The Nateland Podcast - 285: #285 Happy Nate Year

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

This week, the guys ring in the new year by looking back at some of the Nateland accomplishments of 2025, Brian makes his 2026 predictions for Nate, Aaron, and Dusty and Nate makes a 2026 prediction for Brian. Harry’s: https://www.Harrys.com/NATE Our listeners get the Harry’s Plus Trial Set for only $10 at https://www.Harrys.com/NATE #Harryspod #ad Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/ejy661fu #CashAppPod Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures.

Hello, folks, and hey, Bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I am Nate Bargetti, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. Okay, yeah, right, New Year's Eve, if you're watching this, we're at the Mandy game. That's right. Versus Iowa. Very exciting. I think it's warmer than, hopefully it's warmer than what it is in here.

It's unusually cold and natural. It is. Are we on the sidelines? I think we got some options. Because I was going to wear short shorts. Okay. So people can see you. So they find you.

I got you with the Pavia family. I figured. Brian gets arrested with him next week. Get your chains. That's what they wanted. They go, we need a cooler over in that section. And I go, I got one for you. You know, I think I've told this story before in the podcast.

I took an acting class here in Nashville one time, and they had my scene, like the teacher, you know, assigns us all a scene, think we'd be good in. And mine was, the cooler. William H. Macy did a movie called The Cooler where if the casino would hire him if somebody's on a hot streak just to basically bring bad luck and cool things off and that was the scene

that they assigned to me. Is that a good movie? Yeah. I feel like I watched it. I want to watch it. Yeah, it sounds like it's a good, like he would be fun. I nailed my scene, I will say that.

Yeah, that is a fun. Yeah, boy, I've seen some cool. Uh, so, uh, yeah, we're going to start off. Uh, so happy new years, uh, to everybody. Uh, how was your year? Uh, starting off, we have a couple of, uh, stuff for us. Nate Land presents Graham K. January 21st at Gotham Comedy Club in New York. Tickets are on sell for that. We're going to be recording that. Graham's very, very funny. Uh, we've been friends, I mean, the whole time we started. So, yeah, he's the best. You've seen him out of the road with me.

He's from Canada, January 21st, Gotham Comedy Club, great club. So go buy some tickets to that. And also, Nate Land presents the showcase, season 4, February 22, 23, and 24 at the lab. Come to Nashville. Check the showcase out. Yeah, when you guys are able to come and support this stuff, truly, it's, you know, I'm a big believer that stand-up comedy is on the, we are on the rise and with AI and technology and all this movies, and it's going to get harder and harder to tell what's real, what's not real. And so, like, stand-up comedy, I think as an art, as an art form is in a perfect spot to be one of the last authentic things you will be able to,

go to and actually not last authentic things. There's going to be things. It's not like the world's exploding. But as an art form, I just think it's going to really excel in during this time because you're

going to want to hear from a regular person. And you're like with music and with all this, there's just too much entertainment that can be kind of messed with. So that's why our real life experiences are going to be important, like a theme park. but and you still want to go to the movies and you still want to go to the stuff but as stuff

you know it's it's going out and seeing stuff and doing stuff and I think stand-up comedy is going to be a big thing of that and we and you guys have been watching the showcase and helping us grow this you're helping a lot of comics that are some have been around for a long time and some are newer and we've got to find the next wave of comics to keep it going and we're trying to get them placed some kind of system so they can build up in and you guys are a part of that when you watch you know if you watch the showcase and we can tell and we notice that you really lean to one person or you like the person or we can kind of see and we can try to you know we want to build a system they can do a half hour an hour and uh hopefully you guys start seeing

them on the road so uh when you go to all of this kind of stuff so January 21st gotthum comedy Club, Graham K, and then February 22nd, 23, 24, here at the lab. All right. So it's New Year's Eve. You just had Christmas. We don't really have, you know, they're having to pre-record this, so it's, I did Skyline Comedy Club in Appleton. Yeah, you did that.

Standing up? Every show. Oh, yeah. How did Green Bay do? I just got a literally, because we just pre-recorded a previous episode, and I just took my email, Adam, with Skyland with Bark Entertainment, emailed me and said, we'll just cancel that Packers, the one I'm going up against the Packers. That's great.

Oh, yeah. But he said, I'll pay you the same. Isn't that nice? That's very nice. He's so nice. Adam's great. He runs such great clubs. Yeah.

And that was clearly the right decision. Yeah, yeah. That's, it's, I've had that happen to where it's, you're just like, it's, it's, it's, you can't. That's, and that's going to be a game that really matters. He said it's, I mean, Packers are doing it two straight Saturdays. Yeah. They're playing Saturday night. So it's just kind of warning.

That really interferes with the club. Yeah. Yeah. There are a lot of fun cities all across America, and you might be wondering if you live in one of the cities, why is there not a comedy club here? And a lot of these cities just can't have a comedy club if college football or whatever takes a Saturday. Every Saturday's gone. So they just can't sustain it, you know? I think it's a big reason Knoxville doesn't have a club.

They did for a while. But it didn't do that well, right? Yeah, but they can. I mean, so, like, a lot of other Columbus Funnibone is one of the best clubs in the country. But Columbus is a huge city. It's the biggest city in Ohio. Yeah. I just don't know if, like, what do it have?

How many home games they have a year six? Yeah. That would be enough to keep a club out. But people are still, like, watching the games even when they're not home. Yeah. So 12 weeks, yeah. Yeah. That's my theory anyway.

That's what they said about the Knoxville side split. I did, I was, I did an open mic there when I first moved to Nashville. I don't even know if I was living in Nashville yet, but I did an open mic in Knoxville at side splitters the night that they were told that the club was going to close. And the girl making the list, the lineup was crying as she was done as the list. Well, I, uh, sorry. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah, feel great now. Shouldn't have quit. Shouldn't quit. Hmm. Uh, so yeah, we had just got through a Christmas and, uh, you also did skyline.

I did skyline while we were gone too. Yeah. That club is sick of us. Yep. We had a great time. Merry Christmas to everybody. Happy New Year. I don't have much else. to say. Yeah. You want to get into it or? Yeah. Dusty? I don't, yeah, I don't have anything this.

You know, at the airport at Christmas. Yeah, yeah. Pacola, Oklahoma. Yeah, but I'm sure, I'm sure it went so good. I'm sure it went so good. Yeah, yeah. Chalk tall casino. I've actually do a lot of Chalk Tall casinos.

I like them. I'm really into the casino gigs. Really? Yeah. Because it used to be I did old casinos where I was in like the side room and nobody paid for tickets. We've done a few of those. Those are awful. Yeah. But when you're in the actual show room, it's just a nice theater, basically. Yeah, and it's cool. And, you know. Cines are fun. Yeah, I like it. I'm into the casino thing. All right. We're starting off

for your comments. We actually are, so. Pretty close, man. Under 10 minutes. Teresa Doro. Doe, but. But with the, like, frustration in the middle. Is that how to tell her how to say it? Is that how you smell rough? Oh, D-Ruff? Teresa D-Ruff. D-Ruff. D-Ruff.

D-Ruff. Doro. Like, she's... Dresa Doreau. Dora. Doro-uh. What does that mean? That's her name.

Teresa Doro-U-U. Oh, Doro-U. Just got my Spotify rap for the year, and I've listened over 27,000 minutes in this year, and I'm in the top 0.5% list it. 0.5%. That's all going to end now after y'all made fun of my name. Listening to all of you makes my days a brighter and full of laughter, thank you for everything you do. Thank you, Theresa. Do rough.

What was your Spotify wrapped all about, Dusty? I saw you talk about it. Well, my Spotify, I have kids, but I also, you know, spend all, like in the hotels driving in the airport, I listen to a lot of classical music. So my, of my top five, I had five cello songs. and then number four was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was all Bach, right?

Yeah, yeah. It was, I actually disappointed myself with my Spotify wrapped. I had no idea I'd listen to that much classical. Did it say, what did it say your age was? So my age was six. Off the grid? Yeah. Well, it said 68, but I think it was offset by the Ninja Turtle song.

My way down. I didn't really ever look into it, but mine said I was 70. I was 79. Really? Yeah. Which I feel like 79. You don't even listen to them. But you were listening to books on tape.

Yeah. Say, yeah, I don't know how. Civil war letters and stuff. Yeah, I do listen to that. That reminds me, Spotify. Because yours says dead. Yeah. Because he doesn't, there's no way this guy's alive.

Yeah. People, you know, a few months back, Aaron was making fun of Elvis and how no one listens to Elves. Elvis. And then Spotify proved him wrong. And we said we'd check back in later. Because you said that was an anomaly that that wasn't authentic. So I'm just curious where Elvis stands now compared to the Beatles. Oh, we can't look now because we're back. It's Christmas time again, right? Oh, God. So you got to look in the middle of the year. And I did look back. And the Beatles average something like 15, 16 million more monthly listeners than Elvis. Well, isn't that convenient? Isn't it convenient to wait till Christmas time again? to ask me about it. Oh, wow, you've got to ask in the summer.

Yeah, we've got to check it. It's artificially inflated for... I think that should be one of the things y'all get to the bottom of in your podcast. Of course. Yeah, we will, you know, and I... We'll check in every week. But I think, unfairly, though,

Beatles has a lot of kind of summertime music. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, like what? We think I got a little bit of everything. Here comes the sun? You don't think Elvis has a lot of... Yeah.

Summertime music? Yeah, like, yeah, movies. Rockahula, baby. or whatever. Yeah, it's like Hawaii. A lot of Hawaii. A lot of Hawaiian stuff. A lot of Hawaii.

I don't think Rockahoula baby. Rockahoooole, it does better than that. I don't know that one. Aaron. Mm-hmm. I've tried a lot of razors over the years. You know, with this rugged, thick skin.

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After you purchase, they'll ask where you heard about them. And please support our show and tell them that we sent you. Brooke Derry, this podcast is one of the best out there, and a key aspect is how you guys all manage to talk. But never do I feel like you're talking over each other. I've listened to podcasts with multiple hosts, and it just becomes a cluster of people interrupting each other. So kudos to you guys for doing it so well. That's really nice. That's very nice. He's usually one person not interested in what we're talking about. That's good job.

I thought one of y'all were going to do it. I was waiting for y'all to do that joke to me. I was like, it's like the joke's there. How do you not do it? But not everybody's comedian on this show. So, Kevin McHenry. Just a few more way. guys a few more weeks yeah i'll be gone yeah i'll can have at it kevin mckinry first time i've ever and i do mean ever just lost lost just a little respect for aaron is when i learned he doesn't like tom patty's southern accent boo well i got to think that this is a typo yeah i didn't even notice it yeah there's no way yeah uh there's no way that the guy who loves southern accents messed up Tom Petty.

I mean, it's a great song. It's, you know, it's a slow... It's in the three seconds of it here? It's a slow beat. It's just a, you know, it's a slow song. Yeah, it's not a, you know, but it's... I don't mind a ballad. It's, you should give it another try.

Okay. You told me that it was bad, and I will never forget it. I had forgotten all about it. Sorry, it is so hard. I will never forget it. I thought you were talking about his actual, i.e. I thought it was Tom Patty. There was a Tom Patty. He had a thick Southern accent.

Yeah. Yeah. So this took a different turn. But Tom Petty's Southern accents, it's a whole album, but that song in particular, I just thought you being from Alabama and then, you know, living in Nashville for so long, I thought you would really enjoy it. And I was, you know, I was in the middle. of enjoying it when you told me that you didn't like it.

Well, sometimes you've got to be in the right mood for something. That's true. And I think I've matured more even since that happened. That was years ago. Years ago, yeah. Now I'm a little older, and I can even recognize I'll put a TV show on or stand-up a lot of times. I put on a stand-up special, and I go, I'm not in the right mood to enjoy this right now. And so I'll need.

Wet heat. I'll need. I mean, just say it. Yeah. I go, let me try this again when I'm in a different state of mind. You know, that's probably the case with music. That's how I feel shushing. You got to, but how would you, if you don't know what it is.

I just, but I kind of know. Okay. I mean, I don't know, but I. Have you ever felt like maybe announced the time? You know what? It was funny, this weekend on the road, there was a moment. I was like, because we were watching Ford versus, or like, we were going to watch a movie. And Ford versus Ferrari was just on, like, the regular channel.

And then we were going to watch something And I was like In my head I thought Boy I bet I could It was at Bridgestone I was like I bet I could watch Shalshank right now Like because it was like I could just

It needed like Something to go off But then I was like I can't watch it without I appreciate that Well I don't see this as a pre-show movie Shawshank It was not It was at night

Oh okay So some nights like we're have Like I stayed on the bus I did not go home because we had a 3 o'clock show that next day so I was kind of like I just want to stay in like kind of the world that we were in so

we stayed we watched Final Investation the 5 the new one? Yeah it just came out? Yeah was it good? Yeah, it was like good yeah so I was fine with that

yeah it's got some crazy gross stuff I close my eyes. I don't even care that you don't watch Shawshank but it really makes me laugh that they want you to watch this movie real bad And you go, I'll do Final Desonation Fire.

The most opposite movie you could fire. I mean, I just think it's funny. Like a lot of times you've been like, I was going to watch Shawshank and then I watched some obscure. Yeah, sat down and watched secondhand lions last night. You're like, what? Why would you? Well, what is that?

That is a good movie, though. Robert Deval and Michael King. No, it's with your boy. Haley Joel Osmond. Oh, yeah. And then Robert DeVall and Michael King. That's right. Yeah, that'd be like a fancy movie.

It's like a good family fun. Yeah. Adventure, that kind of thing. At this point, I don't want you to watch Shawshank because I don't think the anticipation is going to live up. Yeah. I don't know.

I think it's that good movie. I think it's that good. It's going to have to catch me. It's because it's just like, there's just so much like thinking going on in my head. And then it's like, you just want to go watch. Something that's not. Sam Hickman, I teach at Southern Union State Community College in Opalika.

All right. And I also teach classes at our campus in Wadley, Alabama. Wadley. Wadley. Wadley. Wadley is a tiny rural town just north of where Dusty's dad lives. It's just specific. It's just funny to say where your dad lives, not where you live.

Dusty's dad lives. Twice a week for the last five years, I've driven past the Pinton Grill in the morning, the afternoon. I've been curious to try this place out, but I've literally never seen it open. Does Dusty have any ideas what their actual hours are? Well, that's the problem. My dad complains about it too. My dad complains about it too. He wishes it was open 24-7 because he would go there every meal, I think.

But it's owned by a guy, Mike Edge, not Mike Edge, Bill Edge, Michael's his brother. Yeah. And Bill is, you know, pretty well off. I think he's pretty set. And he just, you know, opens whenever he wants to open. And, yeah, I mean, these hours are the most... It might be the craziest hours for a restaurant I've ever seen. Monday, closed.

Tuesday, closed. Wednesday, 5 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. Thursday, drive-thru only 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, 5 p.m. at 30 p. Saturday, 5 p.m. Day, 30 p.m.

Sunday closed. So you got a pretty small window. Well, that's interesting. We're not here at diner. I think it's just going to be a daytime place. And also, those hours, it may not be open.

Yeah. And so it's really tough. It's, you know, I think it needs Bill and one other person to run it. And he may not have that other person. And if you go to their Facebook, it's mostly them saying,

hey, we're open right now. We will be open tonight. That's hilarious. We will not be open tonight. Please go out and support the Chambers Rebels in the second round of the playoffs. You know what? I love that kind of stuff.

I love when a town shuts down for the high school team. Yeah. That's just fun to me. Yeah, my cousin works there, Kelly. She works at the Pending Grill some. Not much. See, well, this is we're open this weekend, Friday, 4 to 8, Saturday, 11 to 8. Well, that's not even close to the hours.

And they have the hours posted on two different things. The profile picture for the business is the hours. Oh, this place rules. I bet it's that good. The fact that it's still open. It must be that good. And, you know, there's not a lot in Pennant. And my friend Adam, this is his uncle.

Adam's my age. We grew up together. And that's his uncle that runs us. His grandfather used to own the store. you know, pinning grocery, or Larry Edge's grocery is what we called it. And, uh, yeah, Jordan Cofield, I bet I know his family. I know some Cofields. Looks like they followed six people. Were you one of them, Dusty? Yeah, probably. I don't know. Yeah. What do you got there? They're getting good reviews here on the feet. It's great. I had a patty melt there one time.

Best patty melt of that. Say large portions, cozy atmosphere. Yeah. Great food. Williams Lake Doodles. Yeah. Anyway, they have great food, but it's just a good salad. It's like, let's be honest. Rachel Verzani. Vizani. I was folding laundry and watching Nate's Netflix special, Your Friend,

when my 10-year-old daughter walked in and settled into my bed, in the past she has told me that she doesn't understand why we think Nate is so funny. But on this night, she had tears in her eyes. that she giggled at and repeated your jokes. So she has started a habit of coming into my room and asking, can we watch Nate? I'm proud to have raised a girl that appreciate your comedy. Thank you for keeping it clean so she can.

Wow. I love that. That's awesome. Wait until she sees the good stuff. I always think that sometimes when I see kids at the show, yeah. Sorry, I got nothing with us. It was good.

It was good. Yeah. I always think that with kids sometimes you're like like you know because you could see them like they're not always laughing at the show but then you're like you try to guess like what

because I'm you know I'm sure there's going to be something I think kids are just even like when you meet a kid that it's excited to meet you there's not a lot that because they're just like hey hey you know

but then you just got to hope that all right I think it's more when they leave yeah yeah yeah Ian Colley Ian Not right Ian

Ian Could be either I wonder what Aaron would think of the question What are you None of your thoughts Ideas Physical attributes

Relationships or even Cells in your body Are the exact same as you were 10 years ago Or 40 years ago You were not alive It won't be the same 10 years from now

So what makes up you? That is a big question in philosophy is what is self? What does that mean? Some philosophers would basically say your life is like a giant flip book. You know, you flip and it looks like the picture is moving. And that basically your life is just a string of little moments of perception. And there's nothing that persists through. all of those things.

Could it not be your soul? Yeah. That's what I think it is. The soul, the animating principle of your body. That's what he was about to say to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and that's what it is. But there's all kinds of schools of thought. This is, I think it's you, we have a soul.

And that's where we derive our sense of self from. Scientistists say a conscious. You can upload. Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. But even they say, you know, none of these things are the exact same but somewhat the same but the idea is you know your cells die and regenerate right yeah after a certain point like every cell in your body will have died and regenerated but what

about the thing that generates the cells well those two are made up of cells which have died and regenerated so there's not a single thing in your body that is the the exact same thing as it was 20 years ago. But it's obviously you're still the same person. So the question is like what is... You weren't the same person. This is honestly, and I won't harp on it anymore, but very similar to the sports question that's why you wrote it.

Haunted this podcast for... Okay, all right. Yeah, yeah. You weren't here for that. We don't... People will get so mad if I... I'll tell you. People are so...

People hate me for it. Yeah. We had had a dumb argument about, not even an argument, just me being annoying. Just about why we support teams when over time that the whole lineup changes, but we still keep supporting that team, right? Exactly. And not like a college where it's like you went to the college or whatever, but like a pro team that you just like, right? The roster changes over time. If you went to the college, you're an alumni, so that makes sense.

Yeah, I guess to analogize it with this body question, I would say in college sports, the soul is the university. And then there's no soul for a professional team. Well, it's just you're at home. Except for your city, yeah. Yeah, it's just so I can't root for a team that's in another city. No, they can. Yeah. I would think you just, your value changes.

Like, mine, now I root for the Titans, but I mean, I root for a lot of teams. I root for the story for a lot of things. Like, Philip Rivers going to the Colts is like, if they made it to the Super Bowl, you'd root for that story. Right. Okay. And so you're, you just, I think as I get older, it's like I'm less and less like, Vanderbilt's my team, Titans are my team,

but they're, I'm watching, I want to enjoy all aspects of sports. And so how you do that and make it pure entertainment is you need to find a lot of storylines and go like, wow, this is pretty cool. I want the best story. I want the best story. I want the best game. I want the best, you know. Reliqest Bowl.

Yeah. Yeah. Mary Lancaster. I attend a pretty laid-back casual church where the clothing covers the whole gamut. I volunteer once a month and lead the preschool classroom. In your opinion, is it acceptable to dress down for these days? I mean, I can, I'll wear golf stuff like to church. and so it's like it's a collar and it's, you know, that.

So I think he could look like it's something. But, yeah, I would prefer it to be regular, you know. I think we do need to dress up more. And we're not dressed up on this. Or, you know, I'm not like I don't have a hoodie on. You bring her catty with him? To the church. You had a straight at a tea time?

Collar is a good place to start. That's like a good rule of thumb. I think so, too. Like have a collar on your shirt. Yeah. I don't think you have to wear a suit to church, but I do think everybody can have a collared shirt. Everybody has a collard shirt. Goodwill sells collard shirts.

The exception would be to me if you're very poor and also very large. Because, no, I don't mean to look at you when I said that. But if it... I didn't think you were until you said. Because it's hard to find his clothes. Cheap stuff, thrift stuff if you're very large. You used to do what Denzel Washington said and remember. the Titans. If you don't have a suit, borrow one from your old man. If you don't have an old

man, find a bum, trade them for his. But find a suit. Yeah. Yeah. Andrew, as a big baseball fan, Brad Ziegler riding in was crazy. Yeah, this was a few weeks ago. Brad Ziegler was actually commenting on Aaron's whole take on what makes a fan of a team. And he talked about how he played for the Arizona Diamondbacks. and how he got traded, and then he came back a few years later. The team was mostly different. But, yeah, he listens his podcast, and he had a pretty good career in the majors. I think a couple of years he led the American League and games pitched.

Yeah, yeah. He was a sidearm. Yeah, submarine delivery. Yeah, yeah, very unique throwing style. Thank you for listening, Brad. That's very cool. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes you see a name.

out of context that you don't make the, you know, you don't, you don't think a former MLB pitcher is writing into the podcast. Yeah. That's awesome. Pretty crazy. Thank you, Brad. All right. Jay Merrill, Merrill.

A previous comment recommended starting a Nate Land dating app. That's long overdue. I'd like to propose the obvious name, Date Land. What's a good name? Mm-hmm. What is date? Or date line is what I'm thinking. Yeah, a little bit different.

Yeah. Same vibe. Yeah. Yeah. If things go wrong on Dateland, you'll end up on Dateline. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, you can do a dating app on Dateland?

Yeah. That's what the Facebook group should be. Oh, Dateland? Just the Nateland Facebook group. There are, as we've talked about, Brian, some insane scams out there nowadays. Absolutely. I told a story about the guy who got me at the restaurant not long ago. go go check it out on a previous episode if you missed it but they're out there man be warned the

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I created a coloring book titled, Hello, Folks. It is a parody coloring book of funny moments, mispronunciations, and stories from the podcast. For example, I have a coloring page of Brian looking worried as he runs the 40-yard dash and jeans and a polo shirt. Also, horse divorce court. Dusty proclaimed himself a public figure.

and Aaron taking his report card with all A's to the donut shop, et cetera, et cetera, it's all in good fun. Yeah, you've seen this yet, I have not. This is very cool. I've not seen this either. I need this, though. Yeah, it's great. I think we gave one to you, though.

I don't think so. I've got one. You did not give me one, and my kids would love to color this. My daughter did color in this one, so. I was as sure as I don't think I got one. Yeah, you guys didn't get me one. Dusty got two. You didn't give me any.

Wow. I got two kids. There's all kinds of fun podcast moments in there from years going by. Yeah, that's so funny. It's so detailed. Yeah. Wow. It's unbelievable.

Did you know that adult coloring books are making a real, I hate to call it a comeback. Well, people are kids. People are kids. They are. People are so creative, man. I know. There's Dusty swimming. I need...

Dusty swimming. I mean, that in his... Wait, hold on. Let me put it out of see it. Oh, it's what Dusty... Oh, yeah. Well, that is what I look like. That is what I look like.

Yeah. That is what I look like. Christy's very nice. Yeah. No, you get it, Kristen. You get it, Chris. And then there's Aaron of the donut shop. Yeah.

Wow, that's unbelievable. Well, Christy Kay, I'd like one of these. I'll pay you for it, but I want... But I want one. Well, I think you should buy it. Well, yeah, I'll pay you for it. But how do I, how do I get it? I'll give you the one we have.

That's very cool. I'll buy a stack from you. Let me, and I'll give them out to some people. Do you want to take a look at it? What'd you do with the one that we gave you? You did not give me one. P.O. Box, 8146, Hermitage, Tennessee, 37076. Okay.

And I'll send you money. Yeah, these are great. All right. That's very cool. That is very cool. Christy this week oh that's a distinguished looking Brian there though yeah yeah yeah that's Brian's driver's license photo yeah yeah yeah which is right behind them there on the right yep yeah oh yeah look at all right watermelons we should have gave dusty that till the end of the

podcast yeah it's gonna be color in this you're gonna take back what you said about adult coloring book yeah that's true this week this is good all right it's it's near zeve let me enjoy Christy Caves War You know We all have a holiday That I think we get Especially excited for I would say you Halloween

Yeah I really love Halloween Dusty Saccotte And Thanksgiving Obviously Is that is Saccat When those bugs come in Well, Sukkot

You celebrate that When the cicada season Well, Sukkot It's a biblical holiday You know, and the Feast of Tabernacles, it's also known as. Okay. It's, it should, I should get more excited about it. But it's hard to celebrate by yourself.

But it's supposed to be like a thing where you go out, you spend like a week out in tents, and you, you know, you have a group of people and you're just celebrating for a week. And it's a week. They celebrate it for a week in the Bible? Yeah. What time a year is it? Yeah, what time of year? Fall. You could do that at your land, though.

I could, yeah. Have fans come out. Yeah. Find the ones that want to come spend a week with you in a tent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Weren't you recruiting people to come help you work on the land?

Well, no, I proposed, you know, a kind of, I just was talking about kind of a, I thought it might be fun to have somewhat of a work day, but a hang. And where we just do light things, nothing crazy, but where it's like, I thought it would be fun. I think, and I have a lot of people into the idea, so I think, I don't know if I'm going to do it. I'll come. Okay. You'll come? Yeah. Yeah.

Like weed pooling and. Yeah, and like, uh, planting some trees and stuff like that. Yeah. You're in? I'm in. All right. Um, but I really love New Year's. Oh, yeah.

Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a New Year's guy. It fits my kind of personality. I like to look back, reflect on the year. I can get into these year-in wrap-up shows. I know y'all make fun of me for killing old people,

but I do like the end memoriam and kind of... Well, I don't say you like it. Yeah. Just say... Well, I like to reflect on people's, you know, their accomplishments in life, and I like to look ahead. I like to make goals and things like that.

So I enjoy New Year's. I enjoy putting this together to... Well, how was your year? To talk about it was a great year. Maybe I'll start there. Yeah, I'd like to talk about some highlights of Nate Land in 2025. Oh, yeah. It's been a big year.

It has been a big year. I enjoyed putting this together kind of coming up with the special moments. So bear with me on these. I got quite a few here. January of this year of 2025, Nate presented it at the Golden Globes. Oh, yeah. That's when you met the Rock. After I met the Rock.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the Golden Gold is fun. Mm-hmm. What am I supposed to do? You may talk about it, or you're just going to go through a lit? You just kind of do whatever you want to do. Also in January, Aaron's special signature dish premiered.

All right. Oh, it did at the end of the month. It's almost a full year of that. Yep, yep. And then, in February, maybe a week or so later, Aaron made his Tonight Show debut. All right. All right, I'm liking this part.

Guys on a roll. I think we're going to move on for me pretty quick, so let's enjoy this. Also, in February, Nate's Super Bowl. ad ran. All right. That was big. Okay. I mean,

it just made me more in y'all. Yeah, it aired and then it aired for six months. Too long. Yeah, too long. Couldn't stop seeing that commercial. Yeah. Also in February, Dusty appeared on the Hollywood Squares. All right.

That's a big old, old, I mean, that's like a old classic. Classic, yeah. Classic. That's a famous, like, celebrity. I was on there with Drew Barrymore. Yeah, that's so cool. Big, big, big celebrity.

Let me ask you, what is a show or a TV program that you would love to have been on, but it's maybe no longer around or something? I think it would be like they're all back, but... I would have liked to have done Conan. Conan was going to be my answer to. Yeah. I did Conan. Scrobs.

Conan, I was excited to do Conan because it was the old one that I got to do. I did never got to do Tonight Show. I mean, I did Tonight Show. a foul now but like but conan was uh i didn't get to do letterman i didn't do leno leno yeah and so conan always meant a lot because it was at least it was like the thing i got to do that i remember seeing before and seeing comics on it and so getting to be and you know and even it was different than even doing it uh when he went to tbs or whatever it was doing it in that old so conan was always one that I was like, man, I'm glad I at least got to do an old school kind of thing.

There's been a few that, I mean, I'm blank. You know, like, comics unleashed us back. Yeah, so I did that. Somebody's doing that now. Yeah, yeah, I did that. And I always wanted to do that. So I got to do that towards the end. And then, you know, we all just talking about Appleton.

That was the comic club that I did right at the end that I always wanted to do. That's separate of this kind of thing. But a lot of them are mad. Press your luck is back. And I always love Pressure Luck. Prime, who wants to be a millionaire? That would be my dream game show to go on. Oh, yeah.

And I think there's still some iteration of it around, but it's so different. And they, like, changed up the game and Regis is dead. It's like, I want to sit across from, Regis died. Bates, you got a whole of that one. I think that was maybe pre-podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't take credit for everything. Yeah, watching that when it came out every week.

Just that music. I mean, do you think what made it the most famous was that guy going, calling his dead, and just saying, I wanted you let you know that I want a million dollars? That's probably the most iconic moment from the show. And do you think that's what even took it up to, like that took it into, like, legacy status? Maybe. Because it's not that it wouldn't have been a show, but that took it. It was such a crazy.

I remember watching that live, and it was such an insane. What wasn't the guy used his lifeline to call his dad? He only used one lifeline. He breathed through the whole thing, didn't use a single lifeline, gets to the end. He goes, I think I want to call my dad. Calls his dad and goes, I don't need help. I just want to tell you I'm about to win a million dollars. That's awesome.

It was. It was. I mean, awesome. I run through, yeah. It's like they should play that running through. a tunnel. Yeah. It was like the most exciting kind of, it was crazy.

And then he's like, actually, I won 600. The government, surprisingly, won 400,000. That's true. You can't think about that. But on our new game show, the Greatest Average American, we help, we give you extra money to help cover your taxes for that exact reason. Oh, that's awesome. That's what I'm talking about.

That's the first game show I've heard of do with that. Look at that. When the average American salary is $67,000 and $6.7 is the kids. But it's – I'm blanking on the – but – and then it was like I always wanted it to be where you – because of that exact reason. Yeah. Everything, every do, well, they have to pay tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. So what we do is we can't go pay your taxes, but we give you money over to cover your taxes. That's awesome.

So you roughly come home with what, you know, taxes are different in each state and blah, blah, blah, whatever. So we just give you the money that goes over. So you walk with what we tell you you're going to walk. Oh, that's great. Walk with. I love that. Yeah. Yeah, we said it.

I hope that, yeah, I hope that, you know, this is, I hope that really plays out. That's great. See that and notice it. Because I always say every time someone wins a lottery, the government also wins the lottery. And that's pretty good racket for the government. So that's nice that you do that. Yeah, thank you. It's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.

Yeah. That music gets me going. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I could see how you, yeah, that would be. I mean, I loved it, too. It was a great one. I'm trying to think if there's any other old, you know, Price is right, I think, in the old days.

Bob Barker. Yeah, I think even now it'd been great. But, I mean, I'm just thinking, but that was like yeah and it came out that was like serious like he wants to be a millionaire it was intense

yeah yeah still in February Nate appeared on SNL's 50th anniversary special that was a great to me that it might have been as a living in your shoes

the most nerve-wracking thing anything you've done because you had a wand to live from the audience and you're sitting with all of the biggest celebrities in the world and they can all read what you're reading. So if you flub, they say you flub. To me, that would be very stressful. The thing that's stressful is that you just really are like,

I don't think they know who I am. Oh, yeah. That's the thing that I think, that's the thing I'm trying to move towards. You would host of the show already by that point. Yeah, and you learn more. more, I mean, like, I see it, you know, even as you see people, I had one time, I don't know if I told her on the story, but, like, I saw Reese With a Spoon. I've only met her in this one brief second, and we just walked by each other, and I was like, you know, I was expecting

to go, hey, Reese, I'm Nate, I'm a neighbor, I'm a comedian here, whatever, and she goes, what's up, Nate? I go, what's up, Reese? And we both just kind of kept going. And, and, uh, so that was like a kind of, like, that's the stuff that I would, if, uh, the interesting, this is the stuff that I kind of think about a lot, like, the interesting things that's where you're like, you know, you're just like, okay, you're like, all right, well, that's that. Like, so if I see her again, it's not going to be, you know, you're just going to be talking, like, I would be talking to you guys. Like, and so like that kind of stuff is kind of crazy. So when you see, I wish Jack Nicholson was there and I saw him, I couldn't

go up but it was like I wanted to say out of him I've still been stillers who have wanted to say hi to and I didn't and I've been around him a bunch and I know he knows me but I just haven't been able to get near I don't know I just never worked out to be where you're I was near him or am I'm in the back there yeah so you just it's it's the fact that they know you now is uh not and I would still say some of them might not all it doesn't all click or there's not a you know some do very well some it doesn't click some it does some it whatever that's what uh emma stone i talked to her for quite a while and she you know the people that are comedy fans that are you know they did uh yeah think of the s and l 50 a lot of them would be comedy fans uh yeah yeah but they're old

edy murphy just knew me from the sketch he didn't know i did i don't think you really knew i did stand up He just knew me from the sketch. I talked to him afterwards. Oh, I had this other private kind of thing. This was the first time I remember everything, and I've lost track of what you're doing. Because I was watching it with my wife, and I, we were like, I wonder if Nate's there.

And then you just started talking on it. You were like, you had a role in it. Yeah. All right, he's just, he's out there, man. He's doing all that stuff. You were texting him two minutes earlier. Vandy looks pretty good tonight. Yeah.

Yeah. it's uh yeah man it's a wild it's a wild ride we're not even a march yeah we're not even yeah it was that was an insane thing to get to but you don't feel like you belong but that's probably good i think most people don't and i think i mean you can tell when some people do i bet paula cartney feels that way uh i feels like he doesn't belong because he's above it you know what i think it's i think what you got to do because it's switches because you wait and then switches to where you go, all right, I need to get out of my head. Like, it's like the moment where you want to always be like humility, right? I don't think

everybody can say whatever they want. I can only tell you what I feel. I feel I have humility in my life. I remind myself of it every day, right? So I can't always go vocalize it on every single thing I do because I need to be, I'm entertainment. So if I make everything about like, I can't, like I can't believe any of this is real, right? So, but if I say that every single time I do something, it gets too much and to go like, my job is to entertain you. So I need to, there's a point you got to accept that you're like, all right, when I walk into these kind of rooms and these kinds of settings, it's not that you think I'm better or anything that, you know, at dinner with Steve Hard and Mart short. It's not that I think I'm in them or whatever that

is, what they did in their time, but I'm trying to do what they did in their time. I want to keep entertaining. So you just got to kind of just like, eventually it's got to click and it becomes more overwhelming. And you have moments like that, like with the Reese, when you have a moment like that where you kind of start going like, oh, all right, I need to start acting. like, you know, I'm here. Like where it's, you know, not more talents, not better than anybody, not better than anybody that's not in that room, not anything.

It's just like, I'm in working, so I need to start acting. I need to be working and need to be creating the best thing that I think for the audience that goes and sees it. When she said, what's up, Nate? You should have said, I'm sorry. I know I should know you.

Yeah. I can't remember your name. That's what you should have done. Yeah. I go, what's that? March. Then you attended the Vanity Fair Oscar party with Nick Novicki as your date. That was the best.

Oh, yeah. Nick was the highlight. Yeah. And you guys showed up here in tuxitos. Yeah. The night before. Split the night with Lises. Also in March, Nick Thune's Born Young premiered.

Yeah. Then in April, Steve Rogers, half of we premiered on the Nate Land. All right. Then in May, Greg Warren's the champ premiered. Ooh, Nateland is rolling. We got some specials. We're putting them out. Adrian's doing a great job, getting these specials out.

Oh, yeah. All right. Also, in May, correct opinions podcast joined the Nate Land Network. Okay. We're growing. We're growing. Yep. Also in May, Dusty's Cracker Barrel commercial.

That was everywhere. I saw that. Two of Cracker Barrel stocked. My neighbor told me she saw it too much. Yeah. She said, that's the kind of thing where people could get tired of you. She said that to me. I've moved, I've moved away from that neighborhood. But, yeah. Cracker Barrow went downhill right after that. They did. They did. Not, not because I'm in.

No, you caught in. I mean, it would have been, nothing would have made me laugh more than if they would have just put that new logo behind you without you knowing. Oh, yeah. That would have been so funny. Yeah. To just, you, you finally go. You're the face of the new logo. You're the face of the new logo. Oh, man. That would have been so funny. You're the face of the new logo. Oh, man. That would have of it. Yeah. In June, Mike Vecchio's low-income white

premiered on Nate Land War. I mean, we were cranking them out. If they had put my face on the new logo, it might not have tank. It might not attaint. But it's just a backlash would have been, and then the dump dusty guy would have,

this would have been his hayden. Maybe they need a new cracker is what they need. Yeah. I mean, that rules. Yeah, so in June, Mike Vickieland's low-income white premiered. All right. Also in June, Brian Aaron and Dusty made their movie acting debut and the breadwinner. All right, we think.

Yeah. Well, we did do that part. Yeah. I guess it, yeah, we'll see if it's actually in there. No, it's... We were there. We were there. Yeah.

Also in June, Christian Bell recognized Dusty is his favorite stand-up comedian. That was probably my wildest moment of the... Let's not say favorite, though. I don't want to put too much on Christian Bell. But he did, it was a nice moment. I think that's, but I think that was the, out of all of this, I don't know, it's not that I don't think Christian Bill would not know who you are. But it was just, hey, you just don't know if, yeah,

hey, you don't know if Christian Bill would know anything that's going on. But it even makes sense to me that he did. And it's like, just for, the way y'all told that story was like, you told it very well we're brilliant storytellers and that was my moment where I'm talking and I go

all right this is where I'm I'm working now guys you're working yeah yeah Dusty's on the way

and I don't want to talk to a bunch of dumb celebrities and we're idol worship them and then he meets Christian Vale like

oh man this is great yeah I yeah but Christian bail that's a good one to meet though yeah

he feels like a quality actor he is he's one of our best he's one of our very best But, I mean, a quality just feels like a, this is a good dude. Oh, he's a solid guy. You know what I mean?

Yeah, dude. Great taste. We all love them. We all love them. What if you met Neil Armstrong? You were just like, just a great guy. You know, depending on how nice he was. You could still meet Buzz Alders.

I was talking about it this weekend. The amount of guys I've met who privately, I didn't like them. And then I met him and they were like, hey, they were nice to me for two seconds. And I was like, oh, that guy's, that guy's unbelievable. I love that dude. You start to learn why some people are famous, like, because they're so charming. You're like, oh, man, I love this guy.

It's, uh, but you can see also how good actors, some people are as actors. And like how you're like, wow, you really made me not like you and you're great. And you're like, that's, you're unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, you're a sweet guy outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, is it Bradley Cooper? Like, Bradley Cooper in Wedding Crashers is the most unlikable guy. Yeah.

And then every other movie that I've seen him, and I'm like, I love this guy. Exactly, exactly. Yeah, but his first breakout role was that terrible person. So unlikable. I don't know if it was that terrible. He was like, I thought it was, like, funny. Like, I mean, I know what, I know he's playing that role. That's what I mean.

He played it perfectly. But he played it. But he did. Pretty great. Yeah, yeah. But I don't think it was like, I don't think when you watch it, you thought that guy would be a turd. I'm trying, you know what? There's, uh...

He honestly was right to do what he did. I'm thinking someone... Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are kind of scumbags. Well, they totally are. In that movie, yeah. Is Miles Teller or Glenn Powell? Which one played that in Top Gun? The kind of Glenn Powell, maybe?

They were both in it. Miles Teller is the main dude. Yeah, was Glenn Powell's the arrogant? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I thought he was someone that's like, you know, like he played very well that role of like an arrogance and then that you're like, man, this guy's awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like after, you know, you see him other stuff, but he did really good with like in that movie. That's like Val Kilmore playing Iceman. Did you see Glenn Powell's S&L monologue? I did not. He was very good. He told a story about how he got. picked to host Saturday Night Live in 2020 and or maybe even before that I guess and um he was so

excited when he got the call and he was there with his family and his like the mailman was there a UPS driver or something in the moment he's like what's going on he's like I just got to do Saturday Night Live and they did a selfie all together with his family then COVID hits and they have to cancel oh they cancel Top Gun Maverick that was the thing that was the thing that movie got delayed, so they said, we got to cancel your appearance. So he told everybody he was going to be on SNL, and it looked like he was lying, because it never happened. And then however many years later, five years, whatever later, he got to host SNL and he brought that guy. The UPS driver? Yeah, on stage with him. I think I did see that. Yeah, yeah. That's cool. Yeah, it's a fun moment.

Hey, can I just say objectively speaking, though? We got these pulled up here. That new Cracker Barra logo is really bad compared to the old one. I mean, right? What's so bad about it? Well, it's just, it's just nothing. Yeah, I think it's plain. Yeah, next to this other design here, it's like, I don't know, I just think it's nothing. What is the shape that Cracker Barrel? It looks more like a gas station. Yeah. What is this shape right here? What is that supposed to be? I think a pancreas. Yeah. I mean, it's what it looks like. It's what you need. A kidney or something. Yeah, maybe a kidney. I can't tell what it is. Yeah. It was like the bean in Chicago. It does. Yeah.

I don't think anybody was thinking that they needed something different. Yeah. It's just such a plain nothing logo. That's like something I could design on ChatGPJ. What is it? Why do they call it cracker barrel? That C going into the bees. Well, because they used to have a barrel of crackers, like soda crackers that people could eat.

Soda crackers? Yeah, just the white crackers. Oh, yeah. Oh, so they would have that staining around? I think so, yeah Oh, wow So the guy in the logo His name Uncle Herschel

He's an illustration of a man resembling company founder Dan Evans' real life uncle Herschel McCartney That's a real dude in the thing I got some McCartney's in my married in There's Uncle Herschel in the menu Oh, oh, that makes sense

Yeah How about that? Now we're in July Wet Heat premieres on Netflix. Boom. All right. Wet heat,

middle of the year. We also recorded the Titans Code of Conduct video in July. First day of training camp. Man, not a lot of people have seen that probably. It's been a tough year,

you know. In August, Leon Morgan's sitcom, Leanne premiered on Netflix. September, Nate hosted the Emmys. All right. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know what to say. It's like, but yeah, yeah. I was three months ago now. It's crazy. Yeah, no, it's moving. In October, Nate was the guest picker on college game day. Oh, man.

Crazy moment. November, this is Nate Land premiered. That's been, we didn't talk about that much, but that's. Yeah, the mascot video. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, those have been funny. Yeah, yeah. In December, deadline named Aaron Weber, one of the 20 comedians to watch in 2026. How about that?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so, you know, all that stuff. We also got, you know, a New York Times article written about, you know, Nate Land and Nash, you know, a little bit. I mean, it's a little bit to do. Me and Nate were in it. You guys were, you know, in it a little bit too, but it was, you know.

Two others. Yeah. But still, it applies, you know. We're in it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was very excited about it.

It was New York Times, you know, it doesn't, I don't get included in a New York Times. The failing New York Times. Yeah. I don't get included in a New York Times article very often. I mean, that's awesome. I thought it was pretty good. No, it's, it's, uh... Did you get a hard copy for it to...

No, hopefully one day. I'll get you one. I'll get you a hard copy. Give me one. Yeah. Oh, also, uh... You can order them. I'll get one for you.

Oh, thank you. Appreciate that. Also, I loved it off, but Nashville scene named, uh, the fans, what are you, best comedian in Nashville and the media picked Dusty is. Yeah. Did they? Yeah. They did.

I tried to make it, I tried to make it a thing on the podcast where me and you both won that year and they diminished my accomplishment and made a mockery of me on the podcast. You're for the people and he's for the media. So much so that even fans were writing. Did they separately vote like that for a way? Well they do the magazine

has their pick and then they do a fan vote. Fans of the podcast were writing in talking about how sensitive I am and just they couldn't believe that's very funny. So you got the media. Yeah. I think you were number two

in the fan vote the mainstream media i don't know if i was even in the fan vote at all i think you were though but uh i like that you got the media vote yeah well they just you know the our our co-host here really uh really came down on the best comedian yeah that was the scenes pick right yeah yeah all right uh yeah look i think what the the news to come out of this if you find is oh the readers poll that was the writers poll that was the writers poll and yeah no you're yeah you didn't make the top three you're right yeah no one the people you know yeah my people don't vote yeah they're off the grid yeah they don't but they work in the media yeah yeah yeah yeah but they're uh i would say you know it's uh uh you know it's uh uh

it's nice to hear that stuff that, you know, Nate Land's had a good year. A huge year. A huge year. Very big. Not that we're responsible for, I'm saying, y'all, you know, your success of whatever it is. But just a... It's a huge part of that. We've associated ourselves with, I think, some people doing some real big things.

Yeah, as a group. I mean, obviously, you've lifted it up quite a bit. But as a group, it's very accomplished. Yeah. It's very accomplished. Do you have predictions for next year, Brian? I do. But is it due to the end?

You do it at the end? I'll do it at the end. Okay. So do you guys sit in your resolutions? I think about it every year and then I don't do it. I'm thinking about trying. Is it like pagan or something to do it? No, I just think I...

I'm just looking for an excuse to not do it. Okay. Well, I don't know. I mean, you could argue that this is not even the real new year. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's what I'll do. It's always a much bigger thing. that's what's so great is it this one little thing you're like well years don't even count yeah

and you go okay march first right yeah well yeah march or april yeah okay it's hard to say well i was gonna talk a little bit about that we talked about this five years ago of the calendar's episode but but when spring has come when new life is forming it's like the new life is beginning right new year but you can see that since the last time we celebrated our new years it's It's been a full year. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. 12 months. Because we've made one trip around the sun? Yeah, so to speak. Yeah. Yeah. Some of you have made one trip around the sun. Yeah.

Okay. Some of you live in reality. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Nate, we used to live off the Julian calendar. Yeah. Do you know which calendar we currently live off of?

It's a throwback here. The Gordian. The Gregorian calendar. Gregorian, Gregorian calendar. The Jordanian calendar. Yeah. Depending on how you want to pronounce the G is. It could be Giorian.

Georgian. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Julia Caesar started a calendar with 12 months. Mm-hmm. Like George. Gord.

Yeah. Curious. Gorga. They got off the little track because of Leapier. It didn't quite work like they should. Man, I bet that just sneaks up on you. It took a few hundred years, but... I know, but you're just like...

I'm sure one person said, what about this? And he's like, dude, if that guy doesn't quit. And then he's like, I swear to you, it's going to blow it all up. And then, you know, he didn't even get to live. long enough to even really get the glory. He had it set. It was 365 days and six hours. But it's

actually a year's 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. So it's pretty good for him to figure that out back then. I was going to say it's closer than I would be. They got so close. But by the year 1582 they were off 10 days. So seasons were starting to fall

you know, different times. Easter wasn't the same. So Pope Gregory authorized the Gregorian calendar, where they fix the leap day. It's still a little bit off, though. We're still getting off a little bit. So someone can still come in and go, I'm going to fix it even more. Could. At some point, somebody will come in and go, let's all take a day off. You know? Yeah. Like today's March 14th, tomorrow will be March 14th again, just to get us back. Yeah. Because it says, I mean, somebody should do that at some point. That's a lot. That's a lot. I can get everybody to

I got the time here for you, Aaron. By the year 4909, the Gregorian calendar will be a full day ahead of the solar year. So, in 4909. Gally, so it's that accurate that it's going to take that long to get a day off. Yeah, that's pretty unbelievable. Yeah. And then so, and then we'll kind of be back to normal then? Yeah.

We'll get back on track. And so when it goes back to normal, what's it going to be like? So spring is a day earlier? I think it would just be what it should be all the time. kind of like what we have it now. 4909. But 4909, just to get back to basically now, so it never really changes.

Well, by 4909, if we didn't do something, it would, I mean, it's only one day. We'd be off by one day in another 2,000 years. Yeah, I wouldn't even mess with it. And I bet, yeah. I bet you're not even. You don't think we're going to have to worry about it. I don't even know if you're going to have.

Are you even going to have days then? I think there's a lot of things we're not going to have in 2,000 years. Look at type in like in 2000 years, will they even have a calendar? Type that into what? Type it into your computer. Let's see what it says. Will we have a calendar? In 2,000 years.

Yes, in 2000 years, humanity will almost certainly still have calendars. but they will likely be evolved, more precise, perhaps digital, and potentially incorporate new systems like the Holocene calendar as our current Gregorian calendar, while globally dominant has slight inaccuracies, was Brian just talked about, and our need for timekeeping for global coordination culture and space exploration will persist. That's a pretty good answer. Yeah. I mean, every now the AI knocks it out of the park. So this is a good question to ask. What is the Holocene calendar? Oh, I don't know.

That's a good song by Bonnevere, though. That's the name of the song? Holocene. Oh. What does Holocene mean? I have no idea. It's a proposed year-counting system that adds 10,000 years to the Gregorian calendar, making the start of the Holocene epic around 10,000 BC when agriculture began.

Okay, so instead of 2025, it would be 12,025, offering a continuous timeline that places all of human history. That would be 1,000. do it, yeah. It'd be 1,225, not 12,000, right, 1,1225. No, that'd be 12,025 right there. If you add 10,000 to everything. That seems like that would really don't need to do that. That's not I really had you.

That would have been embarrassing. Yeah. Because it doesn't matter if I'm wrong. You know? That's right. Yeah. All the pressure's on you. Yeah.

Yeah. This is like, yeah. The notice is on me. Yeah. Yeah, if you get that wrong, no big deal. When Aaron gets it wrong, the comments next week go, Aaron thinks he knows everything. It's like that episode of The Office with Michael and...

Yeah, we're saying I'm Oscar and he's Michael. Well, it's like when you play a non-conference game in football, where you're like... Yeah, you're like... Like all our games? Yeah. Yeah, like, yeah. If you're playing like Tulane, you're like, yeah, it doesn't matter if Notre Dame

wins against Tulane, but if they lose. Exactly. All you can do is... Luckily, you have a schedule. I still like my joke. I try to get it in somewhere else about... Y'all played Wake Forest twice. That's funny.

It was a good joke, Dan, and it means the most relevant now. Did you play Wake Forest twice in one year? No. They might as well. Just a funny take. They just play the same teams. Yeah. We don't got a conference.

some churches still use the Julian calendar many Orthodox Christians annually celebrate Christmas on or near January 7th it's probably relief to not just have to do it like there's a lot of pressure when everybody's doing it on the same day so you just kind of go like we're doing it later yeah this year the Chinese New Year is the year of the horse

specifically the fire horse oh tell Harper that The fire horse. Yeah. They come of 2026 is. Yes, this. This is the year of the dragon we're in right now, right? Well, this is New Year's Eve, so we've been in the dragon for a while.

I know, I know. There is a superstition that a woman born in the year of the firehorse has a strong temperament and shorten her husband's life. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I mean, that's like, so every year's the. It's like we've been to that for a while. Yeah. Yeah. Have they ever watched Dateline?

The Year of the Fire Horse. What is it? Next year, the Fire Horse will be 26. The World Bank has speculated that the trend will not continue in 2026. What does that mean? What does that mean? I don't know.

I think that's referencing something in a previous paragraph. I was talking about births. There's something to do. There's some kind of trend. What do they say? I don't know. If the World Bank's getting in on it,

It sounds serious. Yeah. That the birth rate's dropping at a certain percentage. Oh, yeah. Firehorse. The International Fixed Calendar is a proposed calendar reform with 13 months,

each having exactly 28 days, totaling 300. So if we had 13 months, they'd all be the same, 28 days. Yeah. 364 days plus an extra year day and elite day

to align with the solar year. It was invented in 1902, and there's a new month called Seoul, S-O-L. Yeah. There would be a single month. This is not info I expected you to come in with. I like news. Yeah.

Independence Day would no longer be July 4th, but Seoul 16. Easter would always be on April 15th, and every Christmas would be Wednesday. Every year would start on a Sunday, and every Friday would always be a 13th. I don't know how you could do that. So why do they not do this? It was never officially adopted by any country, mainly because of religious holidays.

People just didn't want to change to it. But George Eastman of Eastman, Kodak, he instituted it in his company from 1928 to 1989. He used this calendar. So if you worked for Eastman, that's the calendar you're using. That really stinks when you've got a family. You ask off for a certain holiday. Yeah, wrong calendar, buddy. I'll do a little bit of year in review, 2025.

Dusty, I'm going to start with you. It's a little sports quiz. Can you tell me who won the college football national championship? In 2025? Yeah, in January. Oh, who was it? Georgia? A lot of people were saying they shouldn't have won.

Yeah, you'll be next. Okay. Your answer is Georgia? Yeah, I guess. Well, there was a really good team in the championship. Yeah. Like a really good program. There's Notre Dame versus Ohio State.

Notre Dame got in in week six. In week six, they were promised to championship. I've been tuned out all this year of football. Yeah. Well, that was last year, but technically. But you attended Nate's Super Bowl party. Do you remember who won the Super Bowl? Chiefs.

It's always a good guess. They were in it. They were in it. They were team won. Fly. Oh, all the Eagles. Yeah. You're focused.

mostly on Nate's commercial. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, that's right. And how bad I was at hitting a golf ball. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I gained a whole new respect for people that played golf that night. I thought you didn't celebrate the Super Bowl. Well, I try not to.

The real Super Bowl is in August. Aaron, do you remember who won the Masters? Who won the Masters this year? Rory McElroy. Good job. One for the first time. Yeah. Great Slam, right?

That's good. Do you remember who won the NBA championship? The Oklahoma City Thunder. Oh, you're doing good. SGA was the MVP. Nate, do you remember who won the World Series? Dodgers.

Very good. Both of those were seven games. Yeah, it was one of the best World Series ever this year. Yeah, I know. I hope that got a lot of... You know the Stanley Cup? You know the Stanley Cup?

The Tampa Bay Lightning, did they want? No. The Canucks? I have no idea. The Florida Panthers. Oh, I knew it was a four. I watched an entire NHL playoffs. They, in Edmonton, they lost.

Oh, that's right. We were watching that on the road. It's funny. I was going to bring up, like, something that we picked up in 2025, something maybe new. And I was going to say for you, you really got into the Stanley Cup playoffs. Really got into Stanley Cup. I mean, yeah. Connor McDavid, you really want him to win a cup.

And, yeah. Well, this year, they just traded for it. I know a little bit more, but I know. that they're just traded for a new goalie. I mean, it's really like I'm keeping a pretty eye on that, like McDavid. It's not like it's an overall. But, I mean, every playoff of any sport, I am.

It's awesome. Biggest song of the year, Die with a Smile by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, cited by BBC is the world's biggest song based on combined streams and downloads. Okay. Now, I think it helped its cause it came out in January, January, so...

Yeah, yeah, it's had the whole year. Yeah. Most streamed TV show in 2025, Bluey. Okay. My daughter watches that. Yeah. I think I sent you a link to this. Yeah. Is it a superhero movie? Uh, no. It is. I mean, look how close that is. Wow. Wow. I mean, that's $200,000 difference. I didn't know Superman did that well. it's a

Minecraft movie Leelow and Stitch Superman Jurassic World Wicked Scroll down a little bit Let's see Sinner I'm waiting for the

first movie that's not like a superhero type movie Uh weapons Right there Weapons at 15 Is the first

That's uh What about F1 Not part of a franchise Or existing IP or something F1 No it's not part of something like one F1 as IP though Yeah keep going

Like let me just want to see I don't understand Like it wasn't a movie based on a thing That already existed Oh okay Like an original Freakier Friday coming in at 94 million Yeah they're all remakes

Or sequels Right Yeah well we need to get that That's right To get the breadwinner up there Let's get the breadwinner up there Let's get it It's gonna be rated PG

Very fun fun movie Word of the year For 2025 Oxford chose rage bait. Dictionary.com chose 6.7. Yeah. As though. Yeah, I mean, that's not even a word, but the phrase, whatever. The 6-7 thing.

We were in Dallas for Thanksgiving with my sister's family those out there, and they went to in and out to get burgers one day. And they all, all the kids in the store were waiting for the number 67 receipt to get called. They were like going nuts for it. And it gets there, 65, 66, the kids are going crazy. And they go, 68. And the kids are like, what? And they're like, yeah, we took 67 out of the system.

I think I read that. Wow. It was a problem at the stores where kids would just go crazy for it. So it's just gone from the in and out, I think. Oh, wow. Have you been to the in and out here in Nashville? Yeah, no. Where is it?

It's in Melbourne, or Lebanon. Oh, Lebanon, Murphy's Borough and Antioch, I think. Oh. They're closing waterburgers. Yeah. They had a... Thank goodness. Are they really?

I had water burgers the other day and it was great. Oh, okay. I think it was good. They were going to say gross. Yeah. No, I actually, and I forgot about it. It's open 24 hours. The one in herbage?

No. I was hoping it was the one Dusty once closed. Can I tell you a fast food moment? My parents went to the one in herember. They're closing that one? No. It's closing one in Mount Julia, though. I was driving to a corporate gig,

and I got McDonald's for the first time in a long time. and I take a bite of the burger and I realized there's no patty in the burger still good they forgot to put that it was just the bun and cheese and I ate it oh I was sure and I you don't get lucky like that all the time

the line was long that's what we're really getting to I could have you know if there was no line I would have got back and go ahead but I was like I guess this is what God gave me today. Yeah. Well, that side sandwich probably helped you.

What was that? That was the only burger I got, was just the one. Just one cheeseburger? Just a regular cheeseburger. Fries and a cheeseburger. Say you had gotten two. Why don't you get a number two?

Just keep going. snack wrap. Say you got two and they only didn't put the burger in one. Would you have taken the bread and put it around the one with me? And made a big Mac out of it. But like two buns. burger two buns would you have done that no i think i just would have not eaten the one without a patty but if it was the only one i got i got my i guess i'm just having bread and cheese

uh time magazine's person of the year was the architects of ai i mean i this is the year where just the average person starts using ai for sure i mean you mentioned you use it you use it to write your jokes why don't you said you use chat gptt right not to write my Maybe you should. I used it to... It sounds... What he? The Tennessee of the year, you'll love this, Dusty.

Which Wilmore, the astronaut. Oh, good. That's your friend? Yeah. That's a wish. I wish. He's the guy from Mount Juliet. What do you do?

He went to Florida for about a month. I hid out. The guy that was in space for so long. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he was in Cozumel for two years and came back for the tan. Yeah, exactly. Congratulations. Real fast, some stuff that's going to happen this year in 2026.

Winter Olympics from February 6th to February 22nd. While we're on the cruise, the Winter Olympics will be going on. Where? What part of the world? Milan and Cortina Diapizo, Italy. Good spots. World Baseball Classic. Oh, yeah, that's fun.

That's in March. The World Cup. is in North America. Do they do that every year? No, it's every four years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The World Cup is this year in North America.

Yeah. And the finals will be at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. And it's the 250th anniversary of the United States. Wow. There's going to be a lot of big events to honor the U.S. The coins are changing, quarters dimes, and nickels. The what are? I can't say that word.

Coins. How do you say it? just like you say it coins I have a joke I'm supposed to say it coins you said coin

you said it but you coins coins Coins Cohen Cohen Cohen

Cohen Coins Coins coins coins coins coins it's the same vein as the oil and

yeah I get your point it can't be coincidence that we both kind of say stuff the same way From the same neck of the woods. That's right. Quarters, dimes, and nickels, minted in 2026, will have a special design reflecting the nation's 250th birthday. That's cool.

Not a penny, though. They're getting rid of those. That's right. They're done. Making those. It's going to be a total solar eclipse. Not in the United States, but parts of Europe will see it. Midterm elections are on my birthday this year.

That'll be fun. November 3rd of this year. Some movies coming out. The Breadwinner on March 13th. Wow. Star Wars, the Mandalorian and Grogu. Going straight to, what was it, Tooby? What is it, Theaters?

Breadwinner. Theaters? Straight to movie theaters. Toy Story 5, Supergirl, Spider-Man, Brand New Day, Hunger Games, Avengers Doomsday. Some of the other big movies. I thought they were done with Avengers. Avengers Dooms Day is supposed to be a big one. I mean, they're pretty bad these days.

days the ones are putting out. No, you got back into the Avengers this year. I watched all the old ones. I thought there was one called End Game, which was the end. Well, yeah, it was the end of that storyline. Overall storyline, yeah. But Doomsday

could be very cool. Is it a prequel or is it? No, no, no. All these They're fighting Dr. Dume. Yeah. It's like the Avengers type of. Oh, Dr. Dume. Yeah. That sounds sick, actually. Robert Dunez. Rupertownie Jr. is Dr. Doom. But is he, is Iron Man?

I don't know about it. all that. Are there's none of the same world? No, I mean, it is. It's just later on, but they're just, I don't know how they're going to. The fantastic full war will be fighting. Yeah. Dr. Doom as well. There we go. In the Thunderbolts and yeah. Different people like that.

So, my predictions for 2025 was that wet heat would be one of the top specials of the year. I think it was. Well, I think it was too, but I don't know. I don't know. I agree. No, it was in the top 10. Okay. All right.

And I also said you'd be saying they were in the top 10 of the, you know, up when you get up. Oh, trending stuff. Well, that's a hot special. That's, I mean, it's not like every special gets in the top 10. They put out specials a lot. Oh, yeah. And so if you're in the top 10 and you stayed in the top 10, you're going to be one in the top specials.

Well, that is true. And it is a hot special. You know what I mean? That was an easy prediction. Yeah, Nateland people are putting out hot specials. Hot specials. Everybody knows that. You won't say folks, but...

I mean, us. The people that listen are folks. We're people. Yeah. They're not people. I predicted Aaron would make his late-night TV debut. You did. Wow.

Yeah. And I said that Nate would host an award show. And you did too? Oh, wow. Did you really? Yeah. Oh, wow. That was my prediction.

So what do you have for this? What about for yourself? I said the easier to drive tour would become the harder to drive tour, and that was correct. And that was correct, definitely. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

2025, my best year yet. Yeah. That's great. So for 2026. Well, that's going to be. I'm going to say, you'll win an Emmy for, I mean, a Grammy, excuse me, for your friend, Nate Bargatsy. All right. I'll find that quick.

I don't know. Okay. You'll find out quick. Well, that'll be early. When is the Grammys, February or something? Mm-hmm. Yeah. And the breadwinner will be a huge box office hit.

I think so. I hope you're right. I think it will be. If you keep dusty scene in, I think word will get out. Word will get out. I mean, I think it's going to be, I think it'll be very good. Yeah. I hope so.

Yeah. I really do. Those are very specific. Aaron, yours, I don't have it specific, but you're going to be in, you're going to have some TV credit that's going to be really cool. Something that's going to, you know, we're going to be talking about. All right. I don't like that.

Like in a show. Something. Yeah. Who wants to be a millionaire? Something like that. Something that's going to be in your bio. Okay. Very least a movie credit, though.

Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't count. Well, you're not counting breadwinner. No, no, no. I'm not counting breadwinner. No, no. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I agree with that. Yeah. Yeah. And Dusty, you're going to plant 50 oak trees. Well, okay. Well, that's true. I got 25 at home right now.

And give out an acorn to every one of your fans, which is kind of your goal, right? Well, yeah. I mean, yeah, I mean, I'm into that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're going to start selling out big theaters. Okay. You're going to go to that next level where, should we, you know, should we move up this guy? Should he be kind of like Leanne was last year where she's now?

Now, Leanne's going into arenas now. Wow. But you're going to go to that next level. All right. That's my prediction. All right. I appreciate that. But yeah, I do have a lot of acorns.

And I'm trying to plant a bunch of oak trees. So I'm trying to do that. I listen to his podcast. That's pretty much what every episode is. I save that for my own What about for you? You guys don't want to listen to my tree talk I'm going to be in a movie

March 13th Bates is going to tape a special Yeah Next year Yeah I think so too I'd like that I'd like that Yeah

What would you call it? I know so Oh you do? We're going to tape a special next year Boom About that Look out things about that Yeah

No need to predict Congratulations This man moves mountains over here. Bates is taping his special this year. We weren't going to tell, I don't, we were not, we were not going to say it. Not now, but then I was, you know, I'm leaving. No, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't know one, like, I mean, we were going, it's no.

I just in the moment, you are, we, the plan, we already, we're going to tape your special. Awesome. I love it. So I'm going to tell you right now. Thank you. Thank you. Tapeing a special for the next year. All right, I love it.

They're like, where are the cameras? No, yeah. It's going to be a six-minute special, but it's a special. Goes on my YouTube. Bates will have a big Nate. And I think it's going to be a Big Nate Land special. Yeah. I love it.

I love it. Thank you. There you go. Thank you. Thank you. Well, happy New Year's, guys. Happy New Year. Happy New Year.

Yeah. All right. We love you. Got a couple weeks left. Come see me in Texas. coming week. Yeah, yeah. You got to get ready for a special.

Yeah. All right. We love you. Happy New Year. Bye. Oh, wait. Hold on. Sorry.

Oh, you got to promote. Yeah. Sorry. Come see me. He said go to text. Yeah. Come see me in Texas this week. January 6th, 7th, and 8th.

He said it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to be in San Francisco, California, for the first time next weekend, then Sacramento, then Toronto, Canada, the next weekend. So come out and see me. Thank you. This weekend, I'll be in. Naples, Florida at Off the Hook.

Next weekend, I'll be in Brea, California at the Improv. Great club. All right. Big club. Happy New Year. Love you. Bye. Hey!