The Nateland Podcast - 283: #283 Next Act

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

This week, Dusty offers to help Brian with his health issues, Aaron gets caught up in women's college volleyball, and Nate shares a special message. Then the guys delve into the topic of Quitters by looking at some of the famous quitters in history from athletes to actors to politicians to the Pope. Aura Frames: https://on.auraframes.com/NATE Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/NATE.  Promo Code NATE Bilt: Joinbilt.com/Nate Join the loyalty program for renters at joinbilt.com/NATE.  Make sure to use our URL so they know we sent you. Rocket Money- Rocketmoney.com/nate Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to RocketMoney.com/NATE today! Nobl: NOBLTravel.com Don’t miss NOBL’s biggest Sale of the Year! Head to NOBLTravel.com for up to 58% off your entire order! #NOBL #ad

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Christmas Day on Netflix. Hello, folks, and hey, Bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Bargatsy, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. Okay. We're here. We're all here together. Yeah, you're right? Yeah, I'm good.

It's tough to cough immediately, but out of the gate. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. Can't handle it. Yeah, we're excited to be here. Happy to, yeah, pumped up. We've had a fun time. I'm going to read this one thing. I read.

It was a comment I saw. I'm just starting with it. Exactly. It said, where does the Notre Dame get off? Is that right? It's, yeah.

I think it said that. It was from, let me get it right, bait Nargetzee. Wow, what a name. What a name. I figured something was coming. Aaron, do you want to answer any of those? I think we can all agree. At least we're not Michigan right now, right?

Yeah. I'm glad they took the heat off of us a little bit. Yeah. We were not looking good for a while. They did. And I would think y'all would be, you all were probably behind that. What was the bowl that Notre Dame was going to go to? The Pop-Tarts Bowl is what we got invited to.

versus BYU, the prestigious. Pop-Tarts Bowl. Yeah, they do. The actual Pop-Tart goes down in there. Frosting? On there, you think? Oh, yeah. They probably have the most fun with the theme.

Yeah. They're all kind of like goofy. There's no prestige to them really anymore. Yeah, just like Notre Dame. Vanderbilt goes 10 and 2, our best season, the history of our program. That's right. And we go to the Raya Quest Bowl. But it's a citrus bowl or something.

or a Gator Bowl, Citrus Bowl. It's one of those. It isn't old, they all have titles, but I believe it's, you know, Gator Bowl, it's, well, there's not enough money in college football, so they need those sponsored. But let me,

we don't make, we hope to make the class, we don't. Maybe it's not a Gator, maybe it's just, I thought it was the Gator Bowl. Relya Quest is always a classic bowl. From my childhood, I remember the Ralaeat.

But Notre Dame goes 10 and two. That's right. And, like, we're done. We're out of here. Yeah, we have the same record. I feel bad for the kids, about the seniors and the guys that are never going to play again. Apparently, the team voted on it.

Apparently, the team was like. You can't tell me there's, you go there off. Why would they? That's good. They're going to, those people, a lot of them, I don't, maybe not the ones that will be stars, but the other ones will be, we'll regret it. and you should go do it for the people that are,

it's their senior year, they're never going to go play again. And you know what, if you don't care about it, then let them play. Then don't, then everybody that's big, whatever, go sit and whatever, and then celebrate the guys that have been there that haven't got to play and go do that. And go lose in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. It just doesn't matter because you know what? It's not about you. It's about them.

That's how I feel about Lane Kiffin, letting him play at Ole Miss. It would be like Rudy getting in. You'd be like, go let the Rudy's play then. They probably won't even be able to eat Pop-Tarts in their house in the future. Yes. Any mention of Pop-Tarts. You can't get over that it's called the Pop-Tarts bowl. Any mention of Pop-Tarts they'll go, don't bring it up.

Don't bring it up. Yeah. You want your Pop-Tarts in a bowl? No, I don't. A plate, please. I've lost track of what you're talking about. But, yeah, yeah, college football. A lot of wild things going on.

It was a fun, a fun couple weeks just following all the madness. Yeah, a lot of stuff. It will be, yeah, we're going to the, I'll be, I'm going to go to the game, the Vandy game. I think I'm going to. Here you are, I told you. Unless you get sick. I'd like to say, I made it up. You made it up to him that quickly.

I made it up, and he's coming. And you wouldn't take him to the playoffs, though, if y'all made it in, right? I would have made it up. I've always made up something. I don't think I've ever left you hanging if you were. No. So he's going to go to that. And I'm not taking anybody else, the ones that did get to go.

Are you serious? Yeah. Wow. Stay healthy. How about that? Yeah. Don't start smoking. They had their chance.

You're going to the real deal thing. That's right. That's right. That's right. A real quest. Thank you. Thank you. The real, really a quest bowl.

But we're going to be in Tampa. It won't be eight degrees. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. to be nice.

But, yeah, so anyway, I was just doing a quick joke about Notre Dame. We deserve it. I'll take it. Pavia should have won the Heisman, too. I still agree with everything he tweeted. And... Yeah, I thought he held back. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I would have said much worse. I like to all. No, I do think he deserved it. But it's, you know, I mean, that guy's an impression. He's an impressive person. Really. Mendoza? No.

Pavia. I'm sure Mendoza is great. Pavia is an impressive. Well, he brought Vanderbilt a winning season. That's pretty impressive. Not only winning season, but the best season ever had. That's pretty impressive. Yeah.

It's unbelievable. Yeah. It was, this could be a statue of him, Corbyn, we need more stuff like that in sports. We need more trash talk. We need more drama. That's what I think. Yeah.

More drama. I think we do need more trash talk. Well, drama, that's back behind the scenes drama with the Michigan guy, you know. But I think we need more trash talk. Yeah, not that. On the field. Yeah. Okay.

Trash talk is what keeps sports alive. Yeah. Some cobbettos. Bravado. It's what makes sports great. I mean, did Pogga ran his mouth and backed it all up. Mm-hmm. Like, that's what's crazy.

I remember in the 80s. Yeah. Vanderbilt had a course. quarterback that they touted for the Heisman. Eric Jones and he had a great junior season and they put up billboards around

Nashville touting him for the Heisman trophy and of course Vandy went we went like three and eight or something like that and there he is right there. Eric Jones. Showtime. This is our Heisman.

Were you in the background of this picture? No, those kids are too young. Yeah, yeah. Oh, look at that light. You were driving the limo? Yeah. 1988 media guy. Yeah, yeah.

I remember this. Yeah, I remember the name Mary Jones. Yeah, it didn't work out. But, yeah, full-fledged Heisman trophy campaign. You did the beginning of the season. Yeah. You usually wait until they perform well. Okay.

Yeah. Was he really good? He had a really good junior year. And we're like, hey, let's just, I say wait like I. was part of the campaign, but, you know, let's... You've been with him since the 80s. I have. He was second team all SEC the year before.

Okay. 2,500 passing yards, led the team in rushing for two straight years. Yeah, he was a stud. Yeah. And I thought, let's put all the chips in this guy. Lost out to Barry Sanders. Mm-hmm.

Where's that guy at now? What did he ever do? That's a tough one. Yeah. All right. Well, this week, was a big I had a big show at home

Bridgestone Arena yeah it was great did you rebreak the attendance record he did yeah all right for one for one show no not for one so there's the records go there's single tickets records and then there's more so I have the most for

a single show but the difference is that but then what I broke is the comedy record of the most tickets because we did three shows and so a lot of records like that like you know like you know

I beat out like Taylor Swift when she played Bridgestone as far as a single tenant she could do 40 shows Garth Brooks did 12 I beat and I would have beat him out technically in the single one just because we can

because that first time we did it so it's... But you did it though I did it but it's he did 12 shows so if he wanted to. But I think I'm... But he doesn't...

He doesn't want to because he can't sit there on the stage by himself. That is true. He needs a whole band. Is Garth Brooks acoustic show going to burn and break the attendance record? It's probably going to do pretty good.

I don't think so. There's a reason he doesn't do it. Yes. Yeah. More like Chris Gaines. Yeah. But it's... But it's definitely the...

Yeah, it's the... I don't know the... the whole, I don't know the, yeah, like where I would stand in the things, the full-on rankings of most shows, but, yeah. But fair to say, pretty good weekend, huh? No, I mean, I think I'm in the top, yeah, like top five. Yeah, I'm being sarcastic. This looks and say, we're watching some videos of the crowd and.

Had some good local stuff. Sorry, had great local stuff. I was pretty excited about that. You had some local stuff? Yeah, open with local stuff. I could probably post that. Yeah, I was going to say, Nashville-specific.

Okay. I had a joke about Dummbrian Street exit. I go, I've lived here my whole life. I've caught that exit twice. I go, you have about four seconds to get over, and then you're like, all right, church street, it is. Yeah, that's true.

It's a good. Yeah. It's funny. You know, Delumbrian Street. Yeah. I do know it. I'm not saying, I'm going to do a special. Yeah.

Well, yeah. I thought it was a decent, I thought it was a decent, uh, locals. Well, yeah, it's good. Yeah, debumbrian is a fun word. It is a fun word. I didn't say Broadway. Broadway is really what you would make. Church streets funnier.

Church is funnier word in that context. Yeah. Yeah. We're people chanting, we want breakfast. We want breakfast. They did. They did. We got, y'all were not on the show this year.

you were part of the last one and this one was my dad and Keith Alberstadt I'm happy to see Keith Nashville Native Nashville Native Nashville comic when the first comics I ever met when I was talking to my mom

about starting my mom worked at Vanderbilt Keith just started comedy Keith was at Vanderbilt so I was excited to be able to get Keith on this show so he was enjoying McCullough

hosted he He's actually here with us. Julian was selling out Zanis in real time. Like, I mean, it was crazy. It was fun to refresh the website. He's doing another show. Yeah. When's your show?

January 21st is two shows. Yeah. 26 is one. Yeah. Sold out. So. Yeah, January 21st, two shows sold out. January 26 sold out.

The crazy thing, but I've just, because I've never sold out a show. Yeah. And before he was off stage, I sold out the first show. Wow. Wow. Oh, that's awesome. That's crazy. So nobody's listening to him. They're all on their phone during the time.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I felt it. I go, I can't get that. Why can't I get this crowd? If you couldn't hear Julian said, he was the show sold out in real time as before I was off stage. It's really cool. So it's cool. Yeah, we've, you know, it's, you guys have, the audience have been awesome.

Like, we've done that with a lot of people. I mean, Greg Warren is one. specific way. Greg Warren broke the record at the club in Kansas City. Yeah. After opening for you there. We did two shows in Kansas City. He had a date at the Kansas City Improv and I think it's at 14 shows. Yeah. He was at four.

Wow. He was at four shows and they were not sold out and Greg does great. But like he was at four shows and then they're at 14. That's how many people Look at that. Wow. Yeah.

And they're all slowed out. All right. 10, 4, 6, 8, 10. Oh, it's just insane, man. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he is. He's the, he's the Garthbrook. He's doing Fowland tonight.

He's all Fowland tonight. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And that, yeah, yeah, he's very, yeah, very excited. Yeah, he's been, he's been killing it. Strupe had one of that, too, at the Salt Lake City. I think they were, he had four shows. on sale, and I think they're, uh, went up to nine.

So it's very cool that, uh, that's big. Greg Warren's on the tonight show tonight. Yeah. And as we're taping. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for being a part of the podcast. It's tough to jump in. I get it. Yeah. I got stuff going on.

You did clarify though as we're taping. Yeah, yeah. Right. Like right now. That was helpful. Yeah. Yeah. Because if people are watching, they're going to go, well, I thought he was on tonight.

and then they're going to think he got kicked off. Right, right. Yeah. So. It's on YouTube now if you want to go check it out. Yeah. You need all the details. It's Monday.

Yeah. Yeah, as we're taping. So if you're listening to this, it would have been Monday. Yeah. I did not. I thought you meant Wednesday, too. So that wasn't. You helped us out.

Yeah. You actually came in big. Yeah. You don't want to mess up Greg Strait here and think he got kicked off the tonight. Yeah, they go, he can make it at Kansas City, but he can't make it in New York City. Yeah. Yeah. true yeah so yeah but the yeah the national shows where you know when you're doing your home

shows it's uh they're the best it's it's it's uh you know it's a it's a lot of people it's a lot of you got a lot of backstage you got just a lot going on but uh the shows were the were great i got a nice little break till january 15 16 18 somewhere around in there uh And so this break will be nice and fun. Go do some theme park stuff and all that stuff. Got a bowl game. Yeah. Yeah.

And then come back, I got this. I got to work on some jokes. I got this AI chunk that I need to keep working on. So I might come down to Zanies. Have you tried using AI to write it? No, I don't want to write it. I've already, I've started, I've started playing. I've started playing with AI, and it says, like, it will give you options to write.

Like, he'll be, I'll write you a tight little thing. But even the things that could write, it's like, you would never do it. And I don't ever ask it to do that. But I'm just playing with it in the context of the joke, because I'm trying to, it's a very fun joke. But I need to go, even though in the middle of this tour, it's like I need to, like, I need to, like, I need to use some of this time to go work on it. So, yeah, so that's where I was at. You know what they say? Every search query on chat GPT uses one bottle of water.

Have you heard that? How big of a bottle? Like a normal bottle of water. Why? Are they thirsty? The servers use liquid cooling. Oh. So the math works out that every time you interact with chat GPT in any way, it uses the equivalent of one bottle of water.

event a different cooling system. What about antifreeze? Yeah. What about the ocean? I don't know. Look, I think... What about air conditioning? I think it's the most cost-efficient way to do it.

It's just people say it wastes a lot of water. When you search on Google and it gives you an AI result. Yeah, then that's an AI. So you don't even ask for that. They just do it. So Google, does they get a sip of that water? I don't know how the water's big. soaking up all our waters.

Yeah, the point is a lot of waters being used. You know, in like... But you could reuse that water. Mad Max, I think it evaporates or something. That's what I'm saying. Mad Max, there's no water. There's no AI. There's no AI in Mad Max.

Well, I'm saying, but... But it's the future. Yeah, the future is people control in the water. Oh, okay. Oof. So if I say thank you to ChedGBT... I saw some stat. The amount of water wasted literally just...

from people thinking chat GPT is like a Niagara Falls worth of water. Yeah. Like all the time. So never think chat GPT. Like don't, don't be polite to it or you're just wasting, wasting stuff. That's what they say. Okay. All right.

Just throwing that out. I didn't mean to kill the energy in here, but. Well, just thinking about a future with no water, and that's where I go to when you start to bring that up, because that is what's happening. They put these data centers near people's houses, and then suddenly they turn the tap on and the water comes out. Yeah, or the water's polluted or whatever. Yeah. That can happen. That is what's happening. Are you still searching for the perfect gift? Yes. Yeah, well, it's time. You're running out of time, man. It's the one that you want the one that feels personal, thoughtful, and you don't want to spend hours stressing over it. Or Aframes is that gift. It's the kind of present that makes people think you planned it weeks in advance when we all know that you didn't. Finding something meaningful for the people closest to you is surprising. hard, but what about a digital frame filled with photos you know they love? That's instant

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for the holidays. Support the show by mentioning us at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. well I was at Star Dome Comedy Club in Birmingham on Saturday but generally speaking in the last few weeks I've been on the Christmas party tour lots of corporate Christmas party welcome back I'm glad you're feeling better thank you Isaiah 117 house I'm wearing this it's a wonderful organization helps foster kids that's where you went to get healed I have been sick for three weeks basically wow and I came close to missing some gigs but I never did There you go. We joke that you had the mumps, and I want to make it clear that you didn't actually have the mumps. So what happened was waking up a few days, I'd be like dizzy when I'd wake up in the morning and like Lighthead. I'm like, I can't figure out what's going on. So I finally scheduled an appointment with my doctor the day before Thanksgiving, just because I didn't want to go through Thanksgiving.

The great doctor was thrilled. Who's this? Oh, good. You just seen this. all right he knows it when your rings on the color ID he's just goes

it's at his house and his wife looks at him he goes it's Brian isn't it he goes all right sorry so the Tuesday before Thanksgiving

I'm at the park with my daughter feeling okay. Not great, but feeling okay. Texts him. That's the day you're on, Fallon. You sent me and Aaron a picture of you with Tim Allen. Yeah. I sent you guys one back. I got a picture too. Oh, that must have been a separate thread. With Tim Allen? No, I think. I think he was all, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Me and Tim were hanging, kicking it. We're best friends at all. Yeah. I, uh... He's coming over to help me build some stuff. Anyway, I'm feeling okay. I pick my daughter up. She had, She wants to touch like a branch or something on a tree.

I pick her up over my head and I leave my head back. And I get so dizzy that I'm like stumbling around the park like a drunk guy. I can't walk straight. Wow. And I just like that image. Yeah. And I'm grabbing playground equipment. And I call my wife and I said, you got to come pick us up.

I don't think I can drive home. And I kept thinking I'd get better. but it wasn't going away and I have to like sit down on the ground and my daughter doesn't she's like putting grass on top of me stuff like that just playing and stuff like that and I finally managed to get up

and get us to the car but I was getting worse and worse and I call my life back and I said you need to hurry and when she got there she said I was covered in sweat and I was pale as a ghost and she called 911 and they sent an ambulance to pick me up

they thought I was having a heart attack or stroke and so they're running all these tests and stuff and I'm just out of it and the guy paramedic in the ambulance goes you look familiar and I was like I'm a stand-up comedian he goes oh yeah Nate Land I'm like I do other stuff but

but he knew me from Nate Land oh yeah yeah yeah yeah so do you call you breakfast in the elevator yeah in the ambulance whatever it was yeah yeah same thing are you even here Dusty You might have got in an elevator at some point when you got into the hospital.

Do you know Greg Warren's on The Tonight Show tonight? Did you get into an elevator at the hospital? At some point. Sure, sure. So they take me to hospital and they run all these tests and stuff, but everything's coming back okay. I picture like a little house on the Prairie Hospital.

Yeah. I don't know. No, this is, well, I won't say where. But, yeah, we don't want them tracking you down. No, I think you're about to talk negatively about the experience, right? No, no, no, no, no. But anyway, this, I'll wrap this up because I'm enjoying it. We'll drag it out forever.

But they couldn't find anything wrong. They thought I was just dehydrated. And I just, I was feeling better in the hospital. But the time I left, I started feeling really bad again. All right, so that was Tuesday. While I'm there in the ER, Felix text and says, we got to hit the road early because Nate's going to be on SEC network. Yeah. for Saturday. I'm still thinking, that's a few days away. I'll be okay. Yeah. Thanksgiving, I'm okay. I feel

not great, but better, whatever. And Friday, I'm not feeling great, but I'm okay. And you and I are texting back and forth, writing jokes for the SEC network thing. Yeah. And then I woke up in the middle of the night, just so sick, throwing up, just terrible. And you think that was Thanksgiving food that you ain't? No, it's just whatever was going on. You think they were linked? No, I don't.

So, yeah, I had to miss the game, which I hated. I mean, but I was so sick that I didn't even care. It's not like I sit on the couch watching the game thinking,

oh man, I wish I could have been there. I didn't even know who won until much later. Yeah, yeah. So, anyway, I've been so sick. And then it's just kind of come off and on and stuff like that. But they think,

Dusty you can just step out I'm sorry I'm with you they you'll like this part Dustin now they think

I have some type of vertigo and the crystals in my ears oh yeah you know I have an appointment tomorrow

with a physical therapist I can do the epi maneuver for you right now no thank you but

yeah I'll do it what are we talking about if you're dizzy I can fix it are you dizzy right now

I'm not too bad right now but I still I mean he can fix it I was I was going to come to your show. I was home Friday night.

Yeah. I came down to Bridge Town, and I didn't feel like it. This podcast desk is big enough. Really, you could lay back on this and I could do it life. Why don't we listen? I think I just like a professional. Yeah, I think I'll veto it if we're waiting on somebody to veto it. I don't know if this is the best thing.

Yeah, I've, you know, I've had it done to me many times. Have you done it to somebody else? Well, no, but I, you know, I know how it goes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you didn't have a doctor do it, though. I had my wife do it a couple of times and then a chiropractor. Who's a doctor?

Mm-hmm. He's a monkey do it. Yeah. Yeah. So it's been a rough three weeks. I'm glad you're on the come up, man. Thank you. Yeah.

It was a, we'll see. But don't let them put you on medication. You can do the epi maneuver and it'll fix it. Well, yeah, that's why I'm going to better than the medical therapist. Yeah. Yeah. Because people tell me they get on medication. Don't do that.

Okay. Okay. So that's what's been going on with me. I just got back early this morning. I was in Des Moines, Iowa at the Funny Bone, three shows at the Funny Bone. Thank you to everybody who came. Then I was in Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Bourbon Theater. Got to do a little theater. Oh, wow.

All right. I got to do, I did, like, you know, brought up the opener on the mic backstay. It was just fun to get to do a theater like that. I had a fun experience that day, you know, Philip Rivers was starting for the Indianapolis Colts after being retired for five years. And where has he been the last five years? The head coach of my dad's high school that he started in Fair Hope, Alabama. So this is the head coach of my dad's high school.

It's a fun story. I'm trying to find a bar to go watch this, the Colts game at. So we're walking through downtown Lincoln. It's me. Zach Townsend's with me and a guy Michael Blank. from Kansas City. We're walking around. There's one sports bar open.

It is packed to the gills. They're not watching football. They're all watching Nebraska volleyball. That whole town, it's like, they're a volleyball school now. In Des Moines. This is in Lincoln, Nebraska. So the bar is packed. They got the volleyball game on every TV.

The state, like they were played in the arena there. It's sold out. It sounds like a football game. It's going, they're so loud and going crazy. And I got, you know, I put the game on my phone and then I got swept up in the volleyball game. If people are cheering and going crazy, it's a lot of fun. They ended up losing in five matches. But it was just, we spent like two hours watching women's volleyball.

Did not think that's how my weekend would end up. But it was just, it was a cool thing to get, like, into something I'd never really watched before. Country's really slipping worse than I thought. I mean, they're a college town. Yeah, yeah. Didn't they have like 90,000 people in a women's game once? They did a game in the football stadium a year or two ago and sold over 90,000 tickets. Let me ask this, though.

Can you gamble on women's volleyball? You think that's? They got some of that. No. They probably got the best team. They were the number one ranked team, and they were playing A&M, which was number three. So it was a big, and then the winner advanced to the next. round of the playoff or whatever.

So it was a big game. But it was just surprising. It wasn't like it was all women in this bar. It's all dudes and, you know, like work jackets. And they're watching and going crazy for this volleyball. It was just kind of a bizarre, bizarre experience. I think Vandy Women's Volleyball, they might have got knocked out, but they were. Was it that or soccer?

I don't know. I think Vandy's women's soccer went really far. Yeah. Well, that I won't get into. But I, you know, volleyball is fun. But thank you to everybody came to the bourbon theater That was very cool to get to do

And then Des Moines was fun It's just a great weekend in the Midwest Just got back It came right from the airport Well I went to Cancun Mexico Did a hideaway What is it?

What is it say? High Tide Getaway High Tide Getaway With Blackberry Smoke Real kind of rock band Yeah my buddy Charlie Star Frontman They were rocking it

Great I did a show a few other bands Elizabeth Cook out of Nashville Oh it was like a festival festival all music I was the one comic All right And this outdoors

I was in kind of a pavilion 1130 p.m. show After a music festival all day But was a very good show Because it was older people They've been drinking all day But they're respectful people Yeah

They're not like young country fans They're not total maniacs and vaping in the crowd or nothing. Yeah. And just actual cigarettes. Yeah, yeah. But it was great. Yeah, a band I was a big fan of.

Still I am, but they had an album in 2008 that I really loved. And it was great. I just felt like I was hanging out with all these people I used to listen to on Outlaw Country. Uh-huh. It was awesome. Do you take the family with you? I took my wife. Okay.

And the weather was great. It was 80 degrees. Two days later, I was in Iowa, and it was six degrees. Yeah, yeah. It was like, feels like negative 18 in Iowa. Yeah, and then I did a show in Dubuque, Iowa at Diamond Joe Casino. Yeah. And it was all great.

I had two shows there. It was a great week. Very busy. I'm tired. I spent three full days in the airport. I sat in the Chicago airport over two days, a total of, you know, like 15 hours. And, you know, I hate it. I hate that airport now.

I flew Denver Air. I'd never even heard of this. Key lime air. Key lime. It's kind of like it shows up key lime air on the app. It's Denver Air when you check in. You can't check in on the app. It was through book through American Airlines.

Key lime Air fleet of over 30 aircraft. There's no. I feel like you can give us the exact number. There's no seat. When I say that, it means 31. There's no seat assignments. there's no boarding group. They just go, all right, we're boarding now.

And then everybody gets on and just picks a seat. Whoa. How are the seats? Yeah, how are the seats? It's a small plane. They're okay. Yeah. You know, it's not.

There's no first class. Every seat's the same. Every seat's the same. Three across or two across? So one on one side and two on the other. Okay. Small plane. Was everybody rushing on?

Not really. Everybody was pretty chill. I mean, I wasn't into that, you know, sort of thing. I was trying to get on quick. I was trying to get on quick. because they're like, who knows what's about to happen on this flight. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but the pilot on my way to Dubuque and my way back from Dubuque

was a Nate Land listener. Oh, nice. Yeah, so we talked a bit, very nice guy. So it was fun. I mean, the flight was fine. I mean, it was totally fine, but it's a small plane, and I'd never really had that no boarding group, no seat assignment experience. I feel like planes, like, it's like this kind of thing's popping up where it's,

this you know they're not private flights but they're like these kind of weird boutique airline yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

yeah and it's just yeah maybe it's a little more and it was really the only way to fly direct to Dubuque so it was pretty excited well not direct but to get to Dubuque without having to you know from Cancun

yeah and how do they choose Dubuque they just walk around the airport and go Does anybody want to go to Dubuque? Just about. And then there's enough of you, and they go, all right, we're going to Dubuque. Actually, we were delayed in Chicago because the plane coming in, they were like, it's too small for the people coming from Dubuque tomorrow. So we got to switch flights because we need to take a bigger plane into there so we can get those people out.

Oh, wow. They're just figuring it out as they go. They really are. They really are. Are you saying the pilot going and coming was an eight-land family? Is that the same guy? Same guy, yeah. So they have, like, just a lot of repeat.

Like, Bob here, he works for key lime air, and he's going to be your pilot. Yeah, he, I mean, yeah. He was a young guy, but, yeah, it was cool. He was in good shape. He had pretty good shape. I feel like if you're a fat pilot, you don't want to work for key lime air. Yeah. Just a lot of...

Well, he was a very skinny guy. I wouldn't say, like, sickly skinny, but he was a very thin guy. Yeah, yeah, it was great. Do they do key lime pies? That's what I'm saying. They don't? You know what? But they do have. have little better snacks. I'm not so into it, but they had, you know, packs of Oreos with

six Oreos in it. You know, if you saw, oh, wow. Delta, Delta will give you the pack. Southwest will give you two. Yeah, they'll give you two on Delta, too, but they got packs of six, they got chips and free water, you know. And, you know, even in the airport in Dubuque, none of that, when I was flying out, none of the concession stands were open. They just had, like, snacks and water for you to just grab. Oh, that's fun. So, you know, you didn't have to pay for, you know, It was nice. Yeah. I don't want any of those snacks,

but I did, I'll be honest with you. I've been at the airport all day. I ate four Oreos. And I was into it. You've been bad. I was into it. I was into it.

All right. Start it off with your comments. Mount Everest episode, Jackson Jack. Yeah. You don't like it? I think it was a cool name. Jackson Jack.

I'm better than beat you up. Glad y'all talked. about Evers for a whole two minutes. Hold on. I actually think that was one of the topics we covered pretty thoroughly. I thought we did too. I did too. I think we talked about it like too long, to be honest.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I thought we talked a little bit of a lot, too. That's surprising. I'm going to push back on that, Jackson, Jack. I mean, what do you want to suggest, just talk about the mountain? I mean, we talked about hiking and getting there and stuff like that.

So maybe that's what he means. He wanted the mountain itself to get a little more. You want a little more geology. Yeah, what the rocks consist of that make up Mount Everest. What's the, it's the wildlife-like or nature on it? Yeah. Yeah, I wonder, is there nature on it? Is there?

At a certain point, things can't survive up there. But there's probably stuff on the base, I'm sure, yeah. Like goats? Yeah, Mountain goats. You don't think any mountain goats could survive up that high? No, they literally, like the tree line where trees can't even live up there. Yeah, there's no oxygen. There can't be life up there, yeah.

Wow. I bet there can. I bet there's something. I bet there's something. Microbes. And maybe that's what Jack's at Jack's talking about. He's like, there's some stuff up there that you guys didn't get to. Yeah, there's like gorillas up there.

Yeah. Mountain gorillas. What happened to that? Low oxygen, mountain gorillas. Yeah, we just talked about it now for more than two minutes, Jackson. Yeah, you're right. Justin Higgins. If I was to climb Mount Everest, I would leave a light bulb at the top with a wire running down a ways connected to a

switch. That way you can flip the light on to let the people who are taking the time of the top know that there are folks out there are waiting. That's fun. Yeah, I like that. That's a good idea, Justin. Yeah. I think if you're an election. I think the line takes care of that as well, though. Yeah. Like you, but when you're in a line, you're always like, man, is there one person that just turned around and then looks back? He goes, oh, it's been my turn for a while. I always think, did you actually check the door to see if someone was in there? Or did you just, I've been at a restroom waiting in line for a while behind people, only to find out the guy waiting, just didn't do the door well enough.

And no one was in there. Oh, man. And then he's causing you a line. That's why you push your own elevator buttons. You don't trust the people better. That's what to say. I bet you push your own. I go, sorry, guys, I got to do it.

Yeah. Oh, you make it a scene. I will let them know. It's like a show. Yeah. You got to let them know. Braden Meadows. I'm a dental lab technician and make crowns and bridges.

Last week I made a purple titanium front crown for a man. Dusty, the sky's the limit if you want a metal tooth. I've been thinking more and more about it. Mm-hmm. I'm pretty into it. Yeah. I don't want not one of the front teeth You want it

You know so you can see it But it's not It's not prominent Yeah Yeah Did he sent you that No I got something coming up Oh I was on to see the tooth

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I'm only getting actual, like, tiaras. Eric Watts, Michael Collins was orbiting the moon, couldn't really jump out. That is true. That's still frustrating. Yeah, it is frustrating. But somebody had to stay in the thing, you know. But I bet when they, it's like, how do you ask him to tell him, he's going because he's got to be like i think it's like ranks right there ranks like they're

a military unit so he's probably the lowest ranking of the three but do you think they pull them all in the same room and then they go hey we're going to the moon they're like oh my gosh and then they see michael's getting a little too excited and they go oh man uh michael uh i shouldn't have brought y'all in together i'm sorry you are going to be orbiting the moon you're going to get a good view of it. You're going to get, yeah, you're going to see it. You will be the closest to it besides these other two guys. You were trying to spin it like, you're actually going to have a better view than us.

Yeah, we're going to be too close. Yeah, that would be good. Yeah, that's exactly what I would say. It's like how you think about the Grand Canyon. Yeah. I'd rather fly over it than be in it. You fly over the minute because you're just like, it's too, it's hard to wrap your head around. Yeah.

Yeah. I think they tell them all a secret and they go, which one of these guys is can't keep a secret the best. and I bet it was Michael Collins. They go, this guy, he ain't going to keep this line out. So they go, we'll have you in. We'll just set up some monitors. He thinks he's a little bit.

Well, you believe his Michael Collins drove around the block for a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they had an earpiece in and they go, ah, you're orbiting the moon. Play the part. Yeah. So in Apollo 13, was it Kevin Bacon that was going to stay on?

I think so. I think he was the guy, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Josh Horton, it was nice of Diego Pavia to give Candice Lee the game ball after he realized breakfast wasn't there. Yeah, he was going to give it to you. We got a special little young man here today, guys. See, 10? No, he's 54.

Yeah, when we were trying to leave, you'd be over there getting everybody's autograph. Jeff Taylor, if you're looking to hike a mountain together, then I suggest you go to Klingman's Dome, now called Kuohoi. At 6,643 feet, it is the tallest mountain in Tennessee and second tallest east of the Mississippi. You can see seven states from the top. The best part for y'all is you can drive most of the way up. The actual trail is only a half mile long. There you go.

I've done that. That's my kind of like. I mean, it's... They make it pretty easy for you. Oh, yeah, yeah. Where's it at? In the Smoky Mountains. Oh, yeah.

I always think it's funny when they say you can see seven states and they're like, yeah, I see 50, I guess. You know, it's like, what is it? I can see Russia, if you're counting it. You know, what are we doing? Yeah. It's all that way. Yeah.

It's all somewhere. You see everything, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Get high enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no curvature. And what if you were up there and you go, what about eight? And they go, come on.

Yeah. He'll be ridiculous. He goes, where are you seeing... I think I see Florida down there. Yeah, you ain't seeing Florida. This guy's out of his mind. Don't listen to them, folks. I know in Chattanooga, look out Mountain.

That's the big selling point, C, seven states. Yeah. But I don't know where, how you can see from where the smoky mountains are. I think... If you're the highest point. And they got that little extra ramp there, boosting you up a little bit. Yeah. yeah i know i guess i'm questioning jeff's information okay uh just jep's just trying to be a fun guy

writing thing getting attacked by breakfast he's a dummy uh good night wow sorry jeff yeah yeah jeff i mean sometimes i tugged a little smack to the commenters but i don't call him dummies he's a dumb dumb Yeah. Boats. This is when we talk about boats. Linda Schaefer. I was so proud of Aaron when he quickly corrected Dusty and I, to me and Dusty.

But then a few minutes later, he's saying less things instead of fewer things, and my heart dropped. In his defense, he wasn't an English major. Wow. Well, thanks for that, Linda. Linda. She's fun at parties.

I'm working on it. What did you correct me? No, I was speaking, and I said Dusty and I should have said Dusty and me, and I corrected it in real time. But I didn't do that when I said less instead of fewer. Do you know when to use fewer and when to use less? I never use fewer. Really? I don't think I ever used fewer either.

Really? Yeah. Fewer is when you're talking about individual separate items. less is when you're talking about a smaller amount of something. So, like, if I drank out of your cup, you'd have less water, right? You wouldn't say you have fewer water in your cup. But if you had three basketballs on you and I took one away, you would have fewer basketballs. But you could argue it's still less.

I still have less than I had before. Right, but it's not less of, it's not a. smaller amount of one thing. Does that make sense? I think that's technically the difference. Just fun, just fun English stuff for you. Yeah. Well, I appreciate Lindison in that end. Definitely not a dumb person. Definitely not a dumb, dumb. I agree with it. Like Jeff Taylor. I agree with Linda. Groucho T. Aaron, I support the sea shanties. What a great culture that has kept going. They were sung on ships

to keep rhythm and time while sailors worked to complete tasks that had to be done in unison, like raising a gale. I don't know what that is either. It's a bird.

If you are ever near Mystic Connecticut on a weekend, see if they still have the concert nights where sea shanties are performed. It's pretty fun to go listen. You know what's funny is I,

I listened, someone listened to sea shanties it was on like the radio and maybe one of like our runners cars or something I heard it this like or either this not this weekend the weekend before I heard

C shanties and it was being played and I was like is this C shanties? I go dude I go I was just and I forgot where I was talking about it but I just heard I've never heard

Did you get into it man were you singing along? I just it was like so crazy that someone was playing it and I was right after we talked about it yeah I had a roommate in college who's from Ireland and he in there's a big part of like European pub culture where they sing songs and stuff in the bar and I've always thought that was cool I've never been in a bar in America where everybody starts singing you know the stand up on the table and starts singing the song yeah yeah doesn't that look like fun yeah I think it is it does like fun yeah

I bet you've done some bar singing yeah a little bit and Charleston, I mean, I think, not like that, but, you know, it's been some, you know, karaoke nights with a whole bar singing a song. What is it like, Sweet Caroline? It's like, that'll do it. That, uh, just a small town boy living in a love. Don't stop believing. Yeah, don't stop believing. I've seen a whole bar sing that. Yeah. That's a good time. Blake Draper. Great name. Blake Draper. I like that a lot. It's two names that don't look like. they would go together, but they go perfect together. Parents nailed it. By far, the highlight of the episode was Dusty saying he didn't understand the references Nate and Aaron were making about watching Shawshank Redemption and throwing golf balls,

even though Dusty was there for it. I loved it because I can picture myself in Dusty's position of not remembering something I was there for. Yeah, I mean, you know, I remember conversations about Aaron saying he can throw a golf ball. really far. I support Aaron. I think you can do it. I appreciate it. But I was not getting what you guys were talking about in that moment. But I appreciate the support from Blake Draper. And now I also agree. Great name. Great name. Blake Draper. Yeah. Really goes together in a way you don't expect. Yeah. Yeah. I think his parents really nailed it. I mean, nailed it. Blake

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Okay, I'm listening. Join the loyalty program for renters at joinbilt.com slash Nate. That's J-O-I-N-B-I-L-T.com slash Nate. Make sure to use our URL so they know we sent you. Uh, Kevin Dearing. All I'm thinking about throughout the whole boat discussion is Nate's bit about Abigail's boat and jet ski. I'm wondering if she still has them. How well can they recall the bit? So many thoughts of questions. Uh, I don't like I got to recall the bit at all right now. Uh, she has a, she has the boat. I think the jet skis are gone. Does she, did she keep the boat? I think she still has the boat. I thought she got rid of a boat, but then she might still have. have a boat. She still likes it.

I learn nothing from that. I don't know how she feels. She says she likes to fish. That's what I know. She likes to fish. I know she likes to fish. She goes out on the boat. I think they got rid of the boat.

I think they did get rid of the boat. Because you know what they say about people, what boat stands for. That's right. Bust out another thousand. Yeah. Which I determined that's from an episode of Pond Stars. Oh, okay. Back in the day, they bought a boat and they tried to sell it.

And then, you know, the renovations just kept increase. Oh, yeah. So that'll happen. Mm-hmm. So, yes, I'm sorry I don't remember. I'd have to listen to it. I had to do a corporate gig this week, and they wanted me to the water meter,

reading the water meter bit. And, I mean, I had to listen to it before I went on, and I did not. I mean, I made it through enough, but it was. They really do go away. How different do you think it would be if you were to write that joke now,

do you think it would be different than the way you wrote it even a year ago? I think it would be. I also think it would be impossible. I don't know if I could. Like, I mean, it would have to be different. You mean that I wouldn't fit in your hour right now, or what? I think it would be different,

but I think it's because I did it, it would almost be like my brain wouldn't let me. I'd probably get back to, kind of how I had it, just because it's still, it's got to be in there somewhere. I mean, if you had gotten the idea now, do you think even where you're at as a comic a year or two later, it would be different? You would have written it much different. Yeah, I think it's, yeah, I think every year I've gotten, I've gotten different with stuff.

I was thinking about that the other night on stage. Like, I was like, it's sometimes, because some things you do have are actual jokes. And some of them, I'm just like drawing a. situation and you're just in the situation so then it's like that's what it is so they're in the situation through you through me and so it's like you could you know where it's you get to where you're like don't have uh i can there's there's certain things i have that are actual jokes and then some of it is just the build up of i'm explaining a situation that i was in that's and so you're just it's like watching a movie

it's like hearing about a movie so that's completely changed I thought that the other night I'll defend my own self sometimes when I'm on stage if I think someone tells me I don't know how to write a joke in my head I'm like that was a joke

and I defend it look at me in real time in real time I go what are they talking about I don't do jokes I got that was clearly a joke you drop the mic and then there's times in my head

I go, well, that's not a joke, but it's a situation. I'll take the laugh. I go, they're laughing, and it's because I made them picture it. I always referenced the dead horse joke, because when we were together, we first thought that really was a dead horse. And then we came back and saw it, was it? And I thought, well, that joke is over. So when you started telling it on stage, I'm like, I can't believe he's telling a joke

that's not true. But then the way you told it, you still made it work. Yeah. okay yeah no i appreciate it no i appreciate it yeah yeah yeah they're uh yeah i think people think too like they that we don't write you know sam comics don't write their own stuff i think that's becoming a problem or it's not a problem but people are starting to think that we all write our own stuff like we're talking you writing jokes for me like when i'm going on tv to do when i'm going on tv to do that kind of thing i i

That's not your act. That's not my act. But I still come up with those jokes. Julian's here. We wrote jokes for a lot of stuff. You're writing stuff for different situations, but yeah. I think, I just feel like there's a vibe. I think comics do have people writing jokes for them.

But in overall, it's like, no one's writing jokes for you. You're coming up with the jokes. Too many people talking about comedy. You know what I mean? and they're just coming up with all these ideas. I think they can't believe that stand-up comedians can come up with this much stuff. Especially at your level. Yeah, I honestly believe.

They think you have a team of writers. They think you have a team, yes. And that's the part that you want to, I want to, almost for young comics to go, it doesn't work like that. Yeah. Now, if you're one-liners, if you're this, you know, I'm not, there are comics that do, can, that get writers, maybe when they get older. and so you just get some guys that write some stuff. That's all great and all, but, yeah, it's like, it's very, very hard to come up with an act. And so most of it is you're like, I'm just telling you this stuff or that, or you go, like, what about this?

I said this, is this funny? And then you say, oh, yeah, what about that, whatever? But, I mean, really the hardest thing to come up with is what you're going to talk about, the premise. The premise is impossible. I like to let strangers write them for me. I go, I see them at the airport, and they go, do something with this. This interaction we've had.

Then you do something with it. Then I do something with it. Take it and I go, I ran into a guy. Do you remember, somebody gave you? Oh, I have had, yeah, some of, I think it was at Cozies and Newport News, somebody gave you a really great tag for your. I had a joke about peeing on ants. Yeah.

And, you know, I was saying I was stimmed. the ant economy because the ants, they build the house, they build the bed, and then they got nothing to do. So there's ants on his house outside. He'd pee on the ants. Yeah, because I'd pee outside a lot and they'd be crawling. I like to pee them off the wall. That's fun for me. Because they keep coming back. What are you guys doing? So I would step on an ant bed to give them work. They need work. They're out of work now. Creating jobs. Creating jobs. So then I pee on it. And the guy said, that's trickle-down economic. mics.

Yeah. I go, you know what? That's a good joke. Yeah. That's a good bit. I will take that. Yeah. And that's,

but that's exactly like a perfect, but no one's writing that joke. Like, you're like, you, no one's, you're putting them in the world. Right.

Exactly. And you get to do it and you get lucky sometimes. Sometimes someone will say that to you where you go, that's great, but I won't be able to say that. Yes. That happens probably 95% of times. You're like,

you're like, yeah, dude, that's so funny. I got to bring that joke back. There you go. That's a good one, yeah. But then that, but you get a situation like that where you're like, yeah, yeah, you're like, that is. I've definitely had, you have like a line where you're like, oh, yeah, someone else said that.

And you're like, oh, you know what, I can make that work. Yeah. And it adds to it. But you're, yeah, this mix of comics are writing in, if comics are, the majority are writing their own, their own acts. That's why it's hard to keep writing a new hour. That's when you see a comic put a special out and they're stressed about the new hour they've got to come up with because it is hard.

It would be like writing a movie every year. Like it's going to be kind of hard. Yeah. And then you've got to go try it and run it. Justin Wilson, Mookie Blaylock was the original name of the name Pearl Jam. Lawyers told them they had to change his name so they went with Pearl Jam but named their first record 10

because that was Mookie Mooky's number Are they just fans of Mooky Blaylock? I guess I love the guy. Last week someone wrote in and their name was Muky Blaylock and that's why this person. Yeah, that's interesting.

Would he play for Seattle? I can't remember who Mooky Blah that's where Pearl Jam's from, right? You play for the Sonics maybe? That would make sense. Oh, yeah. that would make sense yeah yeah he played for uh he was when he's from texas and no he did not play play for the nets the hawks and the warriors i thought that's where they're from maybe they're not

from seattle but i i got into some yeah pearl jam perl jam rock stuff the other day and there was a a band uh you know that uh yeah what's the band uh where they did the uh nirvana i don't mind stealing bread you know that song I got some people from Sound Garden and some people It's not Sound Garden but it's a different Temple of the Dog Yeah

And I think that had people from Pearl Jam in it People from Sound Garden And were they fans of Muky Blilock Do you know? Yeah there's so Jeffa meant the guitarist for Pearl Jam was a huge basketball fan And Portland

Is a huge Portland fan And right he was If he played in Portland That's close enough Yeah so that's yeah That makes sense I played Golden State. That was the 90s.

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greatest podcast ever. Thank you. Thank you, Nate, Brian, Aaron, and Dusty for all the laughs on here are in your other adventures and always coming back for our benefit. Well, thank you very much. Thank you, Darren. Darren. And with that, I recorded something earlier alone without you guys here and for the fans. And so the title of this podcast, this one is called The Next Act, and we're talking about just some changes. But so you guys can watch this video along with the audience. Yeah, here we go. What's up, everybody?

Nate Barrett's here. I'm just sitting here alone for the moment. The other guys will be in here. No one's in the room with me. I am going to be leaving the podcast, so I want to tell you personally. When I started this podcast, I guess five years ago, during COVID, I did it. You know, really to stay sharp to, you know, because it was during COVID. like I think as a comedian you have to you have to stay you got to stay funny it's just look how long

it came I mean here we are I think it's like 280 something episodes we've done it's been a part of my career and life that I will love forever all the people I've got to meet on the road all the kids that listen to this podcast and the people that've been on long rides and long drives and They've just listened to the podcast, and that stuff does mean the most to me. We have a great crew. Everybody that's ever worked on this podcast, you know, it's been amazing. My wife, you know, she was the producer at the beginning of this, and she's always continued to be very much a part of this.

I could not do any of, everything I've done in my life I could not do without her. It's absolutely insane to even say I'm leaving a podcast together. go make movies and build a theme park and everything I'm trying to do going forward is I want you to be able to do it with your family. You want it to just be this place where everybody can come and feel safe and just get away from the kind of chaos. So I want to create moments for you guys and your families and I want to continue to gain your trust because you don't owe this to me. You've never owed us listening to this podcast to me. So I need to just continue to make sure that you trust me and, or that you can trust me and know that I'm building stuff with you and

mind. You know, we titled this, The Next Act. And it's, because I think that's just, it's kind of where I am heading. And with this network, I think we're going into that also. And, and, With Nate Land, Nate Land's growing. Nate Land is, it's moving along, and I'm going to, I believe in it so much. The Nateland Network and the world that we've built here is going to continue to go. These guys are going to do a podcast and start their own. These are all Aaron Bates, Dusty, Super Talented, obviously, and let them do their thing. and we're going to do a live podcast in January,

a finale live podcast of the Nate Land podcast. I want this to be a celebration. We're going to have fun. This podcast, we're going to have fun. The next few weeks, we're going to have fun. I'm still around. I'm not going anywhere. Got a game show coming out,

and then a movie coming out March 13th, and I'll hopefully be able to start kind of moving towards that stuff and continue making stuff for you. Thank you. From the bottom, I mean, from the bottom of my heart, Do know that I love you, and I promise you. I'm always, I will, I think of you at all times. As always, I love you.

But, yeah, so this is, you know, we have a few, we won't get more, more, you know, I just talked about it. I will be on the, I think I'm on every podcast from here on out, which is one. Now, it's, I think there's like two, two couple weeks. A month? Yeah, I mean, yeah. Yeah, yeah. We have a big, the last one will be a big one. And so, yeah, and that's why, and you guys are going to continue on. It's, you know, it's been wonderful.

This podcast has been the best, having you guys here, has been the best. It's been very fun. You know, when we're in here and like just talking about the dumbest stuff, like it really does help. It takes, you know, the world doesn't exist kind of outside of this. when we're in here and we're on it and I've even gone back and watched old

podcast clips you know kind of recently like seeing them on YouTube and stuff and there's just man there was just some there's just some stuff

it's so funny like it was like just yeah I watched civilian station the other day and it's it's an old one

it's like but it's just so so funny and people still bring that up to me all the time yeah yeah yeah and just where it started and where it's all gone to so uh but yeah i'm trust you guys you guys are going to carry it on and this has been brian's playing the whole time i think waiting it out brian he waited took five years but he pushed you out

five and half to be exactly he's going to slide over and take that take that seat in the table yeah it will begin we'll save the emotional stuff for the last episode i guess but uh yeah i'm not emotional at all. Yeah, yeah, it's happy. Yeah, happy emotion. Yeah, and, uh, wait. Let's talk next act. Uh, so, yeah.

So, well, that's why this is, uh, this, this podcast is, uh, titled the next act. And, uh, because I feel like we can talk about the next act of just stuff or whatever. I don't know, you picked the topic. Uh, so, uh, yeah, I'm sure. What are we talking about? Well, you did mention that. I'll be honest with you. I did kind of forget. You mentioned that. So today's episode is about quitters. We're talking about quitters. I mean, I'm not quit. I don't think it counts as quitting. No, I think you're quitting us. You're leaving, yes. It's not quitting. What would it be? Well, like if someone retar, the next, I'm moving on to the next act. And then you are too. You all, you're all, everybody's moving to the next act.

Well, okay. I guess we're all quitting this podcast. You're all quitting this podcast. Yeah. Yeah, but we're not quitting. I'm moving on. You guys are quitting the podcast. Well, we'd be moving on, too, though, to a new podcast.

You will be moving to a new podcast, but you're the one that... The band's breaking up. Yeah, but you're quitting. That sounds mean. I sure does. Well, but we're called, you know, they call us the band. I think that's an apt analogy. The band's breaking up.

But, yeah, I think there'd be times of the band. Maybe I could come back on y'all's podcast. I don't think so. Well, what if I'm in town? I mean, maybe, man. Maybe to promote, I got a movie. We like to start on time. I get a movie.

Yeah, that's true. When the movie comes out, maybe I can come promote the movie or something. Well, we are in the movie. Yeah. That's true. A little cross-promotion. I mean, I ain't going to promise anything. And I had a fight to keep y'all in that movie.

A little cross-promotion. Did you really? That wouldn't surprise me, actually. Because Brian and I, Brian and I've seen there's no plot. No, there's no reason for us to. It would be the first thing to cut if you needed. Yeah. No, no, it's, everybody's in.

As of right now. So let me, I say that as of right now. Let's let it come out. But I, they know it's important to me to have everybody. Okay. Well, thank you, man. And it is your movie. So if we're cut.

out, then we know that you had the final decision. Well, if I would cut, look, for the benefit for the, I am I can't be ruthless in I have no emotion if it doesn't fit, I will cut. Yeah, you have to. I have no

like, I had that in my act. Have you already had to cut stuff or like stuff that you thought you was going to be really Yeah, yeah, yeah. They've gone through it a bunch. I mean, I've seen it once. And so, and we had some notes from that And then, but it's, you know, yeah, we have the trailer's out

And the trailer's not out, but I have, but you should see the trailer soon The trailer is very exciting. The trailer was like, that one, like, even watching the movie was intense because it's just you and you're like, just hard to wrap your head around. How did you watch it? Just you alone in front of the TV? No, no, we had a couple people. people and uh or a few people we wanted some bodies in the room yeah they do screenings we did a

screening uh and then there will be one more screening where people are you know you they they don't really know what movie they're seeing and then so you kind of take notes from that and stuff snor bracky yeah i i did i was not there for that i think i uh i was not there for that and then so but yeah it's like you kind of can hear you know you hear where people at in here where they don't laugh uh i think that process it seems pretty fun though like it's or it's it's it's it's it's a equivalent of doing your act in a sense like you know but i mean i'm look i'll cut i don't mind cutting because it's you do it in your act all your whole act is but we're saying though we'll know it was you though we're not saying that you mind doing it we'll know if i get

told that uh yeah if i get told that you're doing it it is it is It's funny, it's like, Dusty scene is a scene that I think it would be the tougher one to cut. That's what I'm saying. There's a legitimate plot in his scene. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the opening... But there's character development in ours. There's character development, and yours is a part that I came up with to start the movie.

So I did come up with the idea, and that we like the way it starts. So it's like your... yeah okay yeah so i think i think you'll be good i'm excited yeah i'm excited too up until this point i didn't actually think there was any doubt that we would be in there oh i have the whole time oh i i mean i barely told people about this is this is the first that this is seeping into my mind yeah but you are this is sadder than the video we would just watch yeah well show business baby yeah yours is uh yeah you got you actually do have a a thing yeah that happens that we have to

have the story advances yeah yeah yeah erin is our scene i can see where we could cut right there and right there yeah yeah yeah i think you're being there yeah no i think everybody everybody will be in there uh don't blink No, no, I'm joking. I think everybody did great, so. Yeah. All right. Well, anyway, we're talking about quitters.

Yeah, so I'm not quitting. It's, uh, but that's up for debate. It says quitters slash cowards at the top. Can't handle. I googled, uh, quitters and everything that came up was just Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Notre Dame. Yeah. So, wow. Come on.

I mean, most of this is just about Notre Dame. It is. That is good. It's a great one to start it with. Because Notre Dame quit more than I quit. I'm at least moving forward. Like, if Notre Dame quit and said, we're getting into a conference, that's what I'm doing. They're at least moving forward. All right. Yeah. You yawning to do an appointment. Bored of this conversation. Just move on. What was the bolding cut? A yawn came and it just came at a fun time for me. So I let it out. I let it happen. On the mic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I thought it would be funny because I'm... Yeah, maybe that's why I'm quitting the podcast, because... This is the dead weight you've been carrying it. Yeah, it's hard to... Yeah. There is a quitter's day, a national quitters day. It's January 9th. That's when everybody quits their New Year's resolutions?

That's correct. All right. It's actually the second Friday in January, but this year it falls on January 9th. And, yeah, that's when people start tending to quit their New Year's resolution. That's where... Everybody's smoking cigarettes goes, you know what? I'm not going to quit. They've not been quit up to nine, but they've just decided finally, all right, I'm not going to do it.

Wow. I'm going to keep this going. That's what I used to do. When I smoked, I would always wait until New Year's and I would go, you know what, I'm just going to smoke a lot tonight at the party so that my chest hurts so that I'll quit tomorrow. And it worked one time. Yeah, yeah. Eventually it did. But usually it didn't.

Usually I just addicted myself further. Aaron, anybody come to mind when you think of famous quitters? Famous quitters? I mean, there are a lot of sports ones. Yeah, a lot of sports. But that's where you're like, all right, so Barry Sanders. You can't really, you call that quitter. Andrew Locke, I would say.

Now, let me think, let me zoom out a little bit. Think outside of sports. Richard Nixon. Yep. The only president's ever resign in the middle of a term. Yep. Was he on there? Yep, I have Twitter.

But didn't he get in trouble? Yeah, that's what we were. why he resigned. He was about to be impeached, and he just... So he didn't ever end up actually getting impeached. He beat him to the punch. So he might have done the right thing. I like Richard Nixon. I think he was, I think he was scammed. I am not a cook. Yeah, he was the president for the moon landing. So he said, a lot of good stuff. Yeah. Well, you got to go along with it. You got to play ball, all right? You got to take the landline call from the main.

Yeah, they probably didn't tell him. Well, I think I've told this story before in here, but supposedly he and Jackie Gleason were good friends. They were having drinks one night at the White House, and he was like, you want to see some UFOs and show Jackie Gleason a bunch of UFO stuff that they had on hand. Who told that? Jackie Gleason told it? Yeah, Jackie Gleason shared that story later. I'm talking about betraying your buddy. He promised not to tell anybody? Well, maybe there's what's Watergate happened.

He goes, all right, I'll get it. What does it matter now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jackie Leeson's catchphrase. To the moon? To the moon. Whoa. Maybe that's when it started.

Yeah. But yeah, I had Barry Sanders down. He retired at age 31, despite being only 1,400 yards away from breaking the all-time rushing record. So that would have been how many more seasons that, I mean, just a few more at his pay? Maybe one, but probably two. Did he ever say, like... He retired due to lack of desire to continue playing

and frustration with the Detroit Lions' lack of success. As bad as the Titans are, he retired, one of the best ever. Calvin Johnson, one of the best wide receivers ever, retired at 30 for the same reason. From the same team. Yeah, because he's sick of the lines. Yeah, and then Matthew Stafford goes to the Rams and wins the Super Bowl. Yeah.

But the Lions are pretty good. They've been great. They've been good the last two years, but it was so, like, so many years. Yeah. Yeah. There's a great clip of, I think, Stafford's first year when he's on the Rams, and they're playing the Lions, and he's miced up, and the games ended, or it's maybe a timeout, and he's talking to his former teammates on the Lions.

Yeah. And he's just saying, I know, guys, I know, I know, I know, I'm with you, I know. So they're all just voicing the same complaints. Yeah, that must be. You're like, yeah, am I going to just put my body through this for, nothing for yeah i'll be brain dead in another four years why let me just go out on top i get it yeah he and jared goff kind of switched teams and then yeah they played each other yesterday that'll be Nate when he comes up and visit you guys after yeah i know i know yeah y'all

dealing with the breakfast uh yeah andrew luck retired at 29 um he'd still be up rivers right now he tore his body up though right wouldn't he like all messed up he had some injuries and he was a smart guy and he's like i'm just getting out nothing exceptional though yeah i thought that that would be the craziest one to me yes that was that was insane because it was out of nowhere and it was right before the season started yeah and he was being harold of this kind of the next great quarterback yeah the NFL yeah right the next Peyton manning and then bam gone now He's the GM of Stanford. Yeah, something was weird.

Yeah, that was, because it was, it was like before the season, it's just like, it's like one of those, you're like, dude, it's like very, you know. And I don't know, maybe there's more to it than we know, but it's like, how do you do that right like that? Yeah. Jim Brown also retired at 29. Really?

Yeah. I didn't know that. Pursue an acting career. Well, probably was going to go make some money. And that worked out pretty. well for him yeah yeah yeah he did some stuff yeah yeah that's what i mean yeah yeah he probably was like yeah i'm gonna go make some money as an actor he was in quite a few things yeah i mean nothing highly acclaimed but he did some stuff he was in a lot of things he was in what okay

but i but you know him as a football player is what i yeah he was in any given sunday the dirty dozen okay the running man yeah the running man that's a great movie Vanderbilt Can you think of a quitter? Bobby Johnson That's right Bobby Johnson Our football coach

quit right before the season started Yeah, I think it was health concerns Okay It was health something I've heard Bobby's the I've never met him But I heard he's Urban Meyer was a big

Yeah, Urban Meyer on that list Now that's a good one But Bobby Johnson was out of nowhere And it was like And we were like He was a great coach And we were making

Yeah he finally We finally had a winning record We went to a bowl game the first time. Put me on that list when I work for spectracide. I quit that job. I did quit that job.

Equal stakes. I quit that job. I quit working at Hyman's. Quit working at Papa Johns. I've quit a lot of jobs. Western Sisland two times. All right. I'll add you the list.

But Bobby Johnson, back to him. People that have quit things. I'm right here. I've never not quit. Put in a two-week notice. Yeah. I've never quit a job. I've stopped

I've stopped working them but there's a difference between I'm no longer working that job and I quit I don't think so Are you saying you were fired? I've been fired from one job The rest of them I'm just like

All right this chapter of my life is over I'm not working there I just stop picking up shifts Yeah That's not quitting I think you're you're saying like give up I don't think you're giving up to quit You just quit

what I mean is I didn't quit because I was frustrated with the job yeah and then let me find something else it was just like my circumstances changed but you quit though but it feels I didn't storm out in a huff circumstances it was hard I never stormed out in a huff either I like a two-week notice but it's still quitting yeah yeah so Nate's doing right now okay I guess it just feels different to be like yeah I got fed up up at work one day and like I quit versus I'm going full-time stand-up comedy so I'm no longer working this job that would be I understand what I'm saying because that's just what I talk about

like it's being type of quitters it's like I'm not quitting I'm moving on to do other things greener pastures no that's what you said yeah but I guess but the green your pat the stuff I'm moving on to is still bringing this world along with me still grass it's but if you're doing something and then you stop doing it you're You've quit doing that. Yeah. I wouldn't call you a quitter, but you've quit doing it. So when people die, you call them quitters?

But would you quit living? But if you move up, like, so say you're, I don't even know, like you run a company and then you go be president and then you resign. Yeah, what's the difference between resigning and quitting? I think it's still. I think it's the prestige of the job. I think it is too. You don't resign from Wendy's. I mean, if you're in there for a long time.

But if you work at Wendy's. But if you're in CEO of Wendy's, you resign. Yes, exactly. If you work at Wendy's and then Burger King offers you more money, you quit Wendy's to go work at Burger King. Yes. But I would say you take a better opportunity. You go the, yeah, if you pay more money and you go do it,

and then the offers better over there, you're, yeah, I think quitting is if it, maybe if you leave. with there's bad blood. Maybe the only way to not quit is if the job doesn't exist anymore. Like, right? Because if I'm eating food and I don't finish the food

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you've the yes the whole podcast will be in young to completion yeah we want a new podcast will be here and then a phoenix will emerge from the rubble of the old podcast the Nate the Nate land podcast is you're so technically everybody's quitting yeah yeah it's so don't make me a quitter because of your decision you're quitting I would be here with it forever if we view that it's come to you're quitting it's come to a conclusion it's completely yeah completed it it's a task complete. It's a task complete. Now we have to move on to the next task. We did it. We did a very good task complete. And then now y'all will move on and drive it right into the ground. You'll come back like Mr. Peterman. Congratulations on a job. Done. Yeah. We all travel so much. And I had one of

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I'd like another one. One of the most famous quitting in sports was Roberto Duran against Sugar Ray Leonard in a boxing match where he famously said, no moss oh I've seen that I saw on 30 so that's quitting

yeah now he later claimed he did not say that that Howard Cosell just said he said that but he clearly quit in the ring he said he was having

stomach cramps but supposedly he said no moss and yeah there's a 30 for 30 about it well I think I've seen the 30 for you're talking

about the one where someone had something in their gloves no that's a different one he he was known as hands of steel or whatever he had the

but not You're talking about one where a guy cheated. Yeah. And he had like something in his gloves. Who was he saying no moss too? Just no more fighting. I'm done fighting. No, but who is he saying because it's, it's in Spanish?

Was he saying it too Sugar Ray Leonard? I think he, the ref was maybe the closest? You think they couldn't translate it? Maybe they just said it to himself. No, I'm just saying he claims he never said it. So I was wondering, who do they claim he said this too? Maybe he said it to himself. I'm done.

I think he was just like, no moss. No moss. To his team. Yeah. Okay. I mean, there's video of him quitting, but you don't hear it. You can't hear him. Oh, and Sugar Ray was taunting him at this point.

And he was kind of waived up. So he had just beaten Sugar Ray Leonard. I saw a video about this. Sugar Ray said Roberto Duran had a history of partying and living it up right after a big fight. So he asked for a rematch six weeks later, and they accepted it. And Roberto Duran was out of shape for this rematch. So they cheated him Well he didn't have to accept it

I bet his team accepted Yeah but Sugar Ray Leonard is the biggest thing in the world That you're like well you have to accept it Yeah yeah And then you can't you know And then they want Sugar Ray back on top Because he's the star Yeah I think they

They ruined that Probably and that which would make him say no moss Because he's like I don't even care Like y'all Yeah I already beat you I beat you we wouldn't have even Duran insists he never said no moss, but was mumbling something else. No seagull, which means I'm not going on due to illness and dehydration.

It feels like the same thing. No seagull? No seagull. They go, no seagulls. There's no seagulls here. I go out, he's out of his mind. He's seeing seagulls. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, maybe the difference. He goes, we got to call the fight. He thinks there's seagulls flying around in here. Maybe no moss would mean like I can't take it anymore as opposed to no seagulls, which means this is, I don't, I just, you know, I don't want to do this. It's very funny that. Is it no seagulls?

That can't be right. Yeah. Okay, I got to look that up. No seagulls. I think AI is missing with us. I mean, no seagull is a misinterpretation. or mishearing of Roberta Duran's famous controversial declaration of no

Moss. Yeah, Duran claimed he said no Seagull. So he's not saying I'm giving up. He just no Seagull. I ain't doing that. But does no, what does Seagull mean? Yes, that's what I'm wondering. Duran's alleged explanation was that he mumbled

no seagull, which is a phonetic approximation of no moss. What does that mean? Nothing. Yeah. But if you Google no seagull in Spanish yeah

okay well yeah okay I guess okay that didn't help that's not it yeah yeah Sigel in Spanish is yeah

Siga is a verb in Spanish so yeah it just sounded it just sounded like it Ciga no no no Mar no Mar

no more I don't even I don't even have the right languages up we get it we get it the guy The guy gave him. He said no seagull. And there were no birds in the arena. There was no birds in the arena. And that was a clear tale. No seagull. And no seagull is a confusing title for a 30 for 30 about boxing. Yeah. And then they, yeah. He goes, no seagulls. And they go, I promised you. There was no seagull. And he goes, no, no seagull. He goes, I don't know what to tell you. I know the first fight you said there were seagulls. There are.

are no seagulls. None. Nata. No mobs. Smother for famous quitting. Dave Chappelle. Oh, yeah. He's back. But he quit his show.

That could be, you could say that, that was, I think, yeah, I could say quitting. Because you have a lot of people working for you, a lot of, like, stuff like that. Well, based on some stuff that feels like he said, like, other people were basically writing his show at that point so he just was like i don't like they were like you come back but as a team of writers like doing the show now that's some things i've i've seen him say in an old interviews where it's like well so are you quitting are you going i'm not doing this new thing that you're doing well you yeah you have writer yeah no see no seagulls no seagull nil britton might say something else, but I don't know.

This is a famous resignation letter from Thaddeus Macotter. He was a congressman from Michigan, and he resigned, I think, in the middle of a scandal. And I know this, just full disclosure, there's an episode of the newsroom where they talk about this, but listen to this resignation letter. The recent events, totalities, and calamities, and dignities and deceits have weighed most heavily upon my family. Thus, acutely aware one cannot rebuild their hearth of home amongst the ruins of their U.S. House office. For the sake of my loved ones, I must strike another match, go start anew, by embracing the promotion back from public servant to sovereign citizen. I like no seagull better.

You have to resign and you say, I'm embracing the promotion back to sovereign citizen. I like that. I mean, I love that. I like it too. And then I love the Striking the match. Strike another match. Go start a new. Yeah. That seems like that's in a song. Strike a match.

Go start a new. Maybe. It's in quotation marks in the... Yeah, what is that song? I've noticed... Paul Koharski posted this out, pointed this out, that used to be always

teams just release players. Like, if they weren't getting... Oh, Bob Dylan. It's all over now, baby blue. Yeah. But now they'll spin it to say they've granted so-and-so their release. Yeah.

To make it seem like it was the players. It offends it a little bit. I've allowed you to no longer live your dream and go back down to the miners. Well, but I bet it's just if people, no, I think it's madge if someone's like, release me's trying to go play somewhere else. That's granted a release.

If they release you where it's over. Another Bob Dylan song, any day now, I must be released. Yeah. Work about quitters. Yeah. Like quitting time, like five o'clock somewhere. Quitting time.

That's another song. Did you all ever quit anything as a church? child like a quitting time yeah like what like a sports team or anything or i almost no they chose for me i almost quit football i was in eighth grade playing football and you wanted to quit i had all my pads i came out my mom goes what are you doing i go i'm quitting she goes all right go tell your coach and i go all right and i played the rest of the season i don't think so but i quit baseball at 13 but i played that season i just didn't yeah that was always what my parents would say they would go, you don't have to play next year.

You don't have to do it next year, but you're not going to quit the middle of it. I did quit the wrestling team. I did quit that. What happened? But no one cared. They weren't fighting for you? Yeah, there's a guy.

He's still my friend, but there's a guy. He's like an Army Ranger now. But he was, what a loser. He was in my weight class. So I had to beat him to go, you know, play actual matches. And he was just, well, I didn't want to work that hard. I mean, he was a beast, and he was, you know, he's ripped. I don't know how he weighed the same as me, but.

It doesn't sound like wrestling was the sport for you to begin with. There's no sport. If you're like, I don't want to work that hard. No sport for me. But. Swimming. No seagulls going on. There was no sweat.

We didn't have a swim team, I don't think. But, but yeah. So I did quit that. I think that's the only sport I quit mid-season. A couple more quitters. Pope Benedict. well he did that's true

I guess I guess so supposedly there's the conspiracy theories he knew too much and they forced him out and knew too much about what

well some stuff I'm a Notre Dame won't join a conference it's all it's all Notre Dame football stuff hasn't it come out to Notre Dame

like they're giving them like some special privileges oh yeah no the they asked for special

they asked for yeah okay I think you're still talking about the Vatican I go no I don't think they're...

Notre Dame said they should be allowed to be in because something that no other team... Nobody else gets. Yeah, it sounds all right to me. King Edward the 8th. He abdicated the throne in England so he could marry an American divorcee. It was a scandal.

And so he gave up his... The crown is king. He created the Church of England, too. This is the guy that beheaded all. his wife. This is 1936. Okay. That's King Henry. How did that work out for him in the end? My bet. Her name was Wallace. Yeah, Wallace Simpson. How did that work out for him in the end? Good. I mean, they stayed together. He moved to the United States, I believe. His brother took over the throne, and that was Queen Elizabeth's dad. Wow. That's interesting. Have you seen the movie The King's Speech? Yeah, yeah, sure. That's the brother that took over.

Wow. Okay, I remember him now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Amanda Binds. You're big Amanda Binds, man, right? I loved Amanda Bines. One of the most talented people of my generation, probably. Most talented comedic actors. How did she quit? I think she had a lot of problems, and she walked away just for her own middle health.

Oh, okay. Walking away, quitting. A lot of people say that a lot of one-hit wonders. That's what they do. It's like it's not that they just couldn't create more great music, but they got involved in the industry and we're like, I don't want any part of this. I disagree.

I think some people only got one in them. I disagree. I think it's very, very hard to sustain it. No doubt, but I don't know. I think they're going to do something to it. They quit, yeah. I want to talk about, this is a fun, quick joke. Some non-quit, some non-quitters.

Are they still a ban? Quitting time is a Keith Whitley. Quentin. He's still around. I don't think no doubt still. Yeah. Too legit to quit. That's an MC. Oh, yeah. Keith Whitley had quitting time. That's how I guess. It's a good. It's a good one.

Walter Orthman worked to the same job for 84 years. It's going to get his world record. He started at 15 and he was almost 100 when he was released for sexual harassment. Is that true? Okay. Oh, I was like, wow. During the Me Too movement. Yeah.

No, that part's not true. Do he get promoted or anything, or is it just the same job? He worked at a textile company as an assistant in the shipping department when he was 15. Is he continuing his career? He was promoted to administrative assistant, eventually sales manager. Well, he didn't quit. He retired. That's not quitting.

Yeah, I said non-quitters. These are the best non-quitters. Well, I'm retiring. These are like the Bryans of the world. Yes. Like never quit. They never quit. That's right.

That's right. Yeah. Yeah. People are going, you should go that. I mean, nobody wants them there, but they go, you are that guy of this podcast is going to be. But when you said that, I thought I was picturing a guy at like the same assembly line for a hundred years or something. So I'm glad he was at least moving up.

But he quit. Doug McMillan, who the CEO of Walmart, who just retired or whatever, he worked at Walmart since he was 50. 15. Yeah. What about, but do you have, do you have music or something up for quitting songs coming up? I had a few. Take this job and shove it? That's got to be Johnny Paycheck. Yeah. That's got to be the number. Hardworking man by Brooks and Dunn. I don't think they quit their job. But he says, it's quitting time. Well, quitting time means you're done for the day.

We're talking about quitting. Okay. This is episode 2 million 74. This guy quit. This guy checked out before the podcast even started. I'm... Greg Warren's on the night show. I've been very engaged.

Well, Julian said more than you have, so... Well, Julian's coming out of left field. This is what I'm talking about, dude. This is a vintage episode, right? Brian's losing it. The sickness did something to you. Everybody shut up. got five minutes left.

I've got to wrap this up. Salisbury Cathedral Clock has been running since the year 1386. That's a pretty good piece of machinery. Is it still accurate? This is something that's never quit.

Yeah, we're still talking about the non-quitters here. That's where they get the steak from. That's about eight minutes off. I think Salisbury, yeah, it must be Salisbury steak. Why would you think that? Because, I mean,

where do you see the word Salisbury? Yeah, but then I'll tell you. You know, it's Salisbury steak created by a guy named. James Salisbury. Yeah, there's, why would a clock get into, like, a mediocre steak? I love a Salisbury steak. Well, that's fine, but it's not, it's not Wagoo.

You got a clock that's been running since 1900, and then they also go, you want to get into some microwaverable stuff? I don't know that you couldn't put gravy over a waggoo beef steak. I mean, yeah. You want to top notch Salisbury. I'm sure the Salisbury Cathedral Club. They go, do you want to, they thought of it and go, well, we can't hurt our image. They go, you want a steak that doesn't quit?

How about a Salisbury? That would be quitting if you quit to get into the Salisbury steak business. And then I would like to say I'm not doing that. I would like to say we are a clock that are going to move on and try to continue to be a better clock. I think it's a mistake to not serve Salisbury steak at the theme park. We could maybe have Susbury Stick at the theme park Under a clock

Under a replica We're having it in your section of the theme park The Dusty Tail I want a replica of the Salisbury Clock Yeah And where you eat Salisbury steak Gravy comes out of the clock at noon Mm-hmm

Clock's right to noon There's a whole thing just for us It's the least popular part of the whole park Yeah I don't know Gravy clock Yeah Come on

Are you going to have no tomatoes, no onions in the theme part? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I guess so, yeah. No tomatoes, no onions. At least one of the concessure stands. No tomato. Yeah, yeah, no tomatoes, no onions. I got some fun ideas we're going to do them.

Do one. Are you going to recreate the Six Flags ads, but it's Brian instead of that guy. Remember the guy dance? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's an older version? Yeah, and we use Brian as my... That, that, that, that, that, dot, dot, da, da, da, da, da. That's my, yeah, he won't ride anything.

Future quitter, the sun. The sun's going to burn out in five billion years. That's right. We better get out now. So we got to take some steps. But would that be quitting or it's just going to, it dies? Completed its cycle. It is, yeah, it's going to run out of the...

It's not like the sun's going to move on to another galaxy. No, it's going to explode. That's the way you're saying that. But that's what you're doing. Yes. No, but the way you're going to... you're reading that, is like the sun's going to go. All right. I'm going to go find a new, there's a better earth.

Yeah, yeah. I'm going to check out Andromeda. Andromeda, yeah. Seagulls, no seagulls. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Yeah. They've been going for about 40 years longer than they anticipated. And they're going to go just indefinitely, right? Is that the people lost in space?

Yeah, the people lost in space. Yeah. It's the two probes that, but they're still sending back information. Yeah. It still signals from the, it was launching the 70s. That's so crazy. Yeah. We got the Chuck Berry on it and all that kind of stuff. Yeah.

And that amazing, Dusty? It is amazing. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That you guys believe that stuff. Yeah. It is crazy. Well, I do believe.

He goes where they put Chuck Barry up there. He's in the car. They put some gold records and someday, millions of years from now, some civilization will find it. Find it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've never found anything.

Yeah. They play it. They're like, man, it's got. That's terrible. We haven't found anything from another galaxy. No, not yet. Like they're, you know, can imagine if you have fun of that? No.

But you got to watch the show Pluribus, dude. Yeah. A favorite show I've seen in a long time. It's a guy that made Breaking Bad and... Yeah, yeah. And it's about kind of that. Oh, yeah? They get something from space and then things get crazy.

Oh, wow. It's awesome. I think you'd like it. All right. Well, end on that. I'll start stuff. I'll start that.

Give this podcast to start that show. What if? Do I have to watch Shawshank Redemption? No. We'll watch that together at some point, but

I'm saying if you're looking for a fun show, there's only a few episodes out. Are you asking before you leave? Before I leave? I mean... I'd like to do it.

I think that should be the live show. A full breakdown of Shawshend. Just watching Nate. The whole crowd watches it with us. Yeah, I'm furious when I go to the bathroom. Yeah, you got to pause it. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. All right. Well, yeah. Thank you. We have more episodes coming. So we'll be a lot more. We're just kind of letting you know.

And then so, but yeah. Oh, you all want to say where you guys are. Yes. December. 26 and 27th. I am at Skyline Comedy Club at Appleton, Wisconsin. One show Friday, two shows Saturday. Did you ask for the 25th? I'm open. Let's do it. These shows are all ages 13 and up. It's family for any show. So if your family's in town, you got your aunt, your grandma, your cousins, whatever. Bring them to the show. Now, a little setback for me.

When I, you know, anybody knows Appleton knows it's basically a suburb of Green Bay. Right. And when I chose these dates, schedule looked pretty wide open. Then the NFL this week decided to move the Packers game to Saturday night. Oh, did they really? December 27th. Oh, man. If you live in Green Bay and you're not a Packers fan, come to my show.

Yeah. It's Skyline Comedy Club. If you've quit the Packers. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe the Papyrs have it all wrapped up by then, and then it's like, yeah. They had a tough loss yesterday, though. Yeah, I don't think the will.

But anyway, come to my shows, and then January 6th. I'm doing a Texas run, January 6th at Cap City Comedy Club in Austin, January 7th, at Addison Improv, and Addison in January 8th at the Houston Improv in Houston, Texas. All right. Yeah. That's a hot run. Yeah. This is my, is Aaron Weber speaking.

This is my last weekend of, of, of, I mean, maybe, of the year. I'm in Grand Rapids, Michigan at Dr. Grins this weekend. And then I got one show at Skyline Comedy Club in Appleton, Wisconsin. One show, wow. And just. Was this Ambros? Just one.

And then I just announced a bunch of dates for 2026. These are a lot of cities that I've been wanting to go to for such a long time. I got San Francisco, Sacramento, Toronto for the first time. I'm doing the La Jolla Comedy Store in San Diego, Cleveland, Texas, going back to Canada. There's Salt Lake City. to Minneapolis. A lot of fun places, some clubs I've never been to,

so come on out and see me in 2026. Aaron Webcomedy.com. Okay, December 26th, I'm at Pacola, Oklahoma, at the Chalk Talk Casino. Very fun. Me and Adam Bush. And then I...

Did you ask for December 25th? I did not. I would take it, though. I'm actually flying there on December 25th. And then first of the year, I'm at Naples, Florida, off-the-hook comedy club with Connor Larson. It's going to be great.

Nice. All right. I'll be out next year. All right. Well, we're seeing you soon. And, yeah, again, thank you. And love you. Bye.

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