The Nateland Podcast - 281: #281 Mount Everest

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

Brian is out sick this week, so Nate, Aaron, and Dusty hold things down as they kick off with some wild bug-swatting, give updates from Nate’s big Vanderbilt weekend, and read your comments before diving into a light chat about Mount Everest. DeleteMe: joindeleteme.com/NATE Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to joindeleteme.com/NATE and use promo code NATE at checkout. Vuori: Vuori.com/nate Vuori is an investment in your happiness. For our listeners, they are offering 20% off your FIRST purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at vuori.com/nate. Helix: Helixsleep.com/nate Go to helixsleep.com/nate for the Cyber Monday Sale: Best of the web and get 27% off sitewide. This is exclusive for listeners of the Nateland podcast.  Aura Frames: https://on.auraframes.com/NATE Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/NATE.  Promo Code NATE

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Always die safely. Hello, folks, and hey, Bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Bargettze. Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. Okay. No, Brian Bates. Brian Bates is sick of everybody. And I, I, I,

I got that bug. Yeah. Did you catch it? Yeah, yeah. I think it's gone. It got the message. No, it's there. It's there.

You did get it in the air. I got it in the air. It was walking. I think it killed its flying. Clipped its wings. But then it was like it felt too aggressive to do that. Ralph Machiel in here. Yeah.

Yeah. So what a start. I mean, that was pretty good. We're laughing about it, but that was impressive to see. Yeah, yeah. to get it on camera. I'll swat at it 12 or 13 times before I get it. Depending on how high-deaf this is,

maybe they can slow that down and actually catch you catching the bug. They should be able to. Yeah. Yeah, so Bates is sick, and my voice sounds bad. I'm not sick, but I was at the Vanderbiltz. Aaron's weak and sick, so his voice is bad. And Dusty hasn't had a shot in 35 years.

I'm tip-top. He's tip-top. Exactly. Bill's great. He's not in the, what everybody gets. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you know. He does have measles. He's got measles. There they go. What would be an old-timey?

Polio. That would be very funny. My cousin had polio. Oh, really? Yeah. She was, you know, like my dad's age, but she had polio. It's in the family. Is it before? Yeah, that would be. We should have, that's what we should have done.

Every time you're out, we just give one of those that you're like, well, he's got polio. I think you should too. That's very funny. Mumps. Mumps. You got mumps. You can Photoshop a picture of me with mumps. I feel like the mumps are like the cousin of the chicken pox.

Yeah. Are they? The same family, yeah. Yeah? It's like yellow fever or something like that. That's where it starts from? No, I'm just saying old-timey diseases. But, I mean, are mumps are chicken pox?

I think it's like a. You could get the mumps, measles, and rubella shot back in the day. I think they made us get that at school. Mumps and chickenpox are not related diseases. Mumps is caused by the mumps virus, while chickenpox is caused by the Veracella Zoster virus. Well, agreed to disagree. So I think they're the same. I like that.

I think you've got mumps, you got chicken pox. I think mumps is actually pretty fun to have. It's caused by the mumps virus. Yeah. Whereas chicken pox is some other virus altogether. Yeah. How'd you get mumps? The mumps virus.

Yeah, yeah. I was exposed to it. What, yeah, what, it's, uh, mumps is the, a key symptom of mumps is swelling of the salivary glands. I may have that all the time. Yeah. Do you drool a lot? Do you have excess saliva you think?

Yeah. Could be hydrated. Do you really? Yeah, I do drool in my sleep sometimes. Oh, really? You know, guys don't wake up, a little, I mean, I sweat. I don't know if I even check.

I think you'd have to drool a ton to even... Well, you know, to be a problem. My beard's wet. I mean, I know, but I would think it would dry overnight. Yeah, you're in there for eight hours. Yeah, but it's coming out while you're... Yeah. I know, but it's coming out to the last second.

Maybe it's what wakes me out. It's the last minute. I get into a deep sleeve, and then the drool comes out, And then I go, oh, I had mumps in this little. You got a bablin creek coming out of your mouth. Yeah. It won't unleash. The mumps virus last night.

Take a, wake up, get a drink, and go back to bed. Yeah. Yeah. You got to keep it, you know, you got to keep it in. You got to stay hydrated. All right. I like it. So Bates got the mumps.

Bates would get the mumps over chicken pox. He would, yeah, he would have the mumps. Well, he's had shingles. I've had shingles. It's, you know, and that's a. a chicken pox-related virus. Probably from the Veracella's Oster virus. Yeah.

I think it all comes from the same place. But Bates is, I mean, Bates is, he's only missed this podcast once for being sick in five years. That was when he had a stroke. Yeah. Remember, he thought he had a stroke. He thought he had, yeah, yeah. So. But did he miss it just again recently?

Or he was late when you and Jay, my games. Yeah, came from the airport. He's about an hour late. But this is the first. This is the first, like, I'm straight. He texted us yesterday. I'm not going to be able to make it tomorrow. Yeah, yeah.

Bates is out cold somewhere. He's out cold because, I mean, this was a big, A, this podcast, and he was going to come with me to the Vanney Tennessee game. Oh, and he had to miss that. And he had to miss that. Oh, and that wasn't a good game or anything. Yeah. Oh, man.

And we had an experience. You were on the field, too. On the field. Oh, man. I mean. Brian's dream weekend. On the field, went to the locker room with the team afterwards. Clark, Coach Clark Lee brought me into the locker room with the staff first, and then I went in with all the players.

Oh, my gosh. And then, uh... Would Brian have gotten to go in if he were there? Yeah. Yeah, wow. Yeah. That's the word. Oh, man.

He would have been... Are you giving them updates while you're doing all this? Hey, buddy, here's what you're missing right now. Diego Pavia said, do you have anybody in their 50s that I can put on my shoulder? That's what he said to me. And I said, I don't. I go, a guy was supposed to come that is in his 50s. And he goes, well, I go, can I do it?

He goes, I need you to be in their 50s. He's like, I'm looking for an adopted dad. Yes, exactly. He said exactly that. He goes, do you have a worried man that I could put on my shoulders for one of my viral clips? And I go, a guy was coming, but he got the mumps. and he couldn't be here. No, in all seriousness.

Oh, poor Brian, man. Yeah, no, he's real sick. But that would be... I think he's sick. It's a normal sick. That would be an experience, though. It was, I'll make it up to him. We're in, in, in, uh, I'll make it up to him.

You've done enough. You've done enough. Yeah. Well, but I would give him, I, you know, as a long venue fan, I understand. This game snapped a 16 game losing streak against Tennessee. Is that right? I don't think 16. I thought it was 16.

I think it was 6. Maybe. I don't know. We were winning, because Tennessee's been through some bad years. When's the last time you won at Tennessee, though? Oh, that's it. Maybe that's it. Yeah, okay.

Because somebody heard that. I watched a little bit of the game at a bar in McMinville. Games unbelievable. They were sad. They were all Tennessee fans, and it was a sad bar. And not only beat them, but dominate them. The second half was. like tough to watch this vandy team is unbelievable yeah and i mean they're a truly truly

great team and it was uh unbelievable to watch uh i went down i went as funny as i went down there the wednesday before just like i haven't seen the new stadium and we were downtown and so we hit up uh some people over vandy and was like hey we're going to come through and so we saw like they were they were finishing practice and i saw and then next thing i know like Coach, she was like, hey, I want you to say something to the team. I was like, I'm not, I don't even know y'all are going to be out here. I was, like, coming to look at, like, the, you know, the sweets or the new. Say something to the team after or before?

Yeah, after. Okay, after's better at that. So, wise words. Yeah, yeah. That's what they say. And then so I had to just off the don't, like, so, you know, when you're having to say something, so you're just, like, you kind of zoned out in your head, like, I'm about that to have to give a speech. And so you're just like, all right, what if I say this? You know, you're just trying to, like, somebody have to do it.

It's like, hey, do you mind going to do two minutes? You're like, I wasn't planning on it. And then you're like, all right, I'll do this. But at least if you're doing 10 minutes, that's what you do. Yeah. And not a speech after a foot. Like, what do you, do you think it went well? You saw what happened.

You know what I mean? Oh, so this was before that. This was practice Wednesday. Oh, yeah. So that's harder, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But that was the little boost they needed. That was the boost. Do you get some laughs out of them? Not really. I gave up more, I mean, it was like, you know, more serious speech. But like, really, just thank him to tell him. Look, I mean, I've been to Vandy fan my whole life. They go, what that guy said?

And they were like, I don't know, I think he's sick. Yeah, you got to win. We got a win for him. He goes, he's sick. He was drool with him? I think he had the mumps. Yeah, I think I gave some good, you know, from overall, heard from, you know, they're like they thought it was a good, out of the team, but like

people that heard his speech were like, yeah, no, it was great. It all made sense. Like, it's all you want. When I get done, I go, did it make sense? Yeah, yeah. Because you're not just jabbering in being like one. You're not like that guy in the water boy locker road. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Farmer Fran. But it was, yeah, going to that game was unbelievable Diego Pavia should win the Heisman. I mean, I don't even know how you could argue against it. Honestly, honestly believe it, Notre Dame is infuriating. I mean, just infuriated. You're going to be the reason we don't get in. Well, there are a bunch of reasons. No, that's going to be the main. We're one of them, yeah.

No, you're the main. Auburn not beating Alabama in the end. That could have helped. It could help Notre Dame get in a conference and actually have to play some people, be nice. So then they could, you know, not get in the first playoff game and lose by 40. And Vandy should... I wish Notre Dame... I wish Vandy Notre Dame would play right now. Oh, I'd love it, dude. Oh, my gosh.

I would love it. I would love it. They should really do that when it comes down to it like that, where there is a thing. They should go, all right, we've got to do a little thing. Do a play-in game. They should do something. Well, Notre Dame's always in. They start as number one, and then...

I mean, they basically have to... It's theirs to lose. Oh, yeah. They have to have, like... They're like innocent until proven guilty, Yeah, it's crazy. It's, it's, and you know, you always kind of feel that now being where we're at right now. I mean, no offense, I'm, you know, I'm excited, good for you.

Like, but it's, uh, yeah, it's crazy. Notre Dame just, it's like Texas, like all of them. They just, they can't, this committee just can't open their mind to a new way of fake. So they're like, it's got to be the main ones that have been always there. Is Diego there next year? In Notre Dame was invented in 1645, and everybody can't move past that. Is Diego there next year? No, no.

So this is it. This is it. And, I mean, they should be in the playoffs. I think, could he come back? I mean, is he a millionaire now, you think, and he could just come back? I bet he's made. I bet he has. No, he can't.

He's done. I mean, I think they, like. Where's he been all this time? Well, he was in New Mexico State. Here's how unbelievable coach Clark Lee is. He went and found New Mexico State. New Mexico State is like the future, whatever they had there, it was like the future of college football. And he went and got it and pulled it out.

There's another kid, I think, that the star running back from maybe Tennessee or someone else that was also at New Mexico State. But Diego and a few of their players And then the coaches And one coach is going to retire From Mexico State I was like this great coach And Clark Lee was like Just come be an consultant

Just be around Like he was that good And they just brought all of them over there And so we have a coaching staff That is just unbelievable And it's they got them out of New Mexico State And it was just a brilliant, brilliant move So he ruined New Mexico State

For them I mean they were New Mexico City New Mexico State is about to get ruined anyway. But to go find them and bring all over. But, yeah, I mean, they had a great team. New Mexico's, they beat Auburn. So it's, you know. And, I mean, Diego, look, I'll tell you this story.

I talked to Diego last year. And we were just talking. And he said, this is after the season last year. And he goes, next year, like, we were just talking about. next season and he's like you know next year i'll be in the heisman race and he said that to me and i look i'm on board like i love when you believe in yourself that much but it was it was like at that moment it was like kind of crazy to hear right dude yeah you're like all right like i mean all right dude like you know it's like one of those i don't doubt them but you're like okay like uh you know

i like cocky athletes i'm into that i do like it wasn't even said cocky it was said cocky it was said matter of fact. Next year I'll be in the Heisman race, so then we'll be doing this and that. But that's what I mean, that's, that's, that's how much that says about that kid. Whatever you want to say, like, I get, Diego's what I've seen about him, very, very aware person, very aware. Like, I've watched him, and I can see him really notice. He's always kind of noticing people and noticing everything that's going around.

I think everything he does is kind of, it is the show. you are selling tickets, you are doing this thing, and that's what he is doing. But for him to say that, and then be in it right now that, like, whatever is, whatever is said, whatever happens that's out of the hands, he should win the Heisman, and he should be there, even 150% guaranteed should be there. I think he should win it. And I think most people do think he wins when you go look at it. But to see that now, like, you're rare to even get to meet someone that.

that can do that. That's not a normal thing to be able to meet someone that says that to you. And then they go do it. And then they deliver and go do it. You're just not going to be around. That's a rare person to even get to meet. And for him to do that at Vanderbilt, you know, it's not like he's, you know, this 6-11 quarter, like whatever, all this stuff. I mean, he's obviously his passing has got great. He's clearly worked to get better. It's just unbelievable. He was, he gave the game ball, our chancellor, Candace Lee, a great chancellor. One that I think people, you know, were worried that they were not going to be. She's turned. She's, I mean, she's unbelievable.

And, all right, not chancellor, athletic director. Yeah. So he gets drafted to the Titans then now, huh? They got to have the number one draft, right? But he gave her the game, but he, this is how great in the moment of, that they're all celebrating after the Tennessee games to be the game he's like the single season passing record or something vandy all this stuff he's done like crazy the game he had he had over 400 total yards of rushing bat like all this nuts and then he goes hey before we leave he goes

at the game ball and he gave it to candace leet and for him to even notice she wasn't she was in the locker room but it's also like kind of like right outside like it's a bunch of dudes just like kind of being crazy and for him to stop Stop everybody and see it and notice her and give her that. And that meant a lot to her. And it was like that's, I don't know, what everyone say about the guy, I didn't see no everybody else think like that. No one even thought to go, it wasn't like prompted.

It wasn't like, hey, don't forget to go do the blah, whatever. It was like he was thinking and appreciative of what I think everybody that has done for him for that team. And I know he has silver teeth. and that's frustrating. No, I'm joking. I like silver teeth, too. I like silver teeth, too. I always wanted to get a gold tooth, honestly.

And I like it. Yeah, I could see you. I like it. I think you could do it. I like it. I like the look. Yeah. I'm married now.

I can't do it, but I like the look. No, you could do it. Give it some time. Yeah. But I... When you come out of the woods and, like, it's someone that's trespassing... Yeah. And you shut up.

I have a little bullet for a tooth. Yeah. Yeah. That's it out. Yeah. You could be boys know where. you're at. Exactly.

Yeah. Exactly. But I like it. It's exciting. It's exciting. Very exciting. So, seriously, though, you think he gets drafted to the time? I mean, they have to have the worst record, right?

He won't. I mean, we're seeing. He's a great quarterback. I don't know if the size, like, he might not get drafted that high. But he'll get a chance to go somewhere. I think they got to do it, though. You just got it. If you got first pick and your Nashville, he's been winning in Nashville, you got

a ticket. You got to pick it. Yeah, they just draft. I have to the quarterback last year and, you know. How's that going, though? I understand, but it would be, it would be a bold statement to Diego Pavia. I think he should. First, it would.

I think they should. It would be talked about for many years. I think they should. Diego tell you, if he believes it, you know. That's what I'm saying. Let's do it. Yeah. I mean, obviously, whatever we got going on right now is not working out well.

Yeah. Well, I'm excited. You guys are going to dominate in the pinstripe bowl this year. Yeah, that's exactly what's going to happen. Notre Dame gets to walk. I mean, it's walking. You want 10 games in a road, dude. Nothing.

Who is going to do, Miami? Miami and A&M. Yeah. Two teams that are also in the playoffs, probably. Oh, and then you played, like, who? USC was ranked. What are you talking? Who else?

Yeah, USC. He played Wake Forest twice. Pitt was kidding. Oh, God. That's unbelievable. Twice. So what about, so what about Lane Kiff and drama?

See, I'm going to, I took this take that I think they should let him play the rest of the season for the team. Yeah. And I put it on X. Everybody's upset with me. I think they should let him, I'm not saying for him for the team. I get it I think it's more of a

you've got a NCAA college football problem they shouldn't even be allowed to be talking to these coaches I agree I agree it's crazy true and so like it's not even though Lane Kiffin's doing what he's doing

and you know yeah he's probably I don't know if he's handled everything great and whatever you got a college football problem and that's like most everything when every you anytime you want to blame an individual just always back away and go I bet it's not the individuals. But I think they should let him play.

I think they should let him play. Well, now they... Imagine you're playing on the team. I agree, but they don't want him. They put a vote up to the... The player said we don't want him? They don't want him. Oh, well, okay.

He knew that what they were going to let him do that. I think you say that to try to save face. Well, but what's crazy is... I don't care about him, but I'm just psyched. But what's crazy too is you want, what if you go, what if you're laying Kiffin, I would think, What if you just go, like, no, go find another coach then? Because they're not. They're going to sit and wait for him.

Like, they could say they're going to go look somewhere else. But, like, how do you not, like, have some back-in deal and go, I'll do it. But, like, you know, and it's a lot of money. No, we want to hear him say yes now and all this stuff. You're the one in the driver's seat. $100 million? $90 million. $15 million a year.

What was it? What were they going to give a moment? I think they were going to match it. Yeah, I see, here's my thing that I believe, and that's the only thing I could say that think he's mistake. It's old thinking. It's if college football is changing and the old guard is got a,

they're going to have an awaking. Yeah. If you look at LSU, Ole Miss is the better job right now. Yeah. Ole Miss is the better team right now. I like seeing Ole Miss be good. You can go, oh, Miss can be good.

If they're going to pay and they're going to match and they're going to do this stuff, you're stuck because you, in ways, and this is, I it's like the legacy of a lot of stuff is about to flip and I think you're seeing that in all industries Hollywood and this like it's flipping it's it's it's they're going to you see the Indiana and Vanderbilt's and all this and these kids that are going to start coming up are not like if you're like yeah well we or Alabama we have seven championships and blah

and whatever, and you're like, yeah, but, I mean, in 25 years, you're like, I don't know, Gonzaga, like in basketball, where you're, like, you're just going to have that with NIL because it's, it's kind of leveling it out to where it's like people can go spend the money. And now you start looking at the cities that you're going to go to. And then you really see it. So you could build something. If Lang Kiffin stayed at Ole Miss and built something, it's like they'll go have a statue. And now if he goes to LSU, it's like, I agree.

I agree with. all that. But I think just for this, I think they should let him stay and help them. Because Ole Miss never won a national championship, right? Not since the 60s. Yeah. It's your best season in 60. The only problem would be is

the university is being stuck in their ways and maybe not giving them everything that they need to go do it. But I don't know if I, you know, that's what they always tell you. Texas is the best job in the country and like all this. You're like, it just doesn't look at where they all end up. Like it doesn't matter.

Like, Texas ain't, like, none of it matters anymore. It just doesn't matter. And it can switch. And you're in a window that can switch because now you can't sit there and go, like, well, we've won seven championships when everybody's like, well, no one cares anymore. It's like, Ohio State's the one that's, I think, figured it. They're dangerous. And I think they figured out the most.

Because I think they have kept the old. where they've adapted to the news so well that that's just Ohio State's a problem. Yeah. And you're in, like, I feel like they've even, I mean, maybe I'm down here in the south or whatever, but it's kind of quiet. Like, it's not like just a bunch of up and down noise. And, you know, I know they wanted to fire him for the Michigan game last year, but it's, they've just, like, kind of like go, I went to their facilities.

And it's just like, they're nice, right? They're crazy. Yeah. And then they, and they're just, they're doing. doing the NIL stuff the right way. They're doing, they just kind of said, oh, all right, it's a new system. Okay. Let's just dominate that new system.

And I honestly think Ohio State's going to be, I mean, that's going to be, they're going to be dominant for a while. Yeah. Unfortunately, I think you're right. All right. I'm sure everybody loved that. I think it was hot. I think it was hot. I enjoyed it, too.

I think it was hot. It's labeled on the bottom. If it's called football talk, just skip it. Skip it. Get in on the lane, Kiff and do. debate, though. Yeah. Leave that separate.

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Thanksgiving, good Thanksgiving. Yeah, good Thanksgiving. Oh, I did the Tonight Show last week. Oh, that's right, yes. But I like this shirt you were wearing. Oh, did you? Was it like a suede something? Yeah, I got a, you know, I did a gig.

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Yeah. Good Thanksgiving. Great. Everything was great, you know. It's nice to sneak into tonight show when they're, like, you know like just like at the end holidays are coming up all this stuff just kind of sneak you didn't even tell us i just saw i saw i saw on instagram well oh well we i feel like there was something that happened where we were not we didn't do an episode that week it's just funny

to open up instagram like oh dusty's on the tonight show tonight yeah yeah that's crazy it was good it was fun had a great time yeah tim allen was on with him yeah i got to meet tim alvin he was he was great very nice yeah talked to him for a bit about his first time doing johnny carson very nice yeah that's the key when you talk to older guys i always do it too ask them about their late first late night yeah and it's like you know it's it's because they like talking about it and whatever then you get to hear and you want to hear the story anyway it's just an easy icebreaker then you kind of go hiring i see yeah and what a monster career i mean i think he's got toy story five coming out he's had three santa claus movies uh three sitcoms great

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What are you talking about? That's not it. Hold on, dude. I'm talking about in the theme song. I think he might do a little of both, to be honest. I think he, when he's talking in person. Oh. Yeah.

All right, I'll give you that. Okay, okay, yeah. I'll give you that. That makes sense. And in person, he goes, I would watch the whole show and not just the theme. I know you like to bail after the jangle. For six seconds.

But, yeah, three sitcoms, though. He's on his third one right now. That's crazy. Always crushing them. Yeah. All right, start it off. You guys comments, Joanna Richardson. Saw Nate in Charleston, West Virginia this past weekend.

Wowza. Wow. I was hoping for some of the breakfast club with him, but was still very excited to see his openers. Didn't think it was possible for them to be even funnier in the wild, but they all were so, so great. Thanks, Nate, for coming to West Virginia. Yeah, we had Julian, Nick Thune, Joe Zimmerman, Stephen Rogers.

That's a great lineup. Who's the breakfast club? Is that me and Dusty? I think it's like just, yeah. People from a podcast, I would say, yeah. The Breakfast Club. But there is already a, you know, a show called The Breakfast Club. Yeah, I was hoping Charlemagne the God would be there, but he wasn't.

And a movie. No. I think everybody got it, but you. No, I got it. I just, I've never been here. I've never been referred. Maybe Emilio Estabas would show up. Yeah.

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how the medication will improve the everyday life of someone diagnosed, but I like your story way more. Yeah. Look, I think, yeah, I'm sure it's a real thing. And people have it. Pretty commonplace now they're trying to say, though. Yeah, yeah. You never know who's just a schizophrenic out here now.

Yeah. There's levels of it. Just forget to take your medication and just, you know, I take, you know, sometimes I'll take a vitamin or an acid reflux pill and sometimes I forget and then I get heartburn all of a sudden you do that with schizophrenia medication what happens you're helling at the moon but if I see a pepto commercial I don't go ah they're normalizing heartburn well I do I do think that yeah he's consistent our body shouldn't be raging against us all the time I agree with that I think about that when you're eating and you're like you have heartburn you're like yeah

Yeah, I'm putting so much stuff. Your body's fighting back. Yeah. Oh, that's all it is. And we're going here. Be quiet, body. Take this. And it doesn't feel good.

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Yeah, Tom's got. Ryan McCollman. Nate's saying it's got a French accent in Ariel, referring Sebastian the crab having the Jamaican accent and the Little Mermaid. And then no one calling him out on it is the most nailing thing ever. Yeah, I mean, you know. I don't think we're all current on the Little Mermaid. Yeah, you're talking about the Kis Dago.

Yeah. Okay. I guess that's Jamaican. I've never thought that was Jamaican, though. I thought it was like a weird European guy. Yeah. Maybe I haven't heard it in a while. Yeah.

My, Sunrise Addict. Nate, I had such a tough day yesterday and put your video, some compilation, and my tears started streaming from laughing, so thank you. Thank you, Sunrise. Still crying, but now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, still addicted. Yeah. I like, back to the Little Mermaid, I do like that it's a Naitland thing that we don't know the Little Mermaid very well. I know it very well.

Classic Nailland. Because I was going to say, I was going to say, I was going to. to say if they were like oh so unlike nateland to not know every line from the little mermaid i could i could probably do every line because of abigail because that was her favorite movie oh so we watched it so i should have got it right i mean i don't know if i've been asked that question before but uh yeah we were we were big little mermaid people uh cam rom um It's like his own rom-com. Yeah.

Nate is not the only one that's seen a front yard pool. A house where I grew up in Florida had one. Of course, it wasn't as much of a pool as it was a 30-yard dumpster lined with a tarp and filled up with water. But to that hillbillies credit, he did have it set up with a pump and a filter system on it. Not sure I've seen a man with more confidence, just living life. floating around in his front yard dumpster pool. Wow. Well, you got to do what you got to do.

You got to do what you got to do. Those Florida summers, you know. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Why go in debt for a pool when you could just set up a dumpster with a tar?

You know, it can make an argument that it's, you know, it's like, well, you got your dumpster in the yard because you're renovating and everybody just thinks that's okay. It's like, well, mine's in there. Mine's actually useful. useful. Yeah. And as dumpster is really expensive? I mean, is it more expensive than a... What if he just had a dumpster?

Or what if he was renting it? You could rent it, and I bet you could stumble upon them pretty easy. Yeah. I bet if you know someone, I bet it's impossible to get a dumpster until you meet the one guy and then it becomes, brother, I can get you whatever dumpster you want. You know what I mean? Yeah. But it's like before you're like, you can't get...

No one can just get a dumpster. Yeah. And you meet one person. And he's like, everybody can get a dumpster. Yeah. That's how I think he works. I get you a dumpster right now. That's a dumpster guy.

Yeah. Derek Skinner, Derek with a C, that's crazy. T-E-R-E-C. D-E-C. Probably because the K's world. I don't know. The bathroom stall issue keeps coming. Had to stop at a Burger King on a road trip to use the restroom

shortly after entering a father with a young, rambunctious toddler, came in needing the stall. After checking quickly and finding the door locked, the toddler slid under the door, standing up, standing up to quickly find me sitting there. I said, hello, as he quickly crawled back out. Need to say we both didn't have it our way that day. I like that. It's a good joke. That's so funny that he made it to standing up.

Wow. Can you imagine? Yeah, where are you add on that going, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Yeah. He also. I'd probably put my foot out when I saw the kid. You know what I mean? You kick them out.

You have a big boy in that stall. The fact that you can have stuff squirt out of it, you got your, I mean, my goodness, you got to walk in. Sir, do you mind scooting your legs in? I'm trying to wash my hands at the sink. I mean, golly. How do you go get your foot out of the front of the stall? No, I'm saying if the kid comes in, I'll kick him on the head a little bit. I think you're, you got, you go.

No, my feet aren't hanging out the bottom of the stuff. I think you go in there and you see. sit and cross your legs like a recliner and lean back and you do a horse with no name and it's maybe one of the best days of your life and you hope a child walks in man man that's so

a burger king to use the bathroom that was desperation yeah it had to be nothing else on that extra well the fast food spots are good for it yeah I think so because it's because they're all drive through and no one's you know what the move is and they're not gonna A hotel is the way to go.

Hotel, man. Yeah. Yeah. Highly look in. Give a little breakfast, too, while you just go, I got to, where's my room? You go, where's the, you just walk with purpose and nobody will stop. Yeah, you go, good to see you. How are you?

Good morning. Yeah. Oh, cold out. Yeah. Do something like that. They don't care. They don't, yeah. They also, yeah, they don't care at all.

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But ultimately his problem was all the walking around the board. Wow. Oh, wow. Casey Lou, really taking shots at you. Taking shots. That's very funny. It is very funny. You can just spin the board, too.

That's not funny. Yeah, I think you'd get tired there, too. You probably got a lazy Susan, you know. You got them in his fridge and it's, you know. I got a lot of lazy Susan. I bet you let one side win quicker. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Oh. Yeah, yeah. It's hard. to, you start just really pulling for one side. Yeah. Like, do you think if you... The side with the recliner. The other side's a hard store.

Keeps winning. He's good, man. Chris Totten, if Mary gave birth to Jesus, then Jesus is the Lamb of God. Does that mean that Mary really did have a little lamb? Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. I didn't like where that was going for a minute.

but in the end it's yeah yeah yeah i guess i give it to you chris totten yeah yeah god forbid we honor mary for more than two seconds yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah she i think she's honored notre dame that's our lady yeah yeah i know she's in the playoffs every year that's what little holds you say jesus doesn't care about football but his mom does yeah oh really yeah yeah it's pretty good line uh Andrea diceher live in a small town in Southern Illinois, my parents let some balloons go at their 50th winning anniversary party. They had attached their names and phone number and reason for them. They ended up laying in Owensboro, Kentucky, and the couple called, and my parents went to meet

them and share a mill together. Love the pod guys. That's cool. Wow, Southern Illinois to Owensboro, Kentucky. I just did a gig in Owensboro, Kentucky. Yeah? You know, we used to do that. We would send out balloons like that.

Nobody ever called. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, that's nice that they called. That is fun. I always wanted that to happen. And then you want to meet them and share it. And go, can we borrow some money?

Yeah. You know, thanks for finding the balloon. Yeah. Clearly, you can see that we have no phone. Southern Illinois, though, depending on how southern, is it really? Yeah, I'm guessing if like Carbondale. That's pretty far, though. That's pretty far.

I mean, that's several towns over. Where's Evansville? Evansville's southwest corner of Indiana. Owensboro. Owensboro. Kentucky is a little further over. Which is like just, yeah, outside of Owensville. Owensboro's a nice city.

I did a corporate gig there not long ago. Yeah, that's great. So that's, I mean, that's far for a balloon to go. That's farther than I would thought. I thought we'd have a couple neighborhoods over. How big of a balloon? It must have been a sturdy one, dude. Yeah.

Some good helium in there. Not some weak healing Yeah Imagine That's some NASA healing The husband of that The wife found that balloon We're going to eat with who

You remember They found our balloon They found our balloon Why didn't send them a balloon Like he's mad I gotta go I ain't talking I'd like to know more about the meal

What'd you guys talk about? Did you go eat? Yeah. What do you think? Waffle House? That feels like a Cracker Beryl situation. It does feel like a cracker. Early?

Man. Yeah. Early? Yeah. 11 a.m. 3 p.m. dinner. Yeah. Let's get out of there.

What do you? Yeah. And you just go, what's your like? Yeah. And then you go, do you ever talk to them again? No. No. No, we didn't enjoy the dinner.

Didn't like them as people. I don't know why we did that. They wanted to go to Cracker Barrel at 9 p.m. I guess they knew. They knew it was a 50th wedding anniversary. So they're like, no, they're into it. They're 70 years old. Yeah, yeah, they ain't got nothing going on.

Yeah, yeah. And they just landed, yeah. Merry Night. Fun fact, from 1927 to 1932, the Macy's Day parade would let the blooms go at the end of the parade. And if you found one and turned it in, you got $100. Wow. I think that's, they should do that.

$100. in 1927. That's like 100 grand now. I don't know about that. How many balloons was it? We're talking about the big balloons? What kind of balloons are we talking about Mary Knight? What do you think $100 in 1927 is now?

I think it's like $2,000. $1,900. I mean, that's crazy. Yeah. I mean, wow. That was a lot. So I would be out there. hunting for those balloons yeah uh they track you down beat you up take it back yeah macy

darren west go what's your address we'll mail it to you yeah darren west macy's balloon could float 10 to 300 miles six to 10 hours if it somehow climbed much higher and caught a jet stream it could go thousands of miles real world real world constraints such as hitting a building or over inflation slash expansion could cause the fabric to rip or pop Aaron got results for the floats not the balloons fair enough fair enough I was thinking about the distinction there yeah appreciate that Darren Aaron and Darren I wonder how they Yeah, how big were the balloons in 1927, 19302?

That's probably when they had the good helium. What does that mean? He's been watered down now. With what? Oxygen. Yeah. They should let them go, man. Too much climate change, they said.

We should be doing more balloon stuff. You know the 1930s. I mean, so this is what they look like. That's a big old... They're bigger than you think. Yeah. If that thing popped up in your yard, though, you'd be terrified. Mickey Mouse is the size of a building.

That Mickey Mouse popped up in your yard. You'd be like, get in the house. Oh, dude. You think the world was ending back. I mean, yeah, I mean, what if it floated, you know, like West Virginia? They don't have, they don't know what's going on. They're not watching the Macy's Parade. Yeah.

They don't even have a television. Just like, they just go, it's happening. That Donald Duck is terrifying. sure it is man yeah look at that thing but it made it fun look at that building like it looks that's new york city that looks like here yeah like a like a two hours outside of tennis nashville yeah it's 1935 that picture is different world yeah pre-war dude yeah not not war in general but pre pre you know what a lot of hours you know what i'm talking about All right

All right But we want to talk about Something You know Nate used to have a joke We're talking about Mount Everest Yeah And Nate used to have a joke It's hard to segue from Donald Duck

I like you were like It felt like you were going to try to like Really set it up slow And then you go We're talking about Mount Everest But let me do my thing You just said At Donald Duck

It's like the size of Mount Everest Yeah What we're talking about today You'd die on the way To the time of that thing Yeah Nate, you used to have a joke about the guy that came in to talk to your job about climbing Mount Everest. Do you remember that joke?

Yeah, I liked it. It was a good joke. Yeah, I liked it. I don't remember what it's from. I tried to find it. It was, I don't remember where it was at either, what it was on. I feel like something pre-netflix. But, yeah.

I'd have been full-time magic. Yeah. But it was a guy who came in who, I don't know if you want to say your own joke. Yeah, a guy who came in as inspirational. speaker who had climbed Mount Everest. And he was like, what's your Mount Everest? What are you going to call? Like, what's your Mount Everest? And they was like, keep in mind, this guy's Mount Everest was Mount Everest. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's the joke. Yeah. So what could you possibly say to a guy who's Mount Everest is Mount Everest. Like how, as a regular person, how do you even take advice from this guy?

You can't relate to him at all. No. Now, would y'all ever do something? Have you ever climbed? to mountain, hiked a mountain or anything like that? I've hiked a mountain. Yeah, like in, we're over 10,000... What was it? You remember that mountain? Mass and Chase, he was in Montana. We were way up there, man.

There wasn't Banff? We went to Banff. Went to the top of that. But I mean, that's not Mount Everest. It's none of the, you know... But do we hike that mountain in Banff. Were you, well, let me ask, were you back home sleeping that night? No.

Okay, you camped out there on that? the matter. Oh, no, we were back. Back at the day trip. No, Banff is in Canada. I know, I know. Yeah, wherever you were staying. Yeah, well, the home really messed me up. Yeah, yeah. But it was the, uh, yeah. We were doing, I had a show that. Yeah. And, uh, we had one day off. And, uh, we drove out to Banff. And so it was the day after the show. It went, like, very funny. We were listening to this podcast, Chase and back to the car, driving the back of the car. or riding in the back of the car. And we listen to this, we're talking about bear attacks, bears and all this kind of crazy stuff. You know, and it's like we're in a big car. It's like, we're going to get car sick anyway just because it's a long drive.

And then I was like, yeah, I listen to this podcast about this bear that ate someone. And then I just started showing them the video. And Chase is already car sick. And then it just starts going, I mean, extremely graphic into this bear thing. And then we had a pull over for a second. But then we go hiking, so it's me, him, and Eric.

And it was, we, it was 12 hours. And I mean, dude, so Banff is obviously one of the prettiest places in the world. And so we go hiking all up in there is 12 hours. So they have a hotel there at the bottom. We weren't staying there, but we were going to, we met like Travis and whoever's, with us. We'll meet you when we walk in. And we walked in. And it was like we might as well have just been on the moon and came back. Because everybody's normal. And you've just been out for 12 hour. And you just, you feel so weird. Because you're like, it's, you like,

almost can't believe that people are, you're like, what are they doing? What conversations could they be happy? You've just been just on another. You feel superior to them in a way. What have y'all been doing down here back on Earth? It feels like you don't belong. It just feels you're like we shouldn't have come into a somewhat nicest restaurant. Like you're, it's just such a weird, it's like a weird thing. Real spiritual experience up there.

Yeah, yeah. I imagine skiing is like that where you get done skiing and then you go into like some restaurant and you're like, I was just on top of that mountain. Uh-huh. I think people skiing do feel better. than other people like they're better than other people yeah yeah you fell off a mountain one time how did you feel after that i didn't feel good i didn't fall off a mountain but i i slid down to a cliff pretty good bit though yeah i fell a pretty good junk and pulled myself up that was in kentucky

and you got real muddy i got real money and then you're walking by people like coming down the mountain and people are coming up and they're going oh you had a good time up there yeah i was so mad and you're like No, I almost died. Yeah, I had a pretty traumatic experience. Thanks, man. What do they got rides up there? Hope you and your daughter have a fun time out here. I almost died over there.

Well, I fell off a cliff and don't remember the whole day. You did? Yeah. You fell off a cliff? Yeah. You had a concussion? Old Hickory. Yeah.

Got a pretty big bit about it. Landed in the water. Got a big bit about it. Yeah. Got it landed in the water. Don't remember the whole day. If I landed face down, I would have drowned. Wow.

Yeah. You know, Hank Williams Jr. fell off a mountain, too, almost up. Oh, really? Yeah. You write a song about it? you uh let's go talk about erin's dumb story where he did not fall where were you at career wise like after that i was 12 so it all it all happened after the fall it all happened well

did you decide to become a comedian after he fell off the mountain no no no i'm not was 12 so it was uh but i do remember i always did great in school i got won all the awards in seventh grade like at like smart awards and all this stuff and then eighth grade and then eighth grade after I fell, I never won another award. In my school, I barely made it out of high school. Wow. And I bet something got knocked loose up there. So maybe that's why you feel that way coming down off the mountain after being there for 12 hours.

Somehow your body is going, your mind is going back to that place. Maybe, yeah. No, we just felt like weird and gross. Like you're just... But what if the rest of them were just going along with you? What if they were like, actually, we feel fine? No, Chase. You should have, Chase felt, you felt gross, right?

Yeah, we were like cave in. You come off and you just got dirt on your, you're a mess. Yeah. And you've been around nobody. And so you're just like, it's just been us three. And it's so, it's, it was such a long day. And then you come back and you're just like, and then, you know, and then you walk back in. It's like the normal, like Travis is just sitting there having a meal and it just, you're like,

It's, everything's normal again, and you're like, you're like, too. So it's six hours up, six hours back sort of thing? Well, we went up back, and then we went another way too. And so that's why it was, there is a, it's a crazy hike. They have a little tea. Yeah, I mean, that's an insane amount of time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've done some pretty big hikes on the road where we've, that was our longest.

The other one we did was in, uh, didn't you do that one where we, where we went to that top of the mountain, right? That one was great. That was, I don't remember where that, it was in Montana, and it was over 10,000 feet elevation. That's where Hank Williams Jr. fell off a mountain. Oh, yeah. In Montana?

Yeah. Yeah, the ours was, this one was, it was up, I mean, you're up there, and it was over 10,000 feet. There's, we have a, on, there's a, Ajax Mountain. There's a, we wrote a review on trails. All trails. All trails.

I wrote a review on all trails about us being up there because you would leave something up there. And we left the thing of football. Like we had like a little football or something for some reason. It left a bunch of trash up there. But that one was pretty intense too. We did not feel as crazy when we came back on that one. But that one was very intense. And we got, yeah, we got all the way up there.

And then it was, I mean, you're just up there, man. We hiked a bunch. Hiking is, it's awesome. It's really fun. It feels good to be all the way out there. All the way out there, Mount Everest is right between Nepal and China. It's actually owned jointly by both countries as it's right on the border. How do they own it? Well, they just, you know, the same way the U.S. owns, you know. I feel like if you own anything with China, China owns it.

Yeah, I would say so, too. Nepal's like, no, you ain't do it every one. Well, don't go to that stuff. But you can do it every once, it's our mountain. Nepal has the southern side. Hey, can I come play over here? Don't go play with it. But he goes, I thought you owned the mountain.

I'm saying I owned the mountain. Of course, I own the mountain, but just don't. That side's a different side. So you're only one side. No, we're the whole thing. We share it. We share that side is, I don't want to get into it. But that side's just a side, don't go on.

Go on the side. I'm on. This is one of the first jokes I remember hearing as a young kid. Do you know what the tallest mountain before Mount Everest? Before Mount Everest was discovered, you know what the tallest mountain was? No. There's still Mount Everest. They just had to discover.

Oh, that's funny. Yeah, as a young kid. It's a pretty good joke. And you got it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was 14. But I mean, that's a good joke, dude.

Were you younger than that? Yeah, I was way younger. It's just one of those trick jokes where it's like, oh, well, yeah. But I thought you were asking me what the tallest discovered was. To get it as a kid, yeah. I thought you were being serious. But now be serious. If a little kid told me that, Joe, I'd tell him to go home.

Yeah. Yeah, well, with your gold tooth. Yeah, I'd go, get out of here. Yeah. Mount Everest is. I do want a gold tooth. It is. Mount Everest.

I don't want the whole tooth gold. I want, like, a ring around it almost. Oh, you want, you want like a, just get a grill or something. I kind of want a grill. No, he wants just the one. I think he wants one that. Like a pirate. Yeah, you want, you want like a grill.

He wants someone to go, does that guy have a gold tooth? But not bring it up. But not bring it up. Yeah. Because they're too scared to talk to you? Or just like this? Not, I think that's too much. He's talking about around it.

Just the canine. Yeah. Just the gold on the king. Oh, okay. So not one of the front teeth. But not. So just like this, but just. These are all guys.

Like the canine on this one where it's just around it. Yeah. You see it? Wait, where? Right here. Where it's just around the table. Oh, okay. Yeah.

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Mount Everest is 5.5 miles high. It's about 29,000 feet. And as you know, that's the highest point from sea level. It's the highest point on Earth. But you know, that's not the tallest mountain. If you were to hike it, it's not the longest base to summer. It's actually, it's shorter than that. But it's just because it just starts higher up above sea level.

It's not technically the tallest mouth. What is the, what is? I have it on here somewhere. That is monaquia. That is the tallest from base to summit. But Mount Everest is the highest point. It gets colder up there. Above sea level.

Yeah. Yeah. So Mount Everest is the highest you can get on earth. Yeah, 29,000 feet. I mean, that's about the height of commercial airline flights. Yeah. Like, you ever think about. Look out the window of a plane and you're like, dude, the top of a mountain is up here.

That's pretty insane. So when people climb Mount Everest, are they at the peak? I mean, are they putting an arm around it, waving a flag? Yeah. Yeah. Or like there's another section that's up there. Then you go. Yeah.

No, I think they're at the peak. Yeah, you can see like that's the peak of it, right? They were looking at like a 3D map of it. I mean, it's not super sharp to a point. Like that. It's a little bit of a plateau at the top. But you can get all the way up there. The first people ever to do it, 1953, is Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing, Norgay.

It sounds like two guys that would do it. Hillary was from New Zealand. He was an explorer and just a rich guy, philanthropist. Tensing was a Sherpa. And neither of them, to this day, neither of them would say who stepped on the summit first. Oh, really? They didn't want to say. because they were like it's not important

we did this together it's an achievement for mankind it's not like a one particular person achievement at one point are they both dead yeah this was in 1953 they died and uh what's it well i just say if one died

would the other go actually it was me yeah what if you why won't you just go let's step on it together well that's what they claim they did okay so they so they would say Well, we did it together at the same time. Yeah, that's what they agreed to say.

But at one point, so Tenzing at one point said that Hillary took the first step. And then the media had this big hubbub about it. And they tried to, like, pull them apart and to make a big story about it. And they were like, nah, no, no, I retract that. I want to be friends with it. It became a big thing. You know, it's like who stepped on the moon first. So you're like, we want to make it a big deal about who was on there first.

Yeah. It's so funny that you can be second to the moon. and it's like you don't exist. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? You know the second guy, Buzz Aldrin. Yeah. Do you know the third?

There's a third guy just in the thing that didn't get to come out. Do you know that guy's name? No. Exactly. He wasn't allowed to get out of the day. Yeah, he had to stay in the thing. Why would they not, how do you not talk yourself and go, I'm going to get out? Yeah.

Who's going to stop me at this point? I mean, how would you not do that and go, why I am getting out? Yeah, we've come this far. Yeah. Yeah, I think somebody had to man the things. Like, somebody's going to keep the car. Yeah, you'd go, hey, Buzz, Neil. Yeah, jump back in here real quick.

Jump back in for a second. Let me touch the moon. Nope. You arrogant. I would get into a pretty big fight about it. Yeah. So they were up there. These two guys, first time, it's been about 15 minutes up there.

They took a photo. I got a picture right here, which is pretty cool. You got a picture. They left gifts up there like you did. This is Sir Edmund Hillary right here. I bet he did it first. Based on what? Well, I'd be based on him if he paid for it and did it.

Yeah. But I could see. So you get up there, you've got to climb back down. There's no, there's no, you're not hang gliding or zip lining back down. Oh, you just take the elevator down. Yeah. You got to go back down. I don't like that.

They spent 15 minutes of there. They left a gift. What did they leave? Hillary left a little cross given to him, and then Tenzing left chocolates at the summit as an offering. There were 400 people, an offering to the mountain. There was 400 people in this entire expedition. It was a huge deal to get up there. So these two people did it.

They got to fight on the way back down. Hey, you got those chocolates? I gave them to the mountain. No, I gave them to the mountain. You gave them to what? You gave them to what? I gave them, well, you had a cross, and I didn't think about, I didn't really think about leaving something up there. And all I had was these chocolates.

And he's like, I gave you that cross. And you left it up here? He goes, well, we could have ate them and just left a wrapper up there. Leave a ring. Leave a, you don't have a quarter? Yeah. My blood sugar is low after all this climbing. Put a nickel up there.

That would be a pretty cool story. Can anybody find the nickel? Buffalo nickel. The hardest part of the summit was a four. 40-foot rock face that is now called Hillary Step, named after Sir Edmund Hillary. It was like, well, that's who stepped on at first. When you got the... And that's a good point.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's like, well, I'll take credit for that. That step has now, basically, there was an earthquake in 2015, and that 40-foot rock face that was, like, completely vertical and really hard to climb, that got all, like, eroded, and now it's, like, pretty easy to get over. So now that's not worth it. Well, now it's like kind of, it's like thin.

It's a bottleneck where there'll be like a line. There's like a line waiting to get through. It's like funneling people. It's really, it's caused a bottleneck of people getting up there. Yeah. You have any idea how long it takes if you were to go? Let's say you wanted to go climb Everest. You do all the training.

How long does it take? To do 40 years. You're talking to me. Yeah. No, no. You're talking about like from your house. Like from today to get on. If you were to like, all right, I want to do it.

I'm in shape enough to do it. Let me call some company that does tours. How long the actual trip takes? I think six months. Takes about two months. It takes about two months. I thought you could knock it out in the weekend. It's all dumb.

Oh, no. Go out there Friday. I'll climb it Saturday. I bet it's six months is your... I bet it's a year. If you want to go do it... I would think more than two months. From the couch to the mountain?

Couch to mountain is got to be a year. Yeah. They should have that as one of those, you know, they do that couch to marathon. Yeah. Couch to Evers. Couch to 5K. Couch to Feverst. Couch to Everest.

I bet they go, that's five to ten years. It's usually, it's a three to five day arrival in Nepal. They check all your gear. It's an eight to 12 day trek to base camp. And then you have to acclimate for 30 to 35 days to just the altitude and the oxygen level and everything. And then the actual push up to the summit is four to eight days. And there's only like a certain two-week window where you can do this every year in May. Mm-hmm.

So it's the only time where the weather even allows you to do this. And it's like 24 hours. Like when you, I think it's 24 hours when you go when you're going to the peak. Like it's like four-day day, but then when you make the push to the peak and back down. Where there's something called the 8 hours. The 2PM rule. Yeah. That's like a critical safety guideline that requires.

climbers to turn back and begin coming back down by 2 p.m. So that last day, when you get up to the top, you have to leave at like midnight or like a little bit after midnight to get up there. Everything, you're at the mercy of the weather and everything when you're up there. So there's that little two-week window when you can. How many people have done this? Well, when in the 1950s, right after those first two guys did it, there was only, you know, like less than a hundred a year that would do it.

now close to $1,000 a year, go do this. And it costs anywhere from $35,000 to $100,000 to do it. So it's pretty cost prohibitive for most people. Yeah. I wonder if it's, yeah, I could see wanting to, like, there is, I have something in me that kind of wants to do it. You want to do, you want to do the equivalent, you want to be one of these two guys, though.

That is true. You want to be one of the first guys. to do it. Yeah. You don't want to be one of the idiots that's still doing it, right? I don't, I mean, it's like, I wouldn't mind trying to, like, maybe it's like if, maybe it'd be like, all right, I don't want to, like, I don't, I don't need to do Mount Everest, but like, I need to go accomplish something like, like this.

A physical feat. A physical feat that you can go. Like, wow, I did that. I got over some, you know, whatever that is. And then to see if you go, yeah, I want to do this other, other thing. Because I think that in career stuff you can have where you think you want to do something, and then you kind of get maybe even past it or near it, and then you're like, I don't know if I really want to do that.

Because you would have thought years ago, you would have thought headlining Madison Square Garden is the Mount Everest of your career, right? Yeah, that would be it. And then you climbed it three times in one weekend. Yes. So you're like, well, what's my next? Let's say this. You're on Everest, right? You go, I've needed to do this physical thing.

and then you're up there, and now your leg is frostbitten, and you go, I'm probably going to die up here. Yeah. And you'd think, did I really need to do this? Well, that's where you've got to be... That's what I think about. But, I mean, that's where I think it's got to be in you. Because then when you do die up there, you are like,

yo, this is what I wanted. But your last little bit, you go, I couldn't do it. This is in me to do it, but I couldn't do it. I think the last thought you have is I died trying. and maybe that's the achievement. And failed. Yeah. I saw an interview with, remember the...

Why when you get to heaven? God goes, why'd you go to Mount Everest? Yeah, you had a pretty good life. Yeah. I gave you everything you needed. Yeah, why did you need it? Because, you know, there's two mountains over. You would have made it.

Yeah, yeah. Fine. Yeah, nobody in your life was even that impressed. Maybe try the smaller one first. I've met some of the Climb Mount Everest. Did they talk about it a lot? I asked them, well, it was like, it was in the fashion of, you know what, it was like very random. It wasn't, it was, it was more random than it did because I could be in situations where someone, you're with someone that's climbing out of every, like if you're at a speaking thing or something.

But, yeah, it was kind of crazy. And I tell you what, there's, it's, you know, there's not a lot to talk about. it's hard to you know I mean you know even to like go I've met someone to climb Mount Everest the odds of that are pretty small for you to meet someone that has climbed Mount Everest especially the circles I run in yes and so the the odds of that are very are very small

but I climb Mount Juliet yeah yeah it's but yeah like you know you go how you know You go, how was it? You know, it's not, it's a little bit longer of a conversation than when I asked about y'all's Thanksgiving. Yeah. Because there's only, I mean, I don't know what else, you don't really know what to say.

If you're a guy and you're talking to a girl about the time you climb Mount Everest, I'm sure it can be longer and very exciting. Yeah. But if you're telling some other guys, they go, well, that's cool, dude. That's awesome, man. You know what, mine, it was. You watch the game. Yeah. What do you think about Lincoln?

It was a flight attendant. Coming from a guy that climbed Mount Everest, do you think Lane Kiffin should stay in? Yeah. It's a flight attendant, so he just can't get enough. Climed it, now it's still got to travel. Yeah, it was, but it is, no, it's very, it's like you're almost in awe of it that you just are like,

but then you're, it's too big to really under, you know, to no one knows that. It'd be like Neil Armstrong. Like, if you want to talk to a guy, come to moon, it's like, well, how, like, there's going to be a lot of conversations. that you're going to just be like, yeah, man, how was the moon? And then, you know, he's sick of talking about it, so you're like, all right. And you don't even know how to wrap your head around it.

Like, you can't. You know, I was trying to say, he's like, I had to tell his lie again. He's just weighed down from the lie. He goes, oh, the traffic was bad that day. What? He drove to a studio. That's the joke. He goes, but I remember is the traffic.

Why was there traffic? I mean, there was no traffic because we were the first to do it. The space junk, you know, right? It's, uh, yeah. But I mean,

I think you could listen to a story. Like, I could watch a movie on, I think there's a great amount on Everest movie. And I've watched, I could watch movies and all this kind of stuff

all the time. I like it that they're doing it. But there is something funny too that you just, you know the most frustrating. anything they probably hear is they go, I climb Mount Everest, and they go, why? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

And you go, oh, well, because I want to, you know, like, that's got to be infuriating. Yeah, when I was in Alaska, you know, the biggest mountain, I think in the Western hemisphere, Denali is out there. And the first kind of climb it was just like some American guy back in this time, probably. And I asked, so I was like, was there not like a native person that summited it? And they were like, no, they would like laugh at the idea. They're like, why would you even want to climb up there? Why, we just looked at it and we admired it.

But like, to think I have to go get to the top of that. Yeah. A lot of people don't think that way. And that's how I think. Yeah. I like walking in the woods. I'm into that. I like being in nature.

But mountain climbing does not appeal to me. You don't feel the need to, you don't want to conquer something. You don't ever feel that? Nah. But you do want to conquer something. I do. I don't know if... Metaphorically or whatever.

Yeah. Yes. I like growing things. I mean, that can be... Yeah. You're conquering the... But I don't want to... Like, I mean, I can't...

I like creative. I don't know if I get the thrill of conquering a... The mountain over conquering, like, you know, like being in comedy or building a theme park or... Yeah. Like, actually, like, I like that. By the way, we haven't even talked about that. Oh, yeah. Thanks.

Yeah, man. yeah I mean do you want to go to detail about it later or I feel crazy that I forgot to mention that it's a bit hard to talk about it's uh yeah it's hard to you know until it's built no one cares so

yeah but yeah like I enjoy like that like I enjoy like that's what I've come into where you I really want to uh because you know it's a mix of yeah it's it's inwardly outwardly versus uh not that one way is bad or the other i feel very much like outwardly i mean with the comedy aspect is inwardly i guess uh but like the theme park and movies is outwardly like you want to make stuff

i really want to make stuff that people go to and yeah yeah are able to go to and uh i like the carry the weight of their trust on me that I want to them, you know. So, but yeah, I don't know. It's exciting. It's so funny. It's crazy. The way the podcast has changed, there's so many things that are happening with both of you. Like the fact that you're like, oh, by the I was on tonight show last week. And then, oh, yeah, building a theme park. And you too, you got a new corduroy shirt mm-hmm that you would wear

on, do you think that's how you address on that's how you address on Mount Everest because you might get too hot they go you get up there in the death zone and they go I think you should put something more on he goes, I don't think about taking this jacket off brother. He goes, I'm

you're waving yourself you're in the top of Mount Everest. sweat's freezing yeah he goes what is it summer here man sweat free you ever had sweat freeze on you like that no i took a spin class in college for my PE credit and then i had a class across campus and i didn't have time to shower so i get off the exercise bike miserable so sweaty and i walk across campus and it would all freeze to me do you freeze in your armpits all the snot freezing, you just felt disgusting, dude. It's one of the worst feelings.

It's kind of like coming off a mountain after 12. Exactly. Yeah. That was my Mount Everest. Yeah. Right there. So this guy, Hillary. That was in my joke.

I said that was my, yeah. He goes, what's your Mount Everest? And he goes, oh, yeah, I was like, I'm trying not even more McDonald's. Trying to walk to McDonald's instead of driving or something. He goes, that's my Mount Everest. And then the guy that climbed Mount Everest has to go, that's great, man. Yeah. Can't even fathom.

then that's a problem. So Sir Edmund Hillary, one of the first two up there. He died in 2008. That's how recent this is. I'll tell you what. We're talking about a guy quite a bit that said he did not step on this thing first. And you go. There's a language barrier with the other guys.

Yeah, ten pennies. I think you would almost, if you wanted to be that Hillary guy, you should have let him do it first. And then know you're the one that's going to get talked about. But you go, you do it first. I think you don't you want to be I want to be the first guy to actually do it uh I but you know what's funny is I think you just would be and then in your heart you know no I let him uh-huh I think if he did it Hillary would have killed that guy and he he died on the way up there on the way he died at the top yeah yeah right before he said he had 200 people sorry he funded the whole thing he's like

listen I'll do whatever I want up here well it was just 200 or he was two and it was hundreds people that were part of the whole thing, but just the two of them that made that last little trek up to the top. Oh, wow. Why didn't know one else? They probably didn't let them. I think it was just, at that time it was super dangerous. They were all that third man in the spaceship. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we're so close and he's out. Yeah, but I'm paying you. Just hang back here in the death zone for eight hours. He goes, we'll be right back. You ever have that one person that you cannot shop for? Every year, I'm walking around the mall going, And do they like candles?

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support the show by mentioning us at checkout terms and conditions apply. So this guy, he died in 2008, and he said even 15 to 20 years after he first, like, just 15, 20 years ago, he was like, I'm kind of upset with what Mount Everest has become, like the over commercialization of it. And he feels like a lot of the people, modern climbers now, they don't have any sense of adventure. They're not doing it for the same reasons he did. They're doing it just because they can pay for it. And then he looked at all the trash and everything up there. And he was like just, he died upset with what it was like. And it's gotten way worse since he died.

So he'd probably be pretty unhappy with what he did. I mean, I think somebody would have climbed it after if he hadn't. Yeah. But to get, imagine me, the first person, it's like pure untouched. And now look at some of these pictures of trash on Mount Everest. It is, I mean, disgusting. dude. Disgusting.

So much trash. If you're just listening, when you get just Google trash on Mount Everest. I mean, some people are trying to get up there and help it. You want to ask him, though,

to be honest, go, well, did you leave any trash up there? He left some trash. And he goes, well, I did, but we were the only ones up there.

You go, well, yeah. I mean, like, honestly, to that guy, you go, did you leave anything up there? I'd imagine in 1950,

you probably had to leave some stuff up there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it's like now Look, it's the tallest mountain in the world It's like, yeah, they should Yeah, not saying you don't, I get it

Yeah, back when, yeah, there's a weird Back when you were the only one pooping on the mouth Yeah, it wasn't a big deal. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like there's a, I don't know why I was confused with that kind of thing Where they go do something like someone does something like this Then they look back and they're like

Almost regret it because of what it became. A, I think it's like, who do you think you are? Like that you're, you did it. Like, it's like celebrate that you did it. You can be frustrated that it is like this. And so many people are doing it. You're like, you're right. None of us want this to be that.

But then maybe spin all your money into trying to fix it and trying to get rid of it. But it's, it's. Well, I know. but it's like a weird... Just feels like he's going. Talk about me again, guys. Remember, I did it first. You've seen it with just, there's just times

where someone, I don't like when someone gets to be the first of something and then they kind of can guilt everybody. I'm not trying to. Like somebody now going, I don't think this guy intentionally did it. I wish I'd never done a crowdwork video. Now look what it's become. Look what it's become.

I know who we're talking about too. I know who to blame for that. They're doing a way before everybody. But yeah, they should. I mean, yeah, I mean, there's a ton of trash, like, you know, but it's, I don't know, go, go pick it up. Go pick it up. You guys are, look, that's a, that to me is a you guys problem. So go clean it up.

Yeah, I'm never going up there. Yeah, you're like. You all got to figure it out. Yeah, figure it out. What's my Everest, cleaning up the trash you left behind. Oh, Everest. Did you make it up there? because I got stuck on base camp

getting rid of all your cans. So there's been a push. What are you supposed to do with the trash? Well, that's the thing. It's so high up, it's so dangerous to go up there and get it. It's like, do we really want to risk human lives to go take this Diet Coke can?

And there's like, I know there's like, and people have died and there's dead bodies up there, right? Yeah. Imagine dying before the death zone. Huh? Imagine dying before the death zone. You didn't even make it to the death zone.

Yeah. Yeah, you go, yeah. And then, you know, that's it. You thought you could do this? I think you give them the death zone. I think you just... You scoot the body a little bit higher up. I think you do the right thing.

And you go, the least we could do is scoot this body into the death zone. And, you know, it's the opposite of, like, you never leave a seal behind. You move them to the death zone. Yeah. You get on, get them a foot in the death zone or something. Yeah. Or tell him, he must have slid back down because he was deep in the death zone. Yeah, he was in it.

What's the death zone? It's the... It's 8,000 meters. And that's the point where, like, the oxygen... Your body cannot function. What now? Your body can't function? Your body doesn't have the oxygen.

I mean, it just can't function at that level. So you have, like, limited time up there. Yeah. In theory, there's like... And you've got to go above it. You got to go way above it. So is the death zone not from here to the top? Because when you look at that mountain,

it looks like it's only one. little section and then it goes to the peak. So death zone is like starts here and then it gets all the way. You know what I mean? That's right there. So there's about 3,000 feet. About 3,000 feet between the start of the death zone and the summit. So you got to get up there and you got to get out. Yeah. But they should also say, well, so in the summit, just a reminder, you are still in the death zone. Oh, yeah, yeah. And Camp two is not the death zone, guys. Okay. Camp two, you should be fine. If you die in camp, too, you're just weak. Oh, my gosh.

If you died, yeah, I mean, if you died at base camp, it's like... You just came here to die. Yeah, you're like, you're just... They don't even count it. How many bodies are up there? I think base camp is pretty crazy to get to, right? Yeah, yeah. It's like an 8 to 12-day hike to get to get there.

Can you just do base camp? I think you can go, actually, Nate, one of your old pals, Mandy Moore in 2019, your wife. Yeah. from the breadwinner coming out this March. Mani Moore went to Ever's Base Camp at 2019. She did not summit the mountain, but she did a week-long trek to the base camp,

which is at an altitude of 17,600 feet. She described it as a spiritual and challenging experience. Yeah. So she went out there. Did a little party at Base Camp, head on back. Yeah, yeah. I think I could go like a week-long trek. Yeah.

I think I could do that. Like, and I think it would be like you're going, yeah, I want to go. Yeah. Like that would be to get that up close. to the mountain and go, but how do you not go, like, let me go to camp two? What is, how's there camp two and then what's the IV right below it? That's four.

Four. So why, where's three? I mean, where's three and, I mean, where's camp three? That's very, I mean, that is a good question. Why is it in reverse? There is no camp one. We go base camp, camp four, camp two, dad zone. What?

Maybe you've got the dead zones getting confused for camp one. I've got a breakdown here somewhere. He goes, no, no, no, I'm going to camp one. They go, you know, it's hard to like have your sorts about you. They go, no, buddy, there's no camp one. Well, that would be ridiculous because there's a camp two. That's just not in the, that diagram for some reason. And why is base, why does it not go base camp, camp two, camp four, death zone summit?

camp four is oh it's actually higher than the than camp two yeah it is right there so camp four is certainly in the death zone you see it yeah same height no it's not it says 23 and the death zone says 26 well and actually camp two is lower somehow yeah yeah how's camp two lower than camp four what i don't know i don't know enough it's on the is it you texted me the link oh all right i'll pull it up yeah i'll pull that all right here we go okay mount ever says two is this the one of you oh this this right here okay

and this website really like this makes a lot more okay okay okay oh this makes a lot more Okay, yeah. All right, so there's base camp, and then you go to ABC, which is ridiculous. And then you go to North Call, which is, yeah, those two are not even worth going to. I would get there and go, base camp, and then I'm going to go, I'm going to go ahead and go to camp two. He goes, do you want to go to EBC? He's like, or maybe Camp 1? Why don't you go Camp 1, 2, 3, 4, and then Summit?

Did you ever think of that? Yeah. What do you think's going on in Camp 2? I mean, that's got to be a tremendous amount of less people than at Base Camp. Yes, I think Camp 2 is where... It's going to thin out each one of them. It goes, the rubber hits the road. Yeah.

It goes, what are we doing here? Camp 2, everybody's got a little more hair on their bodies and a little more rugged looking. Camp 2, also known as Advanced Base Camp. That's ABC. Oh, this has them as two different spots. Advanced base... That's why that makes sense. I want to apologize for the ABC thing.

Yeah. Well, they should make it more clear, though. They've got better tents, better communication equipment. It just stops along the way if you're going to sum it. You've got a lot of chances to back off. You got a lot of opportunities to go. This maybe isn't for me. Yeah.

And I might die if I get up there. Yeah, you mentioned it. We don't have to get into detail, but there's a ton of dead bodies up there. And they're working on getting them back. But they're, you know, they're perfectly preserved up there because it's so cold. So a lot of them have become. Landmarks, right? Landmarks, yeah.

It's a gift to the mountain. Yeah. It's a way more valuable than chocolate. Yeah. There's a guy named Green Boots who's famous because he had green boots. And then everyone go, you know, take a left at Green Boots. And you see it. And you see Green Boots.

You just see a guy who's dead with wearing green boots. I think if you were going to do it, that's how you want to go. You want to, if you do it, you want to make sure. You got to be a landmark. Yeah, I would, your last move should be to get you in a good spot. Do not take my body from this mountain. Yeah. You leave me here.

I want to be on a turn. Yeah. You know. There's one part. There's a place called like rainbow. Is it Rainbow Road? Rainbow Trail or Rainbow Valley. Rainbow Valley where there's so many dead bodies all wearing brightly colored stuff that they call it Rainbow Valley.

Because all the different jackets and everything. I love that. Yeah. Yeah. Gifts to the mountain. It's like, it's one of those. I mean, look, it's very sad, but it's, like, also, like, that's, I think when you go there, that's what gets talked about. Right.

And that probably, like, you know. I bet Base Camp 3 has a lot of jokes about Rainbow Valley. I bet they're like, you see those guys? They couldn't even make it up in Base Camp 3, yeah. Or they don't want to be in Rainbow Valley. Where are they? Are they in the death zone? I don't know where they're in.

I'm sure it's the death zone, yeah. Yeah. They go, once you get the flip-flop and you get Flip-flop, you go, yeah, it's, yeah. right below base camp that guy didn't make it yeah yeah he wore flip flops he goes but once you see flip flop you know you're about to hit the flat spot of base camp he's why what the audacity of that guy wearing flip flip he's got your walmart slides on he was living that salt life he's living that yeah and he's just sitting there houses his feet not bad still preserved real preserved.

Look at this picture, man. It's one of the craziest pictures. Overcrowding on Mount Everest. Yeah. For the reason that we talked about earlier, like the bottleneck issues and stuff. Is that the top? That's the top.

I don't know if that's the exact top of it. Is it? That's the summit. Yeah. And so then you got to go and then, yeah. If you're that high, if you reach the top and there's that many people there, that has to diminish the accomplishment in your mind.

you have to go I could see that you have to go wow this many people are doing that well you want to kind of line on ground you know

the airport or something this is like this is the worst place on earth for a line but if you if you uh I don't know

I mean you're still like got to be one of some you know it's like you climb all the way up there and you like I can't even get a second and you do

how many people have climbed on Everest is it 10,000 is it you can't even get a second up here because there's somebody else waiting to be at the top? Oh, yeah. No, it's like in front of those Taylor Swift wings.

Yeah, it's the same thing. So they think there have been 12, almost 13,000 successful ascents by approximately 7,200 different people. Yeah, so I would, you know, it's still pretty good, though, man. Like 13,000 people of the population? Only 7,000 people. Oh, only 7. A lot of people have done it multiple times.

Yeah. So, like, yeah, so seven, so if you're one of seven thousand people that have done it, like, it's still pretty crazy. Sherpa guides, those are the, I had another joke about Mount Everest with the Sherpa. Yeah, there was one dude, the guy who has the record, his name is Kami Rita, Sherpa, has climbed Mount Everest the most times, 31 times as of May 2025. He broke his own record, has the Guinness World Record for most ever. for something. I mean, 31 times he's done this. Yeah, he does it like every day. Yeah. This guy needs to find a new hobby, huh? What's your evidence? I think it's his job. I've done it 31 times. Yeah. Just another day at the office. Yeah, I mean,

1,200 people, only 900 women. Almost 1,000. Almost 1,000. That's a lot, yeah. That's a lot of women, though. Mm-hmm. Are they, I would, you know, be funny to have this Sherpa, like, Like, I would like to have that guy, anybody that goes and gives a speech about Mount Everest, I'd have him come sit in the front row as they start their speech. A Sherpa. Yeah. Yeah. And then he and he just, he goes, now, please tell us about your one time.

31. 31. 31. I remember my first time, dude. Yeah. I remember my first time. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, too, right?

It's like, yeah, you can't even be like. oh yeah climb mount everts because somebody's done it 31 times how many of that guy how many of the people you think died on their second attempt can you imagine that you got a little more confident yeah you're like oh I should have just stuck with the one yeah as your body is slowly freezing over yeah you're going should have just did it the one you like the thing about regrets in the last moment of life yeah yeah kind of a funny you never know when it's going to come don't have any regrets okay

oh all right all right that's about it I think this one can be a little short good job thank you Abigail thank you Abigail for looking

all this up there's good information all right Mount Everest is fun it is fun let's go do it I enjoy it would you go do it with us

we do a field trip I mean you didn't come to Paducah with us you're not coming to Everest but that was during the eclipse I might yeah I might go to base camp, but I doubt it. I mean, I might maybe go to Nepal with you guys,

and then I'll hang in Nepal while you guys go hiking. Okay. Let's go just pick a mountain here, and then we're going to do it. I'm down. It's a little bit easier. There's a little bit easier. Just Mount Mitchell and North Carolina. There you go.

That's a good one. It's a big one. It's okay. Yeah. Doable. You got to spend night? No, no. You can be back in your car by noon, dude.

We go eat at Panera that day. We already did that. How high have you been? I don't know. I've been low to the Grand Canyon. I did a long hike at Grand Canyon. I hike down. You went down.

Yeah. You went low. Which is actually where it's worse to have to hike up at the end. That's what they would say. That's what they would say. You hiking up a mountain, then you're like the easy part and then you just have fun at the end. I've got to end on the worst part. Yeah, no, it's still climbing up.

Well, how much did you hike up? I mean, I did five miles down, five miles up. And how many feet is that? I mean, it was over a mile of elevation. Do you know the feet? Like, I think what did we? We did like 10,000 or 12,000, right? It was like 10 and 12,000 elevation.

All right. So is that above that? Yeah, that's like two miles. No, it's not. I mean, a mile is 5,280. feet. Oh, so you did five miles up? I did five miles down and then five miles up, but it's not completely vertical, but it was a lot of elevation. It's like, it's pretty steep. I'm not trying to claim that I've done more than you. So 5,000, so you did 25,000 feet? You did Mount Everest?

No, I did the Grand Canyon. Well, Mount Everest was 29,000 feet. Yeah. So if a mile is 5,000 feet, five miles is 25,000 feet. So you did Mount Everest. 29. Yeah, but that would be straight up. But yeah, essentially, that distance. The way you're wording this in a way that's insane. What do you mean?

This is what Notre – this is why the Notre Dame is in the playoffs. Because you word it in such a way that everybody's like, they're got to be in. And then you're like, what? And then you're like, you're confusing me. The trail itself is five miles. Well, I went five miles down. Then at any point you turn around and come back up,

so I had to walk the same way back up. So I walked 10 miles. I only did about a mile in elevation on the way. So I guess that's the, so the elevator, so you did a, so you only did, all right, so elevation, you went on a hike, but you know what I, all right, you see what I'm trying to say? You see? Kind of.

No, I think you do. Okay. So it's, if we went up 12,000 elevation and then you rode an escalator for a few hours and you went, you said a thousand elevation,

that's like nothing. That's like nothing. You did a long hike. Like we hiked that day, was it 12, 13 miles? Something like that

in Canada. So I guess if you want to go, yeah, if we put it up right, then we did, we would have done more than Mount Everest. 12,000 elevation in miles is 2.2 miles. So you did double a little more than what he did. Yeah. So you're 6,000 elevation. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, let me tell you, that last mile. Ours was pretty straight up the whole time. And that's much different than, you know, you, you know, basically crisscrossing. But he was also in the desert, though, right? Yeah, it was hot and dry. It was cold in the morning and got hot by the afternoon. He was going down.

Lizards. I was going up when it was hot. Yeah. You're up, you go. And I was wearing khakis. I didn't dress well. Yeah. First time I did.

Yours was about the sizes of the building. And then you just went, you kept walking where you never really were on in another. You basically, was your trip ever? Did you ever think, are we walking up? Because that's how. All right. Look. I agree to disagree.

Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I mean, we can move on. All right. That's it. That's it. I'll be in Salt Lake City this week in Boise. And then Bridgestone, and that's the end of this year. Awesome.

And so, yeah. And then you're taking a lot of time off? No, no, no. Well, I'll be off about a month, and then we have the rest of next year, the August, 26. But after that, you know, back at it. No, no, there will be, it could be after, once I'm done with next year, I bet it's the end of 27, 28 before we tour. So that will be a decent break. So if you want to come out, come out, and then I got to be doing some movie and theme park.

things. Big time stuff. Big stuff. Mount Everest type stuff. Speaking of Mount Everest type stuff, I'm in the Mohican Sun in Connecticut. Uncassville, Unksville. That's their Mount Everest. That is. Yeah. At a Comics Roadhouse

this weekend. And then the Philadelphia Helium. Great club. This Sunday. That's December 7th. So coming out and see me, Connecticut and Philadelphia this weekend. All right. I got four dates for the year. This week, I mean, yeah, for the rest of the year. This week, I'm going to be, or next week I'm going to be in Mexico, Cancun, Mexico.

Oh. Yeah, it's going to be great. You been in there? I've never been to Cancun. December 12th, I'm going to be in Dubuque, Iowa at a casino. December 16th, I'm here at Zanis. December 26th, Pocola, Oklahoma, casino. know. So that's where I'll be at. All at Dusty Slay.com.

Feel better, Brian. I want to plug a couple of a Brian day. He's going to be at the Skyline Comedy Club in Appleton, Wisconsin. Great club. At the end of this month. Famous Club. It really is a great club. Brian's got three shows there. So go check him out the end of this month. Cap City in January. Addison Improv. Brian's got a lot of great shows. Brian Batescom. Get those tickets now. We wish you well, Brian. Feel better. yeah yeah those mumps off and all that kind of stuff oh the old mumps we love you i'll let you close it out name no you're doing great job no you're doing all right yeah that's it love you bye Stepping into the Kia K4 or K5 isn't just getting behind the wheel of any average sedan.

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