The Nateland Podcast - 286: #286 For Your Amusement

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

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Hello, folks, and hey, Bear, welcome to the NateLand podcast. It's one of the final ones. One of the final ones with this name. With this name. Yeah, I want to do, I definitely want to mention that. it's been mentioned every else podcast's not leaving

it's just they're going to change the name because I won't be it's like there it's it's going to be the vibe it's the Nate Land

we're still making Nate Land Network is is doing the podcast so the podcast you're nothing's going to the only thing will change

is I will not be here so but yeah everything else will be the same all the other podcast so yeah but the general that and the tone of the show and the general vibe

will be better. Yeah. Besides that, I'm saying. From what I enhance, some of the booking policies are changing, too. Oh, that's definitely. That's definitely. I'm not going to just have anybody. Brian rules with an iron fist. Yeah. It's like an amateur hour over here. So, I'm

Nate Berguzzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and we have Greg Warren filling in for Dusty. Greg wearing his hat from work. You didn't take it off. Yeah. Otis Elevator Company. You look you could work at an elevator company. Thanks, man.

I would see you one of those guys in... I don't think you're in the offices. No, you're out inspecting, but... Yeah, you're in the action. Yeah, you're in the action. I can see you have an Otis Elevator joke. Yeah. Dusty has one.

Yeah, I know he does. It's a good one, too. Yeah. We covered it on the podcast. We did it as a brand. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Otis is great.

Are they the only elevator company? They're the dominant one. They're the dominant one, and I think they were the... They started them. Yeah. Yeah, but, I mean, I don't retain a lot of that information. Yeah, what a great episode. Yeah, yeah, go listen to that episode because that is, I like, it's like probably a company been around for, I mean, for.

Yeah, and they were, you know, the escalators too. Yeah, oh, so they didn't even, wow, because they could have ducked out of the escalator business. No, no, if you're going up and down, Otis has got a piece of it. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so New Year, man, we're off on a rocket ship. Boom, stuff's happening. How's your year going? It's good. Do you have a prediction for Greg for this year? Well, you're getting ready to be on a network television show.

Yeah. That's pretty big. Yeah, it's, it's, it was unbelievably amount of fun. It was great, man. I mean, your career is like a rocket ship right now. Yeah. it was the challenger yeah it is oh man that was not that's not that's a little insensitive

as well yeah it is but man that's it's good it's like what do you know those are the tough ones when you're like hey what are you going to do dude that's it's unbelievable

the timing of it was great yeah he's got a jacket that was probably there I don't know if that made I'm just trying to get in on it yeah yeah so I think he's going to be you know

Greg hit you could see it theater yeah I mean if you can do 14 Kansas City shows we're trying a couple we'll see how it goes alright I love that yeah we're uh

yeah I wish they were in Kansas City I think we might try one Columbia, Missouri. Oh, that'd be awesome. I'm opening for you there. That's where I went to college. Yeah. And, yeah, they want you to come to wrestling practice, man.

Really? Yeah, the coach wants you to come. Let's go. Yeah, yeah, he does. Yeah, he wants you. You got a plaque or anything up at that, Jim? My name's on the wall there. Oh, that's awesome.

Like, retired. The law of his school. Yeah. No, he built it. That's good. Nate bought his. That's what I'm saying. Same thing.

Greg got paid N.I.O. money back then. Yeah. Did you get any money under the table when you backed in? No. Did anybody at all? Yes. Really?

Yeah, Oklahoma State Wrestling got the death penalty when I was in there. Wow. Wow. Yeah. But they came back pretty quick because SMU is like just now coming back. They came back like they were good the next year. Yeah. Yeah.

They had one year and then they were good the next year. But death penalty killed SMU. Yeah. Killed it. Yeah. Yeah. Those guys, didn't they have Eric Dickerson and who's the other guy? There's Craig. Craig. James?

James in the same backfield. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And did anybody else get the death penalty? Alabama State did when I was a kid. I didn't know Oklahoma State, so just their wrestling. Wrestling program got the death penalty. But, I mean, it just seems weird that it's like, why did it affect SMU so much? But then Oklahoma State just, like, it did it.

like I thought the death penalty shouldn't isn't it it means like what I think of the death penalty I think of SMU and I think like it's taking you 30 years 40 years to get back on track and then so it's like almost like Oklahoma State did not get it that bad

they just I don't even know what it was but back the end there was kids were getting paid yeah I mean I didn't know but there was something and maybe it was that was the rumor and maybe they weren't. But yeah, there was, they had a lot of really, really good wrestlers at the same

weight class. Now, now with NIL, that happens, you know. But back then there was, you know, you only had like nine and a half scholarships per team. So you're like, they had to get some money somewhere. Did you have a full ride the whole time? I think I was on about, I think I was on maybe like 70 or 80% the first year. And then after that, I got a full ride. But you know what? I didn't take you money on the table, but I did. Back then, if you had a full ride, you were not allowed to work you couldn't work during the school year yeah and uh and i had a summer job at a comedy club and uh it bled a little bit in the year and so that was technically an NCAA violation at the time or like it could have been university because i and i think i did

get paid a little bit those first you know by the wrestling season was getting into full gear like a month into school but for maybe those first few weeks i was like i want to not going to practice. You know, practice, I think I still worked at the comedy club. Could they retroactively strip you of some of your... You're all-American status. Yeah. They listen to this.

Do they? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is worse. You're just... We're really... We're really diving into my past the last few.

You need to be... You're killing a career every episode. You need to get off podcast. I don't need to be leaving. You need to be leaving. Your whole life is unraveling here. Yeah. But that, yeah, I think I'd probably...

got paid a couple of paychecks into the end of the year. But it was, yeah, I mean, that's, that was stupid, though, like, I think. You know, you could work in the summer. You could work in the summer. That's what they would say, too. Yeah. Everybody got caught, said, well, just a couple. Just a couple.

All right. Well, yeah, we are, we're just kind of get into it. Anybody, you don't have anything that you want to say. No. So we are starting with your comments. Look at that. Yeah. Lesson.

Yeah. Heather Sorensen. I never realized clean comedy was important to me until I find myself physically cringing at a recent non-clean show. As someone with anxiety, the last thing I need at a social event is to feel embarrassed on top of everything else. I truly appreciate you guys for keeping it clean, smart, and actually funny. You guys rock my favorite podcast ever. Thank you, Heather. Very nice. Yeah, I understand that. Not that, yeah, some go to show, some people, it's like what you like and what you don't like? I was always would have been someone very embarrassed to sit up front at a connoisseur. Oh, yeah.

I would not like it. But, I mean, I know I got a buddy, or I know a guy that's like he will buy a ticket to sit up front. He wants to be around. He wants to be involved, too? Yes. Okay. Yes. Like, I mean, like, wants to, I don't, you know, I don't, I don't, I'm not, we, we, we know each other.

I don't know. I haven't seen him at a show or anything like that. Like, uh, everyone has seen him in, like, certain situations. when he's talked about going to comedy shows and like crowd work show he talked about Nate Jackson he's been in Nate Jackson and he'll buy Nate Jackson I think sells tickets like right up front and I mean he's buying those tickets up front and he's going to sit right there I did a comedy club years ago and the manager told me it's open seating at this club and they could not get people to sit in the first two rows so their solution was to charge

more to sit in those first two rows and call it the splash zone yeah and they were like If you do crowd work or anything, just do it to those first two rows. And they sell out first every show now. You're not crazy? Nobody was sitting there. They're like, let's charge more for it. And now people sit there. That's what that thing happens, you know.

And I think people like it because you're like, it shouldn't bleed onto you. But I would have been, I'm a person that would be, that's why I don't do it. I mean, you have it, you have had it happen. But it's like, I'm just so mortified. Like, I don't want to be. I got, before I even started doing stand-up, I got picked on by a stand-up comic here at Zanis. Oh, really? Mortified.

Yes. Who was it? I think it was John Morgan, Raging Cajun. Oh, the Raging Cajun. Yeah, no, John. That's an honor. Yeah. I was here with my girlfriend and not even sit up front, but in Zanis.

And he picked me out and just, you know, asked me some awful dirty stuff. Hey, buddy, you do you do this, this, this. Yeah. I wouldn't do anything. And I was just mortified. And then he came back to me again later in the show. And I was a big part of his act that night. And I was so embarrassed.

He's still got into comedy. It's different than the crowd work that you do, right? Because you just ask him a question. Yes. He just asked. Yeah. You weren't an officer? What is that a hat?

Yeah. All right. Makes sense. That's exactly right. A lot of people wear hats. I think the story I told when you were on was like, The guys were in Auburn shirt. I was like, you go to Auburn?

He goes, now. And I got, all right. Yeah, I just kept going. I loved it, man. That's a tough one. Man, I've had an Auburn joke lying up. You tell that story on the road a lot. You know what's a good save line if you're having a crowdwork thing and you can't think of anything?

You go, why don't we talk after the show? Yeah. I like that. And then you just get back into it. Sometimes I'll, yeah, I'll say like, just, uh, because I can start. I can sometimes, my nervousness, if I go up and. try to say something up top and I don't really have a plan but I'm trying to maybe say something about the city and I am just like because I feel like I need to I can get pretty nervous because

I'll start it and it won't go good and then it's like weird and then I you had to go like this show then I'll just be like this show's going to be bad I'll say that out loud or something I'll say something to get a laugh to then just get into my act but because sometimes you feel like you need to. But I mean, I could start, I could start right at it. That was a crowd thing with the, I think it was Cincinnati, a pretty good crowd moment you had. Yeah, with a couple, the married couple? Yeah, they were sitting, there was a, I walked on stage, and then they started, they were clapping, and then there, it was a short walk to the stage, and then they start, this person's waving at this person. And it was like, kind of obvious.

And I was like, oh, are you all waving? Like, and it was, a wife and a husband that both bought tickets to the show but I guess didn't say where they were sitting and they both had front row seats so they and then they didn't realize that they were like they're like oh you're there I'm there and so I had a little yeah it was good yeah it was a little fun yeah you know we can do it I don't want to do it but we can do it uh back it's against the wall we're Aaron Weber here let me tell you about Brunt workwear boots we all got a pair. I've been loving mine. I don't know if you've tried yours on. Yeah, it's awesome. No break in needed. You just throw them on and you're good to go. I got the O men boot. Brian went

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There's a lot of that already. Yeah. Alex Hoskinson. I like that name. Yeah. Sounds like a disease, doesn't it? I was going to say that. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I didn't want to say. Hoskinson's lymphoma or something? Yeah, that's why I didn't say. it okay i'm glad you said it uh i had in my head i thought should i say that or is that how's alex doing yeah he is hoskinsons oh man oh no is he fine is he no he's got hoskinson uh put on signature dish uh sped it up they guess we don't even know how that happened he goes how can a special speak up a disease he goes even the disease was like, I got to do this guy in favor.

It went straight to the heart. Nobody gets Randy laughing like Bates. Oh, man. This is all. Somehow a consumer's comment got in. Oh, wow. This is awkward. This is uncomfortable.

I don't know how this happened. But it happens time to time. Yeah. So this is from the Consumers podcast of Greg Warren's podcast. Nobody gets Randy. laughing like Bates, his clever witty comments are unmatched, said this for years on Nate Land and the same goes here for the consumers loved it. There we go. So that just wound its way in the I don't know how that got in there, man. It just wires crossed. Yeah, just wire, it happens,

you know, it happens. Nobody gets, gets him going like you. Yeah, that's, let's, that's, Randy's our producer. Yeah. Yeah. He likes Bates. And it's usually cheap laughs. He's usually taking shots at me. Sometimes when I'm not there. Yeah. But I'm not a cheap guess because Greg paid $763 to fly me. Oh, my Godly. I told Tim, it's when I was doing the game show. The only episode I haven't been there. And I said, he goes, can we get baits?

Come on. I don't think that's worth the time or the money. No. I go get baits. I go, yeah, get baits. Do whatever you got to do to get baits. I go. That's what he said.

And I have a ton of Southwest Airlines miles. I was like, yeah, man, just get baits. and he goes, I booked it. I'm like, what, what do you mean? He booked it. You said book it. I said, I would book it $750 to get Bates to St. Louis. And it would have probably been three points because once they find it's bates,

they go, I go, just take three points off the top. He's sitting in the back anyway. Yeah. And then what does he do? He shows up and just tease off on me. Man. But it's also like you're hot. He's in the hole on me.

it's your most viewed episode probably and well you do well you do real well you do what they like it was worth paying yeah it wasn't seven hundred fifty dollars well southwest yeah i don't know you can spend seven hundred fifty dollars on a southwest ticket plus i had sean take me out of st louis yeah i think that him and tim got some scam he goes how much you think you're in the hole with bates here the all the when you had oh there's two episodes i've flown in there for yeah he had a room at the wrist You had the room at the ritz. You had to fly.

You had to go pick him up at the airport. That was Uber money. He probably saved $150. In Orlando? Yeah. 300. We went around the whole city. Yeah.

And sat in traffic. Yeah. And I paid for lunch. He's probably 15, maybe two grand. And when we were leaving, there was some lady collecting money for soldiers or something like that. I'm like, no thank you. And Greg was like, yeah, I'll give. And I'm like, well, I guess I've got to give now.

So you asked him. to give for you in retrospect that I think that might have been shakedown yeah you go

that's from both of us that's what I wanted to say but I couldn't guilty man Christy Pickens half time of Super Bowl was

nade we need oh sorry half time of Super Bowl we need a Nate versus Dusty swim race Mike Bechion

versus Greg Warren wrestling match I like that and Nick Novicki versus Nick Thun Danceoff like all of those. Beckion's in a lot better shape than I am right now.

You're an all-American, though. Yeah. That's true. In my prime. I know, but you're, he's, Vecione's, he's not, y'ar, it's, uh, I think it, wrestling,

you go by age more than weight at this point. So, yeah. Y'all are in the same age class. Yeah, I mean, he's, I was like, probably six years older than Mike. Yeah, out of your mind. I bet you might be 60.

he's man and i played basketball i think you're if you what you can say what i do is against him and man he is solid he is solid he is solid he is solid he is solid he is solid he is solid he is solid the guy is yeah i don't want to wrestle back him i would love to see that we got do something yeah we got to do something and i ran a foot race against all you guys yeah he did good so you can beat mike and wrestling i don't know man mike and i this but this uh comment comes from mike so yeah it does not his alter he said that he said that he said that he said Beckion said he wants a match? He wants some action.

All right now, I don't know about this. Yeah, he said he wants some action. He goes, Missouri was an easy school to get into wrestling-wise. That's a quote. That's a dead-up quote. Direct-quote. Wow, it's crazy. Matthew Graham.

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There's a photo. Yeah, there he is. Oh, wow. Sitting up close. Is that baits? It's baits. It's on stage, yeah. Oh.

It's supposed to be funny. He's making a joke about how he takes his son to see me at the comedy club. Their experience is meeting Nate's, Aaron's dad is the experience. Is this a shot at you? It's a shot at me. I thought it would be fun. Were you not on the show? No, no, it was just in Dallas where my parents lived.

Yeah, they went to see me. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's funny. They came to a Leanne show. They came to Leanne's show. Your sister and your mom? Yep.

Yeah. And Lucy. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I didn't get to meet them there. Look at that. Yeah. And you do your set with your eyes closed, so that's normal. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. it's easier not to face them Aaron's dad's laughing He is laughing He is laughing Yeah they got a good picture Took a while to get this pick Yeah

I think They had to finally go Just laugh And I'll take it Your dad's like Just get it over away I'll crack a smile He's what do you need me to do

Act like you're having a good time Yeah they did have a great time Yeah Well good It's a good outfit too I met the Addison Improv tonight So tell him to come back out.

Are you really? Oh, yeah. That's a great club. January 7th? I think they've seen it once. That was the last punt. My axe totally changed now. Wait, man, I think I'm in Plano.

You and I were at this, when I was in, that's, that's in Plano and you were in Tyler the same night. Yeah, but I mean, no, but I'm in Dallas as well. Check that. Oh, you heard me ticket sales the last time. I'm looking that up. Yeah. oh boy and this is where you want to be when uh you get to do the cities that are not called Dallas no you're January 9th okay this weekend weekend yeah I'm there the 7th yeah

yeah he comes yeah go to both yeah you can you can go you can have a big Nateland weekend yeah man and go Thursday wait no Wednesday typical Wednesday show January 7th to plain O Texas and I mean to uh Addison Addison Imprope, great improv. I love that. It's a great club. That is a great club. And then, you know, have Thursday off.

Digest what you just saw. And then go to Plano and, you know, get through that. I just, yeah. He has an all-ages show. Is that the young show? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty fun. So he's doing an all, Greg does an all-age's show.

Saturday, January 10th, Plano. Texas. It's, uh, what time is it? Two p.m. doors are two. Uh, but it's a very, I have not even got to see this yet, but we're going to have you do it on the cruise. It's fun, man. Because it's fun, but you have kids go up and, uh, right, teach them. We, we interview them and let them tell joke. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a, it's like, we do a regular comedy show. Yeah. But at the end, you know, we bring the kids up, it's almost like a kids talk show kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So if you have some kids, if you want them to go to a, uh, uh, a comedy show, too, that's a

there you go that's a perfect one it's fun yeah they get involved yeah Greg can't do all the time

it's hard to fill an hour so he has to bring kids up you don't expose all the tricks you know yeah

there's some how much time he got back there in the blue hat so you got birthday coming up that's cool that's cool man

uh Barry Booker I think it was Brian who raised the issue of why people become loyal fans of a particular sports team and how arbitrary it seems. That's me. That's me.

Aaron. I remember reading about this in a book by renowned author Jerry Seinfeld. He observed that a player for a team goes from being cheered to being booed by fans. If he chooses to change teams. Jerry's conclusion was, we're cheering for laundry. Very funny. And a good reminder that many of the things that seem very important are pretty silly when you think about it, keep the funny coming.

and go Doors. You know Barry Booker? Yeah. Oh, yeah, from Vandy. That's Barry Booker? That's Barry Booker? Oh, wow. Barry Booker, legendary basketball player for Vanderbilt.

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Back when I was, I mean, I'm still into him, but this is when I was, you know, when they were playing Swanee. Approaching people in awkward situations. Barry Booker, Barry Goheny, Will Purdue. Oh, wow.

And then for many years, he was on SEC Network. Yeah, yeah. You know. Yeah, for a long time. He was known as long time. known as the Long Ranger. Yeah. Still has the Vanderbilt all-time three-point shot.

I always like to see him, too, when he was on TV, uh, because it always like Barry Booker and I was like, manned again. Yeah. Like it was always a, yeah. You remember he's, he's,

uh, I don't, I don't know, Ronnie, I mean, Ronnie was a color commentator at least. Yes. That's when I was listening to him.

Yeah. Um, remember when I used to rent out my, my condo on Airbnb, like when we go on the road and stuff. So I used to rent up my condo and I would put it on Airbnb and VRBO.

And one time Barry Booker tried to rent my condo. He said he and his wife

wanted to come downtown for evening or whatever and it would be great. But right, I can't remember which

when he was on but the other one, somebody I accepted right before I saw him. And then I go on the other

one to cancel it and he just reach out and I'm like, that's Barry Booker. And I so wanted to cancel the first guy

but I couldn't. You're a principal. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, Barry. Sorry, Barry. Rules or rules. Rules or rules.

Does Barry know that? He does now. He does now. I think you still owe it to Barry. Yeah, so if you just want to come over my house, Barry, spend the night. That's a lot. Yeah. That was, okay.

I don't know how involved he wants to get. I got a big screen TV. How fun is that? Barry Booker. Emily Jensen, did Chase ever learn the reason behind why everyone thought he was Nate's son. So funny, Chase just left the room. Chase just left the room like a typical son would do.

I did tell him just, I did end up telling him. Because once he stopped doing merch and he started working more with us, I kind of told him we had a big long running thing where we told it on the podcast because everybody thought Chase was my son, which is very funny that like out of, I talk about my family so much that I would never talk about. I have an adult son. I've never mentioned. I never mentioned.

But we told everybody on the podcast, if you go to see Chase at the merch, just keep saying like, are you Nate's son? And so then we had everybody. So he did. But I think he still gets it occasionally sometimes and then when people know.

But I eventually did tell him. This was a good one. His family was that one of the shows, right? Yeah, they were in Nashville. No, there was one that I was on that they were at, I thought. I saw him in Nashville. Maybe.

No. Yeah, I don't know. Justin Hawks. I got the EPS when pitching for my eight-year-old daughter's softball team. I nailed one girl right in their side. For the rest of the game, everything she got up to bat, I had to walk off the field so her mom could come in and put in. After that game.

She never showed up again. Oh, man, we love some Yip's story. That's rough, man. Yeah, every time she gets up to, I mean, just to see her mom come out, you know. Like a manager taking you out of the game. Just give me the ball. I imagine he just has to stand there. You don't think, he doesn't leave the mound because he's pitching for the other kids.

Yeah. So he just kind of stands behind her. He probably tried to walk him. She's like, no, you stay here. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. I'm going to do this real quick. I can throw a strike.

Well, he says he had to walk off the field. Oh, he did. Oh. That's even more awkward. So, Mom, become, maybe there's a rule. You can't have two adults out there. Oh, that's so good. Jonathan Bailey.

I got the yips when I was playing second base for my church softball team. I was so afraid to throw it to first base that I decided to try and race the batter to first, which ended up with his shoulder connecting with my face. From what I was told, I got it, I got knocked off my feet and spun around in the air landing on my back. When I came to, I was looking up at the batter safe on first, and I had three-chipped teeth. Wow. That's what the yips would do to. Wow.

Is there, if you're seeing you down a spiral that you just go like, I mean, it's like. It probably looks so funny. And you see it, it looks so funny because the person at first, your first baseman's like, just give me the ball. Yeah. And he's like, you don't understand. Man, I can't. I got to just go run. Chuck Knoblock had that for a while, for a lot, for me.

Yep. Chase is back in here. Chase, someone asked, did you ever learn the reason why everyone thought you were my son? Yeah, a couple people, they stole the beans. Oh, they did? Oh, so you knew before I even told you. No, no, no.

It was weeks after. Oh, yeah. With some snitches. But you got, oh, so they blew it. But it was for a while, and Chase would come back and just be like, what's up, dude, everybody. Three, the show. Three,

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and a theme park? Um, I don't know if I can articulate it. I can take a guess. That's a big part of answer in the question. Yeah. Yeah. If...

I don't know if I can say it in words, but I could blink. What, do you have an interpretive dance or something? Do you know, Aaron, since Greg can't articulate it? Well, a theme park is going to be thematic. That's right. In an amusement park, it's just a loose collection of rides and activities. Yeah, I think... You can't define a word with the word.

Watch me. You can't say a theme park. has a theme. Well, but the music park doesn't have a theme. Let me try

to do it without the word theme. Yeah. A theme park is a collection of rides,

attractions, and activities connected or bonded by a story. By a story. By a story. How about that?

Yeah. Amusement is amusing. It's So everything's on its own. So when you walk to it, you go, is this amusing? They go, yeah. And then you go, that's pretty amusing.

And then you go to the next thing. So Disney is a theme park. Six Flags is, I think they would try to be a theme park because they have the Looney Tunes, but it's probably more amusement park. Yeah. Is that even correct? Are we right there? Yeah, you're correct. I think theme parks can also be amusement parks, but amusement parks can't be theme parks.

Oh. Like Cedar points amusement. It's just a bunch of roller coasters. Yes, yes. But they might have bought, they've, Cedar Park, I've never been there,

but it's killing it. It's roller, if you like roller coasters, you've got to go to Cedar Point is what I understand. I've been to Kings Island, but it's, yes. I've been to Kings Island.

Yeah, yeah. They got, they got, they got some of the best roller, they got a ton of roller, you just ride roller coasters. Yeah, I would love to go to Cedar Point

because I would love to see it. I've just heard about it. They have like some of the biggest in the country. If not the world. Yeah. The most visited theme park in the world is exactly probably what you would guess, Disney World. Yeah. Disney, the one in Florida.

Yep. Followed by Disneyland. Really? Oh, wow. Yep. In North America, it's almost all Disney. Magic Kingdoms 1, Disneyland Park 2, Epcot 3, Disney's Hollywood Studios 4. And you know, driving around Orlando, there's a lot of traffic around that area.

Yes, I do, man. Yes, you're going to sit for a while, listen to Bates. And then there's like some Universal Studio. Everything, the top 10, maybe top 15, we're all, no, top 10 were all Universal or Disney except Knottesbury Farm at number 10. Oh, yeah. Not for long, buddy. I know.

Not for long. Yeah, baby. What about Bush Gardens? Are they in there at all? Yeah, 13. The Bush Gardens in Tampa. Yeah. Yeah.

Do they still have one in St. Louis? No, they never had one. Six flags there. I mean, the breweries in St. Louis, but yeah, six flags is the, there's always been the big one there. Yeah. Dollywood was number 18 in attendance? In the U.S. Yeah.

Or in North America. But TripAdvisor named it the number one theme park that you have heard it's great for... It is great. Yeah. It is great. I'd like to go to that. Yeah. Did a lot of it burn down years ago?

Was that Dollywood? Well, Dollywood didn't start out as Dollywood. It was, it was a... I figure what it's called. like silver dollar city silver dollar city that's that's uh down in branson yeah it is yeah and so this it was that and then she i think dolly was like i want to say 2012 but i could be it could be longer than that no uh i think dolly would's been around since the 80s uh i thought i remember when they say i thought i've talked about this and they it was uh oh wow dollar 86 so yeah

She bought the Silver Dollar City and reopened it as Dollywood. That's where I graduated high school. Could have went there on your senior trip. Coulda. We went to six. Yeah. All right.

Yeah, it was well. Some reason I thought it was like 2000. Maybe she did something. Well, they, no, no, I don't think she did. But yeah, the Hershians run it. It's a Herschen run park, which I know now, because of the theme park stuff. Is there a Hershey, don't they have a big one?

Yeah. Hershey PA? Yeah. Yeah, Hershey Park, number 20. 20. Okay. It's great. Hershey Park's great.

Really? Really great. Really great part. And I mean, because their whole town, they have like all the street lights on the, or Hershey Kisses. Oh, wow. They lean into it. It's awesome. Is the factory integrated with it, the factory tour?

I don't know if I did that. I heard that's amazing. I heard the chocolate is just, they give you a candy. Aaron, didn't you skip a Civil War tour to? Go do that? I did. I was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and I had to decide between Gettysburg and Hershey World. Oh, come on.

Oh, really? The joke I made was, I thought, if I don't go to Hershey World, it's like all those guys died for nothing. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Wow, number three, Nobel's amusement resort. I haven't even heard of that. Where? I haven't either. It's an Elliesburg, PA.

It's free, so that helps. Yeah. And TripAdvisor, if you get it for free. What's it called? No, N, K-N-O-E-B-E-L. Nobles. Knobles? Canables?

Canobles. Oh, yeah. Oh, have you been to it? Yeah. No, but that's what they call. Oh. How about Santa Claus, Indiana, Holiday World? Are they, uh, they make the holiday world?

You know what on the top 20? You know what makes holiday world fun? Free drinks. Oh, yeah? There are just, there are just fountain drink machines all over. Oh, that's like, and you get a casino. Yeah, yeah. Exactly.

Yeah. You get a cup? You get a cup? You got to pay for the cup? No, you get it with entry. Oh, wow. Come on. Yeah.

You got to keep it? I bet you can get another one if you're, but I, you know. That is a good idea. Maybe we're right there down there. St. Louis Zoo is free. St. Louis is free. And you can tell. When I come to St. Louis, everything I get is free.

Yeah, I know. Yeah. He didn't spend a nickel. God didn't spend a nickel in our town. St. Louis is great. It's not free for everybody. St. Louis Zoo is free. Zoo is free. It's an amazing zoo. And my friends, Jeff Kossi and Mike Ewing in middle school,

climbed over all these rocks and got all cut up and fenced to sneak into the St. Louis Zoo. And it's free. They snuck into the St. Louis Zoo. They went through these trees and rocks. Did they not know it was free? No, they didn't know. They got in, and then somebody, they were like, we got in the zoo, man. Yeah. They were like, yeah, it's free, dude.

You don't have to pay it again. I'm trying to think if I've ever snuck into something like that. I've always been a bit of a cowardice. No, I never like that. It's also, it's not honorable. The only, yeah, I, I, stealing. Yeah. Yeah, oh, I guess it is stealing.

Yeah. Yeah, you're stealing. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I never thought about it like that. I think he's going to spend money in there that's going to give back to the economy. When you're in? Yeah. I mean, he's going to buy some drinks and some food and stuff that's going to make up for it.

Enough. Let me in there. I'll get lunch. Yeah. Yeah. He's going to be, we saw, he goes, the boy, there snuck in, they go. We encourage him to. He goes, hey, we left that door unlocked for a reason.

He goes, because that boy's going to, let him go to every movie he wants to go. On the walkie talking. Let him go. Let him through. Trust me on this one. That's probably as bad as I've done as I remember left a movie as a kid and just walked to another movie. Oh, yeah, yeah. I've got a little two-for-one.

Did you not enjoy the movie or were you just trying to get it? I think we wanted to see another movie. So he just went to another one. Oh, so you saw completion. You get a two-for-one. Yeah, that's stealing. Yeah, it is stealing. I was a kid, though.

Yeah, I think I've done that, and I, but I don't like that I did it. Yeah. We all have stuff we didn't. Stuff from our past that we're not proud of. I can't believe that. I don't feel that way. So. Under a lot of pressure.

So you recently made some news with your plans for Dean Park? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. We're, it's, it's, we're rolling, baby. I mean, I don't know how I, like, There's only so much I can say, because it's like we're still, but I mean, we're, it's, we're, I'm with Storyland. I am, what is that?

Storyland is the company that, they did a lot with, like, Disney, with the new, what's the Epic. Epcot Center? No, Epic. Epic, Epic Universal. They did, they helped design a lot of other. stuff like I'm blanking now but like all they've Disneyland all the Disney stuff Hollywood the universal the new epic is the new universal they did

were a big part of that and so it's like a lot of them were imaginers and they've kind of came in and started their own kind of thing and so they are they really built the theme park to help tell the story of why you would want to come to this theme park I had a I mean, I have, this is what I'm, when I'm home and I'm doing, I'm in, I'm in a lot of these meetings and, you know, so it's, yeah, the aspect of this park. I mean, people probably, I mean, we've, you know, I think we talked about it on the podcast one of the first times.

And so, yeah, people think it's, some people are very nice and they believe in, some people, not they're not nice, but they, I think they just think it seems crazy. And, yeah, it does seem crazy. It does, but I mean, it's how I... A lot of the things you've already achieved in comedy, if you'd have said it 10 years ago, it would have sounded pretty insane. Well, yeah, it's hard. I mean, when, you know...

Yeah, I want to throw out, sell out three shows at Bridgestone Arena. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so do I. All right, dude. Yeah, so do why. I don't think he's going to do this. Yeah, it's...

It's totally different. Yeah, it's, we're going to, we're going to, you know, I don't ever want to be, but I've, you know, I feel, you know, like I'm supposed to do this. And, you know, I travel. I go to every, I've been to every city. I've been to every, in a lot of countries and all this. I've seen, you know, I want to make something.

I'm not going to tour forever. It's like, I just want to make something that you can go to. And I loved Opera Land when Opelan was here. And it was my first job. So, you know, it's a, yeah, it's a pretty giant dream. I think we can be a thing that I like the idea of providing a lot of jobs and all that stuff

and yeah but yeah it's all everything's crazy I mean everybody you just get told that all the time like it's hard that's the hard part about it is not a hard part it comes with the territory but it's like there's you want to like you do you have plenty of people that are excited and they do believe in you

but then you just you do have a lot of like you know it's like I look I don't think I'm anybody like i don't think it's like who do you think you are you're like i don't think i'm i don't know i'm just doing what i'm feel i'm being led to do and uh it's beyond me it's all crazy i know it's crazy i'm very passionate about it i'm very you know i want to i do want to provide jobs there i do want like you know you'd better drop your kids off this theme park and like what we used to be able to go do all this kind of stuff that used to be able to do You can still, people want to do this.

That's what I'm always fighting against when everybody says, no one goes to the movie theaters, it's all streaming, it's all this. And you go, well, then how come more people, why are these people at my show? If no one wants to go out, why are they at these shows? It doesn't make sense. They do want to go out. And I think they want to go experience things with their family. Those are the moments that you have,

the moments that you will have for the rest of your life that you talk about. you know, when we went to King's Island, we still talk about that as a family. And these are moments that you kind of bring up and you think about and you talk about them when you're 50. And that's what's so like, that's what I love so much is like the moment's not about King's Island, but it's about my dad making us ride a ride. And we got a hat because we rode that ride. And then we laugh and we joke and we go, well, my mom didn't, we were scared to ride it. My mom made, my dad was like, you're going to ride a bit, right?

Like, you know, it's like when you had those moments that, uh, when you're, you know, when you're all grown and you have grandkids, you can tell your grandkids those stories. You know what your, your, uh, granddad did. He made me go do baba, you know, it's like, that's with a family. And so you've got to have places for that. I think people still want that kind of stuff. And so, I brought this in, I got this Christmas card yesterday from my buddy, you know Ben, my buddy, you know Ben Hall.

And they went to. Bobby Jan land or whatever that is in Belgium and I asked him why did you go to Belgium his wife turned 50 she grew up going to Arparyland her favorite ride was chaos the chaos the only other place in the world they have this ride wow in Belgium it so she went to relive her childhood memory so bad they went to Belgium to this amusement park wow so she could and they have chaos it's not called chaos but it's the same thing it's the only place in the world that they have that's awesome that ride yeah yeah shows how much Aubrey land meant to people It's, and it's, and it's, and it's, uh, Opryland and it's just like, again, I, I'm just for,

all I'm doing is, you can even say if you want to be, you know, I've, you know, even, if even if I'm just competitive, I think the lane for this stuff is wide open. And I don't think anybody is making, so even if I'm just, you want me to be purely competitive. I'm telling you that I, think I can compete with a lot of things because I don't think anybody's making stuff for everybody. I know there's these big parks and all this, but seeing Dollywood as number one and TripAdvisors, best amusement parks, over Disney over all those other ones, that shows you something. That shows you something that's crazy. And what's great is we don't, this park really won't affect Dollywood. Dollywood is in the smoky mountains. Like the people

that go, we're looking at all the information, the people that go there. It's like you go there for different reasons and you would come to Nashville. And like, it's not like you're going to sit there and really be on top of these theme parks. And the way Nashville is growing as a city, too, is like, we need this family kind of stuff to have. And so a lot of people want to do it. It's like you just, someone's got to, you know, you got to just be, look, you got to have someone that's just nuts enough to go do it. But it is, I am kind of like, I don't know, you just go, yeah. I've had a lot of stuff that's gone on my career.

I've worked hard to get it all there. I won't do anything I don't believe in. And I don't believe, I'm not, you know, I don't, I haven't done a ton of random stuff. Like everything's been pretty, you know, I get offered stuff you wouldn't believe that I say no to. And so it's what, it's only I do what I believe can be done. And that's essentially what, and to go create this world that you want to come to, that the world's not even going to be there today. We're just talking about it. Like, I probably can't tell you.

But it's like, it's not like I'm having you come worship Nate at a theme park. Right. I'm just want to be the Mickey Mouse voice that gets you to Nashville and has your moment for your family. That's it. me a section of ride or we all of it will be you okay a lot of ride Nate told me when I uh retire if I'm forced out of comedy yeah that he would let me go work at the theme park but I had to dress up as a Bates character yeah yeah so then they had to walk around his baits yeah and he's not allowed to talk no because the head's on

yeah I had some notes about that and then he takes it off and people see him and they go I mean I would love to me, Greg, and he goes, I'm not supposed to be, he has to put it back down. Yeah, your ride would, yeah, I think, yeah, your rides, I think it's just a long line that goes nowhere. It's just a really cruel prank. It's just, it's a packed line that, no, everybody's at, what is this? And then when they get to the end of it, they go, wait, there's, so there's not a ride? I'm outside. Yeah, you go, it's just metal.

It's just railing that just goes. And it's just people crowded and packed. But they kind of like it. You know what I mean? Like, they don't hate it. And it's hard to get some of them out of it. Because they just kind of go, no, I like being around. Yeah, we're in our ways.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did talk about this like five years ago on the podcast. We threw out a Nateland theme park. Yeah. And we were kind of playing off the jokes then. And, you know, we said there would be a, a gout station for Aaron, like, just to come get out your foot chag? If you wanted to, like, what does it, get some of that liquid out?

Blood? Do you to drain your uric acid? Yeah, it's like opposite of a gas station, but for your foot, where it's you go, you go prop your foot up on a thing, and then they go just. That can't be how you treat gout. I think it is. I think it's the only way. I think you can get liquid taken out if you have too much, yeah.

Yeah, so that's what we're doing. It's like if anybody's ever been at a golf course where they have a blower that blows all the grass off your feet, I don't know if you've ever seen one. It's something like that. So right now you've got a ride that isn't a ride. And you got the gout station. That's where we're at. And I'm not even supposed to talk about it. But I did.

Teasers. In honor of me, all the clocks would be 10 minutes ahead so everybody would be worried. Yeah. Look worried. Everybody's just like, we're like. We're late. Yeah. Those are popular jokes back then.

Have you gone looking around? Yeah, that stuff I can't say. We have ideas. Is it fun? Oh, of what? Yeah, the whole thing is amazing. I mean, going to other parks and stuff. Oh, oh, I've been to other.

Yeah, yes, I did. I went to, when I went that, I can't say. We went to Disneyland, Disney World. on Epic and then I went to Nottsbury Farm kind of on my

own this was just on the road before this stuff was official yeah just to kind

of but it was like headed that way just to kind of like see Nottsbury Farm

where Knott'sbury Farm Steve Martin worked at that he had in a magic shop

did you know that Steve Martin they don't even make it that they should make it

a bigger deal but it's not it should be a more whatever that word was he doing that in a film too

I think so I think he's had some stuff to it but he worked at a magic shop That's cool Nottsbury Farm That's like Orange County or is it Or No it's between

Yeah it's not too far from Anaheim It's not like you know But Natsbury Farm's still up there It's been around for a very long time But yeah I've gone to other parks And you know it's like you kind of just see There's a lot of just how it flows And how they go in

and you know the old Disneyland parks used to be this it's they were all the spoke uh spoken hub spoken wheel like like where you'd have to go down then back up to get to the middle and so it's like even how they've parks is just the way to flow people through it uh you started just getting into that kind of stuff and uh but i've actually seen uh you know i mean i i i don't yeah i've seen rides i've seen all very early early but it's like you know it's uh it's going man and it's and i love it and everybody that we have involved story land is unbelievable partners like they're it's they're insane uh and what they've done and how serious they take what they do so that's how big of a company i'm not using just like my buddies yeah yeah i'm using they were they did the dubai

universal and they're so good with telling stories it's like everything's uh about you know they're storytellers and so it's like the idea of this is how do we tell this story uh and you know i i want it to be a story of nashville and like you know it's like yes i it's called nat land as of right now it's called nat land and uh i will take you through this but yeah it's uh yeah it's it's very very, very cool. It's crazy. It's crazy. It's insane. It feels insane. I don't even... Do you guys talk to about the food yet? No. What would you want to... Yeah. What do you want? Broughtwurst?

I like Broughtwurst. I'd like to have good... Some good fries, really. Yeah. I bet you that Belgian park, I bet you they had some fries. That was the first thing I thought of when you showed that picture. I bet you got some real good fries at that Belgian park. Yeah, you know, yeah, we have a Belgian... You may be doing some Belgian fries. Yeah. Some do, yeah, because I've had, we had fries in Belgium and it was, uh, yeah, yeah, they're great, man. Pretzel maybe. You should have, I think, again, I think I may have made this joke five years ago, but, uh, burgers with a bite taken out of it.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, from Lewis. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's funny. Yeah. Ice coffee, whipped cream. Not bad. Yeah. Um, there's been a few proposed theme parks for the Nashville area that didn't pan out since Opry land.

A couple I wanted to share with you guys. In 2016, Thrill Corps proposed a polar coaster for downtown Nashville. Can you Google polar coaster, Aaron? It's like a roller coaster. It's up. It's just a big pole. Go straight up. Come back down.

It was going to be on, I think, Lord Broadway. It's right here, the vertical roller coaster right here. Yeah, yeah. National makes short list for polar coaster. Oh, that's on the Tennesseans website. I love them. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So that's what was proposed. They, I was going to cost 15. million dollars. I think they raised some money for it, but it just never pounded out and pounded out. It sounded like some I would say. Yeah. Just never pounded out. That's what it sounds like when people hear from, because that's, I was like, that sounds exactly right. Founder of the company said their attractions more of an all-a-cart experience than an all-day excursion. Only occupy a half acre of land as opposed to

the sprawling nature of traditional thing parks. But that never panned out. The rides, dude, that like so ioppa where we uh announced this there's it's an international uh association amusement parks yeah yeah probably about right uh and so they read they introduce all the rides and the new rides and i mean dude rides are getting insane so that's when people talk about wanting to go to stuff you're the rides are getting crazy dude i we went to epic epic has some Unbelievable stuff. And they have rides where it looks like the track is broke and you still go across. No.

But it's, and you're on a roller coaster, it's unbelievable. Like, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, they're, the way, like, stuff is going now with technology and, uh, just some of the stuff that you can go do and you can do it sometimes in a very small space and, uh, it's getting, it's getting pretty impressive. And so you're, you know, there's stuff with Ferris wheels that's crazy. Like, there's, I mean, it's, it's, it's pretty wild. I would have been the guy that, like, I would have believed, even at the end. I've been like, it's broke up there, you got, the thing is broke. Yeah. I know we made it, but the track is broken.

You got to shut this now. You got to. No, it's part of, I'm telling you, it's broke. Yeah. They go, no, we hear you. They let, and some guys just got, I've got to listen to one of you every ride. But this Ioppa was a big, yeah, when we announced it, we were a giant.

It was a big, big splash at this. I was on the roads, but Felix Wynn and Storyland guys were there. And, yeah, it got ridden out. It was very, very excited. We got ridden up in a lot of stuff, Rolling Stones and all kinds of magazines. And, yeah, I mean, it seems crazy. I mean, no one's going to believe it, and you shouldn't until it's there. I understand.

I'm not, but I, you know, any kind of timeline that you can tell us what you're hope for. I don't know. We do. I don't know if I can say it. Can you say whether it's a theme or amusement park? Oh, that's even harder. Okay. So it's a amusement part.

Amusement. No, it's a theme part. Yeah. It's a theme part. Do you think there'll be characters? I think so, yeah. I think we have characters. There's different ways that we can make it.

I mean, all of that is still very. much early in the creative process. Anything stand-up comedy? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to make sure. It's not like I'm going to be not removed from it.

It's like LB, but it's, yeah, we will have, yeah, comedy is such a, is the biggest part. You know, a lot of, yeah, yes. Awesome. You'll be working seven days a week, brother. Dude, I got to go somewhere. You got to go somewhere. I'm going to be here. All three of you, y'all are you going to be doing.

four shows a day. Bring it on. You're my day comments. Wait, wait, wait. I can do you stuff in a night, man. No, it's mostly day. I know, but I think by the time this comes out, you're going to be moved more today.

Yeah, more of a dust. Your audience will be, uh, dusk is like, the show needs to end by dusk. But I'm saying if I have some hot sets during the day. We can look at it. We can talk about it. We'll definitely talk about it. I think you could do some guest spots if you're up.

If you're awake, definitely we'll get you some guesties. You might be listening to this podcast as part of your morning routine. People will tell me that sometimes. It's part of their Wednesday mornings. I'm trying to get my mornings together. I'm not trying to get them perfect. I'm not unrealistic. I'm just trying to get them better.

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I watched an 18 minute video of you given the history of roller coasters. Pretty good. It was really good. There was some stuff. I'm like, you could, this is a joke you can have in your act. Really? Because I am looking for those right now. Well, you should go watch. I should go watch. I should go watch some Those, those old, that's how the consumer started, was doing that Bob and Tom report. Yeah. Yeah. But I remember it being fun. And I remember I found, like, the fastest and the tallest all over the world.

I'll share some of you like. Yeah, man, there were, there's, I mean, Cedar points got one or two, don't they? Yes. So, roller coasters began in Russia, early as the 1600s. Wow. They would have giant ice slides. That would be a place that, yeah. Russia, it's like they've, you know, the Bayer stuff.

It's just what you think of Russia. It's like you could see them being, they ain't scared of trying some stuff. You're just throwing me off a cliff with roller skis. Yeah. Yes, goal. Goal. What was the, what was it, an ice? Yeah, it was like a giant ice light.

I mean, it was just basically a hill with ice. Yeah. And they made it into something fun to do. But that was. So people definitely. died doing that. Yes. People die.

But it was, yeah. You die, I die. Yeah. Everybody die. In the 1850s, mining company in Pennsylvania had a train that would go deliver coal eight miles downhill. And eventually they came up with a better way to deliver coal. So they just turned that train, let people start riding on it.

And that was kind of the first roller coaster. Wow. And so it could go down and up? That's a good question. I guess so. That was the problem. they didn't think that through they had to build a whole new train every time

yeah where would you get unless you would yeah can you imagine being on an eight mile long like that's and that's a ride you bring your kids you bring your kids to it probably two three hours coughing yeah I mean you're just trapped

how long would it had to take a while I guess like I don't think a train could just go flying down back so i mean i would think it would take uh i mean you're going downhill and then what do you see in if you look right you see uh johnny's hat got stuck in the wall right there when he got uh then a guy named lamarcus thompson who was the father of the american rollercoaster he thought roller coasters would be a great alternative to brothels and saloons so that's what i'm doing yeah yeah yeah you remember this guy yeah yeah he built uh roller coaster in coney island in 1884.

He charged a nickel a ride and he made $600 a day. That's crazy. It's Coney Island, man. Oh, wow. So he invented Coney Island? He said he built it in Coney Island. Yes.

Yeah. So, but it was, yeah, that's why Coney Island is. Yeah. Man, that's crazy. Nickel a day made $600? According to Greg Warren, on the Warren report. Yeah. I didn't fact check this. That's our, yeah.

That's our news. report is we get our news from another comedian sitting next to me sitting next to them from 30 years ago it's rock solid stuff man uh holds up still holds up today held up in 1997 still holds up today the first loop to loop roller coaster in america it was called the flip flap it was invented in the 1800s it was tested with sandbags and monkeys it was so dangerous that people paid to watch other people ride it. Oh, man. Wow.

It was, uh, so I guess loop to loop roller coasters are supposed to be tear shaped. That's, yeah. I never thought about it, but they're not supposed to be fully circular. The reason is, well, the reason is they were experiencing 12G force on the way down. Fighter pilots black out at 10G, so everybody's blacking out. Yes. Yeah. And they eventually had to just stop it.

it. And they didn't do any more loop-to-loops for 50 years until they could figure out a better way to do it. You would, I mean, dude, that's so funny. I would have to have this in my fair chunk of material. The fact that you can build a roller coaster that people are paying, you have to pay just to watch. That's great. Because it's, yeah. Would you ride it? No. You don't think so? I won't write them now. I know, but you don't think back then

it was 1895 to 1902. So you had a decent run. You had seven years. 17 years. 17 years. No, is that seven? Seven years. You don't think you would have

backed in. Like, I don't know back then. I think now I could maybe be talked into it if I was my age going there 1902 do you think you would do it no you get a couple drinks in yeah you could talk me into it

I love you said what are you a coward yeah they were tested with sandbags the air and goes alone they go sandbags and monkeys sandbags and monkeys yeah

I'd pay to watch that yeah but I wonder if like the it's first sandbags and they're like it seems good get the monkeys And the monkeys like, wait a minute. Yeah. Well, the monkeys are fighting the orangutan.

They're all in there in boxing gloves. Yeah. And they're going upside down. And then... That's crazy. Yeah. I guess that's more of a tear-shaped ride. 1908.

So that one, they figured it out, quickly. Yeah, this was the same manufacturer. This is their only other roller coasterce. So apparently they did it. the next year and not 50 years. Yeah, again, I got this from the Warren Report. Wow, Greg was way off. Nah, it's funnier to say 50 years.

Yeah. But we do facts on here. We go Facts before Fun. Facts before Fun. That's what we've always, that's what this podcast is about. That's the motto of the theme park too, right? Yeah, facts before fun. Facts before fun.

Just be the name of my special. Brian Bates Facts before fun I could have Brian before every ride he just walks around just going I don't know if I'd ride this

and he just talks people out He just brings the mood down throughout the whole park we go Man it's just a down day today I'm a cooler He's a cooler A cooler A cooler

He had an amusement part He goes You know, you could just go by McDonald's and put it in your car and go out and eat. He goes, They're getting too work out up there. He says it tastes like R.C. Diet Coke. God, Brian.

Undercut me every one. We've got to get him out of the park. I don't know where he's at. He looks like everybody. uh connie island had a uh roller coaster called the rough rider it was a spanish american war themed roller cheese well that was before tv it's just funny to hey i tell you what i'd tell you what their favorite war was yeah yeah yeah yeah what's your favorite war sir and this one became a ride yeah roller coaster built by

William F. Mangels it's a tough name roller coaster designer ride workers wore Spanish American War uniforms he got when they introduced him this is William F he goes that's enough

that's enough he goes he goes he goes let me say no let me finish your last name no no no

no no that's done now now we're getting into Nate territory three people died on June 20 oh

oh wow yeah man terrible Yeah, I had a tough ending. Yeah. In 1959, Walt Disney went on vacation to Switzerland, and he sees the Matterhorn Mountain.

I remember this. In the Swiss Alps. He sends a postcard back to his guys, and all it says is, build this. He just goes on vacation, sees this, the biggest ski mountain thing, and they're coming down in, like, sleds and stuff like that. And he just sends a postcard.

And, you know, there's guys back. In Disney, you're like, what are you talking about? That's what I'm talking about. That's essentially what you do. You just go and go, let's build this. Yeah, couldn't he go on a vacation? Who let him go there? We can't make this.

Yeah. Yeah. We might have something, but it's simpler than this. Mount Juliet? Yeah. Yeah. He can't. I can't even see it from inside the park.

Where is it? It's the lowest point of the park. He goes, I can't even find it. He goes, I think we're on it. It's just, he goes, two kids rolling down a hill. How does it go downhill twice? Yeah, he, but this is, he wanted to create, I mean, the idea of when Disney started, it wasn't like it was this IP-driven thing. A lot of these theme parks and amusement parks weren't all this IP driven.

It was just like, the idea of it was like Uncle Walt being like, yeah, bring your kids here and family and we have fun and all this kind of stuff. So it's, you got to, you know, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go find something and be like, build me that. The 19702, Kings Island opened, and they had the racer. Yeah. And it became the most popular roller coaster ever. Oh, really?

popular episode of the Brady Bunch. Yeah, I remember that. I do remember that. 1970s. Yes, I mean, it was reruns, but I remember. But that really, like, put it in the spotlight. Yeah. I've rode the racer.

Really? It's Cincinnati, Ohio, man. Until you tell me, it stopped in 1979. I'm like, man, maybe we did it. Did you ever go to the Nashville Fair or whatever, and that white roller coaster? That thing was scary. Yeah, that's what, so we used to ride that.

I had a joke about it one time I was like it was one that they would always be working on it even if you wrote it like you would just go down and just see welding and you know I don't think this is good no it was like just yeah it was like but we wrote it yeah but it was

you would move it like you just stuff would fall off you got to do that it's part of the thrill ride is have some welders down there yeah yeah just to you know like the broken track just have some welders yeah I'll do that no yeah I'll be a welder come in and just Yeah.

So right before the roller coaster goes off, you run in and go, no, no, no, no. As they pull away. As they pull away. That's great, man. Yeah, that is great. That is good. Never mind. No, never mind.

No, no, no, no. No, no. I'm just saying after it becomes obvious to him, it's too late, then he tries to change the story. But we're making it be one of those that, you know, now a lot of them shoot you fast, so you start fast. Yeah. That would be good. because there's no click, click, click. You just like, right when you shoot, there's maybe another little ramp,

and then it's, then you come out and go, hey, we might have. That might be something. That might be something. That might be something. A broken track. That's easy. Yeah. Yeah.

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150 miles an hour in five seconds. But a couple years ago in Saudi Arabia, Falcons flight opened, and it can hit 155 miles per hour. Wow. So by far faster than any in the U.S. Yeah. I'm going to go.

I have one goes 160. There you go. Straight down. It's like the falcons. It's like a giraffe, throwing a giraffe out of an airplane. The fastest wooden roller coasters is a dollywood. Oh. Oh, really?

A lightning ride, 76 miles per hour. Wow. It used to be the beast was the longest wooden one in Kings Island. It might still be. Yeah, that's the big one. That one I've heard. We got a hat for riding that one. Oh, really?

That was like an all-day thing, my dad, you know. Screaming Eagle when I was a kid in St. Louis. That was a big deal. Yeah. I remember the name of that. Yeah, Screaming. We had the Screaming Delta Demon. Oh, wow.

Sounds even. That was a good one. We had a chaos, wallbash, cannibal. The Grizzly River Rampage. And, I mean, you just get soaked. Yeah. And depending on what you're doing the rest of the day, you're just going to walk around wet with wet wallet, wet everything.

They got some, yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's, I mean, and two, like, it's where theme parks, I mean, you know, they talk about a lot of theme parks not working. And I know exactly the articles when people say it, like when they're like, these ones didn't work. in this town and this whatever and it's uh you know unless you're like this is the beast it's uh it's uh unbelievable i mean how fun's that i mean we were scared to death but it's it would when you hear it yeah yeah yeah and it's it's yeah but you know like with uh you got to believe i mean

because you i get sent those articles i've seen those articles i've had multiple people be like well this one went under and that one went under and why, like, why do you think? Who's sending you those articles, right? Mostly, some people, my, Brian. Well, it's, I mean, like, you got to. There's another one. I don't, you just, you just hear about everything

once you're in this space. Yeah. And so, even if it's, even if it's, I don't want to say no one's against it, but it's like, yeah, dude, I don't know. Be honest, it's just kind of hard to wrap your head around to go tell people you want to build a theme part.

Yeah. You got to find a certain group of people, that are going to agree to go down that road with you. And, you know, again, I'm like, yeah, I don't know, man. It's what I'm looking, look, I look for reasons not to. I'm waiting, just give me the reason not to. So, but yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot to put on someone when you tell them that.

I've said a lot of things that a lot of times people aren't like, What? I don't know. I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do. Yeah, but these ones that failed didn't have like a giant comedian behind it. My argument is why Disney did so well is like there's direction. So even if it's Mickey Mouse, even if it's, you know, Dollywood is Dollywood. But even if it's, even if you don't have the character, it's like even the old, the Silver Dollar City and all these was like there was a theme to it of you in the old timey, West.

And that's what Walt did. It was like, you go, this is like going to an old western. And this is like the town he grew up in and stuff. And like, so it was all this, you had reasons to go into this part of the roller coaster. And then it's just the experience that you give them is, you know, is what makes it, what makes it great. And so, yeah, yeah, man, that's crazy to seeing this, the beast. I got a hat that had a flap. So it had a, it was like a, what's like how you'd wear in the Sahara Desert?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, to protect sunburn? My dad, yeah, dad told us, he goes, if you ride this ride, you will, I'll buy you something from the shop. Oh, that's cool. And that was kind of the, that was finally, it was like, all right. And I mean, we were scared to death. But like, it's a moment.

Like, that's what I love is like the moment you get to have as a parent when you get to ride a ride with your kid. And they're scared. And you're getting to see, like Harper Road, Jurassic World, the water ride was kind of her first in Universal in L.A. in California. And so that was one of the first ones that, like, I remember the day. I got, that's the day. I got, uh, claust forward from the Simpsons ride, if you want to time stamp it. It was, I didn't have that point. I didn't know I had it, but I was like, I was feeling it.

I felt it on that ride where I was like, oh, this is a little. But when she came to me and said, I want to ride that ride. that was, I'll never forget that in my whole life. I'll tell hopefully her grandchildren about that being like, and we went down this, and I couldn't believe it. She came up to me and said she wanted to ride it. We were trying to get her to ride stuff,

but that one, she was like, I'm going to, she wanted to do it on her own. Like, it was so me and her went, and I mean, she held on to me as tight as possible. I mean, it's a moment that I'll never, I mean, like, I don't know how you can't, you can't buy that. You can't, and even if it's with friends or it's whatever,

it's, you know, we've gone on the road with friends, with friends and we have since we buy these pictures and they're just so funny and they're moments that you're going to look back and just see four of your buddies like on a ride and you're like remember we were in Knott'sbury

we like remember we had two shows for us it's this memory but remember we had a show that day and we went and did this and then you did that I remember Nick and then we got a great story with Nick Novickia at Knott'sbury Farm because he Nick I don't know if I've told that

yeah it's great with him trying to get us in the yeah the disability line, and so he just had his go up the wrong way. Oh, dude, he wrote a, I mean, it's the, was the funniest thing. He's like, I got us. And he, I mean, he would walk up there trying to bring 14 of us on a ride, like where you go, he goes, but I'm a little person.

And he goes, can I go in this way? And it's the back way. And they go, all right. And he goes, also my friends. It's just eight of us. I don't think that's the spirit of the. I don't think that's the spirit of it. But that's what Nick would do.

We would go up completely the wrong way. Hey, yeah. Do you mind if I go? Yeah, that makes sense. Also, my friends. And then just all of us take over this road. And I mean, I'm 46 years old. They also did, they guessed his age.

And they gazed over his age, which was fun. I mean, that's the, that was such a funny. By the, that was such a, because they, guess they said he's 42 and so if they get it within two years uh then it counts or something two years or something like that and uh so we're we're like well i bet they guess young because they weren't to be nice and they said 46 so uh so he won because she was four years off but now he's sad because someone thinks he's 46 years old and then we start telling him or i I go, that means she thought 50.

And she went, she's shooting love. She's shooting love. Yeah. So she easily, she goes, all right, obviously this 50-year-old dude's here. So 46. Yeah. I'm sorry, I'm wrong. You're wrong the other way.

You go in those age guessing nobody's going to be happy. Nobody's going to be happy about it. I mean, it's so funny. And because then you've got to walk around with a big stuffed animal and you're just sad. You're just sad. Your day's ruined. How'd you win that? they overguessed my age yeah yeah uh i just thought of a way you could save money on your thing part

you know how they have cameras that take pictures of people coming down yeah you know to buy i could just say hey me your phone yeah and you're there yeah and i just snap it it's a lot of trust i know you think people would i guess that would save them money not you i thought this through yeah yeah yeah i i we might need on paying for those pictures but i do like but you're going to have to do a lot of like right when they come off and they're like excited to see it then you go add it and get it that would you go do it again if you before you look at it if you want to do it again i can get you back on it yeah before you look at the picture and it'd be a long conversation yeah don't be mad how you're going to be it you would do it every just you would sit at a ride

yeah what would you be willing to do at the we guys work at the nat land yeah i'll help out however you need man yeah i'm i'm in man i mean man i mean i'd like like to do some of those night shows if I've proved myself. If you prove yourself, some night shows. But what about some, what about work around the park? Like, say, no, no entertainment. Sweeping, stuff like that? I started as a sweeper.

I let a dog out and have to. But we're a little past. You're a little past where you started. Not much. Yeah. If I could get. Career-wise. My dad was doing magic at there.

If I could get Jiff on board. He's about where my dad wasn't doing magic at Opryland when I was 15. if I could get Jiff on board and have some sort of peanut butter and jelly booth or something like that with Jiff and smokers and I serve them up or whatever would you be willing to do the guess the weight guess the age oh I'd love to do that you would like yeah let me do people's weight I think I'm pretty good at weights you are only women what are you talking about I'm just saying what can you guess can you guess I'll let you guess my weight right now 192 it's pretty that might be exactly right

why does it hurt he's not happy it's supposed to be a fun time it's not this is what I'm telling you right now you're supposed to guess low you'll be the most hated person in the park whether you're right or wrong yeah

hey Bates is going to be pretty tough I think Bates is getting skinny you're at about you just lost a little bit away because you were sick for a while you're at about 171 right now no not that low I'm about 180

nah well you're hiding yeah you look good Good. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. That would be feet. Greg, you're going to do... I haven't been on scale since the NCAA tournament. I stopped getting on scales.

Well, do you mind if... Let him guess and then we'll weigh and film it. I don't want to... No, you don't have to step on a scale, but apparently he's pretty good at it, so you're going to get a good... No, I don't want to know what he thinks. People hate you for this. I know. Can he whisper it into the microphone?

No. No. Can you turn your head and he shows and he holds... And he holds up numbers. No, no. He goes... No. And why do you start with a two? Well, I just...

Why do you keep flashing up two? Yeah. He just did it. See, that's the games we're going to be playing. We distract you. People aren't going to enjoy this part of the park. Oh, they're going to come right to it. Oh, yeah.

This is going to be... Might to put me in the back because everyone's coming. No. I'm like the milk. We need to drive. Put me in the back. You hear the milk of our They go

Where's there Some of people are like We got to go to Aaron first Yeah make sure They're walking by the T-shirt stand or whatever I move Aaron around Just because I need stuff to be

Yeah Well that was fun Yeah You guys want to say we're Yeah Tonight I am at the Addison Improv Tomorrow night I'm at the Houston

at improv. Oh, wow. Yeah. I believe the highest grossing comedy club in the country. Oh, yeah. I think so, I believe that. Great club.

I'll fix that. Yeah. But that's where I'm out, the next two nights. I'm going to be... Still in Kansas. Mike drop Comedy Club in Plano,

Texas. That's right. Go see Bates and maybe come see me. Yeah. Kids show on Saturday. Oh, nice. San Francisco, California, at the punchline this weekend. Great club.

Then the Sacramento punchline on Sunday. So comes to be California. I'm out there. All right. We love you. See you next week, right? Yeah. Yeah.

See you next week. Bout. Hey!