The Nateland Podcast - 37: #37 | Amphibians

Episode Date: October 14, 2026

This week, Brian shares some travel challenges, Dusty weighs in on Kelly Clarkson, and Aaron shares a story about getting scammed. Then the guys delve into the controversial topic of amphibians. Dusty shares his process of raising tadpoles into tree frogs, debate which plague would be toughest to deal with and discuss whether they'd rather live in water or in a tree. This Episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/PUBLICFIGURES to explore your payment options. SeatGeek: Use our code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/PUBLIC10. Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount. NOBL: NOBLTravel.com NOBL gives you real travel peace of mind — security, design, and convenience all in one. Head to NOBLTravel.com for 46% off your entire order! #NOBL #ad Warby Parker: Our listeners can buy one pair of glasses and get 20% off any additional pairs at WarbyParker.com/NATELAND - and using our link helps support the show.

Good morning, good afternoon. Everybody, welcome into another edition of the Public Figures podcast, recorded live and in-person right here at Zanis Comedy Club, Nashville, Tennessee. Zanis Comedy Showplace celebrating over 40 years of live stand-up comedy. We're right here in the studio. I am Aaron Weber, one of the co-hosts, alongside my buddy's Brian Bates. Okay. And Dusty Slay. All right.

Multiple specials on Netflix. go check them out right now. And here we are. It's exciting to be here. We're three professional stand-up comedians talking shop, chewing the fat, shooting the breeze. What have you guys been up to? It's been a couple, it's been a couple weeks. We recorded the Leanne episode in advance. Yep. So it's been a while since I've seen you. I don't know what you've been up to. I don't know what you're thinking. I don't know where your head's at. Let's get into it. I'll start with the Prater Silly event. Okay. A little bit of a letdown this year. The lineup, a little weaker. Dusty.

Well, I figured that. I wasn't on it, so I thought, I wasn't on it either. Probably not going to be that good. It was pretty similar to last year, except you and I weren't on it. Oh, yeah. A lot of the same people.

Pretty much everyone, except me and you. They just replaced us. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. What do you think happened? I don't know. We wanted to be a good show,

top the bottom. Yeah. No. It was a great show. It was a great show. Last year was great. This year was good. I feel, thank you so much.

We raised over $200,000 for the nonprofit that Lucy and I work with. It was really a great night. So thank you guys for doing it the first year. I feel bad asking you to do stuff. That's why I don't. Well, you know what? I'll be honest with you.

I was feeling weird about it. About what? The whole thing, because I talked to Brian about it one day. Because I wasn't sure if you asked me. And then I was not talking about it. And then I wasn't sure if there was some weird thing. And I didn't want to ask you. I didn't want to be like, hey, I didn't mind that I wasn't on it.

But I didn't want to be like, hey, did you ask me to do this? Because you don't know if I maybe mentioned it in person. Yeah, and I was just like, yeah. And I was, I am fine to not do it. But I was. For the future, feel free to have those conversations. Okay. But I go, I just, because Brian was like, I'm about to go over to the show and I go, hey, can I ask you something?

Because. Am I on this show? I thought. Yeah, you're headlining. I thought he was on it. Yeah. And so I was like, I feel weird. And he goes, I'm not on it either.

I go, oh, okay. Yeah, okay. All right. So. I just feel bad asking people for stuff. Lucy does not have that instinct. Yeah. So Lucy's the one that didn't ask us.

Well, I booked you all the first time. Okay. Because I thought, obviously, first step, let's get the podcast people on. Yeah. I'll take over. No, I. There's some weak leaks here. No, it'll do look like a great lineup.

And I'm fine to not do it. But I did feel weird. because I was like, did he ask me to do it? And I've not been talking about it. And now I don't know if he asked me to do it. And so, but I also didn't want to be like, hey, did you ask me to do this and make it seem weird like I'm asking to do it? Well, just I think in general, I know you're never asking. Okay.

Okay. All right. I don't think you've ever been a guy who's like jockeying for spots places. No, no. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I would never think that of you. You got replaced by Henry Cho and I got replaced by Hugh Hauser.

All right. Well, that makes sense. That adds up. And Heather McMahon did the show. Yeah. I got replaced by Heather Brayette, yeah. Yeah, it was a fun, fun lineup. Top to bottom. You know, I heard, and, you know, I heard that Hugh had a really hot set. Hugh crushed.

My family was like, who's that guy with red hair? We love that. Because, you know, I talked to, I don't know if I talked about it on the podcast, but I had done Hugh's show a couple of times, and he always does well. But I kind, and I think Hugh's funny, but I always kind of thought, that he, you know, is crushing for his crowd. Of course. And then he did my show.

And I go, I wonder, I wonder how he's going to do on this show. And then he crushed. Yeah. And I was like, okay, good. Yeah, he's legit funny. Yeah. But I have been, I was thinking today flying home, I've been in six airports the last week. Man.

Some good, some bad. What were you doing in there? Just hanging out. Had no shows. Just casing the joint. Just wanted to make people think. think that I fly places. Where have you been?

So last Monday, I went to Monroe, Louisiana. Did a show. Direct flight? You know, it's funny. So I flew Delta to Atlanta, of course, and then from Atlanta to Monroe. And I'm thinking on my flight, because obviously, Atlanta is a big Delta hub. Yeah. But I'm thinking, man, Delta probably hates having to go to Monroe, Louisiana.

They probably, you know. And then my Uber driver informs me. in Monroe that Delta started in Monroe, Louisiana. That's why it's called Delta, because on the Delta. Oh, my gosh, I had no idea. I like that you are thinking about Delta's feelings. He's like, these poor flight attendants, man. The plane we were on, I'm like, yeah, they're giving us the, you know,

it's always one of the little ones that you have to wait by the jetway to get your, your, bugger, whatever. Didn't you recently go to Monroe? No, I went to, I always forget the name, but it was, Lafayette? Lafayette? Now, on further west. Lake Charles.

Lake Charles. Okay, Lake Charles. But anyway, I was at Christchurch in Monroe. Doug Dynasty. That's where they're from. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Apparently Willie goes to that church.

There are a lot of guys that look like that down there. There's a few. Okay, you see them. There's some swamp people down there. Yeah. Did they come? The Duck Dynasty people? No.

No. No. But, uh... They skip church. I'm going to pass this week Yeah Well this was an event for their like staff And then I went to

I went to Orlando for a thing And then I went to from there to Raleigh And did Goodnights comedy club And How was that? I hear that, you know, I've not been to the new club Yeah, I mean I feel like it's that new It's not that new now

But it's still new to me Yeah, it's great It's great Yeah, it's great I was trying to think anything that Oh, there's one thing I text you guys this So they have two shows, a main room and a smaller room

For whatever reason they put me in the smaller room But they usually staggered the show times But they had the shows the exact same time So Aaron Branch was in the main room And I didn't know him But apparently he has a huge following Yeah And they let off the shows the same time

So I had my little bitty merch line and I'm over there selling my stuff. And then his people just come out and just take over the room. Wow. And they're like- Because you share a lobby with the other room. Yeah, you share a lobby. So we were both doing our meet and greets. Why didn't you step outside? Did you not think about it?

Well, my show let out first. Okay. So you're already planted there. People, yeah, I have my merch there. And by the time his fans got out, you look like a little Jehovah's Witness guy standing in the corner. You should have did a 90-minute show and then it would have given you some extra time. Yeah, let him get out first. Yeah.

Yeah. You're right. I didn't think that through. I think you should go the other way, to be honest. Do a 30-minute show. And then I went from there. Let's see. And they came home, went with Nate to the Vanderbilt football game.

Right. And how was that? Well, let's see. They lost 52 to 17. Oh, okay. So what happened? It was 42 to 3 at halftime. What happened?

It felt like last year, like the last two years, Vanderbilt was like, you know, a real football team. Diego Pavia was a big part of that. I think Vanderbilt's not quite as good, and Old Miss is much better than they were last year, too. So a lot of things. But it was raining, of course, on Saturday, and we're... Just saying, Nate has some pretty good seats.

So much so you're not even seated. You know, you're tripping the referee. Yeah. So it was a fun time. And then yesterday I went to Charleston, South Carolina to Witsand Comedy Club, and had a great show there. I worked with my old buddy Stan Shell. be?

Yep. Anybody else? That's it? Well, Josh Bates. I don't know Josh, really. Okay. He knows you. Well, I don't think so.

Well, I mean, he talked about you. He knows of you. Yeah, no. And I, yeah, I mean, I don't have anything against Josh. I'm just saying, I never. He wasn't around when I was there. Take it easy. Yeah.

He's a good guy. Let me think, who else? Even my Uber driver was like. I hear the club's great. Yeah, it was great. Yeah. There's a picture of Aaron. on stage, you look very confident.

On stage? Yeah, you're like leaning against the wall. Oh, the picture's not on stage. No, no, no, but there's a... In the green room. It's in the bar. Oh, okay. They have like a rotating screen, and you're one of the photos.

And I look confident standing there? Yeah, you're leaning against the wall with your like legs crossed and like, like, like, you know. It's AI, yeah. What did the Uber driver say? She said, your first time of Charleston? I'm like, I've been here a few times. And she's like, oh, you've got to.

you got to check some stuff out. She's not like Dusty. She's like, you got to go to Folly Beach. Yeah. And she was telling me all these places to go. And you're like, I'm leaving seven hours. Yeah, my flight this morning, so early, I landed back in Nashville at 6.50 a.m. Wow. And, uh, because you got an hour back. You got an hour back. You got an hour back from Charleston. From my hotel, the shuttle took us at 5 a.m. to the airport. And the shuttle driver wants to talk. until jokes the whole time. We're all like, dude. Wouldn't you if that's your job?

I mean, that's, it's 3 p.m. for him. You're not supposed to be joky in the morning, though. I don't mind. I think even the Bible says it. Don't be jockey in the morning. It says jokey. Yeah. I mean, he did say that.

He's like, you guys just getting up and we're like, yeah. And he was like, oh, I've been up for hours. But still. So, yeah, we're all on a normal schedule, bud. Yeah. And he gets in. He's like, all right, who's driving? Because I don't have my license.

and then nobody says anything. And then he pops up in a can and goes, you guys don't mind if a drink, do you? This guy sounds awesome. He'd be killing for me. And then he was like, where's somebody from? And I'm like, oh, God. How many people are on there?

Three. Okay. There's three of us. Yeah, you've got to have headphones and you've got to move further back. I was thankfully in the back, from his back. So the guy up front engaged with him and talked to it.

You let the non-comics laugh at the jokes. Yeah. You know, because these... Southwest's the same way. These people, they're crushing out here. Like in Southwest, I was boarding, and they were doing on the intercom. They go, all right, we're boarding the flight to Honolulu. And then they go, oh, sorry, Phoenix.

And then the whole place erupted in laughter. That's not bad. I go, guys. You know the one that bothers me, and I fall for it every time on Southwest. They go, did anybody drop this? Now that I got you your attention, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it gets a laugh every time, and I always fall for it. I fall for it.

And I know it's coming, too. I fell for it this morning. I was asleep. What? You fall for it, but they also, they don't have your attention. They got it for a second. A second, and you look right back down.

Yeah, you go. And now you're more disgusted. You're like, where's my noise-canceling headphones? Man, I've had a couple of larger ladies in that middle seat. Okay. Go on. One of them, I think it was her phone, but it was in her side pocket.

You hope it's a phone. I mean, it is just pressing into my side the whole time. I understand. She's got one of those old Nokia brick phones, too. So it was just, I mean... I mean, it was just... Your gun is digging into my hip. You might have to go.

You might have to put that in the front pocket, miss. It might be a front pocket situation. I'm not confrontational. I'd just like to complain about it on a podcast. That's right. But, man, I'm like, golly. Was she a nice lady, though? No, she had her...

thing buried into my side. And she had the arm up. Oh, armrest up? I'm up and I got in. I said, do you want this down or up? She's like, I'd prefer up if it's okay. And I remember from our podcast that we talked about, the middle seat technically supposed to get the say on that.

It's kind of how it always works. You just go, hey, can I let this down? You don't ask would you prefer it to be up. You go, hey, can I let this down? I'm going to let this down. Yeah. I think it would, I'd probably have caught something of hers, like some body part.

Yeah, but you just got to. Excuse me. Excuse me. Force it down? Yeah. Excuse me. Trying to let this down here. Ma'am, can you suck in just a little?

Yeah. So, anyway. Yeah, it's not a nice flight for her either. She probably had a miserable time. No, I'm not, I guess I'm being mean, but. Mm-hmm. You are. Okay, well, I'm sorry to this lady.

I don't think it's mean. If she didn't have her phone buried into my hip, it wouldn't be so bad, but... Do you know where the line your gun is digging into my hip is from? No. Ace Ventura. Oh, okay. Lois Einhorn. The original one.

Yeah. Okay. Ray Finkel. Finkel and Einhorn. Jim Carrey. Well, yeah. Mm-hmm. So, anyway, that's...

It's too bad you guys don't get any of these references. I've seen East Ventura. I did not get that reference. Well, I know you didn't get it. It was a question whether you saw the movie. Yeah. I was home last weekend. I did, uh, had some corporate stuff.

I did a show at the Riemann Auditorium with Kathleen Madigan. It was unbelievable. I think I'm super biased, obviously, because I live here. But I think that's the best venue in the world for stand-up. I don't know if I've, at least that I've performed that. I can't think of a better venue. It's awesome. It's perfect.

It sounds great. You sound like, it feels like a comedy club. They're right on top of you. The balcony's close. You know what overhangs pretty far. It's just awesome, man. So that was really cool to get to do. That was Saturday night?

No, Saturday night. I have not been downtown forever. It was raining Saturday. What was it like downtown? Well, that's why I texted you y'all and I was stuck in traffic. I turned on to Broadway. I drove down to the Riemann because they said they had a parking spot for me. And I drove down to the Riemann.

I turned on the Broadway. I can see basically the Rhyman from where I'm at. It took like 35 minutes to get two stop. lights up because these animals, these people, like, they don't stop when the, when the hand comes up and says, stop walking, they just keep going. Yeah. So we were missing entire turns on the traffic lights because these hordes of people is, you got to get out of the way. You got to go. You got to go. You got to kind of, you kind of do that thing where you inch it up. Yeah. And you go. Yeah. And you go. Yeah. And you honk at them. But I wasn't at the front. So I didn't really have the luxury of that. I know. But we all have to

suffer through people not being aggressive. Yeah. You know, it's like, get aggressive with it. That's true. So it took, I mean, and it was, the weather was bad. Patience is only a virtue for you, you know, but when you try to push it on other people. It actually hurts people. Yeah.

Yeah, it does. Patience is one of the deadly sins on us. Yeah. Well, people always go, they go, just be patient. They go, no, that's for you. You do the patience. Right. But we'd appreciate it if you sped up.

Yeah, I'm trying to get somewhere. Yeah. And we're all trying to get places. Patients sometimes I feel like is a made-up word for people that want to feel good about being in everybody's way. We had that show at the rhyme and it was awesome. I tell you all, Lucy and I. Well, I'm sorry. Go ahead.

Yeah, I want to hear this. I'm sure I would be one of those people that you would have a real problem with. I'm sure I'm not an aggressive effort survivor. I do think patience is a virtue. You remember that time you rode, I think you wrote with me to the rhyming one time. Were you driving, Dusty? Yeah. Yeah.

You're honking. Yeah. I still remember this one guy. I hope I, I wish I could reach out to him to tell him, I'm sorry. Dusty's behavior. Yeah, we were on Church Street and we were trying to turn onto, you know, fifth or whatever. And there's just car, car, car, car, car. I mean, there's one car in front of us, and Dusty's honking at the guy.

I'm like, go. I'm like, Dusty's, there's just cars nonstop coming. What do you expect me to do, you guys? You got to get out there. Yeah. You do got to poke yourself out there. You can't be sitting there going, when are they going to let me in? What are they going to let me in?

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So we had that. It was great. I tell you, Lucy and I got scammed over the weekend. What happened? Out of the praet or silly money? No. Turns out it is a for profit. No, this was way worse.

Lucy was at work. She gets a phone call. call from CVS, which is the pharmacy we get olives meds from. We get them delivered to the house every month, right? So she takes the phone call and they go, hey, you know, Lucy, we've got, I'm looking at the prescription here for your daughters and they knew the prescription information. And they said there's been a halt. Something wrong with the payment on the account.

The prescription's been halted. We're about to send it out again. We need the new payment information for your daughter's prescription. So she gives it to him. And then she hangs up and she's like, something felt weird about that. So we called CVS and they're like, there's no record of a call to you. That was 100% of a scam. Wow.

So we thankfully caught it in time. But we had to close all of our bank accounts and open up new ones. Because we gave it all that information out there. So we had to start over from scratch. It was like, it just came at like the way. worst time, too. It was, it was, I mean, and I've been thinking about it. That's one of the most evil things I can think to do. Yeah. These scammers. Our country's filled with scammers. Well, they were not from our country. I want to make that very clear. Okay.

They're from another country. Okay. And Lucy fell for it. Lucy fell for it. They had her, they had our daughter's prescription information. Yeah, that's crazy. They knew specifics about it. So, yeah, that credit cards, so you gave him a bank. A bank, bank information. Yeah. It's also if you catch somebody when they're busy and they sound professional enough, you know, you're like, whatever. And then to pray on a mother wanting to get her daughter meds is like, terrible. I mean, it's crazy. It's crazy. Everybody I've told about that. It's like that's the most evil scam that I've heard so far. Yeah.

You know, that people are doing. So just keep an eye out, man. I called CVS. I yelled at him for a little bit because I called CVS and then, um, I told the lady the whole story and she goes, well, we'll make a note on your account. And I go, can you imagine how little that means to me? You'll make a note on my account. I go, I'd like to speak to someone of consequence at CVS. And it doesn't sound like that's you. And she sent me up, sent me up the ladder.

And I talked to some people, yelled to some people. And they made a note in my account. Oh, good. So thanks. There's a note in. CVS. What? There was a huge data breach at CVS.

apparently all this patient information got out there. Somebody got a hold of it. I see. And used it to scam us. Pretty crazy, man. Yeah, I mean, that's why when they're always trying to get us to trust people out here and trust this and trust that, I go, you can just, it's going to get hacked. Everything gets hacked. I know, but what's the alternative for us?

Yeah. I don't know. Credit cards, though, would be if you can pay with a credit card, that'd be better because at least that way. It would have been easier. I think it was framed in such a way like we have to get it. I don't know. It was just. At least that, if it's a credit card, even if they take the money from you, it's not your money

and you can just get that. Of course. Yeah. Of course. But if it's framed in a way and there's urgency and you're like, hey, my daughter needs these meds, then it's like, dude, you can get anything from anybody. It was, it was a nightmare getting all that figured out. I'm sorry.

They play a numbers game. They just get one out of a hundred. It's worth it to them. I guess so. man. I had a niece that got scammed, a real estate thing. She was looking at a house to rent, and they were like, I don't know, they showed a real listing.

She went over there and looked at it. And then they were like, got her to send, you know, a certain amount of money. And they were like, I'll be there at this time. They had nothing to do with the property. Yeah. Do you know how many podcasts I've been scammed about being on? Offer me $3,000. I send on my bank information.

Then I fly there. They don't even know who. I am. You try to do Katie Couric's podcast or whatever. Yes. You know, none of them ever fooled me, but one actually, and I, and even if they do, I send it to other people before I. Yeah.

But there was one. I don't remember what it was, but there was one that was actually, I was like, oh, you know, because usually it'll be like your names and real big font. Yeah. It's like so obviously. Yeah. But one, I was like, oh, this actually seems legit. Sean Ryan podcast.

Yeah. Yeah. AI, they use AI now, and it's so good. making it seem legit. Well, I read that I was talking to, or I was talking to Connor, I didn't read it. I talked to a guy who read about it. And Connor told me it was like the, that kind of scamming in India, it's gone from like a $17 billion business to like a $70 billion business in the last year.

All the money they're getting, they're getting from us. So it makes me furious the more I think about it. But anyway. All right. That's what I did. It's fun. I thought y'all would have more fun with it. But anyway, go ahead, Dusty. Well, what'd you do this weekend?

Sounds pretty. It's tough to have fun with that, what you just said. You thought we'd have fun with it. You're like, hey, we got scammed and we had to restart all our bank accounts. Well, you kind of carry me through this, you know, give me something. So I'm not just narrating. All right, let me think. Boy, you sure guys, sure are stupid.

That's not bad. See, something like that. I'm on the scammer side. Really? I'd appreciate it. I like that you finally said it was India, though, because when you... I was obviously India. No other countries doing this. No, I thought Nigeria was where... A lot of countries are doing it. Yeah. But you know... Our country, too. But you know who's the New York Yankees of this thing. It's India. Oh, yeah. But the way you said it, you made it seem... The way you got so firm with it, you made me afraid to ask any more questions. You go, I want to make it clear. It was not this.

country. And I go, I don't know what to say now. USA. USA. I saw a thing about these elderly men that they reach out for a love connection, like a dating side or whatever. These women... You heard about this? Let's don't get in specifics, okay? This don't get in specific. This is the scam. He's running.

I'm Clint Eastwood. But widowers looking for love and they go on these dates and then a female profile starts talking to you or whatever. And then she wants to like, you know, you fall in love with her. And then she wants you to send her money or money to come maybe visit. Right. Book me a plane ticket, all that kind of stuff. Yeah. And these scammers let the CBS crew go behind the scenes.

Let them watch them do it. It's a bunch of guys in Nigeria. Why did they let them do that? They were trying to say, we're so poor, the government here's so corrupt. This is what we have to do. We have to do this to literally survive. Our government's corrupt, so we have to be corrupt too. And they're like, these are rich Americans.

Yeah. But yeah, they talked to an elderly man here that'd been bilked out of his life savings. That poor dude. I know. And he lost his girlfriend. Was he in the documentary too? Did they catch up with him? Yeah.

And he just was like, wow. He was very embarrassed, obviously. He should have gave that money to his kids and created some generational wealth. I mean, they use a, the woman's profile, it looked like she was attractive, but not so hot. You'd be like, this is clearly fake. They dialed it back a little bit. Diled it back a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, golly, man. The worst special place in hell for all these people. Well, speaking of America, I did some Air Force bases this weekend. And, yeah, it was great. I went to Las Vegas. How was Harry Reid Airport? Well, it's,

it's the worst. I landed there. What's bad about it? And then I had a rental car. They had a hard time finding a rental car, but I booked one with budget. And then, you know, if you budget, you have what they call fast break, then you usually go out there. And then your name is on a screen, and it just tells you where to go get the car.

That's cool. So you go out there, no names on the screen, a long line. And then a guy at the front of the line told me that he had been there for over, an hour. And so I can't wait that long because I have a show to get to a 530 show. So then I have to get an Uber. And then it's a 45-minute ride and an Uber out to the Air Force base. And then the show, the show was honestly, okay. You know, you never know where you're going to get with the Air Force spaces. You never know who's going to come. Who's not going to come? And this one was okay. Best thing, it was a 530 show. So I'm done by 10 p.m. 7. Yeah.

I'm done by seven and relaxing. And then I went to Phoenix. That was a good show. And then I went to Tucson. How'd you get two Phoenix from there? Did somebody give you a ride? Back to the airport. Oh, okay.

I rode with some of the other guys that were doing the... Back to the airport, fly to Phoenix. And then I did get a rental car and did that show. And then I drove to Tucson. Never been to Tucson. Tucson's great. Yeah, they got a club there. I'm actually into...

Tucson in two weeks at a theater there. My little brother lives in Tucson. Does he? Yeah. Invite him to the show. Yeah. The tall guy, yeah. Invite him to the show.

I would love to come. Yeah. If he can stand in the back. Yeah, he can stand in the back. Okay. That way can get out easy. The 90-minute mark you can take off. My little brother's six foot eight.

Yeah, he's very tall. So he feels uncomfortable sitting down in like a theater in front of people because he's just so much taller than everybody. Yeah. That's awesome. awareness, though. Oh, yeah. He's very self-aware. The Tucson show was awesome. People actually came, and it was a good, people always come, but it always depends on how well the Air Force people promote the show. Because it's only for people on base or people that have access to this. Are there flyers up on the base? There are in some of the places. Okay. And you know, when you have to go into the gate every time and check in, and you have to get a visitor pass. And in Tucson, I I checked in and there was a guy there who was getting promoted, Hispanic guy getting promoted, and his entire family was there, all getting visitor passes.

It was like 30 people. And I'm just standing there, and I'm just hating everything about my life. And then the guy goes, hey, you guys want to go ahead of us? And I go, oh, yes, I love this guy. My attitude changed. I'm talking to them all. I'm learning about the family. The guy was 46.

his son was being promoted. He had four kids, three grandkids. I'm 44. I have a six-month-old baby. This guy is three grandkids. The grandmother was there. She said she has 38 grandkids. And that's what I'm talking about.

That's a family. And I loved them. I loved them. But I'll tell you what, five seconds earlier, I hated them. I hated everybody in that family. And then they let me go. You hated all 38 grandkids. I hated them all.

The grandmother came in. She was telling me about the grandkids. I wanted to tell that lady to shut up. And then they let me go ahead. And I wanted to give them all a hug. All 38 of them. And it was a great show. Nice family. They didn't come to the show, though. They did know I was the comic. Where is the show on these bases? Is there a theater on there? Or are you like in an airplane hangar? It's like they all have like some kind of bar or event space. So it's kind of like a hotel conference room set up. Okay, like a VFW type thing? I think so, yeah. And it's good. I mean, it's all walks of life of people in there.

Many ages, many races. It's like, it's pretty wild. But they're all Air Force. They're all Air Force. They're all excited. So one walk of life. Well, one job. Okay.

Yeah, for sure. For sure, one job. But, you know, there's like old, retired people. Yeah. And it was great. I had a great time. It is done now, though. No more Air Force.

No more military shows for the time being? For the time being, yeah. Okay. I did the Sean Ryan podcast, which is a very military kind of podcast. So I thought after doing that, all these shows would just be pat. And they were not. So it was, I'll tell you, the Vegas show was a big letdown. That was the first one.

I go, wow, this is the least amount of people that's ever been to any of these. It's funny how that works. Gosh. Did you get good feedback in the Sean Ryan? I did, yeah. I get some hate mail now. About Twitter's pretty nice. Well, Twitter was fun. I mean, you know, Christians really get mad at me about telling them not to eat pork. And I'm just telling them I don't do it. I'm not telling them they can't, but they get upset with me.

What about Kelly Clarkson? Who side do you on there? Oh, well, the Kelly Clarkson thing's hilarious. What happened with Kelly Clarkson? Apparently... She didn't die or isn't? No, no. It's hilarious. Apparently, I'm out of the loop, man. Yeah. Apparently, she went to this, it's privately owned store, retail store in Brooklyn. And someone was rude to her, apparently.

She wanted to buy, this is her side. Someone in Brooklyn was rude? Yeah, yeah. She wanted to buy something. It's a novelty toy store, I think. Yeah, it's like a magic shop or whatever. What was she buying in there? I don't know.

Well, this is the early part of it. She said, I wanted to buy something. it was very expensive and the salesperson was like ask her, did she want some, he said, that's very expensive. Do you want something comparable to that? Basically, implying that she couldn't afford it. Okay. And that, and then she said that was like her pretty woman moment. Yeah. Big mistake. Yeah. Huge. And she, she calls them out online by name. And they're, and they had, apparently they had perfect ratings for their store and it dropped from a five to like a 2.8 just from Kelly Clarkson fans giving the store a bad rating. And I'm just like,

I just said, I mean, not that she cares or anybody cares, but I just said, this is extreme. Like, and apparently what she wanted to buy was some $15,000 thing off the wall. And, and I don't know. And it just seems like, why are you trying to ruin this business? Yeah, their version is they made it clear this is not for sale. if you want something like this, we can help you get it, but this is not for sale. They said they said that. But people are arguing back and forth that it does have a price tag. But, you know, I'm not, you know, I don't dislike her, but I just think this is a bad move. And it's just like, why are you trying to, like, even if the employee was rude, go to the manager and go, hey, this guy was just rude to me. Don't try to take the business down. You wouldn't do something like this? I would do it.

I think you would do something like this. I don't have millions of followers for one. But no, I don't. I try to not call people out by name. And even when I do, I had a whole Costco rant on my other podcast. But even in my Costco ran, I admit, I go, this is not Costco's fault. But this is something that happened in Costco that irritated. me and forced me to cancel my membership. It's not entirely their fault.

Are most people on Kelly Clarkson's side? Or are most people on the stores? I think it's pretty divided. I think it is pretty divided. Okay. So what color is the dress situation? I think it's probably more against her because they had a pretty good reply back, I think. They even had fun with it and said, we'll get through this. What does it kill you? Makes you stronger? I think the big thing is, is she's like almost completely inactive on Twitter. So this is just out of nowhere. She just goes off. She retorted to their reply,

saying how they were so rude to her, and now they're lying with how they said it played out. But I just think it's a weird thing to like, I don't know, I just feel like she's in a, I mean, I got 20,000 followers. It would be, you know, it wouldn't be nice for me to call someone out their business. You know, you trash Post Malone. It gets written up in a country music magazine, whatever it is.

Well, yeah, but at this point, Post Malone is basically a corporation. Okay, he's Costco. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know. Yeah. So does she claim that they didn't know who she was? And Post Malo for the record is like he is a, I don't know what you call him, a rap pop star. Pop star.

And it's like he's trying to open a business in the country. He's trying to put other country music out of business. He's opening up a Walmart in a small town. Yeah. So he did, you know, he's like, hey, buddy. just everything's fine when you're, you know, running your own business, but don't try to take these other businesses. I don't think so. I was thinking about that. Like if they just said, hey, we knew who you were, so we know you could afford it, but it's not for sale. It seemed like that would be a pretty good argument.

Yeah. But they have not come out and said that. I find it hard to believe that a store like this in Brooklyn wouldn't recognize Kelly Clarkson. Yeah. I don't know. you know. But it's also like, you know, also if they're rude to you, but you still want it, you just go, no, I want this. Yeah. You know, William Sonoma was rude to me, but I still say I like the store. What would have happened? I want to hear about this. Well, they're always just not nice. And there's a bit of an upity store. And they're a little annoyed that you're in there. Yeah. Right. Okay. And I, I just want to, like, I go in and they always want to sell you a full set of something.

And I go, do you not have any, can I just buy a pan? I want to buy, I'd like to buy an, you know, an expensive pan. But I wouldn't like that. But it will, but that's what they are. They're all expensive. I'm not trying to, what I'm trying to say is I'm not trying to cheap out on you. Yeah, I want a real nice one. Yeah, but I don't want a, I don't want a whole set. Just a pan. Just a pan. And they go, we'll have to go upstairs and see. And I just like, but they, sometimes they won't even help you. And I go, hey, guys, I like you. I like, I like, you have in here. And I don't want to take up a lot of your time. I'm not going to ask you a lot of questions. I'm not going to run you around. Just give me a pan. I'm not homeless. I'll buy it. And then, but, you know, they go, well, tell you what, sir, we can help you around back if you want.

Why don't you? I had a, uh, but also a corporation, you know. It'd be thought if we saw the security footage, you're like sitting on the beds and stuff. Like, I'd get this guy out of here. I, uh, this guy's looking for an expensive pan. It's like, you don't have to look for them in there. They're all expensive, but I don't go in there. I don't go in and go, what's your cheapest pan? Right.

I want to get one of, I want to, actually I'll go, I'd like to get this pan right here. They go, sir, that's only in a set. I go, okay, what do you have a, do you have one like this that I can just buy? Yeah. You got to pull out the line from Breaking Bad, right? Somebody says that to you. That's part of a set. You go, name one thing in this world.

that's not negotiable. That's what you've got to do. It never works. Next time. That's what Kelly Clarkson should have done. Yeah. I scheduled an Uber one morning, 4.30 in the morning this past week.

And every time I've ever scheduled an Uber, if anything, they're there early. That's the thing about you don't have to risk it. Yeah. And so early, I get up, get a close on, about to walk out the door. I look, 425. It says now arriving at 438.

be outside by 443 or whatever. And I'm like, okay, well, I'm going to the airport. And then next time I check it says, now arriving at 442, 443. I've never had this problem before. So I'm like, I'm going to be late for my flight because, as you know, I don't get there five hours early. Yeah. So I'm like, I got to cancel this thing.

So I cancel it. And it's like, sorry, like it acknowledges running late. So we're not going to charge you anything. for cancellation. So I canceled it and I went and told her, I'm like, I'm going to have to drive to the airport because my Uber's late. I'm going to miss my flight, which cost me. It was more expensive to park at the airport. $33 a day. 36. 36 for the garage. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. They up the prices. Yes. They up it all the time. So three days is $108 to park at the airport. And I was so mad that I couldn't do more than just cancel. Like I wanted to give some type of bad review. But, then I walk out my door to my car. There's a car parked out on the street and it's dark. I can't see. I'm like, why somebody parked out at 4.30 in the morning? And then they start up the car and just zip off. So makes me wonder if my app somehow, like, got stuck or something and they were

actually there. Oh, man. Maybe he didn't come to the spot. He didn't come to the right spot. Maybe the ride canceled on him. He's like, I'm still going to go. I want to let this guy know what He wouldn't have got there that quickly. I mean, it was like just a few minutes after I canceled. Are you sure it was him? I don't, no, I'm not sure. It was dark, but it was somebody parked out in front of our house. You don't got your neighborhood.

You don't got cars peeling out at 4.30 in the morning. No. We live in a nice day, but not like you guys. You can get a nice pan if you want. Oh, yeah, and they help me. Yeah. He gets the whole stuff. Yeah, they're not going to give me a hard time about it.

But anyway. They do up the prices. on everything on the job. What the heck is going? Yesterday, I got one of the last spots in the garage. The garage one was completely full at the airport. So I go over garage two. The guy, I've never had this happen. I get my little ticket and there's a guy standing there.

He goes, you parking in the garage? I'm like, yeah. He goes, all right, there's some spots on level three. I'm like, okay. Weird. Yeah, it is weird. And then I pull in, the signs say there's no spots there, but there's people with flags. It was actually very helpful

waving you. And they created a spot. Like, they want your money so bad. it wasn't even a real parking space. They're like parking between, it's like when you're at the fair or something. Parking between these two cars right here by this pole. Wow. Yeah.

I would like to have those guys a lot of times. Yeah. I've never seen that before either. I hadn't either. That reminded me of, Kathleen was talking about this week. Apparently there's a type of mushroom, like a psychoactive,

whatever mushroom. Psychedelic? Psychedelic. Psychotic. Psychotic. that the kids are eating and they're all experiencing the same side effect, which is you start to see little plastic gnomes that heckle you. Wow.

Like little plastic guys, they had people who took the drug all draw what they saw and they had all kind of saw the same thing. Little plastic guys that just move like this and they're like this big and they're just out and they yell, you know, it's your mind. they know the worst things about you and they heckled. I was like, can you imagine taking one of those and then going on stage? You're getting heckled by all these little plastic gnomes. It sounds like, you start doing crowdwork and you film it and you think, wow, this is going to be great.

You get off stage. I'm crushing. What were you doing up there? I was crazy. Yeah, this is it right here. This is. You just get heckled by these little gnomes plus all the other people who were also. heckling you?

Yeah, exactly. The gnomes have to wait. Yeah, right here. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom. Visions of pint-sized elf-like figures marching under doors, crawling up walls, and clinging to furniture. Wow. I mean, if they weren't heckling negative things at you, that would be pretty cool.

If they were saying supportive. Yeah. Keep going. You're doing great. Wow. I'll try it out and report back. Yeah, let me know. Do it on the pot.

that's what they look like this is apparently oh that seems helpful yeah just little plastic guys that just yell stuff at you wow wow yeah did you see the story about the woman who just hated kids and just which one was and was bored this is that court case no it was a 20 no 23 year old woman in like Milwaukee and she was bored said she didn't like kids So some school had a bunch of kids that, I mean, a bunch of teachers that they called in sick. Okay. They called a bunch of substitute teachers. She just showed up at the school and said, I'm one of the subs.

She wasn't. And just started messing with the kids. What was she doing? Saying inappropriate stuff and heckling them and yelling at them and just giving them a hard time. How are young kids are we talking like kindergarten? I don't know. I haven't. I would think she got arrested.

But these aren't. These aren't high school kids. She taught a class for three periods before her reported profane language, bullying, and other inappropriate comments called the detention of the principal. She was escorted from the building. Hey, one of the subs is getting into it. Yeah, it doesn't say hello the kids were. Escorted from the building or arrested.

It says she now faces six felony charges. Could land her 21 years in jail. All right, good. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. I thought you'd be the opposite. Like, ah, just let her go. No.

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come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and mail at natelandpodcast.com. Joseph Graves. Every episode gets better. Y'all are crushing it. Leanne is always a fun time. Also, Sue, glad y'all keep the outro song. Do you think he'll say that after this episode? No.

Gets better every time. Every episode gets better. He writes in, he goes, it's okay to have an off week every now. What's the outro song? It's probably that AI song. Dusty's AI song. No, man. We're still playing that?

People like it. Oh, no. Courtney Hall. We're waiting on you to make a better one. I mean, I didn't know. Yeah, I'll get one. Yeah. I'll get one going.

Yeah. I'll do it. Yeah. Courtney Hall. I honestly think Dusty needs to do a Nate Land series for the Rearanger. Rearanger, sorry. Yeah, Rearranger. You always got to get that. The Rearanger is a tougher name for it. You got to really put that dash in there.

The Rearanger, because I love this idea, and I think it would be a hit. I will volunteer my home office as his first project. It's driving me nuts, but I haven't had the time to organize, clean, and rearrange. Okay, I'll go ahead and say it. I don't think the rearranger is going to be a Nateland property, because I think Dusty wants to let loose a little bit on that show, right? Well, yeah. Nate will keep it buttoned up a little bit. If Nate wants to, you know, fund it, though, I mean, I can keep it tight.

But somebody said there is a show out there. I saw some comments. There's a show out there called like The Organizer or whatever. But I think the point of this show would be that it is me doing it with no expertise. No expertise. Yeah. Nothing new. We use a company.

We've used them a couple times called Organized 615. They come. They're amazing. They come in and set everything up. Organize everything. But they bring it a ton of new stuff. They're building shelves. Right. See, this concept, you're not doing any of that. Don't bring anything. I can bring tools, but that's it. Why'd you have to use them twice? Different rooms of the house. Oh, okay. They didn't do a good job the first time. Do it again. It did an unbelievable job. If anything, then I mess it up over time. Yeah. Thank you, Courtney, though. Thanks for that support. And also, thank you, Joseph. Yeah, thank you, Joseph. Sorry about this week. Yeah. I think it's going all right.

I think it's a good one. Ellen Kios. Kiyos. Ellen Kaiis. How does Dusty getting a show fit in with nothing new for 10 years? Well, listen, Ellen, you know they're not going to stop doing shows for 10 years. If they say we're going to stop all TV shows, movies, music for 10 years, I'll gladly not do the show. Okay.

But while we're doing shows. We're going to do them. You might as well, you know, you guys will be. I'm back at my age. Watch your own show. Yeah. I mean, after 10 years, I mean, the country, well, we'll probably be, if we stopped sports, new shows, new movies, we would probably be like so, like we would have it so together

because we would no longer have distractions that we would start taking time to prepare meals. We would all be gardening. We would start focusing on our government. Just no. We would start focusing on our government. them at corruption. That sounds so great, but you know people are doing that, man. Think about the average guy. Think about the average guy. The average guy sitting around watching football. Exactly. So football's off. There's no movies. There's no music. There's nothing to do.

What do you think that guy's doing with this guy? He's going, like, start getting it together. He'll start gardening. He'll start going, you know, everybody will start being more productive. Yeah. He's going, football's off for a year. I might as well learn French. Well, that would be useless, but if you, for 10 years, you know, we could, you know. I mean, we had this during COVID. You wanted us to go back to COVID standards for 10 years. No one loved COVID more than dust. Yeah, I mean, COVID, I mean, in a lot of ways, it was really a great time.

I really got into gardening and I really enjoyed it. But, you know, we all are going to need to work. But the entertainment industry, as far as movies and TV shows go, is dying anyway. So we need to halt it. Okay. Is what I'm saying. But one good, great idea could bring it all back. That's true.

But I would sacrifice a great idea for. You would sacrifice the rearranger? For some 10 years, a decade of just, you know, you can still create, but not. You can't enjoy things. Not video and no sports. You could write books? You could write a book. Okay.

Up until November 10th. No, no. But you could write a book. I mean, because then, you know, but I also think there's no need in that. Picture book? What about picture books? There's plenty of books to read. About picture books? Picture book, fine. Okay. If you want to print out pictures, it's okay. Yeah, I just don't want to have to read my daughter, the Great Gatsby or something.

I can read her like a kid's book. Well, you know, there's plenty of kids books around. But, I mean, I want some pictures in there. Yeah, I mean, but we're not going to burn the books. Oh, okay. Just don't make new ones. Oh, okay. I think I understand. I think I see what you go on. There's plenty of media to consume.

Speaking of media. Getting rid of sports would be big. Yeah, it'd be great. Amanda Barnhart, I love how supportive air it is for Amanda Binds. Well, you know what? Somebody's got to do it. I'm going to bat for her, man. Well, I feel sorry for her.

I never watched one single movie that she's ever been in, but I feel bad for her. I'm trying to think of who the equivalent would be for your generation. You just missed her. Alicia Silverstone. Maybe, but she was just in a few movies. Amanda Bines was a force. Was she in a lot of movies?

Elisa Silver's. Yeah, Clueless. Talk about the Clueless. Oh, I'm talking about Amanda Binds. Man of Bines was more, I knew her more as a TV star. Okay, so a TV star. And she hosted her own sketch show. She basically hosted the Chappelle show.

For kids. Or like SNL. She had her own show, the Amanda show. Oh. But for preteens and teens. Yeah, for kids. Yeah, it was on. Nickelodeo. Yeah. And then, you know, she became a young adult and she was in some big movies. And then, you know, I think it's still in there. I think we can have a Amanda Rana Sanicence, whatever, what do you call it? Renaissance. Yeah. I try to do it. Like they said, McConaissance. Remember when Matthew McConaughey came back? Yeah. And they called it the McConaugnors. Did he disappear? I think he kind of, he became like a joke to people. And then he got a lot of comedies. Then he went on a tear of like, oh, this guy's actually an unbelievable actor. Yeah. Yeah.

He's doing rom-coms. Yeah, he was the rom-com. Failure to launch that guy. Terry Bradshaw's his dad. Yeah, that's a good movie, though. Alicia Silver, that's a pretty good one. Yeah. Because yours was the 90s, right?

Yeah. Yeah, she was pretty big. Clueless. She was big, but I don't... It was your... Mary Tyler Moore. Who was your... I was going to say Meredith, Baxter Bernie.

But I don't think about Alicia Stone being in a lot of stuff. Alicia, so she was in Clueless. What's the movie with Brendan Fraser? The mummy? No. Crash. Where they were blast from the past, blast from the past. Do you ever see that one?

No, I've never heard of it. Oh, well, Christopher Walkins' his dad. Okay. And Christopher Walken builds a bunker and he thinks that the atomic bomb is going to hit America. Brennan Fraser's a little kid at the time. So they all go down to the bunker and lock it for like 20 years. But the bomb never came. So, but they send Bernard Fraser.

are out to check out the world and see what's happened. Yeah. And he meets Alicia Silverstone. Oh, all right. But, and then he has to, you know, eventually break it to his dad that the atomic bomb never hit. Whoa. Okay. I mean, Ed Bond is going to play that role for sure.

Yeah. The crush. She was in the crush. I never saw that one. Malia Tate. The Harry Potter briefing by Aaron was top notch. That dude knows his stuff. A true Potterhead for sure.

A real pothead. Yeah. Any other questions about Harry Potter? I'm happy to answer him for him on the podcast. I didn't even know that you did that. I blanked it out. He was just asking me some questions. I mean, a lot of people feel like you're pretty contradictory.

You don't follow the Avengers because of witchcraft, but then you know everything about Harry Potter. See, I read some of those comments. I think, you know, Aaron's just making jokes at me. A hundred percent. Yeah. I mean, they've a lot of people are... But I agree with you. It would be absurd to be okay with wanted.

and not the other. Just throwing that out. Well, one is, you know, entertaining and the other, you know, for adults and the others for kids and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I've said before, I just don't, you know, I don't like watching movies with a lot of little kids. You don't think those Avengers movies, you don't think they have kids in mind when they make those movies?

No, they probably do. But they are adults, though. In fact, when the Avengers start throwing in kids, I'm out. Like these TV shows, they start doing shows about kids, and I go, I'm out. I mean, to Dusty's credit, Dr. Strange, when he does one of his things, you mute the TV, right? I do. Yeah, any, actually, you know, she's the Scarlet Witch. And then, yeah, and then, yeah, whenever they're doing these spells, I will mute the TV.

Oh, okay. I don't want that coming into my house. Turn subtitles off through, right? I don't watch with subtitles. You don't watch with subtitles. Do you watch for subtitles? You don't. Can I ask you guys, do you guys, when you watch a TV show or movie, do you have the subtitles on?

You do, you do? Way more now. Way new. You don't at all. Why? I don't know. I like having them on. I became one of those guys.

I think I got to see what's being said. Wow. Now, I don't like that at all. I'm on a plane or something I do. But if you're sitting home on the couch, you don't have the subtitles on ever. Unless it's some reason hard to understand. I bet 70% of people use the subtitles. 70%.

We've got enough people here. We should take a poll. Let's take a poll. We just did. And there's the results. You mean in general. In general. Leave us a comment.

Let us know. Do you watch movies with subtitles or not? Okay. Tag Brian on X. Bennett Bryles. Poor. Brian. Like many Hufflepuffs, he does not know he is clearly a Hufflepuff.

There's nothing wrong with being a Hufflepuff. You know who else was a Hufflepuff? Cedric Diggery, one of the Tri-Wizard champions. And I think Hufflepuffs are kind of, I think they're unfairly trash as being like just the whatever's. But it's about loyalty, it's about friendship and being kind and all of those things. so I think there's nothing wrong being Ophill Puff, man

I had no idea what a Hufflepuff was Where it with pride, dude Thank you, I will Hufflepuff feels like a real Potterhead, you know what I mean? Real potter. Cedric, who is it?

Cedric the entertainer. Cedric, Diggery, yeah. Though, I don't know. You don't know. All right, guys. Cedric Diggery. Killed by Voldemort

at the end of the fourth book. Whoa. Cedrigory. was. Wow. But Harry Potter brought his body back through the port key. Oh, man. Yeah. Well, what do they call that when you bring a body back? Uh, I mean, I call it beautiful. Yeah. Aaron Vandergriff, great name. Yeah, what a great name. This guy is Harry Potter guy, too. Yeah. That's my Harry Potter name. Aaron Vandergriff. Nah, man, we got to get common folks and hay bores back in the intro. I laughed so hard the first time you said it.

Well, thank you. Most people want it. Dusty doesn't like it because it has referenced or a podcast, but most people like comment folks, and there's just a few people that hate everything. I don't say that you can't. As long as I sell little shirts, I'm going to keep saying it. I didn't say that you can't do it. I just was like, you know, when I do my intro, I'm not going to say it.

Okay. But I don't mind it. You don't mind not giving people what they want when you do it. Well, Aaron Vandergriff wants it. Everybody wants it. Let me tell you what. If we only gave the people what they want, you know what they'd have? Faster horses.

That's beautiful, Aaron. Yeah. Sometimes you've got to give them a car. Yeah. You know what I mean? There is a Tom T. Hall song called Faster Horses. Oh. Is it about that quote?

No. No. It's about a guy he met. He says, what's the secret to life? He says, faster horses, younger women, older whiskey. and more money. Oh, that's good. Yeah.

Steph C. Steph Curry? Maybe. Yeah, Steph Curry, maybe. Being married to a pastor. Okay, I don't think it's him. Being married to a pastor, I think having a large portion of the marriage pod

revolving around eschatology is truly representative of my life. I feel seen. Thanks, Dusty. What's eschatology? I think it's the study of salvation. Well, Dusty was unleading it. What's that psychology?

I think it's the concerned, yeah, is the branch of theology and philosophy concerned with last things, including the end of an individual life, the end of the age, the last judgment, and the ultimate destiny of humanity and the cosmos? Well, I didn't realize I did that, but sometimes I do brilliant things without even knowing I'm doing it. So thank you, Steph. Wow. See, I really got into when I stepped out. Yeah, yeah. He's gone. This is some eschatology.

Finally, talk about some stuff. Finally, let's get into philosophy now that Aaron's not here. Let's be clear, it's not this country. Sorry. I just didn't want you to spin it into this country's collapsing. Oh. Because it wasn't about the country collapsing. It was about.

Just our ability to not get hacked. Yeah, I guess we're partially to blame. Yeah. But I was more mad at the guy that did it. For sure. You know what I mean? CVS needs to lock it up, though. CVS does, but they made a note on my account, so I feel pretty good about it.

They made a note on my account. Thanks for your help, Prentice. Mr. Weber, we will make a note on your account to not let you be hacked. I said, can you make a note on my, and she said, I'll make a note on your account. And then she asks, she goes, can I verify your information? And I go, well, are you really CVS? And she goes, and I go, yeah, well, you understand why this is not funny to me.

If I was her, I'd say, you call me, dude. So you tell me if we're CVS. Yeah, well, I'm glad you're not customer service, Brian. I was just in my garage. I'm on CVS's side. Yelling at this poor one. You always are. Aldridge 25.

Aldridge 25. This should be called the three unwise, men because they are terrible at facts. Good one. Aldridge 25. One of the worst jokes I've seen written in the cut. The three unwis, you get it? I get it. I get it.

It's like the three wise men. I'm pretty stupid, though. I don't know if I can't get it. Yeah, I'm terrible at facts, so I have no idea. I don't think wisdom is your ability to recite facts. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly.

Aldridge 25. The three unwisemen. Golly, dude. Wow. Appreciate being called him. man. So the joke's on you, Alder's 25. Yeah.

Best compliment I've had in years. This is one of those that they say we, uh, really missed it on this one. We could have. Yeah. Missed a layup. Really left that on the table. The three unwise men.

Three unwise people. Jamie. Just Jamie. Jamie. I'm with Dusty. I got married right out of high school and we have seven children close in age. My oldest was eight when I had my baby

And I had my youngest when I was 28 I wasn't able to have any more But I was able to stay home with them Wouldn't want it any other way Boom That's what I'm talking about Jamie Why is that with you? Because that's what I'm saying

He said you've got to have 10 And she only had seven So she's a failure No, she's with it though And that's what I'm talking about You think everyone should have 10 kids? Yeah So you're going to have seven more

I mean I'm not going to But I'm just saying If I could do it over You would have 10 kids Yeah Wow. All right. You think everyone should.

Yeah. Not everyone, but... Some people clearly... Who decides who should and who should. Well, I mean, you know, everybody would have to make their own choice. Right. Whether they're going to do it or not. But I do think, you know, the Western world, we're having a bit of a population collapse because we're not having kids.

So all of these things that the Western world is built, there's no, there's no, the people of the Western world are not going to be able to replace it. I feel like almost my entire life I've heard about overpopulation, overpopulation. Yeah, that's the scam. That's how they got us. But now it's flipped. Like all these countries, China, different places, they're like, oh, Japan. We're going to have a real problem because we're, right, we don't have enough people. It's just more lies to us, manipulation, to get us to not have kids.

So say thank you to Catholics. Yeah. And Mormons. Maybe you hear what I said, Dusty. Now they're saying it's an underpopulation problem. Well, now they have to admit it. Now they're being honest with. Now they have to admit it.

Because they're saying what you agree with. Well, no, now they have to admit they were wrong. Is anybody out there saying it's going great? A lot of people are. Let's just keep doing it as it is. Yeah. Okay. Who is?

A lot of people who use statistics will say that the world's never been a better place. And so many of the measurable. I mean, in terms of population, they go, this is perfect. Let's keep it again. Bill Burr said we should. get down to 35,000 people. Okay. Bill Burr or Bill Gates?

Bill Burr. Didn't he have a joke where he said, I don't know, I can't remember the number. Back in the day, he was talking about he wanted to start sinking cruise ships just to get the population down. Yeah. It's a funny bit. Yeah, I thought so. Bjorn.

Maybe I should have heard him to. How do you say that? Yeah, yeah, I butcher it. He's so good when he does it. Yeah. What's it? How do you say that word? Bjorn.

Bjorn. Because I don't know. A baby. Bjorn. Remember those little, like the little carriers? Oh, yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Baby, yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Bjorn talks. I need to apologize to Aaron. Oh, God. A few years ago, I said he wasn't funny, but he has proven me wrong. I'm glad a millennial is in the mix. Well, Bjorn, I didn't hear about it when he said it the first time. You didn't need to tell me that. Well, Bjorn tends to talk. So where did you say that? Just like around your house?

But when did he prove you wrong, though? What did he do? Yeah. What did you do, you think? I don't know. Maybe sustain a career in comedy for 10 years. I don't know. I have no idea. And when did the change happen? Did you just now? It was when I stepped out of last week's podcast. It was Joseph Gray's favorite episode. Never been better.

Well, thank you, Bjorn. Oh, you know, I got a comment. Someone sent me this comment. if you guys don't mind. It goes along with what we're saying. This is, let's see if I got this here. Yeah, this one is. It's got a lot of text there. Yeah, this says,

My husband and I listen to public figures every week, and I love to discuss it. So this podcast has been a way for us to connect. We love you guys and the show, so thank you for that. We are with Dusty on arranged marriage. I have four daughters, and we are teaching them what marriage is, what marriage is for, and what kind of husband to look for, and we surround ourselves with other Christians who teach the same. So, just want to let you know other people

support arranged marriages. Okay. I think, again, you stepped out maybe for that. It kind of got wild those 10 minutes. I mean, y'all covered a lot of ground wells gone. Yeah. Yeah. A couple of unwise men over here. do you think if you were in a situation where you would have been set up for an arranged marriage, do you think you and Hannah would have gotten together? I mean, because on paper, that does not make sense, right? Well, no. And yeah, I mean, it's like, you know, none of these things are to say I want my life now to be different.

But, you know, in order for an arranged marriage to work the way that I would want it to work, you know, my parents would, you know, would have needed to be more involved in my, you know, my personal life in general, and they would have been out seeking for the perfect wife for me. They would say, these are the things my son likes. This is someone that's going to, and then they would be seeking someone who was seeking someone like me. And then our two parents would come together and celebrate the bringing together of our families by bringing us both the type of life mate that we, you know, needed and wanted. Interesting. Okay. Most of my 20s, 30s and 40s, I wish we had arranged marriages.

Because my parents had some friends with, you know, some hot daughters. Yeah. But thank God they didn't, right? Because look at you now. Well, I'm sure publicly, yeah. But after the podcast, let's talk again. But we, you know, we... That's a joke. The thing about it, though, is it's like, yeah, you have these kind of conversations. You can't, you're not, we're not saying, I wish my life were different.

But I just think the institution of arranged marriages has been like corrupted by TV and movies where it's like the idea that your parents are looking out for you is, you know, it's really a beautiful thing. It's always some poor woman forced on some terrible man in the movies. Yeah. Yeah. Whereas we never get to see the opposite of that, right? Some great man forced on them. Well, or the opposite of two people being arranged marriages and they go, this is great. Yeah.

Thank you for this. Yeah. Groucho T. Groucho T. I love how when Dusty says something off kilter, what is that? Aaron always takes it seriously. It asks Dusty deeper thinking questions to try to understand and get to the bottom of what and why. When does that happen?

And always, it is inevitably followed up by a heartwarming moment of friendship. When does that happen? I think Groucho T's reading the situation. Yeah, I think so. Backwards. The podcast ends. We fight about it in the parking lot for an hour. Okay.

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getting started here. We've got another three hours. I'm very excited about this week's episode. I'd love to hear about it. What are we talking about? Well, I would like to start this periodically doing animal groups. We've done fish. I'd like to start. And we've done animals in general. Now we're kind of zeroing in. Okay. We're going to do some marsupials, some single-celled organisms, stuff like that. Well, maybe,

I don't know, some felines, some things like that. Okay. But today we're talking about amphibians. All right. Probably the one I know the least about. Oh, I'm glad you said that. Maybe the talked about the least. Maybe the one I know the most of them. Really? Well, I'm, you know, I raise frogs. Is it the smallest category? Probably. Pretty small. Smaller than reptiles, smaller than mammals? Yes. Yes. Yeah.

Absolutely. Okay. Do you know what defines a amphibian? Yeah. A general characteristic. Here's, they're kind of reptile-ish, but more water-type animals. They are more reptile-ish. They are more reptile-ish.

I think it has to do with their relationship to water, right? I don't think so. It's, they have a metamorphosis. A metamorphosis. They start in the water with gills. So water's involved. Well, yeah, but once they become, you know, fully transformed, they may not be interested in the water.

But like a frog's going to hang out in the water. Like a toad, maybe not, though. Okay. But it starts in the water? It does start. Amphibia start in the water with gills, and then they change and grow lungs and become land animals. Okay.

Although, yeah, they can still hang out in the water if they want. You know, down by the beach or whatever. But they don't have to. That's pretty amazing. I think if this is something that if God hadn't created, you'd be like, that's ridiculous that something like that exists. Yeah, it sounds nuts. You know, I have tadpoles. And, you know, it's pretty amazing.

Like, you'll look in there and there'll be some with legs. And then, like, the next morning you come out and there's, like, several frogs in there. And I watched one come up the other day, like, almost like the first time. Come up on. First steps in life. Yeah. Can you take me through the, like, where do you get the tadpoles? Well, I get them out of a five-gallon bucket in my backyard.

How do they get in there? Well, they're all tree frogs. So they say tree frogs just kind of go over water and they drop their eggs into bodies of water. Like they jump up on the bucket? No, like, typically they want to go in a tree. Oh, so the buckets underneath the tree. Yeah, underneath some stuff. So they drop their eggs and they go, good luck.

Yeah. They don't have any kind of relationship with their young. No. Some people say they're, that even if the, if they're in an aquarium together and have eggs, they might eat the eggs. Oh. But so I go and then once they're tadpoles, I thought, well, they're going to die in these buckets. So I start scooping them out. And then I put them in an aquarium. And then, you know, if they're eggs, it'll just be like a little black dot with a little kind of gel around it. Yeah.

And then they turn into, you know, a little, a little swimming thing. I'm sorry. What would happen if they stayed in that bucket, don't you think? think they would just grow naturally? Maybe, but they might die because, you know, the bucket gets hot and, you know, these hot days out here and it's like, it's not like a puddle, you know, it's a bus. Like a Home Depot bucket or whatever. Yeah, and also the bucket I have filled up so I can use to water my plants. You need the bucket.

Yeah, I need that. Yeah. So. You move into your aquarium and. And then they, you know, then they swim around and then they develop back legs around the tail. they'll have some little legs. And then slowly those will start to look like frog legs. And then the upper part of their body will, you know,

you'll start to see it and then it starts to form little legs. What do you think they're thinking when they're going through this? Like, hey, look up this morning. Crazy. Got some legs. And then they start to, once they come out, they still have the tail. And then they have to, their body. Once they come out of what?

Out of the water. They come out of the water. Out of your aquarium. On to, you know, I got like a little lily pad. in there that are growing, so they'll come up on top of those. I thought they're climbing out of the aquarium. Well, they do sometimes. Into your house.

They do sometimes. You have the lid on? Yeah, but I had a lid with some gaps in it. I'm sure some escape, but it's in the garage. It's not in the house. Okay. And so I bought one because I was leaving for three days, and I knew a lot of them were about to turn.

Yeah. So I bought a lid that they couldn't escape. And there were about 20 frogs in there when I got home. And I have 30 in an aquarium right now. I'm going to release a bunch of. today when I get home. It'd be fun if you came back and they're like packed in like shoulder to shoulder. They were pretty tight. Oh really? Yeah, they were pretty tight. Get us out of here. How many of them die on the vine? Kind of just. I not very many. I had a bunch. I did kill a bunch tadpoles because I did

something new with the water. I thought I was killing the algae, but I killed all then. But we're back. We're back. And a frog did drown in the water bowl that I have for them in the other aquarium. Oh, that's on him. That's all that. Yeah. It was not that. I have. I have little. rocks in there. It wasn't that deep. Nature would have got that frog anyway. Yeah. But then they absorb the tail. The tail goes, you know, they absorb it. The tracks back in. Yeah, it doesn't fall off. They absorb it. Huh. And then they're frogs. They're little tree frogs. But did they change color? Yeah. From black, black to green. Yeah. And they can also, like, depending on what they're on, they can be a little more brown, a little more gray. And then they, you know, you watch them. We mean depending on what they're on.

Like if they're sitting on a black log, they will turn darker colors. Can you tell the biological sex of the frogs? No. Do you know how to if you wanted to? No, but you know what? I brought some, these are from my childhood, wildlife fact files. Some pamphlets. I remember these things.

And one of these is the North American tree frog. And I bet that's what I have. They don't look quite like this when they're little, but I'm not. Shut to the camera. But I've not gotten them. You know, they're not very big. So they are green like that. Yeah.

And then, yeah. How big do they get? I mean, this is on a pine cone, so I'd probably be out like that. Oh, wow, pretty big. And they're like this now. I wanted to bring one in, but I thought they might die. Might be worth it. Oh, a trip.

Yeah. You know, I have a hard time when they die. Because I feel bad for things, especially when they die in my care. Right, right. I feel like, I mean, I had a hard. I mean, I wasn't crying or nothing. but I, when I killed all those tadpoles, I felt really bad. And it wasn't, you know, I just, I was like, dang.

Because it was your fault. Yeah, because I cleaned out the aquarium was so dirty. And I go, let me clean it up. And I really cleaned it. And I took so much care with it. Poor chlorox in the water. Well, I bought this thing from the pet store. Yeah.

It's an algae killer. And I thought, well, that'll be good because then the algae won't form. And then, I don't know, killed them. Did you get some of those fish that eat the algae? No, because they say they'll nip at the tadpoles. Oh, okay. I bought some snails. Do you just put normal water in there?

Well, if you have out of your sink, you want, you need some tap water. I forget, it's something that you pour in there that kills. A mineral of some sort that kills the algae? Well, not the algae, but kills the whatever chlorine and stuff that's in our water. Fluoride. Now, we need that. That makes us stronger. Yeah, that's what they tell you.

That's what they tell you. But they, yeah, they are sensitive. to our tap water. Huh. So, all right. So they become frogs, and it's kind of obvious when it's time to turn them loose, I guess.

Well, you know, you're supposed to do it, you know, a few days after some people, chat GPT recommends that you, you know, give them a couple, let them feed a couple of insects. Oh, yeah, what do you feed them? I feed a little crickets.

I go by little crickets at the pet store. So you don't mind killing them? Are the tadpoles eating anything, or are they just, kind of, yeah, I got a little tadpole food. Oh,

okay. I'll put that in a little, and then they also will eat algae. And, but they don't eat enough to, like, clean the tank.

Yeah. And then, and I got little plants in there. I got little plants that grow in water. That's cool. I got some water lettuce and some,

how big is this tank? Yeah. It's about a 10-gallon tank. Okay. And what does your wife and kids think about it? Well, my kids love it.

I don't think my wife cares because it's in the garage. Yeah. So. And do you, so you know when release them? And do you feel sad when you do? I don't feel sad because I feel sad if my old method I was trying to force them out of the thing and sometimes they would end up in the grass

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slash nateland. Do amphibians have relationships with mammals, like emotional relationships? I don't think so. I think a mammal can have an emotional relationship with them.

Right, but it's not the other way around. He could cry sometimes, private. Yeah. You know what I meant? It's not like dog. Yeah, I didn't specifically research that, but nothing came across my table that, that, uh, but, um, all right. So what do you mean in the grass? Like, what's the problem?

Well, I'm trying to put them in the tree. They can't make it themselves? Well, I haven't had, I, Google, do amphibians care about me? And it just says, no, amphibians do not care about you. Well, they don't know. But, um, the, you know, I'm trying, I have them in a jar because I'm taking them outside. So I'm trying to get them in a tree. But, you know, they're just jumping. Yeah. So they might end up missing the tree and end up in the grass. And that's bad? Well, I just feel like they're tree frogs. You know, they're not grass frogs. I guess I just figured they have to get up there on their own when they started in life. Most amphibian species are solitary and do not form social packs or emotional bonds with others of their own kind.

That's interesting. Yeah. I bet Dusties do. Yeah. It says amphibians lack a neocry cortex and a limbic system. I've always said that. Yeah. Which are parts of the brain that process complex emotions like love, affection, or attachment. Wow. Okay. That's too bad.

It is. Well, my kids call me the frog king. So I think my, my, my frogs are, they get it. You ever go frog gigging back in the day? No. I did know people doing it, but I never did. Yeah. I've been before.

Yeah. It's on your own or did you go with the group? No, it's with the group. Yeah. I don't think I would do it now because I was young, but now I'm too sensitive about hurting any animals. Do you think you went? It was peer pressure?

Probably the first time you went? Maybe, but I wasn't as, it's weird. You think it'd be the opposite, a kid, but I'm actually more sensitive about that stuff now than I was as a kid. Well, I think in some ways it's like, like all that stuff, like I don't eat frogs, so I wouldn't do it because you'd just be uselessly killing them. Yeah. But it's like all that, all the hunting stuff,

it all seems better like before we reach the time where we're at now where we're just completely destroying habitats all the time. That it's like, I'm not against hunting, but I'm this kind of like, we're always like with deer we go, well, we got to thin the herd. And it's like, yeah, but we got to keep thinning it because we keep thinning their habitat. And it just feels like, I don't know, it just doesn't feel the same that it would have, especially, you know, and I'm not even making an age. But when you were a kid, Lebanon was probably a lot different than it is now.

Yeah, we caught it Lebanon. Yeah, everybody was. And there was honestly a frog problem when you were growing up. Have you had any of your tree frogs come back to visit you? Well, you'd be on your deck and you're like, hey, there's rooster. Well, you know what? One night, I don't know if it was one of the ones I let go, but one night we did, I turned on the patio light, tree frogs stuck on the back glass.

Big, it was big. It was like it grew up and it came back to. He wanted it back in. He wanted to come back and let me. know that he's doing well. Are you tagging them at all? No, that'd be great though. But they're so small.

I don't know how to tag them. I think just color them with like a marker or something. Yeah. I don't know if that would work. I don't think it would work with them. They say they don't make good pets because they have a sensitive skin that doesn't need to be touched. You don't need to hand. So when I pick them up, I try to put my finger under there and let them kind of climb on my finger.

Oh. Yeah. So they probably do feel like you're their mom. Yeah. Yeah. It says, do not use standard ink marker. or pens. Frogs absorb chemicals directly through their skin, which can sicken or kill them. But they do have fingerprint-style markings on them. So if you take really high-resolution

photos of them, you can identify them that way. Oh, yeah. Look at these things. Yeah, the American, North American tree frog. Yeah. Do you think you'll keep doing this, Dusty? I think so. I mean, this, I think this is it for this year. This is what I'd like to do, the American bullfrog. That's what I was hoping to catch. I think I'm going to build a frog habitat at my house, and that way just try to bring them in on their own. The common frog, and then the, let's see, I think these are all our American frogs.

All our American frog. All our American, and then the common toad. I think that's our American frogs. Yeah. Common toad. Oh, actually, the common frog seems to be in. It would stink to be a frog. You don't even get a name.

Yeah, just a common frog. Just a common frog. Some people like being called common, as we've just noticed. And from... And then there's some public frogs. There's an episode of the West Wing where they're doing some polling. And there's a question on one of the polls of where it says average Americans. And they debate whether that's like a pejorative phrase.

Like, most people don't resent being called an average American. Yeah. Most people actually like it. Yeah. That's true. the greatest average American. Yeah. Well, there are three groups of amphibians.

Oh, here's a, just for the record, here's a little bit of a bullfrog with a tail. That's on its way to be in a bullfrog. Yeah, but bullfrogs are much bigger. And they jump, right? They jump. Oh, yeah. Three groups of amphibians. Frogs and toads, which makes up 90% of all amphibian species.

Salamanders and newts. newts are a type of salamander, but they spend more time in the water. And then something called Sicilians? Italian guys? I don't know. Cacillian, I don't know. They're rare legless, warm-like amphibians that burrow underground or live in tropical streams, but they're pretty rare.

What a terrible life that is. They've got no arms or legs and they just live in the ground? Yeah, yeah. They're worms. So in ancient Egyptian time, Hegat was the goddess. She was a frog. She was the goddess of fertility, childbirth, creation, and resurrection. Because millions of frogs naturally appeared after annual flooding of the Nile.

They had a god that was for fertility. You know, that's why one of the plagues in Egypt, are you going to get to that? I was. Okay. So one of the ten plagues during Moses was the plague of frogs. did it kind of God was kind of mocking their God. I think all the plagues he was mocking a different god of theirs. Well, yeah, but this one was the fraud goddess. I was looking up, can you look up the ten plagues? Yeah. The ten plagues? Or the plagues? I think there's ten, right? I think so.

All right. The ten plagues of Egypt. All right. Take a, the last one was the killing of the first born. Let's take that one off the table. Okay. What would be the hardest one for you of these other nine plagues if you had to do one. Or what would be the easiest one maybe? The easiest one. Well, it all takes place in Egypt,

so I'm pretty good either way. Talking about I'm in Egypt? No, play along, it's here. Okay. Like, I think the boils would be the hardest. Boyles sound brutal. Yeah, they break out on everyone in Egypt. Hail, we've dealt with hail.

Yeah, but this was like fiery hell. Okay. Strikes down everything in the fields, Humans, animals, plants, and trees. I'll be honest, they all sound pretty tough. I think the locust, some people have said the locust were actually more like the dung beetle because they had a god, a dung beetle god. Oh, okay.

Who is the blood god? That's referencing when the Nile turned to blood. I don't know. I don't know. I think darkness would probably be the easiest. Yeah. You know, we got electricity now. Yeah.

Well, now, no, no, no. For the purpose of this, you can't cheat. Darkness covers Egypt for three days. So darkness for three days. We've got flashlights. Darkness. I guess I'll give you flashlights. Yeah, I got a light on my phone.

Come on. Darkness would be scary, though, for three days. Because the first night, you would think, well, it's just dark. Yeah. And then in the morning rolls around, you go, still dark. Yeah. And then all day it's dark. And you go, and then the next day comes, and you go, is it ever going to be light again?

And then the next day comes. But just three days. That's a week. But you don't know it's three days at the time. But I, oh, okay, that's a new wrinkle. You know, so you don't know that it's a plague happening? Well, maybe you don't know that it's going to be a three-day darkness. Maybe you think it's darkness forever.

I think all the livestock dying would be terrible and kill American industry. Yeah, now you're thinking, yeah, a different way. I was just thinking about how it would affect you. But, but yeah, it'd be tough. They all sound bad. I'm glad they're all over. Flies filled the houses and all the land. I mean, that'd be pretty disgusting.

And that's. And frogs. I mean, if you're just in your house trying to sleep, there's frogs in your bed. Well, I love frogs. You don't know them to jump on your face, though.

I think we'd have a good time. You'd mock God. Right. Bring it on, buddy. No, but. Hard in my heart. The blood, you know, that would be tough because it was, I think it was like a week of all the river was blood.

I looked up, you can't go a full seven days without water. But I looked up how long can you go, like if you just drink Diet Coke. Pretty long. You can go 30 plus years. 34 years in county. It did say you could probably survive the whole time. You'd have some health issues.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you'd get through it. Yeah, so far. All right, I thought that might be fun to figure out. No, that was fun there. It turns out they're all bad. The boils, I don't. think it's the worst.

The worst. I'll say this about the plagues. They're not a good time. No. For anybody involved. I mean, Boyle's just breaking out on your body and just being painful and that sounds awful. Yeah. I think I would agree.

That's the death of firstborn, though, probably takes the cake. Yeah. That's why I took that one off the list. Yeah. Well, I think that was the last one. That was where they were finally like, all right, all right. It was. So what kind of sound does a frog make, Aaron?

Ribot, rib it. Yes. And have you ever heard a frog actually do that? No, they don't sound like that at all. Yeah. So in Hollywood, when they were first starting to make movies, there is a frog that lives out west that makes that sound, Pacific Tree Frog.

And they found one, and they recorded some audio of it making that sound. And that became... That's become, ever since... since then, the sound that people associate with. Let's listen to one here real quick. Yeah, I've heard that many times. Wow. What about the North American tree frog?

North American tree frog. See what that sounds like. Yeah. See if that's less of a traditional rivet. This is a gray tree frog. I'll see. Yeah, I think that's more of what's going on in my house. That's what it sounds like.

Yeah. Do they have the, the bubble thing popping up on their truck yet? Well, I don't see them, you know, when they're, I don't, You know, I don't think these, the little ones that I have. I also don't have the gray one. I have more like this. Thanks for that music. It's a great pause right there.

Yeah. Got them right. Yeah. Interesting. I've never really thought about it. Your head went to go, bud. Wise. That was a really great ad campaign back then.

Yeah. Yeah. Back when alcohol was fun. Yeah. Just the good old ads. So the most poisonous animal on earth is the good. golden poison frog. A single frog carries roughly 1900 micrograms of potent nerve toxin that can kill up to 10 grown people.

Yeah, poison frog is, uh, seems like a nightmare. And it just emits it or whatever. It just threw its skin. It's not like, it's not like you get bitten by it, right? I got one of these. Yeah, and, um, you have one of those? No, no, I'm just saying, I got a, I got a sheet here. Okay. And they get it from, what they eat. The insects they eat and the other grass and things

combined gives it that toxicity. So if you held it one captive, it would eventually lose it. Oh, okay. It's all about their diet. Oh, that's interesting. And I think they use that poison for it to make darts. Yeah.

Yeah, indigenous Embara people have rubbed blowgun darts on the back of those. Those frogs are running. Oh, man. Yeah, that's wild, huh? Yeah. They are endangered, thank God.

Here's a little tadpole. A little tadpole. Oh, yeah, that looks nice. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think there's a chance you could overpopulate Hermitage? I think that'd be awesome. Like, if they...

If the dogs overtook people? Yeah, well, if they, if they like, oh, no, there's no more mosquitoes because the tree frogs have grown just too many tree frogs. Oh, is that what they eat? They eat a lot of mosquitoes and stuff like that. Do mosquitoes serve a purpose? Like, you know how I don't like ants either, but ants actually serve a purpose in the ecosystem?

Do mosquitoes do the same thing? Are they just pests? I feel like they're probably serve a purpose of being a food source. Okay. You know? For amphibians. Yeah. For other things, probably too.

Yeah, they act as if they function as a food source. on local ecosystems. They also act as pollinators, apparently. I can't see that, but... Well, it's according to this. Okay, all right, well. But I've always thought that, too, that I feel like they're just a food source. What, mosquitoes? Yeah.

And that, you know, we got to keep the ecosystem going to, you know, because they survive really easily. But if we kill other things that eat them, then we get too many mosquitoes. So this is an interesting question. Could we live without mosquitoes? We could physically survive, though. If we were to completely get rid of them, it would cause all kinds of ecological shifts. Yeah, mosquitoes, like things that eat them, they'd have to eat other insects, and that would cause a lot of problems.

Yeah. So I guess we'll keep them around. If you were to metamorphose, I can't say that word, metamorphosize, is? Is that it? What is it you're trying to say? I mean, I don't know. Yeah, finish the sentence, though. Would you choose to go back in the water or from land to water, like if you had to turn

into something, or would you become more of a, like a tree dweller? Well, that's interesting. You know what? Because I never really thought about that. But how, like, if I only went back into the water, could I explore all of the ocean? Yeah. Or would I be a lake kind of water animal?

Let's say salt water. So not a fresh water animal. I think that would be cool, but, you know, a tree dweller would be pretty fun too. It's a tough, tough question. I'm going to go, I'm going to go water. I think there may be a whole race of people underwater. We just got to find them. You'd have gills now.

You kind of, you know. What ocean would you choose? You got to go biggest. You got to go Pacific. I think what about just the Gulf? The Gulf of what? Of Mexico slash America. That was a good answer.

Yeah, the Gulf. Yeah. I mean, we sailed from Florida to Mexico. The Nate Lang, Sea Cruise. It's a big body of water. It is. It's been a lot of stuff out there exploring. Yeah.

A race of people down there. What do you do if you get it? You tell them to come. come out or do you help them out? Do you like charge our beaks? I go listen, I was given this option to become a water person. And I chose to become one. And I'd like to hang with you guys.

And just see what y'all are up to. Yeah, I want to see what you guys. I would sing, you know, under the sea by from the little mermaid and see if they recognize it. So would you be Aquaman over Superman or Wonder Woman? Well, I think that it's like, like, what would you, if you become Superman, like, what do you do it do? I mean, what are you going to do? But if you become Aquaman, at least you can explore things that you've never seen. Yeah.

I mean, superman. You can go to space. Can fly anywhere. You can change the rotation of the earth and go back in time. Bounce off a ceiling. Yeah, you got to the firmament and you go, ah. Oh, I got tricked. How do I even get here?

But if you get stuck, maybe. But, you know, it would be nice to be able to fly around. I wouldn't turn that down. Yeah. But just think, if we've only explored 10% of the ocean. But what if you could only fly at the speed that you can walk now? Again, that's one of my jokes. Oh, sorry.

I have a joke about... Is it on a special? No, maybe my next one. Okay. Then I'll move on. But I would just say, flying would be awesome. Mine is, the gist of it is, with my low T, I wouldn't be able to stay up. I would just be three feet off the ground bump it into people.

Like, coming through, coming through. is the thin layer of air below you're just levitating people are pass and be walking by flying yeah but um i just think being able to like go underwater and swim real fast and like have gills that'd be cool i mean of course there's dangers down there of course but there's dangers up here too yeah yeah you know this country's falling apart but down there may be going great maybe yeah things are maybe except for we keep fishing out all the filters. So they're down there going.

It's so dirty down here if these people would stop eating all the oysters and shrimp and scallops and lobsters. You'd be down there and you'd be like, what Brought and Aaron are up to? And then a McDonald's bag falls down. Yeah. How? I'll get they're up there right now.

Yeah. Yeah. What about you, Aaron? Probably a half-eaten hamburger that will never break down. Yeah. And none of the fish will eat it. You're choosing the trees or the... I think what your question is, what was my animorph?

animal, right? Yeah. If I were on the animorphs. Do you ever watch the animals growing up? No. You know what I'm talking about? Can you see the book covers? Do you know what I'm talking about? I only know it because you showed this on a previous podcast. Oh, did it really? Yeah. I'm such a broken record, huh? Well, we've been doing this for

six years. We've talked about everything. These animals, you remember these books? No. They would let these kids, they turn into animals. Wow. But I think that... Do you remember these books, Noah? Do you read the animorphs? And I think the... I think the rules of this universe where they could transform it to an animal, but they had to transform back after like an hour or something, or else they would stay stuck as that animal. And there was one

guy that got stuck as like a falcon. Oh, yeah. It's a pretty good thing to get stuck as. I guess. Yeah. You still, you want to be human every now. I would go. I would go. I wouldn't be whatever this person. No, that's a terrible choice. Yeah. If you're going to go, go all the way, though. The middle ones are really. Yeah, you don't want to be stuck in the middle. I think to gain the ability to transform into the animal, you have to, like, touch the animal. So I think these kids were... That's what you were watching?

Step two. I see why Amanda Binds was such a big hit. Well, these were great books before they became a television show. A mistake has been made. His name is David. I think... I'm like, I don't know if that's David there. That's...

And it's a girl transforming. into a rat or a mouse. Yeah, I don't think that's David. I think that's maybe the mistake. This is Julia. Can you imagine the first date? She looks like that, and then you go over and like, something's changed. Yeah.

Well, look at this dude turning into a king cobra. That's pretty cool. Yeah. But he had to touch that king cobra to gain the ability to transform into it. I would do a dolphin. That's what I would do. Okay. A dolphin, I think.

And do what? Well, you explore the ocean. But I think, when we were, were they doing? Were they solving crimes? What were they doing? Yeah, I don't remember. It was something. Something like maybe they had... They're not just having fun, though. They're actually... Yeah, okay. They're trying to write some wrongs or something. So, I don't know how being able to be a hammerhead shark would help with anything. But his second...

You know what I mean? His second step there is pretty funny looking. You know, in Harry Potter, the ability to transform into an animal, it's called being an animagus. Oh, yeah? And you have to get legally recognized by the Ministry of Magic to be an animagus. But there are people in the universe who secretly become anima guy. And they, so most famously, of course, Rita Skeeter is an investigative journalist who becomes an unregister. who becomes an unregistered Anamagus transforms into a ladybug. And that's how she gets stories.

She gets scoops. She transforms into a ladybug, flies around, listens to people, gets the scoop on people, and then transforms out. But gets caught. But gets caught by Hermione cast an impenetrable curse on a jar, traps her in a jar. So she can't transform back. Wow. She can't break the jar? No, she lets her out eventually, understand.

some conditions, you know. I like, I do know that Hermione is a, a girl's name in there, but at first, when you said Hermione, I go, what, what's Hermione? Hermione? Your Miny, his Miny. Meany, Mo. Dusty, what do you think about these frogs that have psychedelic toxins and it makes a secret? Have you ever licked a frog is what we're asking? I never licked a frog. Have you thought about it? You could see God and. Is that why you're growing all these things? No, I'm not into licking them, but I, you know, I used to handle toads, though, and they would pee on my hands, and I would get warts. That's real?

People say that's a myth, but I don't get peed on by frogs anymore, and I don't. I accidentally typed toes instead of toads. But I don't. Much different answer on Google. I don't get peed on by frogs, and I don't get warts, so. That's good. Those are two good life choices. Yeah.

people do not actually lick toads. I don't think that's true. I think people are getting into it. Yeah, people totally do. Mike Tyson said he died and he's okay with it. He saw, you know, heaven and he saw... From licking a toad. Yeah.

I don't know if he licked it, but he did the psychedelic that comes from the... He did DMT? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I think so. You believe that, Dusty? That Mike Tyson died and... Well, that people see things like spiritual...

Well, that's what DMT is doing. Yeah, I mean, I think people for sure hallucin but I don't, I don't think it's good. I don't think you're seeing good things. You know, the, by the way, the National Park Service says, please do not lick the toes. Because the, by the request of the frogs. Yeah, they said, please stop licking us, too. Yeah. Do you, you know, the, what happens if you put a frog in water and start blowing it? Oh, God. I'm guessing they don't. like it. You've never heard this? No.

Well, that's what they say is going on with culture now. You ever heard a frog in boiling water? No. What's what are we talking about? It's, uh... We're talking about literally putting a frog in boiling water? Yeah, it's cold-blooded. Yeah, it's like an analogy

for small incremental things happen over time. You don't even notice it. That's what they're doing to our society. So what they're saying is you put it a toad in water, a frog in water, that's true to do. Gradually, turn up the temperature, it'll up to bowling, it'll just, it'll never jump out because it doesn't

notice the change. Like taxes. They keep, they raise them a little bit out of time. And then each time you go, oh, well, we raise the taxes. And you go, oh, that's ridiculous. I understand the metaphor now. I just needed him to finish like what was actually happening. But anyway, next thing you know, you're like, whoa, what am I paying all these taxes for? Should have jumped out a while. Yeah. But instead, we're like, now we're stuck. Oh, don't you love the roads? So you got to look for the bubbles. You got to look for the bubbles first.

Yeah. Something's going on. Yeah. Okay. Now, I thought you would already know the analogy, but apparently it's not true. It's a myth that, you know, whatever I ran away, they'll just jump out. And you looked into it. Well, I didn't experiment.

Well, I wonder if it's, first off, if it's boiling slow enough, if it's coming to a boil slow enough. Or if it's sitting on a thing and the frog is in the bottom, that bottom is heating up. Right. Much faster than the pot boiling. So you think the experimentation may have been flawed? I think so. I mean, listen, if Aaron's aunt can call out people on Mythbusters. Mythbusters.

His grandfather? Then I don't believe any experiment. Faustin? I should have never told you that. happen. That's so funny. Now, I do know the expression, eat the frog.

What's that? It's the old expression. It's like, imagine if you had to eat a frog every day. Right. Tough. Be tough. You should do it. The first thing, you should wake up and eat the frog immediately.

It's like a cold shower. Yes, exactly. Do the toughest thing. Do whatever you're dreading rather than dread it all day, just knock it out immediately, and then your whole day's great. We should do this podcast in the mornings. Eat the frog. We should eat the frog. Would it be better, though, to eat the frog first thing or wait until you've had a few drinks

later in the night and then eat the frog. Chase it down. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's also an option. Get drunk and then chase the frog later at night. Yeah, like, you're like, it's an excuse to drink then. Everybody goes, you drink every night and you go. I have to eat this frog.

I made a deal with it. the witch. I have to eat this frog every day. There was a thing. Have you ever swallowed a goldfish or eaten a fish like that? I don't think so. They're unclean. No, I think like a goldfish. A goldfish isn't unclean. It's just not

food. It's fens and gills. But I think there was some like in college, I know like the crew team, they made all the rookies, the freshmen. They had to swallow a goldfish. Wow. Part of like an initiation. You did it? No, I'm not. You think I was on the crew

team, dude? No, dude. Sorry, I wasn't listening. Some reason I was thinking of fraternity, which y'all don't have a Notre Dame.

Do you wish you did? Nah. Seambert. Okay. Nah. They had a pretty good time without it. Yeah.

There's a lot of fairy tales about frogs becoming princes. Yeah, what is that all about? Where did that come from? Why is it always, you know,

you kiss a frog, it turns into, There is in the Bible, too, though, a frog-like demon. I think it says in Revelation. We've talked about frog-like demons. It says a frog-like demon in there, yeah. And let's see. I got some other...

I don't know if that's going to be on one of your pamphlets. Now, I got some other amphibians that we could show, though. Here's a fire salamander. Okay. I mean, I had some stuff on salamanders. I just feel like frogs were leading... Who you think is the most famous frog? Great crested Newt.

The most famous frog? Newt Gingrich. Most famous frog. Like a character of a frog. Not an actual frog. Correct. Whatever you wanted to be. I mean,

I think it's got to be the Budweiser frog at this point, right? I can't even think of another one. What? Do you know a better one? Famous frog. I can't know. What's a more famous frog than that? Jimmy Cricket?

No, he was a cricket. Amanda Binds? I mean, maybe if they did a frog sketch, I'm sure it would be great. You know what? I can't think of any. I can't name a single frog. Kermit the frog. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I guess that was like that. These guys are pathetic. I guess it says frog in his name. Termit the frog. They dated a pig. That's true. Pretty wild. Yeah.

A couple of unclean animals getting together. Is frog unclean? Yeah. Oh. To eat. Oh, okay. Well, whatever. else you like to hang out if you're in bed together they're fine is that i mean that's

kermit the frog's number one obviously is there even a number two uh i had i feel like there's some soldier frogs what do you say oh the warner brothers or not the warner brother wb frog whatever yes yeah yeah you feel like there's some soldier frogs where they're holding uh staffs its name is michigan frog michigan j frog why is he called that Michigan Jackson Frog. That's crazy. We're talking about the little green frog with a top hat and he's dancing around. His name is Michigan Jackson Frog. That's crazy.

Michigan carries a cane, sings ragtime music. Wow. And performs acrobatics. And he's a vaudeville. Yeah, this is how I know. I'm probably the, you know, the more modern Michigan. chicken frog. There's also the game leapfrog. That's true.

Frogger. Frogger's big for sure. It's back in my bag. Yeah, okay. There's a... Jeremiah the bullfrog. Jeremiah was a bullfrogh. There's a Looney Tunes...

Dust, you watch Looney Tunes, right? I think it was this frog where somebody had it and he would jump out and dance, and then he would try to go, like, show it off to people, and it wouldn't do anything? And he would get... Do you know this? Oh, no.

All right, never mind. I like that, though. I feel like the Michigan J. Frog. He's like that. I love to sing, uh, about a da-da-da-da-da. Yeah, he would do that. Everybody thought this guy was crazy because he'd go show it to people and he just wouldn't do anything. Yeah.

All right. There were way more than I thought there would be. Yeah. Can all of them grow back limbs if you cut them off? Or is that just salamanders? And can't salamanders do that? I don't think it's- Have I been cutting off these tails?

for no reason. I don't think it's all of them. I don't know. There is the thing about frogs where they can like, you know, they talked about it in Jurassic Park where they can change sexes. Oh, okay. Let's get into that. Yeah.

Well, like, they, them. Well, they, the midwife toad is unique among other frogs and toads of Europe in that the male, oh, cares for the eggs until they hatch. So that's not what we're talking about here. But, you know, in Jurassic Park, that's what Ian Malcolm talks about, Dr. Ian Malcolm, who was played by Jeff Goldblatt. Yes.

Oh, okay. He talks about that. Life, uh, uh, uh, finds a way. Yeah. Yeah. And then Alex Jones very famously says that they're putting chemicals in the water, turning the frog gay, is what he says. Yeah.

Which is one of the funniest clips of all time. Yeah. And didn't he turn out to be? I think he turned out to be right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It says adult frogs cannot naturally regrow lost legs on their own, but a couple scientific breakthroughs, researchers at Tufts University, known primarily for their Acapello program. I want to put that out there. And the WIS Institute at Harvard successfully triggered leg regrowth in adult xenopus levis frogs. And then they filled a five-drug cocktail, and they put that over an amputation site for 24 hours,

they prompted the body to regrow a functional, complete leg with nerves, bones, and blood vessels over an 18-month period. Wow. So we can do it. I'd like to do that with people. And in the Spider-Man, not Toby McGuire, not the current guy, the one in the middle. He fought the villain lizard. Andrew Garfield.

Andrew Garvey fought the villain lizard who was using reptile or amphibian DNA to regrow body parts. But it took over and he completely turned. But I think we should do something like this for people. Google said, are you asking out of general curiosity or are you trying to help an injured frog? Did you cut a leg off of the frog, basically? No, we're just trying to learn about them.

Yeah. But a salamanders, you can cut the tail off and it grows, right? I don't know. I think lizards will grow their tails back. But not salamanders. I don't know. Well, let's figure it out. This seems pretty important. You're right.

Salamanders can completely regrow their lost tails, including new vertebrae, muscles, blood vessels, and spinal cord neurons. Wow. So we should get in on that. It's amazing. We should be able to use some of this reptile DNA to. Aren't scientists doing that, like studying them? With humans?

I don't think so. I think our scientists are sidetracked. Got other stuff going on these days. No, I think they're studying these trying to learn how we could. use it for ourselves. They're too busy making pain meds for the lost door. They don't want to worry about fixing it. Right, right. There's no money in growing back an arm.

I bet there would be. There could be. If you could buy it, they want to be the rich person. A one-time purchase. Yeah, that's true. Now, they would make it a subscription. Yeah, got to grow up slow.

20 bucks a month, and it's like Netflix. You get an email. Stop paying it falls off. Yeah. Starts retracting back. Yeah. Well, I said you shouldn't touch a salamander, by the way.

Google's letting me know. I've learned some stuff about amphibians. It makes me want to get into the whole tadpole. You should, you know, in McMinnville, I found some, like, salamander-like things. I didn't mess with them, but I had put a bunch of- You shouldn't touch it. Yeah, I'd put a bunch of hay out there to help grow grass, and then I moved some, and there was a bunch of little salamander-like things under there.

Destroyed their habitat. No, I put it back. Oh, okay, good. Yeah, good. Yeah, we do them back. So do you like amphibians more than reptiles? I like them about the same. Rank the types of animals right now.

I think mammals, we have got to put mammals on top. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Though I thought you might put them lower. You don't like mammals as much as me and dust. I mean, well, I don't, you know, I don't like, you know, dogs necessarily. Like fish. Or cats or stuff like that.

But you like a seal. Yeah. An otter maybe. Yeah. A narwhal. Yeah. Yeah. Is that a mammal, normal wall?

I would think so. You know, it's these wildlife fact files that I got in the 90s that convinced me that narwhals are real because I had one of these. I was trying to see when it was, when it was printing, but I convinced me because they had it. So they mentioned it back in the day. They just weren't shoving it in your face. Right, right, right.

Yeah. Yeah. So I was like, okay. If I do it, I'm going to come to you for some help getting it. Yeah, let's grow some stuff. You're going to grow a garden, right? We got the garden. The garden's growing.

Oh, okay. I'm going to hear about that. I'm putting it together. Eleanor would love to watch. She would. Go from tadpole to frog. She would. By the way, this says narwhals and beluga whales are known to interbreed.

Oh. That's really, I'd like to see what that looks like. A little baby balugoo. Well, that's for another episode. That's for the Patreon. We'll get into that. Gonna pay for that. That's amphibians.

Okay, great. All right. Well, this weekend I'm going to be in, I'll be in Sacramento on Friday and San Diego on Saturday. I wish I'd have known that. Why? I'm in Sacramento on Sunday. Oh. Yeah, I saw a lot of people saying they're not coming to your show. They can't do both. I mean, I don't blame them. I don't blame it. But if you want to see comedy how it's meant to be performed in a small club. Yeah, you can do both. Where they ask people to scoot up to the. front. That's the way comedy is meant. You can do both. You can do both. You want to see the full spectrum of comedy. You can see it at a theater. You can see it at a club. I've heard the punchline

is an awesome club. I've never been. I am going to be in California this weekend. San Francisco, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at the punchline. I'm told it's one of the best clubs in the country. I've never gotten to perform there. I'm super excited to be there, San Francisco. And then Sacramento, that Sunday night at the punchline. Then I'm taking a red eye home back to Nashville. baby. It's got a long, long weekend. Brian, where can people find you? Well, I'm home most of this weekend. I am going to go down to the World War Theater to see...

Just the one. The one in Nashville. Yeah. I messed up. The Nateland presents half-hour special taping with Andy Woodhull, Mike James, and Mark Shalafoo. I just work with Mark in Cincinnati.

It's great. We also know Mike very well. Yeah, I just hadn't worked with him. I know Andy, too. Okay. I know I'm all guys So anyway That's this Sunday at 3 p.m.

Mike's our buddy He's all right No I love my Those are three really good comics Yes yes that's fun But then I'm going to be In Paducah St. Louis I got a show here at Zanis

To benefit the National Rescue Mission And then I got a couple of shows Oh, I'm going to be in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Comedy Zone. Nice. Coal Pepper, Virginia. A couple of shows in the holidays I want to mention. December 9th, I'm at Helium in Alpharetta, Georgia, just outside of Atlanta. Cool.

Have you been there the new helium? No, I haven't. It's great. And I just, December 9th, that is prime Christmas party season. That's right. Season. So if you're thinking about a Christmas party, taking your church group, your coworkers, and you're like, I don't know, it might be awkward. bring them in my show. It's going to be clean. Also, hire Brian for a Christmas party.

Sure, just not December 9th because I'm going to be. But, you know. So then know some cash. But 10th, 11th, 12th. Well, I'm already booked for Christmas parties for those dates, I think. Okay. But I feel like you're a good Christmas party comedy comedy. He is for sure. I think I've got... You not so much. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to go. This whole holidays is sham. Yeah. I think I booked the 10th and 11th. I think I still have the 12th. Would you dress up as Santa for something?

Guys, I'm still doing my pitches here. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. My bad, probably. And then New Year's Eve. I am at Stardome in Hoover, Alabama. Okay. Two shows New Year's Eve.

What could go wrong, right? And so those tickets are going to go fast. I'm in the Broadway room. So come on out. Keep going. Go through January. New Year's Eve on Broadway. That's what I'm talking about.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to get that out there because those tickets are going to be gone. So be thinking about it now. January, I'm in Wichita. I'm kidding. February.

You should. I don't usually go that far out, but I wanted to. I got a New Year's date. Can I plug it? Sure. If you're going to mock me. I'm not mocking you. I'm saying it's a good idea.

Let's get the tickets where we can. Rosemont, Illinois. Zany's Rosemont. New Year's, do New Year's weekend there. Me and Jay Flake, Black and Mildor, baby. What does that mean? December 31st and January 6th? second?

That whole weekend, I think. You're doing yours day? Yeah, I think so. Wow. I'm surprised. Probably looked at it. It was a mistake. Why?

Because it's a holy day of obligation. Yeah, 31st, first and second. Wow. Okay. Come on out. That's the episode. Anything else you all want to say before we sign off? Just such a great time.

Yeah. I mean, I feel sarcastic, but I had a pretty good time. I've learned a lot. What animal group should we do next? I'm not saying next week, but just next in general. And amoebas. I want to do microbiology. I want to learn about that stuff.

All right. So we can kick off the three unwise men tour. All right. That's it for another edition of Public Figures podcast. Thank you for listening in. Keep your head on a swivel. Keep your nose to the grindstone. And keep an eye out for us.

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