The Nateland Podcast - 287: #287 The Penultimate Episode

Episode Date: January 14, 2026

Dusty is out of town so the original three, Nate, Brian, and Aaron sit in for the penultimate episode of the Nateland Podcast. Nate and Brian learn what penultimate means, Aaron learns that not everyone uses their phone flashlight as much as he does, and the guys all share stories about going to the movies. Square: square.com/go/nateGet up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/nate! #squarepod#adFactor: Factormeals.com/nate50offHead to Factormeals.com/nate50off and use code nate50off to get 50% off your first Factor box PLUS free breakfast for 1 year. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp.  Betterhelp.com/NATE You can’t step into a lighter version of yourself without leaving behind what’s been weighing you down. Therapy can help you clear space. Our listeners get 10% off at Betterhelp/com/NATE. 

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All right. Hello, folks. And hey, bear. I'm not supposed to throw it that all right. But we did. You'll get it figured out eventually. Eventually we're figured out. Welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates and Aaron Weber. Dusty's out. So we're back to the original. How we always wanted it. Yeah, this is our last podcast in this room. So, I mean, Dusty was flying back from something that just couldn't Make it. Yeah. So, but it did work out.

Really bookend in this thing. Yeah, it's probably better. He'll be on the last one. Yeah, of course. But, yeah, yeah, we get to do one just back to the original. That's three. Yeah. Just one more to remind us while we're stopping.

Yeah. Yes. Before we start, Dateland presents. Graham K is at Gotham Comedy Club January 21st, get tickets for that. We're taping that special. Graham's been out with me on the road a bunch. You know, we've been together since we started.

So make sure you go check that out, Gotham Club Club Club in New York City, taping Graham's, Nate Land presents with Graham K, so get your tickets for that. Yeah, so this is it. We've just got, you know, the beginning, the beginning of the end. Did they say it?

Yeah, I think so. I don't know. I like to go down. I mean, it's the end of the end, technically. Yeah, the end of the end. Yeah. The pen ultimate episode. Yeah.

The what? Penn Ultimate. Isn't that a great word? Penn Ultimate. What does it mean? Second to last. Oh, really? Yeah.

I don't know. I didn't know. Why would they ever use that? I don't know. The Easter room opened Mike here in town when Brad Edward was host. He would always say, are you ready for your pen ultimate comedian tonight? The second to last guy. Yeah.

And I just like the word. word so much. Yeah, yeah. And it was always you? Sometimes it was me. But you don't get many opportunities to use that. So it's nice to. It's the penultimate episode.

Penultimate episode. That's what this is called. There you go. Sure. That's a good name. Yeah. Nataland 289, 290? What are we?

287. 287. Yeah, jump the gun a little bit. Double murder. I don't know. Is that? Double jeopardy? 187 is homicide.

Homicide. Penultimate. Yep. Well, you know, that's like one, you're like, why would they even need to do it? Why does that need its own work? Yeah. Last, but one in a series of things, second to last. Is there a third to last? It follows the anti-Penolt. Right there, that's, I guess that's the second. And precedes the ultima. Yeah. So the ultima is the last. The ultima is the last one, yeah. And then the anti-Penolte, we've already done. We did that last week. The anti-Penolte. And now we're at the penult mate. Penultimate.

Penultimate. Yeah, what are you doing? That's when I think stuff probably started going wrong in the world when they invented that word. It was like... Out of stuff to do. We were out of stuff to do. And then they go, well, we need a word for... You know, they had Ultima and they're like, that's great.

Then a new generation comes in and goes, well, what about, you know, the second to last episode? How about this example in use? The runner finished in the penultimate position. Can you imagine watching... the Olympics and they're talking like that. Well, that sounds good. Yeah, it does. It doesn't sound bad.

You think that sounds better than he came in second? It can be second to last is the penultimate. Yeah. Oh, okay. That's what that says. So maybe point ultimate is not. Yeah, yeah, good point. Yeah. That sounds way better.

So is this not the penultimate? Because it's not, oh, wait, it is the second to last. Yeah, the real, oh, yeah, that's brutal. The runner finished, you want to have it? You want to put them in? Yeah. Don't worry. Just the penultimate episode.

Abigail's... My lid doesn't work. Second to last. That makes me feel like there's two more before the last one. Well, I guess so. Yeah, but there's one more after this. And that'll be the ultima. The penultimate episode of the show aired last night.

You've learned a lot of Latin on this show. Isn't that pretty nice? Mm-hmm. that is a funny way to put the runner finished in an ultimate position and someone have you said that so they'd be like man i appreciate that yeah i wish i'd known that as a kid because i finished the punal ultimate a lot yeah or you could have said the ultimate too that's the last yeah i finished the ultimate position yeah the ultimate we just got through doing it's got a picture of you next to it a little yeah that's look yeah

That looks like a guy that has spent his life in the penultimate. He just finally gave him. I get you, buddy. I get you. Yeah, if it was a guy that just, you know, just always second to last and just said, we got to call it something. Yeah, it's a smart move because it does sound better. I've decided.

The last place gets, you're at least going to say I'm last. So there's some pride in that What do you mean? Well, if you're last, you're at least like, I was last, there's definition, everybody goes, wow, you're the last, and you go, yeah, I was last play. And then the guy that's like, well, I was second to last, and no one's like, well, let's hear him talk.

Yeah, it's not even interesting. Mr. Irreverent, irrelevant. Irrelevant is, you know, but whoever gets second to last drafted doesn't get talked about. Right. But Mr. Irrelevant, like, I mean, that guy's kind of famous.

Yeah. Yeah, it's all wording. And I've decided, assuming Aaron and I make it in the Final Coger movie, I'm going to frame it different, Aaron, because we're in their, what, 15, 20 seconds? If that, yeah. But when celebrities are in movies that short, what do they call it? They call it a cameo. I'm telling people now, I got a cameo.

He added a brief cameo in the movie. That is. You really did a cameo. That's really what it was. Yeah, but guys like us, usually they're going to say that. I'm going to say that. But what you... But you are a cameo.

I guess you think a cameos of celebrities like... Yeah, but in this world... It's like when you say I popped in on a show, but nobody in the crowd knew who I was. It was just doing a guest spot. But you guys did a cameo for me in this world. Yeah. Now, the amount of people that knew you guys only watched this movie,

we're in big trouble. If the people that truly are like, wow, did you see Bates and Aaron's cameo? If those people only show up. Yeah, it's not going to be good. There won't be a breadwinner, too. I go to do what? There's going to be a Nayland podcast, and we're going right back at it, all right? We're restarting this thing because it did not work.

I'm going to tell you some. The Roxy in Lebanon, it's going to do well there. Yeah. Yeah. Go to Deimos, then walk over. Have a night out. Yeah. Yeah.

I saw the trailer in the in the theaters oh that's cool yeah it was very cool they were showing it this weekend uh or the past weekend and we saw we went and watched david uh and then uh we also watched anaconda so the opposites but it was it was the the the uh the trailer's been played in both that's nice and seen a lot of pictures of the some uh i have not physically seen it yet but i've seen pictures of it yet but i've seen pictures of of the board, like, you know, the cardboard cut out and stuff. Yeah. Posters and stuff. Yeah, it's starting. It's all, yeah, we're gearing up. We're gearing up. It's fun.

Yeah. We just shot some other stuff, additional shooting. And, yeah. Well, we just shot some additional stuff today that's going to be fun. We did. We answered one question today. We were, and we answered one. We followed through on one thing.

We followed through on one thing. Which is more than you think we were going to do. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, yeah, you will see next week the can-errin throw a golf ball. Uh-huh. The full length of a baseball field. We found out.

We found out. A little Nateland field trip, which you're going to see. And I think it's more interesting than you think. Yeah, I hope so. I hope so. And we took some BP. which was very fun. Feels good, doesn't it?

Feels good. We were hitting some, we hit some, you know, we went to the sounds, Nashville sounds. They were very generous, very great, and let us come out and mess around. And so, you know, we did our golf ball challenge, and then we, you know, took a little BP, just had a little fun. Yeah. Everybody got, everybody was really hitting the ball. I wonder if that's the best feeling in sports to hit a home run. you think that's the best feeling

versus dunking a basketball or like, I don't know, a pick six in a sold-out stadium. Only one at a golf would be. Yeah, yeah. I just think just crushing a home run that probably feels so good.

Well, yeah, a walk-off or something. Walk-off home run. Yeah, trotting around. You don't have a lot. Oh, yeah. Just taking your time around the bases. Because it's like when a touchdown

happens, it's like a very quick celebration then you just blend back in. Yeah. And even, but like a walk-off home run, it's like that, you actually want to burn off some of that excitement. And so you get to jot it and go,

no, I want to take the walk. Even if, I bet if they, I wonder if they pulled baseball players and said, if you hit a home run, you don't have to walk around the bases. If they would be like, what's the percentage that would be like, no, we want to walk.

You still, you still want. I know. I'm saying I think it would have to be 100%. There'd be a couple big fat guys. Like I'm kidding. I'll just turn around and walk to the dugout. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You think like McGuire bonds maybe, they're, you know, they're just done it so many times.

I don't need to. I wonder like in a season of 60, you know, if they would, I wonder if they're going like, I don't need to. What do you let them choose? What would the percentage be? Like if you go, if you hit a home run, you can choose to walk around, run around the basis, they should do that. You can choose to run around the bases or you can choose not to run around the basis and see what's the percentage. You know, one of the first, you know, the first 20 games,

you're like, you hit a home run and maybe you're down by 10 and the home run doesn't matter. That guy's just like, yeah, yeah. I'll just, I don't care. But then, you know, in a big game, you're like, yeah, I want to milk it. That actually could add some excitement, you know. Yeah, you'd be seeing the showboating if you actually did it. Well, it would flame up the game a little bit. Like if someone did it and then they go and they go take those steps. And it's defeatedness. If you're down 8-0 and you hit a one run home run and you just go, no, I'm good.

And then if you run the bases, the crowd booze you. You're like, you're wasting everybody's time. Y'all ain't coming back. Well, if you could choose to do it twice. I think it's once or none. I don't think that's a bad... I like it. Yeah.

Why not? You know, it's like the first base thing. You're walking on the first base. You go, I want the four pitches and no, four pitches. You kind of do it the opposite. You're like, if you don't want to run around the base, then, you know, let's just be efficient. Yeah. But if you want to, you do, you are allowed to.

And if some guy, like, some guy could be down, you could be down 10-0 and you hit a one home run. And you go, I'm going to do it. And I'm going to do it in the posing stadium and get booed. and I'm going to like, you know what I mean? It's like, what does he do? Talk trash all the way around. Yeah, yell at the picture. Just to like go like, and then you go, I can't wait for that team.

Like, how fun's it going to be when they play again? Because you've got to be excited. This is unbelievable. Changing the sport right here. Changing the sport. I think it's until they miss a base. Yeah, that's true. But I mean, yeah, it's the base thing.

But I mean, when is the last time that happened? Like, you know, I don't know if that happened. It's been a while. It's been a while. So you just go. You know, if it's a guy's his first one, he's like, now I had to go. I was excited. But then, you know, some of the big guys.

Yeah, I've done it 500 times. Yeah. Like, I've seen the bases. Yeah. Yeah, you have some guys and they hit a home run and they walk off. I mean, dude, even there will be some home runs hit and they go, I don't need to walk around the basis. You could choose. I, I'm, if the excitement of it is, you know, is pretty fun.

They get a choice. When the Nailan Baseball League gets going, we'll have to implement that. We took some BP today, and we all got some hits. I did not get Adrian's pitching at first. Yeah, he's already spinning this whole thing. It wasn't spinning. I did not get any hits, and I think Adrian's – right before I hit, Aaron goes, Adrian's good BP pitcher.

And then it was garbage. And then Heathie's left-handed. Yeah. And then I pitched to Bates, and I think I threw them perfectly. you didn't throw a strike you were hitting them yeah I was I was jumping up to the one that I threw a strike you didn't hit

that is true yeah I but so I'm throwing them where your body your old body will swing and not hurt it was perfectly placed this is what happens to Hollywood celebrities they live in this fantasy world where they can't just accept that they're not good at something

they're making some solid content but I may then I then I said I would like Aaron to pitch, and I was rocking it. I had a couple. I said, I think I could hit metal bat with a baseball. I think I could hit a home run. I think I could get there. I'm probably going to have to add some strength,

but I think I could get a home run. Okay. I think I'd hit one out of the park. You're making solid contact with it. I think it's going to be left to right field, but I think, you know, I got one. You're getting to the warning track, pretty much. That's insane.

What are you talking about? You don't think get a home run? After what I just saw today? Yeah. No, I could. If I work out, if I get stronger. Yeah, yeah. If you grow a third arm and... Well, if I get stronger, I might still get stronger. You don't know. I could do it. Yeah. I think I need strength for all that I'm...

We've been talking about it for five and a half years on this podcast. I know, but I need it more than now and ever. I've got to carry you through the rest of your life. So we should do it... Sorry. Well, that part is true. We should have Eric do a donut eating challenge when... If I get a home run, Eric has to eat. A thousand donuts. A thousand, yeah.

For however many, what is it, 310 feet? Down right field. Yeah, that's the shortest part of the Nashville sounds field, 310 feet. So if I can get a home run, yeah, we make Eric, Eric, Eric has to eat the donuts. A dozen donuts. Look, y'all might think these challenges are done. They're just getting started. Yes.

all these challenges can still happen on their podcast. I think I'm allowed to say that. So like the swimming... Feel free to say whatever you want. Yeah, it'll happen. The swim one, the golf, y'all playing golf I want to do with them throwing. All these challenges can still... They're going to happen.

Yeah, they happen on... They'll just happen on y'all's podcast. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. support for today's episode comes from Square, the system powering like half the places I go. You ever tap to pay and thought, whoa, that was fast. It was probably Square. Whether you're selling lattes, cutting hair, detailing cars, or selling merch like we've used,

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New Year's went with Nate to the Vanderbilt's bowl game. That's right, the RelyQuest Bowl. And our friend Michael Clay

was standing with me and we saw Earl Bennett, who is one of the Vanderbilt all-time great, not just Vanderbilt, one of the

all-time great receivers in SEC. I think he, at the time, set the record for most receptions in the SEC.

And he was standing there and Michael said to me, do you think if you started at the 30 and he started at the goal line and race down, could you beat him?

And we debated it all day long and then at the end of the, I say yes, I can, I still say that. Nate goes over and ask him at the end of the game if he could win.

The game is still going on. Yeah. It might have been. It might have been. Yeah, no, I don't know. It was close. It was at the very end.

And Earl confidently said, yeah, he didn't even didn't even question. So you're both running 100-yard dash, but he is a 30-yard head start. You have a 30-yard head start? I'm running 70, basically. Yeah, you have a 30-yard head start.

And he was like, he said 50 would be where he was at least getting nervous. It is just based on looking at him? Yeah. This is based on nothing but looks. He goes 50, he goes 30's not. 30 would be insane. I mean, he's 38, but he looked great shape. Yeah.

Yeah. So maybe that'll happen. So we're, yeah, maybe we'll get Earl. Just bring it outside people. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'll get Earl to come do it. Yeah. Yeah, so we have a bunch of fun challenges that maybe they get, maybe just to pop up surprises in y'all's podcasts.

Yeah. When it dips. You're welcome any side. And that's a fun little jab. Y'all didn't hear it. When it dips? Yeah, I heard it. That's pretty good.

Week two. No, y'all's is going to be great. Y'all's first podcast is all of our challenges. We spread it out. We have to spread it out. To make next week for some more. Yeah. All right.

Yeah. So, yeah, we had a good new year. So New Year's, Vanity game. I had a big, were you on the road this weekend? No, no, I'm going out next weekend. I was in Austin at Cap City. Then, it was Tuesday, then Dallas, Addison Improv Wednesday, Houston Improv Thursday. So many folks came out.

Great shows, all of them. People brought us gifts. Just so, so nice. And then I flew to Oregon on Friday and did a corporate there. But I was, so my flight was at 7 a.m. Friday morning. Yeah. Fly out of Houston. So I'm like, I'm going to...

Houston to Oregon. Yeah, to Portland. Okay. Very funny comedy. I guess because it is New Year's, but it seems like very funny that your comedy weekend was Tuesday to Friday. But it was like New Year's Eve. No, I'm talking about this past week. This was January 6th through 10th.

That is odd. It is what it is when, you know. But my flight was at 7 a.m. out of Houston. So early flight. So I'm like, I'm going to get a hotel. next to the airport, you know. So I do. And then the night before, I'm looking at a boarding pass. And I'm like, I'm staying next to Houston Hobby and the flights out of George Bush. Oh, my God. Other side of the city. 30 miles away.

So first I got to figure out my rental car situation because I'm dropping it off at the wrong airport and I was already debating like do I just drop it off and take an Uber to the other airport? Oh my kid. How are, what times your flight seven? Seven. Oh my. But I called the rental car company. Got that changed.

But my whole deal, I just had to get up and leave early enough to make it cross-down. Dude, that sticks. Do you leave it like 4.30 or something? I just walked off stage and just went to pick the airport. Yeah, what time did you get up? Five? I think it was 430. I said no long for it.

You were like, you're like, dude, I'm going to wake up at, you know, probably 5.30, I guess. Roll out. Yeah. A cup of coffee downstairs. Yeah. Easy thing. Instead, you got in double airport traffic. 30 miles.

It's so far away. Dude, I would have paid money just for a video of your reaction when you noticed on the board. Why does it say I-A-H? And I think, you know what, I think that should show full. circle about when I called you a cow a long time it's uh you know it's a nice payoff for me to go still i mean that's so yeah i mean i would look at flights and it like yeah i would uh i don't know i mean there's not a change your rental car and you just got up and drove yeah that was i mean there's not a lot of direct flights from houston to portland uh at least at a

hobby. It's a tough one to get to. That's great. Yeah. So, but anyway, who booked it? Your daughter? It can happen. Look, it happens to the best of us.

Yeah. Well, you might hear it, I'm recovering. I had the flu A, dude. What does that A mean? The flu? I don't know. It's some variant of the flu that's going around. It's just knocking people out left and right.

Really? But it got me good, man. I had to cancel my weekend in California. Oh, wow. Sorry to everybody in San Francisco and Sacramento. Oh, yeah. Hoping to re- I was pumped about those dates. And then that week, I just can't do it, man.

So we're going to reschedule that and I'll be back. But I'm back out of this week, but it knocked me out. I couldn't even look at my phone for like three or four days. I was just in bed. And then, you know, Lucy ended up getting sick. And we ended up flying my mom in just to like watch the baby because we were like worried the baby is going to get sick. Baby avoided it somehow. Oh, wow. That's superior genes to be in those parents. I know, yeah, because it, it took me out.

It could not do anything. But I'm on the men now. I feel good. So. All right. Sorry about that. Stinks the like first weekend of the year. Just have to cancel it. But I felt it. I could, I could, I, I, I, the exact moment I felt New Year's Eve, I opened for Derek Strupe here at Zanis. You had five sold up. shows it was great and I was standing outside and I just felt like boom something's something's wrong the next day I woke up I was like oh that first night I was there a new year's evening oh yeah it's the next day yeah so you might have started your year I know I might have given it and then I didn't get it so that's why I got rid of it out of me yeah yeah threw it to you I appreciate it like a demon I threw it to the weekend that didn't matter

think of I had a pick if he was off Yeah. All right. Well, let's start it off. You guys comments. Michael Bridge. I came for Nate, but stayed for the rest of the game.

Was that Nate's goal? To introduce other great comics, but maybe not as well known at the time, and then turn it over. Now, I can't imagine not seeing Dusty Bates and Aaron on the podcast. Love that it will continue. Thank you, Nate.

Thank you, Michael Bridge. Yes. That's, uh... Was that your goal? No, it wasn't. It became the goal. But you remember the conversations at first? You're like, you guys might not even be on it some weeks.

You remember that? Did I say that? Yeah, yeah, you're like... It was after the first episode. It was like, at the very beginning, you're like, I mean, Brian might not even be in the room. Like, we'll just kind of figure it out. You're like, some days... Well, you're figuring out the podcast.

I don't think it was going to be just me by myself. No, no, but I'm saying it definitely has evolved over time. It has. Which I appreciate. Yeah. It started because I wanted to stay funny during COVID. But, I mean, I went to you guys. It's not like I went to anybody else and they said, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're the only people that I talked to where y'all were going to be sitting near me was a question. But you were the only two I talked to. And then so, yeah. And then as it evolved and as everything else in Nailen evolved, it's exactly been this when I'm trying to 100% introduce other comics and I know I have to move on

I, there's a lot of stuff I'm going that's the literally couldn't have written it better of what I that's what I want to do with a lot of things actually

Michael Bridge building a bridge yeah yeah I just want to be able to do it then kind of be able to like all right we got it taken care of and then hand it off and I'll go do whatever I got to do next

thank you Michael Lynette Adam Build the theme part, Nate. We don't, you know. So many will go to Nashville and take their families. I love that you're sharing your dream about it because we feel like we're part of the dream. It's going to be amazing.

Thank you, Lynette. Yes, we are... Be excited. We're, you know, it's... You know, the city of Nashville is excited about it. I'm excited about it. Yeah. We're going to, you know, that's the goal.

We're going to make stuff, you and your... family to come to. This is all, hopefully, it way past me. So yeah, thank you, Lynette. Amy Winsel, I think a full circle moment would be to visit Nate Steen Park, and he is sweeping the walkways. I agree. Yeah. I'll get out there and sweep it up. Let a dog out? Let a dog out. Maybe it's a ride. Did I ever tell you the first time I worked, a comedy zone in Charlotte, the owner of all the comedy zones Brian He met me, he told me as the janitor. Oh, really?

Talked to him for like 30 minutes. Yeah. He was like, yeah, I would work here. I sweep the floors. You just wanted to see if I was like a jerk. Yeah. Talk to him forever, yeah. You should do that.

Oh, yeah. A little undercover boss action at your own theme park. I go, I'm the janitor. It's probably not going so good if they, I'm not in skies and they still and they believe it. And then I don't know if we have a Nate land. And I go, hey, I'm the janitor. And they go, oh, it's good to meet you, man.

The name's on the bark. You don't even wear disguise. I don't wear disguise. Yeah, good. Good to meet you, man, excited. You know, because one day you'll move up and this. I hope so. Jay Kramer, 324, Nate, if John and Jane Doe could see you now.

Oh, man. I wish they could, you know. Who knows where they're at right now? but they wouldn't they wouldn't believe it they wouldn't they wouldn't they may know who you are we'll get dusty we'll get dusty to explain that comment later yeah yeah if john if you don't it's from my act john and uh i met a john and jane doe at operiland theme park and i thought what are the odds so if they are it would be interesting to find out if they yeah it's either they lied to me or maybe they truly come i mean if they

they're a couple that that was a joke they like to tell people over and over. And they remember that and they were at Opryland. Yeah. They can maybe put it together. They can maybe put it together. But maybe there really was, because they remember them going. It's really, our names are really that. So I do remember that.

Yeah. That's 15. Adam D. I think Bates should be the star of the safety videos shown before rides at Nate's theme park. Always sporting his classic worried expression. I don't know if I'm I could be for that I think I would like but I would have the safety video start

and it shows everybody getting in how to buckle up and then you're the one that gets off you go I can't do this and then you get up and so then you're the example of how if you think the ride's too much wave your hand and the end of the week come let you off

and then you come back down yeah I like that you know they don't ever show that at a theme part you should have to bail out if you're nervous. Yes, I think we need to do that. What theme part goes, by the way, if you're this far into the video and you get nervous,

hi, I don't think I can do this, you go, just tell us. No one's going to make fun of you. No one's going to laugh at you. It's, you know, everybody gets nervous at times. So I enjoy that. I enjoy that. I'd like to point out you're the one that had issue on a ride, though. I did.

Try to get off. Yeah, oh, yeah, I got, well, I wrote it. I had that they unlocked it, the Simpsons ride, and then we got back in and then started changed my life. I have claustophobia for the rest of my life. So yeah, I'm glad you have fun with it. That's going to be one of the rides, claustophobia. This room gets smaller and smaller.

We got a video from Valerie here of you taking BP and Brian trying to catch your... Do you not want to watch it? Yeah, this is pollen baits. Go ahead. Well, one, he, by, no, this, did he catch it? No, let's see. Oh, let's see. Here we go.

Oh. Zoomed down. Yeah. He laid out on the ground. I'll have to zoom in later. Yeah. You laid out, though, man. You put your body out.

But see. He was upset. He was upset. Can you show it one more time? Because Adrian got my way. That's the problem. Yeah. Can we zoom in?

I can't zoom in here. Look, Adrian crosses my path, right? Oh, no. And Adrian's got no glove. Get out of the way! Adrian's got no reason to be out there. There's a man out there really doing things. And I will say Bates did catch one of them.

I'm sure that one didn't make the cut, but that's actually a pretty good swing you got there. Thank you. That one felt good. I laid it out. I mean, I had it. He had it. Mr. Butterfly. Yeah.

Just comes flying by. He wanted it. Yeah. All right. He wanted it. That was good. Hazard I'll tell you what

I'm on board as Adam D in this I think we could have some fun with that Hazard I can just imagine someone having too much fun on a roller coaster

and from the seat behind that Marin puts his hand on the shoulders and says enough I can see that too I think that would be maybe maybe Aaron you're like

kind of the you're the inspiration between our security okay so it's like you're polite but firm the light, yes. And it's just guys that walk around and just go, enough.

Yeah. Fun within reason. Yeah. Come on. Enough. Enough. If you get told enough. I've just pictured.

If at any point you feel overwhelmed, raise your hand and say, that's good. That's it, folks. And it's just Brian going. And then we show you how we unlock it. Look, you can always get out. For the record, I'm for this too. And then we shut it. And then it's just a sea of people that go have fun.

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However, he is here again. At this point, I'm a little. little annoyed that Nate is on the podcast. I'm dragging it out. I hear you, Caleb. I'm taking my, you know, like the NBA players or all that when they take their final. Like the retirement tour? Yeah. Well, this is like when you told your daughter the dog was going to die, right? Yeah. And then it just kept living. Yeah, yeah. Eventually you're like, yeah, let's just kill this thing. I'm living. I'm living. I'm living the exact people over. Next week will be the final. It'll be a live one, Caleb. The ultimate episode.

So that's the one you want to be. Yeah, the one being the one on the cruise, the cruise I think will be much looser. It's a special thing. Yeah, it's its own thing. It's its own thing. But next week is the, expect to see some tears.

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Faf. I think so, too. I bet he just goes, call me Micah P. And then we go, what about just Micah? And he goes, I'd prefer a little bit of it. I listened every week since the beginning of the Nate Land podcast and I have to share how inspiring this podcast has been for me. Aaron's courage to walk into Planet Fitness and cancel his membership several years ago

gave me the confidence to do so as well. Just last week, after six years and three. to five total workouts in that span. Congratulations. That's so funny. That's so funny. It's amazing how much the world's changed since this podcast, because that's now most states, they

legally have to allow you to cancel over the phone now. Oh, they do? And I like to think we got the ball rolling with that legislation, I think. Yeah. You know. Oh, wow. So Planet Fitness, you can't... Do you remember reading about this or something? Yeah, they changed the law because so many people were being exploited like I was for

years that they had to change the law. It's funny to be like exploited by going, we're not exploiting. Just come in and do you. You came in and signed up. No, you sign up online. I signed up the day after Ralphie May died. Good for you, buddy. And then literally never went until I canceled.

I think Ralphie would love that. Yeah. And he would love that. It went nowhere. Man, that's so funny. Six years and three and a half total workouts. And that's funny. How much money would he have given him?

$10 a month? Yeah, $12 or $13 a month for six years. Yeah. I mean, it's a fair, hundreds of bucks. Yeah, what is it? It's close to $1,000, right? $14,000, $350. 12 times, $300.

I mean, it's $1,000. Yeah. So they got their money's worth at you. They got Micah. They got Micah's are what kept it going. Yeah. Micah and Aaron. Mark Armstrong.

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Oh, yeah, that's good. That is good. That is a good image. I like my hair. Yeah. He's got his shirt on. I got my shirt on, dude. Come on.

I look great. That's what I'm going to look like when they hit a home run. What does Dusty's hat say? Thanks? Just AI slop. Yeah. I think it says thanks. I love that shirt.

Hey, that race can still happen in. Y'all Spockers. Or on the cruise. I don't know if the pool's big enough on the cruise. It's a small pool. Yeah. Cheat it. Yeah.

It's not like a lame. It's a, yeah. You get a fill. It's like a kid's pool. Well, yeah, I don't. The pools on cruises are not giant pools. He's not Olympic-sized pools. Yeah.

I can do a belly flop or a cannonball into them, though. Yeah, well, we're going to have you do that, like a donkey. We're going to be every, there's going to be three shows a day of air, and everybody go watch Aaron do cannonballs into the pool. That audience demographics right on. Yeah, which Aaron's showing it,

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That's very, very nice. Cam, like Aaron, the only time I tried sneaking into a place was at the movie theater. And the good news was there was plenty of seats available. As I waited for the free movie to start, the bright light slipped on, and some teenager came in to say, no one bought tickets to this movie, and I needed to leave. That's when I stopped my life of crime. Man, that's tough. I thought they just played it no matter what.

I would have thought so, too. Maybe that was back when there was a projector. And then... Still a projector, right? Yeah, but it's like automatic now. I don't know if there's a person there. I think like... But I mean, my buddy Ryan worked at the...

I forget the name. Hermitage movie theater. I forget the name of it. Courtyard Cinemas. Okay. And I think he ran the projector, or he did some of that. And like, so back then you would start the projector.

So I think they just started it. So I thought it was kind of out of place. Even if no one bought one, you just still played. It was still running. It was still running. Why would you not run it? If the room's empty, you might as well just turn it off, save some electricity.

Yeah. I don't know. I would you run it if there's somebody in there. What if someone last minute shows up late or something? Yeah. I guess you're right. You go, I want to watch it. You're hopeful.

I've shown up late to movies like that. Yeah, you got to show the trailer. You don't know if someone's about to buy a ticket or if someone's, you know, you're just shutting down the possibility. I don't know if that's what you do. Well, it's a great segue because today we're talking about movie theaters. All right. So you've snuck into a movie.

I have. Have you? I have. I've stayed recently? No, no. This weekend. He saw his trailer in Anaconda and David. I will be honest with you.

I left. I was watching one of them. And I did leave in the middle to try to go see the trailer and the other one. Yeah. It makes sense. But no, I have not.

It was, we did it like when, I lived with Nick and the Queens, like a couple of times where you would stay and just go watch. We watched one movie and then we sat and went and watched another one. That's what he just, we had nothing to do all day.

Oh, yeah. Sit through two movies. Yeah, yeah. It's like seven hours. Yeah, yeah. So it wasn't the right things you do But yeah I have done it

Have you never done it It's about as close to a victimless crime As I can imagine Yeah Yeah What about bringing food in Yeah Yeah

Yeah Yeah I mean that was our whole life At the beginning Was sneaking Your own snakes I mean You would go to Dollar General And get candy

And then sneak to candy And You'd bring like burgers And stuff in Yeah A full meal? No. Not a full meal.

You've had a dining service before they had dining services. I think I brought like a McDouble or something in. No. Really? Yeah, way back in the day. I got a jacket you got a jacket. It was a big jacket. The jacket that's got an oven in it.

You can smell it as you want to? Yeah. I'll, I've, you know, I've had a water in my back pocket. Water. And then that's why I buy can't. I buy it now because I think I just have a, I remember just not liking doing that when I was a kid that you just get older. You never got a rush from it. You never liked the feeling of you got one past them.

No, no. It was just like. Brian, you liked that, I bet. You liked that feeling. I remember just wanting to be like, I want to just go buy candy. I want to just do it by the books and not worry about it. Yes. And I think that I, and I, and I think that I.

Like, that's why I do that now because it was like I just wanted to be, I just wanted to do it the normal. Like, I want to go be in that line. You know, it's like and just do it the normal way where no one, you know, you don't feel like no one can come up to you and say anything to you and go like, hey, you're not supposed to be something. You're like, I know, I'm doing everything right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. When Aaron and I came down to shoot our senior movie, the night before we went to see the time. You're what?

Oh, seen in your, I thought you said you're senior. Our cameo. Your cameo. Our cameo in your movie. The night before we went to see the last mission impossible. And the line at the concession stand was so long and so slow.

Yeah. But we both still waited it out. You probably ate $20 work before you got up there to pay. He had finished so many things. Oh, because you were just... Yeah, I just bought an empty box of Reese's pieces. It makes around and you just keep seeing more things there.

You just paid for trash. Pretty much by the end of it. Hey, just want to let you know that this is all mine. Yeah. So I did some research. But have you ever snuck into it or like stayed watching another movie? I don't think I have. Yeah.

I don't think he would have thought about it. I said Gone with the Wind or something. Yeah, yeah. Well, Castle Blanca is starting. Might as well stick around. Might as well hang out. You left her in the intermission, thought that. That was it.

That movie ended weird. There's an article that I think Variety put out a couple weeks ago about how 2025 was another dud year for movie theaters. They thought it was going to be the big comeback year, but it just didn't happen. We have yet to hit pre-pandemic numbers, which was, you know, 10 to 11 billion. I think it says. They thought it would hit 9 billion this year in the U.S. And it didn't.

Man. And that article speculates that it's these superhero movies. People just aren't into them as much. They've oversaturated. The Marvel movies aren't doing as well. Some of these other, what's the other big franchise? I don't know. Superman did pretty well.

Avatar. Avatar. Yeah. Jurassic Park. Yeah. They just didn't. And those are, they've carried the box office over the last however many years. And they're just not doing as well.

Well, I think people, you know, you want to go see different stuff. So you kind of want to see different types of movies. I think everybody loves movies. But it does feel like kind of the same movies are kind of coming out. Look at this trend. Nate, it's the second consecutive year that PG films outgrossed their PG-13 counterparts. Yeah. How about that?

Yeah, I read an article about that. It's all kids. It's like cartoons and mostly. Well, it's, yeah. Well, if that families can go see you. Families to go do. I mean, our movie will be PG. I, that's the plan.

I mean, I don't know how all that works. But, I mean, that's what I've said. But it's, you want it to be, I want every, you know, I want you all to go out. I need you to go out, to be honest. I want to, I mean, I could be wrong. My gut is that I, I think people want to go to the movies.

I know it's expensive. I know it's all this stuff, but there's, you know, life is expensive now. It's like, it just is what it is. But it's, I do still think people want to go out. And, yeah, I don't think there's enough different types of things. And people want to go see. You know, you want to go like, I mean, a movie night would be like, yeah, you want, hey, let's go do something. You know, but there's people you go.

could go see a movie once a week. But if there's got to be options, and it's just, when you look at it, there's times I've been like, I could go see a movie, and you go look, and you're like, there's not, I don't even know what I would go see. Yeah. And there's so many movies being released. It's not like it's one a month. There's multiple each week, but yeah. Do you remember when movie pass was a thing for a minute? Did you have it? I did. Yeah. It's back now, right? Oh, I don't know. I don't think so. I think they got, well, I was just talking about it. They got in trouble. We were just talking about moving

I remember it was like the least sustainable thing of all time. Yeah, I had it. It was great. I used it for like a month or something. Yeah. It was awesome. It's,

and they're right in that way, but it's, yeah, they did it. It kind of messed. I think it made a comeback last year. Well, AMC. A scale down. Yeah,

yeah, I guess. But it was like the idea of it was great. But then it's like, Everybody started going. And then it's, because I thought what they were saying, I want to say at one point, I thought what I heard, the idea of what they were doing is they were just basically

buying all the tickets to these movies. And then they thought like enough would, you know, like, something like that. They bought all the tickets to the movie. And then they just sold movie pass. Like it would all kind of like even itself out to be. There was something along those. lines that happened and but it did not pan out the way it was it worked yeah I

read an article but that's their way I believe they should go is there's some kind of version of that where you have like a subscription and you want to go see something in our donors just go back to the old-fashioned way but yeah you got to make it be you know, subscription-based stuff seems easier to digest when you pay than the, when you do it the one time. Yeah, I agree. I read an article that said, especially if you, like, throwing pop, you know, be like, you could do that, but you get popcorn or soda.

It's like, those are non-experative things to do. And the candy can be the same expensive if you want. But, like, if you do popcorn, I mean, you know, throwing popcorn in the stuff. soda and you get to go to a movie you get one this that and you know it's like if you want candy it's like then have candy be normal price that's not you know uh movie studios take between 80% to 100% of a movie theater sales revenue in the first two weeks and then it uh ratio gradually becomes more favorable for the theater okay getting to 50 50 so movie theaters not surprising they make their money from concession stands they

inflate the average price of movie theater popcorn by 1,275%. And around 70% of movie patrons buy snacks at the theater. Yeah, how much is a, like a large popcorn movie theater is what? Like 15 bucks now or something, and sometimes more than that? Probably. For the huge tub. Yeah. But then they say you get infinite refills.

Yeah. Right? Then he's starting to, how many times am I going to go back? Just three? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you got to walk, you got to leave the moves. Well, that's, yeah, if they would, if they would bring you, I go, I'll give you $10, bring me a new one every 10 minutes.

He goes, I'll tell you when to stop. Do you ever feel yourself in a movie now with the air of DVRs if you miss something, you're wanting to stop it and rewind it? I've been in movies where I miss something and I'm like, I wish I had them a remote. You know what I do think about? Because I watch almost everything at home. now with closed captions. Yeah. And I'm not happy about it. I don't like that I've become that guy,

but I don't know if I ever have closed caption off now. It's always on. And I notice it at a movie theater when it's not on. I go, I got to really pay attention to the dialogue. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think, you know,

when we went up, went and watched Anaconda, it was, like, fun because it was, like, it was, like, pretty packed, and hearing, like, people laugh. And, like, you know, it was like the, you know, It was a fun. Yeah, I was going to ask, because what is the advantage of going to the movie theater?

One of it is the community of it. I think that's the thing with stand-up. I mean, that's when they say live stand-up or even doing stand-up in these arenas. It's like, you know, it's like the new way is, I believe the new world is going towards experience. It is leaving your house. It is doing stuff with your family and going to things. Banana ball or, you know, like that kind of, like, where you're able to, experiences are really where stuff is heading.

And so that's why I don't think it's, I'm betting on that is what I'm betting on, is that you want to just be in the experience space. And, you know, because it's just, I mean, like, I mean, you want, what are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? Yeah.

What are you working for? What are you doing? You're not having any fun? It's like, I, I, I, don't, yeah, because I always look at this stuff where you're like, I don't think it's the audience. It's like the same way you think in stand-up where you go, even though like, you know, yes, some shows can be crazy. But in your 95% of stand-up, it's not the audience's fault. It's not. It's going to be, it's, you think it's lower than that.

I don't think. I think, not in, I think it's some of the shows I'm doing. Yeah. Well, I mean. Not the audience, but the situation. The situation you're in. The setup. Yeah. Yeah. So, but even on this stuff, anything business-wise, I don't think it's the audience. When you go and you go, oh, well, the audience is the, they don't want to go out. You're like, I don't believe that. I don't believe it's the audience. I believe it's you. Yeah, well, that's the audience, they're already out. They've already proven that wrong. They're there. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's who you see. No, they're not. But I know, but they're not because of, it's not because they just, that's, that. That's, they just, that. that's how life goes and they never go out again. I'm talking about myself. Oh. Oh.

Oh, that's what. I thought you. I started talking about movies. But it's, yeah, like I think it's because you're not, you know, building enough stuff to go,

like, you know, to have, these are how you go on dates. And this is how you have a date and a family night and a family night and a, all this little kind of fun stuff that's memories for your life.

Mm-hmm. And things that you go do. and that all comes from going to provide some entertainment, a break from the stress, the, you know, something, what are you doing tonight? Ah, maybe we're going to the movie tonight. Like, an exciting, like, you know, it's like, that's the stuff that, like, you know, that's why you work.

That's why you do it. Like, you need that release valve. And you can't just be going home every night. Yeah. And just sitting and watching the longest, heaviest show on earth. Yeah. Yeah. Stranger Things finale.

It was on Netflix, but they also put it in theaters. I saw that. Did it do well, Dina? I don't know, but I'm guessing for that reason. I think it did okay. I don't think it had to do well, but I think it did okay. That's cool. Like, I think, I'm not completely part, but I think it was like, yeah, I mean, people...

I get the appeal of that if it's a show, especially that show's been on for 35 years now. Yeah. So it's like, by the end of it, you're like, all right, let's have a human experience watching that. That's where you could do. You could put a serious. on in the thing and go like all right it's 10 weeks uh you know and every Tuesday at this time i think the chosen does that oh it does the chosen will put it in movie theaters i think first and then put it out on streaming at least some of the seasons but i i think people want to go see stuff and

go see movies and yeah i don't know and i mean i read a lot of articles that say no they don't so i mean everybody in my business i'm trying to make these movies Everybody, I'm trying to do a theme park. Everything that I've been told is that people don't want to go, and I'm just betting that they're wrong, and I think they're off. So we're seeing, that's the scariest thing about, man, when this movie comes out, like, I just pray people come out,

because it's, you know, there'll be a real, see what happens. I think the last movie I can remember that I went to where there was a real like cheering and and all that was the when the new Star Wars, the Force Awakens. Okay. And I went opening night and I mean like there were scenes. You dressed up? I didn't dress up, but I don't have a problem with people to do. And there were scenes where like when a character, old character came on for the first time,

people cheered in the audience. Yeah, but that's fun. I didn't cheer, but I kind of got goosebumps as it happened. I saw a miracle in the movie theaters, and the crowd was cheering like the game was on. I remember thinking that was fun. Yeah. We were chanting USA. Yeah.

We're watching a movie about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was fun, though. Yeah. Yeah. When people are you together, it's fun.

I just remember another thing that happened this week. So the Houston thing, where I go to the different airport. Then I'm flying to Oregon on the night of the game between Oregon and Indiana. And the guy, I'm like, I talked to him ahead of time. It's a corporate event. And I'm like, what about the game? And he was like, well, the game starts at 430 Pacific. You're going on about 745, 7.50.

We're going to watch the game. And then we'll wait until it's over before you come up. And I'm like, I really hope they win. So they're upset. And then, I mean, you know how bad. It wasn't even. The game was over by 445 Pacific. Yeah, basically.

It actually worked about 445 Pacific. favor because they were over it. Like, I didn't get there until the third quarter, but nobody was even watching it. Yeah, if they had lost in a heartbreaker at the end or something, that'd be much different. Yeah, nobody cared. They already moved on with their life. Yeah, you could. I wonder if that's the best scenario for them to lose, like the way they lost.

Because if they were to won, maybe it would have been, like, excited and being like, I don't want to go to a show now, but like, if they're. Yes. You know, exactly. So when I was a kid. get a guy that looks like the state of Indiana, the poor perform. All right, Aaron,

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Just PG and R. Those are the only two? There was no G? No, there was G. But I'm saying there was no gap in between... G, PG, and R. Yeah, and then maybe in C-17, or rated X or whatever. Yeah.

So there were some movies I saw as a kid that were so inappropriate. My sister was five and a half years older than I was. So occasionally, she'd want to go see a movie. Like when she was 15, my mom would take us. And I would sit with Mama and I was 10. We saw 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton. Okay. Yeah.

And there's a lot of... of innuendo in that movie. And Dabby Coleman, I still remember this, played the boss. And he would say the word holy, which I knew was a church word, and then a bad word at the end behind it. And I was blown away with something.

Yeah. I couldn't even, my little brain couldn't fathom. And it was PG. It was PG. Because it was closer to PG than R, I guess. Apparently. Wow.

Oh, yeah. There's stuff in, I mean, yeah, airplane. I know. I know about airplane. Yeah. That's rated PG, right? And it finally changed. And they still rate it PG.

Yeah. They don't change. Jaws is PG. Okay. They changed it in 1984 after Gremlins and Indiana Jones, the Tipple of Doom. They were just too intense. And they're like, we've got to do something about it. So that's when they brought in PG-13.

It makes sense. It's right there. It's right there for the take. Yeah. It's the PG&R. Yeah. You want to go. I mean, there are some, what I would consider family,

movies that I love. Like, I just watch planes, trains, and automobiles. Yeah. I love that movie. But there's a scene where Steve Martin, the rental counter just goes off on, you know, multiple times. Vacation, there's a, there's scenes in it. Yeah, yeah.

I remember Doc Hollywood had a scene just out of the blue that, you know, you're watching it with your family. It's awkward and embarrassing. I mean, there's no reason for it to be in there. Oh, I remember, you know, growing up, well, my dad had some, I, don't know, some diocesan website or some dork priest reviewed all these movies. Just go through and be like, this is inappropriate. And I couldn't see any of these movies.

Now that there's a common sense one now. Yeah. That's pretty good to. It is. I used to love bringing movies home to show my parents. Like, it was such an important thing to me to pick out a good movie and showed it to them. And if my dad was laughing, I mean, to me, it was just like such a win. And, I mean, even when I, the internet was around, there was a website, kidsin' mine.com.

Okay. And it's for children to, you know, whether I, but I would go check it out to see what was bad about a movie. Yeah. So I would know if it was appropriate to bring home to watch with my parents. I get that. Yeah, I think common sense media. Have you heard of common sense? Media or something?

Just reviews of common sense, yeah. Age-based media reviews. Yeah, it's great. use parents' trust here. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, I think it's, I mean, we've looked at it and like, I don't, you know, but it's like, yeah, you can read it and it'll tell you kind of, this, this, is that, whatever, you know, it's smart.

I think that would help people, too. Go, you know, you can, and then you read it, you decide on the level of whatever. Yeah, you know, Vint Angel takes out scenes for movies. Well, they got sued for that. Yeah, but they won, I think. Did they? I don't think they did. I don't think, I don't know how they would say that.

Andrew Stanley, this is this great bit. You know the bit I'm talking about? Yeah. Where his dad would go in and edit out all the scenes from these movies. So he's like, now I just kind of think on my dad's laptop somewhere there's just the folder. It's just all the best scenes from these movies. And Andrew's dad's a well-known pastor. Yeah.

Yeah. What do you guys think about reclining seats in movie theater? I like it. I like it. And I notice it when there's like an old school traditional seat, it feels, it feels primitive now. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

Yeah, we just were in it and I enjoyed it. They make a lot of noise. I know. That's the thing. I've been in movies where it's a very pivotal scene and then I push the button and you just hear a fart sound. Yeah. You know, as it's. Why do you push it in that?

I got to get up and go to the bathroom. During the pivotal scene? Well, it's the sad scene. Yeah. That's when I want to go. Yeah. But you and I have been to many movies together, and there's a kind of a seating. This is pre-recliner.

Ceding. Code? Yeah, a code. Yeah. And it's, unless the movie theater's full, there's one seat between you. Always. At least one, yeah. And it's.

Hens. What are we talking about? you tell you what's the word penit penultimate you don't mind you too

yeah if you had the whole theory yourself would you because it's still you go you could do a couple

yeah I could maybe do a couple I would say so I would go I'll give you a little bit of room yeah you know

you know you know you know you have to make it weird I wouldn't you like to spread your arms out like that like a

like a bear sunny you just want to stretch him. Was it to fit all your popcorn and all? He got, I want to eat both these seats for my beverage luggage I brought

him. He got an igloo of Diet Mountain Dew. You're going to pound through in a garbage bag of popcorn that he snuck in.

It just acted like you were saying. I just came into the room. Yeah, two's okay, I guess. I don't mind too. I'm joking. But it's just funny to go at least. One is good, like, if you want to say something. I'll take an eye on you, take the other guy.

Yeah, yeah. I was definitely one for a long time, and I think the older I've gotten, I've preferred. I can prefer two. But sometimes you do want one if you're like, if you're going to be talking about it. That's what I say. If you just want to say something, somebody, you know, you don't be yelling. Reclining seats, though. I think reclining, I'm fine next.

Because it's, I mean, yeah, well, why wouldn't you? Yeah. You're still side by side. But you got to, you side by side, but there's just a lot more room. Yeah. So you don't feel. Okay.

But if you need two in an old school, you probably at least need one for reclining, right? I mean, reclining, you go, yeah. Yeah, I think he puts them both flat out. One of them to lay all his coats on and stuff. You had a coat chair I remember going to the movies where I remember one time being in a movie and there's just no one in there

and then these people came and sat right behind us Oh, it's the worst Yeah Did you do anything? I think I moved Yeah, you should Yeah And you just go

You go get something You go to the bathroom And then you come back and sit somewhere else Come back and sit somewhere else And then they go to the bathroom And they come back and sit next year following you around. Yeah.

I remember going to see, I think it was, the movie was, I went with my date to see Simon Birch. Okay. And we were the only two in the theater. And then this older lady came in and she sat like, when did that movie come out? In 1998. Oh, I bet said 88. I thought it said 88 at first.

Yeah, that's right. This older lady came in and sat right next to us. And we had the whole theater. But I think she wanted, she was probably lonely and she wanted some community, you know. Yeah. Even with us. This movie looks terrible. Yeah, it seems, what is it?

The film, the main plot centers on a 12-year-old boy and his best friend Simon Birch who is born with dwarfism. The film received negative reviews from critics. It was a box office bomb. Well, it's not the point. of the story. Brian and an old lady. Two thumbs up, way up. Sorry.

I... It's a good cast, though. I can remember... Excuse me, would you like to go see Simon Birch tonight? I've heard great things. Yeah, I never have won in a second date. Yeah. I mentioned it.

That old lady, baby. Is Jim Carrey in it? Yeah. Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt. It's a good cast. David Stratham. Thank you. Um, I remember as a kid, if you wanted to know what, if you're listening, Aaron's still laughing.

Two thumbs way up. That's right. That's a pretty, is Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey at this point, or no? 98? I would think so. I mean, he's in the peak of it, dude. Yeah, I think. Right?

Yeah, because Ace Ventura had already happened. Maybe it's because he wanted to do a serious. one. What was Ace Ventura? Was it? 1995 or six or something like that? Yeah. And so I mean...

94. I mean, he is... So he's just doing a little cameo. I don't remember him. I don't remember anything about the movie, but I don't remember Jim Carrey. He had a small, small role, I guess. A cameo.

Yeah, exactly. Said starring. So I guess they use Jim Carrey as a flash forward for the kids. adult Joe Wentworth Yeah

That's pretty Yeah That's crazy man Because that dude was On top of the world Yeah Mm-hmm Yeah

When dumb and dumber come I mean it was like Dumb and Dumber was 1990 1994 he had Ace Ventura Pet Detective The Mask

Dumb and Dumber All that year And then 95 He had A's Fintcher And Batman Forever So that was A pretty busy

A pet detective for him. Yeah. And then I'll look at like, too, then liar, Lauer was 97. Yeah. Cable guy was 96,

which was, did that do good or? No, I don't think it did. But it's a great movie. Yeah. I mean, it made $60 million.

I don't, I just think you got paid reviews. Bad reviews. Oh, yeah, but I mean, that's like, mixed reviews,

but attained a cult following. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he had a, he was on such a tear there. Yeah, he was on a tear,

man. Yeah. So as a kid, I remember if you wanted to know what movies came out on Friday, you either called the movie theater. Yeah.

And this is when someone would answer. It would be a human being telling you. And you go, what movies are playing? You know what? Actually, I take that back. You would call the movie theater and they would have recorded a message. Someone that works there. These are the movies. Thank you for calling Lebanon movie theater.

What even that? It was just some teenager. It was like, this is the movies today, Terminator, 145, whatever. Or you look in... Decent. Yeah, he gets reviews on it. Or you looked in the newspaper and it would list the movies. That's how you knew.

Then when the 90s came along and movie phone became a thing, that was such a big upgrade. I only really know about movie phone from Seinfeld. Yeah. I remember calling Movie Phone. I remember... I remember the news. I remember the newspaper, for sure. I want to say maybe calling the theater.

Yeah, the newspaper was a big one. And the movie film was great. Yeah. And then I also remember going before, it seems a million years ago, but, you know, you go stand in line for a movie and you just wait. You wait your turn.

And then it might sell out. while you're in line. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. And then before cell phones, you know, then you get in there and one of you goes in safe seats.

Yeah. The other one gets the food or whatever. And then you got to find that person in a dark theater. Yeah. Because there's no texting. And you don't have a light on your phone. No. You're just in there yelling like you're walking up down the aisles.

I always thought that doesn't get talked about enough. The fact that everyone has a flashlight on them now. Yeah. And you just didn't. Like 10 years. ago. Not everybody has a flashlight. I use that flashlight all the time. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Getting up to eat at night. I guess I don't know. Where are you going? You need a flashlight that much. How often do you think you use the flashlight on your phone? Four or five times a day?

No. What? No. I don't think I use it. What? I mean... What? What? I use it. I use mine every night walking my dog. Really? Yeah. Oh, I don't think I use it at all. I use it when I'm going to bed if I'm in a hotel. Yeah.

And or only if I'm like going to bed. If I go to the bathroom, go to the back, like I'll lay it, sit them face up. Drop something on the, you know, drop something in the car or something. You don't use the flashlight for that. What is that? Where's that fry at? No, go on. It's down here somewhere.

Not everything's a French ride. The crevices you're digging through. I don't know. I don't think I use it that much. That's crazy. I probably use it 15 times a day. Like for what? Just for anything.

Like I just have to see. A lot? A lot? A bedroom or something. Yeah. It's right there. Maybe I'll keep trying. What do you just leave the lights on all the time everywhere?

Like sometimes a room's dark and you got to look around. Or you got to find, I don't know, like a USB port. behind something, you know, and he'd turn it light on your phone real quick. I use it in a restaurant because I can't see the bill anymore. That's where I see it. You're using it for all the old people. Yeah. Walking your dog and...

Well, that's not the old people thing. In the middle of the night. I do not have to use it for that. For menus? For menus. But, I mean, I'm now in the circles where Buddy, a menu goes around and it's just seven phones. Just light up the restaurant. Everybody's trying to read a menu.

This also affects me. A website called run p.com tells you when the best time in a movie to go to the bathroom. Runp.com Oh, it's an app. The world's most indispensable movie. No, I just, before I go see a movie, I'll just go on the website and see what it says. And you just wait for the part? Yeah.

Oh, wow. And it just tells you like... Do you ever go to a movie and it's just like, just go whenever, dude. It doesn't matter. So Marty Supreme, it tells you when to... Yeah, it'll tell you a scene that's not pivotal or whatever. Yeah. Because, you know, I go and then I'll ask whoever I'm with what I miss.

Yeah. They got to update me in the theater. Two seats over. There's also a website called Aftercredits.com. It tells you if there's any post-credit scenes. Oh, I like that. Yeah. All right.

So you know. So there's going to be like some big spoiler, some big thing. end of Redwinter? After great, I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to wait around to see. Have to wait and see. So the,

because all these Marvel movies, all these superhero movies now will have, Marvel started it, but now they all. They usually tease the next movie or something after the credits. They'll have a mid-credit scene and then an end-credit, like two of them.

And, I mean, it's another 10 minutes probably of the movie, just rolling, waiting. So the guy who famously created a lot of the movie posters just passed away

so I can't, nobody can blame me for this. This guy's already gone. But he did some of the iconic movie posters, like the Star Wars ones, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future. What was his name? The Goonies. So I hope he doesn't ask me.

Drew Struzzan. Okay. All these movies, I could picture the image without even looking. The only one I didn't know is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone. I don't know that one offhand, but the rest of these that I mentioned, like the Goonies, I could picture that, Back to the Future, him get out of the Delorean and at risky business, Tom Cruise with the...

Oh, yeah. And they talk about how there's an art to movie posters and conveying what you want to convey about a movie without giving too much away, but teasing people. I looked at your movie poster. I mean, they put things in that aren't in the actual movie, and you're not even trying to make people. Like, you're holding a mug that says number two parents, right? That's, I'm assuming that's not really in the movie.

I don't think so. I think that's just a funny way of showing what the movie's about. Yes. Oh, our poster was, yeah, I mean, we had, there's multiple conversations about our poster and what to put. And they, you go through it and you see, you know, like a list of, like, there was some that were very simple, some that were a little bit more crazy and a little bit, whatever.

And you're trying to, you know, just be like, all right, we want this one to where people see it. And they go like, all right, it's going to be, you know, you see our, if you look at our movie poster, it's like the decision on, like, go look at, I'll explain it to you on our, if you look at like our movie poster because yeah okay about this one yeah so it's we had a bunch that we went through so you see Mandy she's got luggage so she goes out of town but at first she had just a bag and then I was like I think it needs to be more suitcasey whatever and then it was like a

version of a suitcase, but I was like, and I still don't think that feels, I was like, I think it needs to be luggage. Oh, wow. So you're consulting on this. Yeah. And I was like, I go, it needs to be luggage. So they, they know it's for sure she's travel. So Mandy's completely, now it's got that luggage.

The horse on the top was a debate. Mm-hmm. But then we kind of, you know, it's like, it's a fun movie. It's a fun. It's a, it's an exaggeration. Yeah, it's not Schindler's list. Yeah, it's like, it's supposed to be like a horse on the roof. Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's got a horse on the roof.

And, you know, it's like this idea, too, that we're making it. I'm sensitive to the idea of it being like not just some, you know, a dad's or dumb movie. It's, I don't, it's not that. It's, you know, it's a typical. I always go back to my bus joke when I say I didn't know what bus my daughter's going to be on. That's the joke the most, the most people come up to me and say they're like, to it. In every city in America, in every Hollywood meeting I've been into, into every city I've traveled to in the middle, right? So it's like everybody goes through that. Yeah, it's like this.

If a husband had to take over and run the house, it would be some hiccups. Yeah, sure. And so it's like, that's essentially what this is. It's not the idea of it being just like, a dad doesn't not to do anything. It's, you know, he's going to learn from that. Right. So, it's a, you know, it's just fun and silly. We've added some, yeah, it's very, it's just fun. The girls are just so good.

And the Mandy, I mean, they're all, like, just saw one of them in stranger things. Yeah. Birdie. But that phrase, one dad, three kids, zero clue. Somebody came up with that. Yes. That was a big day.

One dad, three, yeah. It was like, what's the quick? way, the idea. I came up with the name the Bradwinner. And it's funny as when I came with that name you go through

times where I'm like, I don't know if that should be the name. And then it's like, then it's just kind of everywhere and you're like, yeah, it's too late. You're like, I guess this is. Yeah, I guess we're doing it. You know, sometimes they have changed like, return of the Jedi was originally Revenge of the Jedi.

Oh. And then I think they just like Jedi's don't seek revenge, so they changed it. You know, Harry Potter and the Sorcer Stone is, it was Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone. They change it to Sorceres for America. They thought it would be more palatable for American kids. Are you, when you go to movies, do you have to get there for trailers? Are you a trailer person? I used to be, but I'm not as much anymore.

And I think that's, again, that's your, problem. I would look that. If I was ran movies, what? Are you talking about it? Huh? It almost sounded like you're directed at me. That's your problem. Oh, I meant,

I know what you're just funny. I think you have problems. I know, yeah. No, there, they're, I would say that should have been your first sign is that people are not coming to trailers like they did. And I think it's too many trailers.

I think it's too long. And everybody is excited to see what movies are going to come out. But it's like almost too much now. It's a lot. And then 45 minutes of trailers. Yes. And then the trailers are, you know, it can be just, you know, I don't know. The movie that you're in, they're just gearing towards you.

It's just, I mean, I have no control over that. But, well, it used to be. It used to be, that's how you found out. Yeah, and very often trailers are better than the movie themselves. And I've been to movies where the most exciting part of the night was the trailers. It's better than the movie. But then they started putting ads before the trailers, and now the movie start time can be 735. They'll still be showing ads.

Yeah, they'll start the movie at 8.30. Yeah. That's crazy. I think it'll start at 8. I think it's 20. I think they've shrunk it a little bit because I showed up late to one of these movies. and I, you know, I mean, I was like, if the movie starts at 8, you can get there 830, you're fine. Yeah. But then I've been to them now. I think they're in more than that.

That's good. 20. Yeah, I think it's gone down where it is, you know. But again, if you rev up this industry, rev up the movie stuff, you got kind of steered off with the marvels and they went down that big route. And if you go into this kind of, I mean, this is my movie, so I'm going to try to sell you on my movies. movie but I if you I mean the thing that I'm happy about is our I don't think there's a you see our trailer and I just don't think there's a movie like that and this might feel like an old movie that you've seen in the past and all that you know but it's it's for this next audience and this stuff that you're doing it's I don't think you're seeing anything like this I think we're we're

different that's the that's good yeah I think that's what you're trying to be is just to be to go like, oh yeah, what's this? It's going to be a fun night. Fun day, whenever you see it.

So the most takes of a single scene ever in a movie, a crew member submitted this to, from the Shining submitted to Guinness World Records, claim a scene

was shot 127 times. But another person on the film said that's inaccurate. It was more like 35 to 45 times. Still a lot. Still a lot.

But supposedly Charlie Chaplin shot one scene 342 times. What's, did you ever if you're like, you better have used that 342. You used number four? Yeah, well, I bet back then

you couldn't. Yeah, you just start over probably. You have to start the whole movie over that's the way it works. From the top. We had, I remember there was one scene early on in the movie where it was

or I don't know I don't remember where it was in the movie or I kind of remember and I was having really trouble with it and it was really one just like the wording of it or so

the wording of it and just remembering it and I mean I it was it's embarrassing and you know everybody's there everybody's there's there's so many people and you just have to keep going

I was like and everybody's like professional actor and stuff around. Yeah, they're all there and you're like, I'm just wasting everybody's time. And I felt bad. And I mean, that, I mean, it wasn't anything like that,

but it was, uh, there was a bunch of takes of it. And it was a long kind of scene. And you're going to do a lot of takes anyway, because you do kind of a wide shot and you do, you know, uh,

that scene from the trailer where you crash and the stuff goes all you. Did you have to do that over and over? Not a ton. I mean, yeah, I mean, we had to do it. Yeah, I don't know. That'd be three or four times. I don't think it's that crazy because you have to clean the whole car up. Yeah, that's why I was asking. So you're hoping to kind of get it when you get it. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, yeah, maybe we did it. Yeah. Yeah. You ever been to a movie theater that serves like a really nice dinner and? I've been to a movie theater with table service, like a server comes to your table. I don't know if I like it.

Yeah. You know, Eric Appel, who directed this, our movie, who's wonderful. But he was talking about going to movies that are in L.A., like they have these, where they show them on old, they show them on old films and Star Wars. Real to Real. Real to real. Like, where it's like you go to these experiences and they're, because it's like, that's what you think with movies. It's like, why are you not just like showing old movies? Like, why would you not just go down a route of just being like, I'm going to, this week we have in your prime spot, too.

Like, if you're a movie, if you're, this would be the opposite, if you're a movie theater chain, why do you not just go like, hey, I, you know what, if you don't have a movie for me, then I'm going to show Diehard this week. And, like, we're just going to go do that. Or I'm going to go show Simon Birch. Simon Birch. Die Hard is one of those movies that if you'd ask me, have you seen Die Hard? I've seen so much of it on TV over the years. I don't think I could actually answer if I've seen it.

I was on a playing other day, and I'm like, I'm just going to watch this movie. Yeah, start to finish. Start to finish. All right. Because I'd just seen it on a TBS, you know, as I'm flipping around. Yeah. Stuff like that.

Adrian took his kids to see Elf at the Scumberhorn where the symphony plays the music. Oh, that's cool. I did that with Star Wars. Live orchestra there in front of the movie theater. Yeah. Yeah. It's really cool. I mean, I think you've got to get, like, you can, some of these changes, like, you can, you can open it up.

I mean, L.A. is a perfect spot for something like this because it's showing people, the people that are really into film and, like, really, you want to go and experience it. He was saying how they went and saw some films where they would have an intermission and he took his daughter and his daughter. It's like fun to have an intermission. And it's going back to like where it's a real experience. Now next, I was watching the Golden Globes last night. Next year when Red Winter wins, I was looking how many people could come up on stage. I'm not saying it was for personal reasons. But maybe I was thinking like, could I fit up there?

Would I fit up there? Brian gets on the mic. Nate, I want to say something. I don't think our movies even would be included in. Well, for my fantasy. Also, they gave an award last night for Best Podcast. Oh, really? They did.

First time ever. Amy Polar's one. Oh, really? Yeah. She had a funny line. They kind of, Nikki Glazer did a great scheme. Have you seen the video? It's before the movie theater where it's Nicole Kidman walking through the theater.

Yeah. She did one of those, but it was like her in her car listening to the podcast. Yeah. It was all just ads. It was really funny. But then Amy Poehler kind of, it was all tongue and cheek. Like, everybody's like this kind of absurd. Yeah.

This is even a category. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it was like, well, like, there was like a PBS one that was nominated or NPR or something, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, there was. Smartless. Yeah, and a couple others. Yeah.

Who's your daddy or something like that? You call your daddy. Call your dad. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Can you, yeah, and that's, you know what's funny is like to be like, but that podcast. Yeah. Such a big podcast.

And then you're like, oh, my gosh. Like, it would mean a lot for them to win an Emmy. And then they just give it to the people that have 30 Emmys already. Like, if SmartLists or the other ones win, or they ain't a poor one that won it, they're like, oh, we've been coming to the Emmys for years. We have Emmys. Yeah, I'll add it to my shelf. Yeah.

And then you're like, the ones that are like, we've never been nominated for anything like this. And you don't give it to them. That's the why it seems pointless is because. You're not giving it to someone that it really would have meant a lot to. Not that it doesn't mean a lot to you. But yeah, I was thinking that too. As I watched last night, because I plan on winning that and going up on Nate's. I plan on taking the stage twice next year. Yeah. I've got big plans. Oh, yeah. Do you guys familiar with the machete order for Star Wars? Yes, I think I went and watched it.

It's one of the first things we ever talked about on this podcast. The very first episode. It wasn't really, yeah. I wanted to wrap it up. Yeah, that's fun. Very fun. It was during COVID and you watched it with Harper. Yeah.

Yeah, that's what I remember watching it. Yeah. So, if you haven't watched all 280-something episodes, I'll tell you, it's, you start off with a new hope, which is when Luke, this is the first one that was released in the theater. Yeah. Then Empire Strikes Back. You find out the big reveal that. Yeah, don't. You don't.

Say it. Okay, well, we said it five and a half years ago. Yeah, but now it's new. Yeah. The reason not just to go in the order they were released or in chronological order is because you'll find there won't be any big reveals if you watch them. Does that make sense? Oh, if you watch them.

Like if you started with the first one in the storyline is the Phantom Menace. They said to skip that all together. And then attack them. the clones would be the next. That's when Anakin Skywalker is a like a young man. Yeah. Okay.

But if you watch them like that, you're going to know a big reveal. How long does this take to watch all these? That was like a month. It's like 15. No, we did it pretty quick. And like, all right, I mean, not that too long.

I mean, but we did this with the Harry Potter's. We did it not go in order. Wait. Did you? No. No. They have a machete. order for Harry Potter.

Start with Order of the Phoenix. You won't have a clue what's going on. About the beginning, you go, okay. Oh, that was decent. Yeah, it was decent. Yeah, I like that they, yeah, I was like going through it and, oh, yeah, it's fun. I would do that because I was upset that some of the big twist. Because some parents might go through, go look at this machinery.

We won't give that anything because you, we won't give that anything because You might go watch it with your kids. And then, yeah, I was upset that Harper knew something before we got there. And I was excited to really see her, like, the twist. Yeah. You said, again, on the podcast, episode one, that when the— she was so excited that that was a big thing for you. I guess I should have told that part either.

Yeah. So, yeah, yeah. We'll bleep that out. Can we for real bleep that out? If you bleep it out? Wait, what did Brian say? Yeah, no, Brian did not use any language, but he spoiled something if... From a 50-year-old movie.

But you got to be going to watch these moves with your daughter, and you're going to want her not to, you're going to want to watch her. I've already told her. You go, all right. Before we get started, Here's the lay of the land. My buddy said that he did go see Empire Strikes Back and then, or his buddy's older brother went and then took them, I drove them there. And as they were getting out of the car, he's like, oh, just by the way and then tells them that before they go in.

Just ruined it for him. Yeah. All right. That's movie theaters. There it is. Yeah. The penultimate episode. Penultimate.

Yep. We did it. Big one next week. Big one next week. Dusty'll be here. We've got some fun surprises. It's going to be a good time. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Next week one, yeah, I do not know much about it. Me either. Me either. Oh, really? All right. Fun.

It's just going to go good. No, we got things planned, though. Every week. You're back on the road. I'm back of the road. Eugene, Montana. Knocking off Montana.

Last state for me to perform in. Montana State just won the national championship. They sure did. I think they win all the time. Vanderbilt Stadium, I think it was the first time. Yeah. At Vanderbilt Stadium? Yeah.

What? The championship game was played at Vanderbilt's stadium. For what? For FBS or... Oh, really? Yeah. It was a great game. And then Tuesday morning at the airport,

everybody's wearing Montana State stuff. Yeah. You got Eugene Yakima, Missouri. Billings, Bismarck. Yeah. That's America, man. That's out there. We're going, baby.

Yeah, it's fun. Montana, yeah, Billings and Missoula. Yeah, knocking them off. That'll be it. It's crazy. Next week we'll also be rounded out of America. So you're going to be in Bismarck the night before we do our final episode. Coming in hot.

Yep. January 30th, I'm at the Riot Comedy Club in Conroe, Texas. Conroe. Yes, they've got one in Houston. Now they've got one in Conroe. So come see me. You're like the Texas guy now. I know.

You're just all over. I know. I got a corporate in Texas this week. Yeah. Aaron Weber here. I'm in Toronto, Ontario this weekend at Comedy Bar in Danforth. I've never been to Toronto. I'm super excited.

I got a lot of great recommendations for things to do. So I'm going to be in Toronto this weekend. And then next weekend, I'm in La Jolla, California, at the Comedy Store out there all weekend. So come out and see me in Toronto and San Diego. Thanks. Is Dusty? Oh, I know Dusty has his show here at Zanis tonight because I'm on it.

Nice. Dusty's all over. He's going to be in Munhall, Pennsylvania, Cleveland, Ohio, Charleston, West Virginia, Dayton, Ohio. That rounds out the month of January. Go see Dusty at a show near you. All right. Well, let's do it.

There it is. We did it. We did it. Back to the original three. Mm-hmm. Full circle. Feels good. All right.

I do love you. Always will love you. It's not lost on us. Yeah. Goodbye.