The Nateland Podcast - #29 Rhode Island

Episode Date: January 13, 2021

This episode, the guys tackle another controversial subject that the media is afraid to address - Rhode Island. We delve into the smallest state in the Union and look at its history, food, sports, and answer so many questions about Rhode Island that no one has ever asked.   Co-hosts: Brian Bates ( https://www.instagram.com/brianbatescomic) & Aaron Weber ( https://www.instagram.com/realaaronweber)   Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail] #nateland #natebargatze

what's up everybody hello hello folks i've been saying what's up everybody uh welcome to nateland we are glad you're here uh right before we get started i do want to acknowledge we do obviously realize that uh the world is crazy and a lot of stuff is going on. And look, as I've always said with this podcast, we are here to be a distraction. If you need a distraction, I think you do need it sometimes. I think if you're just watching the news all day long, you can drive yourself crazy. And if you need a break, our job is to be that break. So, of course, we realize stuff is going on,

but that's not what we're here to do. And the way I've looked at us, we're like the band that plays on the Titanic. We're just the music as the ship sinks. Gentlemen, it's been an honor podcasting with you. Yeah, it's been an honor podcasting with you yeah it's been an honor so uh be try to be as sane as possible out there uh be normal if you need a break obviously that's what we're here for uh but i didn't you know because then people are like why are you not

gonna you know no one none of the regular folks say that but sometimes you get people like oh we can't they just want it to be like everything's got to be the thing that they're looking up. But just scroll by us. If you're in a news, and I think it's good. If you're in a real news hunt, then just, yeah, slide right by us. Never would be upset about that. But maybe you need a break, which a lot of people should be taking breaks. Get crazy.

So welcome. We're glad you're here. Podcast about nothing. The Titanic band thing is pretty good, right? I like that. That's a great analogy, actually. Yeah. I always thought about, you know, as we continue to describe what we are,

I was like, that is just every – because that band plays, and you're like, why are they playing? You're like, why is just every, cause that band plays and you are like, why are they playing? You're like, why not? What do you want them to do? You want him to grab something like, yeah,

enough people are saving the world. He, you just need someone to be like, Oh, look at that. You tell the kids, look, the song song's going.

And they're like, Oh, uh, would you ever sit there and watch that band? What if you just were on the Titanic and you're like, it's happening. I'm going to enjoy your show. Were they good? I mean, yeah, I think you're not being picky at that as the ship goes down. I don't think you're, as you're on the Titanic and it's going down,

you're not like, this is not good. Are these guys any good? Your options are not just through the route you're like let's go see if there's another band playing maybe there's another band playing on the other side of the ship uh i think you're just happy to that's a good point have something i bet they're amazing i bet you would go there if you ate food if someone said try this steak as the ship went down you would go that's one of the best steaks i've ever had my because you're it might be the last you don't want to be too good though they'd be like you're gonna get on

this escape right no man i'll finish this song obviously what did they go can we get on the boat you're like you guys are killing it what you're doing man just stay over there you know as everybody goes away it would be if then if everybody does get off the boat and then you're like oh we could have got off you're like like, yeah, you should have got off. I don't know why y'all kept playing. No one was even listening to the music. So there is that aspect. Maybe they shouldn't be playing and they should get on a boat and get safe.

Some guy wrote an original and he wanted to play it. He goes, all right, we're going to play the news. We're going to play some of our new stuff. Boo. Like, do you play the hits or do you play your new stuff? I think you got to play the hits. Can't just think, want to try something. All right.

So we're going to start off, as always, with your comments. We love hearing from all you guys. Comments on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Apple Podcast Reviews, and NateLand at NateBargetzi.com. First up, Dan Sterling. Maybe? I think so. Sterling. S-u-i-r sterling dan sterling with everything going on since i just need to turn off my brain and this podcast is the perfect answer for that it reminds me of turning on reruns of the office to fall asleep that's who we are it always brings a smile to my face and it's so comforting nate you are

supremely talented and incredibly funny one of my absolute favorite comedians aaron barnaby hope you're doing well that's that's such a funny uh hope you guys are good man uh i uh yeah it's did you have your show? No, it's Wednesday. Tonight. Tonight. So if you're hearing, when you're hearing this, if you haven't got tickets, Zany's. Yeah, man. Aaron Weber, like the grill Weber, is at Zany's.

Noah, Noah stopped in the middle of his, Noah Stalka. We had a dog named Noah. No offense, Noah. Noah, you know, Noah. People take that offense. My buddy, Rich Day, his wife's name, we're friends with his wife, her name's Holly. We have a Holly.

I'd be honored if they named a dog after you. Yeah, I think so. Aaron would be a weird dog name. Would that be weirder than Holly? Aaron, come here. If you go yell out aaron sounds like you're growling aaron aaron aaron you could just say it regularly too you don't have to here's our dog aaron if you walked in and i said oh let me introduce you to aaron no one's gonna

think oh dog's about to come but i guess holly would be i like human names for dogs always make me laugh though yeah i had a dog named franklin and it always cracked me up franklin's not bad but jim if you named the dog jim jim might be too human you know i've never heard i wonder if you might had a jim dog yeah here's jim you know we just got a puppy and we were signing the name we were reading about it it said make sure you don't call them by anything close to a command you may also be given them yeah so if it's sit don't name your dog sid sid okay yes is jim close to something that you're telling your dog to do no i'm not saying that i'm just telling dog to work out dog's getting a little big during covid uh that's interesting noah stalker that this episode started with the worst topic so far and ended up being the best episode so far

it makes me wonder how bad of a topic can nate bravo and aaron work with personally i'd love to see an episode on light switches i would love to try to do an episode on light switches yeah me too i do like that it's it's like that you got to go to it. Because I always think if someone, if one of the folks, if someone introduces someone, our podcast to them, I mean, it's definitely got to be explained. It can't be like, no, check this podcast out. You walk away.

You got to be like, no, you got to stick with it. You're going to watch an episode on calendars. And they're like, I don't care. And you're like, an episode on calendars and they're like i don't care and you're like they don't either to be honest you're watching everybody not care about calendars like it's but it works for some reason you just you know this is what being a comedian is you gotta just have stuff to talk about to be funny obviously the main point of this podcast is to have jokes and laugh uh so we got to talk about something and it just can't be and when you try not to keep it serious you got to talk about calendars uh meg scoville nate is one of my

favorite comedians however no unscripted podcast needs to be over an hour. In my opinion, this podcast would benefit from tighter editing. That's an attack on our editors. They're all in the room, and they could tighten it up a little bit. I think as of now, there's zero editing, right? They take out some stuff. Brian's rarely shown in this podcast. I've never watched it. i just assumed i was in there yeah there you go it's just blurred uh my face yeah that's just the top of your head

they uh just gotta get some it looks like the shine off uh sundog nate aaron and Sundog over there. Thank you, Meg, for your... I do love it. You know, you do take advice or criticism. I think it's good. But Meg, you can turn off now because we read your quote. So, you know, with it being over an hour, I get it. It's one of those... It is a weird thing that you think, the being over an hour, I get it. It's one of those,

it is a weird thing that you think, should it be just quicker and tighter? Uh, but then it's like, no, I mean, it's, it's,

you know, cause it's like, well, just don't listen to it. Yeah. You can turn it off after an hour. If you're, if Meg's on a tight schedule,

Meg's busy. Yeah. Uh, you can just turn it off. I mean, if you skip the comments yeah if you don't want to read comments is 20 30 minutes so skip that and you're roughly at an hour then and it's uh yeah if it's unscripted it is unscripted we what if it was we're like well meg we are pretty

on script uh i don't know what she's talking about it'd be worse yeah uh i think and we would be too it would be too tight two hours is yeah i mean i think people listen throughout the week probably that's what you do podcasts are kind of coming they're just always there when i listen to them i've been doing the movies lately at night i don't want to watch the whole thing so i just started i started this movie with j Statham, Redemption. It's on Netflix. And it's Jason Statham, so you're like, all right, this will be just a fun, and it's like he's trying to get serious.

And it's tough. It's like when you're like, just do the thing. He still does the thing he does. There's some fight scenes, but it i mean i started you're like it's i mean it's a long it's a long road to see that first fight and you're but i you know i feel like it's jason statham go no but i'm a you know i'm a good actor and you're like yeah yeah no one's not saying that but you can't you know you're not tom hanks jason so let's just kind of do what you do. All right? Redemption from the creator of Eastern Promises.

I have no idea what that is. Yeah, I don't know either. But I promise it's not. That's a weird credit to use. I promise it's better than redemption. That's what its promises are. Matt Griffey, I completely lost it at the Juicy Fruit 5 joke. Biscuit coming in hot with great one-liners. Loving the podcast more and more each week.

Thank you, Matt. That was a good one. Juicy Fruit 5. Mark Johnson, the check writing bit using the animal of the year from the Chinese calendar for the date, to me, is the best moment from these podcasts. Genius comedy minds. Thanks, Nick, Aaron, and Brochure for making us all laugh and forget what we've all been going through.

He did it, everybody. I enjoy that. Brochure is pretty good. Brochure is a very... That's a funny word. Brochure. It's spelled funny and it sounds funny. All right. That's fair.

Yeah. Mark gets it because he's a comedy because he's also. Me and Mark are on the same wavelength. Sky West 7. I'm an airline pilot

and I started off the PA before landing with hello folks. No idea if anyone got the joke. Go and assume they didn't but it made me laugh and that's really

all that matters. Keep up the good work. I love it. Yelled hello, folks. I don't know if anybody would have. That would have been great. That would be. No one would put it together.

Because people say, I've seen folks everywhere now. You see people say it a lot more because when you notice it, then you're like, oh, a lot of people say folks. Hello, folks. That would be a good greeting on a plane yeah maybe right before you hit the mountain hello folks sorry to bother you but we are about to hit up a mountain and it's like wow that took that message took a turn i thought goodbye folks goodbye folks hello folks we're about to hit a mountain goodbye folks goodbye folks hello folks we're about to hit a mountain goodbye folks seth asendrop essendrop the jewish calendar's only appearance it's only appearance like it's a star wars character the jewish calendars only appearance

was in a classic Weber comment that went completely unnoticed and everyone else rushed to get their point across. How could you not talk about the fact that Jewish kids get to celebrate two separate birthdays every year? That's gold, Jerry. It's gold. That's just off the top of my head, and there's got to be a lot more to discover, but it feels like Birmingham melded in this week.

more to discover but it feels like birmingham melded in this week as crazy as it sounds i think you should do a sequel calendar episode to remedy the situation i mean we i love meg's like yeah i gotta tighten it up and seth's like y'all should do calendar part two meg and seth just get them together in a room. She's like, I don't know. I don't know. We need both of them as the producers also on the podcast. Just be like, what are you guys thinking? Meg's just constantly trying to go, I mean, what are we doing?

They have two birthdays? And Jewish kids get two separate birthdays? I don't know. My fiance's Jewish. That's how I knew about their calendar. She doesn't celebrate two birthdays? And Jewish kids get two separate birthdays? I don't know. My fiance's Jewish. That's how I knew about their calendar. She doesn't celebrate two birthdays, so I don't know. I don't know what that's all about. Maybe Seth mailed it in.

Yeah. Oh. I take offense to that comment. Yeah. Brochure is upset. Birmingham. Yeah. Brochure is getting upset.

Birmingham. Birmingham. birmingham yeah brochure is getting upset um birmingham uh missy saffner i listen to a lot of podcasts and i usually skip through the ads but that isn't the case with nate trying to sell me things i sometimes laugh harder at the ads because it seems like it may be the first time nate is reading it it crafts me it cracks me up to think that a company is paying you to sell their product and nate is like yeah i got this and then he doesn't got any then he doesn't got this but to be fair it's working and i have a lot of cereal in my cupboard now thanks for all you guys are doing to make the world laugh magic spoon that's what she's got that's uh it is like we're not gonna lie, we've had some companies. They've reached back out, and they, I mean, they're, they are like, ah.

I mean, we're gonna get down to just companies that are like big. Like, they just choose easy word companies. We can't, we can't do anything complicated. Just basic kind of stuff. Hello, guys. If you've tried out a pencil, you write with it, and it's a pencil. It's just, you know. What was the one you said he did last week that someone pointed out?

Oh, somebody pointed out in the comments where it was the Helix Sleep Pad where it was the Deluxe Edition, and he said the Dusk Loose Edition. And none of us caught it because we weren't we're like no way he meant to say deluxe yeah dusk loose i just thought it was a brand of mattress there's not a lot of dust dust or dusk dusk loose dusk loose yeah so it's uh like a night it's for the person that goes to bed a little earlier than most and they get a little loose yeah helix yeah guys just go buy this stuff and do us help us out because we they are all going to back away from this this podcast like they're you guys got to help me out all right i need y'all just be buying this stuff just kind of get the name that I say and then just go with it and say he's doing great.

Let him know we like what he's selling, but we can't understand. Why would they give you all this reading? I read it before. Laura went and typed it out easier. Laura goes through it. That laura's work is just going what i make her take all the apostrophes that any you know grammar i'm like don't put that in there when i read i need if it's if the words don't uh we got a low battery oh on the phone still there we got a landline.

Landline that's Wi-Fi. How does that work? It's a Wi-Fi call? Yeah. But that's not the point of it, right? That might as well have a cell phone. I said, we want a landline. And Laura said, they don't do that anymore, which I don't believe at all. That was their answer to it. Well, they don't make those anymore, which I don't believe at all. That was their answer to it.

Well, they don't make those anymore. Well, they have to. Landlines have to be still being made. Yeah, I would think so. And she goes, they don't. When was the last time you talked on it? You talked on a landline? The main reason is for when I do radio calls.

Yeah. So when you have to call new radios, it's just better to have a – that phone is still better than – Sound quality on a normal phone is calls. Yeah. So when you have to call new radios, it's just better to have a, that phone is still better than. Sound quality on a normal phone is amazing. Amazing. Yeah. And so when you do, when you call and have to do other radio stuff,

it's better to actually do a landline. But I mean, that's why I would want an actual landline. Laura just got another cell phone number. She did this weekend. She ordered, we're having some construction down our house so laura orders pizza for the construction workers very being very nice laura always puts baskets out

for the delivery guys with waters and stuff and then it gives the construction guys stuff too and uh so she ordered pizzas three large pepperoni pizzas uh 3 p.m., which is when most of America does not eat lunch. But she figured late night snack, they thought, you know, whatever, they would get it. And they've been working hard all day. And right before the pizza gets here, we watch them all leave. So then we just have three large pepperoni pizzas. They just all come. I mean, they drove by the pizza guy.

Oh, yeah. And we, I mean, Lars just, you know, spent 60 bucks on pizza. And then they're just like, well, I guess we're eating. I guess we're eating pizza for the next month. Ashley Sandu. My dad and many family members are friends.

Oh, and friends. Sorry. My dad and many family members and friends work at eastman chemical company the headquarters are in kingsport tennessee he followed the eastman calendar at work until the mid to late 80s wow it's a long time yeah that guy i mean just an explanation of that to other regular people yeah a few people commented that kodak was just a name he invented because he liked the K sound.

Yeah. So he put it on the front and the back. So Eastman was the man. Yeah. Oh, for Kodak. Yeah. It wasn't like an Eastman and then a Kodak. No.

He created Kodak. Yeah. And yeah, it's huge in Kingsport, the Eastman Chemical Company. A few people commented they liked the calendar. Yeah. Yeah.

So it made it easier with payroll and stuff. They used it. The main days were all still right, right? I think they had a 28-day calendar, the first day of the week.

It's always going to start on the first or something like that. It just causes a mess. Can you go on Mouse Tuesday? Okay. Which calendar is it? Your Tuesday or my Thursday? What time do you want to?

That's when you have to set up calls in different time zones. Danny Pritchard. Aaron, your foot pain sounds like gout. I'm 66 years old and just started experiencing gout in my foot, and it is an identical feeling to what you described. I'm much older than you. You're a big boy. And obesity is something that can cause gout.

I'm sorry, dude. And obesity is something that can cause gout. I'm sorry, dude. That is like, I mean, Danny Pritchard just said, Aaron, can I talk to you privately for a second? Yeah. And sat you down and goes, I don't know how to tell you this, man. I will say, if you sent me a message or a DM or an email about the fact that I might have gout, I'm sorry I haven't responded.

I got dozens yeah dozens of messages yeah people say i need to get my uric acid level checked yeah yeah when i get a doctor i'll be sure to do that but i need to get a doctor first uh yeah yeah i'll be all right but thank you thank you everybody driving or what go to uh walgreens and just go up to the front and go, how you doing? I think you can ask the cashier. Not even the pharmacy, just the cashier?

Can you test my uric acid? Hey, my left foot hurt. You think it's gout? Hey, I'm not even 30 yet, and I might have gout. So can you take a look at that, please? She's going to go, that makes sense. I think you got your answer there. You don't need a doctor.

You just mention it here. We got doctors on here. Yeah, we do. So you just say what your problems are, and then they, I think this is, if gout feels like the higher percentage. Yeah. Was there any other fun ones? Yeah, there was.

There was diabetes and just nerve damage in general, I oh yeah a few others i mean this is worse than looking up online because it's just i mean just everybody's everybody gets the but they want everyone wants to make sure you're fine yeah what what is gout yeah gout's a tough one that's tough to all i know about gout is that it's in the Adam Sandler Lunch Lady song. He says that the lunch lady has gout. Yeah. And that put kind of a stigma on it for me, personally. Yeah, you don't want it.

So I hope I don't have it. You don't have it, but... But I'll get it checked out, just for everybody's peace of mind. Yeah, because I don't see how you don't have it, to be honest. Did you cancel your gym membership? Oh, no, but somebody commented that I could do that with a letter. Mail them a letter. Oh, that's nice.

Which is, I'm not sure if that's easier. Hello, folks at Planet Fitness. My name is Aaron Weber, as in the grill. And I would like to cancel my fitness plan with you, as you might have noticed. I can't really remember even which building I signed up at. Never been. Also found out I have gout. So having trouble standing on my foot.

Sorry, dude. Signed, Danny Pritchard for aaron where jeff macalino macalino macalino you were talking about doctors in the pod today and made me think of mine i have i've had a new doctor for the last couple years and during my annual physicals he pulls up oh i put a i can't read fast. That's the problem. I get ahead of my, you know. We're not in a rush. Yeah, we got time. No, I know, but I'm saying that's why I get going.

I mean, we get moving, and then I get started off wrong. During my annual physicals, he pulls up Google to look things up. Last year, he Googled a cream I could use for sunspots. This year, I couldn't hold back my laughter as he gave me a test. He found out on Google to see if I should be diagnosed with alcohol abuse disorder. I passed the test. Apparently, Google can replace medical school. Jeff, you might need a new doctor.

That's, I mean, very funny. Yeah. That this guy, you're like, did you go to med school? He's like, I mean, I Googled a med school thing, and I went and did it. That's very funny just to be, that would be a joke if Jeff's a comedian. Because, I mean, just so funny to be like, as he looks, he's like, huh. Like having a left foot hurts. He goes, hmm.

And grabs his phone. You're like, what are you doing? He's like, I'm just looking at it. And then he goes, looks like you have a gout. Yeah. Alcohol abuse disorder. I mean, that's a serious problem. You may be an alcoholic.

Let me Google. Yeah. No? I guess you're all right. What was the test? He goes, all right, I found a test for alcohol abuse disorder. Are you an alcoholic? He goes, no.

He goes, oh, I guess you passed the test. All right. All right. Well, I'm out of ideas. order uh are you an alcoholic he goes no he goes oh i guess you passed the test all right all right well i'm out of ideas you remember the office where he does the intervention for meredith he's just read something he printed off have you ever questioned the teachings of the mormon church where'd you get this he's like google don't worry about it that's funny matthew carr my, had a history of high blood pressure, which reared its head in me when I was 25. My new doctor told me to buy a cuff and keep a log of my blood pressure

for about a month prior to putting me on medication. Being too much of a go-getter, I did so. I meticulously logged blood pressure by arm. Oh, God. This is getting embarrassing. I think, wait, are they? He gave us, this is a big one, Matthew. I feel like this is a test for me to see if I have brain damage.

Like this is all just words that are just trying to see. Yeah, he's got, I'm going to have gout. Gout in your head. Can you get in your head? I meticulously logged blood pressure by arm by time of day and any other number of ridiculous categories. I even ran statistics on the numbers to find patterns. When I came back from my follow-up visit, I gave the doctor the document.

He gave a brief look and asked, what do you want me to do with this? After telling me I need to calm down, I gave the doctor the document. He gave a brief look and asked, what do you want me to do with this? After telling me I need to calm down, I left. About two months later, I got a letter from the doctor that he was leaving the practice and taking a select group of patients with him. To no one's surprise, I was not one of them. I'm not sure, which is more impressive, driving a doctor to scorn in our first meeting or receive a personalized breakup letter after the second, you know, that's funny that the doctor would, I, I would,

I would want to know if he sent anybody another letter that says they weren't, he wasn't moving on. He's still there. He just wants him to think you left. Yeah. But like you don't, does he break up with,

does he have to write a letter to all the other people? Like you have to tell them or does he just go, they go have to write a letter to all the other people? Do you have to tell them, or does he just go, they go, you can either tell them or not tell them. He goes, I don't want to tell them. He goes, oh, you know what? I'll tell one. Let me write one.

Dear Matthew Carr, I'm rethinking my life because of you. All right, that's it. Thank you guys so much, as always, for reading, or for writing in the comments. You can always write them. We read them. I read them. And the long ones are tough.

Yeah. Multiple sentences we get rolling. But we got through it. Another day. So today we're talking. You can talk about calendar. I mean, we're talking you mean you talk about calendar i mean we're talking about nothing but so we we uh uh brian had an idea uh with uh going through uh let's talk about the states yeah you know and i don't think we're not going to just do a complete run of every episode of states but we're gonna you know we're trying to get through all 50 states and it'd be fun to learn about these

states. I'll be able to have some guests that are from states. And then you can hear us talk about your state. And we've been kind of keeping, we do a random, we did a random state picker online. One way we might do a bowl. I'm not sure where we draw names. We're just still figuring that out. I don't, we don't want to tell y'all before because we we you know we don't want a bunch of stuff added into this it's like the idea of this is to let us go through it and be as stupid as possible and then you get it as always you get to tell us next week if you're from this place that you could be like you guys are nuts or maybe you guys get it uh so uh we did the random state thing i think we posted it on the nateland uh instagram last week or social media

and so the first state up is rhode island which is a good state to start with so we're going to learn a little about road i've been to rhode island yeah uh yeah i've done shows up there is there a comedy club man what comedy what? Comedy Connection. Comedy Connection. Oh, yeah, yeah. In Providence. Yeah, Providence, Rhode Island. I've been to Providence. I've been to Rhode Island a ton, actually.

Yeah. I was thinking of Maine real fast in my head. I mean, that's what I honestly, I put, as we were talking Rhode Island, I'm picturing Maine. Providence, Rhode Island, I've been to a million times. There's a great comedy club, Comedy Connection there. It's in an old bank, and they have a big safe. The green room is in the old safe. It's a vault.

That's cool. But a great club. Last time I did it, the Falcons, because it's near where the Patriots play, and so the Falcons stayed. There's a hotel at the mall, and the Falcons were all at the hotel saw Matt Julio Jones and Matt Ryan uh but uh Providence got a little cool little walking area their downtown is very cool uh yeah I've been there a bunch they have a non-stop flight uh I want to say it's the Providence this could be Connecticut I'm not positive but from LA and it's it was like every Thursday.

And I, because I took it once. And I remember just like, what are the odds that you can do nonstop from LA to Providence? That's, you know, it doesn't make sense. Like New York is nearby. You just think you'd have a layover. And there's one flight because it could be Connecticut. I could be messed up, but it's, there's a lot of money up there um so a lot of people fly to la i guess you know i've never been to rhode island but i have a providence story i don't know if you remember this or not there's a providence uh yes shopping mall

sister uh in mount juliet there's a providence mall yeah and there's a movie theater providence 14 in mount juliet and i went online to buy Spider-Man tickets or something. We went together, right? But, well, maybe. But I accidentally bought tickets for Providence Road Island. Yes. Online. Yeah.

And I think I called them or something to see if I could cancel. And they're like, you've got to come in in person. And then a few weeks later, you're in Providence doing a show. And I think you went by there to see if you could get my tickets for me yeah they wouldn't let you yeah he's bought at the wrong providence pretty far off you know did i talk about this before and there's a uh this japanese restaurant here you know that i go to in uh nolensville if anybody's and it's a good it's very good but they get uh there's, and it's a good, it's very good, but they get, there's a new,

there's a one in New York. So I watched a guy sit outside and wait for his order. And he's like, they go, we don't have your order. He goes, did you call New York's, you know?

And he looks, he goes, yeah. And so he had to order again, then call the New York place. And like, yeah, dude, I'm not going to make that order.

Like it's, I'm way off. Yeah, I'm thousands of miles away. Yeah. Have you ever been to Rhode Island? No. I totaled it up last night. I've been to 42 states out of 50.

Rhode Island is one that I have not been to. That's a lot. That's a lot. I've been to, I think, every one. I always can't remember. I've never been to Montana, North Dakota, and maybe I've been to North Dakota. I've been to so many places I forget.

Alaska. I want to say that's it. I've been to South Dakota. And then, yeah, I can't remember. I think I've been to – I think everyone but, like, North Dakota and Alaska and Montana, and that's it. Those are three I want to go to. Well, like you said, we just did this randomly, state picker,

and Rhode Island came up. And as I started doing research, I was like, this might have been a mistake. Yeah. I got some stuff on here I hope we do not get to. Yeah. If we do, things have gone terribly wrong. Yeah.

So Rhode Island, smallest state in the U..s that's the one thing i know about it it's so distance north to south 48 miles east to west 37 miles that's crazy think about how small that is yeah 48 miles and 37 miles that's like from here to lebanon yeah i mean that's where i mean how many people work there they don't live there there might be a ton you don't because if you don't it's 40 miles long or wide long whatever north to south it's 48 miles so yeah i mean you're in 37 so i mean you could just live right outside and go drive and you'll be 15 miles to the middle you know i mean you would you could easily not live in rhode island it almost would make more sense. Providence is right on the edge too. Most people don't even... You're probably five minutes from whatever this

state is. It's the smallest state by size. It's the second most densely populated state though in the country. They've got over a million people there in Rhode Island. What are they doing? What's the most dense? New Jersey. That's crazy. New Jersey's debt-packed and Rhode Island. What are they doing? What's the most dense? New Jersey. Okay. That's crazy.

Yeah. New Jersey's that packed. And Rhode Island is, and then Rhode Island as well, that packed. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. They only have five counties in like 39 cities, but they're pretty good sized places. It's a lot going on.

Do you think people from Rhode Island are against D.C. statehood because then they'd no longer be the smallest state? I don't know. Like they like being the smallest state. I think you've got to take pride in what you've got. Yeah, and you're like, we're the smallest state. Yeah. And then if you're the second, nobody cares about the second smallest state. No, what's the second smallest state?

Yeah, we don't even know. We don't even care to look it up. We don't even. We'll find out. Yeah, we'll find out eventually. We'll find out eventually., we'll find out eventually. We'll find out eventually. Here's the second smallest state. And the third smallest state, you can be like, well, we don't even talk about that.

We can move on about other things. Yeah. But what would the second smallest state be? I bet it's one of those New Englands. Yeah. Maine. Delaware or something like that. Connecticut, maybe.

That's my guess. Connecticut's big. I mean, it's kind of big. Yeah. Compared to Rhode Island. Oh, Delawareaware it's definitely bigger than delaware yeah um yeah i don't know maybe they might not like it uh yeah that's something to hang your hat on welcome to the small state in the u.s yeah it's kind of a cool thing yeah it's fun i think yeah we don't need to be that big we get enough done you know yeah how much land you guys need yeah yeah so it got its name rhode island i mean there is an island

there most of its mainland but there is an island there called rhode island and it got its name because explorers there's a couple there's two theories one said because the island has red clay road means red and the others because it reminded explorer of an island in greece called road so when they came there they just named it road island how long did it take that guy to get there you know just to get there and go this reminds me of the road in in greece he's like when were you in gree 45 years ago? I mean, like, I've been coming here for most of this time. He's probably mad. He's like, I could've just stayed home. Imagine just

that long of a travel. I mean, how long would it take them to travel? That long of a travel just to get here. And then, how frustrating would it be to be next to that guy? And he goes, you know what this reminds me of? The road in Greece. And they're like, dude, that's not what i want to hear when we traveled for five years to get here my family's dead yeah i mean we've lost people on this ride and then you're

going to just immediately get off and go oh it tastes like every other restaurant i've ever been to you're like oh you add a little bit to it man like you know that i mean it's got to be that guy's a nightmare just to go sounds like a road in greece does it so when uh english settlers came there to settle it uh they made a deal with the native americans and purchased uh the area that's now providence providence is the state capital it's the largest city in rhode island yeah do they like uh negotiate with the native i try to find what the what the indians got for it the whole what's the process like that how you doing ben johnson i love what you're doing here. It reminds me of a place at home, actually. And he goes, not a big deal.

He goes, what's that? He goes, anyway. We'd love to make an offer for this land. It's purchasing a big land. The founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, at first he didn't tell the King of England that he purchased this land. He said, we got it from the Indians. It's not their business.

But then things started taking off. He's like, all right, I got to tell somebody. Like it started becoming a big bustling city. Yeah, like things are happening here. Yeah, and the phone was invented. This was probably true. He's like, you know, we can make phone calls back home now. What's that?

Like how much he was like, you can just contact him pretty easy? He goes, yeah, we got him on the phone right now. You want to talk to him? He's like, I kind of started my own world. I mean, it's like when Kramer sits in for when Jerry leaves and Kramer dresses up like Jerry and changes the department. And he's like, hello. He goes, why don't we get this?

And then someone comes back, what are you doing over there, man? You've been gone for quite a while. Because when they would leave on these trips, they'd be gone for... They usually didn't even go back home. But settlers, they settled in the U.S. So your job was a settler. Yeah. You were like, I'm a settler.

So your job was like, I'm going to go, nice to meet you. Yeah. I'm going, I'm going to go... Some of them came back, right? I guess some of them did. Did Columbus? He went back,'t he well he was an explorer he wasn't a settler oh okay that's different so he was everywhere yeah that's their thing track that guy down these are people that came over like the pilgrims to live and to make a new world so finally things were taken off and he had to go back to the king and say we need a patent for a

new call when they say go back to the king they it's always written in like a sentence so he had to run back to the king you're like this is not a you know like i mean he would like if you if we told him the story how quick we brush over it he's like wait a second y'all just said i went back to he goes dude he goes i lost eight guys i mean he goes he goes, I had to hunt a whale and try to drag it in the boat and eat it. It was the worst time of my life. And y'all just go, so we ran back, talked to the king, told him. He came back. And you're like, this was nine years of my life was just this going back and forth.

And it's probably not easy to just get an audience with the king whenever you want. Once you get back over there. Once you get back and forth. And it's probably not easy to just get an audience with the king whenever you want. Yeah. Once you get back over there. Once you get back. Yeah. I mean, when your boat, you know, yeah, your boat lands up and you're like, you just get off the boat like a plane. Slept the whole way.

He goes, all right, the king's ready to see you. He goes, oh, I need like two months to is my i need to get my apartment i've left my dog i just let it go see if i can find that thing um the king granted the colony and they originally called it providence plantations because plantation means colony in England. So for the first 20 years, it was called Providence Plantations instead of Rhode Island. And then once they became a state after the Revolutionary War,

it was called the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Guy wouldn't let go of that Providence Plantation. He goes, no, no, it's still doing that. You're like, yeah, but... Do you know when they let it go? I want to say it wasn't probably very recently yeah two months ago yeah up to two months ago you can't say plantation it

was called state of rhode island and providence plantation yes they've been trying forever to get rid of it they voted in 2010 and it failed because they were like plantation doesn't mean what you think it means colony but finally this past election if won, 52.8 to 47.2. They changed the name just to Rhode Island. Wow. That's someone's just, because they go eventually, look, you got to pull someone aside and go, hey, it's 2020, can't say anything anymore.

And no one's calling it that. Yeah, too. You know, no one even knows this. You know it. It's a matter of and i get it that's how everybody should talk to everybody like i get it dude i get why you want to do it but where do you live at he's rhode island exactly you're not even saying it yeah i've never heard of that long it's a long thing to say yeah you can't prov Providence Plantation. What are we doing? A lot of peas.

Like, come on. You know? With a small estate. We got that. Yeah. We don't need the longest name. We don't need that. The smallest name.

The name's longer than the state. By the time you get done saying it, I'm already half across the state. What are we doing? saying it i'm already half across the state what are we doing the official nickname is the ocean state because it has many large bays and inlets there's probably a bunch of them yep state bird is the rhode island red which is a chicken just a chicken as their bird it's a it is a chicken yeah it's straight up a chicken yeah It's a rooster or roosters. Who has sex with the rooster? A chicken.

The rooster has sex with all of them. Seinfeld. Yeah. It's a chicken. Roosters and hens are both chickens. There's the Rhode Island rat. That's a good looking. That's a good looking chicken.

Good looking hen. Well, is it a hen? I mean. That's the one that looks like Kramer. Isn't a hen just a male? No, that's a good looking good looking hen well is it a hen i mean that's the one that looks like kramer fault isn't a hen just a male no that's a female a rooster is a male yeah all right let's back up a little bit that's a rooster i just said it seinfeld you learned it in seinfeld the rooster mates with all of them the hen and the chicken i don't know the difference of a hen and a chicken. Yeah. I don't know. A hen is a little more mouthier. Hens little. A hen just never lets go.

Oh, God. I should have married a chicken. To be honest, this hen is just all over me. It's just like, it's never enough, is it, hen? It's never enough. Why would they make it? I guess, you know that i bet by the time the guy that said our bird why do you even have a state bird i guess every state does every state has a bird uh i would imagine when they made it the chicken it was before they realized like oh i could have done an eagle.

Well, they have a different. Well, yeah, you're right. Because that's state bird. They have state animals. That's the harbor seal. They have all kinds of. They just thought they could choose like chickens and pigeons. And I guess we'll do chickens.

I guess chickens. That's good. And then like four years later, someone's like, you know, our state bird is a hawk. And you're like, we have those. He's like, yeah, you should have done that a hawk. And you're like, we have those. He's like, yeah, he should have done that. He goes, I didn't know we could do,

I thought we had to like pick what I saw the most of. You mean you don't do that? He's like, no, you don't want to be, what do you mean, a chicken state? You know,

the American bird was supposed to be a turkey for a long time. And then, it makes sense. Thank God they chose the eagle. The eagle's much cooler, but the turkey is, you know, we're all kind of big. A lot they, it makes sense. Thank God they chose the Eagle. The Eagle's much cooler, but the turkey is, you know, we're all kind of big.

A lot of us have gout. Maybe you should change to turkey. Maybe you should change to turkey. Maybe we're having a little too much turkey and that's how we're getting a little gout. You know what I mean? We had an eagle, I think,

in our backyard. Did I ever say that? I don't know. A bald eagle? In our old house. Oh. A bald eagle. I think, in our backyard. Did I ever say that? I don't know. A bald eagle? In our old house, yeah. Oh. A bald eagle. I remember that.

A nest. Put a nest in. You just got to let it. I mean, an eagle can just... If an eagle wants to get in your house and just sleep in your bedroom, then you got to just move out of your bedroom. He's allowed to do whatever he wants. We have no control over the eagles. I think legally you're not allowed to touch them right if they want in there if they

want in your house they get your house yeah like an eagle comes in like a goose yeah you get an eagle in your house just you move you can try to negotiate with the eagle but if he doesn't want to leave the the government's like well he's it's his living right now you can't touch him you can't touch him and you gotta watch tv and watch what he wants to watch and let me tell you he wants to watch it's not it's not pretty you have to get the kids out of the room you know what i mean like he's definitely not living this podcast. This is not enough for him. The current governor of Rhode Island is Gina Raimondo. She was the first female governor ever when she was elected in 2014.

2014 was still the first. For Rhode Island. Yeah. Oh, not America. For Rhode Island. That's something, though. She gets to say, you know, she's like, I was the first woman governor of Rhode Island. Yeah. Oh, not America. No, no, no. I was going to say that. For Rhode Island. That's something, though. She gets to say, you know, she's like, I was the first woman governor of Rhode Island. And I bet everybody goes, oh, like America?

And she goes, no, Rhode Island. I bet if you talk to her, she's like, oh, that's all the time. I was the first woman governor of Rhode Island. Of America? No, no. Because then it just, no. Just Rhode Island. She goes, oh, that's cool, man.

That's what they say to her. That's cool, man. And she's like. Defeats the purpose. Defeats the whole. She's leaving, though, to become U.S. Commerce Secretary. Oh. No.

So she's moving on up. Yeah. Rhode Island has the highest density of electoral votes any state because they're the smallest but they have a lot of people from so small so therefore they have more electoral votes how many do they get i think four oh how many people are in rhode island is it over a million okay so more than Wyoming, more than Montana, Alaska. Is that under a million? Mm-hmm.

Then, yeah. I mean, you're just naming stuff. We're looking at a number. It's not a conversation about it. There's over a million. Was there less than a million there? I'm just putting it into perspective because those states are enormous. Yeah.

Those are enormous. Well, that's when everybody thinks we're all too crowded.'re like go to wyoming there's yeah there's room there's plenty of room go to these other places yeah get out of rhode island and you'll see get out your your notice that you're like wow there's a lot of room over here in wyoming now you're in wyoming just signed a lease. During Prohibition, they were the only state that did not reject the ratification of the 18th Amendment banning alcohol sales. So they kept it. Wait.

So they can't buy alcohol? No. They rejected the idea? They rejected the idea. So during Prohibition, when nobody, it was against the law to sell alcohol, they still did it. Wow. I mean, could you just be like, the other places are like, wait, we can just say no? Like, how do you, they're like, yeah, just say no. Yeah, I don't know.

Why would other places not say no? That's an excellent question. I should have researched it more. I don't know. I don't know how that works. Yeah, why would you, you would just say, yeah, I would just say no. I don't know how that works Yeah why would You would just say Yeah I would just say no

Hmm Now I mean now looking back Yeah They go yeah We should have said no Al Capone would have Not got going

Yeah Al Capone like I'm gonna start something crazy Like oh we're just gonna say no He's like Oh fuck Alright And then he just becomes a banker

You know what I mean Like he has to get a regular job Yeah Like he doesn't drive it Like he's just i went to where al capone uh the or the valentine's day masker was where was that in chicago is that in chicago is that a bar there no it's it's just a apartment building it's like a parking lot now kind of but it's where the building used to be and that's where it was uh so i remember uh watching this thing on tv

there is in chicago right in chicago yeah yeah there are bars where they had specially built booths for him where he could sit and see the whole room yeah pretty crazy because he yeah because he i mean someone's gonna come right right i do that by the way when i sit down at a restaurant yeah i don't like to have my back to the whole room yeah i like to be able to see the whole i don't know what i think's gonna happen but but if it does happen then you saw it right before everybody else you could actually know you're about to get shot versus the other losers that had no idea that it was coming i won't be able to do anything to help, but I'll see it happen.

Yeah. Yeah. You're just going to, yeah. Yeah. And a lot of people, they tell you to do that. Like you're supposed to always kind of be. Do you think that's a male instinct? I find it more in men than women.

Yeah. You ask a lot of them. That can't be a conversation. He's just pulling uh so yeah it's actually i bring it up quite a bit uh in large groups i go uh you guys looking around see what's going on versus not let's see what's going on uh yeah i mean i would imagine it's you know but i mean anybody can be paranoid so it's could be in a lot I don't think it's paranoia. I think it's like a... I don't know.

For me, it's paranoia. Oh, is it? Like a caveman feeling that you're just like... I think cavemen probably, the men probably slept facing the entrance to the cave. Someone's behind you right now. I've been back there the whole time. You ever know? No, dude, because I checked it.

There's nobody back there. I think there's a lot of i think we're that stuff is like getting weaned out though of like you know what was i uh you watched like the way men were along like your dad our dad your grandparents and all like the way like families and the structure it's so different and to now there's, you know, there's, there's a lot of men that are, you know, moms. Like, what are they like? They stay home with the kids. Stay at home dads?

Stay at home dads. They're still dads. Yeah. Wouldn't know they call them dotties, dommies. And. A lot of men are moms now. Yeah. I mean, that's true too.

And there's a lot going on right now. But that's something that, I mean, if you're in the 40s and you go tell your neighbors, what do you do? Oh, I stay home with the kids. They might fight you. They might fight you and try to take your house. Tom Papa has a very funny joke about how he was terrified of his dad. He wouldn't even look him in the eyes when he came in. And now his kids were literally climbing to bed and lift his eyelids

because they're so not scared of him. Yeah. Yeah. I always think that you want to, well, and that's the balance of, there's more love, which is good that, you know, I know with, you know, it's like I went with our daughter it's like it's she sleeps in our bed a lot and like there's there's just stuff that you would never be done but still a lot of parents that don't do that uh i mean there's a lot of still bad parents out there

uh but yeah it's definitely it's it's a obviously a gigantic difference of and it's just getting you know i mean it's gonna be all women working just dad's at home it's all getting, you know, I mean, it's going to be all women working, just dads at home. It's all going to flip. Yeah. Yeah. And that's one generation difference. To them, the kids will be running it.

You have a kid and they tell you what to do. You don't think it comes back around? You don't think it goes and... Goes back to the dad? Beating their kids again? Which we're hoping happens. Just whacking them.

Closed fisting. Wife, kids, everybody. The good old days. The world is cyclical, man. Hopefully not. But it's cyclical. What is that? It's secular.

Secular? Yeah. You said what? He said cyclical. I said cyclical, man. Yeah. You just do. Why do you use words like that?

That's not a crazy word. That's a crazy word, dude. Why do you, what makes you want to use, is that what they do at college? Just trying to be like, make you feel a little smarter than the regular folk? Is that all it is? That's all I got out of it. I'll say that much. That's what I think college is.

And they just want you to be a little so you can be a little highbrow and when the you know just a blue collar guy like myself walks in with his lunchbox and you go oh that's the world's secular oh hey how you doing i know you're here and you start just banging the table how do you speak i don't know. Do you want food? Are you hungry? I'm sorry. It's academia. Take it down a notch, Aaron, please. All right, I will.

Rhode Island has the highest proportion of Catholic residents of any state. Wow. 41%. That's a lot. That's a lot of Pope Gregory's. A lot of Pope Gregory's there. A lot of people named Gregory because of Pope Gregory. Probably. Probably the most. in rhode island yeah i looked that up most gregory's by state yeah i mean see these are we're back to these stats if this shows up that's insane to me and that these people shouldn't

have these jobs there should never be by someone that gets paid by finding the most gregory's in a state and i hope we don't have it i swear that is insane if this person has a job and because there can't be his that's his what would you what are you doing at work today today uh you'd be surprised how many gregory's there are in rhode island it they go, Oh, basically what we're doing now. Yeah, I know that is true. But the person that finds it, is there a number I could,

I'd have to dig deep. Yeah. It's not an easy, that's not an easy, it's not an easy, how many, what's how popular of a name is Gregory? I think it's pretty popular,

man. Yeah. A lot of Greg's. Yeah. 736,000 people in the United States named Gregory. The 70th most popular name. 99.77% of people with the name Gregory are male. Oh.

So it could be a female name, too. Yeah. All right. If you met a, yeah, someone names their daughter Gregory, I mean, what do you, what is that three? I don't even know if there's that, what is it, 20 point? Yeah. 23%.

I don't even, there's not, there can't be. And that's just a person that's, if it's 99.77% of people with the first name Gregory as their male, If it's 99.77% of people with the first name Gregory as their male, that 0.23% is one person, and they're a nightmare. It says 21 people are named Gregory Bear. I don't know why that is. Look at this.

What do we got here? We got breaking news. I bet it's important. Break it to us this is the this is the you found a breakdown of all the states and how many people are named gregory can you guess the state with the highest number of gregory's uh i'll give you a hint it's the most densely populated state in rhode island no rhode island's number four. Okay, hold on. So where do we think a lot of Gregory's? Well, I know.

I know Greg Garcia. Let's imagine he's a Gregory. Guestbook. Right now on Hulu. He's from the East Coast. So it's East Coast. Yeah, it's East Coast. Massachusetts? I'm having trouble reading this graph now oh yeah because here we are graphs are terrible graphs are i do

there's no reason for a graph a graph there is zero reason for a graph you can just type it out and just say where it is yeah but people But people don't want to do that. Is it the state I mentioned earlier that's the most densely populated? Yeah. New Jersey. New Jersey. I could see that. Yeah.

A lot of Gregs. It's all the Northeast, that whole New England area. Yeah. Love of Gregory. It's a good name. Yeah. So they have the highest percentage of catholics but erin also the oldest existing synagogue so there's something for your fiancee too you guys want to move there oldest

existing synagogue in the u.s is in rhode island it was built in 1763 it's the only synagogue in the country during the colonial era still the oldest one in north amer. Still the oldest one in North America. Wow. And the oldest Baptist church in America was founded in Providence in 1683. It's called First Baptist Church in America. I never knew, I never even thought about why churches are called First Baptist, First Methodist,

First Presbyterian. And I looked it up. It's just whichever one, the first one in that town. Oh. Like if you were literally the first Baptist church to settle there, you get to be called first Baptist.

But is there a bunch of first Baptists? Yeah. Like I think every town's got probably a first Baptist. No, but I feel like every, I feel like there's multiple first Baptists. Oh, in the same town? Yeah. Maybe there's not. I don't think there is.

I'm going to do it by zip code. Yeah. You know, I mean. I mean, Nashville. We're the first Baptist on this land right here yeah and you go that's true all right but they're the only church that could actually say it straight up we're the first baptist church yeah oh that's nice no no the yeah no no no the actual first right yeah first baptist church in america is their name so they let everybody know not just locally first baptist

church of america that bet someone's like there's no way and then you go probably not they just probably say that you know because it's like you don't they're like we're no we're trying to we have the first woman governor in america i see why you're getting confused of rhode island but if she's the one that's trying to tell you she's the one that's trying to tell you you go so this church is the first batter's church of america and i'm the first woman of you know first woman governor do you have america no of rhode island but the church is of america and they go all all right. Gregory? Rhode Island has the highest paid elementary school teachers in the country.

Wow, that's where they go. Average salary. $22,000 a year. Whoa. They are doing it so good. This was based on 2013. Average salary was $75,000. That's that's a lot yeah what did teachers get paid well 75 000 in rhode island man that's a good amount it is they should be getting paid like

that's how they probably got great schools i'm sure they do yeah it's probably more now this is 2013 um but a lot of beamers pulling up to that yeah your kindergarten teacher comes out in a new tesla and teaches your kids so that disputes it huh yeah well once again i don't i thought that this was not even oh there is number eight But there's teacher salary, but then they're weighing it against... So they're actually going down. Oh, buddy. This is from Wikipedia. Yeah.

None of this is probably true. It's not even in order. God, man, I hate graphs. We really do have a graph problem in this country. We have a graph problem, dude. I swear. People love a graph, and they want to make graphs, and it's exciting, and it's fun, and it's like love a graph and they want to make graphs and it's exciting and it's fun and you get

it it's like designing a house like you're like pie graphs they're okay right it's nice and simple nice and simple just you know obviously this chunk is gigantic and this part is not pie graph wouldn't make sense for what we're trying to find out right now though yeah so they don't work everywhere and a pie graph to be honest how what's how big is big you know how little is little you don't know it's in the world of that pie like it could be like a million people and then it's just a sliver for a million you're like well that seems like a lot you're like but imagine how big the other part is that big circle is gigantic oh yeah. As far as food in Rhode Island. You think Pac-Man was the big reason for the pie graph?

Didn't exist until then. You think it played into it? I bet it could have. The face of Pac-Man. When did Pac-Man come out? Early 80s? That's an early 80s game, right? Oh, they were doing pie graphs probably.

I'd say so. Let's see when the pie chart was made. Earliest known pie chart, 1801. So maybe. Maybe. Yeah, there's some correlation, probably. I mean, it was 180 years before Pac-Man. What is going on in 1801 that someone's like,

I can't wrap my head around what you're saying. He goes, I got to figure a way to let these people know that. How many, they're like, we're going, we're trying to go across the country. He goes, but you're not going to make it. Most people don't. How were any stats kept in 1800? How could you ever track someone? I mean, I my head 1800 they're

they're riding dinosaurs how are you the first ever pie chart that we know of depicted the proportions of the turkish empire located in asia europe and africa before 1789 that's the first graph so yeah sounds like pretty important stuff that's it right there the second one there yeah well this is the yeah this dude oh yeah yeah that's that's the first ever that's the first ever pie chart that we know yeah african european and then i don't know what that even means it's not i mean it's not really clear what it is. Yeah. All right. And he goes, and that's that. That pie throws a lot of, but that guy probably wanted to explain it.

He was excited about it. What percentage of Turkish Empire is Africa? Well, let me show you. And he goes, oh, God. I mean, you can just tell us. You got something way better than that. No, I got some. You guys got a pen and paper?

And he's like, I don't even know. We don't. I got some wood. You want to? He goes, I got, I mean, you can pull off some of the log cabin on the side of the house and draw it on that. I don't know. He's like, and he goes, that's fine.

I'll do whatever, man. Yeah. I just wanted to show you on my new, call it a pie chart because it's a circle like a pie. We barely know what pies are at this point. Are you a pie? No, we have a chart. Yeah. What's a chart?

It's a new word I made up. That's what the joke, my Shakespeare joke. I talked about that on here. It was something like that. That's what I said. He made up a word. Look up Shakespeare. Shakespeare invented a word.

He invented a bunch of things. I know. And the joke was like being friends with Shakespeare. Look up a word that he invented because I'll see. Yeah. Yeah. Dwindle. Dwindle.

That was the word. That's one of your words. It's one of the four words that starts with DW. He invented lonely uh so it's skim milk elbow no who invented elbow king lear oh is this who invented no king lear's the play that it's in oh elbow as a verb yeah like i elbowed somebody yeah huh oh he elbowed that's yeah but so i was like being friends with uh shakespeare swagger swagger and he goes in uh what's the so what's a word he actually so swagger he so let's say he invented swagger yeah i know uh so he invented skim milk

so let's say he invented skim milk's word right and so if you're friends with shakespeare and you're just over at his house and he's like you guys want some skim milk. So let's say he invented skim milk's a word, right? And so if you're friends with Shakespeare and you're just over at his house and he's like, you guys want some skim milk? And they're like, I don't even, what is that? He's like, it's a word I just invented. He's like, hey, I just got to know what skim milk is. He goes, what are you doing? I'm elbowing you. He goes, it's two things I invented.

And you're just like, it's just, he goes, all right. Guy's got some swagger. Yeah, maybe I got too some swagger yeah maybe i got too much swagger thrown your way he goes i don't what what are you doing these are all words that i've admitted listen don't be green-eyed about it okay because yeah and you're like oh god he goes yeah well we're all using these words now it's started sorry your vocabulary so lackluster yeah like dude were you just slow down? Come on, Shakespeare. It's starting to dwindle.

Yeah. In this case, everybody's a critic, all right? I mean, that was every one. Yeah, man. That was just one sentence. I mean, he invented the word uncomfortable. Yeah, that made a lot of people uncomfortable when he tried to tell them that because they were unaware that he invented that word.

He's like, am I making you uncomfortable? I don't really know what that means, but kind of. He just put un in front of a bunch of words and called it a new word. Undress. Unreal. There you go. That's a big one for you, Nate. Unreal.

That's a big one for me, and then I got to think Shakespeare. Did you know that's from Macbeth? What have you been saying? Yeah, that's where I picked up on it. Unbelievable. I don't know where you guys picked up on it, but I always picked it up on Macbeth. I mean, pretty easy to invent words when it's 1623.

That's true. I mean, everything you do, you just, you know, you see a mouse, you go eek, and you're like, oh. And they're like, oh, all right. That's a word I mean, everything you do, you just, you know, you see a mouse, you go, eek. And you're like, oh. And they're like, hey, all right. That's a word. Eek. Yeah. He goes, I'm going to start using it.

Let's all start using that now. They go, okay. Can I get credit for it? You're like, yeah, sure. I mean, some will. Rhode Island food. They're known for the Rhode Island clam chowowder oh yeah hot wieners do you know what a hot wiener is aaron i mean a microwaved hot dog they're small thin hot dogs made of beef veal and pork

um in a steamed bun with celery salt, yellow mustard, chopped onions. I would do it without that. I would be like, let's get that celery salt and the chopped onions on the side. No chopped onions. Celery salt on the side. You know I want to make a

restaurant. It's called No Tomatoes, No Onions. Yeah, where you just don't have them. I want a restaurant Because I don't like tomatoes and no onions So you come in and you go, I want spaghetti And you're like, no onions in it And they're like

You didn't alert the door We don't have any tomatoes I think that's a common I don't know, be might just be me but the idea the onions i think is uh no tomatoes no onions and that's everything we got one hamburger lettuce pickle and they go oh can i get to like can i get tomato onion on it so somebody from rhode island came in try to get some hot wieners they're gonna be in for a rude awakening like listen it's gonna be a little bit different i guess you are unaware that i have named this restaurant no twin is no onions i

wasn't aware this is unreal no muffin tops yeah yeah um that feels like a stretch for that Seinfeld. I mean, the other ones have been very smooth in there. And that one came out of nowhere. Yeah. Seinfeld TV show. He doesn't. He just tells someone randomly. Hey, we like to reference Seinfeld. Yeah, yeah, I would love that. I get it.

I get it. Yeah. Andrea Doria. Okay. Shall I wait or keep going? He's got to gather his thoughts. Gather his Shakespeare work. Oh, man. So how many of those hot wieners do you think you could eat word. Oh, man.

So how many of those hot wieners do you think you could eat now? Oh, you're showing them. How big are they? Well, there you go.

I got a picture of them. A little smaller than an average hot dog, probably 40. Just so people at home, they look

like an average hot dog. They look like straight up hot dogs. I mean, maybe in Aaron's hands. What about

Jack? I mean, these in Aaron's hands. What about Jack? I mean, he just goes. They're still going to look big. Sounds like a guy that's got gout. I don't know. I ate 15 of those. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's worse.

There's a lot of onions on it. Look how many onions on that one in the middle have you ever ate a garbage plate that's in rochester new york no it's just uh there's a bunch of stuff on it like fries like it's they're famous for that when i went there with mark maron we uh opened uh he was like we got to go get you know who told me to go actually actually, was Fallon. I did Tonight Show, and we were talking. I was going out with Marin, and I was like, we're going to Rochester. He's like, you got to get the garbage plate. It's like the best thing ever.

And so I was like, all right. And so then I told Marin, I was like, we got to go to – Is this an accurate what it looks like? Yeah, just nonsense. What is that? I don't know. It's just a bunch of stuff. I don't know. Do the upstate New York. I thought there was like – yeah, nonsense what what is that like i don't know it's just a bunch of stuff i don't know if that do the upstate new york i thought there was like yeah there's like

fries and potato yeah there's a bunch of stuff on it there's a little more structure to that one yeah yeah some of these look like i mean that does not look appealing really whatsoever it doesn't look appealing i'm sure it's great yeah it's not and it's called a garbage plate so it's not like you're going oh it's beautiful uh it's no like you're going, oh, it's beautiful. No one's eating this just being like, oh, yeah, I'm getting my life together. I mean, that's how gout got started was the garbage plate, and that was the first tipping off point. Is tipping off point the right way to say that? No.

That was the, yeah. Jumping off point? Jumping off point, probably. No one tips off a point. If you were standing on a point, you would tip off. You'd turn around, though, if you said it? I'd turn around. You'd turn around, tip an off point?

What's that? It would be enough to go. I know what you mean. Yeah, you would know what I mean. Did you mean jumping off point? Yeah. The official state drink of Rhode Island is coffee milk. Oh.

Mixing milk with coffee syrup. Mixing milk with coffee syrup. Mixing milk with coffee syrup? That's what it says. So coffee syrup. It's a unique syrup invented in Rhode Island and sold at most Rhode Island supermarkets. Hmm. Never heard of it.

It's a unique milk that has coffee syrup in it. Apparently so. Oh, so it. It's a milk that has coffee syrup in it. Apparently so. Oh, so it's like you make chocolate milk, but it's a different kind of syrup that you put in there. It's like a Jamocha shake. Yeah. Kind of that taste.

That's what I'm guessing. Yeah. I guess. It's a tough drink. I'd never heard of it. It's a tough drink to have as your steak. Coffee milk. Yeah. There's a lot of. I'd never heard of it. It's a tough drink to have as your steak. Coffee milk. Yeah. There's a lot of explaining going on in Rhode Island with this stuff, their main stuff.

Like a lot of, you know, what's your bird? It's a red hen. Wow. Okay. I know. What do they say? It's just a red. Rhode Island red.

It's just called a Rhode Island red. Wow. I don't think I've ever seen one of those. You'd be surprised. You've seen quite a bit of them. It's a chicken. It's a regular chicken. Oh, okay. It's a one of those. You'd be surprised. You've seen quite a bit of them. It's a chicken. It's a regular chicken. Oh, okay.

It's a lot of that. Yeah. They also have Johnny Cakes. Johnny Cakes. That was an episode of Sopranos. Yeah. That was in New Hampshire, I think. The pancakes?

Kind of like pancakes, yeah. Yeah. But smaller. Oh, it's hash browns? No. I think it's like pancakes. Oh. Yeah, that's like when you go to someone's house, dude, and they go, we're going to have pancakes. And. Oh, it's hash browns. No, I think it's like pancakes. Yeah.

That's like, and you go to someone's house, dude, and they go, we're going to have pancakes and you go, that's great. And they're like, why are these weird?

They're like other Johnny cakes. Yeah. Well, say that you didn't let me wrap my head around. I thought I were eating pancakes. My head has got pancakes. You know, I need to be,

if you're throwing some different food at me, I need to just tell me, just say, Hey, this is going to be a little different. I love it. All their signature food is just a slightly smaller version of a normal food.

We got slightly smaller hot dogs. Slightly smaller up there. And then just some smaller pancakes. Yeah. Johnny Jacks. Johnny Cakes. Is it because the state is so small? That they do everything a little bit smaller.

I think so. I think that's part of it. They could be. Let's see if the flip side of that, when we get to Texas, we'll see if everything's bigger now. If everything, they go, yeah, could be. The Grist and the old 96er. Is that from Uncle Buck?

No, not Uncle Buck. The Great Outdoors? I don't know. You ever seen The Great Outdoors? No. With John Candy? He's already covered. He doesn't see John Candy movies.

Oh. Yeah, I haven't seen any John Candy movies. Oh, dude, he? He's already covered. He doesn't see John Candy movies. Oh. Yeah, I haven't seen any John Candy movies. Oh, dude, he eats the old 96er. He goes, oh, yeah, they get a free meal if he eats it. And it's this giant thing. He thinks he can eat it. And he eats it all. And he goes, you got to eat the gristle and fat.

And he's like, ugh. And he finally gets it all. And he's just naked. Here it is. Is that here it is yeah the whole restaurant's watching him and then he he walks out with he has to just lay the shirt over his front of his body he can't even put it on he's just got his shirt laid on him as he walks out like a zombie because he just ate. It's a great movie. Yeah. You need to go watch them. Why don't you?

Yeah, you don't watch them for a reason? No, I don't have a vendetta against. Religious reason? Yeah, for religious reasons, I don't watch our candy movie. No, I would. I just missed them, you know? Yeah. Yeah.

But you have all those DVDs. I do. I probably have a lot of these movies. Plains Trays on Windows. Well, how would you have all those dvds i do have i probably have a lot of these movies planes trace on how would you have it and not know it you buy these dvds in bulk you go like buy just a box of them then he goes what's in there and you're like you hope something sometimes you buy it with the intention oh i'd like to be able to see like a story but i haven't got around to it yet yeah no not like a store i don't go buy just boxes i buy them one by one yeah you know but you buy whole seasons i guess sometimes of a show sometimes i will like west wing and what's the why do you do that just to i like to be able to watch them to the dvds but you do it for the dvds

because you just it's it's fun to have a dvd collection it is fun to have them on the shelf and look look through them and everybody because yeah and then sometimes the internet's out and i'm like well that doesn't phase me at all doesn't phase you that yeah when everybody's internet was out over christmas right you thrived that's right the natural bombing was the best thing that ever happened to me because yeah more people became alert nobody had internet that was that was aaron i think they investigated you first because it goes uh who's two benefits from this yeah i don't know there's a lot of flashing lights going on Nobody had internet. I think they investigated you first. Who's to benefits from this? Yeah, I don't know. There's a lot of flashing lights going on in that house.

That guy doesn't seem like he doesn't even know what's going on. Do you ever think that you throw in one of those DVDs and if something happens in the world, you're just like you have no idea that it happened because you're in your own little... Right. That's part of the appeal of it. Yeah, it's true with Netflix or anything.

But you get it on your phone. Yeah, but I mean, I feel like if something happened, they could still... Get you quicker that way? Yeah, Netflix, they could, you know, something could pop. Yeah. But... But a straight up DVD. Straight up DVD.

Nothing. DVD player. Yeah. The TV show Family Guy is based in Rhode Island. Oh, yeah. Is Quahog a real city? No. No.

According to this, it's a fictional Rhode Island city. But Peter Griffin works at the Pawtucket Brewery. And that's real. Yeah. Seth MacFarlane went to the Rhode Island. RISD. Yeah, RISD. I drew a blank there. What? The Rhode Island. RISD. Yeah, RISD. I drew a blank there.

What? The Rhode Island... School of Design? Yeah, School of Design. RISD, it's called. I don't know why I knew that. What is going on there? Isn't that like a famous art school?

Yeah. Okay. What's an art school? What do they do? What do you mean? I mean, you know, I know art in high school, so it's on a higher level. I think it's just, yeah, the next level of that, dude.

Yeah. Like you go in and their parents go look at their pictures on the wall. Like film or anything. Yeah, animation, that kind of stuff. You can learn technical skills, I'm guessing. Could I get in there right now? You maybe could be a visiting professor adjunct yeah adjunct professor teach about comedy yeah i can't so i could you do that i gotta be

something that i don't even know what the word means you're gonna be an adjunct professor you're like oh i get like a full office or is it does that mean like i'm adjacent to another person add-on adjacent professor does that mean I'm just like, yeah. Am I in the closet of an actual room? I'm not adjunct. Could I be a professor? I would go talk to, I would do it. Yeah.

I would love to do it. Would you teach a comedy class at Ball State? I'd go like Michael Scott and just rip his pages. Rip the pages of his. He goes, what was the thing where they lay it and they all start typing? Yeah, you can't get it from a book or whatever. Real business is done on paper. Write that down.

Everybody starts saying it. Yeah. One of my favorite episodes. Yeah, I would love you to go see. We would teach a class at Vol State or somewhere. Yeah. Be an adjunct professor. Can I not do higher than that?

Why can't I go to this research? I mean, listen, you got to kind of prove yourself first. Maybe start out. But as an artist, I'm an artist. Yeah, you're right. Maybe, what are you looking for? Belmont? That's about as high as I see you going.

Vandy. I go to Vandy. Talk to him about, what am I talking about? Vandy's pretty. Jokes, writing jokes. Vandy's pretty in school. Talking about comedy, writing jokes,

the idea of it. It all would be regular life stuff though. That would be, it's all of it because it's like the aspect of writing jokes is, I mean,

I think you can, you got to figure that out but you got to do it. Yeah. The whole class would be just like, you got to go do it. You can't. Like,

that's what everybody, that's what college should be is you got to go do this. It'd be a short class. Yeah, but go do it. I mean, no one one could get anything that's why i think stuff is getting worse because i think people are not doing stuff as much and they get they get thrown in yeah like journalism is you don't i mean you just start a website that's why i think it happens honestly because they don't have to go up through the you know system like their system is like well i've been writing a blog since i was

14 so they think i've been doing this 10 years yeah but that's what i was thinking about because we're losing that you're losing that going through like someone you know working in an office forever and just having to get coffee into like building up like that person is a lot better what they do because they have had to learn it from the ground up versus now anybody can write anything yeah yeah there you go you could be like because the michael scott tearing the book out that's a play on dead poet society when robin williams did it you know told him tear the book out yeah but he his philosophy is kind of what you're saying get out there and live life yeah carpe carpe diem, dude. Seize the day. Yeah, seize the day. And they go, carpe diem?

No, seize the day. What are you saying? What did you? That's what you heard was carpe diem? Because I said seize the day. What is this guy? What are y'all teaching over here? That's it.

Well, that's one of my favorite episodes. That school if not yeah uh brent forrester uh i'm friends that wrote his show with him that didn't go anywhere but brent's a great guy and he wrote that episode and uh he it was it's one of my favorite because that one too he goes where he goes he goes what ryan's he goes he's never made a sale and he set a fire in there like that was like a very honest being like well ryan thinks he knows all this stuff but he's never he doesn't know how to make a cell and then he goes to pam's art art show which we're all talking about and that's the sweet one of the sweetest moments and that shows that's the perfect if someone said was michael scott's character i would show him that episode yeah yeah as to go he's it's this yep all right uh the mafia is big in rhode island especially in a providence the patriarchal crime family i hope i'm saying that right so they don't come find me

uh but they have uh they set their headquarters up in providence you know i was thinking about the departed the two guys that leonardoCaprio beat up in that diner. Do you remember that? Yeah. They were from Providence. Yeah. So maybe that was a playoff of that. Yeah.

That's what Matt Davis, one of my favorite lines. He opens up the jacket and it says Providence. He goes, the principles of detection tell me this guy's from Providence. That's pretty crazy. So the mafia is just gigantic up there yeah they were

in the crime family ran their operations in Providence from the National Cigarette Service Company and Cornomatic Distributors

a vending machine and pinball business is their headquarters anything they have an office like a regular office they called it the office

like the mobsters called it that business if you walked in it would be like a regular office like they called it the office like the mobsters called it that business if you walked in it would be like a regular you know what's the upfront yeah you're gonna have day-to-day a receptionist yeah like you would have day-to-day stuff if someone's like oh you're in the mafia you're like that's crazy dude like you kill like you just kill people you're like no i do a lot of the paperwork we We're on the Eastman calendar, so it's a little complicated. You would be shocked how much paperwork that is. Look at that guy's picture. He was not happy when he took that. We just finished the Irishman.

Irishman. Yeah. When did you start it? Two months ago? I mean, honestly, maybe two months ago. And then just kind of go through it. How was it? Was months ago. Yeah. And then just kind of go through it. How was it? Was it good?

Yeah. I mean, you forget so much because it's honestly months in between watching it. I mean, every time you start, you're like, I guess we were at this part. Like, I don't, you know, I was a year younger. And, you know, yeah, Jimmy Hoffa. I looked up stuff. I like to look it up after but he uh yeah i think he is his body is not buried somewhere i don't think yeah you think it

happened like they showed in the movie well i looked it up and he they say that he's he that one guy wrote a book that the do you paint houses the there's a book called uh do you paint houses? There's a book called Do You Paint Houses? And so he said that's what he said happened. But there's other people that don't. But I don't think he, because there's a guy that not too long ago said that the guy that killed Jimmy Hoffa is still alive, but he's in prison. Oh, yeah. But, you know. knows yeah um a giant

termite mascot called the big blue bug or also known as nibbles woodaway is in providence along i-95 in providence it's kind of their big thing there. He's nine feet tall and 58 feet wide. He weighs 4,000 pounds. And it says community is more important than ever. The Providence Country Day School. I think that might just be an add-on underneath there. But apparently this was in the Farley Brothers from Rhode Island. They put this bug in Dumb and Dumber and Dumb and Dumber 2.

They just put different stuff under the bug. So there's a sign, now there's a drink. It's almost like great stop anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism. But there's also

I mean, that's a tough sign to follow. Like right before that, because that's a serious sign. And then right before it was, drink cherry Coke. And then after, fly JetBlue to Florida. Yeah. Bug out. Fly JetBlue to Florida.

It was built in 1980. It's been in several movies, TV shows. It's a cultural landmark by many locals. It's got to take up most of the state. Yeah. I mean, that's a big part by the many locals. It's got to take up most of the state. Yeah. I mean, that's a big part of it. Like you're going to,

on the flip side, that is a big bug. Yeah. If you're, if you're, uh, it gets graffitied sometimes. Oh,

what's wrong with people? That's disheartening. What is graffiti? Why do they, why do they feel like you got to do it? I guess it's a bit, it's about, I think there it's about i think there's a i think there's a game to graffiti like it's to see how because you ever see where it's like

under a bridge you know how do they get there yeah and that's what it's like yeah that is but then you just go wow how did they get there and then you drive on and never think of it so then you're like well was there really worth is, is the risk of death worth me going, how did they get there? But I think you're doing it for other graffiti artists to go. I mean, he really threw the gauntlet down. Yeah. Like Banksy?

Right. Yeah. Yeah, one of those guys. Yeah. Yeah, Banksy just pops up all over the world. And they've reported on the news. Like Banksy has a new. He's a big deal. Yeah. He went to, could he go to, he could do it. just pops up all over the world and they've reported on the news like banksy has a new he's

a big deal yeah he went to could he go to he could do it he'd be adjunct professor he could do it at risdy probably man i don't i can't name another painter yeah then can you name another current painter oh current painter i mean i can name Rembrandt and stuff, but I'm talking about right now, in the game. Jackson Pollock. Jeremy Morrow. Jackson Pollock. Is he still alive right now?

Sorry. Jeremy Morrow. Jeremy Morrow. That's my buddy's name. He's not even a painter. I was just trying to name some regular guy. Does pools. Yeah.

He's Kenny Clayton. He does a lot of the ceiling work at uh the guy the guy who does the murals at zany's all right yeah yeah he's a painter this is unbelievable yeah he is really good yeah that's what that kind of painting i would call what he does graffiti no he's not doing a painter yeah obviously i just want to make that well he would get caught pretty easily because he's really camped up there for quite a while uh i mean nobody notices no one uh yeah his instagram is 1440 right 1.4.4.0 yeah i figured they would get it enough with the numbers i don't know know if it will come up when you search it. I can't imagine there's another 1440.

There might be. That's why I put the dots there. Doing the same thing. Oh, that would also be an artist? That would also. You're right. Yeah. Yeah.

We should do one on art. Because, I mean, there's. Yeah. Yeah. You could argue. I don't get art at all. well it's lebanon for you yeah i mean i'm from lebanon i don't you want to buy this art we ain't gonna do it you don't want to buy any of this we ain't doing it. You ever see that Brian Regan bit about him having to judge art?

Yeah. And he's Picasso. He said, hey, Pablo. Yeah. Take a look around. You see anybody with two eyes on the same side of the face? I don't think so. No, hence the low score.

Well, it looks like an apple. Yeah. Yeah, man. Is it an apple? Yeah. Yeah, there's... We bought... I think I could get into the idea. I don't know.

But if I had art, I would want a real painting. I don't... Yeah, like... If you bought a Picasso or something, you buy it just... I'm buying it just to say I have it. Yeah. It's an investment, too. It's like buying a real estate.

Is it? I think it is. I don't know. Because it never goes down? That can go down, I think. The price can go down. I think so. I mean.

Like George Casanza bought that art. Yeah, that guy lived. Yeah, and that guy lived. Yeah, I figure they're going to go after Picassos. Like, you know, the way they cancel everything now, you don't want to buy something old. Oh, okay. And then all of a sudden, Picassos are worthless.

Yeah. Maybe it would make it more. But, you know, Picasso said some things probably. Yeah. And that comes out. And then you look like an idiot. He died in like the 60s, didn't he? Really?

I mean, he was around pretty recently. Oh, wow. Maybe. I want to say maybe even the 90s. No. Died in 1973. What 73 what yeah he was around he was born in 1881 yeah seems like it should be hundreds of years ago doesn't it i i thought he would have been like he's 400 yeah you know i mean i like i'd love to know the calendar he used he might have done a few of them.

He was on the Jillian calendar. Did he get paid a ton of money? Was he worth money? I don't think most artists were in their time. Who was the famous guy who was Van Gogh? Yeah. Until after he died. Yeah. I saw that Doctor Who episode about that.

I didn't see that. Yeah. He made a lot of money like his name made money afterwards you know he just i don't think he nobody cared about his painting still after he died so he just his whole life was just yeah he was just poor and yeah why did they why not they just didn't care they shouldn't appreciate for what he was doing at the time yeah now you get it yeah now we're just now we got so many people that are full of themselves that's why so half this art does really good because someone

goes no you don't really see it for how i see it we just got enough of those people and there just wasn't enough because back then you had to go to work you had to get work in a farm you're like in some you know your dumb teenage son wants to because i can't look at this painting i did the dad's like what yeah like is your dad is missing most of his fingers just to put blueberries on the table and you're like i got a drawing uh turning to sports the patek at red soxx was the AAA affiliate for the Boston Red Sox from 1973 to 2020. So it just ended.

So they're going somewhere else? They moved. Yeah. But I think Pawtucket just lost their team, but the Red Sox moved their AAA team. Minor League Baseball, I wish, had more of a... It's very fun. Let me tell you about this game. Yeah.

The longest game in professional baseball history was in Pawtucket between the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings. 33 innings. The game went eight hours and 25 minutes. And the umpire was missing the part in his rule book where he was supposed to stop the game, so he just kept going. And finally they reached the president of the league at like 3 a.m and told him what's going on he's like stop the game immediately so they stopped at 4 a.m uh to resume it later

wade boggs drove in the tying run the bottom of the 21st and his teammates groaned why because they had to keep going he tied it up again in the 21st. He said his dad complimented on four hits. He said, well, I have batted 12 times. One guy went 0 for 13. Setting a record. Hey, at least you get a slump. You get it.

You get it in that game. Right. You know. You come out of it. You come out of it. Yeah. It got so cold that players were burning broken bats in the stadium's wooden benches to warm themselves. And the clubhouse ran out of it you come out of it yeah it got so cold that players were burning broken bats in the stadium's wooden benches to warm themselves and the clubhouse ran out of food

one guy asked if he could go home and the coach let him he got home at 3 a.m and his wife didn't believe he was out you know he's out drinking all night and he said no the game's still going it'll be in tomorrow's paper i'll promise you and of course, it was too late to get in the next day's paper, so he had to wait two days to show his wife that it really happened. And it happened Saturday night into Sunday morning Easter. When they got done, they ran into people going to sunrise service, Easter service the next day. Wait, so they had to finish it the next day?

Well, I mean, they stopped it at 4 a.m. Yeah. And then by the time i got out of there and stuff people were going to sunrise service and then they so then they resumed it uh a few months later and by then the major league strike was going on so there was originally 1 740 people at the game by the day by the time they stopped the game there were 19 fans left yeah and they gave them a lifetime pass to the stadium. Wow.

That's cool. Players went home arrested, come back the next day for a game. But as far as finishing that game, they didn't do it until a couple months later. There was then a sellout crowd of 5,746 and 140 reporters from around the world because Major League Baseball was on strike. And this was a huge thing that they're playing the 33rd inning, which they finished it in that one inning. And Cal Ripken Jr. tied a record for most played appearances

in one game during that game. How many? You're not going to say how many? 15. I mean, I don't know how you don't say. Wade Boggs and Cal Ripken Jr. were on these two. Were on these teams. Opposing teams, but they were.

The umpire took his nephew to the game. He said his nephew never attended another game again. Yeah, that's your first game you go to, and you're like, this is what it is. You're like, it feels like this, but shorter usually. That's what baseball goes. It always feels like this, but it's usually not as long. But it does feel like it's never going to end. That's kind of

baseball like you got to stay i would have definitely stayed yeah you've been one of the 19 oh easily you can't um if you're doing something you got to go now we got to you got to you know unless part of history here yeah you got to be like i got to see it out dude like you got to you know now it all depends if you have your family with you. If you have your family with you, then you're in trouble. My buddy went to the Braves game. The Braves met on July 4th when he was a kid, the one that went so many innings.

And Rick Camp, the pitcher, hit a home run in the 18th to tie it up because they were out of players. But they left before the game was over because they were small kids. If you have kids with you, then yeah, you go. You leave. I get it. But also, I mean, if you get freezing. But I don't know.

I would try. It would depend on how I went. Yeah. And then you would be. I think I would think seriously about leaving when I saw the players in the dugouts burn their bats for warmth. That would make me go I should probably

get home yeah the Rochester catcher caught the first 31 innings before being replaced probably get his knees replaced

too yeah it's a long it's a long you know so there's a lot of stuff in the baseball hall of fame from this game

since it was the longest game that's cool they had a minor league team, Providence Grays, that the Babe Ruth played for. And you get a lifetime pass. Oh, yeah.

They tell you that night. Oh, that's, yeah. I don't think I'll ever come back here again. The Providence Grays. The Babe Ruth, it is only minor league home run

for them in 1914. They won the world championship in 1884. The World Series. They beat the world championship in 1884. The World Series. They beat the New York Metropol. Oh, wow. They were a major league baseball team.

The New York Metropolises. Little Nate over there. I know. Aaron just said Metropolin. Yeah. You know. Yeah, so they were a great team. The Providence Steamroller won the 1928 nfl title the last team to win a championship these are all names that i feel like you grew up watching

that would be i would think you're who's playing tonight well the grays and the steamrollers oh wow that's got a humdinger. Let's turn that radio on. They played in a 10,000-seat stadium that was built for bicycle races called the Cycledrome. So every time they got tackled, they would have to go into the stands. Like if they got tackled out of bounds, they would go into the stands. And their end zone was only five yards in depth because they just didn't have enough room.

Just make do. I mean, is this the worst logo you've ever seen for a sports team? Oh, maybe. I mean, is that a human or is it a dog? I'll be honest with you, it looks like a dog that got his face ran over by a steamroller is what it honestly looks like. And I actually kind of now think it's actually kind of perfect. I mean, I don't know how on point it's supposed to be,

but it is on point. Because if you ran over a dog's face with a steamroller, it would start to look human because you would knock out all of the dog stuff and the tongue would hang down farther. Flatten that nose. Knock out all the dogs. See what I mean this guy gets to he's the same as picasso he's like oh yeah we're both artists you aren't no we do stuff a little different he

goes have you seen my work he goes i have and have you seen mine we're i suggest say neither one of our parents are happy. You know what I mean? We don't have supportive dads, if you know what I mean. You ever been to a steamroller game? Well, take a look around. Yeah. Some of my work. Yeah.

You like that? And this man goes, why don't you just use a steamroller? He goes, oh. You know, I think I was just too into it. And I need an outside perspective i was i got swallowed up and i couldn't sometimes you get too close to your work tunnel vision tunnel vision it's like yeah uh they were the first team to play a game under the lights they played and saw floodlights in 1930 so host a game of lights and after they

won the championship a lot of their players left one guy just started selling insurance it was a little different back there i bet there was though this was a different the longer that longest game i bet there was some deep talks in that one i mean just some guys because i don't know if i can do this anymore. And then the 17th inning, he's like, you know what, but this is what I love to do. And so I don't see why I shouldn't ride it out. And then the 20th

inning, like, I don't know, we just broke up. I don't know if it's going to work out. It's ridiculous. I mean, you're just like a different person. Yeah. You know. You're questioning your life choices. You're questioning everything. There's also a basketball team called the Providence Steamrollers. That's tough. They're one of the original 11 NBA franchises.

They set the record for fewest wins in a season with six. This is what the logo should have been. Yeah. They used an actual steamroller. Yeah. That's much better. But like a steamroller. Now, am I crazy? What is it? Is a steamroller. Yeah. That's much better. But like a steamroller. Now, am I crazy?

What is it? Is a steamroller a train then? No, I think it's like a... Like to flatten a road? Zamboni, right? Yeah. I mean, that is a weak, you know. Hey, welcome to the...

We're the wheelbarrows. I mean, you're just using like regular... Well, the guy said he did it because he heard someone say, how'd y'all do? We steamrolled them. Oh, this guy. he did it because he heard someone say, how'd y'all do? We steamrolled them. Oh, this guy. About the most uncreative human being alive. He just heard words.

We're going to go get a hot wiener after. Are you? Oh, yeah. Ladies team. I mean, it's just a regular. I mean, it's steamrollers. Yeah. I mean, that's. a regular, I mean, a steam rollers. Yeah. I mean, that's, who are we playing tonight?

The Johnson Rakes. You're like, what are y'all just doing? What, you going to barn and just named everything that was in there? Lamp. You got to dodge shitty cones in two weeks. What? Is this, was it a construction site? You were at like a road site thing

That the You know The hazards They have the Bobcats That's already one What was the Bobcats? Bobcats Charlotte

Bobcat Yeah Oh you're talking about the Oh like a Bobcat Like a construction Bobcat Yeah Yeah That's alright

Kind of steamrolled yourself Right there to be honest Yikes Oh, like a bobcat, like a construction bobcat. Yeah, that's all right. Kind of steamrolled yourself right there, to be honest. Yikes. That's why you don't come out. I make you uncomfortable, dude? Yeah. I think you're unaware about what a joke is. The steamrollers coach, they were so bad, he activated himself for two games.

Wait, he what? He activated himself to play. He was so fed up with them, I guess. Seeing a coach, he's like, what are you doing you doing he's like what are you why are you tying your cleats on have you seen the mess out there did he say they so they were called the steam rollers because they steamrolled someone or they always get steamrolled well this is the basketball steamroller scene who but but the guy who's the promotion guy that came up with it he heard steamroll he thought oh

yeah we should take it off a suit they're like what are you doing i'm going in yeah i mean the fact that you're called the steamrollers and you just seem like you get steamrolled the whole time yeah but they didn't know that when they started i know but that's just a sign it's just very funny to be like we steamrolled them last night hey we're gonna call the steamrollers because that's just a sign it's just very funny to be like we steamrolled them last night hey we call the steamrollers because that's what we do and then it turns out you are the one that gets steamrolled that just anybody's there is like i'm gonna can i how do you activate yourself to play as a coach he did it right before his 46th birthday it's still a 46 year old man is because i can't watch this anymore put Put me in. Put me in.

Do we have another uniform? It doesn't matter. It's the 1500s. They were wearing a suit to play in to begin with. It's still the NBA record for oldest player in an NBA game. Wow. And then they go, 46-year-old in an NBA game. You're like, God, he made the NBA

then? You're like, no. He activated himself. He just said, I'm playing. Did he get a card? That's not... This is the cards that are just, you know... How high

can you hold that basketball? He goes, pretty high. That was a very popular pose back then. How do you want to pose for this picture? I, you know. How high can you hold that basketball? He goes pretty high. That was a very popular pose back then. How do you want to pose for this picture? I don't know. Should I just hold the ball straight up? No, make it a little bit askew. Yeah. It's very askew.

I always think you always get weird faces with old pictures because they can't believe they're seeing a camera know a camera like i always i try to do this as a joke and maybe i can still try it uh but every old picture you see is always like a family that's like your eyes are wide open you're like yeah because they're like what is that yeah it's like a wizard in the room yeah there's no like hey everybody cheat like it's just like you know they had to stand still for a long time too yeah i mean that's a big reason why for a picture yeah for like 15 20 minutes yeah yeah staying there oh really that's so they couldn't hold a smile that long that's why are you making a big part of it yeah that's what i always thought is i just didn't think that's

what you thought have you ever heard that or i think i'd heard that yeah you have a you have a real line of just stuff that i go wait so that's true and you're like well i've always thought it i mean i always thought they just didn't even know to smile one common explanation for the lack of smiles and old photos is long exposure times. Okay. Wait. Golly, look at these ads, dude. Yeah.

I mean, come on. Oh, well, that's... Okay. So there are a bunch of different reasons. So they're saying no smile. Yeah. And maybe it just wasn't as fun back then. Well, that guy. Yeah.

Goodness. Did he die? He died there in the photo that guy. Yeah. Goodness. Did he die? He died there in the photo. Yeah. What is that on his neck? Is that just a mark? Oh, that is a post-mortem picture. Yeah.

Oh, geez. Sorry. Oh. Victorian. Okay. There's a lot of different reasons. I recommend you do research on your own, folks. Well, anyway, the steamrollers, they had some stuff going on.

That's a good recap Yeah Anywho Anyway the rollers Had a lot going on Like a newscast Oh wow Thanks Aaron Anyway the steamrollers

Lost Five to six They The International Tennis Hall of Fame Is in Rhode Island It's a popular tourist International? Mm-hmm

I don't know if that If there's a separate Tennis Hall of Fame Or not I think I think they probably only need one Yeah Yeah

Alright X Games started there They don't use all the stuff All the area they have That's Serena Williams That's about it There you go Alright X Games started there. They don't use all the stuff, all the area they have. That's Serena Williams. That's about it. There you go.

All right. Is there other? There's a few other people. We're putting in a Steffi Graf exhibit later. Roger Federer. I mean, he's in the back room. You can talk to him if you want to talk to him. Just ask him questions and stuff.

He's there. I'm good. Yeah. And he goes, I don't know. Is that a whole thing? He goes, I mean, he's a talker. He's there. They got it. I'm good. Yeah. And he goes, I don't know. Is it a whole thing? He goes, I mean,

he's like, he's a talker. He likes to talk. If you want to go back there and talk to him. Is it a whole thing? Yeah. Yeah. It kind is. It'll be your day.

Yeah. You're not going to see anything else. He's like, Annette, I can touch it. And he goes, oh, you know,

we should do that. We haven't thought. You're the first person to be here in a while. Yeah. He's like, Annette, I can touch it. And he goes, oh, you know, we should do that. We haven't thought of it. You're the first person to have been here in a while. Yeah. That's why we changed it to International Tennis Hall of Fame because we were hoping to get more. Yeah, we're getting a few more people in here. Didn't work.

Some famous people from Rhode Island. Meredith Vieira. Viola Davis Charlie Day Elizabeth Hasselbeck Deborah Messing James Woods I think we covered that

So James Woods is a big character and family guy Yeah Must be Yeah Yeah yeah They go to James Woods High School Yeah Really?

In the show yeah Okay that makes sense He's from yeah okay uh the show another period you guys know that army central no uh yeah with natasha you know them that's based there in uh newport in rhode island because they have famous mansions the breakers is the most popular mansion built by cornelius vanderb wow. I mean, it's a weird, you're like, you know, another period,

it's a small show on a cable network. Oh, yeah, I think I've seen it. It's shot in Rhode Island. Okay. I mean, I had more fun

trying to guess what the show was. All right. All right. Wrap it up? Yeah, we're close start yeah start these people have been steamrolled enough this nonsense is this the stuff you don't want to get to is this what you're talking about or do we already cross that line a while we crossed a long time ago uh they have an elephant day because their prized elephant was murdered oh wow how is this not

how are you not open with this it's known as Little Bet she was shot to death by a group of masons while crossing a bridge I knew a Sheba Mason

what no Sheba Mason's a comedian and her dad's Jackie Mason oh okay so like the Mason family yeah maybe so they shot they shot this elephant Eva Mason's a comedian. Their dad's Jackie Mason. Oh, okay. So like the Mason family? Yeah.

Maybe. So they shot... They shot this elephant. There's a monument set up. Betty. For, yeah. They have a lot of big gray things there. Steam rollers, elephants. They're called the Providence Grays.

Yeah. I think we're on to something. Oh, we're on to something. All right. All right. Diverse hands fired upon Betty One of America's first elephants at the north end Of the rustic span that arched Chepachet River

Given an observation Of the 150th anniversary of the event By Richmond and Edna Kent What is that? I don't know what that is. The plaque of what? That's just the plaque. Maybe those people paid

to put that monument up. It's a memorial to Little Bet the Elephant. It was one of the first... Wait. The first hands fired upon betting. That's just how this...

That's how it starts. That's how the plaque starts. May 25th to 1826 to 1976 wait that elephant lived no that's when it happened 1826 yeah and that's the 150 year anniversary of it so this is a plaque to the this is an anniversary of the plaque no it's the anniversary of it happening yeah why do they why would they not just put the date it happened why do you put the is this you you don't put an end date on a plaque that's represented like it's going it's basically that plaque is saying we've celebrated this event enough yeah and so this plaque is to we 150 years we've talked about this elephant they got murdered and i'm done we want to move on so here's a here's a plaque that says we did it we've we've given enough to this elephant

we've thought about her enough what happened and then someone just walks up well what happened to the elephant that's the person so the elephant was just shot and killed. Yeah. I think they just, I don't know if they thought they didn't know what it was or they were just being mean. I mean, if you didn't know

what an elephant was, I would shoot one too. If you saw that thing coming at you. But where, was it just in the wild? No, they brought it over. It was, I don't know why it's out

just going for a walk. Oh, bring an elephant over to that place that reminds me of Greece. I think it was i don't know why it's out just going for a walk i'll bring an elephant over to that place that reminds me of greece i think it was part of a circus yeah why'd you bring that elephant well that place i went to you remember you remember road greece obviously because yes the zoo there an elephant i thought let's do a zoo here i brought an elephant because i don't know if we can even this this is a small state. We're not in that big of a state. You can't just throw a giant elephant in the middle of this.

It went out of the room. And he goes, yeah, but I brought it. I can't send it back. Let me just put it out on a raft. What do you want to do? I'm going to shoot it. And that's how I got shot. He goes, someone's going to murder that elephant

if you don't get it out of here right now. Who would murder an elephant? Oh, man. Diverse hands. Yeah, diverse hands. And we're going to memorialize it for 150 years. And then that's enough. You know what?

I'm not against a plaque that ends, that goes. And that's enough. Yeah. We've talked about this thing. They should have more plaques. Yeah, it's time for us to move on to move on i like it yeah i like that plaque too good for you rhode island was that it it can be was there any one last fun one uh here's a fun one that was an elf and the murder is pretty fun but uh the first jail sentence for speeding an automobile was sent it was done in newport rhode island on 1904 fun died there yeah the jail term was for five days the guy was caught

traveling 15 miles per hour that was over the speeding limit his total speed was 15 because back then they just put in car laws because back then if you if your horse was carriage was going too fast you could be cited so wow 15 miles an hour is pretty fast for another five minutes you'd have been out of the state how do they even know they're going that fast they just eyeballed yeah yeah whoa whoa whoa he starts walking faster if i can't stay with you then i think we got a problem they just have to walk alongside him i think you're i i'm starting. I'm jogging now, and so I think you're going a little quick, don't you think? Feels like we're moving. There's still wild animals on the road that people use as animals to travel.

Johnny? They probably got it by his name. Johnny Cakes. Yeah, Johnny Cakes cakes that's how johnny cakes were made uh rhode island i'll be honest with you i thought at the beginning of this i was like yeah boy i mean that second you started reading stuff i was like i didn't even i think we should cancel this podcast i mean honestly i was like what on earth we gave it a try but it turned out. Yeah, I liked it. I like Rhode Island.

I did learn a lot. I learned a lot. Good for you, Rhode Island. All right. Thanks, everybody, for listening. I wanted to show this hat. I've been wearing this hat the whole time. Wilson, our boy John Augustine, is a professional golfer now.

Signed a deal with Wilson Golf. Nice. Got a hat. That's awesome uh yeah amx is uh the first golf tournament it's i want to say maybe the 23rd the week of the 20th or something january will be his first professional golf tournament he's trying to he will be trying to play good to get his uh his pga tour card and so uh and he was in here and uh yeah so i have one news update from a previous podcast.

There was a tornado west of the Rockies in California last week. Wow. Yeah. Really? Last week? Last week in Sacramento area, northern California. West of the Rockies. And I looked it up and they said tornadoes usually don't happen on the west of the continental

divide. Yeah. And I looked up continental divide and that's basically the Rockies. Yeah. Wow. That's what the article said? Yeah. It said continental divide. West of the continental and that's basically the Rockies. Yeah, wow. That's what the article said? Yeah.

It said Continental Divide. North of the Rio Grande. Yeah, they could just say California. Tornadoes usually don't happen in California. But the guy was pretty lazy, and the story had to get out. As always, we love you guys. Again, be normal. Yeah, don't drive yourself crazy.

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