don't you? I don't, actually. Well, maybe your spreadsheet says you should have an extra $1,000 left over each month, but your bank account doesn't reflect that.

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we've actually done an episode on art. I was doing some research. I'm like, boy, some of this sounds familiar. we did it like three years ago but did we really I don't really remember it we did not have a professional artist but we're all professional artists

so to speak right yeah Santa comedy is an art form it is do you need to get paid to be a professional I think definitionally yeah all right I'm out I'm joking

I would never call I would never be like he's never been paid no I know you guys are taking me so serious today. Well, you weren't smiling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was tense earlier. I'm happy you're back, but it was 10th early. I'm smiling with my eyes. Well, we have a professional when I think of, when I don't, yeah, you're right. Sorry. That's all right. When I think of art, there's a different, lot of different. I think of painting. That's what I think of. Don't you think that's what most people first thought is? For sure. And I think of drawing. Similar vein. I don't think people go, let's go to Levity Live and see an artist this

weekend. Yeah. I don't think they see. Yeah, they don't. And then when you try and say you're an artist, people are like, you're a comedian. Yeah. I don't think all stand-up comedy is art. But there is. I agree with that. There is our art stand-up comedy. Yeah.

Where's the line drawn? I don't know. Name someone right over it and write. I'm not going to be the one to draw the line, but I just feel like you see stuff and you go, well, this is art. And then this is, you know. You're a clown. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, there are, in the Western tradition, that's us, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture, theater, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film, and other media are interactive, or such as interactive media are included in a broader definition of the arts. But generally speaking, visual arts are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Mm-hmm. Okay. And you paint. Mm-hmm. Do you sculpt? No, I've never tried.

But I find that as I'm going through, like, learning about art that I keep trying new things because it's kind of, kind of leads. You just kind of get led to trying something, you know, over and over again. But I wouldn't even call myself a professional artist. I have sold some paintings, though. That's nice. One NBA player bought one of my paintings. Really?

And a late night talk show host that I didn't, I wasn't involved. I didn't, like, it's not, it wasn't Jimmy Fallon who you'd think. Yeah, Arsenio Hall. Yeah. Jay Leno? No, no. Can you say the NBA player? Okay.

I don't think I, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. He didn't like. Yeah, you got to have some client, uh, convention, uh, what is it? Attorney client privilege. Yeah. Confidentiality.

I was very surprised though. It was very, because I was at an art show. I had my paintings in a show and these, I guess people that are rich, they send people to look at paintings. Yeah. And then they buy for them. They have people that buy their art. art. But I do know that it went into his baby's room. So my art's good for baby rooms.

Can you tell us what the art was? Yeah, it was just a abstract kind of piece. There's some words in it. Like a lot of my stuff will have some words. Can you pull up Nick Thune art? Yeah. We get a look at what we're talking about here. That's the painting on the top corner, actually, that he bought. This one here? Yeah. Yeah, that's a cool painting. It looks like a sewing machine. Yeah, it's a lot of... Is this all abstract? Yeah, pretty much. I mean, it's, you know, it's just kind of...

I honestly didn't... I started painting just because I wanted art in my house and I just couldn't afford art. Yeah. And then I really... Somebody came over and they were like, but you made all these and she took some pictures and then she was a friend of mine's wife.

And a month later, she was like, hey, I submitted you to a show and you're in. Wow. Wow. That's a good friend. Yeah, it was pretty cool. And that one in the top corner sent that the late night host bought it, and it's at a house in Rome, actually. Man.

Because it actually says Rome in the painting, which I was going to, because a lot of times I'll write stuff on them and then I'll cover it up. And I was going to cover that one. And the art people are like, don't. No, we like that. And then the person bought it specifically to put it in Rome. that's fun you'll write stuff and then cover it up and only you know it's in the yeah or like it is sometimes it works and i like it you know but other times i don't i just thought that that was like i don't know a lot of that's what i love my favorite thing about art is also what we do in stand-up is you you know

half the time the joke that you start with it does not you know if you see it when you record it it's like so different and painting is the the most fun thing i've learned about it is who cares It's just cover it, cover it, who cares, cover it again, cover it again. None of it lasts, none of it matters, you know. And then in the end, you might have something. So that's the attitude you should take. If you think you have something good, just keep going. Yeah.

How do you know when to stop? A lot of times I'll ask people or I'll just feel like, oh, it's probably done on that one. But I'm actually learning how to draw. I never thought I'd learn how to draw because I thought drawing was when I was young, I remember thinking like, oh, people that can draw things. That's just they're born with that or something. but I've gotten really into architectural drawing and like dimensional drawing of things

and I did one freehand the other day because I've been using like paper that helps you and I was like oh I'm actually learning how to do this is kind of cool. I think that's the thing about so much art is they you're like made to believe because there are people that are just naturally talented with things so you're made to believe that you have to be that

in order to do it, but you can just learn to be better at things. Like, you know, if you were learning guitar, you would probably never be as good as Jimmy Hendricks, but you could be very good. Yeah. You know? And, yeah, and you practice. And I think with art and with drawing, it's like, it's your art, right? It's like, it doesn't matter if it looks as good as somebody else is.

Like, you're drawing what you want to draw. Well, it's the same thing with comedy. it's just what is some people like it some people don't some people like this kind of arts people like that yeah i like for me it was i started just because of color in general i was like oh i like certain colors when i see somebody's house i'm like oh it's like cool how this room has that blue kind of thing in the corner and so that's what i started doing it for is just like putting colors together because that that seemed doable to me yeah you know stand-up's a little more objective because you're getting feedback in real time yeah and you know if you know if

it's not going well. Yeah, I think, but there are comics who maybe would not be very good, like, mainstream, but they find their audience of people that love what they do. And that audience is so, because I did a couple shows where I had to stand for six hours a day for a week with paintings of mine and like a wall and talk to people, you know, and that is, that was scary. That was like, so they're like, so what, what is this? why and you're like I don't um I like that color did it feel vulnerable to you at first yeah

you started showing people these yeah yeah yeah it still feels kind of weird but I I I did because I didn't think they were any I honestly I don't know I still didn't even know if I think they're good but when other people are like no I like that and the people I trust and I just think okay well keep doing it I mean you've sold two at least that we know about so so like six so that says something six more than I've sold and does someone help you you price them? Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. And it's a really weird world. It's so different than the comedy world, you know, as far as like money, the way that money works and stuff. And I know nothing really about it, but it is very fascinating. And there are people that have a lot of money that want to buy art. It's crazy. Just, yeah, I don't.

So we should get to painting. Well, I used to draw a lot as a kid, and I felt like I was really good. And now I try to draw stuff for my daughter because I haven't drawn in forever. And it goes away. It's just like anything. Practice. I mean, there's a certain talent probably for all these skills. To be a comedian, it helps if you're funny.

But obviously, practice and hard work is so important. I used to think singers. I used to always think either you're a great singer that you're born with or you can't sing. And then I would hear about these singers that have coaches and take lessons. And it's just like anything. There's a lot more to it. Right. right right what would you draw back in the day um i would draw a lot of just like cartoons like

comic book stuff yeah like peanut stuff and bugs bunny and i used to draw like the sunday uh like comics yeah i would draw the i would redraw those family circus yeah stuff like uh calvin and hobbs like snuffy uh what was that snuffy smith smith smith smith come on balmy google and snuffy smith yeah You don't remember those guys? No, I've never heard of these guys. It looks like the Monopoly guy and Omer Fudd. Oh, now that I see him. Snuffy Smith's the guy with the gun there.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. I do remember Barney Google. Yeah, I don't remember Barney Google. He wasn't in the, it was a Snuffy Smith comic strip in the paper. Oh, this is great. It's a big fat woman on a seesaw with a little baby,

and the big woman is saying push down hard, Tater. Yeah. It doesn't look like a baby It's like an old man I think that's their kid though That's his wife And that's snuffy back in the back there And that's their little kid

Looks like me Yeah A little bit Yeah So I used to draw those I'm just gonna go ahead and say that So everyone who comments I made a Snuffy Smith comic book

One time What you mean? You drew your own? Yeah no one bought it But I just drew it But like you wrote your own dialogue Yeah he was like an action Action

See that's the same way That people start stand up though They're like a comedian They start writing jokes like that comedian, and then they find their own voice. You know, people, like, draw the things that they like and they learn how to do that and they figure out their own angle. Yeah.

Yeah, this top right one, that was definitely like, I don't know that one, but that was definitely what you would see in the paper. Oh, this is great. Yeah. She says, little Tater still ain't talking, Doc. He says, maybe it's time to wean them off the bottle. She says, oh, I can't go through that again, Doc. Weaning Paul from the jug was bad enough.

That's good stuff. Yeah. So the alcoholic dad? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They all got problems. The story we all, yeah. Yeah, just in the Sunday funnies. The baby's name is Lil Tater.

I love the far side when I was, I don't know. Far side is so great, yeah. Yeah, and then there was peanuts, always peanuts in there, and, uh, um, Dillbert, The Menace, Dilbert. Dilbert. Dilbert was my favorite when I was working at, I used to work at Office Depot and I used to cut out the Dilbert comics and put it on the fridge. Remember the La Bamba movie?

His brother was, like, painting, or, no, his brother was trying to draw comic books, and he, like, got him to Disney or something. Oh, no. I've never heard of this. This is the Lomba movie? I know the movie, but I never watched the movie. Richie Valen's brother in it, like, his dream is to, like, draw, like, comics, and he does some really good ones, but then he, like, I forget, he, like, steals a car or something

and goes to jail or some, yeah. Didn't have a time to draw, then. He, like, murders somebody. Yeah. Uh, didn't Alex Vludo's dad? Does he draw comic books? I never heard that. That's awesome.

I think he does. Like Marvel. I think Chris Killian's making a comic book. Huh. Yeah. I got more connections in this world than I do. Well, I brought in some art. This is my daughter's.

She's three. This is her art. I guess my question, I don't know art, but how is this any different than what we just saw from? She's got great penmanship, first of all. Well, there's no layers. I mean, you know, a little bit of layers on this one. but we'd have to get a real art critic in here but yeah so we don't know for sure right well

here's the thing about what this is is it's like a Picasso but Picasso have you ever been there you have to have a membership yeah you know no organization and there it's a Costco would just stuff all over the place Picasso had some saying that was like you know you learn how to draw it takes you like you know 10 years and then it takes you the rest of your life to learn how to draw like a kid you know like to be able to get to that place of being that free because this really is beautiful i mean i'm looking at it and i'm thinking it's simple it's not overdone it's not trying hard you know i didn't know we were bringing in our kids painting so i would have brought in some of my daughter's drawings well you knew what the topic was yeah but you said if i had any art

well you can anyway if you ever want to contribute to the podcast you're welcome to but you didn't say well erin would probably just trash it though if i'm talking about it you're talking about it Yeah, you're probably right. Oh, I like this side. What are you talking about? What would I have made fun of? Your daughter's art? You think it'd make fun of your kids?

I think this is the critics pick here. Yeah, I'm sure the establishment loves that painting, but the people. She's using oil or what? Yeah, acrylic wool. Yeah, I don't know. We see part of what makes that beautiful and nice is you see it and you think about your daughter making it and everything that goes into it, right? And what it means to her, maybe what she's seeing in her head. as she makes it yeah but it would also i mean if you i would encourage you to take this and like

actually put it in a nice frame and put it up and it would people would walk by it and think that looks good you know because it really because the colors that she used in this are very complimentary and it's and then go you're looking to buy something you know any NBA players or former talk show host i'm just trying to sell more than six just kidding what uh the fire hider what story on that oh that was at a somebody they like had this leftover fire hydrant and they were like hey can you paint on it

and we'll sell it and then they sold it I don't know I don't know why and I put it up there just because I thought it was kind of it looked kind of cool but I mean all I did was just cover it and paint really it's yeah but it sold for I think I don't know how much it sold for like a grand or something

so I got some fire hydrants laying around do you really let me ask for this name that'd be weird every uh I looked up the greatest artist of all time. And it's the names that even I've heard of, which is not many. Da Vinci? What was that? Was that the number one? Yeah. It's not a consensus number one because art is subjective, it said, but Da Vinci's the name that kept coming up. Michelangelo, Van Gogh, you know, Picasso, who lived during my lifetime. I know. Who has a joke? Somebody has a joke

about that. Joe List has a great joke about it. Yeah. How are you like... As you think Picasso, you think he died in like the 1300 yeah he was he was he saw six super bowls wow that is great yeah he's drinking mountain dew yeah he was like driving a mercedes he died in 1973 wow in that wild there's a great uh documentary you can watch of him painting that's pretty cool i mean you see it and you're like wow that it's it was on the criterion channel but it's yeah it's beautiful it's really fun to watch but you know when you look at his paintings you just think it is so simplistic and beautiful and

yeah I remember seeing this because the joke about Picasso used to be like yeah dude it's like I don't know it's not realistic painting right but he has a lot of stuff that he could do that if he wanted to this is just his style yeah that he liked

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probably beat athletes from any other generation. Yeah, yeah. Actors are clearly better now than they were back, whatever. I don't know if that's true, but. Well, if you watch some really old, I'm talking about from the early days of film, I would, most, I would say, are better actors. About like early, early films where like, yeah. Yeah, it's still kind of like stage and theater acting a little bit,

where it hasn't really adjusted to the medium, I think. But my question is, the greatest painters of all time are all hundreds of years ago. is that what have we just never gotten as good as those guys I don't know I think it's it's art is just so much about value you know like people see like dollar signs and scarcity and death and so that means if someone's dead there's a limit on the amount of art you can get from them right there's new stuff that comes out when it's like oh these were sketchbooks you know like like it's it's funny like I went to the mocha in um in L.A.

What's the L.A.? The modern art museum. And, or I guess MoMA or whatever, modern, whatever, modern art museum. Went to a coffee shop. And there was a whole,

that's what it was. There was a whole section that was just sketchbooks from artists. And a lot of times that's like, you know, once you start going through, like, well, we've got all of Picasso's works, now we found some, like, napkins that he drew on, you know, or like,

little things that he did that are, like, really good actually and they're small and simple and different but yeah i mean there's this artist i'm following on instagram i can't his name's mark something and he's selling paintings for like and he just does like these western kind of you know things but like 400 000 and it's like that to me i don't feel like that's very common now oh really yeah i don't for like living artists i couldn't tell you a living artist these not that i follow banksie banksy is the only one i guess that I could tell you is the graffiti, a street artist. Someone, we don't know who it is, but.

My wife's cousin, which technically her uncle, but is like, he's our age. Yeah. So we just, you know, you think of them like a cousin more than an uncle. He does, he does murals and stuff, and he's a really good artist. We had a fun debate in the family over who is more blue collar. Who has a more blue collar job, me or him? What do you think? I would say you.

Yeah, you know, stand up. It's kind of a... We're out a lot of blue card. It's kind of a factory of ideas. Yeah. As dumb as that sound. Well, I don't know, though. I mean, this guy was he spent a lot of time painting.

He's like, I'm on a scaffolding with a hard hat. That's pretty blue collar. That's pretty blue collar. I've changed my answer. I haven't wore a hard hat in months. Yeah. That's got to be pretty fun to do something so big like that. Yeah, the big side of a big.

building and stuff when the guy he goes by 1.4 4.4.0 I wish I could remember. I want to see the uncanny, fantastic section. Uncanny, fantastic. It's just pictures of people looking at his art.

Check out. J.D. Deirdorf is his name. We got some of his paintings at our house. But the guy who did the mural of all the comics around this building. He was here for like months, right? Just living here and doing all these. And it was fun to watch because he'd start one out and you got, I can't even tell who that is. And then once you see the face start to take shape, it really is, it really is impressive to see

somebody who's good at this stuff, like just to see him do it. Like, it's, it's awesome. And the thing about it is that it's, you can learn how to draw a face. I mean, some people are really, really good at it, technical drawing. But in the end, how much do you want to see a photo realistic drawing of a face? How much do you want to see somebody's interpretation of it? you know like a character and then the value of that person's interpretation compared to you know so that that to me is it's the same thing in comedy it's like yeah we could tell a story the

same way the guy down the street can tell the story but then we can now spin it yeah it's always fun to me to see like a drawing of a face of a person like a famous person where you're like it's not like very good but it's also way better than what I could do of course so you're like able to criticize it but yet you still recognize the person so it's good enough like specifically there was a mural in the Oklahoma City Looney bin and I don't know if that picture would be anywhere but when you look at it you're like so many of these are bad but you can recognize them all. You can still figure it out.

The improv at one point had the worst mural up, and it was wild, and the Hollywood improv, and people were just like, I mean, you could barely tell who some of them were supposed to be, and they took it down, but I'm wondering if,

yeah, like this one right here. No, that was the old one. That one wasn't bad. That one, that one was like, you could kind of see and tell that one. Okay. This one when it was up. I don't know if I recognize any of these people right away.

No. And like Owen Benjamin was even on there. Okay. Interesting line. Is that Sandler right there? Looks like Jay Leno. I have no idea. Yeah.

Yeah. Do you worry? Nick, do you worry about AI and what it's doing to art? Or do you think people are always going to want real stuff? Like, what do you think about all this? because dude it's just like I can't even go on social media this weekend without seeing these videos that people are making and people can just go

make an art thing how do you think about all that with what you do I don't know I don't think about it much I mean have you guys tried it with jokes because I gave it a shot Brian is using his but I type in well you were looking at me

I don't know why I'm on this podcast Dusty just insults me the whole time Oh, come on. I took a, so I wrote a joke on a plane where I was like, it was just like a bad joke about waves. And so when I got off the plane, I was thinking somebody was talking about AI. So I typed into AI, my, the app or whatever, like write a joke in the style of Nick Thune about waves. And so I, like, I wanted to see what it wrote. And it was a worst joke.

It was a worst joke, even though it was a joke I barely wrote and didn't try very much. hard with. And it was a very obvious take on the joke. It was basically like what an audience member would say like, hey, did you ever think about doing this? And you're like, yeah, that's what I thought about not doing. Here's an idea. Yeah.

Do something with us. That's a good question. I think, I hope people always want human interaction. There's already machines now that could beat us in so many sports. Yeah. but you know there's machines that could shoot up hit a hole in one in golf yeah every time but you still want the human good and bad of it sure i think too you know AI is going to be its own art it is you know it's already becoming that and and part of the art of AI is knowing what to tell

it and that takes a special skill to know exactly how to explain something to this computer that doesn't have you know the same references as you i just say write me in a joke and style of someone one other than me. I was going to say Dusty Slave, but I was like, yeah. I think there's already, there's a growing, there's a backlash to AI now that I think is like, you'll get trashed if you, like, it's good. People will call you out and go, AI slop, get this off my feed, whatever. Well, when I first discovered, I could make a poster with AI, I go, oh, this is very easy.

It was awesome. But already I'm like, now I want to find a real person again. Yeah, because you can, you can tell. I think the problem is going to be, and, We're so close to, like, it will be indistinguishable from stuff. So, I don't know. I think about it a lot. I think it'll be a problem very soon.

Oh, yeah. With a lot of stuff. I don't like the, when they put a real person in a scene, you know, it's funny, but also it looks so real now that, you know. It'll become a tool. It's the same thing with text messaging. It's like, when, you know, when things start, people are like, so you're just going to text people now? Why don't you call them? It's like, well, there's going to be a time for texting and a time for calling.

There's going to be a time for this and a time for that. I remember trying to convince my dad to add texting to our cell phone plan. He could not wrap his head around. He's like, what? No, just call them. And now the family texts each other more than we call each other now. Yeah, it's funny how that changed. There's a museum of bad art called Moba.

And it's a privately owned museum. celebrates the labor of artists whose work wouldn't be appreciated in normal form. I mean, this looks pretty good. Yeah? Yeah, I'm into it. Portraits,

dopple hangers in the nude sports section. I'd say, I saw it was not great. I mean, some of this is, well, it's better I can. I mean, the thing is that it has to be of a certain good enough to be bad. Yeah.

Yeah. That's almost too good. That one right there. Well, that's kind of what I'm talking about. Like, when I say bad art, like, like this, this mural in... Did you hang that in your house, does you? Like, that, that looks bad. The mural in Oklahoma City, it had a Bill Cosby in the mix.

And it's like, it looked enough like Bill Cosby to go. That's Bill Cosby. But it looked so bad. Oh, yeah, like stuff like this. Like, yeah, that is bad. Yeah, that's pretty... But it's also. better than I could do.

That's not a bad painting. It's pretty, I don't know. The baby looks scary. It's not good, though. Yeah, that baby. That's Jesus. It may be trying to make it that, but I'm not going to say that's Jesus. That's not my Jesus.

It's supposed to be Jesus. So there's, oh, I think we maybe showed this last, the worst police sketches. This. Sorry. sorry the baby's good the mom oh i thought the baby looked horrible the baby's arm looks really bad well the mom doesn't look great yeah but she just had a baby so let's cut her some slack yeah so her hands should be messed up just gave birth yeah uh ooh eric got a email for oh sorry

worst police sketches that guy was arrested though they caught him no i don't think the sketch helped at all I didn't miss a goatee. That's true. And that, I mean, that guy, they gave him a full head of hair, too. That guy might be innocent. And the ears, I mean, it's not that guy's ears. I mean, come on.

But besides that, it's spot on. Yeah. Well, they caught him. He does have a round head, though. They got the shape of the head, right. Yep. Yeah. Yep.

He has a neck. That's true. And he is looking more up in the mother. than in the sketch. So maybe if he's looking more down, he looks more like this. Just like you. Yeah.

Can you show the other one? Yes, the other link. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen this one before. It looks. This seems fake. I mean, how do you do? No, I remember this was when this.

What do they say, though? Small eyes pretty close together. Long nose. Small mouth. that was the action yeah let's go back up to see the guy's actual face there though his mouth's not really that's a bit of an odd looking duck huh that doesn't even look like a mouth it looks like they just did the part under the mouth yeah yeah maybe they caught him before they finished this one they're still working i'm sorry do you have a hat like this

the hair is pretty good the eyes are so funny they're just dots for eyes yeah it just looks I say the eyes are the only thing that nailed it here. There's two of them. Yeah. And I imagine now this is another profession. This is a job that if there's a police sketch artist, you're losing your job. Right. Because AI?

Yeah. Just put a description in AI. Literally just type in and it will be, you can get like a 3D rendering of them. I have thought of that. Immediately. And what use is this? What about? Well, because while they're doing it, they're like, yeah, yeah, like that.

No, you know, like. Yeah, you can just change it. Yeah. what about like courtroom artist i think about that you know they don't a lot of these uh courtroom proceedings they don't allow photography yeah but they allow a guy to draw always that's always so funny to me that they do that but i love remember the tom brady one the tom brady one there's a trump one that was really funny i said the link to oh my fat man you teed me up nicely too yeah the tom brady sketch oh yeah it's almost like you

If you were too good of an artist, would they not let you do it? If it was too photorealistic? They really wanted to make it look like he was, you know, not having a good time. They're like he's not enjoying himself and his suits rolled. They achieved that, yeah. There was the... What was he in court for? Deflategate.

Oh, yeah. There was... It's crazy that went to an actual court. It's ridiculous. In 2012, an amateur art restorer. in her small village of Boros, Spain, turned her attention to a fresco of Jesus called, Behold the Man.

She fixed the renderings, rendered the face of Jesus painted in 1930, unrecognizable. But it is, it's benefited to them because tourists now can't get enough. Visors flock to the sanctuary of Mercy Church. Since the botched restoration, They buy souvenirs, different things of it. And it's led to a boom in tourism that's allowed restaurants and museums to thrive there. Visitors are charged one euro.

Did they even vet this lady? They're like, have you ever drawn anything? I don't know. There's a musical or an opera about it. Yeah, I think I should link to that too. So that's how big it's become. Gosh. Behold the man opera.

Inspired by a true. That's like Bean, the movie, didn't he, Mr. Bean? Didn't he try to redo the Mona Lisa or something? That's funny. I never seen that. What do you guys, what do you think of Bob Ross? I mean, he seemed like such a positive. I love watching it. He felt like he's a true artist in the sense like Van Gogh. He didn't get really popular until after his death. Yeah, I mean, he was popular enough to have a TV show. He was. But now he's like a legend. I've learned a lot. I've learned a lot. of stuff by watching his thing just by the way that he talks about like not letting your you know your base dry so that your colors mixed together better yeah start with a little liquid white yeah keep it wet so that they you know and just like you know this tree here it's going to be darker and bigger

and this and that you know like all those kind of descriptions are are pretty pretty good uh you know he was so good at teaching it i don't i didn't watch that documentary but it seemed like i don't even know there was one i liked his whole thing the show was called the joy of painting. So it was all about joy in the process. And he was never like, this is a great painting, even though I think a lot of them are awesome. It was never really about that.

It was about just like finding joy and doing it. Yeah, you just got to enjoy yourself in your life. I wonder what a Bob Ross goes for. Does people have? Yeah, you can buy actual Bob Ross paintings. Original? Yeah. They're pretty expensive.

I bet. Yeah. There was an Owen Wilson movie a couple years ago where he played a Bob Ross character. Here's one. There's one for looking at the range here from 32 grand to 850 grand. To contact for price. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I put on my website.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, let's get a little. Was the Owen Wilson movie good? I didn't see it. I never watched it either. I love Owen Wilson. I never watched Bob Ross. Do you ever see?

Dude, you would love it. man just put it on put it on just background yeah he's just so very relaxing yeah yeah and he'll he'll be like weirdly profound while he's doing something like there's this great clip of him where he's like you gotta put a little light in there you need a little bit a little dark

you need a little dark to balance out the light it's like life dark times light times and he looks at the camera and he goes I'm waiting on the good times right now and you're like jeez what is Bob Ross going through but it's like it's captivating yeah let's get into some conspiracy theories all right the Mona Lisa there's a ton about the

Mona Lisa some say it's a self portrait of Da Vinci self portrait of him yep that we know what da Vinci I mean okay I could see that Which one is a... Mona Lisa. Is a self-portrait of him? Yeah. That's a conspiracy. Nah.

With similarities between the painting and his self-portrait. So I guess he painted himself. Oh, so he's saying this is me if I were a woman. I mean, I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. I buy it. Italian art historian so-and-so claimed to have found letters and numbers and

numbers in the painting's eyes, which some interpret as clues to the model's identity, possibly his apprentice, Celia. However, the Louvre has stated that laboratory tests have found no such inscription and that it's just cracks due to age. And why is that painting so

significant? Does it no one knows? I don't know. Do we know who it is? There's a lot of dispute about who it is. I know, but what's the official story? That it's just some woman named Mona Lisa. I don't, yeah, I don't think, I don't think we know who. I mean, I don't even think he ever may be revealed what it was.

Okay. But I don't know for sure. I just know there's a lot of speculation on, I mean, if he said who it was, I don't know why people would be so quick to speculate. Mm-hmm. I just bought some Bob Ross DVDs. All right. It went hard.

Yeah, well, I want to see it. Some theories claimed that Michelangelo had. Images of the brain stem and spinal cord in his paintings is a way to mock the Catholic Church and suggest direct communication with God. And which paintings? All of them? I didn't say. Okay.

Trying to look for those. I think he'd say he hit him. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, he probably hit a lot of stuff. All right. Here's one, Dusty. The murals at the Denver airport.

Yeah. Subject of numerous conspiracy theories, including claims that they depict a new world order hidden to agenda. Yes. Yes. Yes. There's a lot about the Denver airport

people. Yeah. Yeah. The first reason why they say is because when the Denver airport was built,

there was already a well-functioning airport in Denver. So everybody was like, why are you building another airport? Yeah, and then yeah,

all these paintings, this guy's, you know, a soldier, he's gas. Beyond the airport being unnecessary. How would they have that?

And he's killing that dove. The airport was also completed two years behind schedule. And it has like a skyscraper's worth of basement in there. Weirdly due to many contractors being fired during construction and grossly over budget by the time it was finished, theorists say that they switched contractors so many times to make sure no one truly knew what was going on there. And then the blue horse out front nicknamed Blusifer killed the guy who built it. Is that right? Yeah.

It fell on him? Yeah. Really? That's what they saw. I knew. I looked at this up close at a while. It's pretty ridiculous looking.

Yeah. It's just hanging out there. With the red eyes? Mm-hmm. We mentioned briefly Banksy. There's some theories about who he is. I don't know people, they got a pretty good idea. Do they?

From what I read. Okay. You a Banksy fan? no no really care it seems like something you'd be on board with i mean sure it seems cool yeah yeah i don't like that i really like that kind of art really that much but i don't know what it is it's like you've never seen his he does these bannings nobody knows who he is and you know they're always like uh oh yeah they pop they pop up somewhere you know they're in in charleston on james island there used to be there was an old shopping center and behind it was this really cool

graffiti um and uh yeah this guy really great stuff back there it's just an old abandoned shopping center and then you just drive behind there and it's just like this really cool like you know spray paint art back there wow i used to drive back i used to take people there all the time they visited charleston that was like an attraction for me that's a cool thing people don't know about this yeah because it's just an abandoned shopping center and then you drive around behind it and this is going on back here.

Maybe I'll go out there and check that out this weekend. I'm at Witsen Comedy Club. I mean, it's been years ago. So who knows? And it'll be far from where Witt's End is at. I think Witts End's in North Charleston. It is in North Charleston. This is in James Island.

But go to James Island. Go to Folly Beach. Okay. I'll send you some places. I'd like that. Tell them we're friends. Dusty, what's your top five country songs about painting about art?

Well, I wish I'd have known. I would have put one together, but I got one. Paint me a Birmingham. Paint me a Birmingham, yeah. That's the only one I could think of. That's a good one. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. We've got to get out of here, right? Because you've got to go do sound check. So we want to pitch work. Oh, I'm sorry. You're leading the show. He'll be in Charleston this weekend.

I forgot that I was, I'd like you to do it. All right. This weekend, this is Brian Bates speaking. I will, I'm not anywhere this weekend. So, it's Brian Bates speaking. November 7th, I'm in Canada for the first time, Bloomington, Ontario, Lake Point Church.

And then November 12th through 16th, I'm in Plano, Texas, Waco, Texas, Tacoma, Washington for two days, and Portland, Oregon. Okay. On the easier-to-fly tour. All right. Okay. I've got dates that are on my website. I was going to look them up.

but it's like not until the new year. I'm like, I'm not doing a lot of touring until then. But Oklahoma, Kansas City, stuff like that. Okay. Charleston this weekend. I'm in New York next weekend. Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo for the first time ever. So Charleston and then upstate New York.

What about you, Dusty? I got four dates that I'd like to pitch. I'd like to hear about all four. This weekend, Friday, I'm in Wilmington, North Carolina. Saturday, I'm in Richmond, Virginia. I like that city. Yeah, that's good.

Tuesday, I'm going to be at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. And then, but it's a public gig. It's not a college gig. And then the next Saturday, Akron, Ohio. Oh, yeah. I was just in Cleveland. They were like, Dusty's coming. Yeah.

So come check those shows out. They're going to be great. I'm very funny. Come see our art. I won an award locally here in Nashville. some people say it's just just the newspaper of picking it but either way I got picked and so come see that come see that comedy live and if you haven't seen born young yet by the way there was when Nate won stand-up comic by the national scene there was a second

place and third place yes I don't know who those were but they weren't them but it wasn't you guys. So the way, what I'm my understanding is the way they do every award is they have the fan votes and then they have the critics pick. Yeah. So it's the same category. It's not two

different categories. Mine doesn't say but it just says that was the best and it doesn't say who picked it. It's a critics pick which is awesome. But they picked it. And well, when I

look at movie reviews, I go to the critics picks and over the fans. So do why. People are dumb out there, you know. Well, that's not my words, but... That's mine. If you pick Nate, you're stupid. This guy is that anything.

But anyway, born young. Born young on YouTube. It's done, Nate Land. Yep, yep. Go check it out. Born young. It's very funny. YouTube.com.

All right, Aaron. Oh, that's it. Everybody, God bless. Thank you for tuning. in tune in next week we love you none of this is lost on us have a good have a pleasant evening all right strong end Hey!