The Nateland Podcast - #5 Sports

Episode Date: July 29, 2020

This episode, we discuss what qualifications a sports fan needs to be able to call a team "we", is it okay for grown men to wear jerseys of other men, sports records that will never be broken, and the guys each share some of their personal highs and lows from their playing days.   Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail]

What's up everybody this is Nate Bargutzi the Nate Land podcast I'm here as always I introduce Aaron Weber right there Brian Bates at the end of the table I think that's interesting I think that's you know I introduced myself I think that's, you know, I introduced myself. I think someone said that. Yep. That lady were like, well, who are you? Well, say it. I made it here.

Who are you? I don't know. I said it. I said I'm Nate Bargetti. That was the first thing I said. Oh, sorry. I was zoned out. Like typical listeners.

That's what we get. People zoned out. Thanks for listening again We love all of you Everybody's been super nice and supportive And you know As we figure this whole podcast thing out We've had a lot of people reach out

I mean just super nice And we've I mean it's been awesome The comments have been great Brian's been talking to a lot of you Too many Too many He gets That's what they said too They go He gets I mean, it's been awesome. The comments have been great. Brian's been talking to a lot of you. Too many. Too many.

That's what they said, too. They go, hey, that's what my messages are. Like, hey, tell Brian to back off a little bit. Like, he messaged me. He reached out to me. He's asking other people questions. So we're going to, as usual, I don't know if it's as usual. We just did it last week. But we're going to read some comments, I don't know if it's as usual, we just did it last week,

but we're going to read some comments from the last week's episode. Just some questions I got. One was the hat I was wearing last week. It said Troub on it, T-R-O-U-B, and someone wants to know what that is. That is a golf course, Troubadour. It's a golf course here in Nashville so I golf a lot I get a lot of hats from different places and that was that's what that hat was so I wish it was cooler than that also someone asked in response to Nate

talking about wearing rubber bands and more than one pair of shorts definitely did the rubber bands growing up this guy my brother would use the bands that keep asparagus bundles together. I did have a friend who wore two pairs of shorts at the same time, but it was because his top layer didn't have pockets. I got a lot of people saying that they did what you did. They did? Yeah.

With rubber bands or the shorts? Both. But I don't understand if you want pockets, so why not just wear the shorts that have pockets? Because it's cool to wear two shorts, man. Look, all these people that wore these two shorts have to be my age. I mean, there's no way they're not. Do you wear two polo shirts, too?

I would wear two shirts. I'd wear two t-shirts. I bet everybody that wore them has to be my age. Class of 97, high school, there's no way they're not. You can always tell when someone's like your age. Yeah. And they're like, I do that. You know what I thought of?

I actually might think of this as a joke in my act. So, you know, I'm sure that happens a lot with podcasts. You do stuff and then get in your act. So just be aware of it. But I thought the older I get, the more when I see someone, I'll meet them, and I'll talk to them, and I'm like, oh, yeah, man. I'm like, how old are you? And I mean, dude, I think they're going to say 50, and they say like 38,

and I'm 40. I'm three years older, and it happens all the time. And, I mean, it's people that i'm like dude how old do i look because this guy looks like he's 60 yep and he's like doesn't even understand my references that's how much older i am than him like you're blown away it's just like immediate you just it's like you you know obviously you can't see yourself so you just in your brain you think well i'm everybody's older than me because you well, everybody's older than me. Because you're 20, everybody's older than you.

And then you hit 41, and then you realize, I'm the one older than every... You just have to go... Every thing you're talking about, you're like, well, I'm much older than you guys. And they're like, no, I don't know about that. And then I'm like, well, how old are you? They're like, 30. And you're like, oh, I'm much older. You just repeat it.

I'm much older than you guys. Oh, yeah, I'm like, well, how old are you? They're like 30. And you're like, oh, I'm much older. You just repeat it. I'm much older than you guys. Oh, yeah, I'm definitely like that. I mean, we go to these open mics, and they're all Aaron's age. And I feel like we're the same age. Yeah. But we're not. I'm like one of those deer videos where a dog raises a baby deer, and they don't even know that they're not the same breed.

I think I'm one of them. Just walking around. Oh, my God, my dad's here. There's times with someone where I'm like, I want to be like, could you call your dad and could I hang out with him? I will get along with him more than I will. All right. Maybe that won't go in the act.

I don't know. I think it will go. I got a spot for it. That's what I do. Find a little spot. Just find a little. Wedge it in. Wedge it in somewhere.

It can get in there. Little pieces. That's how you build your act. It's piece by piece. It's like finding wood. You find old wood laying out. You're like, I could do something with this. I don't know.

I said Jamie from Progressive was jacked. Someone looked up Jamie from Progressive. I think Nate's definition of jacked is a bit different than most people's. I thought he was like swole. I thought he looked like he was strong. He looked good, dude. He looked strong. Yeah.

Like a strong guy. I bet Jamie would fight this guy. We're going to get Jamie and this guy to fight. Yeah. Even actors that look like a little dopey, they're all in great shape. You know, Michael Scott in The Office, he was very in shape. And I know people that wrote on that show, and they would have to give him clothes so you couldn't tell how in shape he was

because it's not as funny. I mean, if you really saw it, you see it. There's like an episode where you see it where he has a tight shirt on. I mean, just a thick cut. His muscles, his pecs are just gigantic. Did that happen between season one and two? Because I remember season one, he was balding. He was a little bit out of shape.

He must have filmed something between season one and season two. Well, that show took off. Oh, yeah? I mean, The Office, I think. The Office was out the gate pretty good. It's not like Seinfeld. Seinfeld was, you know, I just listened to Seinfeld talk about it. It was like four seasons, and they were just barely hanging on.

But someone liked it, and they were like, keep plugging along. And they said Ted Danson retired, and then they got Thursday night. And then that's when Seinfeld just went and shot up. But for The Office, I think, because it did good. The British Office did good. And so The Office kind of came out the gate and if i felt like it was like a good show right oh i thought you said it it took off between one and two no i'm saying it from the beginning it wasn't like seinfeld where it's like four seasons

of them being like are we going to get canceled i think the office was kind of after season one it was like he's almost like i gotta go get in shape and look good because we're about to do 22 of these, and this is going to be a hit show. Like Modern Family. Modern Family was a hit show from the beginning. Once you get on it, they know that it's happening. You've got a show that you're going to be able to do as long as you want to do it. You can tell. Seinfeld was doing a show where it was, I don't know if it's going to happen.

Every time, they're like, are we going to get canceled? Keep in mind, the only reason we're talking about Jamie being jacked is because a lot of people say he looks like me. So just keep in mind, remember why we were even talking about this. You all have the same shirt, but besides that. In response to Nate saying three identical strangers kept stopping on Hulu, Nate, the Hulu problem sounds like an ad block is enabled and blacking out the ads.

That's unbelievable. Were you watching on your laptop? No, I was watching in the TV in our bedroom. And I was watching in there. But I don't ever watch TV in there. Yeah. But I was like, the family was gone. And so I was like, I'm going to lay in bed and watch a weird,

I didn't know, Three Ethnic Strangers movie. And I just kept stopping. That makes so much sense. That comment, good for you. That's a huge help. Because I would have just accepted that that's what's happening. You know when you just accept something where you're like, yeah, you see so many times that just are like yeah it just goes black

for a little bit for 30 second increments I thought Aaron said that last week did you? I don't know I was thinking was it you? I don't know somebody suggested that last week it would come I mean it would like at first it would go black and I just was like alright it just

I thought something was wrong about internet and then I one time left and came back, and it was back on, and I was like, oh, maybe I just got to wait it out. None of this ever clicked in my head. You hate ads, too, don't you? Yeah, I got YouTube. Yeah. If you can get YouTube with no ads, people should do that. You know, because you can, I got it through of my buddy Dan checking a comic he got it and he's allowed to give it to like five

people and so I'm one of his five people but it's so you can do it like that but the YouTube no ads is amazing yeah amazing speaking of that no we don't but we will hopefully have ads so Progressive. But it's unbelievable. When you get it with no ads, you forget that you're like, dude, this is so much better. Not having to sit. People just get used to waiting for ads, though. So they're fine with it. In response to the trip, it's all smoke with the same brand of cigarettes.

Someone said, I love this conversation, but brand of cigarettes is definitely a bigger deal among smokers more so than you might think as a non-smoker i have these close friends who all smoke different cigarettes it's more interesting than it sounds so just being like people like talking about like what kind of brands like are you a camel guy you're a marble guy i think that's fits in the i'm a diet pepsi person but i can can do Diet Coke. People don't like Diet Pepsi, though. For some reason, my family, we've always done Diet Pepsi. Yeah. But that's a big one. My buddy's a Coke Zero guy.

I'm not a big fan of Coke Zero. I don't think we were saying that your brand of cigarettes wasn't meaningful to you, just that all of their favorite brand of cigarettes is the most popular brand. If they were all smoking Turquoise American spirits, that would be interesting. I feel like you took offense to that comment. Calm down, big fella. Alright, just a person leaving a comment. Yikes.

Just shining some light on it. Easy, big fella. Alright, here we go. You just lose your mind. I'm really defensive of Marlboro Lights. Yeah. Anyway.

If I could do something, I would smoke cigarettes. If it was like, hey, it's fine, I like it. I like seeing people do it. I think it's old school. You should do it on the show. Dude, that would be great. You're saying if it came out that there were no health repercussions at all, you'd be all about it?

Turns out, guys, they were right in the 50s when doctors were saying smoke. Yeah. I just think I like, you know, again, this could be the older. You just miss some older stuff, seeing older stuff. I mean, you would see smoke and cigarettes on TV everywhere. On planes and stuff. Oh, yeah. I never saw a plane, but older stuff. Yeah. I mean, you'd see smoking cigarettes on TV everywhere. On planes and stuff. Oh, yeah. I never saw a plane, but Bates probably did.

He probably smoked on a plane. Did you ever see smoking on a plane? How old do you think I am? Well, what year did they stop smoking on a plane? I was born. For some reason, I've looked this up recently. It was later than you'd think. Mr. Cigarette over here. Yeah. It was like late 90s. Really? born. For some reason I've looked this up recently. It was later than you think. Mr. Cigarette over here.

It was like late 90s. Really? Yeah. Oh, really? I mean, people started to, airlines started to phase it out. Yeah. But it didn't become a law until the late, I have no idea. How do you phase it? Were they like smoking or non-smoking? Just look up real fast what

the date, because that's very interesting if it's late 90s a lot of those planes are you know it's the no smoking it's a light because they could turn it on and turn it off when the planes were made yeah it says uh 88 started phasing out and yeah by 2000 it was prohibited on all u.s flights i'm amazed that was right 2000 yeah i mean uh I imagine 2000. Yeah. I mean, they should still do it every now and again, man. I'd fly on it. Or an all-smokers plane. How about that?

Yeah, I'd fly on it. Really? I mean, dude, I loved how just smoking was, I mean, walking in an office building, it just wasn't like, you know, there's something. I think growing up in that era where smoking was, I mean, cool. Like doctors, I think, would smoke in commercials or something. Oh, sure. I mean, they were for it.

They encouraged it. The doctor would look at your chart and go, have you thought about smoking? Uh-huh. I mean, that's, you know, I get the health risk, but they had some fun back there, man. Almost done. In response to Brian saying some twin athletes have different degrees of success, bailing out Brian with twins Jose and Ozzy Canseco. Thank you.

Thank you. So they had wildly different. Yeah. I could not think of one right off hand that made it, though. I've never heard of Ozzie Canseco. Yeah. He's a baseball player, too? He's Jose's twin sister.

No, brother. Oh, sorry. Oh, I had it upside down. Oh, okay. Yeah. He... Well, you know Jose Canseco, right? Sure.

Yeah, he had a twin brother. Politician, Jose Canseco? Yeah. Yeah. But Jose, not Hall of Fame. Really? No, he's the king of the steroids i mean didn't he run for mayor of he like told he's the one that told everybody yeah nobody believed him no one believed him yeah but you know it's that's weird to think are you like are you fine with him saying it like you know like jose like are you because there's a there's a weird thing with like

whistleblowers kind of where people get mad at whistleblowers which is really unfair because it's everybody wants to know the rules are not getting broken and then the guy does do it then everybody's like why do you say something but i get it with with that if you're doing it and taking all these steroids why do you like on the way out the door like i think it's how you do it if you're like jose's career is kind of going down and then he's like on the way out the door? Like, I think it's how you do it. If you're like, Jose's career is kind of going down. And then he's like, by the way, everybody's doing steroids. It's just so funny because, I mean, he's so infamous. He had a home run ball bounce off his head.

That's what I know him most from is that clip. And now he's big on Twitter because he posts the most ridiculous stuff. But people retweet him all the time. I mean, some crazy stuff. He's like OJ without the murder. He was kind of like Grok. OJ without the murder is a pretty fun guy. Yeah.

Not a bad gang. Likes to golf. Yeah. You know? Once you get over that part of it. The last response to Nate's orange hands. I don't think they're orange. I think my tan and I think the lighting.

I got a bunch of responses on this. Oh, man. It might be low on iron. Did I say iron right? I don't think I say it right. We know what you're saying. How do you say it? Iron.

Iron? Yeah. Iron. I think it's very southern. I think we say it's southern. How do you say it? Iron. Iron.

Iron. Nate might be low on iron If his hands are orange By the looks of his clothing He's freezing While everyone's in short sleeves We keep it very cold up here Like David Letterman's studio For the laughs You can see he needs to get a little bit colder

And then I cold him When we tape We do this 11 a.m. I mean, I have not been up for long. I don't get up at 6 a.m., 8 a.m. I'm up as they get here

sometimes. You're the most cold-natured man I've ever met. I'm very cold-natured in the morning. I think this person's onto something. You just got through working out. You're wearing a coat. Well, today I worked out out i don't always work out today was the first day i'm not wearing a i think it looks better too to not have your arms all flailing out you know like if you're jacked yeah people want to see it him and jamie they go jay could you guys put some jackets on? I like wearing long sleeve. We keep it cold up here.

It's not crazy to wear this during the day. We're not doing it out in the sun. I'm in a normal place. I'd like to be left alone. But normally I do wake up. Today I did work out. I'm trying to work out. But then normally I do wake up. People don't realize, sometimes I'm trying to work out. But then normally I do wake up.

People don't – like sometimes you're – I'm talking to someone, and I've been awake for 20 minutes. Dead sleep to 20 – like, you know. I've woke up at, like, I think 10, 15, and we do this at 11. Yeah. But I don't go to bed until 2. So that's – I always get that. People always – I'm not an early early i don't get up early i'm

starting to get up a little bit earlier but like i don't get up early but i don't go to bed till i sleep eight hours usually it'll be eight or less but i'll go to bed last night i went to bed like two something because i finished uh mission impossible the fallout yeah Yeah. And it's a good one, man. It's really good. I haven't seen it. It's great. It's really great. And so I watched that.

But yeah, that's the comics lifestyles. We have a very, there's no schedule. We don't really have a routine. It's very hard for us to get into a routine. That's why working out and eating good is extremely hard because you're just always kind of, especially when you're touring, your times are always messed up.'re doing shows at nine like you got to be like awake at nine like enrolling at nine like on top of it you know and then you can't go to sleep that's where you know like the bulls documentary they did they were like say they would take naps

during the day because they because they're they have to be at their peak performance at 10 p.m imagine playing a full basketball game at 10 p.m yeah you know what time you go to bed i like this one last one oh where are you gonna i just asked what time you went to bed yeah i would i would pull an all-nighter like once a week for years for no reason my suit schedule is crazy but i would go to bed two or three most nights. Yeah, that's what I do now. I'd like to go to bed at 1. I would love to get it down to midnight. If I could get it to midnight, go to bed at midnight, it would be terrific. Yeah.

But I like to 1. It would be great. Have you ever seen the sunset or do you already sleep always? Anyway, it's pretty good. Do you go to bed late? I mean, I watch the local news uh everybody welcome my aunt patty to the show that's a i always see the seven day beater joke aunt patty very funny comedian yeah i see the seven day forecast and then i tune in

turn in they still tease it for quite a while yeah Yeah, they keep you around. And it's pretty crazy for them to tease it, and you're like, y'all know I can just look this up in two seconds. But they know you won't. Well, let me just share this. When I worked in TV news, they do 15-minute increments for TV ratings. So they would always say, do not hit the seven-day forecast until 1020. Because if you watch it for five of those 15 minutes, they get it counted for the entire 15 minutes.

Does that make sense? Yeah. So they said don't show it until 1020 because so many people stuck around for that that you'd get counted for the whole 1015 to 1030 in the ratings. Wow. So that drives a lot of the views, the weather, huh? Yeah. But that's had to hurt a ton with phones.

I'm sure. Yeah. But it is something great about waiting. Yeah. You know, it is like I've seen, I've like had to. You should try commercials. Yeah. I've seen the news, I've seen like local news on,

and then they always kind of break up the weather. And you are like, there is a little bit that you're like, well, what's it going to be? And you know that you could go figure it out. But you're like, I don't want to figure it out. I would like to hear him tell me. There's kind of a fun thing to that. You should not get everything whenever you want it. Last one.

Love Nate. Love the podcast. Haven't been a podcast listener until now welcome downloaded all three episodes while traveling recently so fun

sad to miss seeing Nate live but this has been a good substitute enjoying getting to know Brad and Aaron keep it up guys funny stuff

Brad and Aaron this is Aaron that's Brad alright I love that I sent that to Brad speaking of Brad Brad had Brad and Aaron. This is Aaron. That's Brad. All right. I love that. I sent that to Brad. Speaking of Brad, Brad had a bit of a morning. Are you talking about me?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I left here. I left to come. Well, I had to go pick up his iced coffee on the way. So that's another story. But I go to my car, and apparently I left my door unlocked, and somebody got in my car and ransacked through my car.

Stuff strewn everywhere. They don't sleep in there. They make it them homes. So luckily I don't keep much valuables in there. They just went through my glove box. Bit of a downer for that guy. So luckily I don't keep much variables in there. They just went through my glove box. Bit of a downer for that guy. That's so funny that nothing was stolen.

The guy left Brian $10. I got to Starbucks and I popped my trunk and my golf clubs were still there. I mean, if you've seen these golf clubs, it would have been a headache for that guy to take these golf clubs. It was not worth the time he's left-handed which is not even the problem it's the age of the clubs but to look at him go all right maybe i can do something with them he's like in their left hand i mean the buyer for that is limited to he would probably have to sell them back to brian that's the only thing he would he would have to somehow somehow follow Brian and pop up and be like, hey, would you like to buy some clubs?

And you'd be like, oh, these look familiar. I love the thought of a guy ransacking through cars and he pulls them out left-handed? Yeah. He puts them back? He puts them back in. Yeah. The trunk was, you could tell that they're in the trunk too? No, the trunk looked fine.

I don't think he popped it, but I didn't know. No windows broke. No, apparently I left unlocked, so that's on me. Wow. That's a little bit on the guy that broke in too. Yeah, it's a lot on him. That idea that, I always hated that. People were like, well, I left my door locked.

People should not be stealing too, so should happen no i agree i was prematurely saying that before you guys chastise me for leaving my door unlocked no i i've never you know i've we've had we had uh our old neighborhood uh they someone did our whole street and they came like that seems to happen where they just come down. And we parked in the garage, and anybody that wasn't parked in the garage, every car got broken into, and they just came. And I'm always up, you know, because we're talking about being up late.

Like, I always take a gander out, see what's going on. They did it at, like, four. No one goes out at, like, two. You 2. If they did 2, I got it. But I don't know what I'm going to do. Well, now he knows your sleep schedule. You're going to bed at midnight. He can just run wild all night. Maybe I don't.

Maybe I go to bed at 4. You never know. You also got stabbed in the neck during this. No, I didn't get stabbed. I had basal cell carcinoma, which is the smallest form of skin cancer. It's fine, but they said it had probably been there for years, but it's on my neck, and I had to go have it removed. It's not fun. So I go there, and I don't know about you guys.

I don't like to tell people I'm a comedian because I just don't want to get into it. I do. I used to not, but I can't even think of ideas anymore. It's just I don't like telling them. I try not to say anything. Right. Even if I get pressured, I'll say it. I don't like to say anything.

The first lady at the checkout, she said, are you employed? And I just said no, which has basically been true lately yeah and but then i get in there and the they're working on me and i mean they're digging into my neck and one of the guys there was like so what do you do for a living and i was like well i'm actually a comedian i always say i'm actually it's like i'm embarrassed to say it i said i'm actually a comedian and then he's like oh really and he's like uh yeah he's like i was always class clan i've been thinking about getting into that and then he keeps talking to me doctor thinking about getting into it no no no this was a male nurse oh oh well then he's obviously he should get into it anyway said he majored in something else in college just

still thinking about getting into it so then these other nurses come in and the doctor, and he's like, this guy's a comedian. And then this guy starts telling jokes, borderline inappropriate jokes. I mean, there was a Viagra joke in there, and it's so awkward. And this guy's working on me. The best part is, though, with masks.

Well, you know, we all had masks on. It's great because you don't have to smile. You don't have to fake it as much because we have a mask on, so he has no idea. But it just it was not fun i love them listening to the story so i uh did like were they either you they know you or they ask you if you're a comedian i had it at my high school uh at my high school in nashville donald's christian academy we went to it and they my only alumni so i do uh we do a golf tournament it's become the nate bargetzi golf tournament it wasn't and then now it's just become that and so uh did we just we did it a few months

ago have i not told this story on here no no uh so we did did a few months ago and uh i'm sitting there taking a picture with i would go around i just kind of went around talk to everybody i'm taking a picture with this kid uh and he was like oh me and my mom watched you on netflix and very nice and so as i'm taking the picture another guy that i i know from like he's like my friend's uncle or something so i kind of know him but not really you know and he's like what's up man he's like my friend's uncle or something. So I kind of know him, but not really, you know. And he's like, what's up, man? He's like, you still doing that comedy thing? Just asked me, as I'm taking a picture with the guy that's a fan of my comedy thing that I'm doing.

And I was like, yeah. At the event that's named after you? At the event called Nate Bargetzi, the Nate Bargetzi Golf Tournament. And he goes, you still doing it? I was like, yeah, just plugging along, man, doing whatever I can. And he's like, that's good, man. All right, good to hear. I mean, he, if I was like, nah, it didn't work out, we're construction now.

He'd be like, all right, that's cool. Yeah, man, well, at least you gave it a go, you know. Chase your dream. That's more than most, you know. I mean, that's what the other route he would have gone. That's what I should have said. I tried my hardest. He was going to offer you a job.

Yeah. And I need it. We're talking about getting recognized. What's you recognizing? One time we were doing a show, and I can't remember what it was, but the next day I went to a subway or something. We're waiting there. And I recognize somebody from the show. And we're still there waiting. And I said, hey, were you at the Nate Bargetzi show last night? And she's like, yeah. She said, were you there? And I was like, yeah,

yeah, I was on the show. And then she immediately tried to recover. She's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought you, she's like, I got there a little late. We were sitting far away. Yeah, I couldn't see much. Well, I could see you. So I recognized her. She did not recognize me. That's so far.

That's so great. Come to the shows. Brian will recognize you out. You want to feel like a celebrity, Brian goes out, hey. Fourth row, kind of in the middle. Big lady next to you. And then you're like, yeah. I was on stage, remember?

We get the full experience. That's part of the VIP package is just Brian will recognize you. You get to go out in public and order food, and you can't be left alone. Brian comes up to you. Can I get a picture with you? And you have to go like,

I mean, I'm meeting with my family right now, so maybe after. We give you the full-on, real... You don't even have to recognize me. I will spot you. Don't worry about it. Yeah, you leave going, I guess maybe I knew that guy. I don't know. That's so funny. This episode,

I feel like we've already been doing two hours, but this episode, we're going to dive into sports. Sports are back. Baseball's back. Golf is back. Golf has been terrific. If you've watched any of that, it's been very just exciting rounds. I know people don't care about golf always, but it's very fun, very dramatic.

People should care about golf. Golf's a very, especially when you watch a tournament, I mean, it's like fun very dramatic people should care about golf golf's a very it's a especially watch a tournament i mean it it's it's like a soap opera it's like you just watch some guy will be in the lead and then it just it's so slow and it's and then he loses the lead and then you watch him like kind of fall apart like and then another guy gets on hot and then rises up and it's i mean it's unreal dude some of the majors they've seen rory rory mcroy lost in the masters it was he you watched he was a kid he was i think 19 or something and he crumbled and it i mean it's the one yeah people that watched it he hit a ball

so far out of like up in the woods that now they have a sign up there, I think, that says this is – no one can believe that the ball got up that far. And you see him, and when he does it, he just leans on his – I mean, your heart breaks. It's a kid. It's a kid, and he lost the tournament. Jordan Spieth had the same thing happen to him. It's very – I mean, it's just how dramatic it is.

It's unbelievable. I know it's very slow, but I get the idea of that. But we're all enormous fans of sports, so we want to talk about sports. And sports, you've got to love sports. We were thinking about what qualifications do you need as a fan to be able to call a team us or we when referring to that team? So for Vandy, I say us and we for Vandy. And I would, you know, Titans probably too.

I mean, I have a whole system in place, and I'll call people out on it. Because I have friends who are – I've got a friend, but he's a big Lakers fan. He's like, yeah, I think we're going to take it this year. And that drives me crazy. Johnny W. Yeah, Johnny W. He's the guy. For me, I think if you went to that school, then by all means,

you can always call it weak. Okay. For you, Notre Dame, Vol State. Yeah. You can always – Always weak. Always weak. You went to Notre Dame?

You graduated from Notre Dame? Yeah. Oh, boy. Really? You could have went to Vol State and you'd be in the same position. You're right. I could have gone to Vol State. So if you go to the school, but you didn't.

Like, there's serial killers there. Yeah, that is true. We're a little more rough around the edges of Vol State. Regis just died. Shout out to Reg big notre dame guy anyway yeah regis is amazing dude who's on tv you could say i mean almost as much as his regular life well he had the world record for uh most minutes on television yeah oh really yeah is it even close i don't know it was000 hours or something? Yeah, a ridiculous amount of time that guy's been on TV.

Yeah, wow. Anyway. If you live in that town, you can call it we. Or if it's a state school or a state team like the Titans, if you live in that state, I feel like you can call it we. Okay, so Nate can say we for Vandy. Yeah. Because he lives in Nashvilleashville yeah okay these are

the brian bates rules but the braves no i don't even think memphis grizzlies even if you're a braves fan your whole life i think if you're a fan your whole life you if you're a diehard fan and you love them i think you can no matter where you live i mean we didn't have a football team so before the titans you know ryan Malone, the guy who grew up, he's a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. No. And so he would do it. He would, you know, he could say we.

I do get it. I don't ever care about it that much. I just want you to be a fan of the team. Ryan played for the Steelers, though. Yeah. Yeah. Ryan Malone? Yeah.

Did he? No. Bellevue Steelers? No. Oh, I Steelers? No. Oh, I thought that's why he was a fan. No, I was a Redskins fan because I played for the Donaldson Warriors and we had Redskins' helmet. Oh, I thought he played for the Steelers.

Or Washington football. All right, my bad. But I think if you're a big fan and you love the team. My problem with, like, i don't like when people are like kind of like loose fans and i remember like vandy lost out and like when they lost the mtsu uh one year that someone like does not care about him tissue but they went to him tissue and then they call to like you know like ah we beat you ah, we beat you. And you're like, hey, my whole life is this Vandy team. So maybe you don't even – you don't know who the coach is at MTSU.

You've never been to a game even though you went there. Like maybe back off. Like this is my whole world is Vanderbilt sports. Our Titans, you know, now Titans. And so I think that's when you can say we – I feel like I say it more with Vandy than I do with the Titans. So I think that's when you can say we. I feel like I say it more with Vandy than I do with the Titans. Yeah. I think the Titans, I don't know why.

Well, I feel better. In college sports, there's something other than the team that you can align yourself with, right? There's an institution that the team is a part of. It's like an NFL team, it's just the team. I don't feel a part of the It's like an NFL team, it's just the team. I don't feel a part of the Tennessee Titans the way that I would a university that's nearby. You know what I mean?

It's like there's a whole... Even if you didn't go to that university? I don't know. I would never say... I grew up a big Alabama fan. I don't know if I ever said we or us. Yeah. But I would be more likely to say that about Alabama

than the Falcons. But if someone, like, it's like if someone's like, how's Alabama going to do this year? Like, ah, we're going to be, I think, pretty good. Like, you say it like that. Like, some of it, too, is just the way you talk. Like, it's not, you know, you just say something the way it is. I don't think it's, you know's like you're making some crazy big statement.

But the guy that went and knocked that tree, or poisoned the tree at Auburn. Harvey Updike? Yeah. I love that. Can that? That guy can say weed. He's earned it, dude.

He's earned the weed. But he lived in Alabama. He was an Alabama fan. It's from Dayville, Alabama. And then if you don't know, there's a big famous tree in Auburn that they roll the toilet paper on. Toomer's Corner. Yeah, Toomer's Corner. I saw it after it was poisoned, but it was still there.

And they were like, it's got two years left. It doesn't die. It's a long game for that guy. And that guy couldn't wait. He told me immediately. He could have told him way later. Oh, he had two years. Two years before it goes away.

And he called the local sports show. Feinbaum. He called him. Oh, Feinbaum. Oh, not local. It was because they put a Scam Newton jersey on a statue of Papa O'Brien. So it was retaliation. He had to let them know right away.

I didn't just let this sit. I acted immediately. What drives me crazy is when someone says we when the team starts doing well, and then as soon as they start struggling, it's they. Well, as two Predators fans, did that annoy you when the Predators were good all of a sudden? The town seemed to embrace them? I'm a little different with that because I think hockey is still so new. Like, I am a Predators fan, but it's not like it's football.

So it's not the same thing. So I do want the town to embrace it. I do like when the town gets behind the team. I understand why they do that. I went to the Stanley Cup Finals when it was here. I mean, how crazy is it during those final runs? I got very annoyed that they just kind of like ESPN. I was living.

ESPN would not. They kept being like, is Nashville even a hockey town? And dude, it was, it was cheaper to fly to Pittsburgh and buy a ticket and a hotel than it was to stay home and buy a ticket to in Nashville. So you're like, wow,

what point do you like, what do we have to do? Broadway shut down. I mean, there's 50,000 people or or 100 000 people out on the streets watching this yeah dude we are fans yeah uh so i you know but yeah with with hockey i mean you know it's like i mean there's guys that are way into hockey but like i'm way more into football but i would with the predators i don't know if i ever said we. Vanderbilt, I do feel now a very close tie with.

I mean, how much I've, you know, know a lot of the coaches. I know stuff. So Vanderbilt's the most. Yeah. And, I mean, they've always been the most thing that I love the most because we didn't have this stuff. And then the Titans came. But, you know, when the Titans were bad for a long time,

I mean, I watched them all. But you're able to get maybe a little distant from it, where Vanderbilt, when, you know, I mean, it's like I'm just sitting in that stadium. We've got four wins, 100 people there. Yeah. And I'm just there, like just, you know. Brian, can I ask you, is there a time when you should stop saying we about your high school team?

Is it like you're too old to do that anymore? No, no, you can always do that. If you're in that town, I think if you stay in that town, I think if you're a small town. Okay. Like my high school is in Donaldson, but we're a suburb of Nashville. So it's just kind of, it would be different to say we, but like, you know, if it's Friday Night Lights, if you're in some... That's true.

Yeah. Okay. This is your, that's how they, you know, South Pittsburgh, where in Nashville, or in Tennessee, we used to go play South Pitt. It was just a small town. And I mean, they had, you'd drive through the... South Pittsburgh, Tennessee? Yeah.

I did a, yeah, a diner there. It was all about the high school team. Okay. Yeah. If you live in a town like that, I get Tennessee? Yeah. I did a dinner there. It was all about the high school team. Okay. If you live in a town like that, I get it. Yeah. I would feel weird talking about my high school like, oh, we won on Friday night. Yeah. You're still holding on to that, dude.

Not me. Still wear your Letterman's jacket around? If you just said, we won, and someone was like, can you guess what sport? I don't know if they would ever even get to your high school football team. They would never even, if you go, hey, we won the other day. Can you guess the sport I'm talking about? They would – I think they would give up and then go, what are you talking about?

You're like, high school football team. And they'd be like, oh. I don't think they'd think sports right away. Yeah. Is there an election? Yeah, the election and then go down. If you're – I was trying to – this stuff. Do you prefer when fans stay in or sit at games?

I remember, you know, standing at – so Vandy game, it was the Vandy-LSU game, the one I talk about the most where we had – we scored with three seconds left, seven to six. Vandy's going to go for two. LSU's number seven in the country. Vandy's going to go for two, go for the win. And we're going to do a two-point conversion. We get two back-to-back delay game penalties.

Back-to-back. Yeah, we have talked about that on this. Oh, yeah. Okay, so that game. But I remember people standing. We were standing there, and I remember someone, this lady behind me, was like, can you not stand? The whole stadium's standing.

And she's like, can you not stand? And you're like, lady, this whole stadium. I mean, you can't go to the game. People need to. Don't go. Yeah. I think it is annoying when, you know, there's a system to it. You stand.

When everybody else stands, you stand. When everybody sits, you sit. Yeah. There's a system to it you stand when everybody else stands you stand when everybody sits there you sit yeah there's a system but somebody has to start that let the whole system start so that if you go to a concert and you someone stands look around if other people do it with you and you're the one that starts it you started if it doesn't work acknowledge that you're saying work and sit back down. Don't be the guy that is on his own. You know what I mean? Like the guy that stands up and is yelling.

I mean, it's like all of them. They're yelling at the ref and they're yelling at like, you know. I mean, there's so many times you want to just walk around that stadium and just go up to those people and go, what are we doing here? You know? What's going on? Everyone around you is sitting down. You're up screaming. You're up screaming. You're up screaming.

Yeah. You're only ruining the experience for four people that are behind you. Yeah. And your family that's embarrassed. I don't like people wearing jerseys either. That's kind of off. I don't, if you don't, I would always say a hat. I think you wear any hat to anything.

Yeah. Because I don't think people don't have 50 hats you know uh but i also i don't think a jersey when you see someone like i'd go to like vandy alabama and someone shows up in tennessee jersey it's like what are you doing oh you mean the jersey of another team you know another team oh definitely not but that happens a lot yeah that's that's they they you yeah i mean really i've seen it. Titans game, Titans Chiefs game, and then the guy in a Steelers jersey shows up, and you're like, what are you doing? You just want to argue with people.

That doesn't make sense. Just wear, what do you got to do, show us that you're into sports? How are they going to know? Is an adult doing this? Yeah. I mean, kids, you can let kids do whatever they want. But I think you're putting your kid in a bad position if you gave him like why don't you wear your steelers thing i mean you're you want your kid to be in arguments with adults drunk adults that become irrational

and then you know there was once my freshman year college i went to visit my buddies at ut and we're gonna go to the ut lsu game, I think, basketball. And I brought my Vanderbilt jersey. I mean, not jersey, shirt, just for fun, just to wear. I thought it would be funny. We're in the student section. And my buddy was like, man, it's going to be funny for a minute, but just why would you want to do that the whole game? And he was right, and I didn't wear it.

Yeah. But I was going to do that. But I think that's what people do. They think it will be funny. I don't. I think people to do that. But I think that's what people do. They think it'll be funny. I don't. I think people want to argue. I think they like to, they want you to come up and say something to them. And they want to, you know, like it's always the guy who walks like, yeah, like, you know, it's that guy.

I mean, that guy wants you to say something. I'm not even a fan of adult men wearing other jerseys. I was about to say, I think just wearing a jersey in general, I don't like it. Yeah. It's weird to me. Yeah. When you really think about your... Sports is entertainment.

Yeah. And you're dressing up like guys that are younger. You're dressing up like guys that are younger than you to watch them. Yeah. You know. When you think about it like that, it's strange. Yeah.

What's kids. I mean, that's the problem. Kids are kids. Exactly. Yeah. No, no,

I'm not saying young kids, but I'm saying these, like being a Vandy fan and now I'm old enough to be the father of these people is crazy. It's like a lot that you're like, golly, you know, there's like some 16 year old. I'm like following on Twitter to see if he goes to Vandy.

You're like, what am I doing, dude? Did you go to college with Vantateo? We did overlap a couple years. He was a year older than me. My junior year was his senior year. Did y'all date the same girl? Yes, actually. That year, for sure.

Welcome to Nate Land, everybody. Now we're rolling. This is when that episode's going to start here. It's been brutal until then. I, yeah. Let's, what's, we talked, like, same thing. What about wearing a glove to, like, man. To a baseball game.

Guys wear those. If you're at the game where Barry Bonds is going to hit his 71st home run, you can bring a glove, I feel like. But if it's a noon game on a Wednesday with the Padres versus the Braves, don't bring a glove. That might be the one to bring one. That might be the one you'll be wide open. You can just go sit in the stands.

But at what cost? to bring one. That may be the one you'll be wide open. You just go sit in the stands. But at what cost? Well, so there's this one guy who set the,

he's had over 1,250 home run balls caught and he wrote a book on the best ways to catch a home run and basically,

you got to be able to knock down kids. I mean, that's the gist of it. He's called the most hated fan in baseball. They hate him because he'll do

whatever it takes. But he says, get somewhere where you've got some running room. Like get on a concourse, get spread out. Don't get where everybody else is. Spread out, get some room. He doesn't do the foul poles, he says. People congregate there for whatever reason. He gets in the power alleys.

He's got a whole system down. Wow. What's the power alleys. He's got a whole system down. Wow. What's the power alleys? You know, like not dead center or dead right, kind of in between there. So he doesn't go for foul balls. He wants home run balls. He wants home runs.

He caught Mike Trout's very first home run, and he caught A-Rod's 600th, I think. And did he get Barry Bonds or none of them? I don't know if he – not any historic home he get Barry Bonds Or none of them I don't know if he Not any historic home runs From Barry Bonds Oh so he's just got The most home runs The most home runs

Over 1200 Major league home runs That's a person That would wear a jersey To a different team Dude Like a guy that's One of your not kids over

And like When you always see that Where like They I mean they show That the videos Are like some lady That just doesn't want To give the ball up to a kid. Yeah.

I mean, it's all alcohol. Well, that happened to me. Really? Yeah. About 20 years ago, so I was Aaron's age, I went to a spring training game in Florida with my parents. And it was the Braves and somebody, and we were in the outfield, and you could sit on the grass. I bet it feels like you're still too old to go to something with your parents.

You're telling the story like you're like, about 20 years ago, me and my parents, all right, so he was like 14. You're like, no, no, he's 30. He's in, I mean, he bought his own ticket. I mean, they like. I was, I was like 28, but we were sitting in the outfield on the grass.

And Andrew Jones, you guys remember Andrew Jones? The Braves? He caught the third out. And as he would tend to do, he would turn around and just flip it into the stands. Well, this time he turned around and flipped it. And it came straight to me. And I caught it. And I was so excited.

But then this guy, there were kids running around. This man started yelling yelling give it to the kid give it to the kid and i felt all this personal but i'm a kid in my mind i really wanted to keep i kept it that's about i kept it i did i give did no kid come up to you well as soon as he threw it in the air everyone's kind of scrambling but like a t-shirt contest but it came straight to me i kept it i still don't answer a t-shirt contest is but it's a t-shirt contest but it came straight to me i kept it i still don't answer a t-shirt contest is but it's a t-shirt canon t-shirt canon yeah yeah t-shirt contest is something different you would also be there uh they so no kid then came there was no like direct

can i have that ball no i mean they were milling around hoping that maybe I would do that. You could act like you don't hear. I mean, I did. I just looked straight ahead. I think that's a nice thing to do, hand the ball to the kid. I don't think you should feel obligated at all. I mean, if you went and caught it and got it, you earned it. Yeah.

But spring training, I don't think there's – but, I mean, that's maybe where they go to get a ball. Like, that's – I mean, you've got to think that kid – that kid's going to be very excited about it. On the other hand, clearly he's – do you still have the ball? Yeah. I mean, so that – like, to a guy that's going to keep it, like almost like you could – if you said, guys, I will keep this ball,

and you told the kid that, like, you know. I'm sure he would understand. He might go, hey you told the kid that like you know i'm sure he might go hey son let him yeah you know he's probably gonna be like something's up with this guy and i mean he's i mean if you if that's what an adult should do they want it they go hey i'm gonna like put this ball in my bedroom and then someone's gonna be like oh man that's awesome man then the whole crowd but good for you man they would would clap. Kids start bringing meatballs. Yeah, they go, we'll get you.

And here's mister. And you're like, thank you, kid. I mean, you could turn it around then. That's what some of these people should yell. I would keep this at my house.

Yeah. And then they're, like when you see, it's when you see the drunk woman that's, you know, we can all kind of picture

the video and it's all alcohol, really. That's what these kids don't know. This lady's juiced up. Wait, what's the drunk woman doing?

She takes a foul ball from like a kid. Rip it out of a kid's hand? I mean, they just show it and then you're getting booed by the stadium and she just says no

and hangs on to it. There's a buddy of mine, a comic from Chicago, Alex Drakovich. He has this great bit about you're led to believe that it means more to the kid, but it means so much more to the adult. Because the kid's life is amazing. The adult has some real hardships.

Brian still has that ball. The kid would have, I mean, he wouldn't still have that ball. No way. He'd probably lose it that ball. No way. You know? He'd probably lose it that night. Exactly. Exactly. It means so much more to the adult because the adult has real things going on.

That's a ball, though, that's, you know, you're like, where is it from? You're like, oh, wow, Andrew Jones. Wow. Is that a big game? Spring training. Do you guys ever call a ball? No. Huh?

I mean, I think, yeah. No. I went to Spring Training. We're in front of the sunny gray. Here we go. Pitching right now. What do you want me to do? It's life I live.

I don't know what to tell you. Name drop. He threw us a ball. He threw me a ball. He goes, and I said, I'm good, man. My buddy was at a national sound. I should have gave it to you. You would have kept that. Would you keep it?

How far removed could you be from the ball? Like, if I brought you a ball that was like, hey, Sonny Gray, warmed up with this ball. I'd keep it. Yeah. And so you're fine being removed. You know, like, that's like a big golf thing is if someone gives you – my brother-in-law got me a shirt for Augusta.

And I'll wear it, but then sometimes I do feel weird. Cause I've still, cause people always go, Oh, have you been? And I haven't been. And they, and so it's like, you know, like, but like, I, I mean, I still wear the shirt. I like the shirts. Awesome. Like I have, my dad will wear a shirt from anywhere. If I go, you know, if I went and played pebble beach and like, I brought my dad a Pebble Beach shirt, it's like all my son went to it. It's like you feel removed.

So if someone gave you – that's like buying memorabilia. Would you ever buy it? An autograph or like – I like memorabilia. How do you say it? I would love some sports. What's he talking about? Is that how you say it? Memorabilia?

Is that how you say it? I don't know how to say it? Memorabilia? Is that how you say it? I don't know how to say it. Memorabilia? Huh? Memorabilia? Memorabilia? Let's avoid the word altogether. I avoid that. You know what name I avoid? Bartholomew. Is that how I say that right? Yeah. You nailed it right there. I used to be like

Bartholomew. I never met someone. What's your name? Bartholomew? Theater is mine. I just didn't know what to say. Movie theater. Movie theater. I say theater.

Theater. Theater. I'm putting an R, yeah. Don't go down there. There's a movie theater down there. Yeah, I have trouble with some words. But I would love to buy some memorabilia. I think for me,

I'm still not saying that. I thought I slowed it down. You're just stretching it out a little farther we're getting there yeah you don't have to punch it so hard people are going to fast

people are going to fast forward through me saying memorabilia memorabilia he's still saying it it's still that's how slow it goes you're like right when he starts mem

hit the 15 second button and you get and then you then the word sounds correct yeah you got to change the playback speed on the podcast yeah

there was a dude who caught uh Mark McGuire's then the word sounds correct. Yeah. You've got to change the playback speed on the podcast. Yeah. There was a dude who caught Mark McGuire's 70th home run, who at the time was the major league record for home runs in a season. He caught it. The Cardinals offered him some memorabilia, and he said, well, I want to meet Mark McGuire. I'd like to do that for the ball. Mark McGuire said, pass.

I don't want to do it. The guy didn't meet him. Didn't give him the ball. He sold it three months later, that ball, for $3 million. Wow. I don't understand. Why did Mark McGuire not want to meet with him? I don't think he cared about the ball that much. Maybe. Or he's just like, I don't want to meet with this guy. I don think he cared about the ball that much. Maybe, or he's just like, I don't want to meet with this guy.

I don't care. Maybe if he doesn't want the ball. But the Cardinals wanted him to put in their museum. Yeah, he said, they said, we don't negotiate. Which sounds like something you say to terrorists. Like a hostage situation. Yeah. It's completely fair for that guy to want to meet Mark McGuire. Yeah. It's completely fair for that guy to want to meet Mark McGuire.

Yeah. That's completely fair. This is the one that went right. It didn't go in the stands. His one went right over. No, not that one. That was the 62nd when he broke Roger Maris. This was the last one of the season, which they thought was going to be the record.

He said he's glad he didn't because he'd rather have $3 million. He was caught up in the moment at the time and would have just given it to him. But he sold it for $3 million. And then the crazy thing is the guy who bought it, Barry Bonds broke McGuire's record. Not that long afterwards. Three years later. And that ball is now worth

$250,000. Wow. You've got to save up. Now you've got to not do anything with it. That's crazy how much that... $3 million it goes down? Yeah. Because it's not the... But the guy who bought it also owns Bond's record home run too.

So he's very rich. And that's probably gone down in value now, right? Because of steroids and stuff? Yeah. I mean, people don't even talk about Barry Bonds' home run records anymore. Yeah. Unfortunately. Yeah.

He was my favorite player growing up. Is he? Yeah, he was. You like cheaters? Who was before that? Pete Rose? No, I'm just kidding. I love Pete Rose.

Shoeless Joe Jackson. Shoeless Joe Jackson right before that. I think Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame. It's crazy. It's crazy to me. There's no reason. He's at, like, I saw him in Vegas. He signs autographs in Vegas, and you just pay to go see him.

And, you know, it's fun. It's crazy. He's, like, the real deal, man. What do you mean? Pete Rose, just, like, stats. I saw him play my first baseball game I went to as a kid. It was the Braves and Reds, and he was manager for the Reds. Yeah.

And we went to it. And that's the first one. But Pete Rose, I mean, he sells records. Oh, hit record. Just like unbelievable. He had one of my favorite sports moments of all time at the All-Star game when he injured the catcher because he was – Oh, yeah, Ray Fossey.

Yeah, because he just trucked him because he was at the base. Everyone's like, this is the All-Star game. Chill out. Yeah, relaxed. He just didn't have another gear. Yeah, he just slayed into him. He's like, this is the gear. Why would you not love that?

And when he gambled, he only gambled on his own team. Supposedly. Supposedly, yeah. But I don't know how you prove any of that stuff. Speaking of dominant people in their field, I love seeing people that... We were talking about Bobby Fisher. Yeah.

For chess. He's considered by, what is it, many of the greatest chess players of all time. Age 14, became the youngest ever U.S. chess champion. At 15,

he became both the youngest grandmaster up to that time and the youngest candidate for the world championship. 20, Fisher won the 63-64 U.S. championship with 11 wins and 11 games. The only perfect score

in the history of the tournament. That's still held today. I mean, is chess still, you know, around? Yeah. Like, kicking around? Yeah, the current reigning champion, a guy named Magnus Carlsen, he's now considered to be the best chess player of all time. Oh, really?

He's been the defending champ since 2013. Yeah. He's like a defending champ since 2013. Yeah. He's like a young guy. Not quite as young as... Bobby Fischer was like a prodigy at a very young age. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, it's still going. I mean, people...

Is he from... Where is he from? He's Norwegian, I think, from Norway. Yeah. My dad played competitive chess for a long time, so we were real into it. Well, you know, when you said your Netflix documentary, why would you not bring that up over your dad's a principal how do you not like i mean there's a documentary i mean i've seen a bobby fisher movie how come when what was your

netflix documentary my dad was a principal for a while oh by the way i forgot he did competitive chess he wasn't a you know a grandmaster or anything but he was real into it so he got me into bobby fisher i bet you're are you good at chess i was never good i never had the patience No, he wasn't a grandmaster or anything, but he was real into it. So he got me into Bobby Fischer. I bet you're – are you good at chess? I was never good. I never had the patience for it. Yeah. Some of these – Bobby Fischer, I mean, it was hours between moves,

just staring at the board. But they would go down – I could not do that. He would play people go down the line and just one after the other and play them all. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. That's so crazy.

Some people, some of these freak prodigies, they don't even need to see the board. They can just close their eyes and visualize all these different boards at once and play the games. I mean, it's insane. How do they know to grab the piece? They just say what move they want. They'll be like, move the pawn up to E5 or wherever.

What's E5? I got to ask him. Yeah. And he has to open his eyes. He's like, dude, you're killing me. I go, I don't know what E5 is. You're the one controlling the board? Yeah.

I'm for him because he's not. He goes, move up two spaces forward. I go, thank you. I don't even know how to play chess. Which one's the rook? Yeah. Move the rook. You never got into it?

I've played it. I've played it. I've played it. Is it like over a trillion possible moves or something? I mean, it's crazy. Dude, when you get to the level that those guys are playing at, it's like a different world. I mean, he would beat you. It's a joke.

Yeah. It wouldn't even really be fun. No. And you've got to think, these guys are playing thousands and thousands it's a joke. Yeah. It wouldn't even really be fun. No. And you've got to think these guys are playing thousands and thousands of games a week. They're just constantly playing. It's like it's – What if you did one move that he was like, oh. And you get him and he's like –

That's three out of five. Yeah, you're so bad. You know, like that's what makes people mad at poker is is because just some buffoon gets up there and he's like, I'm going to go all in. And then just wins. And you're like, I don't even know the rules. Those are the scariest. I mean, obviously chess is a strategy, so it's not that.

But poker is, I mean, you can blow up a table. Just some drunk sits down that's like, I'm here to have fun. And the next thing they know, I mean, just wipes out the table. Because they just, they don't know, you know, they don't know anything. This is after three moves in chess

there are now 121 million possible moves. And it just goes up after that. Yeah, if you look into some of the Bobby Fischer story, when he played Boris Spassky from the Soviet Union in 1972, that's one of the most – so dominating. Because a lot of his losses were like he would forfeit the game because the lighting was bad. He was a crazy person.

So he'd be like, I don't like the lighting in here. I'll forfeit this game. Or I want the cameras out. I'll forfeit this game. And then he just dominated the guy. So his only losses were that. He had – I think – I was looking this up last night. You play best of 24.

He did for Spassky. So it's best of 24 games. So first game, Bobby Fischer lost fisher lost second game he forfeited because he didn't want the cameras there and then like third game he wanted to go play privately so where no one could see it he made all these crazy demands yeah and then he came back and just started dominating yeah win win win typically it's like chess at a super high level like that, it's almost always a draw. You almost always –

Kind of like tic-tac-toe? Yes, exactly. And then if you win like two games, that's like you're going to win. And he won. I mean, he just dominated the game. Who was the best in the world at the time? Yeah. But he'd go play by himself.

I mean, that's such a weird – because it's like a – the guy who was the best in the world at the time yeah but he'd go play by himself like probably i mean that's such a weird because it's it's like a you know it's not like ah let me go shoot some hoops over here at this different and then you still finish you know you're like bob this is like a four everything's like seven hours like yeah you can't just wonder i'm gonna go play a private nine hour game you're like no dude i mean like we need there's a system in place billiards is the other one we talked about uh being a weird i uh i've been to minnesota fats his grave he's buried in hermitage tennessee hermitage right i mean i grew up right next to it was he he was from here no he retired he retired here and then married someone here and died here my dad uh i remember my dad was like when he died and then just buried like

right five minutes from our house wow and uh so my dad was like oh we need to go see you know i didn't really know who he was uh but he was you know known as one of the more famous pool players yeah i think he's probably the most famous pool players. Yeah, I think he's... Probably the most famous. Yeah, I would say he's definitely the most famous. But in doing research on pool, not even really considered close to one of the best. Just got a great name. Just got a great name.

I mean, that is a great name. The movie The Hustler, with Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman, was based kind of on him. And that's kind of made him famous. But as far as great pool players, they're like, no, this guy's not close to being one of the best. Surprising. There's a guy in Kentucky who's known as the best pool hustler. He was just this good old country boy,

and he would never play in tournaments because he didn't want anybody to know who he was. And he would just play these back alley games or stuff and and just rack up against the world's best players and they're like who is this guy and he sometimes he'd have to wait forever for them to make him then finally people started figuring out who he was and they wouldn't play him and then he would just come up with these crazy like your advantage like you've got two balls left to all my balls on the table.

He was that good. He did these bank shots that nobody could figure out. He's just some country guy from Kentucky. To be a hustler, he would have to pretend to be bad first and then come in and beat everybody? I guess so.

You can't do that in the same town for a long time. No. Guys do it at golf. You can't do that in the same town for a long time. No, he would just drive around and do it. Guys do it at golf. Golf hustling. We did, there's a guy I was told,

my buddy John Augustine that plays, a guy he knows, he's like a radio guy, but he's a good, he's like a plus six handicap, which is, if anybody knows handicaps, most people, Brian's probably 18 to. Or maybe I'm a hustler. Maybe he's a hustler. We'll see.

I would love to see. He just ropes one. He's actually right-handed the whole time. Yeah, and you're like, oh, wow. And then boom, just bombs it out there. Let's play for some money. People always love the story I tell. I go, Brian carries his driver to every tee box.

Par 3, par 5, driver, driver. Doesn't ask the yardage, just hits. And it all kind of works out. It goes the distance it's supposed to go. Maybe it needs to go 130. It's going to go 130. If it needs to go 2, it goes 200. I've never hit one 200

But You've hit one 200 Well maybe I had one good one The other day we played And I felt so good about it And I go back to my cart You know how the bag's got

The different partitions For your different clubs And I try to take it And just like Kind of slam it down But I hit the partition Yeah And my club bounced up Yeah And the guy behind me saw it And then I tried to do it again but i hit the partition yeah and my club bounced up and the guy behind me saw it

and then i tried to do it again and it hit it again and i finally just got on the cart with my club and drove holding on to the i just did yeah uh but so this guy so plus six handicap is the pros are you know when ty uh jason day was he kept his handicap when he was number one in the world. He was plus 8.1. They say Tiger in 2000 was like a plus 10, which is nuts. Like a handicap roughly means you're going to get so if I'm... Plus 10? Plus 10.

Tiger in 2000. Okay. When his run of the Grand Slam. Not minus? No, plus. Okay. Minus is like I'm, so I'm a three. So zero is scratch.

And then you get to plus one, plus two. Pluses are better. Oh, okay. Plus, it means you get strokes basically added onto you. Okay. So if me and you play, and you're an 18 and a three, I got to give you a shot for 15 of the holes. Okay. I got to give you a shot for 15 of the holes. And so, but like with Tiger Woods, he would have to give me 13 shots.

And so this guy goes up and it's like a golf. I love golf. Like they come up, this dude, they said he pulls up out of his car and just walks to the first tee. Just no warm-up. He's got, like, visor backwards, like, socks up to halfway up. You know, and he's like, all right, you want to gamble? The guy's like, yeah.

The other guy's like, good, too, and wants to play. He's like, well, I'm a plus six. I'll give you three strokes a side. So that means on the three hardest holes, he'll get one stroke. If he gets a bogey, he gets a par. on the three hardest holes. He said he'll get one. So if he gets a bogey,

he gets a par. And they were like, by the sixth hole, the guy's down four strokes because the other guy's like seven under through six. Just comes out of his car. Just out of his car just is unreal.

Looked like a clown. I mean, they said he wins club championships and he has like Phil Mickelson as a member at the club that he's at. He's a dude that is just super solid. I think he's a guy that would be like that hustler.

They could easily go turn pro. They could be pro. But they will be more successful doing it the route they do it versus— I mean, I think this guy's a very successful guy, so I don't know if he needs golf. But it's like there's more of a story with the guy doing that. I'm not telling that if that guy finishes 50th in a tournament, you're like, I don't know who that guy is. But you're like, I definitely have heard of that other guy.

And that's what these hustlers, like, they end up thriving off of is to be like, this guy's got, I mean, we're talking about him right now. This guy was not a professional player. Yeah. But that story is more of you'd make a movie about that, you know? And so it's like, what do you want to do? Like, maybe if you're not so good, maybe if you're great at your craft, but you know, like, I'm not at the top of the top of it,

so you go find some other little roundabout way. I mean, you could probably do it, like, you're a construction guy. You could probably just be like, I go do it. You know, if you heard about that, everybody likes hearing about the other guy, you know,

you're like, I got a guy that's like, it's real legit. Like, you know, if you, as a business, if you hired someone to do stuff,

yard work, and then if you just like you, this guy, you ain't gonna, you know, we'll go find this guy in the yellow page. He's like, I never find a guy like that.

Uh, it's pretty crazy. Bowling. We're talking about bowling too it's just kind of odd sports my grandmother's in the bowling hall of fame louisville bowling hall of fame really yep she's uh the most 300s i think is what she's bold how many uh two one she goes she actually didn't have, but it's still the most. No, no. Maybe it's the most, like, 299s or something. It's something like that. Okay.

It's been a while since I've asked about it. But unbelievable bowler. It's in the genes. I've failed bowling, but my high, my game high is 266. That's pretty high. Yeah, that's pretty high. That's pretty good.

Pretty good. Do women and men bowl differently? Women do it between their legs. Men do it right away. Is that what you mean? Not form-wise. I just didn't know. Oh, sorry.

I mean, is there a difference in, you know. Yeah, here we go. The color of the ball? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Is it pink? I'm trying to think about how to phrase this do men do men bowl better than women in the way that they golf better and and things like that

you so you know yeah are women basically you don't think they're equal uh long story short could women do podcasts even at all are they not good enough uh well like do like your grandmother yeah would she bowl with men or like is it i see what you mean like is it uh i think so like so it's like a guy you know the best woman golfer in tiger woods competing would not be the same or sure yeah like that like sure bowling seems like the one sport you could probably that's why that's what i was saying yeah like maybe i don't i don't you know i don't know i don't know but uh yeah that they could that could peter weber do uh peter weber and your grandmother yeah is there even a women's bowling league professional bowling league that's what your grandmother's in the hall of fame i know but she was just she's in the women's women's bowling like no she's in the like louisville

okay they're bowling like but i don't know if it's i don't think it takes like to get into the bowling hall of fame i don't think there's just it's not like the nfl like you know it's going to be regular people like people that are in leagues and like, you know. That is interesting. After making fun of you, that is actually a very interesting. Because the difference in how men and women golf, obviously men can drive the ball farther. But men also putt better than women, and nobody's quite sure why. Men always, who putts better?

Men putt better than women. And I don't play golf, so I not yeah you know flexing or you're making a point oh yeah uh but this is you hate women so that's that's that's the main takeaway yeah i don't know you got a professional women's bowling association women they you know they always tell you for If you're a regular person, you should watch the LPGA more than the PGA. For women, LPGA, their numbers are more like our numbers for a golfer. I've golfed with a LPGA player. They're going to destroy you. Sure. They destroy you.

It's all perfect. Everything's straight. They got very smooth swings. But as an amateur golfer, the LPGA is way more like us. Their distances are about the same. The shots that they have, they can obviously do way more shots, but it's more similar to my game versus Bryson DeChambeau that's hitting it 430 yards. Sure. There's what professional bowlers, women bowlers make.

Shannon O'Keefe's by far making the most there. She's made $61,000. Yeah. It's a pretty good year. It's not bad. Yeah. Just make it on the side. Yeah.

Who's, yeah, the, who was the he said earl anthony won 43 professional bowlers association titles during this his incredible career and was named pba bowler of the year six times he's also the first bowler to top 100 000 earnings in a year and the first to surpass 1 million in career earnings he was above peter weber in the rankings i saw yeah he's in these current wow he thought peter weber's the only what's his the what does he say who do you think you are i am yeah who do you think you are i am i mean he's got to be the most famous bowler for sure just for that one moment who do you think who do you think you are? I am. It's an unbelievable. Yeah, I love it.

I love the greatness of all this stuff. We're talking racing, A.J. Foyt. I love greatness, man. Secretariat, horse racing. It is crazy. I'm a big MMAma fan john jones john jones is uh the best i think i think khabib is probably the other one but i watch people for greatness i watch like i would say people that don't like i mean look if you don't if you hate sports then it doesn't none of this

matters but if you're into sports you got to expand yourself and go watch these things you're watching stuff that's once in a lifetime seeing khabib or john jones mma if you like the sport khabib is a he fought a bear growing up that's what he fought in russia his there's video and he wrestles a bear this guy is a once in a lifetime person. So like, I enjoy when you feel someone is, you know, it's like,

this is not normal. This guy is better than the best. So I try to watch those things. Tiger Woods. I watched his whole career. You just can tell, you know, you know,

when these people are going to be greatness is unbelievable. What it takes. Tiger Woods, Jordan. I always said I never watched Kobe because I was too close to Jordan. I think if you're around my age, it was almost like we get Jordan, and it's the one regret I wish I would have paid attention more to that transition and then watched Kobe. I was 20 or 21,

like I just, I don't think I cared as much. But I would have loved to have seen that transition more and watched them more and then really appreciate Kobe's game. But I think if you're my age, that's why you're such a Jordan fan. And then Kobe was just kind of missed. You were almost like, it's too much.

I just got done watching this dude. I can't get into this guy again. I'm spent right now. And now I'm back into LeBron James. I've watched his entire career. Because I had one removed, and then now I'm like, all right. And so now I'm trying to make myself in the NBA. The NBA, whether you like it or not, as far as talent goes,

they have the most kind of once-in-a-generation talent. I mean, you know, Steph Curry, obviously, but I don't even think he's not the freak of nature I'm talking about. Like Giannis at Milwaukee and Luka Donik at Dallas. I mean, dude, those two are pretty crazy. Luka Donic is... Where is he from? He's from somewhere. Yeah, I think you're right.

Spain, is it? Maybe. Let me get on that. It doesn't matter. Slovenian? Slovenian, near Spain. I have no idea where Slovenia is. I wouldn't even be again. If you told me to leave right now and go to Slovenia, I mean, it would be. I'm trying to think.

I don't even know what continent it's in. It could be. I think it's Eastern Europe. Yeah. Or Western Asia. I would head to Russia. I would be like, I'm going that direction. Yeah.

Okay. And then I would go from there. But Luka Donik is, this dude was playing with like grown men, and there was really not a ton of like video on him, but he was, you know, I mean, he just turned 21, and I think he was like 18, 17, 18. He's playing in the men's league, and so he came into the league and was just like a dude already,

like a real just grown guy. And he's really got a shot at shot at i mean he could pass all of lebron's i mean dude this dude can be nuts and it's pretty crazy so he's someone that you're like all right you should you know you really need to probably keep an eye on it like it's a it's a guy that's going to be kind of crazy. You just don't want to, when their career's over, think, I didn't even watch one thing. Let me ask you this. If you could choose, guy comes to your show, loves your comedy,

y'all become best friends for life. Everyone knows your best friends. Michael Jordan or Luka Donic right now. Michael Jordan. But he's retiring. He's going to be dead in a few years. Luka Donic, for 15 years, you could be on the sidelines, NBA, high-fiving him.

You could be the next Spike Lee. Do you want to get him on the ground floor? The ground floor. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just, my age is too much. You can't pass up. Until Michael Jordan dies, you get a chance to be with Michael Jordan.

You just got to take that. He's too much of a thing. What about you, Aaron? Michael Jordan, I mean, he's the brain. How much of a language barrier is it with this guy? It's not good. I'm just thinking about the hangs. Let's pretend like you speak Slovenian.

Let's pretend like, yeah, it's perfect English. He speaks perfect English? Yeah, it's like you speak Slovenian. He's going to have a better life. You speak Slovenian. I think you have a to have a better life You know I mean we'd say You speak Slovenian I think you have a decent shot To hang out with Luka Donic

If you could learn the language That's true For the next 15 years He's the face of the league You're on the sidelines Coming over He's getting popcorn From your bucket

I mean you guys are tight I'd do it man I'd do it for sure But you could never meet Michael Jordan I'm never going to meet him anyway. Well, you could in this scenario. You could be best friends with either one of them.

This is a very loose game. Maybe you and Michael and all can become friends. You can just get whatever you want out of it. That's a good question, though. I have no interest in knowing Michael Jordan on a personal level. All right. He's a golfer. I would love that.

I mean, yeah, sure. That makes sense. Split vote. I'd use a golfer. I would love that. Yeah, sure. That makes sense. Split vote. I think I can meet Michael Jordan. Do you think I'll ever meet him? Golf with him? Probably at a golf charity event at the Nate Bargatze charity. You know what, athlete I'm most surprised that you've never met

and aren't BFFs with is Brent Snedeker. Never met him. Because you know a lot of people, especially Vandy people. We just never Just crossed paths I would love to meet him I'd love to become

Best friends with him There it is With some of the Other greatness Coco Gauff She was the 15-year-old That in the Wimbledon performance

She beat Venus Williams In the first round Reached the fourth round Would you rather be Best friends with her or Serena Williams? I'm not going to rest if I'm friends with Coco. Yeah, Coco's got a real shot to be kind of a phenom. But, I mean, I don't – she has the best chance out of the tennis. But Serena – I mean, Serena doesn't –

I don't think get the acknowledgement of what she's done. She's been – she's borderline – she's with Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan. I mean, she's one of the most dominant athletes there. Yeah, she's the greatest women's tennis player of all time. Hockey, Connor McDavid, he's only 23. He's a dude. I remember hearing about him. Wayne Gretzky called him the best prospect he's seen

in 30 years. One that's kind of different, Kyle Buga Giersdolf. You know this guy? My nephew probably knows him. I don't know him, no. He's a Fortnite player? Yeah, he's an esports guy. I mean, esports, it's bigger

than all of these other sports we're talking about, which is crazy to think about. it's bigger than all of these other sports we're talking about, which is crazy to think about. It's bigger than basketball? I mean, more people watch the League of Legends championship, which is a video game, than watch the Super Bowl. How many people watch the League? Look up how many people watch the League of Legends. Yeah, the League of Legends video game.

And what is it? It's a Fortnite matchup? No, League of Legends is a real-time strategy video game. It's not like a first-person shooter. What do you mean look up? League of Legends, I don't know. Views, ratings. Yeah, League of Legends views for the championship.

Yeah, versus Super Bowl. Yeah. So, did we go back to versus Super Bowl? Yeah, versus Super Bowl, there we go back to versus Super Bowl yeah versus Super Bowl

there we go it's I mean yeah yeah this this esports giant drawing more viewers

in the Super Bowl and it's expected to get even bigger over 10,000 League of Legends fans descended upon St. Louis this week and more than

600,000 people watched the event online I don't understand. It draws in more viewers than... How many viewers does it get, though? Let's click on it. Does it not say... Figure out... Just try to figure out

how many viewers it gets. I'll get back to you. It's huge, though. For them to say that. That kind of stuff fascinates me when it's this huge world just kind of going on underneath us and you really don't know about it, you know? Yeah, it's definitely people don't. If you're older, I mean, you know, I think this country's going to get taken over pretty easily in 20 years

when the guys that should be fighting have never left their house i mean this is more than 100 million people watched it that's crazy yeah that's crazy i mean it's fun to watch what's the eight like i mean you could get down the age dude like so my nephew caleb uh he's real big on fortnite he does the Twitch, and you can watch him on Fortnite. I don't know his name, but on Fortnite. But he does all that stuff, and they play it. And they're obsessed. I looked up, like, there's a guy, Ninja, that's, you know, a big Fortnite player, and all these kids follow him.

He's, like, famous. I mean, these guys are famous. And they stream, and, you know. And it's a different kind of thing. They watch. and they stream and you know and it's a different kind of thing they watch you know my daughter even watches uh she plays a game roblox and it's you know just a i don't know a kid some kind of dumb game that's got like you got to kind of keep an eye on because it's a it's online you know everything's online everything's online with them and so everything you do you gotta keep

a pretty strong eye of what they're doing but she's watched videos of people playing of them like streaming their game online so I mean

it's something that people are into which funny is like I jokingly said this country would get taken over by these kids but there's a chance that like

they could just they don't have to fight but they have war game videos yeah yeah like they're they're like sending stuff out and we're actually unbelievable like so maybe the country will do fine uh who knows um but that's pretty yeah i can't believe it's 100 million people that are watching a video game watching two guys play a video but it's like you want to watch the best people in the world it It's the same concept with traditional sports.

You play basketball as a kid, but you want to watch Michael Jordan play. You want to watch the best people play. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I would almost want to watch it. I feel it's so quick, though. That's the thing that's hard with video games to me is it's very fast.

I don't know the moves so it's it's just you know like you see fortnite and then building a whatever they're building it's just it's like super some people i feel that way watching hockey sometimes you know if you're unfamiliar with it and you don't know what's going on right now yeah uh a couple more greatness to just watch. I'll just say it quickly. Christian Pulisic, right? They already say he's the greatest American soccer player of all time. Yep. And if we get to the World Cup, if you're in it,

he'll be playing in it as the long run at it. Also, I was a big Katie Ledecky fan because you would see for swimming and uh i loved seeing the videos where she would be like people be out of screen like you would be like oh she just is she swimming by herself and then she's beat people by that much olympic swimmers by that much yeah and then you found out reagan smith is the next one. That's supposed to be, I mean, maybe better than him? According to this. That's great. If you have them two going at it, that's nuts, dude. Because Katie Ledecky is already so much better than everybody else.

Like, it looks like it's not fair. And this girl comes in, and now she's that? And they're both American? Both American. There we go. There we go. Something. I know. We got something. in and now she's that and they're both american both american there we go there we go something we got something uh a couple uh like we're talking about records like wayne gretzky is

one of the more impressive as far as like jordan tiger all that kind of stuff wayne gretzky's in that boat and wayne gretzky i mean his records are nuts i love like talking to someone that's really into my buddy graham k he's from canada and he you know obviously they love hockey and i'll just like i'll like always even i get the same answers from but i always just i'm like how good is wayne gretzky i like hearing just where he's like dude he goes no one's even no one's even close to his records. No one's even, I mean, he scored the most points in NHL history. The next closest, 28-57.

The next closest is Yager, Yarmir Yager, at 19-21. And Yager played in almost 300 more games. And he's barely within 1,000 points. That's insane. And Joe Thornton has the most points among AX players at 1,509. I mean, it's not he can't. No one can do it. No.

His records are the ones that I don't think can ever be broken. Will Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game. Could that be broken? I mean, Kobe did 82. I could see it being broken. Really? Kobe had 82 points. If they let someone do it, then it can be broken. I mean, Kobe did 82. I could see it being broken. Really? Kobe had 82 points. If they let someone do it, then it can be broken. He scored

82. These guys are so good that that's closer than anybody's gotten to Wayne Gretzky's. Oh, that's true. I mean, you're at least going like, alright, he needed 18 more points. Could Kobe have scored? I don't even know if he played later in that game.

So some of these old records, it's like the game has changed significantly since then. There was not a three-point shot when Will Chamberlain was playing. You get some guy on a run of three. I mean, they're shooting. Yeah, it's nuts. Cy Young at 511 career. That's mine.

Had the most wins. Now verlander at 226 yeah i mean the only thing i would say about the wins is these guys are playing longer and they're able to play into their 40s now no their baseball they may not have another 300 game winner they said oh really yeah because the game's changed so much. Back in Cy Young's time, guys pitched almost every game. Yeah. They'd have 40 feet. Yeah. And now... That's true. So I guess that's pretty good. Cy Young is 511. Only one other guy has

more than 400. It's like leaps and bounds higher than anybody else. It's insane. Nolan Ryan with 5,700 strikeouts and Justin Verlander's 3,000. So, I mean, that's got to be pretty tough to beat because now it's going to be broken up. But that's the thing that's hard is, like, I don't know if anybody's going to –

like, there's going to be guys that are good enough to get those, but they're not going to get the opportunity to get those. Yeah. But you could say the same with Gretzky. I mean, man, I don't know. Gretzky has so many points. Kyle Ripken, 2,600 consecutive baseball know. Gretzky has so many points. Kyle Ripken, 2,600 consecutive baseball games.

What do you have? Insane. It's insane. The current streak is with Mirafit of the Royals, who played in 247 straight games. I remember watching the Kyle Ripken. Yeah, it was a huge.

It was a, that's when, I mean, that's like the Aguirre Sosa. It was, you were worried, yeah, they kept, I mean, man. It's, you know, I'm trying to think,

what was the last sport that had something where it was like, you had to watch it? I mean, maybe like... I remember when Michael Phelps in the Olympics, that was like an every night, let's tune in and see. Yeah, let's see. So Olympics, Olympics, but Olympics are Olympics. That's true.

Something like regular sports where it's some kind of record. Brett Favre, but that was probably even around, Kyle Ripken. Not as big, but Drew Brees has set a few passing records. But it was like a regular Sunday, and they went to it, but it wasn't Kyle Ripken. It wasn't this Sammy Sosa. I feel like baseball in general, people just, the records are more exciting. People keep track of them

more. Shooting a 59 for golf, if someone shoots a 59, there's always a 59 watch and you want to go see it. He's got to go 200 to get, you know, shot a 58 in a tournament play, which is nuts. Have you heard the conspiracy theory about Kyle Ripken's?

No. So Kyle Ripken, he holds the record for most consecutive starts in baseball. And like you said, it was a huge deal when it was happening. And here's the conspiracy theory is that there's one day where Cal Ripken was late to a game. And the Orioles, in order to keep the streak going, because it was so lucrative to them, it was such a compelling story, they faked a power outage at the stadium so that the game would get postponed so that Calrican could continue the streak. Now, the legend is that he caught his wife with Kevin Costner.

And that's why he was late to the game. Because he was driving to the stadium, was like, oh, I forgot my wallet, turned back around and found Kevin Costner and his wife at house. Everybody involved denies that this took place. But that's the legend. He was late because he was beating up Kevin Costner at his house. The Orioles freaked out. They were like, pull the plug. All the lights went out. And they had to postpone the legend. He was late because he was beating up Kevin Costner at his house. The Orioles freaked out. They were like, pull the plug. All the lights went out and they had to postpone the game.

Does he say why he was late at all? He says, I was at the game in the dugout. And there's one sports writer from Baltimore who corroborates that. But it's like I have no trouble believing that the Orioles would do something that drastic to keep that record alive.

I think they would do that. I think they would, too. I think he wants that record, so he's not going to go be late to a game, too. And so I could see it also being like the non-fun version, which is usually probably the right version, is like he probably is in that dugout. Yeah. It's probably all beta. And someone didn't see him and goes, where's he at? And then they just like, because everybody wants that to be the story.

I know. And the Kevin Costner thing is, I mean, it's wonderful. I mean, how would they even be? Imagine Kevin Costner is a major, major movie star at that point. So Kevin Costner was actually filming a movie in Montana, I think, the day that this game took place. So people that are really into this theory think he flew out to Baltimore because he knew that Cal Ripken would be.

And I think Cal Ripken and Kevin Costner are like best friends. Not anymore. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Adds a layer to it. Adds a layer to it, yeah. I love conspiracy theories like that. How do you know he won't come home?

And it's like, if you know anybody's not going to come home, it's that guy during that time. Exactly. Like that's the best time to do something his wife could just be like come on the whole world's watching i promise he won't be here 2600 days in a row honey he's not come home yeah yeah trust me i try to get him to come home uh so all right those are records i mean we've done, you know, about enough, plenty. So the last thing we'll do that I do want to ask is,

what is your greatest sports moment? Which I'd love to hear some people respond to us to see, because I bet there's probably some listeners that have some pretty crazy sports moment. My, which I don't, I think y'all's will be funnier than mine if you uh grab that ball right there the dirty one if you can yeah uh this is my greatest sports moment i have the ball this is a home run ball you caught when you're in the stands not a home run ball Yeah, I did. April 23, 1990. Wow. I threw a no-hitter.

No-hitter for the 1990 minor team Phillies, in case you're wondering. And I threw a no-hitter. Wow. Yeah. I walked some guys. Some kids got on. It wasn't a perfect game. It wasn't a perfect game.

Did you hit anybody? I did not hit anybody. But threw a no-hitter. And that is my... And a no-hitter at that age is unheard of. No one's ever done it. I'm the first ever no-hitter. Wow. Yeah, and to be honest, I can't even remember if this is the actual ball

or if this is from another game. I thought it said no-hitter on it,, I can't even remember if this is the actual ball or if this is from another game. I thought it said no hitter on it, but I can't find it. But then I was like, oh, I think it's this one. What's your most embarrassing? I mean, most embarrassing is the joke I have where I thought I got a home run off a walk. Yeah. And then that's a true story.

It was a 13-year-old league. I went to first base, ran around, and then an umpire said, that was only ball three. If you haven't heard the joke, it's an old joke, but I had to bat again. Three balls, two strikes, immediately struck out. That was the most embarrassing that I've had. Didn't you strike out in a celebrity softball game?

I struck out, and we started poking. We started digging. Oh, you've done your homework. Oh, wait. What is this? Oh, man. Oh, there it is. I look pretty good right there.

That's Nate at the celebrity softball game. It's a great picture. Right before. It's a loose. Royals jersey. Grown man can't wear his own jersey. That jersey has my name on it. That's pretty cool.

I struck out at that church softball. I mean church softball. Church softball, I had some embarrassing ones. I got the yips trying to throw from second to first base, and I would launch the ball. And you know how church softball league fields, there's no top on the dugout fence. Like it's always like the fence and then it's like open.

And I mean, dude, I could not get the ball to the first baseman. I just – I didn't know how to do it. And I mean, I would – and I mean, I was like a pretty good – I was a pretty good baseball player. So I know how to play like – and I just got in my head and I would grab it and i mean i would throw it and it would just go above him every time i mean if i got the ball i needed to run and toss it to him and i would just launch it 15 feet above his head and it would hit the fence and fall into the

visitors dugout and then they just got to kick the ball like i mean i would i mean it was just like just launching it, too. But I did strike out in front of all these people at Kansas City for the Big Slick. It's a great organization. They do a lot of stuff at the Children's Hospital in Kansas City, and all these celebrities are there.

I'm the only one that struck out. There's obviously no rules. David Koechner is on the team, and you would get him out just four times, and he just wouldn't leave. And then they'd count the run. It was very funny, but he would be like, I got you, and he just stands there. And, I mean, there's not even a question.

And then he just goes to second, and then he would steal to third, and you would tag him three times, stealing to third, and he gets the run, and they put the run up. It's the point of it is that. So you could have stayed up there. I could have stayed up. Paul Rudd was – because all these people from Kansas City, it's pretty crazy. Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Eric Stonestreet, Rob Riggle, and Jason Sudeikis.

And so it's all of their thing, all of them from Kansas. Pretty famous, crazy group. I was on Paul Rudd's team. But it's funny, they weren't letting anybody strike out. I mean, there's like old ladies are playing, and they would just keep pitching them until they got a hit. And I was the only one that got three pitches and then was like, you're out. Were you whiffing them or were you taking them?

Oh, whiffing them, dude. Oh, okay. Well, maybe they saw maybe a difference between you and an old lady. I don't know, maybe. Yeah, I mean, I went to – I sit down next to Paul old lady. I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. I mean, I went to – I sit down next to Paul Rudd. I go, I can't believe I struck out in front of him. He's like, oh, no one cares.

And then no one else struck out. And then I'm the only one that struck out. And I think it's because I golf so much, it was weird to me to see a ball coming in versus like, you know. And I mean, full on, straight three pitches. Didn't like wait, like that, and felt outside. Three pitches, dude. Wow.

And didn't walk and have to go. Did anybody in the crowd, was there a response? Did they laugh? No, I mean, I was early. You know, people are still coming in, but, you know, I'm sure someone had to know. I talked about it that night on stage. It's like striking out a kickball.

That's probably more embarrassing because you probably fall down. Exactly. I got to participate in one of those in-game things at the Nashville Sounds game where you go out on the field. Yeah. I was like 18 or 19, so it should have been at my peak physical ability. Yeah.

And they had a board with a donut hole in it, and you had to throw three balls through the donut hole. And they picked me. So I'm going down there on the field, and I said, has anybody ever done this? And they're like, no, but we usually have old people. You probably have a chance. And they had what they called, then they called them soundettes,

basically Nashville Sounds cheerleaders. And they were each holding the board. And I'm out on the field during in-between innings. And my first ball sailed over the board. And the soundette had a duck, and it whizzed her head. And, I mean, the crowd did respond. The next two, none of them went through. It just hit the board.

And I mean, people were heckling me walking off the field at a National Sounds baseball game. They're yelling at me. And then I went back to my seat. I was with my buddies. And they said, the lady behind them said, I've been to every game. That is the worst he's ever done in that. That's the worst.

Man. And just think, 10 years later, you went to spring training with your parents. That adds up. That's about right, actually. That's your most embarrassing?

No, that's not my most. That's just one of them. That's not even top 10. Just one that happened to fit the story. Man. I mean, I barely even remember that one. I balked in the winning run in high school.

That's the worst way to lose a game. If you're a casual sports fan, you might not even know what a balk is because nobody ever does it. What sports did you play in high school? Football and baseball. I played basketball in middle school football and baseball i played basketball middle school let's fair to say he was in a taylor swift video oh i saw you post uh a picture of it yeah they filmed a taylor swift music video at my high school when i was attending there and there

i am storming the field after uh the main character catches the game-winning touchdown. Oh. It's a fun memory. That's the video. Taylor Swift was accepting the award for that video when Kanye West interrupted her on stage. Oh, wow. Which is like a famous cultural moment. Yeah, yeah. You know? Yeah, and you started it.

So I like to think I was a small part of that. Yeah. You know? Do I? Someone brings it up. You remember Kanye and Kanye West? You're like, do I? I was a part of that whole mess.

That's what you say. Yeah, that was a crazy you're like, do I? I was a part of that whole mess. Yeah, that was a crazy time in my life, man. That was awesome. All the press had to do. I know when they talk about it. All the press you would go do, Aaron will not talk about Taylor Swift or Kanye West. Next question. And then they're like, well, that was the only one.

All right, we're good. We don't care about anything else. Yeah. It was a fun time. Yeah. Is that? Oh, did you tell? Oh, do you want to talk about great, the best play?

He told his most embarrassing, I guess. Well, the most embarrassing. What is your greatest? We have a video of this. Do you want to set it up? Yeah, I have a video of my greatest sports moment, which happened much earlier in my life than I would have liked. I was seven. Okay. I was seven. Okay.

I was seven playing for the Montgomery Seminoles. We were the midgets division. That's ages six and seven. Little people. I was number 37. I played defensive end. This is in Tallassee, Alabama at Hot O'Brien Stadium. And I remember I played defensive end.

When you're six and seven years old, nobody passes because your hands aren't even big enough to throw a football at that age. Imagine, yeah. What are we doing at this stage? October 30th, 1999? Oh, I know. I'm probably – I mean, I'm out of high school. My college career is officially done.

Okay. Just ended. Okay. I'd been working for a while at the TV station. Okay. So you might have talked about this on the news that night.

This was a pretty big moment. They had one kid... You might want to mute it just because the music... I don't know. The music adds to it. It might be copyright. Interception. Taking it all the way back. to the house for the win the house i mean look at that that's legit speed for a seven year old back then yeah um there's my dad going crazy on the side look at the coaches are going

nuts i mean this is this is the biggest thing to happen in the state like you've been there so i remember this is one of the few sports moments in my life where I remember exactly what was going through my mind. They had one kid on their team that could throw the ball. Yeah. Just one kid. I remember he had weird sleeves. And earlier in the game, he threw a touchdown pass.

And they brought that kid in at the end, and I thought they probably only have one pass play. I'm just going to go where he's going to pass. You jumped the route. I did jump the route the right yeah not what a defensive end is supposed to do at all in that play that's been so funny wow what a great cornerback actually defensive that was not what I was supposed to do at all but I had an interception uh I never had a touchdown never scored a touchdown really and then I had an interception. I was probably 11 or 12, and we were playing UNA.

UNA. UNA. U-N-A. And I was a cornerback, and they were receiving. So the kids are older. This team was unbelievable. This team was always the best team ever. And I remember he ran like a little out route and then i just stepped up in front of it and i jumped up and caught it and i remember

catching it and then i remember being slammed on the ground like it's like i caught it and the kid just grabbed me and threw me on the ground and they announced we had one other kid on our team that was amazing and they said they they on the loudspeaker they said his name for the interception because they just assumed they were like well obviously that guy did it yeah and then we was like no i did it and that was a big interception wow that's crazy what's your greatest i don't really don't have one uh so could you all right so i thought about that i mean the only thing i could possibly think of is i play baseball and basketball and uh there's me as a basketball player there in junior high wow yeah yeah look at that so they got colored cameras

and there was one game i mean i was terrible i was always terrible I never scored But there was one game I hit A 10 foot jump shot Yeah Legit 10 foot jump shot So then we go down The other team Come back down They throw the ball at me

I shoot again The guy on the other team Tipped the ball Like when I shot it But somehow it made it Go in the hoop Yeah My coach didn't see this

Apparently So he yells Brian's hot. Give him the ball. Which I've never heard in my life. He doesn't know that the only reason that ball went in is because another guy helped it. So then we go down. Then we come back down.

And they're like, give Brian the ball, which I've never had before. They throw it to me. I shoot it. It goes over the backboard. It was one of those makeshift concession stands over there where the parents run. And it bounced over into them where the dad had to throw it back in. That's my greatest moment. Your greatest moment is a heat check.

Yeah, a heat check. For a second, they thought I was... He's cold. He's back off. That's what they have to yell. Don't throw it to him anymore. No more Brian. No more Brian, everybody.

But, I mean, I stole a bass once and thought that somehow the guy fouled the ball back. And I ran back to first. And it confused him so much. I was on second. And I thought, oh, they fouled it back. So I started running back about halfway there. He was like, throw it. Throw it to first.

And I had to slide head first into first base. Back to the base. And I'm back right where I was with the first base coach. And he's like, what are you doing, man? You were there. I was like, I thought they found it. I thought they found it. I didn't know.

So in a way, I stole two bases. That's so good. That's never happened before. You're the only one. He stole a base that he stole back. The look on my first base coach's face

when he saw me coming back there. Oh, dude. I mean, just to be, just to have to dive in, just to like have to, you have to slide to fix a problem that shouldn't be a problem. Like you're getting back to the original. You could be like, dude, you could have just stayed here, man, and we wouldn't be going through this. And for you to get all the way to second. on this and for you to get all the way to second. That's amazing. That's like, I feel like with you, you end up, anybody else, it's like maybe you make it back to first, but you just go back to first and you're like, well, that was a stupid

move. And you're the only one that gets in a battle situation. Just trying to get back to the original spot. I mean, it's a full-on real play. I mean, I went in head first. The ump had to call safe. Oh, dude, that's unbelievable. That's awesome.

That's so good. All right. All right. We've got to be. That's enough. This is too much. So we're going to have to get some more of your sports stories I like closing out with some nice Brian Bates sports stories

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