The Nateland Podcast - 278: #278 Neighborhoods

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

This week, Dusty is back after a three week hiatus, Brian is back from his trip abroad to Canada, and Aaron is just back (until he gets up and leaves). The guys discuss neighborhoods by sharing stories about terrible next door neighbors. debating who should be considered a neighbor, and trying to define what is a neighborhood. Factor: FactorMeals.com/nate50off Eat smarter at FactorMeals.com/nate50off and use code nate50off to get 50% off your fist box, plus free breakfast for 1 year. Helix: Helixsleep.com/nate Go to helixsleep.com/nate for the Black Friday sale: Best of the web and get 27% off sitewide. This is exclusive for listeners of the Nateland podcast.  This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Betterhelp.com/NATE This month, don’t wait to reach out. Whether you’re checking in on a friend, or reaching out to a therapist yourself, Betterhelp makes it easier to take the first step. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at Betterhelp/com/NATE.  Chime: Chime.com/NATE Work on your financial goals through Chime today. Open and account in 2 minutes at Chime.com/NATE. Chime. Feels like progress. 

Okay, hello, folks, and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. My name is Dusty Sly, and I'll be your main host today. And I'm here with my co-host, as always, Brian. breakfast baits. All right. And Aaron the grillmaster Weber. I'll take it. You know what I mean?

Breakfast and lunch here. I'm dinner. D for dinner. D for dinner. Yeah. That's very exciting. Yeah. So it's going to be a hot podcast.

We're excited to be here. I've been gone a little bit. I wanted everyone to think I quit because Aaron diminished my account. accomplishments. And so I wanted people to think that I had quit. Yeah, I kind of hate we did that little pre-recording before the Leanne episode. I know. Me and Brian actually had a private plan to make it seem, we were not going to mention, tried not to mention me being gone and just make it seem like I had slipped out. Mine was a hopeful plan. Yeah, I was, I didn't realize Brian really wanted me to quit. But a couple of the commenters were in on the scam, too. They go, they were like,

I bet they fired Dusty. Everybody's being phased out. Yeah, a lot of those, those were fun. You were sick, though. You were sick. I was sick. I was sick last week, yeah. And then one, one person said, Dusty is either going to get fired or leave on his own. And I go, well, that's really the only two options. I mean, I guess there's the option of staying, but you're like, there's three, things that could happen here, and I'm going to call two of them. Yeah. Well, the podcast could end, and that wouldn't really be either of those. Yeah, but, you know,

but then there's no one to call them out on that comment. Yeah. I got a DM the other day that said, hey, man, watching the podcast, I love the show. I'm rooting for you. You've got to step it up, dude. Oh, yeah. He said, I want you to be funny so bad. That's what the comments.

It's just kind of sweet. Cy, Nate Bargatzie. Yeah, because if he doesn't, if he's not, if he doesn't think you're being funny, what's he rooting for? Like, why is he, he's a nice guy. Yeah, okay, maybe that's it. I think he's like, you seem like a sweet person, but you got to get funny, dude. Step it up. Yeah.

I said, I appreciate it, man. I'm thinking about you. He's like, I don't care for Dusty, but at least he's funny. Yeah, exactly. Bring something to the table. Yeah. Well, that's too bad. Well, you were out because one week we taped off.

week one week we had yeah you had david arcad on and i knew it was going to be five people and i had been gone a lot and i am not into the scary movies i'm not into horror at all uh i did watch the first scary movie you know what i liked uh david arquette and he was in a movie with drew barrymore called never been kissed you ever see that one no no and he had a scene where he was like her brother and she was trying to go back to high school and like be cool but she was really getting picked on or whatever and he decided to go back to the same school to help her be cool oh yeah i remember that movie and he like is she's like you just can't walk right in and be cool and the next scene is him like finishing a big tub of coleslaw in the lunchroom as everybody cheers him on

1999 this movie came out and i did want to talk to him about that it was a great year for movies 1999 a lot happened this is a good movie i liked it i mean i'm Probably, it's probably a bit of a chick flick. And if I watched it now, I'd probably still like it, but I wouldn't admit it as much. But I liked it. So, yeah, so that happened. And it would be a lot of people and I needed to, I wanted to spend some time with my family. And then I, you filmed one on a weird day when I was on a corporate gig. And then last week I was sick. And it was, last week was hard because I had a sore throat. And my, my job is to talk. That's the one thing that can't be sore. Yeah. Well, you threw me off because you're like, hey, guys, I'm sick. I'm not going to make it. We're like, that's okay.

And then you're like, a couple hours later, hey, guys, I think I can make it. If y'all are cool with it. And we're like, yeah, we're all cool. And then I'm like, oh, okay, I'll put the dusty stuff back in. And then, sorry. Well, this is the thing. When I still have this, you know, a real blue collar work thing about me where even when I sold pesticides and I used to drink all the time, Yeah.

I still went to work. I would be hungover, but I still went to work. I'm not a call-in sick guy. I don't feel good about it. Yeah. I don't like, I did five shows in Washington one time sick. Each show, I felt a little worse than the last. Would you rather do a weekend of shows with a sore throat or with a broken foot?

A sore, a broken foot, I think. I never had a broken bone, so I don't know. You never broken a bone? No. Really? Yeah. Have you torn a muscle or anything? I don't think so. I've rolled an ankle. I've been shot with a BB gun in the chest. I've been punching the face a bunch. Your appendix burst. You've had some stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I've had broken bones. I've had both eyes swollen shut. From what? Being punched in the face. Okay. That's how I can. All right. You win somehow. That's how I can handle, you know, reading bad.

comments about myself because I have been punched in the face. Yeah. Several times. Would you rather be punched in the face or read bad comments about it? Well, I'd rather read bad comments. I don't tell you, I don't like being punched in the face, but it has happened. Do you think you're a better man now that you've been punched in the face? I think so.

Okay. I used to get punched in the face when I'd be drinking and I would get real mouthy. I got punched way less than I should. I got punched. Right, right. So every time I go, I had that coming. I never, I never. I never was like, I can't believe this.

How day? I go, no, no. You get punched. That should have happened yesterday. Finally. It was not a sucker punch. There was a lot of lead up to it. And I was egging it on.

Well, it's exciting to be back here, guys. It's good to see you. I got to dip out a little early today. I apologize in advance. But this is good. You about to be sick? I'm about to be. I feel sickness coming on.

Yeah. Now I got a corporate gig. I got a flat to California. If the flights survive, I don't know what's going on with all the flight situation right now. I check in. I don't know what's going on. And then I just go, I'll just go to the airport and see what happens, you know? I think you would know by now, right? I got an email from Southwest, not that it means it's going to hold up, but I got an email yesterday saying your flight on Wednesday is fine. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. That's good to know. But the thing about airlines is on Wednesday, they'll go, it's not fine now. What are you going to do about it?

Yeah, that can very well happen. Yeah, what are you going to do? Not go home? That's exactly right. I mean, they don't care. I'm sure some people that work at the airline do care. But the airline itself, they don't care. I think that.

And then the second somebody cares too much, it really annoys me. Oh, yeah. You know, the guy who's like doing jokes and stuff when people are boarding is like too into it. You're like, geez, dial it back a little bit. Southwest. worst about that. Yeah, we do a lot of that. Yeah, because I'm like, guys, I appreciate it. But at the same time, I wish you weren't doing announcements at all. I wish you could just put it on the screen. Yeah. They do so many. You guys get the airport early? Yeah, I'm chronically early.

I'm pretty early. I like to be the real early. There's no feeling worse than being in a rush at the airport or like having a run through the airport or just running in general. I don't. Yeah. Yeah. Or just moving. Yeah, there's no worse feeling than urgency. Yeah. I hate it. And Brian is a guy that I would expect to be there early. But when we flew to Atlanta together that time, I was like, I was there for so long. And Brian showed up like right at takeoff time. Take off. Super cool. Chill. He's ready to go. Not a worry in the world. Yeah, Nashville Airport. I do not get there early. I mean, I feel like I just got it down. Okay. But you got to account for, you know, things can happen, dude. That's true. So I don't get there right when you're walking on the plane, but I get there. See, I like to get to the airport.

I like to get a coffee. I like to sit down. People watch a little bit. People watch, answer some YouTube comments, drink my coffee, pee three or four times. Get on the plane. I like to go think about buying a book and then I don't. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I, hey, I'm not, I'm just, not going to look at my phone this flight and just like read a book maybe a little a little book of a sudoku puzzles yeah and then uh that doesn't happen i have three books in my back what are they uh well one is uh uh it's like uh i don't know this author that you always hear his name i forget it but it was well i have the bible is one and uh one is like on like Stephen king uh no no it's uh i forget his name. I mean, it's like a real

writerly guy. Old, he's dead. Real writerly. Is it fiction? But it's, yeah, it's like his drinking stories. But it's really well written. Tucker Max? Who are you? No, I'd have to look it up. And then I have a book on Christian

Orthodoxy. Oh. I've started reading. The catechism? Something. I've started to read a couple of them. And I like it. But it's easy to look at your phone. I'll tell you that. It is. Easy to look at your phone. The phone will get you. Yeah. You read the first half of the Bible.

Well, I've read all of the Bible, but it took a while. That's funny. Yeah. People get hung up that I only talk about the Old Testament, but I'm like, everybody else is talking about the new Testament. Trying to balance it out. Yeah. Come on, guys. Let's get with it. Fall always feels like a whole reset on life between back to school, busier routine, shorter days, finding time to cook. Well, that can be tough. That's why I love Factor. chef-prepped, dietitian-approved meals make it easy to stay on track and enjoy something comforting and delicious no matter how hectic the season gets. You can now choose from a wider selection

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well I don't know if you're listening I'm wearing a shirt that says Canada loves Brian Bates all right made that yourself no that's a good guess it's a good guess this was from you showed up to get it aware because I wanted my name to be right this is from Randy Drexler thank you Randy came to the show and brought this so I yeah my first time ever in Canada wow first time ever doing a show in any other country how to feel did you like it I dip my toe in the water. Yeah. So I was in Leamington.

I stayed in the town right next to it, Kingsville, which they say is the southernmost town in all of Canada. It's the most American Canada you can be in. I don't know if that's true. Not culturally, but locational. Geographically, they say it's on parallel with Northern California. But I'll say this, though. I think I'd almost got in my head because I flew into Detroit and just drove a short distance that it would be no different. Yeah, it's just, yeah, right.

down the road from that there was actually a little bit more differences than i anticipated oh yeah um well do you guys know what this is that's a poppy uh that's a flower pin well i guess technically you're both right but yes it's a poppy the lady comes in for the show and said everybody put put one of these on and i thought she was joking but she wasn't and we have veterans day here they have remembrance day and everyone wears poppies not everyone who are they remembering Veterans? World War I. Just World War I?

I think it may have, I don't know. I think it's just World War. Maybe it started during World War one, and they remember all, everyone who died in my own. But I'm not seeing everyone in Canada was wearing one of these, but more than anything in America, like I was flipping around the TV, all the news anchors were wearing one, people in the street were wearing them. And she put one on all of us. That's pretty nice. So that's something new. It's like getting laid when you go to Hawaii.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. you know what I mean sure you know what I mean yeah what else well like just

flipping around the TV and I'm like where is Sports Center I couldn't find ESP I don't think they had it but I finally found some alternative and Sports Center spelled C and TRE

oh yeah and even on my laptop because it could tell I was where I was at, my trending topics were spelled different. Like, favorite with a U. Yeah, color with a U in there. Yeah. And if you try to watch

YouTube, it'll be YouTube Canada and you might not be able to get the same things. Dot CA? Yeah. Right? And then like Netflix is like that to you. It'll be a different like they might not have the same things. So there are little subtle differences. Yeah. Do you hear any French out there? Did you hear it? Not where I

was at. Yeah. They teased I think, I don't know if they were, they said Canadians don't get sarcasm. I don't know that that's true. I think they were just saying that, but I won't think that's true. Sounds like they're being sarcastic. Yeah, I think you're right.

Canadians have, like, so many comics in the U.S., you know. But when I walked in, it was at a church, and the guy took me in who, and he had two. My wife's one of the most sarcastic people I've ever met. That's true. Okay, so it doesn't hold up. But anyway, there was two, they had two security guys for me from the church.

And I said to the guys like, we're going to need more security than this. Thinking obviously, he got it. I'm joking. I found out later that night, the one of security guys went to the pastor and said, he says we need more security. So they added a third guy. I had three security guys outside my door in the green room on each side of the stage. Was this armed security or are they just like, well, just men standing out there?

This is like, yeah. that's that's hilarious Brian Bates bit of a divan Yeah He's like three security guys I love that And then we went out to eat afterwards And they're like oh this is a nice restaurant

And they're like he's from Nashville And she's like really? And I said yeah I just drove here to try this place out And she goes really? And I'm like no So then I'm like maybe they don't get sarcasm What was the place? I don't think I got it just now

We were just talking about how the restaurant's not None of us had ever been there Okay, yeah. And then they're like, he's from Nashville. And I was like, I came here just to eat here. Drove up just for that restaurant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Classic dad joke.

Yeah, great. It is, though. It's a good dad to a server joke. Yeah, yeah. It's not a bad hand and I'm an empty plate and going, I hated it. Exactly. Exactly. Same thing.

Yeah. What was the restaurant? I don't remember the name of it, but it was just some. You know knows. Tim Hortons. No, it was some local place there. Okay. And to that town.

Yeah. It's not like some Canadian chain. Yeah. But anyway, I had a great time in Canada thanks to Matt who hired me. Thanks to Matt who came and opened for me. He drove five hours from Rochester, New York. Whoa. To do five minutes.

How about that? Wow. Yeah. That's the dedication right there. Mm-hmm. Did he go, he just went through Canada up here? You can just go straight west from Rochester. Chester and go, or did he go all the way down through Cleveland? Through Buffalo, man.

What? Through Buffalo? Through Buffalo. Yeah, yeah. But that was my first time to ever go across customs. I did get to the airport early coming back, because I had no idea how only it would take to get back. Yeah, it's a whole problem.

And you're just being kind of swept along in it, right? Yeah. You never know how long it's going to think. Well, welcome back stateside. Thank you. Pretty fun, eh? Sorry, guys. I'm Canadian now.

Yeah, it is fun. Well, I was in almost Canada this weekend. I was in Dayton, Ohio. Friday night at the Funny Bone and then Toledo, Ohio Saturday night at the Funny Bone and then I had to drive back I love those clubs by the way.

They are good clubs and the crowds were good and the Toledo shows sold out which is fun and then just good shows people are very nice people bought me brownies which I ate and then drove back out of gig here in town last night. It's been a busy

busy couple weeks. I feel like my head's not above water yet But it was very fun. Thank you to everybody who came out. I loved Ohio so much of coming back this weekend. All right. To Cincinnati. Okay.

So. Ohio has a lot of clubs. They do. They have a lot of cities. It's really great for comedy. It's the epicenter of America. That's what they say. They have a lot of funny bones.

They do have a lot of funny bones. A lot of funny people. What about you? I went to Elkhart, Indiana. Ooh. And I actually had two theater shows. Sold out shows. Basically, basically sold out. Chicago was sold out. I was Chicago on Saturday, Elkhart on Friday. Really great. Did you go to the RV Hall of Fame like I suggested? No, I didn't do anything. Okay. I don't really do anything when I go places. I should have did that. But by the time I had to, you know, I flew to from Nashville to Charlotte, from Charlotte to South Bend, rented a car, drove to Elkhard. It's like there's just not a lot of time left.

Maggie Hughes de Paolo, who's done a Nate Land showcase set that's on YouTube, open for me in both of those cities. She did great. She's super funny. She is super funny, great shows. I liked both of these cities a lot. And you know what? I'm always a little freaked out by Chicago.

But I walked around downtown, and I loved it. I was like, this trip really. What time of night was it? It was daytime. Okay. But it, I loved it. I walked around. Yeah, I criticized me just a couple of months ago.

Well, you were on public transportation, which still freaks me out in any city. But I... To the train to the White Sox game, right? Yes. Yeah. And I just said you were brave. That's all. I didn't criticize you.

I mean, I think that was a compliment. Yeah, that's true. But I walked around, I got some steak and eggs at a restaurant, and I thought Chicago was great. I mean, people yelled out. at me at my show the entire time. Yeah. They're pretty insane there about that, but they were yelling fun things. They were having

a good time. They were yelling, we're having a good time a lot. And your throat was sore, so you appreciated them helping out. Yeah. By Chicago, my throat was good. But Elkhart on Friday, my throat was sore through the show. In Chicago, I just

kept having to cough the whole time. I felt like I was fighting a cough. I hope this is the final stage of my sickness. I'm coughing everything up. It's disgusting, but I hope that is what's happened. You walk around Chicago just thinking, we're just all consumers out here. Yeah, I did. I just think that all the time. There was a line to get into, like people were waiting in line to get into the Lego store. And yeah, I mean, I'm not criticizing. You're like, Eric? Yeah. I'm not criticizing people, and I think some people took my tweet that way. I'm talking about myself, too. I order a lot of stuff off

Amazon and I'm always, but I'm just like, we're just out here buying stuff all the time. That's all we're doing. Just buying stuff, eating stuff. Check out the consumers podcast every Tuesday. Nate Land Network. Well, that's true. That's a good point. Which I was a guest on last week.

You were. You were there without Greg. Yeah. Yeah. First time Greg wasn't there. Really? Yeah. And you were there?

We got a call in the big gun. But I just want to say, thank you to both of those cities, Elkhart in Chicago. That was great. Yeah. Had a lot of fun. You know, it's like the last time two years ago I was at the same theater, the Vick, in Chicago and sold probably a third of the tickets that I sold this time. Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome.

Yeah. You see any Amish people out there on the way to Elkhart? I didn't see any. Yeah. They're out there, man. Yeah. They're slippery, though. Yeah.

You got to be looking for them. I see them in McMinville. Oh, okay. Yeah. You ever talk to him? Once in a while, I went to kind of the Amish community. Minuton Nights? No, Amish.

Straight up, Amish, yeah, full-blown. Well, I'm talking about McMinville. McMillville has Amish. Okay. Yeah, full-blown. Oh, you know, okay. Yeah. I like to keep an eye on what they do.

Yeah. All right. What you guys want to do? Let's do some comments. Let's get into it, man. Let's hear what the people have to say. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, hold on.

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Okay. Nathan Taylor, this is the one side that Dusty, this is the one side that Dusty should have been. Okay. I think he meant to say soed. Oh, you know what? You're right. This is the one sewed that Dusty should have been here. I think that must have, you didn't change that, did you?

It did say soed, and I see it down here again change the side. Somehow it. Okay. I think Abby must have did that. Maybe, you know, just spell out the whole word, you know, the person leaving this comment. Nathan Taylor. This is the one episode that Dusty should have been here for. First, it's about scams.

Dusty probably has lots of theories on scams. Second, Stephen was on the episode. I'd love to hear them discuss magic and tricks. Well, yeah, Nathan, good point. Because everything is a scam out here. Yeah. Everything, everywhere you turn. a long episode.

Yeah, everywhere you turn, everybody's trying to scam you, nickel and dime you, take something from you. That's the episode. Brian, just start naming stuff. I'll tell you if it's a scam or not. Name something. Especially magicians. Scam.

Magicians are the biggest scammers of all. But I think they're one of the few types of people who are pretty up front about it. Yes. That's true. You're coming to see a show. I'm going to perform. That is true. And we have done an episode together, me and Stephen, Mr. Bergotsie.

Mr. Bargazzi, yeah. But, well, I can call him Stephen if I want to. He prefers it. I called him Mr. Bargettsey at first, too. I don't think he likes it. And I like talking to him about stuff. We actually have a lot of similar views. I didn't watch the episode, but I read one comment where it seemed like somebody said,

you have a lot of views like Dusty, and he said, that's disappointing. He did say that he was joking. It was out of context because I was like, we've talked before and we do have a lot of the same views. Then he went ahead and said, we both think aliens are demons. Yes.

So there you go. I would say the only thing he's wrong about there is I would say I know they're demons. Right, right. And I think he knows it too. Dusty, do you, are you familiar with the Opelika tech scammer? No, I don't think so. We talked about it a little bit last week.

this guy rolls into town in Opelika and says he's a former Google executive and he tricked a lot of people investing money into some bogus thing almost two million dollars I think he came into a town like Opelika he thinks I can take advantage of these people I worked at Google yeah they're gonna they're not even gonna they can't even know what I'm talking about he gets money from him real dirtbag yeah what happened to him is he in prison mm-hmm yeah we got him good I'd like to know what prison I'd like to visit him I think he's in Texas I think I'd like to visit him. Hey, I'm from Opelika. You're up there. He's like, good. This guy, I'll trick him again.

Yeah, that would be funny, right? You end up giving him commissary. You're like, how did that? That guy is good, dude. Okay, John Marr. Josh. Yeah, okay. Of the two to get wrong. Josh Marr. You don't think it's Marr? Could be Moore. Could be Marr. I think he knows that we're talking to him right now. Yeah, Josh Marr.

Brian's such a kind-hearted guy. Oh, man, you don't know. I can see him talking to a scammer via text for a long time. They'll end up having to block him. Well, that is true. I've done that a few times. Yeah, I mean, I think that's the way to go. If they try to scam you, just keep talking to him.

Now, somebody said that shouldn't do that. Any back and forth with them, they can, get information from you. They at least know this is the right person. I saw somebody said they're literally just trying to get you to talk so that they can record your voice and use it for stuff. Wow. So it's like you shouldn't even talk to those people at all. Wow. I don't talk to you. I might have text it back and forth you're talking about for it. Yeah. Pictures. Like what are you up to? I started. Yeah. Yeah. How's your weekend? Do you follow up with them? I had a guy come to my house one time,

like a salesman, and he was like, I go, hey, listen, I'm not going to buy anything from you, but, you know, I'm not going to be rude to you. You know, I know it's hot out here. I get some water. We can talk if you want. And I got him some water, and he's a young guy. And me and him, we sat there and talked for a long time on the front porch. I was bored. I didn't have kids at the time. And we were just talking. And then at the end, he goes, to go into the sales pitch. And I go, hey, I'm not going to buy anything. And he was like so, like, offended. And I go, I told you this them against. Yeah. Okay, I'm lonely, but I don't need your stuff. Was this during COVID? Maybe. Yeah. I showed Brian this. This is, we're talking about these fake podcast invitations that you'll get emailed to. So I responded to one. This is about a month or so ago. This is a guy named Cole Mitchell sends me an email. He says, I'm the manager of Next Question with Katie Couric, a weekly podcast hosted by journalist and producer Katie Currick. This is a prepaid collaboration.

We'll give you a small thank you for your time. I know right away, this is not how Katie Kirk would, Katie Kirk does not want me on her podcast, right? So, you know, this is fake. So I responded, I said, my going rate for interviews like this are $30,000. And then he responds back. Thank you for your response.

Since this is a virtual appearance, the maximum budget we're able to offer is $4,000. So, I mean, he's gone up a thousand on me. He said, that works for you. We'd like to move forward, blah, blah, blah. I said, because I'm, such a giant fan of Katie Kirk. I'm willing to lower my appearance fee from 30k to 4K. Would you be willing to discuss a crypto payment? I do this. I'm just back and forth with this person.

Cole finally says, thank you for getting back to us. I believe there's been a misunderstanding. Katie Kirk's not involved with any cryptocurrency, blah, blah, blah. From your message, it sounds like you may not be genuinely interested in participating in the interview. And that's okay. We wish you the best in your career moving forward. So then I respond, rats, another golden opportunity. blown. I'm sorry I overplayed my hand here. Wow, what a miscalculation on my part. Sometimes I think I'm not cut out for this industry. Thank you so much for your generous offer, and I pray that our past will cross again soon, and this life are the next. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sunshine warm upon your face. The rains fall soft upon your fields, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand. Wow. I think about

coal side at this point. And then I'm not going to show you, I'm not going to show it. I'm not going to show it on the podcast, but I want you guys to just read what Cole Mitchell respond. I got a, I broke this guy. Whoever this guy is pretending to be Cole Mitchell, he had it, dude. He sent me, I'll say this, he, he rewrote the poem and made it a lot more aggressive and about my mom and about my wife. And then my manager is, who's on the email thread of all this.

He's like, I've never seen one of these guys break before. Wow. And then once they wrote that, you're like, well, clearly English is not this person's first language. This is a foreign guy pretending to do this. I would love it if right after this, Nate calls you, said, hey, I was just talking to Katie Kirk. And she really wants you on her podcast. What's the holdup? Wow.

I mean, this is. That's crazy, right? It's, I wish I could tell you guys what it says. It's pretty funny, but it is, it's wild. It's very filthy. Yes. But, wow. Yeah, usually they just move on.

They just move on. But something about that Irish, that Irish prayer really, this guy snapped, dude. Well, he's a demon. I mean, he might be. He sent a prayer as well. He might be, yeah. That'll do it. Oh, Cole, Mitchell.

Get it together, buddy. you should follow up there and go, well, I'll let Katie Couric know about that. I'm going to speak to your supervisor. Yeah. I'll just leave that up on the TV for a while. Okay. Rachel Woolston, this podcast works because of Aaron's laughter. Thanks, Aaron.

All right. Yeah. That's really nice, I think. I think so, too. You know, very nice. Not my comedy. Not your ability to bring laughter, but your ability to laugh. Well, y'all need somebody to bring it, too.

The podcast works in, like, if this were a comedy show, she's saying you're a good audience. You're like a good crowd that's sitting on the stage with the comics. Thank you, audience. I appreciate that, Rachel. No, she's being nice. She is being nice. And she's right. Rachel Woolston.

All right, Ryan Oglesby. Great name. Yeah, I got an Oglesby in my family. Really? Yeah. First name? Last name. Okay.

It's my, be my half-uncle, I think. He has, he's like, he has a different, like, his mom is my grandmother, but he has a different dad. Oh, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in the family. Yeah. Okay. He died, too. I'm glad you brought all this up

Yeah, okay There's a channel on YouTube called Scammer Payback I've seen him He calls scammers, tracks them down and pinpoints their exact locations He'll lock them out of their computers Send a virus and even permanently shut down their networks

He's done it enough that scammers know him by name And even have his live stream going during their calls Yeah, I've watched that guy he's incredible what do they what do you mean he has there they have his live stream going during their calls because he will do all this on a live stream and they know about him so just to make sure they're not being messed with by him they'll they'll be watching him oh yeah and then they would know that it's this is who they're dealing with wow that's pretty cool mm-hmm see bailey i follow people who fight against scams called scam baiters

The scam with the high want-to-go fishing is actually a long scam that takes a while. It's called the pig-butchering scam because they want the victim to be nice and fat, figuratively speaking, before they go in for the kill. We're looking for a sweet idiot to just take advantage of them. Are these two different scams? The high I want to go fishing and the pig-buttering? No, that's what they call. That's a type of a pig-butchering. scam. So they start a scam with high, want to go fishing? I got one. I showed a bunch of texts

I got last week from people that will send you a text question acting like they got the wrong number. Oh, yeah, yeah. And that was one of them I got, want to go fishing tomorrow or something like that. Oh, see, I got some of those a couple of times, too. And I just, I play around with them a little bit. Yeah. So even get them to a break like I did. Yeah. Pretty fun. Yeah. So you're nice and fat to these guys, right? Yeah. They, Yeah, they're right. So what do they do? They text you that and then you go, oh, I'm sorry, you got the wrong number.

And then they go, oh, oh, no worries. Yeah, the very first time I ever got one, I did reply like, hey, I'm sorry. I think you got the wrong number. And they're like, oh, so sorry to bother you. I'm like, no problem. But then they, like, followed up with something else like, I don't know, that's when I was like, why would you keep still be talking to me when you, I've already told you you got the wrong number?

Yeah. That's what I realized, and since then, I've gotten, they're like, we got a sucker here on the line. Oh, yeah. Just keep going. Yeah, see, I've gotten them like, they'll go like, hey, will Gene be coming with you to the party tonight? And I'll go, yep, see you at eight. You know, and then they go, oh, is this, is this Jim? Yes, Jim.

Yeah, that's me. Yeah. I will get some sometimes, like, on Facebook, and she'll be like, do we know each other? we keep coming up in our recommended friends or something like that, you know. And I was like, yeah, you were in my wedding, you know, stuff like that. So I kind of do the same thing. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I like that.

It's kind of fun. I think it's fun too. Even a scammer needs a little entertainment. Sure. You know, they deserve it. It's got to be a boring job. Yeah. How are you preparing for the cold season?

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A buddy of mine got a magic set on vacation in Gulf Shores. Where do y'all draw the line at magic? He can make it look like his hand ain't even connected to his body. It does sound like a buddy. Like it's floating. I can't handle it. But what's the line? Is there a line in your mind when it comes to magic?

Yeah, it was kind of fun last week, Dusty. Stephen called up some dark magic and he didn't do it. No, no, I'm joking. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine. Okay. I'm totally fine, guys.

I'm still sick, but I'm fine. No, I'm joking about that. But I'm sure the girl line's a little bit. My line is hurting somebody. Like, if you cause harm to somebody. Oh, yeah. I think he's asking how much before it freaks you out. Well, yeah.

I mean. I think that's what he's getting. I mean, I want to be freaked out. That's the point. I want to be amazed. Yeah. There was, I went to see a magic show. I talked about this in Vegas.

Oh, that limb, right? Yeah. And he was very good and, you know, but he had a guy like kind of hosting the show. And that guy would, at one time he had like a little voodoo doll. Yeah. And then he had a guy come set in the audience. And I'm sure it's all a scam and a joke. But I was not into that.

Yeah. I don't do any, I don't like any voodoo stuff. Sure. You got a little card trick or whatever. I'm into it. But you start being like, oh, a voodoo doll. I'm stabbing this guy. I don't like that.

Think of a number. Don't say that between 50 and 100. Okay. Where both digits are even. Okay. And they're not the same digit. Okay. 68.

No. Oh, dang. Very close, though. That'd have been pretty good. 62. Oh, okay. You went down. All right.

How about that? I started at 75. I could have been really great. I bet I got some people listening. I was at 75 when you said. when you said it. And then I thought, no, I don't want to be right in the middle. I got one more for you. Okay. Think of a number between one and 10. Okay. Multiply it by nine. This is the one I was about to do.

Oh, really? I couldn't remember. Go ahead. Multiply by nine in your head. Oh, geez. Okay. Hold on. You can play along at home, too, if you like. Okay. Give me a second. Think of a number between one and 10. Multiply it by nine. Well, I don't pick a low number. There's only 10 to choose from. I don't tell me. Don't tell me to pick a low one. But you seem like you're having trouble multiplying by nine. So I was trying to help you out. We were doing a magic trick. This is the last math part of it. We're doing a magic trick and then all of a sudden they're like, oh, how well can you do multiplication tables? And I'm like, well, now you know

it's a high number because otherwise it'd be easy to do. But let me do it. Okay. Okay, now take the square root of that. I'm just kidding. Okay. So you have, you multiply it by nine. Yeah. You have a new number. Yeah. Add the two digits together. Okay. From that number. Subtract five. Okay. Now, if A is one, B is two, C is three, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Figure out your letter now. If A is one, B is two, C is three, D is four, E is five, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, figure out your letter.

Okay. Okay. Now, think of a country in Europe that starts with that letter. Jeez. Probably pick the wrong person, dude. Are you playing, too? I know you know how it works. Yeah.

You got a country in Europe? I don't even know what countries are in Europe. Any country No Okay I'm looking for Europe I mean I I don't even know if countries

start with this letter I think something went wrong Yeah maybe my Multimagia was wrong Okay well think of Okay I got one Okay you got a country Now with the last letter of that country Think of an animal that starts with that letter

Okay Okay. Now, with the last letter of that animal, think of a color that starts with that letter. Okay. Okay. Orange kangaroos in Denmark? No. Something went wrong. What did you get? Yeah, I got gold, is the color.

I went gold, dog, England. What was your original number? I don't want to tell you the original number now because I... Some math went wrong. I feel like some math went wrong. That's okay. It's not that great of a trick anyway. It's almost more fun if you get it wrong.

You threw them off though because you said any country. And it has to be a country that starts with D. Right. But if he didn't know Denmark, I don't think he'd know Djibouti. Yeah, see, I had five. My number was five. Right. By the time I did the...

adding the two together. Yeah, and then subtract five. But I think I should have, I subtracted wrong. The trick in that is any number multiplied by nine always adds up to nine. I think I had 63. Okay. But then. So seven was your number.

But then somehow when I added it, it switched to 64. Oh, okay. And I got 10. Well, that'll do it. Yeah. That'll mess it up. Yeah, sorry about that. What a fun ride, though.

Yeah, that was fun. Because I was like, what country? in Europe and then I was like England but England I don't even know if that's really a country now is it it's they call it the UK yeah yeah I think it works be funny if you was your letter you're like wait hold on what happened Uruguay I was I think it works because Denmark is the obvious country you think of in Europe with D right or any country really the it's probably the first one you're going to think of kangaroos definitely you could say koala you could say koala multiply by 9 it always equals nine.

So that's the whole trick of it. Okay. D. McCleary. I think Nate is big enough now that you guys can get Oz on the podcast. I would love to see Nate and Dusty's reaction when he guesses Dusty's pen. Well, I went down,

I've been going out of a rabbit hole about that guy. He's incredible. I'd love to have Oz the mentalist on. I'd love to have that guy on. I don't want to be on. You wouldn't want to be around him? No. It's just magic. It's just like doing a card trick.

Stephen is about as far magic as I want to go. But he's not even that he's just, it's just like reading people. It's just like looking at you and I can kind of just get it. But some people, I don't know how he does it. People commented that it's also bogus. I mean, obviously it's bogus in the sense he's not really reading your mind. But they implied that he like, it's not even as impressive as. It looks pretty impressive.

It does look impressive. I get what you mean. And it's not me. saying that, but people are saying that once you learn how he does it, it's not even... I hope I'd never learn how he does it, because I enjoy watching this stuff. Yeah, I called him Dr. Oz last week. Did you really? I read that comment.

What is who, I don't know, I never heard of this guy. I know the Wizard of Oz and I know Dr. Oz. So Oz, the mentalist is his name. He'll go to like NFL teams and be like, you know, who's somebody from your childhood, and then he'd write it down before they say it. It's just like stuff like that. But he'll, the trick that he's been doing it, he went on Joe Rogan and, uh, guessed Joe Rogan's pin number.

Wow. And got it right. Wow. So he's just, he's just good at like reading people and, uh, and I'm sure there is some trickery, some lying. Yeah. But it's all for entertainment. That's where I draw the line, tavern. Intertainment.

Yeah. Dusty does not like to have fun. No. Okay. E-R-U-D. Erud. Erd. Erd.

The Bucky's bathroom debate was one of those times I wish Aaron was quicker to use Google to get an answer to something. Oh, geez. Buckies does not have free Wi-Fi as part of a larger company policy to maintain a safe and secure environment by preventing guests from parking for extended periods. I did not know that. That's incredible. I like that. Yeah. I like that a lot.

I miss this debate, but I like it too. Yeah, I mean, people would just park and hang and be out in their car playing online video games. Well, somebody wrote in and said that their conspiracy they can't prove is that Buckees, there's something about the stalls that will block your cell phone signal. Because anytime they've been in a stall and the Buckees, they can't get a signal. and they think that's by design so that people don't stay in there very well i love that because that's i mean when i go to the airport and i'm in the bathroom i do this all the time i did it i go i said to the guy standing there i go all of these are full you know in a way to let the people in the stall know

hey people are waiting out here you're just clear in your throat basically yeah yeah letting them know oh all all the stalls are being used right now the guy got very uncomfortable when i did it Oh, there's a gross man in every one of these stalls right now? All right. Good to know. I did kind of call out a guy for peeing on the seat. Really? Yeah, kind of.

I got, geez, peat all over the seat. And the guy still walking to the bathroom. Yeah, well, good. Yeah. It's embarrassing. Justin Short. Wife and I went on vacation recently and decided to test your theory on organic coffee. We bought a bag of whole bean coffee.

coffee and ground it up myself. Best coffee we've ever had. Thank you, Dusty. Yeah, it's the way to go. If you can buy organic whole bean coffee and then just get a grind. A grinder's like 20 bucks on Amazon.

Yeah. You keep it in the freezer. That's what I do. Twice daily. Yeah. Yeah, that's organic. Yeah, that's organic. I picked it up for me. Yeah. That's the way to go. That's gut rock coffee. That's what they call that. And then you, you, uh, You grind it up and then put it right in the coffee pot.

And, you know, you know, the hope is, who knows, but the hope is with organic, there's no pesticides, there's no other, you know, crap on it. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So that's the way to go. Good job, Justin. Good job doing that. Andy Babos. Babos. Brian's pronunciation of Dave Portnoy's name on the Connecticut episode reminds me of him.

in his pronunciation of poem. Please have Brian read this sentence. Portnoy poetically recited a poem. Portnoy poetically recited a poem. That's very good, yeah. I think if you hadn't to sit it right in front of me, I might have not been that close.

How did you say Dave Portnoy the first time? I think it was Portnay or... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we laughed about it. Yeah. Yeah, I remember thinking it was fun. Point noi.

Point no. Poem. Poem. Poem. Okay. That guy seems to be spiraling. I see him on the internet. I don't know.

Just stay portnoe? Yeah. Yeah. He's got a lot going on. Yeah. I mean, like he was like king of pizza and sports and he seems to be kind of spiraling. He was like fixing a fence or something on the beach and he couldn't do it. Oh, yeah.

Martha's Vineyard. Yeah. Tide 9920. Tide 9920. Okay, let me ask you a question. 9920. Let's say you're staying at an Airbnb for the weekend, and that's the code to get in the house.

How do you remember 9920? How would you do that in your head? I think I'd say 9920. 9920. And just say it enough. You wouldn't... 9920. You wouldn't do any kind of, like, naming.

I would go, Aaron Judge. to zero. No thing about it, because Aaron Judge's number 99. You never do that? I do, like, the code at my daughter's daycare is two people in my family's ages. Okay. So I do remember it that way. You think of it like that, yeah.

But if it's something... That won't work next year, though. You're right. And if it's something that's not obvious to me, then I just do like Dusty and just try to split it up and... 992. You just say it a few times. Nine-nine?

You try to say it in a funny way. 992-0. 99. And now it's, well, yeah, you don't want to, you don't want to say it wrong. Remember that I got the rate for president that once? Oh, 999. Remember what I'm talking about? No. Herman Kane, maybe? Oh, Herman Kane. Oh, yeah. 999. Oh, I love Herman Kane. Oh, I love Herman Kane. I'm going to follow up. I want to see if you remember that number in a few minutes. Okay. All right. Tide 9920. If the actual temperature is 35, but the wind chill is 32, then some would say the temperature is actually 32. The problem with doing that is that the laws of physics do not work that way. Just because the wind chill is 32 degrees, that does not mean that the water will freeze.

Water will only freeze when the actual temperature is 32 degrees. There you go. Oh, I see why you didn't put your real name on there. that's funny he's made a good point though he has it feels like yeah

he has appreciate that Todd 9920 Matt bud I like that name this bud's for you remember that

this is the greatest commercial is there this buds for you remember that song yeah and you and you and you I don't remember the song

this buds for you I mean I think that's been around forever so I know the saying is but there was song. There was a really great song. Go ahead, Dusty. If you had a Bank of America right next to another Bank of America, would you say there's two banks of America or two Bank of

Americas? I would say there are two Bank of America's. That's how I would say it, too, because I think the name of it is Bank of America. Yeah, I think so, too. Chances are I wouldn't say either of those things, but, um, but I, you know, I see what he's, the question he's posing. But I mean, why wouldn't you say it? Why would I need to, though? But in this, in this scenario, if, if there's two banks on those streets, what are they? I wouldn't answer. Yeah, but who's, who's asking what the two banks are? There's two banks there? What are the banks? This is like the folding the paper to the moon. It's just a, uh, yeah. It's like, what are the banks?

Well, it's, they're both Bank of America. That's what I would say. Okay, okay, okay. There's two banks here. They're both Bank of America. Oh, there you go. There's two banks of America. Oh, let's see.

That's, yeah. You just answered his question. I know, but I don't think I would ever do it that way. All right. And also, why would there be two Bank of Americas on the same street? I don't think they have to be on the same street. Side by side. died. I mean, I think he was,

or go ahead. Remember this song? Yes. No. Sounds like a 90s rock. It came out in 1999. Wow. This bud's for you, man. All right, this week. Oh, sorry. Back when the country was good. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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It's called The Neighborhood Guy Tour, Dusty Slay.com. Get in on it. I did move out of the neighborhood. but I'm still somewhat in it. Well, it's my first question. What makes a neighborhood a neighborhood? Well, I think, you know, the neighborhood I lived in, when you turn onto the street, the neighborhood has a name. I don't think it has to have an HOA, but I think that further solidifies that it's a neighborhood.

But when you turn in, it has, and then there's like an entrance in, and then you're in that neighborhood, and then there's one way out. there might maybe there's two ways out but you're you're pulling into the neighborhood or you're pulling out of the neighborhood yeah I think yours was definitely a neighborhood but I don't think you have to have all that for it to be a neighborhood especially one way in or out I think neighborhoods can't multiple ways out I just think the houses have to be grouped in an obvious way and then that's the neighborhood right but I think you can be in the suburbs yeah without being in a neighborhood because that's what I am now I'm in the suburbs still very close to a neighborhood,

but I'm, you know, I'm just on a street. So you're not even really the neighborhood guy anymore. No. You're the suburb guy. Yeah. But that doesn't sound as good. No.

And matter of fact, I just hate coming up with tour names. Yeah, me too. So I just... So the whole thing's a scam. I told you everything's a scam. Even me. Don't go see Dusty. He's a scam.

No, the show's great. Yeah, yeah, the show's great. Yeah. The show's not a scam. Yeah. You're getting your money. Matter of fact, the one scam there's not is, and I'm not going to say all of our shows. It's coming to see our shows, paying the money, seeing the show, because money well spent.

How much times do you do? I did about an hour, 25 each show. With a sore throat. Yeah. Wow. Gives the people what they want. Yeah, man. I'm into it.

I got a great pit bull joke now. I'm really into it. I don't want to talk about it. how long is it? I'm sorry I brought it up. Yeah, it's pretty long. It's a long bit. Yeah. Is it a story or is it just talking about? A little bit of everything. Oh, okay. Nice. Well, researchers have not agreed on an exact definition, but. Researchers. This is from Wikipedia. Well, that's what we speak. I'm trying to figure out what's a neighborhood or not.

All right, Nate. Neighborhood is generally defined spatially as specific geographic area and functional. as a set of social networks. Okay. Like if you share a school system or a fire department. That's right. Or a water tower, things like that. Maybe a church. A church.

There you go. Grocery store. Yep. See, I think... A couple banks of America. I think that is like a community. That's what I think of. A neighborhood is further broken down than that to me.

Yeah. I guess that is true. I live in Westmead. I'd say that's a community. That's a community. Yeah. So start at your family, build it all the way up to America. Give me all the layers.

You got your family. It's your wife and your kids. Yeah, your house. What's the next level? Your street. Your street. What's after that? Your neighborhood.

Your community. Okay. Your city. Okay. Nothing between community and city. I don't think so. District or anything you don't care about all that. I think district might be, well, depending on how big the city is.

Okay, okay. Because it's like, you know, if we're talking New York City, then you got boroughs. Oh, boroughs, right, right, right, right. But I don't think most cities are falling into that. You're going right to city and then. Because like community, like I'm in hermitage, but it's part of the city of Nashville. Right. So was Westmead? Yeah.

Mm-hmm. And then where's after that? It's county, state, country. You don't go, you don't, southeast? I guess you can still go region, yeah, region, yeah. Country, continent, world. Yeah. Universe.

Galaxy. Oh, yeah, galaxy. Solar system. You lose me there, but. Solar system, galaxy, universe, multiverse. Yeah, I mean, yeah. I stop at world. But, yeah.

Yeah. Um, so neighbor would be people in your neighborhood. Yeah. Um, you know, I would say even neighbor, though, if you're in the neighborhood, but you're not, you're on another street. It's not your neighbor. You're not necessarily my neighbor. Then what do you call that guy? Uh, I mean, you're in the neighbor. He lives in the neighborhood. But he's not my neighbor.

No, technically. Yeah, your neighbor's with Kevin, right? Nah, he lives in my neighborhood, but nah. That's what Jesus said. He said, your neighbor is either the guy that was on the left of you or the right of you, and that's it. He said, Jesus said, love thy people on your street. But you can't get biblical with it when, you know. I'm sorry getting biblical, you, Dusty.

Well, I mean, when, when, you know, because we even have a different definition of neighbor now, I think, than biblically speaking. I mean, when they were, people were trying to call Jesus out. They were like, well, who's my neighbor? And he said everybody. Yeah. And you've taken a different route. Well, I think in terms, I don't think Jesus was thinking neighborhood.

Probably not. Yeah, yeah. He's thinking about counties, probably. He's thinking of a school district. Yeah. You talk about the Good Samaritan. Oh, that's interesting. though when district because I don't know I think district and community could be the same okay

which one are you most proud I mean it's interesting it's like I feel like there's a lot of you have pride in your family right and you have you have pride on these different but I don't know if I have pride of like I don't have Mount Juliet pride and that's where I live but I'm proud of Tennessee yeah if you live there long enough and your kids went to school there you might start getting some yeah you get a kid goes to the high high school, you know, she plays on a team or is in band and you go to a, uh, a competition somewhere and you're like, well, the Mount Juliet Tigers and whatever they are. I was similar, because I used to work at a country club.

Oh. I worked at a country club in the Nashville area right out of high school and, um, or during college too. And I, and they would do these like events at the country club and they would talk about it. like it like they were like we're a proud like they're like we're a proud community and you're like well there's a country club that you're paid to be a part of but they had a sense of community in that I just thought that was interesting oh yeah I don't know if they should have or not but they seem to be having a good time yeah you've lived uh well not that many places have

you grew up in Alabama and then Alabama here and that's pretty much it besides college yeah Yeah. I grew up only here, so it probably makes it easier to have pride. Do you have more Lebanon pride or Nashville? When you meet people and they say, where are you from? You say Nashville? Yeah. You don't say Lebanon. If it's someone here, I say Lebanon. But if it's some other state, I say I'm from Nashville.

Okay. I would go the other way. I would say I'm from Lebanon. You know, Nate has always said Old Hickory. I always thought that was interesting. Yeah, but I mean Because I think that just sounds more interesting But he says old Hickre But if you were actually just talking to somebody And they go, where are you live in Tennessee? I think you would say to Nashville

Okay, yeah, that makes sense I mean, they're not going to know where Lebanon is And you've got to get in that whole conversation Yeah, and then you're going to have a chance to, you know, evangelize for your town I guess that's true. But if you asked me, where'd you grow up and said Lebanon? I wouldn't talk to you like that. I would never ask.

You'd ask me if there's two banks of America. How many banks of America did you have in Lebanon? Yeah. But yeah, I have pride in that. I have pride in, I try to in my alma mater, MTSU. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of tough these days in sports, but if they ever get good again, I'll... Have they been good in the past?

They've had moments. We had one of the biggest upsets ever in March Madness, like 10 years ago. Yeah. And a couple years ago, I guess more than a couple, we beat Miami and football when they were top 25. Right, right. Wow. But it's a few and far between. This is why I've always thought college sports made more sense to me than professional sports.

Part of it is growing up in Alabama where there are no professional sports. But I always thought you're an MTSU fan in 1980. Yeah. And you're a MTSU fan now. What has stayed the same about the record? I was not, I'm not that old. Okay. I was just named a random year.

Okay. I just wanted to make that clear. But I'm saying is like the institution, MTSU. U has persisted the entire time. Yeah. You're not rooting for that particular roster on the team. With a professional team, what does the 1980s Dallas Cowboys and the modern-day Dallas Cowboys have in common?

It's literally, it's the owner and there's like, none of those players are still on the team. It's not even the same stadium. So like, what is it, what is it that you're rooting for? If you're a fan of that team the whole time? Yeah, what is the fandom based in? Because there's no institution. that persists the entire time.

Does that make sense at all? There's nothing underneath it. Well, if you live in that city. Yeah. But it's just there in the city. It's not, is it, do you think of it as like the city's team? I think people do. But this is like the team, the official team of the city.

And so if I root for the tight, I live in Nashville. I will root for the team, Nashville's team, the Titans. I get that. program. But I think that that's, but, but, but like, what do, what's the city? For, for the Titans? But like, what, you mean rooting for the city? Like, the city's different. Like, what are you rooting? What are you rooting for? What's the thing underneath the team that you're rooting for? You're tax dollars, I guess. I don't know if I fully understand your question. You help and build that stadium right now. City pride and excitement that comes with a winning team. Yeah, it's like you're like, yeah, live in New Orleans. We just won the Super Bowl, you know?

So you think in college football in Notre Dame, you went there. So that's your pride. I mean, people in Kansas. If I read for a college team, I'm rooting for what's the thing that's consistent throughout the years? Those are teams for an institution, a college. People in Kansas City are pretty happy right now. I know that. And I'm not even, I haven't really even thought this out. I was just thinking about it. We're trying to help you think it out.

Okay, I appreciate it. Yeah. Might as well do it on air. We're brainstorming here. But I think that's it, though. I just think if you live, like, like you said about. Alabama, right? It's like, there's no pro team. So people really fall in love with the college teams there. But think about a guy, because there are people all over the country that

are fans of NFL teams in the city that don't live in, right? I'm just, I'm a chief's fan for life. And you're like, well, what, what is it that you're a fan of the uniform? That I don't understand. Yeah. Is it the uniforms that you like? I think it's that. Because that's the only thing. It's, it's nostalgia from when you were a child and you stick with them. Right? Like Jay Flake with Notre Dame Yeah I guess so

I don't know Like being a Cubs fan or something Because it was all Didn't he say that about Notre Dame Something like that Because it was always Yeah Like the Cubs were always on

Notre Dame was on NBC And the Cubs were on WG Yeah But now clearly he can get more than channels But he still sticks with them Yeah But like what the Cubs When he was growing up

None of those people Are still on that team Mm-hmm So he's still just rooting for What like the the front office of the Cubs? Like, what is he? But it's just like you just, you've now stuck with the team.

And it's not, I don't think people are thinking that deep on it. You're like, I've always been a Cubs fan, so I just keep cheering for the Cubs. Like, the Braves, for instance, the Braves in Alabama, that was our baseball team. And it's like, none of those players are the same. Bobby Cox has been gone for a long time. I'm a brave fan. Yeah. But there's not, like the 1995 team that won the World Series when I was a kid.

none of those people are still involved in the organization at all. But it's like you're like, and I don't, it's not like I'm a, I just love Atlanta. So I'll root for their team. So I guess I just like the uniforms. But it's,

it's like, you know, I don't feel the brains. But I can't tell you what it is. You act like it goes from that team to now. It's a general evolution. Yeah, like there's a player connected to that.

Every year there's like 10% turnover. Yeah. Yeah, I know. But, Come on. Greg Maddox is enough to make you pull for them for a lifetime. College guys leave after two seasons and then you can never. I know, but I'm saying underneath all of that, there's the university,

and the teams are a part of the university. So the university's still there. That's what you're rooting for. There's something underneath the team. My first NFL game, I went to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This was when. Raymond James Stadium. Yeah, I guess so.

This was when James Swenson, I think, was a quarterback there for a short time, and they were playing the Falcons. Both the side-splitters gave me the tickets because both teams were already out of playoff contentions. So there was nothing on this game. And I watched people standing off on the rails yelling at the game as if some, like anger in their face, as if something was resting on this game. Well, a lot was, clearly.

Yeah, and I'm, and I'm the same too. So people are like, they're dug in. I can't articulate what, what exactly it is that I'm rooting for or what my fandom is grounded in. I guess I don't quite understand, like, if you didn't go to Notre Dame and someone's rooting for Notre Dame, they're not rooting for the university. I think what you're trying to say is professional sports is ridiculous. And I, and I agree with you. And I agree with you. All right.

We can move on. don't even really know the point I'm making anymore, but I'm sure write in and tell me I'm an idiot. I agree with you, though. I mean, I think you're hitting on a broader point that I don't think you're ready to even hit on because I'm with you. Hopefully I stop. Now I feel like Steven. I go, I don't like that. Yeah, I don't know. I'm so geographically based for all the teams that I root for. Yeah, yeah. And I feel like it's just, it's excitement for, like I'm sorry to keep dwelling on this but I have a buddy who's a Titans fan

I'm a Titans fan we both play fantasy football I get more upset not now because the Titans are so bad but when they were good and it mattered I get more upset about them losing than I would about my fantasy football team losing his argument

he would get more upset about fantasy football because he's like that actually affects me we got money on this but to me it's much the Titans I it's much bigger and Brian's a predator He's been one all his life.

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And he would just leave stuff all over the yard. He decorated for Christmas and- And you care about that if the neighbor's house has a bunch of stuff in their yard? Yeah, it was right next to my house. And it's just like, geez, dude, it's like you're, you're dragging it down. You drag it down. We all care about our lawns. All our lawns look good, and you're like, you got tractor equipment laying all over the yard.

He decorated for Christmas, and it took him until June to take down the inflatable deer on the roof that was no longer inflated. It was just hanging off the side. This guy sounds awesome. Is he a nice guy? He was a nice guy. He fixed my air conditioner for free. This guy sounds like a hero. He's the best neighbor.

But I'm just, yeah, I mean. He can put the reindeer in my yard. I don't care. He fixes my AC. He had a diesel truck when he moved in, and he would just let it run in the driveway. Okay. And then he totaled it and got a new truck,

like a F2, a real jacked up truck. And then he totaled. Again, it seems like it'd be your best friend. And then he totaled it while he was in between insurances. So he totaled it so quick that he had that truck towed back to his house. Okay. And it sat in his driveway, missing a wheel for months while he slowly worked on it, and it was so destroyed, he did

get it fixed. He fixed it. All right. It was pretty amazing. Yeah, yeah. But it just couldn't keep it. But it took close to a year. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, the guy, it's just like, I don't know, when you live in a neighborhood, to me, there's this level of respect that you try to give your neighbors. Whatever you want to do in your backyard, that's your business. But the front yard it's like read the room match what everybody else is doing. Did you report him with HOA? I'm not going to say but um but I this potential that I did early on yeah because you know the HOA would come down on me for way less for way less and I'm like guys this guy's I mean he would have the he had a little tractor they do it ride around and the problem the main problem was our bedroom

was right near his front lawn. So he would be riding his tractor at night time, moving stuff around in the yard. A tractor in your neighborhood? The guy is a small tractor. Yeah, but the guy is so distinct

the characteristics he was doing. I was complaining about it on my personal podcast that we're having a good time podcast every week on YouTube that I put out. And I was complaining about him and someone emailed me, and they said, I think you have my old neighbor. Whoa.

The guy that emailed me builds porches. I needed a porch built. Me and him ended up becoming friends. He came over, saw the guy, and he's like, that is the guy. Oh, I think I met that guy. And he said, you're, he said, oh, I see his Halloween decorations. Get ready for the 40 foot Santa Claus at Christmas. He was right.

And it came. Whoa. Yeah. The guy was dressed as the grin. dressed as Santa Claus, putting at nighttime with a headlamp on, putting up Christmas decoration. Did he have a family? He did have a family.

He'd be weird if he didn't. It's part of why you don't like Christmas, huh? Yeah. He was married to a lady who had a kid from a previous marriage. He had two kids from two previous relationships. and then they had a kid together and then also her kid's sister that wasn't her kid would come over and yeah, I mean, they were, you know, they were all pretty insane people and I like them. It's like, I think I knew that is.

Just a lot to be around. Yeah, you need some land where you can just do this on your own. Yeah, I mean, and they were very nice people. They would give us stuff for our kids all the time. Like, as their kids outgrew it, they would give us. outgrew it they would give it to us they're very nice people yeah but well you got to be if you're that yeah if you're that but pretty insane yeah Aaron what's uh how how early's too early for christmas decorations and how late's too late to take them I think after well there's the 25 days of Christmas

I think I think you get started in December what are the 25 days of Christmas I don't know December 25th is Christmas I think you do 25 days too from December 1st I think you get it you can get in there after Thanksgiving that's when you throw it up though that hasn't stopped anybody I was at the Target this weekend. There's Christmas stuff everywhere. Oh, sure. It's been up forever. But, like, personal stuff at your house.

I do whatever you want, but I think it's weird if it's, you want to do it to where nobody goes, that's a little early, you know what I mean? So I think after Thanksgiving. I think it has to be after Thanksgiving. I'll tell you real quick, worst neighbor I had. I lived in Madison, a guy named Ralph. Oh, yeah. Who kept the dog chained up in his front yard 24-7, just short leash, like on a, it's almost

like a tether ball. thing he was chained up there yeah twice a week animal services would get called on him and he would convince them to let him so his dog was just out barked constantly you feel bad for the dog right well one day i live with a buddy he owned the house my buddy's at work he gets a phone call from ralph and ralph goes hey your wife is at the house right now she's she's uh she said you just got divorced and she's taking all her furniture out of the house and my buddy goes I'm not married he was like oh he goes I figured you weren't I just want to give you a shout there's a woman out here and he goes Ralph stop him and Ralph fought this meth out lady wow and prevented her from

stealing all the furniture so he's this guy who's abusing a dog but he also fought off a meth head in our house wow so he's like kind of a complicated hero. I used to have a joke about it where there was a dead, a dead raccoon in the middle of our street and it was there for like two weeks. Nobody did anything about it. I'm not going to pick it up. I figured the city comes by and they're not coming down our street.

And I was talking to Ralph and I go, you see that raccoon out there? And he goes, yeah, but it's not one of mine. It was that kind of guy. Wow. It was like, like I don't know he had raccoons back there or something. Bizarre guy. Had the lady actually broken into your house? She just broke in.

It was just stealing stuff. Wow. And then Ralph came over and was like, what are you doing? She goes, well, I'm his wife. I went to that house. It was pretty sketchy. It was real bad. Yeah.

Yeah. And actually, my buddy, his mom got sick and he went and lived with her for a while. And while he was there, there's about nine people squatting in that house. Wow. And the police had to raid through it and kick everybody. It was a bad neighborhood. Yeah. A lot of action.

Well, that's what. What you're saying about this guy is what I'm saying about my neighbor, right? He was a bit of a maniac. But when I, he worked, I knew he worked at an air conditioner repair place. And I went over to his house and I didn't have his number, but I rang his doorbell. And he, like, called me from the doorbell. And I go, my air conditioner's broken. I'm wondering if you'll just look at it for me.

And he goes, yeah, I'll be home in a second. And he came home, hot outside. He went over there. He takes the cover off the thing. he's pulling out wires, he's cutting, and he goes, you need a, you need a so-and-so thing. And I go, he goes, I can get one tomorrow. I go, well, what if I just go get it? And he goes, now you've got to be a licensed air conditioner to guy to buy one of these.

And I go, I go, okay. And I was like, I was thinking, this guy has just screwed up my air conditioner. Yeah, now you can't fix it until tomorrow. And then he goes, I may have one in the truck. And then he goes to the truck, gets one, comes out, hooks it up. and then my air conditioner's working. He won't accept any money. Wow.

And he's so sweaty. He was so sweaty from working so hard. And he just got off work. Wow. And he wouldn't accept any money. And this is a guy I reported to the HOA. And I felt bad about it. But at the same time, he would complain to me about the HOA in the yard sometimes.

Okay. And I would be like, I will complain about the HOA with anyone in this neighborhood. But when it comes to you, I agree with him. I wouldn't say these things, but that's what I would think. Well, now he knows. Give him a shout out. What's his name? I'm not going to say.

But he did get divorced, and that's why they moved out. It was a very sad ending to the... Oh, geez. I'm sorry. Yeah, it took a dark turn. I'm sorry about that. He came over and he goes... Well, I'm sorry.

I don't even know why I'm sorry. I got a head out, unfortunately. Well, I'll finish the story. He goes... What's that we want to spend our last? He goes... I go, he got brought something over like kids' clothes. And I go, how's it going?

He goes, not too good. Oh, man. And then he starts unloading on me cries a little bit. And we don't know each other. Did you get my hug? No. We don't know each other that well. Did you touch him on the shoulder or anything? I did stand and talk to him for a bit. No physical contact.

I don't think so. I think that got needed a hug, man. I may have. Yeah. But I was uncomfortable with it. Didn't you encourage him to move to Florida? I did. Oh, yeah. this is the guy. Yeah, I told him, I go, dude, I go, I go. When he was still married? Well, his wife left him, and he was worried that his wife wasn't going to let him see the kids.

I think his other girlfriends were already not letting him see those kids he had. And I was like, dude, you know how to fix air conditioners? I said, there's tons of air conditioners on in Florida. I was like, just get out of here. Go down to Florida. Leave your kids. Yeah, because your wife is going to make your life a living age. And I was like, just get down there. And just live on the beach, repair some air conditioners, live your life, man. Get a tan, dude. Yeah. What about his kids?

I'm just saying his wife is not going to make it easy for him to see those kids. It's better for him to go live his life when his kids are old enough. He can explain the situation and they can start a relationship then. Well, I want to say, for the record, Ralph did not have a family. All he had was that dog. Poor dog that's probably dead now. I got to head out. I got to go to the airport.

All right. I hope my flight is going to happen. I hope so, too. If not, I'll just come back and we'll finish the podcast. All right. Go Irish, dude. I'm going to be in Cincinnati, Ohio, this weekend at, or Dayton, Kentucky, technically, at Commonwealth Comedy Club.

So come see me. Early shows are sold out. So come to the late shows. Yeah. All right. Dusty, now that Aaron's leaving, you want to talk about Black Rock? Yeah. Yeah, I do, though.

I actually, I actually watched a whole thing on Black Rock and how they're taking over the country in the world, basically. Yeah. Now, I read, I was kind of joking, Searim, but now I read that it's actually, it's not Black Rock, it's Black Stone. Well, they're intertwined. They're both, both of those companies exist. Well, I know they both exist, but what I read online was it's Blackstone that's buying up all the house. houses. Yeah. I mean, they're, they're both doing. Bad stuff. Yeah, they're intertwined. Well, Black Rock, Blackstone, that is very similar. Yeah. I think they purposely want it that way.

It's a guy named James Corburt. He has a thing called The Corbett Report on YouTube. And he had a great video on Black Rock. What, um, I was going to ask you this, what's too early in the day or too late in the day to mow your grass or run a leaf blower? Well, I think, I think you got to go 10 a.m. For either? 10 a.m. Yeah. That's pretty late. I think so. During the week. All right. I don't know. I mean, it's like, 10 a.m.'s pretty late. You're right. But it's like, you know, especially on the weekends, on a Saturday, trying to sleep. People get up to crack a dawn. They start running. I think there's no good time to run a leaf blower. personally. But cutting your grass, you know, you've got to get it done before it gets hot. Yeah.

So you got to get people some leeway on that. Yeah, 10 a.m. That's pretty, that's pretty good. All right, 8 a.m. Yeah. That's when you can get started. And then, is there too late? I think in the summer, yeah, don't let it be dark.

But at dusk, I think that's okay. Well, it probably is okay. My neighbor had a lawn service that would come. they would always come right at dusk. It was like three or four guys. And in the summertime, that's 8 o'clock at night. Oh, yeah. And we're trying to get my daughter to bed,

and they're just running lawnmores and wheat eaters and all that. It's very loud and distracting. And I'm like, can you not come earlier? Yeah, if it's a lawn service, that's unacceptable. Yeah. If it's you doing it yourself, that may be the only time you have. Maybe. A lawn service, it's unacceptable.

They're just fitting in as many yards as they can. Yeah, you've got to go. got to say to those guys, hey, you got to come earlier. Yeah. Or I'm going to get a new service. Yeah. Let's talk about some TV shows about neighbors. There's really, there's so many.

It's hard to. Home improvement is probably the most. I didn't even think of home improvement. That's like the biggest one. I mean, every, maybe not the biggest one, but every episode involves Tim talking to his neighbor over the fence. Wilson, does his name? Yeah.

Something like that, yeah. I was going to ask, best TV shows. show neighbor. So that might be him. I mean, you know, because Tim would always go out and that he would have a problem and Wilson would help him solve his problem. So he may be the best neighbor. What else you got? Well, I mean, these aren't best as far as helpful necessarily. It's more like the characters. Ned Flanders from Simpsons. It's a great character. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know what you would think of him. I thought you might think it's, it's well, they're sure mocking Christianity, but Ned Flanders himself is a great guy. Yeah. Yeah. Two from Seinfeld,

Kramer, of course, and Newman. Yeah. Well, Kramer's, yeah, I mean, I guess, yeah, I guess it's hard to beat Kramer as the best neighbor of all time. Not literally the best. He'd be pretty annoying if he was your neighbor, but as far as a fun character. Yeah, it's an unrealistic neighbor, and it's only in a sarcastic TV show, would that even exist? Because Jerry would not put up with that in real life. I guess that's true. Yeah, that's definitely true. Now, it was based on a real guy, Kenny Kramer that I think was Larry David's neighbor, but clearly, yeah, Jerry would not tolerate all the stuff that Kramer does. Yeah. They definitely amped it up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Steve Urkel. Oh, yeah. You know, there's a great, there's a podcast I like called the Confused Breakfast

podcast, and they do a. Do I host it? Yeah. Yeah. That is funny. You should do the podcast. Yes. And they do a breakdown about the main guy, the dad of that. And it's a fan theory, how he's in like Die Hard and he's in a couple other movies. And it. Oh, yes. Have you seen that one? I think you shared it maybe. Yeah, maybe so. I have seen this. Yeah. And it's like. He was in Die Hard and he was in Family Matters. And was it one other? Crocodile Dundee. He was in. Yes. He was the limo driver. Yeah. But there's something else, too, I think. But basically, he got kicked off the, or he got, you know, I guess he had an accident at work and, you know, shot a kid, right? And that's why he was off the, he was pushing paper or whatever, as they call it. So basically, they say family, he's like locked away in a mental institution or something. And family matters is a world he created for himself, where it's just happiness and all. all of his families around him, but then the kid... Erkel? Yeah, scrapped back into his subconscious and annoys him now in this world he created for himself. Yeah, I forgot how the crocodile did he...

They fit that in somehow, too, didn't they? Huh. It's an interesting. It's fun. It's a fun fan theory. But Erkel was great. Yeah, you know, that whole TGI, TGIF? Yeah.

I was in college when... That was big. So most of those shows I didn't really get into it because I was a little too old for it. Oh, see, I was in high school, but still not driving yet. Yeah. When I started watching that. So, yeah, I would go watch step by step. Well, you were probably even younger than that, right?

Maybe so. The 90s? I mean, it depends on when. Well, I remember an era of step by step, family matters. Full house. Full house. Yeah. Gosh, those shows were great.

Probably all very dark stuff, though, going on. On those shows? I think so. Okay. Full house, for sure. I don't know. They always make jokes about it on these roast and stuff where it's like, I don't know. And then everybody.

Well, the girl, what's the oldest girl? DJ? Is that DJ? I never watched the show. DJ Tanner. I don't remember their names on the show, but. She was just a. John Chris podcast.

Yeah. Cameron Burke. Yeah. Something like that. Or something like that? Yeah. Yeah, she's sisters with Kurt Cameron. In real life?

Her last name's Cameron. Yeah. Candice Cameron. That's Kurt Cameron's sister? Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. All right.

So I know you don't celebrate Halloween, but when you lived in your old neighborhood, did kids trick or treat? Well, they would, but we turned our light off. but they were around yeah my neighborhood kids don't trick or treat okay i think it's just nowadays i think you go to certain neighborhoods and you live it up or you go to a church or somewhere like that yeah i mean i don't i didn't know what to do you know i don't necessarily want to be like the bah humbug guy of the neighborhood but i don't want to participate so i just did that turn the light off and um you know i have like one time in canada we were at at my

wife's, dad's house, and they were doing it. And so we, you know, we played along and we gave kids the candy. And it is fun to do. It is fun to do. I agree on Christmas decorations. I mean, traditionally, you're supposed to always, not that there's a right or wrong necessarily, wait until after Thanksgiving. But nowadays, I think as soon as people take their Halloween stuff down, they start putting the Christmas stuff up. I think sometimes people are, it makes people happy. Yeah. And they just can't wait to get it up. Yeah. It reminds them of some childhood, happiness, and they go, I've got to get this up.

And then they start watching the Christmas movies, all for nostalgia, all for feel good, because, you know, things are not the same. Yeah. But, you know, we could just make new happy things. But we got to keep living. I mean, I love Home Alone, you know, Christmas vacation. We just talked about Home Alone on the Consumers podcast. Yeah. Actually, he talked about TGIF as well.

And Sean O'Brien was talking about, and I agreed with him, the classic scene where he puts the after shave on and then screams. Yeah. I wasn't clear what was going on there because I thought you had to actually shave for your skin to be irritated for that to happen. So I'm like, he didn't shave. Did he not shave? I mean, he didn't have hair, but I think he did do the motion. Did he? I think so.

Yeah, maybe he did. They probably wouldn't have burned. Yeah, we were both like, is that supposed to be him pretending to be his dad? And then Tim was like, no, it was burning. You put it on, it's going to burn. Yeah, maybe he just never had it on at all. So maybe it just burned his skin. Maybe he was sensitive.

Maybe. Sensive little kid. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's a weird movie. I like it, but weird that, you know, you just leave your kid. More than once. Yeah.

Yeah. Did they make three? They made three, but McCulley Culkin wasn't in the third one. But was it the same parents? I don't know. I never watched it. I didn't either. I can barely even remember the second one, but it gets a little ridiculous that your parents,

I mean, at some time you've got to call DCS. Especially the second one, like, he went to like his abandoned, his uncle's abandoned house or something. And it's like, yeah, somebody's got to, you got to get on that. Yeah. If you leave your kids twice, yeah, you're in trouble. What do you think about the next door app? I'm into that sort of thing, but, you know, being a public figure, I don't like to necessarily have my name on that stuff. Yeah.

You know, I am into that sort of thing to, you know, put the feelers out. So do you have like an alias? I don't do it. I mean, I'm into it, but I don't participate. Well, about Hannah? I don't think she's into it Yeah But you would be if you weren't a public figure

Yeah I mean if I were just a regular dude Yeah I'd be all about that sort of stuff I'd be I'd be making yeah I'd be making jokes in it You know I'd be all about it What about a neighborhood watch

Thing? I like that too I like all of these things in principle Right I feel like we could probably do Neighborhood watch type stuff Instead of having police We could probably

you know, just do things on our own. Yeah. Instead of spending our tax money to have people tell us how to live our lives. Yeah, I mean, I read about Neighborhood Watch. It started in the 60s. People watched a crime happen. I forgot where. This woman got brutally attacked and everyone just watched.

Nobody did anything. And they're like, well, we got to keep this from where it happening again. So they started a Neighborhood Watch program. And then the Sheriff's Association got involved. Yeah. And, yeah, I feel like you need like, you know, for a good neighborhood, like you almost need like, like I lived in a house one time where it was like six people lived in the house. It was six roommates, six rooms. The rat house?

Yeah, the rat house. We all paid separate, you know, rent, but to one landlord. Yeah. But the landlord would have us meet any new tenant. If someone moved out and we got a new tenant, she would have us meet that person to decide. if we wanted them to live there. To decide if it was a good fit. Right.

And you almost feels like that's what should happen with neighborhoods. I know it's like probably, you know, it's never going to happen. Right. But that way you're like ensuring that the neighborhood itself is like because if you own property, it's like that's your property, but the property next to you, you don't own. But if you're all in that neighborhood together, it seems like you should almost have some control of who's moving in just to make sure it. because that's part of the problem with the old neighborhood I lived in is there

there were some rental houses and sometimes the people that move in are great but they leave after a year and you don't know who you're going to get and now you have no control so you kind of lose in the neighborhood but if you have a neighborhood watch right it's going to be more effective if you know all your neighbors and you're all you know like-minded yeah and I read HOA started originally because they were trying to keep certain people out of the neighborhood. And then, you know, eventually got to the point where, like, you can't do that just because of the race. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I would be more of a mindset, like, like, let's say this. I would love to have a neighborhood where we did more farming and

community gardening and we had chickens and things like that. So you have this neighborhood. And then the people that move in, it's like you'll be able to check with them. Are you into this? Yeah. Are you going to be complaining about it? this? Is this something you're going to want to participate in? Because if you have people that are like, yes, this is what I'm into, then you have this neighborhood community where you're all growing food for yourselves. And I mean, that's a great neighborhood. Yeah. As long as you know up front, that's what you're getting into. Exactly. Yeah. But when you have no control or no say, then, you know, the person that moves in goes, I don't like this. And the next thing you know,

your whole farming community's gone. I just remember two things, I wish Aaron was here. I wanted tell you both about this, two things that happened to me over the weekend as a parent. I want to get your take on it. So I take Eleanor to the park on Saturday, and first thing she wants to do is go to the swing, and, you know, she gets in the bucket swing. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, like the, yeah. Where you can't get in or out, you know, easily. And there's a little boy, when we get there, there's a little boy just sitting in the other swing next to her. I start pushing her and he asked me to push him. And I said, where, where's your mommy and daddy? And he just kind of like points the direction. And then he asked me to, again, to push him. So I do it. I start

pushing. I'm pushing both of them now. The mom does eventually show up. She's got two other kids she's dealing with. I think she was just overwhelmed. But then the kid, once we get out and start playing on the jungle gym or whatever, he wants to kind of hang out and play with us. And the mom never says a word. She just lets him. That's the first one. I wanted to see what you guys would have done in that situation. Well, I would say no to pushing him. Because it's dangerous. Yeah, you also don't know how the parent's going to react. That's what I mean. Yeah. You don't know how the parents are going to react or you don't know. Maybe the kid, you know, maybe you're pushing him and the chain breaks. And then he breaks a leg. Right. So I would have to say, I'm sorry, buddy. I'm not going to push you.

As far as hanging out, I don't know there's anything really you can do. That's kind of on the But I would, depending on how the kid was acting, if the kid was just fine and my daughter was fine with the hang, I don't think I'd be against it. But if it were like bothersome and then I would go, let's just go somewhere else. I think she actually liked it. It was fun. She wanted me to chase her and then he wanted me both get in on it. So I think she actually enjoyed it. But after a while, I was like, dude, I can't be watching you and my daughter. Right. Right. And that's the thing, too. I mean, if they're running around, he's like, chase me, chase me. And then he trips. And the mom's like, you were chasing him. Morgan and Morgan shows up. Yeah. So it's like, yeah, I mean, I don't, I mean, it's like even like having a family, like a gathering, a birthday party or something like that. It's like, you get nervous. You're like, I don't know. I almost want people to sign waivers to play in the backyard because.

Yeah, I came to your fazies and they all attack me with bubble guns. I could sue you. Yeah, I know. I may still. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then the other thing happened to me yesterday, I took her to Lowe's and I'm walking in holding her.

Yesterday was not as cold as today, but it was cold. It was in the 40s. She had her jacket on, short walk. And this old man's coming out as we're coming in. And he's coming right toward us. And I think he's going to be like, oh, look how cute she is. And he comes up to us and takes her hood and puts it on her head. And he says, it's cold out here.

and I was like, okay, thanks. And I got home and told Ruth, she's like, that's weird. Some stranger should not be touching your kid. He didn't touch her. He touched her hood. But what would you have done in that situation? I don't know. It depends on how it goes.

I mean, my instinct is to go, hey, dude, get away from us. Yeah. But. He was an old man. Yeah. I think he was just being nice. Just depends on. I mean, I know he was being nice.

It just depends on the situation. Yeah. But it is like, that is annoying. Yeah. It's like, don't worry about it. it okay because my my son doesn't want a hat on his head and don't yeah this whole idea of things being cold it's like you're gonna be fine walking from the car to the lows you're gonna be fine yeah but people these old people out here they act like oh you got a bundle get a bottle up

it's like take it easy yeah i'm in the car and you know have a jacket in the car case the car breaks down on the way home or something. But you're going to be fine. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, I don't know. I don't even believe that cold weather makes you sick. I think you're right. Yeah, I mean, people act like being cold makes you sick. I don't think that's the reality. I mean, that's what I always heard growing up, but I think, I don't think that's actually the case. I think you get more sick in the wintertime because you're indoors more. I think so. And germs get spread easier. Yeah. So get out there, do some grounding. Exactly. Breathe some air. I actually think I got sick and I kept like, because my body was fine, but I just had a sore throat. So I would still get outside and rake leaves and do things. And I think I kept breathing in leaf stuff. Are you trying to get your neighbor's leaves again?

I actually now have a bit of yard and I have quite a few trees. So I got a lot of my own leaves. But yeah, when I'm driving around, I'm still looking. And what do you do with them again? You compost them. You know, I got a couple compost bins so I can put the leaves, but I also try to put them over the garden areas because it helps protect the soil. And then they break down and turn into organic matter, which helps feed the soil. Because that's what the trees are doing. The trees, they grow all year they grow, and then they drop the leaves. And then when the leaves break down, it feeds the trees.

So you'd like to, the idea will be to not raise. break them all up. Right. But this is for your current yard. You don't take them to McMinnville. No, I might. Depending on if I could get a bunch, I might. I'd like to put them down in the swales.

Yeah. Yeah. Got a whole system. Try to build up a little topsoil down there. Right. Right. I just realized this is probably episode 280 or something. 278.

I think it's the first time we've ever had just two hosts on. That's how it should be. I think me and you do a great podcast. Yeah, it'd really just be me. but if I can't do that, glad to have you. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, this is how it should be. Yeah.

Table's too big for this kind of nonsense. Yeah, I agree. I don't agree. Aaron really, his laugh, we don't need that. I don't need it. No. No, in fact, that was my least favorite comment of this whole thing. Well, yeah.

Rachel Wollstone. I agree. Aaron's my least favorite member of the podcast. I've always said that. Yeah. No, I'm joking. We can't wrap. Oh, you're hosting, though.

I feel like you roped me into that. I wasn't joking. I wasn't either. Okay, good. You want to wrap it up? Yeah, well, this weekend I'm going to be in York, Pennsylvania, and in Tyson's, Virginia. I've been to Tyson's. Yeah, so I'll be there eating some chicken.

Where are you at in Tyson's? You know, I don't know. I'd have to pull it. It's a theater? Yeah. I'm pretty sure I did that theater with Leanne Morgan, and it is a very nice theater. Is it? Mm-hmm.

I got a new website I mean it's still the same logo but my calendar seems really out of whack here but capital one hall

is it yeah yeah it's very nice and then I'll be at the Appell Center for the Performing Arts in York Pennsylvania you've ever been there before I don't think so

I have to fly into Harrisburg which I have been to it's a comedy zone there in Harrisburg Yeah. Done that a few times. Nice. Well, I have a big week ahead. So Wednesday night, I'm in Plano, Texas at Mike Drop Comedy Club. All right. First time there. Thursday night, I have a show in Waco, Texas. And it's for the Community Cancer Association. It's a fundraiser, but they're selling tickets, so anybody can come to the show. Okay. There's a song called Wacko from Waco, and it's about Billy Joe Shoe. favor shooting a guy. Okay. Maybe I'll come up to that.

Yeah. You should. Yeah. Yeah. David Koresh. That was Waco, right? Oh, I guess so. Yeah.

And then Thursday, Friday, I'm at Tacoma Comedy Club in Tacoma, Washington. Oh, yeah. I love that club. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've been there before. I'm excited to go back.

Yeah. I think I'm going to see Christy Johnson. She's going to. Oh, yeah. With purpose. Yeah. Purpose. Yeah.

That's right. And then Sunday. So I'm doing four shows in Tacoma. but then Sunday I'm at Helium Comedy Club in Portland. Wow. I love that club too. Yeah. Yeah, I've been there. That's a big run. That is a big run.

Yeah. I call it my easier-to-fly tour. Yeah, I saw that poster. That's good. Yeah. So, please come to those shows. That's a lot of shows. I'd love to see a lot of folks at all of them. Yeah. Or anybody. Well, yeah, you're right. Yeah. They don't have to listen to this podcast to come.

Yeah. They're probably not going to hear me make the pitch if they aren't. That's true. That's a good point. Yeah. Anybody comes. I'm going to be appreciative. If you listen to this podcast, come to that show and bring a friend that doesn't listen to the podcast. Yeah, yeah, that'd be great. Thank you so much. All right, you want to wrap it up? Yeah, well, thank you guys for listening to the podcast. I'm happy to be back.

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