The Nateland Podcast - 30: #30 | 2005: YouTube, Google Maps & the Xbox 360

Episode Date: August 26, 2026

This week, Brian becomes friends with Reese Witherspoon, Aaron wonders who will be the next OJ, and Dusty continues his tour of Air Force bases. Then the guys delve into the year 2005 by looking at inventions like the Xbox 360, Google Maps, and YouTube. Quo: Quo.com/NATELANDMoney is on the line. Always say hello with QUO.  Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months when you go to Quo.com/NATELAND. Don’t sleep on @ultrapouches. New customers get 15% Off with code NATELAND at takeultra.com! #UltraPouches #adChime: Chime.com/nateJoin the millions who are already banking fee free with America’s #1 Choice for Banking. Head to Chime.com/nateSuperpower: Superpower.comHead to Superpower.com and use code NATE at checkout for $20 off your membership. Get 100+ biomarkers tested every year, plus a personalized health plan and on-demand care team. Detect early signs of 1,000+ conditions. #superpowerpod #ad

Hello, common folk. Welcome to the public figures podcast. That's really taking off, guys. Is it? People like it? Yeah, people wearing shirts to my show. I love that. Did they? I'm selling shirts at my show that say common folk. Okay. So, yeah. You have shirts on that? Say common folk. Probably be a common folk. Wow. Because people are. Wow. You really got right on that. We didn't even know you were doing that. It's all about branding and marketing. Yeah. Dusty. And yeah. So I'm on it. Just notice, Dusty is not, he's completely barefoot here behind the table. Yeah.

Is this the first time you've done this on the podcast? Maybe so, but I was just said back here and I go, why do I have these shoes on? Yeah. And we have the fan going underneath again. Yeah. So again, the smell is coming out. Well, my feet smell fine. It's incredible development from the Nate Land team, by the way.

I mean, it really changes everything. Yeah. Because it's hot in this room. I don't know if we've ever explicitly talked about it, but there's something about the way the room set up. It gets super hot in here all the time. Yeah. We'll put your hoodie on. Well, not just me.

I'm not the only guy complaining about it. But now it feels amazing. I'm wearing shorts. The fan, this feels great. Yeah. I mean, I'm all about it. I've been driving with my shoes off. I'm, you know, I'm technically illegal.

Is it? Yeah. Well, I've been doing it. You're grounding in the car? Yeah. You're pedaling? Yeah. I've been, yeah, I was grounding a little bit on a military base this weekend.

And I had my shirt off. I was laying down in the grass. And a guy came out and he goes, I just want to make sure you're okay. Which felt like it was code for get out of here. Yeah. How about this? It is completely legal to drive barefoot in Tennessee. In fact, it's legal in all 50 states.

The belief that it is illegal is a common urban legend. I've been lied to. Yeah, probably by some shoe salesman. No. Big shoe. Yeah. Now I'm going to guess Dusty's not going to believe it is legal. He's going to hear that and say, nah, they'll get you for it.

I know what's going on out here. They say, if an officer believes, that driving barefoot caused or contributed to a crash, you can be cited for reckless or careless driving. Even though it's legal. Right. That doesn't sound like that makes sense. I, um, because it's like your feet, you're actually making contact with the pedals.

If anything, it's better. Yeah, I don't know why they say that it's safer to wear shoes. Maybe if you kick your shoes off, you got your shoes down there. Yeah, I don't do that. Yeah, okay. You put them in the back or something? I'm just in the, you know, my passenger. your lap.

Now, I'm riding alone. So. Go ahead. Oh. Yeah. Well, there was a note up there. Yeah. And the notes for me to record my screen.

I have not been pulled over. Maybe I want to record mine. Sorry. I have not been pulled over in years. And Thursday night, I was driving home from a gig and got pulled over twice. Oh, gosh. Twice. On the way home?

On way home. What were you doing? drinking and driving. First got let me go, then I had some more, and it pulled me over again. What happened? No, it was, I had a corporate at Faith Christian Academy in James Town, Tennessee. Great show, hot show, fun people. And then I'm driving home in either the, I don't know, the city or county pulled me over.

And he said, just let you know your tag lights out on the back. Oh, yeah. They'll get you for that. And he says, no big deal, but... Lock cameras can't pick it up when your tag lights out. That's true. Should have known this would have gone a different direction. And he said, it's not a big deal, but just get it fixed when he can.

He's like, I need to run your driver's license to be on your way. He did it. I mean, it was probably less than five minutes I was there. I'm on my way. He headed home on Interstate, Tennessee State Trooper pulls me over. Wow. And he said, I just want to let you know your tag lights out. And I said, I just got pulled over 30 minutes ago for the same reason.

Do you get immunity for that? I always wondered that. What was that mean? Like if you get pulled over for something you just got pulled over for, you go, I haven't even had time to fix it. To me, I would say 30 minutes ago, what do you been doing? You didn't fix this? If you were a guy.

Yeah. So you've been warned. Yeah. So he goes, let me just run your driver's license and then we'll be good. You know, they take that spotlight and shine it on your side mirror. Yeah. One, I think to blind you and two so they can see your face. So I can't see a thing.

They go, this guy looks worried. He's calling him back up. This guy's hiding something. Pop the trunk. No, he's shining the light. I'm blinded by his spotlight. And then he comes up beside it and goes, you're all good. Have a good night.

And he like, he sticks my license out. But I can't like, I can't see anything. It falls. And then he's just gone. Now I'm on the side of the interstate in the dark. I'm like, I don't know if my license fell out of the car. car or in the car. I'm out there on the side of I-40, truck zipping by. And I'm looking for my driver's license. And I finally just realized, I realized it wasn't outside. So I just drove home.

And then when I got home, I found it underneath my seat. Wow. So it just fell through the crack on the side. Yeah. But he kind of, he didn't toss it, but it was almost just like, you're good to go. And then it just fell. So I'm kind of the bad boy of the podcast. Yeah, you are. You're pulled over a couple of times. Yep. Yep. So anyway, I, that's where I was Thursday night. Wednesday night, I did Hugh Houser's show here at Zanies. Nice. And for those you don't know, Hugh, he is friends with all the local celebrities in town, all the cooking music stars.

And Reese Witherspoon came to the show and we're now best friends. We hit it off. That's exciting. I heard Lucy texting me. She said, Brian and Reese Witherspoon have been talking for 20 minutes. I'm not exaggerating. What did you guys talk about? She said she cornered you.

She was talking your ear off. I found out. I'm sorry. Yeah, come on. Seemed like a nice girl, but, you know. What did you guys talk about? I am pretty jealous of that, to be honest with you. But what did you guys talk about?

She's a little everything. She's really interested in my career. You know. What you say? How do you keep such a low profile? I've never heard of you. You're 54 years old and it's the first I've heard of you. How have you done it?

No, we didn't talk that long. but she was, you know, she talked about my drivers, not the one I just told, but the driver's lesson story about looking up. And she was asking me about my wife who, you know, had a baby late in life. She made a joke herself. She said, so did she deliver and then immediately go into menopause? And I was like, yeah, basically. And then I realized, she was like, I was trying to be funny. And I'm like, oh, okay, that is pretty good. And then you're like, leave the jokes to me, okay? I basically said that without saying it. Yeah, when somebody else writes the jokes, then you can do it. You're an actress. Talked to Reese Witherspoon for a while. I made a couple jokes about my wife. What I forgot to tell her was she and Ruth went to college together.

Wow. Stanford. Yeah, they're the same age. Ruth has a freshman yearbook that has Reese in it. Wow. And Tiger Woods, right? Yeah, I thought Tiger was in there too. She said Tiger was a little, is he 50?

Yeah, he's up there. I think he is in there. And the guy from Drawing to Blink, This Is Us. Oh, okay. What is his name? Milo. Milo. Is that the character name?

The T guy? And Fred Savage. Fred Savage. Not Ben, though. Ben was rocking on Boy Meets World at the time. I don't know who that is. That's his brother. That's his younger brother.

You ever saw Boy Meets World? You're already a man when that was out. Why would I watch a show about a boy meeting world? That's where the guy that lives here. I'm blanking on his name now. Dang it. The guy, he was a guest star in Boy Meets World. Yeah.

What's his name? Dante? Nah. He opened for you, good friend of yours, very funny. No, he is, and he's got Jason. Jason Marsden. Jason Marsden. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He was on that show. He played Eric Matthew's friend. Mars, I think. I think he played Marsden. Sterling. Sterly Kay Brown. Sterly Kay Brown. Yes, he also went to Stanford.

Why didn't you? You didn't narrow down the way he looked. That would have helped a lot. You didn't want to do that? Say the black guy? Yeah. This is us? That would have helped tremendously.

You're right. I'm sorry. I didn't do that. I've never seen this as us. I thought there could be multiple black guys and that it wouldn't sound racist. But there's like four main people. One of them's Mandy Moore. You would have said that.

My friend Mandy. And then there's some white guys. Okay. But I knew the black guy's name was Sterling K. Brown. Okay. Well, my bad. But I did come up with his name. So.

Very good. Anyway. Reese and I are very tight now. Your friend Laney Wilson was there also. You all have a history together. Holly Williams, Hake Williams Jr. daughter, came big butts with her. Dusty's been trying to balance his paper up because he did it accidentally. No, I've been doing it.

I just did it again. Dusty has to always make it about him. Well, listen, I like Reese Witherspoon. I'm a big fan. What's the first role you think of when you think of her? Hugh knows it. And he... That's why he's never booked you on a show.

Yeah. And that's too bad. What's the first role you think of when you think of Reese Withersman? Probably walk the line. Wow, really? The one she won an Oscar for? I guess so. I don't know if that's her signature role, though.

Yeah, I think it is. Yeah, if she won an Oscar. No. What's the correct answer? Legally blonde, for sure. Legally blonde's great. I like what's the one with, where they're like all in black and white and then they change to color? Luzer of Oz?

No, no. She was not in that. Toby McGuire's in it. Pleasantville. Yeah, Pleasantville. Okay. Election? That's not, that was not fistbone.

Election, she was great. Well, I got to give him something. You already gave me one before. That was fake too? Gotta give me something. The Pleasantville is really good. Also, the movie Freeway. Have you ever seen that?

No. I bet you kind of wish that doesn't exist. I wish, but it's really a fun one. Sweet Home Alabama. She was in Alabama. She was great. Not as a big a fan of the wild. She got nominated for an Oscar for that, but also I was watching American Psycho recently.

I forget she's in that movie. She's had an unbelievable career. Legally blonde, too? Yeah, yeah. Not as good as one. No. But it's up there. Is there a two?

There is a two. And now there's a set up series. She goes to Congress and two. Oh, okay. I never saw it. Yeah, he probably wouldn't like it. But walk the line's great. Yeah, I don't know.

So anyway, it's just, I don't think that, to me, that's why I asked the question. I think it's interesting that that's like number seven or eight on the list for me. You know, what they say about walk the line, though, they say that story is actually a bit inverted, that it was actually her that was chasing Johnny Cash. June was chasing Johnny Cash. So the way he tells it? Well, that's the way his. That's how I would tell it too.

That's how his ex-wife tells it. Oh, okay. Well, she was not portrayed well in that movie. No, and that's what she says. She says, I was actually very supportive of him. And June was always chasing after him and ruined our marriage. Is Walk the Line about a sobriety test? Yes.

Is it really? Well, kind of. The song? Yeah, I walked the line. Well, I don't know. But it... I think it just means balancing, but going too far and trying to keep your life. Yeah, but I'm wondering if it works on a few levels.

I like that. Because you're mine. I walk the line. Because you're mine. I'll, even though I'm drunk, I'll do the sobriety test right. I'm, you know. Johnny Cash walked all the way to Hendersonville. Is she the most famous person?

To get a bank account? I've heard that. They talk about that in Hendersonville. Yeah. Most famous person you've seen out of show at Zanis? She's got to be up there, right? I mean, definitely up there. That you've talked to for 20 minutes.

Yeah, because I've been here when Nicole Kidman's here, but I didn't talk to her. They bounced out quick, huh? You have to say it like that. Oh, I was there, too. Oh, they're talking about the show I was on. No. No, it was Nate show. I was on the show?

Yes, it was I. They left immediately. I mean, during the show? No, right after. Okay. Right after Aaron went on stage. You know, Christian Bell at an airport. Oh, that's cool.

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Anyway, that was Wednesday night. Thursday night, I get pulled over twice, but great show at Faith Christian Kemmy. And then this weekend, I was in Springfield, Missouri at the Springfield Comedy Club. And lots of folks came out. I'm wearing Bass Pro Shops hat that a folk gave me. And then another fan sent all of us these Bass Pro Shop hats. They're very proud Bass Pro Shops. These are nice hats.

You gave me one of those too, and I appreciate it. I already had my own hat that I was wearing. but I appreciate that. But you'll wear it at another time. I will wear it at another time. I drove it. The easier to drive tour continues. I've not flown to a gig almost all summer.

And they're not, I mean. Springfield's a tough city to fly to. We were talking about it. Yeah, like I really looked into it, but there's no good flights, very expensive. And I'm like, it's just. You drove? Yeah.

Yeah. It's tough, though. I've drove many times there. That's a, okay. Well, well, um, Well, I'm just saying, I'm relating to you. Yeah, just much, much better. Well, I'm just saying, I've done it.

I'm familiar with the drive. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you can take offense to it or you can go, okay, thank you for relating to me and my story. I also have flown many times. That's what I do now when I go. Private. Yeah. So anyway, great shows, long drive.

Prefer flying. I prefer flying, too, but I saw my ticket sale. You know what? I've been pulled over on the way to Springfield. Yeah. You got a better being pulled in the story than Brian? Please tell it. His feet were out the window.

I got a ticket. I was driving. I was in the car with you. I was speeding. Was I in the car with you? Maybe. You were driving. I remember Dusty and he's flying.

And then he goes, he goes, it's crazy. I haven't even seen a cop. And then immediately lights come on. And then we're pulled over and Dusty goes, I think I'm going to tell him that story just to kind of, you know, just cool things off a little bit. Just be cool. Well, I said, yeah, I said something like, well, you know, I'm just out here in the mountains.

It's a beautiful day. And I just got. No, you told him straight up. You go, hey, I was just saying, wow, I haven't seen the cop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he could not have been less charmed. No, he didn't like it. No.

This is what I found. If I'm alone in the car, I almost never get a ticket. But if there are other people in the car, I almost always get a ticket. Yeah. I don't know what that's about. Do you think you drive faster with other people in the car when other people's lives are at risk? I think you drive faster? You're like that I just seem cooler when I'm alone.

Maybe. I think other people drag me down. I think you alone in a car, you do look like you're up to something. Yeah. I don't even want to know where that guy's going. I think I can do, I think when there's other people in the car, I think the cop thinks I'm, you know, being some kind of clown. Oh, okay.

But when I'm alone, we're just two guys hanging out, chit-chat. Oh, okay. You know? I get that's what I think. On the way back, I stopped at John's Waffle and Pancake House. What is John's Waffle and Pancake House? It's in the hometown of, this doesn't do with it, but hometown of Cheryl Crow. Okay.

In Kennet, Missouri. Yeah. Almost every little town has. Pancakes and waffles. Yeah. So to your point, Aaron, they're basically the same. Did you, when you walked in, they go, whoa, breakfast is here. That's what I was expecting.

Yeah. Yeah. Breakfast is here to eat some breakfast. We got all the breakfast here. A good looking menu right here. They close at 3 p.m. I kind of like that in a breakfast place. Yeah, we don't even mess around with dinner.

Like the pit and grill. Yeah. Closed on Tuesdays for some reason. The classic day to be closed. Yeah. A Tuesday. It's slow and Kenet. Maybe on Tuesdays.

Yeah, why would it be like? Most barbershops are closed. Sunday Monday. Yeah. Why would they, maybe Monday still busy for, I don't know. Why would you be closing Tuesday? I would think that had been something you'd ask them while you're in there. I didn't know until right now.

You didn't look at the menu? I did look at the menu. I didn't read the fine print about the hours. I looked them up. The cast from Napoleon Dynamite stopped in there two years ago. Really? Two years ago? What were they all doing together two years?

I'm guessing. I wonder that too. I wonder that too. There's a picture on Facebook. I'm guessing there was like a fan, maybe like one of those Comic-Con type thing. Oh, yeah.

It was Uncle Rico and Napoleon and Pedro. That's awesome. Yeah. I'll check it out next time I'm in Canada. They take a picture with you? No. I hope they regret it. Let's tag them in this video.

Have you ever been on the wall of a place like this? You know where they put people? No. No, me either. Just here at Zayton's. Yeah, that's a big one. I'm on the wall at,

I forget the name of it, in Lafette, almost in Pennin. I'm probably on the wall on the Penn & Grill too, but what is it called? I don't know. Well, you need to know if you're on the wall. They're taking it down now.

It's a good spot. What is it? Now, it's a Mexican place. Really? You're on the wall of a Mexican place? That guy's so nice. He loves me. Do not let this guy in.

Did you eat there a lot or something? Or did he just know who you are? He just knows who I am. It's just a sign that says, do not serve this guy. It's just a check bounced. I'm going to look it up. And you're at Hyman's?

Yeah. Seafood in Charleston, South Carolina. You're in a lot of, you're on, your murals on two comedy clubs. That's true. There's not many comics in the country. Monty Albion, number three.

That's what it's called. Of course. Monty Albion number three. Monty Albion number two. Number three, yeah. It's a good spot. Me and Riley Green are on the wall in there. All right.

Yeah. And a guy named Louis Hinkle. He's 93. So you're the youngest guy. Yeah. I don't know how old Riley Green is. I don't know. Do you know a singer named Joe?

Just goes by Joe. I know a guy named Joe Denham. I, uh... Apparently he's the most famous person from Opelika. Joe Bagley But he goes by just Joe No No

Joe How about that Joseph Louis Thomas Known as Joe He's an R&B singer He's a bit older than me 10 years older than me I don't know him

He's born in Columbus though He's not he's not the real McCoy He moved to Opelika Oh yeah He went to Opa Laca high school In 1991 Oh he did Oh he did

Oh he's yeah. Wait, that's something for you to aspire to. Yeah. Look at that Wikipedia. That's a real one. That's a lot.

A lot of stuff there's a lot of stuff. I'll get into it. Where were you guys this weekend? I was here. I was doing shows. Zanis had a great weekend. Dusty, where were you at? I did some Air Force bases.

I went to, where did I go? First, I flew to Wichita, Kansas, McConnell Air Force Base. McConnell. Which was where my uncle, was stationed. My uncle was in the Air Force. He was stationed there. No one cared. Did you tell your uncle?

He's dead. And died in 2000. He was born in 1931. Wow. And was, so probably was there in the 50s. Yeah. And so that was fun. Did you tell your aunt about it? You tell any family members about it? Most of them are gone. Is this your mom or dad's? This is my dad's side.

I bet your dad might be interesting. No, I did talk to my dad. Oh, okay. He just wanted to. He told you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, my family's pretty old.

I, you know, my oldest uncle was born in 1926. He served in World War II. My uncle. Yeah. That's wild. Yeah. So. It'd be 100 years old.

I said he's no longer with this. He died in. World War II. No, he didn't make it back. But he died at 58. Yeah. He apparently got a purple heart. and was in World War II in a battle.

He said he opened a door and a guy, the enemy shot at him, hit his hand and killed the guy behind him. Wow. Yeah, pretty crazy. He tried to swat away the bullet? I guess so. It's a tough guy. Wow.

Yeah. I don't know. I think he just shot his hand. But yeah. And then I went to Enid, Oklahoma, to the Vance Air Force Base. That's where this hat's at. Yeah, that's a good hat. Good hat.

I thought it was a good hat. I get a lot of hats and, you know, it's got to be a certain height. You need a hat to be a certain height. And this is a good one. What's the N stand for? I don't know. What does it say? VN.

Maybe that's just abbreviation for Vance. Well, that's, you know, I had that joke this week in Springfield. They call it SGF. And I was like, what's SGF? And they're like, it's just short for Springfield. I'm like, but it's more syllables. Like, it's a, it's a longer worse. They didn't think it was that funny.

Well, B and A is the same way. What's the B and A? It's like Barry, I think Barry Field. Okay. But SGF is just literally short for the word Springfield. And it's more syllables than just saying Springfield. That would be the same thing if Vance is people say VN. And then I went to,

just going to wrap it around. Yeah, yeah. I went to Oklahoma City to Tinker Air Force Base. All great. A lot of fun. I love doing these shows. Yeah. Yeah, it's really a lot of fun. Hard to get in the gate every time. I've been to 12 Air Force bases now. Every time you go to the visitor center and they act like you're some stranger. Well, do you take off your sovereign citizen license plate before you drive up to? Yeah, yeah. I go, I'm in the system, guys. I mean, I'm in here. in multiple ways. And I'm also, there's posters plastered all over the Air Force Base with my name on it, and I'm here on that day. Just go ahead and let me in. What percentage of the people at these shows are active serving military members? It's hard to tell, but I would say, I don't know, half. Oh, okay. Are they in uniform? Nobody in uniform. Oh, I don't know, not nobody. Once in a while,

I was picturing you like a USO gig. Yeah, me too. know everybody in their camo. No, it's pretty like regular gigs. All right. You know, it's like, if you're on the base or have access to the base, you can come to the show. All right. You know.

So, but they're fun, though. It's cool. The guy who, one guy at the gate, I ended up like making fun of the gate for a long time. And then one of the guys at the gate was at the show. And that was pretty fun. He goes, well, the reason we're at the gate is, because we're broken. What's that mean?

I don't know. I think he just means. Like, as I've talked about how unhappy they are. Oh. I thought the gate was broken. I thought you were talking about,

like, the Air Force. No, I think the individual people at the gate. Are broken. Yeah. Okay. That's what.

But he was funny. They're great. Great, great gigs. Do you have any more? Come on. I have three more in October. Vegas,

Phoenix, and Tucson. All right. Speaking of October, guys, Sunday, October 18th, Nateland presents half-hour specials at the Woolworth Theater. Three half-hour specials being taped. This is lined up. Andy Woodhull. Oh, wow, Indie's great. Andy is, yeah.

Very funny. So funny. Mike James, our friend Mike has been on Nate Land podcast. He's on Life of Dad now. Very funny. And Mark Shalafoo. Cool. Very funny.

It opens for me a lot on the road. Three very funny comics. Early bird tickets are on sale now. The Woolworth. Wolverth Theater. That's where they did the last one. I went. It's a beautiful theater.

Brian went and stunk up the place last time. Yeah, that's right. That's right. When I said that smell started permeating through the green room as soon as I got back there. Oh. And you remember that? No. You thought I made he did the set.

Yeah. I did think you meant that. Very possible. Very possible. Is that the drugstore that they got kicked out of and O'Brother War art there? Oh, no. No. Anyway, that is October 18th.

So get tickets for that. That'll be great. You guys want to get to these comments? Let's do it. At Woolworths, you're absolutely right. There you go. Because he says, is that all the Woolworths are just that particular location? That's a good, that's a good scene.

It's a good scene, guys. Did you guys love that movie? Yeah, so much. I'd say that would be one where I didn't love it as much as everybody else. How many times you watch it? Probably. Probably once for me. You got to watch it again.

Every Cohen Brothers movie, I feel like you have to watch them two times. Well, you said that recently about the Big Lobowski, and I had the same thing, so I thought maybe I will go watch it again. And once you watch two times, then you love it. Yeah, I believe you, but that sounds like a knock on the movie. No, I think this is what it is. Because like really good movies, I can watch it once and enjoy it. I don't know. I feel like that when you watch it, you're just watching for plot.

And then once you watch it the second time, you start to pick up all these other little details that you miss the first time. And then you go, wow, this movie is incredible. Whereas there are movies that you could, that you watch one time and you go, wow, that was amazing. I never want to watch it again. But it was amazing. Whereas I think their movies are. light. Totally rewatchable anytime, all the time. What's your favorite

Cohen Brother movie? I mean, between those two, Big Lavalski are, oh, brother. I think that'd be tough to... Fargo, probably. Fargo's great. No country for old men. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. That is a good one. But I like the comedy's the best.

All right. Want to do these comments? Let's do it. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and Mail at Nateland Podcasts. dot com. First comment comes from Nicole Chidester. Our old friend.

Is it? I feel like we've talked about that name before. Chidester, because that's pretty weird last night. Yeah. Dusty really does have a great mind for marketing and branding. Yeah.

That is your old friend. Yeah, that is true. Thank you, Nicole. Those things, I don't think either of these guys did it this weekend. I don't think, what? I don't think Aaron took up fried fish on stage. I don't think you threw out any oatmeal.

And I think it's a shame and a real missed opportunity. You went to a very famous breakfast place, didn't tell them that your name was breakfast. Yeah. Lots being left on the table out here. I apologize. Did you go out and do the bobblehead? Maybe inadvertently, but I didn't lean into it. Dusty, you are very smart about that stuff.

I remember a couple times when I opened for you, while you were doing your merch pitch, I was like, this whole, first of all, you had, you did 30 minutes on T-shirts and then you sold the T-shirt. Yeah. Then you had 20 minutes on hats. Yeah. It's like, man, this whole, you know, what a nice little thing you got. I was, oh, man, I was selling that merch back in the day. You're slinging it.

I still sell it. One of our fans after the show, they brought a Wheaties box with me on the cover like you requested. Awesome. A lot of fans have sent in different pictures of Wheaties box with me on it. And then, per your request, Dusty, here is this Quaker Oates. With me, that's me. I don't know if you'd be the high protein brand, though. You'd be the low sodium or something.

But you are the blueberries, blueberries and cream. That's not bad. Anyway. Can we get a close up on the picture on that? That photo has not been digitally altered at all of Brian. That's a real picture of him. It says 22 grams of protein per serving. Yeah.

Anyway, thank you to the folks who... That is cool. Start throwing those out at shows. I think that's the next big thing to fall. Everything has protein in it now. Yeah. You know, that's the new fad. No, no, no.

Everything. Yeah. I don't even know. It's 22 grams of protein a lot. There's no context for how much that is. What is a lot? I think if you're trying to gain weight as a, like, lifting weight, you want a gram of protein for however many pounds you want.

Trying to gain weight with oatmeal. I think if you are healthy, you'll start the day with oatmeal, but you would get some, you wouldn't get that quick. I start my day with fiber one, and it's a percentage. That's what I like, because that means nothing, but it'll tell you what percentage. It tells you what percentage of protein. Of what percentage of fiber, you know, for your daily. Lunch is fiber two.

And then, oh, it does. you know what, 22 grams. I was knocking it, but that's 44% of your daily value in one packet. Wow. So you can have two and a half of those and you're golden. Wow. You've got all the protein you need. That's all you need right there.

Thank you, Nicole. Danny Parkhurst, what is the public figures podcast brand and how would you market it? I would also love to hear you describe your key demographic for the podcast, age, race, gender, job type, etc. and see if I fit. Nah, probably not. Age, I'd say 40s. If I had to pick a decade. Yeah.

Kind of the middle of us. 35 to 45? I think we're going 35 to 55 on this podcast. Okay. Well, I was just trying to do like one decade. But yeah, that would cover all of us. When you say one decade,

it just makes me think of that same old clip. Turned it down. They wanted me to go. to college for like this decade. Okay. I'll turn it down. What's our brand, Dusty? Well, I don't know.

I think we're... Not fancy. Yeah, I think we're, you know, we're trying to find it. But our brand is, you know, we're not... There's nothing controversial here. You're not going to listen and be offended. If you find something offensive on the podcast, then you're trying to find it and you're too sensitive for society.

Yeah. You know, so it's a very like, you know, It's just a guys talking, shooting the breeze, as they would say. Chewing the fat. Chewing the fat. You know, I think that's the brand. We're like, you know, on my own podcast, I like to say that it's a podcast that you can go to sleep to because you know, I'm not going to say any weird stuff while you're sleeping

and I'm not going to yell at you. Yeah. I agree with the second part. I may read the Bible to you. So if that's weird, then that's, you know. Just chewing some non-port fat. You like to shoot some. the breeze or shoot the bull?

Shoot the bull was more common when I was a kid. That's what people would say. My dad would say sometimes if he like, we were hanging out and my dad would come and like interrupt and talk to us. And he'd go, then he'd go, well, I'll let you get back to your rat killing. That's what he would say. I like that. And we weren't killing rats.

What do you think that means? Shoot the breeze or shoot the bull? I don't think it, I don't know. I don't think it means anything. Like where did it come from? Yeah. I think shoot the bull could be like BSing. You're just out here BSing it.

Well, that's what I was curious, if it was short for that or literally somehow shooting a bull. I bet they were doing that too. Opinions on the origin of the phrase shoot the breeze differ. Some people believe it's referring to talking into the wind, meaning your words are weightless and go nowhere. Yeah, that makes sense. Others think breeze refers to hot air or empty talk, like an older slang terms from the early 1900s. That one too. Yeah. Yeah. That's our brand. Yeah. You know? Yep. I think that's, I think that's accurate. And I think it's needed because people want to just put things on. You don't actually have to be saying anything. People just want to hear some talking in the background. And then, you know, and then it's funny on top of that. And drop top, I'd say either blue collar or Notre Dame grad. Yeah. Anywhere in between there. Yeah. Yeah. Suggested questions from Google say, what does crank up a little?

Possum. I don't know if I like that expression. I don't care what it means. I don't think I'll ever say that. No, I don't think so. You guys trying to get together and crank up a little possum? Yeah, I don't know. It means to play some George Jones music. Oh, well, all right. Well, I'm into that. Yeah. Crank up a little possum. It's hard to talk if you turn it up too loud, but. Neff Segura. Danny, we don't know. I think you did a good job. Okay. I like that. She's like, age, raised, Jen. Oh, you're trying to get us canceled, Danny?

Or what? Jeez, take it easy. Get specific with it. Yeah. Nef Segura. While listening to y'all discuss each other's branding, I couldn't help to think Brian's comedy style should be labeled late in life comedy. Over the years, Brian has shared things he's been late to life in, such as marriage,

having a kid, learning to swim, learning to ride a bike, and even pivoting to a career in comedy later than the rest of you. Great episode and keep the laughs coming. Well, I like that. It's just one thing I'd like to. focus on here. You don't know how to ride a bike? I knew you were going to focus on that. I said once when I was talking about swimming, learning to swim, I mentioned that I don't know how to ride a bike very well. What was going on in your childhood? Just some stuff I missed that on. Well, you grew up

out in the country and this is before four-wheelers. Yeah. But I thought a bike would have been pretty important to your childhood. You would think that, but we didn't even have, we certainly didn't have sidewalks, and we had country roads, but they weren't real bike assessable. How'd you get around? Walt? We used to ride bikes down to the river, up in the woods. Yeah, I've heard all about this. Do you ever have a bike with peg on the back? Oh yeah. Of course I did. Yeah, incredible. Front and back. It's never too late, Brian. You're right. Let's get out there. Let's get out there in the parking lot and figure it out. What were you doing, though, when you were a kid?

I'm being serious. Sounds like you're being accusatory. Were you ever a kid? Did you just kind of spawn here onto Earth from some other planet? Dusty. You know, that's not real. I picture you like smalls from the sandlot. Your mom's like, get out there.

Get your jeans dirty. And you're like, I just want to play with my erector set. I don't think which one Smalls was. The main kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, there's some truth to that as far as I played baseball. You had a hat with a really long bill. Like that guy.

You told me once that your dad told you to be, what is it? He would always say to us, be like Benny. Yeah, and apparently you do not listen. Because Benny was very encouraging to the smallest character. and you just want to break me down. To kids, you're an adult now. To be clear, I am just curious. I mean, we live next door?

This is why. Okay. Because I know that you grew up in Lebanon. Yeah. And it's like, that's out in the country. At least back then it was. Now Lebanon's like, you know. Well, I lived out in the country for Lebanon.

Like all my friends in Lebanon, I lived out in the county. Lebanon was the big town. So it's just like swimming and biking. It just feels like that's such a big part of it. that childhood. Yeah, I could see you say that, but we, we didn't have any creaks close by that we were swimming in and certainly didn't have a swimming pool. So I just missed out on some stuff.

I'm not proud of it, but it's just part of it. This podcast turned sad, though. Yeah, I did. I'm sorry, yeah. I'm not proud of it at all, guys, but it's just part of my life. We all live with regrets. High protein. Well, we talk about you drinking for a decade.

Well, there's the hat. Remember that hat on Smalls from the Sandlot? That bill's about twice as long as it should be on that. Wow, that's his hat. Is that real? Oh, yeah. That looks like the Looney Tunes, like the goose had that hat on you ever. No, I don't.

It looks like the bill of a duck. Yeah. I played sports. I played baseball, and my dad would get me out there and come home from work and make me practice baseball. You know what? Maybe that's the optimum childhood. Maybe your dad was coming home and playing baseball with you. And we were like, well, we'll just entertain ourselves.

Yeah, because I didn't have, I mean, I did have an Atari, but it's not like I was one of these kids that stayed in the house all day watching video. Yeah, yeah. We play outside. My grandmother lived next door. Of course. We had cows. And I just, yeah, I don't know.

I think the answer is you just had a good family life. Well, I did have that. Do you skip rocks? Again, we didn't have like a creek that was... There's no body in water. Easy to get to. You skip rocks just on the grass. It doesn't work that well, but...

All right. Well, I do agree with Neff. I do too. Late in life comedy. Yeah. Marriage, having a kid, learning... Well, learning swims, even... You couldn't write a joke like that where you go.

I grew up in the country, you know. Skipping rocks, swimming, biking. I didn't do any of that. that's a good job. You got to work on it a little bit, but that's just the exact cadence of one of your old jokes. Is it? Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, it's a good job. It's a good format. You get the exact cadence. People got old money, new money. I didn't have any. Oh, that's true. What a good joke. That's a fist bump.

Andrew Nicotera. That's all right? Yeah. Finally, someone does a habit? Halfway decent impression here, Aaron doing Morgan Freeman, and we just totally ignore it. Come on, guys. I think there's a reason it might have been not even acknowledged on the podcast is we got an episode coming up. Not going to spoil it where you will hear an unbelievable Morgan and Freeman impression. So mine's barely worth mentioning next to that one.

Well, I think another thing, though, is yours is good, but we've heard it before, right? So it's not like it wasn't out of the blue for. us. It's good, but we've heard you do it. Yeah. And I'm not, I'm, well, as I was going to say, I'm not saying it's played out. Yeah. But we've heard it. You know what I mean? Twice in six years. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, we get it. We get it. You're good at Morgan Freeman. Eddie Stamper. Brian and Aaron referred to the golden ticket promotion as a marketing blunder by Dunder Mifflin, but in the end, Blue Cross Blue Shield ended up buying a lot more paper. So it was a success. The real marketing blunder for Dunder Mifflin was when they released their new website,

Dunder Mifflin Infinity, which had a social media feature that had to be shut down due to sexual predators using it. Well, that is true. That is true. That is true. I'm not that familiar. They got very lucky with the golden ticket promotion, but it was a bad idea. That's a very funny episode. It's one of the times, though, where Michael, when he tries to kind of pin it on Dwight, it's a little much for me. Oh, you don't like that? You don't like the dynamic of that relationship? That went to me almost like crossed the line with a little too mean or something. Yeah.

And then of course, what is, I think Dwight finally takes the rap and then it ends up. Dwight takes credit for it. Yeah. And then it ends up being a success. And then Michael tries to. Now he's trying to get credit back for it. Yeah. Yeah.

It is funny. I think sometimes in comedies, though, when they really hammer it hard like that and then the other guy ends up, it's a bigger payoff for that guy. Well, that is true. You know, so you got to kind of like, you go, whoa, you know, like a character in Moot where they have the bad guy where the bad guy is just like over the top mean where it's like, oh, you really want me to hate this guy. Yeah. You need me to hate this guy. So then when the hero has a bunch of flaws, you're like, oh, they're all forgiven because he's not as bad as this guy.

Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? I know exactly what you mean. So you told me that's how you feel about your openers. Yeah. You got to get him to hate that guy. Yeah. Exactly.

That guy goes, who was that guy? Who booked that guy? Your good friend that you flew there with? Sorry about that last guy, man. I don't know how you got on this show. That's a good analogy. John Walden. I can't believe you guys didn't address

one of the biggest marketing blunders in the history of marketing, the Pepsi Harrier Jet giveaway. Yeah. Who could forget that? We have talked about this. We talked about that ad nauseum on this podcast. I think you were there for most of it.

We talked about on the Nateland podcast, I remember a long time ago. Basically, Pepsi did some promotion where if you earned a certain amount of points, they would give away a jet. I wouldn't have even picked up on it if he didn't laugh. He's laughing at the way he said points. Come on, guys. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

We've got a podcast. podcast to get through here. Let's move on. Let's go to the next comment. And then this guy earned those points and they wouldn't give him the jet. Wow. Yeah. Why? Why? Because Pepsi argued they were like, first of all, it was like a actual military jet. Yes. Okay. So Pepsi argued, obviously, we didn't think people actually thought we were going to give him a jet. But they're like, there was no language in any of the fine print, any details that said it wasn't really. real. What'd they do for the guy?

I don't remember how it ended. They should have gave him some kind of plane. He didn't get a jet. He didn't get a jet. He should have got some kind of plane. Yeah, I don't remember how they did. Even just a little crop duster or something. He like raised money somehow to buy the points.

Yeah. So you're cheating. No, they allowed that. He gained the system and they just couldn't honor it. Wow. Miles. Found myself rewinding this episode a lot more than usual. and that's saying something.

Brian is just too good and quick-witted legend. Well, thank you, Miles. Wow. That's all cool. This is what I'm saying. There's got to be a 35 to 65, at least. Every time there's a pro-Bryan comment, maximum age gets a little bit.

It's Miles Davis. Maybe it's like mostly 70-year-olds. I listen to this. Too quick. Gotta rewind it. Yeah, you couldn't hear it. Your hearing's gone. Thank you, Miles. I'm playing chess. These guys playing checkers.

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But a dip can doesn't have adaptogens. Yeah, that's true. They're great when you want to stay focused or cut cravings. Your favorite flavor right now is watermelon. It reminds me kind of like a sour. Patch Kids gummy flavor, which is real nice in your mouth. Ultra is the ultimate guilt-free... You've got to do that, Brian?

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Well, that is true. Yeah, I mean, listen, every time, I've been public about my criticism of the food fighters many times. And every time... Have you really? I didn't know this was a line you drew in the sand somewhere. And every time I am shocked by the amount of fans that they have. And I think it's good press for the foo fighters because people come right out and they attack men.

Yeah. And listen, I stand by what I said. I got 15 minutes and I could jam it out. But after that... You're pretty much done. Yeah. I met Dave Grohl. You did?

Where? Sarring out live. Oh, yeah. All right. Yeah. See a nice guy? Yeah. All right.

Nice for you, dusty. I know that. Better hair. Well, that's not true. You know what I've always thought was interesting. The grammar of this, the beginning of this comment, Fu Fighters are fantastic. It sounds correct.

It might be technically correct. But Fu Fighters is. is singular. It's one band. Why isn't it, Fu Fighters is fantastic. Oh, I thought you were going to talk about

the, no the in front of it, but, it's not, you're not talking about a random collection of individual Fu Fighters. I think it should be,

yes, now that you say that. But Fu Fighters are fantastic. Sounds correct because Fighters is plural, but I don't know what the correct answer is. If I'm being honest,

the real messed up word is the fantastic one. Okay. Yeah, food fighters ain't fantastic. How about that? Yeah. What's your favorite food fighter song? Hero, probably.

Yeah. That's your favorite? Yeah, it's a great song. Let's see how long that is. We're not going to play it. We're not going to play it. I'm just trying to, you know, I'm just. Oh, you try to see if you can get to 15 minutes?

Yeah. Well, you don't listen to the same song five times. No. No, definitely not. It's four minutes and 20 seconds. Okay. So you do that one. What else you got?

I mean, I can look. It's, ever long's a good song. All my life. All my life is a good. All my life. I've been searching for something. I like that one.

That's a good one. Everlong's great. And then you got the Everlong, the acoustic version. That's another four minutes. You know? Then listen to covers of all those songs. All right.

I'm going to listen to, well, I don't know. I don't know if I want to. You lost interest so quick. Yeah. I was thinking I'd listen to some of this on the way home, but yeah I don't want to be upset when I get home to my family yeah of course not

Alex Boza arian throwing out Reliant K is awesome they are a fave I didn't even catch that and I don't know who that is that's a cereal I took the Reliant K challenge this week yeah is that Reliant Black's band no you're no no dude tenacious D you're thinking Rylai K Pop punk band from I mean I think they're still around

still making music but they I loved them as a kid they had some great albums some really good stuff Mm-hmm is one of my favorite maybe albums of all time Okay

It's called mm-hmm You've definitely heard their stuff Okay You like umbop and mm-hmm I think I'm starting to see a trant here Mm-hmm It's like a sound you make but something tastes good.

Yeah. That's good. Yeah, Relinke's awesome, dude. Do you know Ludo? No, I don't know. What's Ludo? Ludo Chris. They're a punk band.

Ludo? Tim Convies band. Oh, no. I didn't know that. That was their name. Yeah. Why would you put me on the spot like that? Just thought you might know them.

They're really good, but apparently not. I know them. I guess I'm just saying I know music better than you guys do. Or I'm I know Dusty's old CDs better than you do You didn't pick up on that from earlier Oh what was it?

I don't know Let's just move on You did a reference And I didn't catch it Yeah Lisa Tapley Uncrustables are awesome You can throw a bunch of

Frozen ones in your backpack When going to a theme park And save money on snacks Also good for the beach They're definitely a go-to Anytime you need One or two sandwiches More than one or two sandwiches

And you just don't have the time to make a sandwich. It's not about the time. I mean, I guess it is. But it's not like, I'm not at home going, I just go out and I'll have the time to make a sense. It's just nice to just pull one out and not have to think too much about it. Especially if you're doing this where it's already wrapped, so you don't have to be putting them in a baggies.

Yeah, that's old Brian Regan bit talking about the peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. Oh, yeah. I can't be messing around with all these jars. Who knows how many. knives. I just put some croutons in there get the whole sandwich of one spoon. But this reminds me something.

Another beef have with Dusty from his podcast this past week. Dusty went to the Wilson County Fair and I learned about this on his podcast and he criticized the look of the people there said everybody looked really rough. Did I say that? Yes. You look like the poster child for a Wilson

County Fair. He was like the mascot. I'm not making fun of people's appearance. I'm saying, you know, we're all, everybody's out there eating fair food and they don't look good. I don't mean they're not, they're physically unattractive. I'm saying it's like, my point was, my overall point was I was making is the fair food used to be fun when it felt like otherwise we were getting decent food. Now we're eating fair food every day. And so it just seems ridiculous to go to the fair.

and get a bigger version of fair food. But isn't that kind of, you knew what you're getting into when he went to the fair? It's all baked into the experience. If you went to the fair and everybody's in great shape, it'd be a little weird. It would be weird, but I would be like, wow, the country is doing well. Okay. You know, it's not an appearance thing. I'm talking about looking health-wise.

Okay. Like, you know, just everybody's just real slow walking. and not socially aware of what's a, you know, Rascal scooters, there are a lot of rascal scooters. There are a lot of rascal scooters. A few, but, you know, it's a bit of a hard road out there. It's a hard road out there. Those are expensive.

Yeah. And, you know, I'm not making fun of people. What I'm saying is our food is so bad in daily life that it feels a little ridiculous. Like, our comment was just about how good uncrustables are, this frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And then we're like, I'll pack a couple of uncrustables on my way to get a giant turkey leg and a funnel cake. You're saying fried butter was a lot more fun when you weren't being poisoned every other.

Yeah. Okay. That's, I mean, that's fair. That's, you know, it's like a fried Oreo was a cool idea when you couldn't get one at, you know, chilies. Still cool. Funnybone and Dayton has fried cookies on the menu. I was saying, they're everywhere.

I was at the Dayton Funnybone last. And I was like, hey, man, you know, they got fried cookies. on the menu. Let's get around. I want everyone, let's try one. And everyone's like, sure. Yeah. And I nobody else ate them. Oh, yeah. Except me. Yeah. Wait, for the audience? No. I should have said that in the green room. Oh, I thought, wow. How expensive was that? It was Connor Larson, you know, Connor's being a good opener. He's going, yeah, absolutely. Connor's not going to eat that. He's not going to eat that. He just make me look like fattest guy of all time. Yeah. Yeah, he got a whole bucket of fried cookies back there. He's only one to ate it. And he ate them all.

I didn't. I didn't do. But the, you know, I bet you could, even if you went to a restaurant, they didn't have fried cookies, but they had cookies in a deep fire. I bet you could get them to fry it. You go, hey, well, you mind deep frying this? I'm not insane. I'm not going to ask them to fry something that they're not advertising. Connor told me, I've heard this, that they brought it back to him, and then you said, you're going to eat that? And then took it off his. That's what Connor's been saying.

Don't believe a word that guy says. Cameron Clark. Not everyone will agree, but shout out to the people running the show in the back. Yeah. I love when a joke lands and you can hear them laugh. It makes me feel like I am laughing along with others. Keep on, keeping on. That's awesome.

They've not been laughing this episode. No. I know. I know. I've been laughing. I've been laughing. I've been laughing. No, I totally agree.

It's great. It adds to it. It is great. I don't really like how you curated the comments this week, but keep going. We got one more. It's a lot of like, hey. Everybody's great. Oh, I have an idea.

You curate the comments next time or do anything. How about that? Well, you did have one in here about a guy calling me the AI raccoon guy. Boom. AI raccoon song guy. Yeah. Which is a great song. Parker Freeman.

I propose a whole episode of Dusty and Aaron, and looking up absurd Facebook comments. Even a whole podcast dedicated to this would be hilarious. Yeah. That's really fine. I'm not sure Brian will be doing, but that does sound like a... I think that's why he proposed it. Let's have you curate the Facebook comments.

Yeah, yeah. We're just going to slowly move you off this table, Brian. Over there? Yeah, we just heard how great it is to see that camera angle while you hop over there. I just gradually move each week. Most of us picked a bank at six. and never looked back. That's what I did. I got a checking account set up with my mom at a bank in Hendersonville, Tennessee. And I'm still with that bank. Oh, yeah. Do you want an account?

Not anymore. Okay. I'm a grown man now. I got my own account. She on your checks? No. Okay. We don't talk. Okay. There's a better option out there. My mom listens. I'm kidding. That's where Chime comes in. America's number one choice for banking. Chime is changing the way that people bank. They're not like traditional banks that like to gatekeep the best rewards and pile on hidden fees unless you have a massive balance. Chime offers the most rewarding fee-free banking all with no overdraft fees, no monthly fees, no minimum balance fees. You get 5% cash back on a chime card in a category of choice like gas or groceries, all while building credit through regular everyday spending with no credit check. Dusty, how many times in your life have you been killed by overdraft? Oh, so many.

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slash disclosures for details. All right. I'm very excited this week, guys. It's been a few weeks since we've talked about the years, but this week we're going to figure out what happened in 2005. Wow. thousand five that was what uh 11 years ago 21 years ago 21 years ago 21 years ago 21 years ago unbelievable seems crazy so at seventh grade going into eighth i think eighth yeah yeah seventh grade going into eighth you're right you're right okay you've been out of high school for five years yeah and by 2005 i'm pretty sure i'm moving to folly beach in south Carolina. Out of Charleston? Well, technically, but it's part of Charleston. And why did you move to

the beach? Well, who wouldn't want to live at the beach? Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like... You were on the beach, so this was a good move. Things were taken off. Oh, okay. This wasn't like I had to leave and I had to go to Foley Beach. No, no, we got a house or just a block from center street, a couple blocks from the beach. Oh, I literally thought you lived on the beach. No, no, not on, but, you know, a couple blocks, easy to walk to. I mean, I literally thought you slept on the beach. It was a homeless guy at the beach. That's what I thought.

I thought you lived on Folly Beach. I thought that was a time. No, I've always had a job. I know you have, but sometimes life happens. You didn't have a car for a while. I didn't think he had a house for him. Well, I, you know.

Well, he knows how to ride a bike so he can get places. Yeah, that is true. I'm very good on a bike. Yeah. Very good swimmer. I've heard. I've heard. You won't show us, but.

Yeah. Rock skipper. Yeah. Comedian. Great hair. Yeah. But hey, I am not too good and quick-witted and not a legend. Well, he didn't say that, but I think it was given.

Yeah. Did you have a girlfriend then? I don't know. I didn't have a girlfriend. I mean, I, you know, I was, you know. Okay, because on your podcast this week, you said you had a girlfriend in 2005, so I was trying to set you up. Okay. Well, things can change. No, I, you know, well, listen, the years are confusing. Yeah.

I think that the girlfriend I was talking about, I was, I think I was, that was more around 2008. Okay. So maybe I was, maybe I said five, but I did not mean to. Is it Jek that had the joke? I don't have a girlfriend, but I do have a girl who'd be mad to hear me say that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, there was a girl I dated in.

I don't know. Maybe it was, probably 2006 when I moved off of Folly Beach onto James Island. Okay. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 2005 was a full year on Folly Beach. You're going from the beach, the island. With my friend Joey Tomlinson, who was, who still lives in Birmingham is my friend. And we moved. We got a two-bedroom apartment, our two-bedroom house down on, you know, you go on Folly Beach.

There's a BP on the left. You turn right after, turn left right out. after that. And then we were the, we were like, what was it, Sumner, Sumter Street maybe. Okay. West. Probably Fort Sumter. Probably called Sumter. Maybe so, yeah. Did, uh, are you doing improv yet? I had already done a little improv, I had taken some classes, but by this point, I was starting to get pretty heavy into the drinking. So, but I did take an acting class where I did an acting

class at the library on Folly Beach. An acting class at the library? Yeah. It was run by the city? I'm guessing. No, but the guy was just doing it there. Nick Smith. Unofficially? No, no.

It's not just show up at the library? And I found my audition or kind of like a monologue that we had to tape the other day. Do you have it? I do have it. I'm not going to play it. It's embarrassing. I wouldn't even show it. I didn't even want to show it to myself.

What is it from? Can you tell us what monologue you did? Well, I did. I think I did two, but one I did was, it's a little embarrassing. But one flew over the cuckoo. Nest, the Jack Nicholson monologue at the beginning where he's talking to the, um, uh, psychiatrist. I've never seen the movie. I know it's a classic. I've never seen it. It's pretty, it's fairly dirty. And, uh, but, uh, that's pretty funny. You think you did a good job with

it too? I thought I did okay. At the time, but you still think it was pretty good? I don't want to watch it. It's highly embarrassing to me. What's the other one? I don't remember the other one. Just seems like acting class of the library, which is like, shh. No, no. I mean, I think it was like, maybe like city hall or whatever. But it kind of wrecks in her. Yeah. Yeah. Jail. We weren't like, yeah, we weren't amongst the books.

Okay. Yeah. And it was, you know, people weren't in there reading. We were like trying to, but people, they liked it. I mean, they liked what I was doing. What I was trying to do, any acting classes that I did, I did some others later. I never wanted to do comedy because I was like, I already do comedy. Yeah.

So I wanted to do more serious stuff. And I like that. I like yelling. Do you like acting? I didn't mind the classes, but I don't really like all of the everything else that goes along with that. Multiple shoots. Yeah. Rehearsals, shoots.

Having to be vulnerable and, you know. That part I don't mind as much. Really? I don't like just other people around all the time, just filming and I'm not into it. I took acting class once here in Nashville. and I remember one scene I did, and you mentioned the movie, I think, on your podcast this week, I did a scene from the cooler. William H. Macy. Love that movie.

I think I've talked about this before, but. I think maybe you talking about it is what got me to watch the movie. Might have been. Yeah. Looks a little like you with a wig. But do you remember the premise when I told you before? He's a guy who basically, if you're on a hot streak at a casino, know, he comes in and brings bad luck to the table, right?

Yeah. Essentially. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Just a buzzkill. And that's what I got typecast as in my acting class for my scene. Oh, that's awesome. That movie's great. Somebody commented saying that they didn't like that movie as much, but I really liked it.

I thought, Alec Baldwin was great in it. I thought, you know, it's a little, the premise is a little silly, but I liked it. I can't remember if I watched the whole thing or just watch my scene to prepare for it. I think it's worth to watch. I mean, you know, it's, you know, it's, you know, they got some, you know, some scenes in there that I feel like between William H. Macy and this girl that I feel like are a little unnecessary and tough to watch on a plane. Oh, okay. But, you know, but it's very good. Yeah, okay.

Well, it came out in 2003. So let's catch back up to 2005. All right. So you're going to eighth grade. So you're running the school. I am running the school, dude. Is this your- last year in Montgomery? I'm king of the castle. No, I moved to, I wouldn't move for a few more years.

Okay, but you're king of the castle. So I'm at middle school. I'm at the old, you know, it's on the same campus, but I'm going to go to a different part of the campus for high school. Okay. So my little corner, I'm king, man. I'm in eighth grade. I'm the old kid now. Have you already had a broken back? I've had all kinds of injuries. I didn't play football in seventh grade because I had a, I had knee surgery. So eighth grade, I'm on the football team. now. I'm student body president. Wow. In eighth grade. I'm running things, dude. Wow. Yeah. That's amazing. You peaked early too. Oh, yeah. I guess so. I guess so. Are you captain of the football team? No, no, no. I don't know if we had captains. I was the heart of the team. Yeah. I don't know about captain. That's what they always told

me. We don't know if we have captains, but you're the heart. Yeah. Yeah. But you were the governor. Is that in high school? I was youth governor of Tennessee. That was later. Okay. We'll get to that.

Okay. That was in high school. Yeah. All right. I'm just lowly student body. SGA, we used to call it. Well, 2005, just to kind of maybe refresh your memory about some stuff that happened. The Xbox 360 came out.

Wow. Was that big for you? Huge. I didn't have one right away, but I had friends that did. And, yeah, 360. was unbelievable what it came out. Is it life changing? Not life changing, not in any kind of meaningful way.

But in the gaming world, was it a big deal? Yeah, yeah, of course, man. Yeah. Of course. What about it? Do you remember, like, what made it different? I remember playing Halo on it. I remember the new Halo came out on the 360.

Okay. And it was awesome, dude. Is this HD TVs? Are they around yet? I still had tube TVs and, and now you're going back to them. And yeah. I think they were starting to come around. but I certainly don't think they were mainstream yet.

Yeah, I mean, introduced. Okay, yeah. They became common and popular in most homes around 2008. So we're like five years away from most people having HD TVs. So video games a lot is, I guess, different at this point. I mean, I don't want to question your math, but that seemed like a pretty easy way to say three years away. Five years away.

Do you say 2008? Oh, I thought we were doing 2003. We're doing 2005. Oh, then I'm in fourth grade. Wait. Yeah, I messed up the... Let's regroup here. 2005.

Let's regroup. We're doing 2005. For some reason, I thought, when I did the math, I thought I did 2003. I apologize. 2008 minus 2005 is three. Boom. That's my bad. No, it's all right.

I just wanted to... There was so many dates going around there that I don't even know. But listen, in two... 2005 I was living on Folly Beach. And I got so sunburned on my forehead that I got sunburned over and over again to where I had scabs on my forehead. Do you have health insurance at this point? No. You weren't even thinking about it. Where were you working? I was working at Hyman's and also selling pesticides. Where are you getting medical care if you need it? I'm not getting it or needing it. You probably are needing. I'm just not doing it. Yeah. Much like now, right?

Well, no, now I have to have it, you know, because I have a family. Are you going to the dentist at this age? I would occasionally pop in there, you know, just see what's going on. Right. You know. Did you show up? Yeah. What's going on in here?

No, I mean, I had a, I don't remember what year, but I had a root canal done at the medical University of South Carolina by a student. And that, you know, that took all day. Just to save money? Yeah. Wow. It was like a thousand bucks they wanted to do the root canal and the crown. Did you get a student do a root canal?

Yeah, for like way less money. And he did it a good job, I guess. Great job. It lasted. I mean, it was probably 2003, honestly, maybe four. And it lasted until 2020 when I had that tooth pulled and had a wow. Yeah. That crown lasted that long. I never had a crown. No crown. Oh, okay. Just a dead tooth. Just a dead rotting tooth. It looked good though. But he numbed you up. Yeah. I mean, I and go over to his apartment. I just want to make sure he didn't put you under. And you wake up and you're like, what, what, why's my shirt on backwards? It was by the book.

Yeah. I mean, you know, it's like, you know, it's in a, you know, a student facility. And then, you know, there's a lot. Beach Dental School. There's a lot of people working. And then the actual doctor or whatever would come over each step of the way to check to make sure he's doing the right stuff. Oh, that's good.

They got a little bit of oversight. Yeah. Now it's obviously much lower stakes, but I remember my dad. used to take us to a place to have students cut our hair sometimes. Oh, yeah. And they would cut it for like a dollar. Oh, yeah. And they,

and you'd get your money's worth. Oh, yeah. You've seen some of my haircuts. Yeah. They're brutal. Yeah. Yeah. Dental work, that seems,

I guess you got to do what you got to do, man. If it's saving you thousands of dollars. Yeah. I mean, it was probably, I don't know. It's the worst case scenario. You get an infection and die?

Yeah. It's probably 200 bucks or something like that versus a thousand. Yeah. I mean, it was unbelievable. Yeah. You ever take out a payday loan? No. You never did a title max or anything like that? No, no, no. Okay. I was always...

You were on top of it enough to... Yeah, I was always working. I just, you know, I was always partying, but I was always working and... Were you doing stand-up yet? I had done stand-up in 2004. Yeah. I did what was no... I did... I do have a video of this, but I did, like Charleston's top comic or something. It was a Tony Kemp, who used to be a booker for the Comedy Zone. Charleston was one of the judges and it was broadcast on local TV.

Oh, that's cool. First TV credit. Yeah, and I ended up getting third place overall. Wow. Not this guy. 20-Kipa-Lead of Interbilt. And I ended up getting third place. And then I was at, in 2005, I was sitting in Folly Beach with my buddy at a bar.

All the TVs were on mute, but boom, it popped up. And I was like, there I am. That's awesome. And no one cared. But I was pretty exciting. Me and my buddy, Joe. Is this when you were doing the overalls? Yeah. You were like a character. Yeah. Yeah. Overall with no shirt. No, I did a shirt. Oh. But no shoes. No shoes. Yeah. Yeah. Like now. I'm still doing it. Yeah. Still doing a character. Yeah. Yeah. It was. Did you do an accident? Well, I probably, you know, hammed it up a little bit. But I also was, you know, just moved, you know, from Alabama. So it's probably a little stronger. But was your material like, I'm from? Yeah, it was very like me making up, like some truth, but me making up hillbilly stuff.

Yeah. But you already had the name. Back my day, the taxidermy and the dentist were the same guy. That sort of stuff. Yeah, exactly. But like, you know. Do you remember, did you write your own stuff or did you just look some stuff? I did write my own stuff, but I also had a buddy of mine, John Brennan, that would help me write stuff.

We would just come together and just write. But that's okay. But you didn't like look up. like street jokes. No, I'm not going to say I never did a street joke back then, but I, for the most part, I was right in my own. You didn't even know any better if you did. Yeah.

Back in the day. Yeah, you're an overall. Yeah. Exactly. I mean, it was, you know, blue collar comedy was very popular. That's why it's crazy to me that at this point that I've like done shows with Larry the Cable guy and Jeff Foxwood and like hung out with them. Because in 2005, these guys were like heroes to me.

And you were like the backrooms version of Larry the Cable, like five levels below. Yeah. Like not even in the vicinity of Larry the Cable. I mean, this guy's doing arenas and I'm, you know, doing the sand shack on five. And you're pumped to do it. Yeah, yeah. Some other things that launched in 2005, Google Maps, which is very funny. I had to look it up.

I'm like, well, but this is before small. smartphones and like how did you even look at you still had a print them out right yeah i remember doing that i remember we were map quest family yeah we all moved over to google maps like i got better most people did yeah just felt you're already using google for everything else i was early on the gmail train i had a gmail very early nice and i said we're just gonna we're gonna be an apple and a google family you are aaron at gmail dot com not quite but i'm pretty close to it uh we're an apple family before any Nobody had Apple stuff. Yeah.

Always Apple. Wow. You had the old big, like neon colored Macs? Before that, we had an Apple, too. Oh, wow. At the house. Yeah, and then we got that original IMAQ with the bright color. I remember that, man, those are so cool.

They ever had one. They were very cool. So cool. I was just watching Legally Blonde the other day, and she's got the old original first-gen MacBook that looks like that. You know what I'm talking about? Can you picture it in your head? I think so.

tell her that you were watching it. When you call her later? She had an orange one in the movie. You remember these? Wow. How I book at the time. I don't know if I ever saw that in real life. Yeah.

I don't know if I ever did. I don't know that I did either. Don't they look cool? They're so cool. Yeah, I would like one now. I would like this MacBook, but just make it look like one of these. I want the old desktop version. I mean, they're huge, but.

I think we're old enough now. It's like vintage and it's exciting. and it's expensive. Yeah. If you want to get a first generation iPod, they're expensive now. Yeah. It's crazy. The iPod shuffle started, launched in 2005. All right.

I saw today, did the Java shuffle? I had a shuffle, yeah. I saw a day where the new iPhone's going to be foldable. Really? Yeah. Did that just get announced? Did people gasp when they showed? It said, people said, wow.

I thought of you. Yeah. Said people said, wow. Foldable. Oh, wow. Man, the iPhone Ultra. Apple's first ever foldable smartphone comes out September 9th, this year.

Wow. It's like a square. He said a while too. Folds into a square. Testers are reportedly digging it. Oh, geez. Gaspi. All right.

Do you guys, though, for math, Not necessarily Google Maps, but do you map almost everywhere you go? Always. Yeah. Always. I think it's smart too. I think it gives you an idea what the traffic is going to look. Sure.

That's what I don't know how to get there. Yeah, I mean around town, no, I don't do it. Like when you leave here and you drive home, well, you don't use Google Maps for that. But how will you know, maybe there's a wreck on I-65? I'll just deal with it. I'll go around it on the shoulder or something. I map it every time. No, I just, I just, I don't like to do that.

And I feel like it messes up my ability to actually know where I'm going. I get so dependent on the maps. Like when I was in Charleston one time, when I lived in Charleston, there was, I never had Google Maps. The whole time I lived there, I never used it. And I used to drive all over the place. I knew everywhere to go. And one time I was driving and there was a new road that I didn't know about. And I was like reaching for my phone to get Google Maps.

And then I go, I bet I can figure it out. Right. And then I did. And I can't do it. It just makes you too dependent. I don't like I'll put it all right drive home. I don't look at it that closely. I know how to get home, but it's just in case there is something.

It's nice to look over and go, oh, I'm only 13 minutes away. See, I... It's good to know the exact. I hate that actually because I go, I feel like the time drags on more. for me when I'm looking. I go, how much time is that way? But I like to rebuild, like, what am I going to listen to for these last 13 minutes? That's fair.

Then you can kind of put together a little playlist in your head on the fly. Yeah. You know, I can listen to Hero three times for the food fighting. That's true. And then I got, you know, 20 seconds to spare after that. Well, I just want to not completely lose my ability to navigate. Okay. Well, I can go by the worst case, I go by the stars.

Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, if you got it. you got it. Well, I do admit it. Like if I'm on the road somewhere, I don't, like from my hotel to the club, that whole weekend, I should know. If I didn't use maps, I would have figured out how to get there. But since I used map, I still couldn't tell you without a map.

On the road, I always map it because I'm like, well, I don't want to be getting lost out here. I got stuff I want to do and I don't need to be getting turned around and trying to navigate. Let me just get there. Yeah. But then something else that came out in 2005, which I would... I thought you're going to say, Hurricane Katrina. That would have been a funny way to it.

Well, all right. Something else that came out. Hurricane Katrina. All right, we'll go there. Hurricane Katrina West. I got a... On that this weekend, there was some people that came to one of my shows, and they really... At the Air Force shows, I'm always like, I do the meet and greets, and they have posters for me, and I sign.

And this couple came up and they were like, we really love your hell of a storm joke. We love that. And then they go, hey, on the thing, could you write hell of a storm? And then I go, okay, I go, what's your name? And her name was Katrina. And I go, that seems like a weird thing to write to Katrina, hell of a storm. I did it, though. Yeah.

Did she understand the joke? We laughed about it. We laughed about it. God, that's so funny. Yeah. There used to be a band Katrina in the Wave. Wow. Before the hurricane?

Yeah. Their big song was Walking on Sunshine. Oh, I remember that song. I love that song. You're talking about the I'm walking on, so. That's Katrina in the Wave. And I'm starting to feel good. They kind of got erased from history after that.

I've never heard that. Is that a joke? Oh, other than I wiped out. No, the levers really broke on that band. Yeah, yeah. Well, anyway, Katrina was 2005. But here's something about it. Walking on Sunshine to a little.

avoid the flood. All right. That's pretty good. So, you're giving out too many fist bumps. I know. Mine were earned. He's in a good mood. I mean, let the guy give out his fist bumps. I'm having fun. All right, I got to ask you this, Aaron. Pope John Paul died in 2005. Yes. Now, he'd been the Pope for 27 years. The only Pope I could ever remember. So I remember the whole process of choosing a new Pope with the smoke. I'd never experienced that. that I could remember in my life. Until this happened, 2005. Until this one, because he'd been, I was very young when. Well, you probably weren't following the papacy as a young child either.

Well, let's say, 27 years before that, so that had been late 70s. Yeah. So you were a child. You're not following who's the Pope. So I remember it was kind of very interesting. It's happened a few times since then. Right. But did your school, like, watch it closely?

We watched it live. I remember seeing the white smoke come up. cheer. Habos, we said it, the Latin phrase, I used to be able to say it. Habim was popem. What's that mean? We have a pope in Latin. Habo's, what is it?

It's been a while. So can you tell us, is it every day they do black smoke until they have one? At the end of the day, yeah, at the end of the day, they send up black smoke if they are still deciding. And then when they finally have one pick, they send up white smoke. And everybody's, you know, in Vatican Square. and they go crazy when the white smoke comes up. It's one of those, like, quirky, they've been doing it forever type fun things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I remember when, yeah, it's Pope Benedict the 16th, right? That they replaced him. Yeah. Yeah, Pope Benedict. And then Pope Francis. And then Benedict tapped out. He didn't even die in office. Yeah.

Tapped out. I don't think that's the term they used. I never saw that movie, the two popes, but I heard it was pretty good. It was really good. I think a lot of people did not like it for... Accuracy? Yeah, I think they just kind of use the two of them to tell a story they wanted to tell. And it's not really meant to be like an accurate depiction of the two guys.

But yeah. Prince Charles remarried. Camilla Parker Bowles. Pretty big drop off after the first two stories. I thought you're talking about his new wife. No, no, no. Pretty big drop off from Princess Diana. Okay, that's his, that's her.

old bow, Prince Charles? Yeah. Who's the new girl? Megan Markle? No, the only one you're talking about. Camilla Parker Bowles? Yeah, I've never even heard of it. She's redheaded?

Is that who that is? She's the one that's married to now. The new girl threw me off since she's like 80. She doesn't have red hair anymore, I'll tell you that. Did she used to, though? She may have, I don't know. Who was the, there was a redheaded royal family member?

Well, Prince Harry. No. Oh, her right there? Yeah, Fergis. Sarah Ferguson. Yeah. Sarah Ferguson, who was, okay, Prince Andrew's wife. Reddit launched in 2005. All right.

Red Box blew up. I remember that. It was already around, but CoinStar bought it and... Did really well with it. Redbox was a, it was a thing that... Coinstar bought it early on? Yeah. Oh, 50s.

Yeah, I mean, that's really a forgotten thing. Red Box going up to the grocery. store or whatever and checking out some DVDs. They have one right outside the gas station. That would change the culture of a whole town. What a great time. Yeah. And before we just had everything at our fingertips at all times. If you could have everything in your life automated, where would you stop? What do you mean? Like if literally you could... You mean if I were like the Amish and I could just pick a year to no longer advance past that? Well, I think I'm at the opposite. Like, if things were so technology advanced that anything you wanted, you could have a robot or

AI do it for you. You're asking what in my life I would want automated by a robot? Yeah. I guess. Well, you're the one asking the question. I'm not sure. You're right. You're right. Yes. I guess I just assume most people would, if you could automate a lot of things, you would choose to do it. But there's got to be a cutoff. I don't know. I think I'm, if we stayed right where we are right now, maybe even went back a year or two. I'd be pretty good with. And it just stayed that way forever. Okay. You know?

I say let's go back to like 2012 at least. No. Right before the world ended? Yeah. It started to get dark after that. Okay. This went the opposite direction. That's what I would say.

Well, with a question, I'm not trying to criticize it. It's unclear. Okay. And I don't know what you're saying. And I'm trying to answer it. Well, like, cars, there are. happening, but pretty soon, probably all cars. Oh, you know what? I do want a self-driving car. Okay. So that's one example. I do want that. I want to be able to...

That exists now, though. I know. I'm saying, what I'm saying, we're picking what we keep. Okay. And we're rebuilding the world from scratch here. Or I don't know what we're doing. Well, I'll give you a little time to rephrase the question. And then we'll attack it. I don't think I like the... It's fun, though. I like the idea of a self-driving car on a long trip. But you ever with an Uber driver and you don't like how slow they're driving and you're like, I feel like that's what self-driving cars are where you're like going, go, buddy. I think you can program how aggressive you want it to be. I like that. Yeah, you put on dusty sleigh mode and start honking it.

Get out of the way. It's the car. It's the car. I want you and Henry Cho to take a road trip together. Yeah. Oh, my God. I was talking to him the other day on the phone and he was like, keep saying, hang on a second. get out of the way.

Oh, yeah. It's like, I don't know where these idiots come from. Yeah. Me and Henry and cars yelling at each other. He's like, Dusty? Guys, I have always hated how much of a process a yearly checkup can be. Oh, man. You wait forever to get an appointment, take time out of your day.

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website in the history of the internet. Craigslist. Well, I was going to say YouTube. Oh. YouTube for sure. Watch it depends on how weird you. Yeah, the Craigslist. That had, you know, when I, I think it was great.

What was that? Bad Slava. You remember that website? For open mics? For open mics? Yeah. When I went to New York in 2013, I, I just did a month and I was just doing open mics. Every day, I would just go to that.

Look it up and it was up to date. You could find them. It was great. I remember that. Yeah. YouTube came out in 2005. Yeah. I'm trying to think, it sounds so crazy.

It's so ubiquitous now. Can you look up ubiquitous? Yeah, let me look it up on YouTube. But I don't even remember how did I watch videos before that? I don't know if you did. I would go to like E-BOMs world and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. But like...

I don't know what that is. Yeah, that surprised me. But YouTube, yeah, I mean, I wasn't even... When did Google buy it? I wasn't even into that into YouTube until like 2012. Yeah, so I want to talk about YouTube. I mean, it shaped your worldview, so it can be more bad. Well, it was a medium to help me find information.

Of course. Do you know the first ever YouTube video? I don't. What was it? Me at the zoo. Okay. The guy who, I guess, one of the founders, 16-second video of him with like an elephant behind him.

Okay. Just kind of a test video. The elephant kill him. Currently has 405 million views. He's married to Serena Wilson. Williams now. Wow. Really? No, it's the Reddit guy. Oh, I didn't know. I'm jumping around, guys. Keep up. Okay. So that was the April 2005 YouTube launched. A year later, the first true viral video, the evolution of dance. I remember that. It was a high school teacher, right, dancing for his school.

Yeah. You remember the evolution of dance? No. And he does, he progresses through the decades. He does the robot, and then he, you know, works his way up to. Stop me. It does sound cool. It does sound cool. It does sound cool. And then a little bit later that year, a 16-year-old kid and a Bo Burnham posted a video called my whole family. I remember Bo Burnham. New Math was a good one that I really liked. But, I mean, he was probably the first comedian that truly blew up from YouTube. Don't you think?

Yeah. You sent me that country music pandering one. Gosh, so good. Yeah, that's why I was looking at it. Go ahead. I think that one's overrated. But he did JFL the same year as Nate. So he's the first guy that's like even kind of in our world.

Yeah. To blow up from this. I mean, y'all are almost the same age, aren't you? I think he's maybe a year older than me. But yeah, we're in the same. I just think about how, I mean, obviously this podcast is on YouTube. My special worry, YouTube, it's blowing up. We're having a good time.

Podcast is on there, too. You're getting enough. YouTube is. Plug another podcast. podcast. YouTube's just shaped it. The world in so many ways when he's good and bad, I guess. I mean,

yeah. Google bought it a year later. I thought it was around a lot longer than that before Google bought it. I would not, I guess. But they, I mean, what a smart buy that.

I don't think that it's, anything's bad at all. About YouTube? Yeah, it's like, unless you censor what people say. Because otherwise you're just, just it's just a platform it's just a freedom of speech platform and you know does that apply to all

social media you know there's anything inherently bad about there yeah i mean i think i think there could be you know well i mean those are a little different but uh what's different about them it's text instead of video well i think there's some some deeper stuff with uh you know with some censorship and i think that's the big thing is is deplatforming people and stuff like that where if they don't like what you're saying. And I think, you know, you could make an argument for some things, but I, you know, I mean, that's up for debate. Because there's some things you just, you know, you can't do. Yeah. Anywhere. Right. You know. When I was, but I don't think it's bad, even if, if you think that I've watched something that's bad,

that doesn't make it bad. Okay. Do you know what I mean? But if I watch something you think is bad, it's probably it's bad. Well, it probably is. But just because I think it's bad, doesn't make it bad. Of course. I think it's bad because it is bad. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's the difference.

Yeah. When I... Right? Yeah. I remember before YouTube, a buddy of mine was going to try to replace his ceiling fan on his own. And he went to the library to check out books on ceiling fans about how to replace a ceiling fan. about how to replace a C-leafat. And now, I still couldn't do it even watch a YouTube video,

but we've all looked at YouTube videos to show us how to do stuff. Yeah, that seems insane. I know. I know that's how it was done forever. Yeah. My mom had books from Home Depot on how to do repairs at home. Yeah. Do you remember the four dummies books?

Do you have a bunch of those? No, but yeah, I do remember them, though. I don't. Oh, four. I was thinking about the number four. Because I am dumb for not even. I remember renting. Numbers for dummies.

I remember renting like JavaScript for dummies from the library. Then I took it home. I remember Cliffs notes. Cliffs notes would be. Spark notes for me. I think bookstores still have those for dummies. Probably. But have you used YouTube to...

All the time. Yeah. All the time. YouTube, how do I, you know, tie a tie. Stuff like that. Yeah, your dad should have to do that. Well, man. It was a bad example.

I do still use it. But Chad GBT is really, it really is better for fixing. Like, because like, it is great for when you have a hyper-specific questions. I had a thing going on with the toilet. And I was like, I was like, why is it, you know, making this sound? So I took a picture of the insides. And then it was able to be like, all right, this is the specific toilet that you have. And this is what you need.

And this is what you need to buy. And I go, can you list the things that I need to buy? And it was able to check and see if the local Home Depot and the area that I was at had the things. And then I ordered them, went there, picked them up, fixed the toilet. And it worked. Yeah. Meanwhile, Brian's still driving the library. Trying to fix the same problem.

Well, I did, I got these questions from chat. So I'm being a hypocrite for criticizing Dusty. I'm just saying when people, when people use the chat, GBT for conversation or for everyday questions, or treat it like Google, it is a little ridiculous. But I don't know. If you actually utilize it for like, you know, making a song about raccoons and stuff like that, it is really helpful. I used it this weekend.

I was making a joke there at the end, but you know what I mean. Olive had a insect bite on her foot. And I took a picture of that and uploaded a chat GPT and said, what's going on with this? And it called Child Protective Services? It did for sure. What did it say? Yeah, what was it? It said it's consistent with a mosquito bite.

It just had a weird shape to it. I was like, let me make sure this isn't something. Yeah, some of these mosquitoes can be, the bites can be really big and raised and misshaping. And look like the state of Tennessee. It was like a weird shape. Yeah. What's going on here? I don't know.

But that's how it's going to take over. We're going to need it and trust it. One parent caring about their kid at a time. Yep. I think most likely it will. We're one songwriter at a time. It will be that we get so used to using it. And then we start having to have a monthly subscription or actually pay for our dad.

data, which is where I think it's going. Sure. Well, we're going to really have to pay for it. Maybe. What's the longest YouTube video you've watched voluntarily? I guess my question is, well, yeah, for you. It could be days, right? I mean, I've for sure watched, you know, two and a half, three hour videos.

Pretty consistent. Yeah, full movies and stuff on that? Do you watch full movies? Oh, yeah. On YouTube? Yeah. I used to buy movies on YouTube occasionally. Really?

Yeah, if I'm already on there or something. It's not a bad platform for that. You can also watch comedian Shucky Ducky Ducky Quack Quack for 10 hours straight. Did you make that video? My YouTube channel. Yeah, yeah. That's me. Yeah. That was before you had kids when you had a little free time. Yeah, I'm making a lot fewer videos like that these days. I wish I had more time. All right, we all have YouTube channels with our comedy.

If we weren't comedians, what would you do a YouTube channel? So you've got to start one. What is that you're showing people you're doing? Oh, my God, dude, it would be so embarrassing. I don't even know. Well, I could get, Dusty, you'd be gardening, I would assume. And I'd be showing you how to raise tree frogs from padpoles. And then I'm doing that in a way already, but I would, that would be my main focus.

Race tree frogs from tadpoles? Yeah. Where are the tadpoles? Where do they live? I have them in an aquarium. Okay. And then I have another aquarium next to it. Is it outside?

No, they're in my garage. Where do you get them? Just out of a bucket. out of the yard. Now, where do you? The tadpoles? Yeah. Yeah, the trees, the tree frogs drop the eggs in these buckets.

And then they're probably going to. So you scooped up the tadpoles from the world. You didn't like go to a bait shop and buy that. But from a bucket where they're probably going to die. Okay. So you collected them in a bucket. And now you're raising them. Yeah.

To do what? And then once they turn into tree frogs, I put them in the other aquarium for a little while, let them eat some bugs. And then I collect them and then release them into the wild. Oh, okay. Yeah. I didn't know if there was a purpose to them. If they did some kind of good.

Well, they're supposed to eat mosquitoes. Oh, okay. That's what I meant. I didn't know if you were raising them for that reason. Yeah, but... Except in the ecosystem. Yeah. Saving it.

Saving it. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Wow. So that would be yours. Mine would... I mean, I don't know. It should get much weirder, but that would be what I'd be...

It would devolve pretty quickly. Yeah. I don't have an answer either. I can't even show you what I was doing as a kid. But you could do like computer stuff. Yeah, it'd be stuff like that. I'd probably be streaming, doing stuff like that. Show people how to build websites?

Video games. Well, that's all. AI is completely kind of killed that industry. I would have a lot more fun on the internet if I did not have not built a brand where I needed to continue to make money. I could have a lot more fun on the internet, I think. You would let loose a lot more if you weren't being restricted. Yeah.

You should have seen me when I was younger. I mean. I just, okay. The let loose open mic would be much different. Yeah, it would. I think about 10 years between each of us, but like your, even for you, your worldview toward like entertainment is different. Like my generation's all about TV.

And nowadays, obviously, that's not where it's at. But it's hard to get out of that mind. set of get on a TV show would be the greatest thing you could do. Right. But I think I'm not alone around people my age like that. But I think you guys, I'm a little, I think the young, like the next, even kids five years younger than me are, it's like much more that way. My friends with teenage kids, they're all about YouTube.

Yeah, of course. Television, what? They don't even care. Yeah, like, what do you call? Like broadband television or whatever. Yeah. Nobody's watching that. Nobody's wrong. They're watching wet heat on Netflix.

That's right. And they're watching Worried on the Nateland YouTube channel. Sigmaturedish. No, they're not allowed to do. Give me nothing. I know. Oh, I'm sorry. I just plugged your special.

Well, thank you. You didn't even look at me. I'm sorry. I'm trying to advance the show. You look like a court-appointed attorney that showed up late to trial. You got all this paperwork. You were fishing and you were like, I got a trial. If it pleases the court, I'd like to show a movie.

It's an old Renard Hirsch bit. It's a great bit. About a substitute attorney. You're talking about substitute teachers would just show, you know. Yeah. It's like no other professional. You imagine a substitute attorney shows up. Oh, Your Honor, if it pleased the court, I would like to show a movie.

That's a great book. I mean, Mr. Beast is probably one of the most famous people in the world. Yeah, probably top five, right? Probably bigger than any, I started to think of anybody on TV. Kelly Ripper, somebody like that. I mean, I don't even know it would be Jimmy Fallon. Michael Strahan. Probably news people, Jimmy Fallon, very recognizable.

Who do you think if they did what O.J. Simpson did, it would be as big of a story now. I mean, we've talked about this. Yeah, we've talked about on the podcast? No, but I know. I know that I think what the answer are going to be. Travis Kelsey. Hey, that would be a bigger story. It would be bigger.

Wow. Because nobody really knew. I don't think anybody knew who OJ's wife was. Right. Oh, oh, that's true. That's true. What did you think I was talking about? I just thought I was talking about just the athlete himself.

It was a big story for OJ. He's a big, very well-known story. Yeah, if OJ's wife were the most famous woman on the planet, it'd be a much different story. Yeah, that'd be crazy. It'd be bigger, but you're asking for an equivalent. Yeah. Well, I've never, I didn't even think bigger was possible. Until I heard that answer.

Yeah. That would be a much bigger story. I mean, if Travis Kelsey killed Taylor Swift and then jumped in a Bronco. With Jason Kelsey in the Batsinger seat. Yeah, that'd be wild. Yeah, it would be crazy. Or Patrick Mahomes. Oh, yeah, Mahomes in there.

Yeah. I'd like to see. I mean, Tom Brady. I mean, all of them. I mean, that could be, that'd be a huge story. You know. What's the crazy? answer. LeBron James?

Before Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift got married, I thought Michael Strahan was the answer. Oh, okay. Because Michael Strayhand, there's the same racial element to it. And then also... Good football player, very likable. Hall of Famer and then has a

successful career outside of football after he retired. Well liked by men and women like him and all this. I thought that was the... What about LaBron? The bra. I don't know. See, LeBron's bigger. OJ is retired and LeBron's still playing.

He's a greater basketball player than OJ was football player. Yeah, that's for sure. Okay. I feel like Strehend's a good equivalent. Yeah. But I feel like OJ, because of what he did, people don't appreciate how good he was at football. He was like unbelievably good.

Rush for 2,000 yards. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah. Really great in the naked gun movies. I know. That's what's what's, crazy about it. Yeah. The Hertz commercials. It's a little before your time. Roots.

I never saw it. Let's do a Roots episode. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The last thing I'll say about YouTube. Was he in that movie? He was in Roots, yeah. Oh, wow. Last thing I'll say about the top two videos on YouTube of all time. Charlie bit my finger. Oh, well, all right, that was one of the, that came out May 2007. Are they music videos now? I feel like music videos came and passed up all these fun videos. Number three is Despacito. I'll probably not say that right. Yeah.

No, 9.1 billion views. The top two, my daughter has pretty much probably put in those. Baby Shark. Baby Shark's number one by almost twice as much. Wow. How many views?

17 billion. Jeez. Nuts. 14 billion by my daughter. Love to get those royalties on that, huh? And number two, will's on the bus by Cocoa Mellon. Really?

Yep. Wow. used to watch a lot. I remember Gangam style, when Gangam style hit a billion, that was a big moment. And a couple of the top subscribe,

Mr. Beast is by far number one. Right. What does Mr. Beast do? I mean, people always reverts him. I've never watched a Mr. Beast anything. He makes videos. Like what, though?

It's like challenges, and you raise money, and it goes to charity. Challenges. He'll go, like, this is a small scale example, but he'll go like,

hey, you take this water bottle, curl it like it's a weight. I'll give you a dollar for every time you do that. Oh. Well, I'm not going to keep doing it

because I don't think you're going to give me. No, I don't have that. I don't have money as Mr. B. Or he'll go like, I locked a guy in a grocery store and he'll get $10,000 a day

until he wants to leave. Wow. Stuff like that. High budget and incredibly high budget stuff now, but he does these really extravagant challenges. And I don't know, people are weird about him. But the little that I've seen is just stuff like that. Yeah.

A little sports from 2005, probably to me, the greatest college football game of all time. USC, Texas. Yeah. USC, I mean, Texas won the national championship with Vint Young. It was actually January 4th, 2006, but it was the 2005 season. Is that the same year as the Boise State, Oklahoma, Fiesta Bowl? I think it's a year later.

Okay. Yeah, that was the best game I've ever seen. Those are the two best games. I feel like I could remember. I still remember Vince Young running it in. Yeah. Corner of the end zone there. Reggie Bush won the Heisman that year.

It was the Bush push year too, right? Probably. Yeah. Yeah. The White Sox won the World Series. You know, the Cubs for so long until they finally won. That's what everybody talked about, and the Red Sox. But the White Sox had not won since 1917.

Wow. I don't feel like they got talked about in no ways as much. And the Pope was at the game. Really? The Pope was at the World Series. The final game, they won? I don't know if he was game, whatever. Was he a fan?

Yeah, he's a White Sox fan. Wow. Still is. He's just in Chicago at the time. Yeah. Which Pope? Benedict? No, the current Pope, Pope Leo. Oh, so he wasn't the Pope at the time.

No, he was just a priest at that point. Yeah. Listen to these, all these TV shows premiered. I guess the Pope can't really go to a baseball game, huh? You probably could go to the box. Yeah. But this is why it's so weird to have an American Pope. There's no sporting event where I would even imagine the Pope would care.

Yeah. You know, they're from, JP2 is from, what, Poland. They're not going to the Iron Bowl. Yeah. You know, or something like that. They should. Or they're not going to the World Series. They don't care.

Yeah. It's just nuts. But now it could happen. It could. Neky Gunn, was it Queen Elizabeth that went to the baseball game? Yeah. Yeah. Remember that?

It's been a long time. since I've seen it. Reggie Jackson. All right, all these shows premiered in 2005. Two of them are still in the air.

Can you guess? Yeah. Do you want to guess which two shows? I thought you're going to name a bunch and then we'd pick the two that are still in the air. I'll name a bunch.

The Simpsons. Simpsons was I know. Way before that. All right. You mean just list them. Law and order SVU. No.

You're probably right. Let me just list them and I'll say. The Office premiered in 2005. American? Yes, the American office. Gray's Anatomy. How I Met Your Mother.

Supernatural. Never heard of that. It's on the WB. Criminal Minds. You're a big WB guy? No. It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Still on the air.

Avatar, the last airbender. No. I thought you might know. I don't know. It was Nickelode. Yeah, it was a cartoon. Prison break. The sweet life of Zach and Cody.

And this, the show stunk, but he came out. My name is Earl. That's a joke. If you're listening, Greg Garcia, the creator is a friend of our podcast. All those shows came. That's a pretty crazy year. That's nuts. I would say always sunny is still on.

Right. I don't watch it anymore. I like that show, but I don't watch it. It's still on. Is Gray's Anatomy still on the air? Yeah. Wow. What season are they on now?

Season 23 starts this fall. Hang it up. I mean, they must still be getting numbers. I guess. How do you tell somebody, hey, I want to watch the show. And they go, you start at the beginning. It's 23 seasons. Yeah.

No, I'm not doing that. Yeah. Would you have to start at the beginning, you think? Seems like you would. Otherwise, it's better to start all the way at the beginning? It should be done, in my opinion now. Okay. So they didn't maybe jump the shark at this point.

Is that the impression? You had to have jumped the shark. yeah Nate used to have one of his first jokes was pitching Friday the 13th movie

he's like it's about a guy serial killer in a hockey mask and the the people mind the head would be like

yeah so you're like like you know a standalone he's like no no no like 13 of these like

because the series just went on so long with so many ridiculous things yeah a few years ago one came out

yeah yeah there's probably more than 13 years later it's crazy anyway all those shows premiered

That's a great year for television. Some celebrity desks, because I like to tell those. Johnny Carson. All right. I didn't know he was around that late. Richard Pryor. I didn't know. He was around that late.

Yep. Pat Marita. I don't know him. Mr. Miyagi. Oh, okay. And from Happy Days. Yeah. Now, he died at age 73, so I started doing the math.

I'm like, wait a second. Cardi kid had been out 20 years before that. He was younger than I am now when he was Mr. Meaghy. Wow. And karate kid one and two. I would have thought he was like a hundred in the karate kid. I know. The whole thing is it's like this old man and he's younger than I am.

So, anyway. 73 in Las Vegas. We could wrap it up. We didn't even talk about music or movies. You know, even just thinking about this, though, it's like I was born in 82, right? And I'm 44. So like, it would be like somebody being born now. to 82 would be like me being born and it being the 40s.

Do you know what I mean? That's how, like my birth to the 40s is like my, you know what I mean? It's like, I'm not saying that right, but I think you get what I'm saying. I totally agree. I totally know what you're saying. It's hard to believe.

Yeah. I saw something like my, like even the 90s where I'm like, that doesn't seem like that long ago, but it's like, that's like when I was growing up, that's like being in the 50s. Exactly. Yeah.

So I think it's Joe Biden was closer when he was born. He was closer to Abraham Lincoln's presidency than he was his own. Wow. That's crazy. That is crazy. I think that's what it's right. I didn't fact like that. Just the fact that I, even if that's not true, the fact that I believe it.

Yeah. That's how old that guy is. Yeah. I mean, it's like even just talking about my old family, like my grandfather was born in 1900, my uncle, my first uncle was. in World War II and my dad was drafted for Vietnam. And it just feels like those, he never went, but it just feels like those two wars were like a whole different time. Yeah. How do you get out? He had a heart murmur. And so he failed his physical. Yeah. Well, it is interesting, you know,

three of my uncles, all my uncles were in the military. And then like my grandfather was like, Too young for World War I, too old for two. And then my dad... Sweet spot. And then my dad got drafted for Vietnam and then didn't go. And then I tried to go to the Army and would have been in 9-11 and got arrested. So my linnia just dot... Your whole family, you're just like, we're trying to help.

Yeah. We can wrap it up. Yeah. All right. I'll be in Hobbs, New Mexico this weekend. What are you going to be doing there? I'm doing a show. Oh, comedy.

Yeah. Okay. Well, we just pitched dates and that's all I got, so I'm just throwing it out. If you're going to be in Hobbs, New Mexico, maybe after your show, swing on up to Phoenix, Arizona. Ah, yeah. We're performing all weekend at the Desert Ridge Improv, the very funny. Connor Larson, oft mentioned on this podcast. He will be with me.

And then I got a real funny guy, Steve Rinaldi from Philadelphia. He's coming out. It's going to be a fun weekend. Come see us in Phoenix. of the Desert Ridge Improft, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Also, look out for some let-looses here at Zanis. Yeah, keep an eye out. At the lab.

Yeah. September 6th, I'm in Chicago at Zanis Comedy Club. It's Sunday, it's Labor Day weekend, so you don't have to go to work the next day. So come on out. Enjoy a show at Zanis. September 25th, September 15th, I'm at the Franklin Theater in Franklin, Tennessee, doing a benefit show for Hoveness. in Camino, I think.

And then September 25th, Canton, Ohio. This is a free show. Hall of Fame. Yep. It's outside. It's for the public. And part of the greatest thing

has ever happened in Canton. All right. So come to those shows. All right. Okay. Is that it? That's it. Real wrap up on 2005.

We did it, guys. Yeah. We did it. Thanks so much for tuning in. Dusty's having a good time. We're having a good time. Boy, I tell you. Let's go, folks.

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