The Nateland Podcast - #61 The 1990's

Episode Date: August 25, 2021

What's your favorite memory of the 1990s? As we continue our look at the decades, Breakfast recalls his glory days of visiting Planet Hollywood and attending Nashville Kats arena football games, Aaron learns about Monica Seles being stabbed on the tennis court, and Nate tries unsuccessfully to pronounce hors d'oeuvres.   Co-hosts: Brian Bates ( https://www.instagram.com/brianbatescomic) & Aaron Weber ( https://www.instagram.com/realaaronweber)   Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail] Allform - Allform.com/nate   ·  Allform is offering 20% off all orders for our listeners at ALLFORM.COM/NATE ·  ALLFORM.COM/NATE for your new favorite sofa. ·  That’s 20% off all orders at ALLFORM.COM/NATE   DoorDash -    For a limited time, our listeners can get 25% off and zero delivery fees on their first order of $15 or more, when you download the DoorDash app and enter code NATE. That’s 25% off, up to $10 value, and zero delivery fees on your first order, when you download the DoorDash app in the App Store and enter code  NATE. Don’t forget, that’s code NATE for 25% off your first order with DoorDash. Subject to change, terms apply.   Scribd - Scribd.com/nate   Right now, Scribd is offering our listeners a FREE 60-day trial.  Go to try dot scribd dot com slash NATE for your free trial.  That’s try dot S-C-R-I-B-D dot com slash NATE to get 60 days of Scribd for free.

hello folks let's go folks we don't know we still don't this is uh we had to pre-record this one so we don't know it couldn't be over it could not be over podcast could be done i mean everybody's dead all right uh i feel like even when this podcast ends you'll still be pushing for it still up here just alone on one day when all of it goes away i'm alone in a nursing home go let's go folks hello folks by saying it backwards trying to get them to go welcome to dateland uh i'm nate bargetzi aaron weber brian bates uh we're here as always uh living it up living the dream um we uh uh yeah i don't know i was we had to pre-report this one so i don't know what people do people say that on other places i don't know other podcasts they say i that on other places i don't know other podcasts

they say i feel like i've heard people do that before yeah or they just act professional and just do it i would kind of like not knowing you would like no no i'm saying i i would like knowing i would feel weird if i if they would just pretend that you had well i've done that where i've done stuff where but you're like pre-taped something for uh you're like we're gonna air this like you can do an interview sometimes and like when the specials come in here and you'll be like all right i gotta pre-tape all this so we'll be like all right well uh you know saturday morning here you know and i'm like hey it's crazy saturday it's uh we just did one uh with my there are they it's funny they overly try to make it be wow how's your morning going like man it is it is going just you know golly the sun was out

no it's just pouring saturday because you don't know oh i got up early this morning went fishing with uh my uncle i haven't seen him in 25 years and uh we decided to go early this morning, went fishing with my uncle. I haven't seen him in 25 years. We decided to go fishing this morning and just act like it's all. That's what you should do every, if you do any prerecord, it should just, you start it going like, all right, what day is it? Just make sure they tell you. This is going to come out on Thursday, February 19th. And you go, oh, great.

And then you just start, valentine's day yeah we still haven't celebrated yet we usually do it on uh february 21 so we're pretty excited that's in a couple of days now uh this being february 19th five days after valentine's. Just overly stick with it. Yeah, I like that. All right. Today's – Y'all bailed on me quick. I was thinking about there was an old TV show. I can't remember the name of it. I think Corbin Bernson was on it where he was a sports anchor,

and he had to go live from some guy's retirement party, some former athlete. But he had another conflict that he didn't want to miss, so he recorded himself ahead of time. And then they said, we can just put that over the backdrop of this retirement party. So you can go to your event. So he does it, but the guy has a heart attack at the event. So the guy's just passed out with paramedics and he's like, oh, we're here with Bob Smith. You know, what a great day for him, you know? That's funny.

Yeah, it was very funny. What show was that? It was some short-lived show. Corbin Bernson, I think, was the main guy. He was a sports anchor. I don't think the show lasted very long, but I remember that scene. Yeah. Wow. It's going to happen one of these days with Brian.

We're here with Brian Breakfast Bates. I'm going to be on the floor. He's not there. Yeah, he died two weeks ago. What's up, everybody? Hello, folks. And then everybody's like, is he alive? And the one time I don't mention that it's prerecorded,

Brian goes down. And no one thought to catch it? No one thought to catch it. What's up, everybody? Everybody's super healthy. And whatever he dies of, we really made fun of that day or something. Like his hair loss. It's the reason it got here, his hair.

Brian's got some new moles in this week. Looking a little weird. Mole alert. Be, be, be. He zooms in and out. And then, I mean, we're just, it's sad. People are just at his, you know. is you know we have a molar but if i had a computer that's why i would like a morning radio dj like just really get into it there's

nothing funnier than morning radio when they hit those sounds that's very funny that's very yeah yeah just the timing of it it's good man it's that's one of the jokes that's like a super old joke but you're it never it never gets old still still very funny yeah just when they do stuff like that uh funny sounds i wonder if you look up if there's just when we started these comments you can look up and see if there's like a funny sound or like if it's ever been played inappropriately or like at the wrong time or, you know, maybe the funniest radio sound. I don't know. I don't know. Something to just hammer home.

I feel like there's an example of how you said you'll say something ironically and then it becomes the norm. I almost feel like that's what those are. They're cheesy, but they're so fun now because they're dumb we should get a soundboard oh you can have one here we got our own little soundboard here oh no this is the worst this is one of these websites that you just open up and you're like, this is attacking my computer so bad. Yeah, it was my computer. So be careful. Keep going.

Chase Miska. I think we can all agree, no matter what you choose to go with, whether it be Hello Folks or Let's Go Folks, Nate is still going to open up. Nate is still going to open up most of the episodes with what's up everybody that's very funny uh that should be about 50 of the time what's up it flows a lot better what's up everybody uh hello folks yeah that's that's very funny corin mckenzie i love that nate struggles a bit with reading remembering things and math stuff etc is officially on his wikipedia is it we've got your wikipedia pulled up here right there at the bottom at the bottom is most recent and special

the greatest edge ring was released on netflix and then his film that was universe studio hollywoods then also nate struggles a bit with reading remembering things and math stuff etc i took a towel yeah yeah let's let's check the source on that what's the source what is the source it is oh link to the podcast link to the podcast uh it's you saying i took a test for dyslexia passed with flying colors. That's perfect. That's great. That's funny. A little alarming we can just have your Wikipedia page edited like this, but I'm all for it because I don't have one. Well, yeah. I think people are talking about some Wikipedias being like,

everybody says it's not the greatest source of news. What? But, I mean mean right now it's killing it it's named all my stuff pretty accurate so far for the neighbor gets the news it's uh the most reliable reliable source yeah uh that's funny daniel rucker i believe i know daniel worker i know i know uh nate in episode 52 about minutes in, you're talking about nitty gritty. But you said knit and gritty. The definition of nitty is an infestation of knits.

So you were fine with what you said. It makes sense. If you're looking at it, if you're looking at nitty, it's the small, tiny, little knits you're examining of an issue. If you're looking at the gritty, you're looking at all the small pieces of gravel and dirt in a problem. So, knit and gritty has the same ingredients as nitty gritty. Also, the writer who took issue with that phrase called it a cliche, but I think nitty gritty is actually an idiom. Idiom? Why did you say that? He also did a hand gesture.

An idiom. An idiom. An idiom. He said idiom. I was thinking idiot. Idiom. Maybe people should just laugh at the jokes. Yeah. Good point.

That's what you were thinking when you said that, weren't you? What? The jokes? Yeah. Of Daniel Rucker's. Yeah. His defense of nit and gritty yes is what you agree with it yes it is you do not agree with it i had a little trouble following it to be honest with you

yeah because daniel's smarter than you that's probably true uh no i know he is 100 i've known daniel ruckers since seventh grade oh really yeah he moved his uh his whole family uh he's got a lot of brothers and sisters and they uh and they moved down the street from us the ruckers when i felt in my special i think i talked about falling down the cliff right uh so when my buddies ran up to go get help the first house they went to was daniel's ruckers house and they knocked on his door but they were just moving into that house i I don't think they were there. They were there like the next day or something. So no one was home.

And then they had to go to another part. So Jerry Rucker almost killed me, basically, is what I'm getting at. It's a great start. The Rucker family refused to help me survive, no. But we used to, I won, I did somewhat good in school until seventh grade. I won the science award in seventh grade. I won the science award in seventh grade. Whoa.

Yeah, my name's... I would love... If someone's listening at DuPont Hadley in Old Hickory, they put our names on a plaque in the office.

I don't believe this. They did. I don't know if they... It's still there. They had it. DuPont Hadley Science Award. What was the award? My science project. I mean, had the science award. What was the award? My science project.

I mean, your project, yeah. It was something with magnets because my dad had a bunch of magnets. And so we did magnets. And I remember, I think we were supposed to go, which could be funny. I think I was supposed to go compete

because I won that in like the city one. The regional one or something. And I remember we couldn't go so I don't think my family believed in they thought he's good enough for Dupont Hadley but he's not good enough for he's gonna get destroyed and I might have even sent my project just on its own and maybe it got beat or something I don't know but I was like I crushed it as being smart and then daniel rucker came to school and won every single award bigger magnets i mean yeah daniel won it was there it was very funny the year before i like won that science award i always had perfect attendance and then the next year i just got perfect

attendance award and then dan i mean the whole you know because they're giving these awards out the whole uh the whole time they were just like daniel rucker was like basically just like hey just stay up here and he's the smartest he's the smartest person i've ever uh known what's he doing now uh what is he doing now i've seen him uh maybe lawyer or something. I don't know. It's always something super smart that I don't know. Does he live here? No, they live in Michigan. I'll see him when I come to Michigan. Do you know where he went to college?

No, I don't remember. Notre Dame? No. He could have. He could have went anywhere. I think he got, I'm going to be making Daniels sing. I think he got almost a perfect score on the ACT. And the reason he didn't is because he ended up missing a line,

from what I remember. You know, like sometimes you answer a question to 20, but you fill it in 19. So he accidentally does that on the last, like, 20 questions and still almost got a perfect score. So probably would have got a perfect score if he didn't do that. So maybe that's qualified for Notre Dame. Maybe if you can't,

if you do stuff like that, they don't want you. Right? If you mess up the last 20 questions. You get them correctly, but then you, you know. You're off of it. Yeah. Which for me, my ACT, they were, you know,

I didn't just fill most of it out. The difference. So Daniel Rucker, the reason I can't read and stuff is because Daniel Rucker came to my life and took all my glory. Yeah. And then he's off living it up. Smartest person ever. Yeah. All right.

Daniel Rucker. So y'all, he's smarter than all y'all listening. I get real defensive with my friends. Let me tell you, every one of y'all listening right now, Daniel Ruckerer. So y'all, he's smarter than all y'all listening. I get real defensive with my friends. Let me tell you, every one of y'all listening right now, Daniel Rooker's smart in every single one of you. He's the kind of guy that if you met now and he tried something like this, you'd be like, oh, that dude's the worst. I'm not hanging out with a guy like that.

Yeah, well, if someone, I don't know, if they're defending me, I'm on board with it. That's a good point. Yeah. Idioms and cliches daniel's just correct and smarter no i know he is yeah i'm saying if aaron threw out idioms and cliches it wouldn't go over well an idiom but he went through yeah an idiom but you're an idiot yeah don't be an idiom don't be an idiot david theobald so i'm at a family reunion talking to one of my wife's cousins i mentioned a podcast to listen to where a guy had

squirrels attack his fuel lines on his car he immediately goes oh you listen nateland thanks for being a great talking point to connect family members even though we live far apart we're connected not just by being family but also folks also thanks for the laughs break lines for inspiring our family conversation on squirrels that's i almost like our podcast being described as that i listen to podcasts where one of the guys had squirrels attack his fuel lines on his car that almost is like the perfect where you go you know you're like is it about cars like no oh no no is it about squirrels fuel lines it's not about it's not it's about none of that that's just one of the things that happens uh we're out here bringing people together man man. Yeah, bringing people together. That's kind of beautiful. Family members. That's what we're about.

Thomas Bukart. Burkhart. Sorry. Nate, I love this special. I've been a fan since Y'all Don't Buy a Clown. I am from Tennessee, but I've been stationed around the world for the last 17 years with the Air Force, and your comedy makes me feel like I'm back home. I am not a sneakerhead, but I love a great-looking shoe, and my wife would say I buy too many. I have to know a pair of Nikes you had on in the special and if your wife has a coupon love the podcast give aaron and brisket

my best uh they're air max uh i usually wear air maxes uh and uh i don't know where we got them. So there's your answer. My wife still has a coupon, though. I don't, you know what? I've thought about it, but I didn't think I'd get ridiculed. I would put what I wore on everything. I get asked a lot, like about the shoes,

about, it could be shoes, watch, jacket, everything, and people, there's a guy asking about my shoes i wore in tennessee kid and i keep telling them these are just the kind of nike air maxes that's all they are and you could uh you could design them exactly like that they're not custom made bargetti sevens or anything no no no no author i got some that i'm wearing on this tour that we design but anybody can design Air Max. It's not like I'm going to a guy.

Someone can design them. But I've had a stylist. A stylist dresses me for that, Amber. She does a lot. She does Dan and Shay. She does Shay, our boy Shay. But she dresses like a crazy person. But he's a rock star.

Yeah. And that's what they, he's from Arkansas, so he's never seen nice clothes. And so when he goes to a store, he's like, what is it? So sweet. Yeah, so sweet. So sweet. That's how his dad would call him in the store to let him know.

Did we talk about it about did we make fun of yeah he did my buddy uh ryan malone he is dead but when we'd be at walmart when it's time to leave he'd just whistle real loud that's how we would know it's time to go really like we're talking about what's like he like just like the whistle he'd be like did we we go into walmart and he had to go get stuff, so we were allowed to go run and go look at toys or whatever. And when we heard a whistle throughout the whole store, we knew it was time to go.

Wow. And that's how we would run. That's a loud whistle for a whole Walmart to hear it? Yeah. Man. Look at Che. Yeah. Would you wear that bomber jacket? Probably not.

That's not far off. It's not far. That's not too bad. It's a little flashy, I think, for what I do for stand-up. You know, that's, that, that's the only issue, you know, picking what you wear for standup. It's kind of a, it's a, cause you got,

you want to look good, but you don't want to be, it doesn't need to be too much. I mean, it depends on your act, what your act is. If your act fits, it could fit something.

I've got like what I'm wearing on this tour, like what I want to wear on this tour. This was the first kind of tour I'm doing where I've like actually got a few different outfits. And it's, you know, I don't know. It's kind of fun. It's fun to do. And I don't know, you can mix it up.

I mean, before this, I mean, you're trying to, I'm trying not to just, I'm like, what's the least, I like zipped up jackets sometimes. And then, so I'm just, sometimes you're trying to find the least amount of stuff i gotta bring but it's like you just wear your show stuff so you look nice on stage and you know yeah and i do get that and people ask so it's working you know that's what they ask about the your beard haircut you got your beard haircut. You got your beard cut. Yeah. You know? Yeah. You let it go.

You let it go? Do you still go back to them? I've been back a few times. Oh. Yeah. I haven't been. I had to get a haircut in Albany this weekend. Oh.

So I broke the streak there. You traveled to a different town. Yeah. Why'd you do that? I didn't travel there for the haircut, but I was there. Yeah. And you felt like

you desperately needed it? Well, I wasn't going to have a chance between now and when I'm in L.A. this week. I see. Oh, yeah.

So you took your chances. I took my chances. Yeah, your big debut of the Just for Laughs. Mm-hmm. We got to hope this doesn't pre-air

before the announcement. But at your big day, you get a super cuts haircut does it look like super cuts you have a hat on so i don't know oh well there's a reason i have a hat on yeah no i can't remember the name of the place i typed i just man typed it men's haircut yeah but will you wear a hat on stage i don't know because you usually do don't you yeah but for like a? I don't know. Because you usually do, don't you? Yeah. But for like a big, I don't know. I'll figure it out. Yeah.

Sometimes I think it casts a little shadow in my eyes, dude. That's why I don't. Yeah. Someone said that once where they said, I thought you don't wear a hat on stage, but I could post the Instagram story. But I was doing soundcheck. I wear it on soundcheck.

We don't wear a hat on stage, but I could post the Instagram story. But I was doing soundcheck. I wear it on soundcheck. We don't wear it. It's popping in at Zany's doing a spot sometimes. Maybe sometimes, but not a ton of times. I don't. I usually, I try not to just because it does that. It hides your eyes. I tell a lot of jokes with my eyes, but I think you're more of a physical guy. So that is the most hats ever.

I wear hats a lot. I don't wear them on. You can't find one where I'm on stage. There it is. That's not on stage. That's doing. Oh, that's like a panel.

It's a live podcast. Okay. You can't find one on stage My beard was big there Alright besides that one That was outside Outside doesn't count In Austin Doesn't count

That's the same show That's a panel Alright hey fair enough dude Super consistent I wear it outside And in interviews. Yeah, can't find one. Can't find one.

Yeah, hat's an interview thing for you. Hat's an interview thing. Or outside, there's an excuse. Right. If there's a practical reason for it. I can think of one picture where I have a hat on stage. And there's an actual reason for that. Where on the back of my album, I'm on stage indoors with a hat on or be yelled by a clown yeah but it's because

i had lasik which i talked about in a special on the back of this album i'm wearing a hat and i oh go down yeah right there right there so that's on the back of the album. I think that picture with the hat on. This one, yeah. Yeah. And I'm almost positive. Is it that one? Maybe there's a multiple. Maybe I, you know what, I'll be honest with you,

maybe I do wear a hat on the stage a lot. No, I don't remember if that's the picture on the back of the album. But the one I have on the back of the album, I have to, I was wearing a hat because I had LASIK. And the lights were, I mean, I just had LASIK. And so the lights were killing my eyes. This one is like you're trying to get it in here. That looks, yeah, that was early.

That was like, you know, some early head shots. So, long time ago. You got one with the iron you're pressing on your shirt yeah that was a good one yeah yeah it was a good uh yannis yannis and jesse would uh all right so uh austin fitzsimmons i feel like you guys should start doing the sonic commercials i'd love that oh yeah the ones that sit in the car? Yeah. Where are you at?

Oh, I'd love it too. I mean, those two. In the back? You'd have to be in the back somewhere. Oh, you mean where I'm literally at in the car? I think where I'm at on this. I'm like, I'm on board. Yeah.

Obviously, Aaron gets to sit up front. And then you got to sit behind me. Aaron, I mean, that's what I want to do. You got a seat as far. The whole commercial is just you going, just go back any farther. You're just asking if this, you're trying to move this seat back farther. And you got to, you lean it all the way back. And you order on your own window.

You reach under the sonic thing and you, and I just hear you ordering. You order a side meal that you don't let any of us know you're getting. You just quietly press the button. And we just hear you, man, you know what would go great right now? Like we think the microphone's off. You know what would be awesome right now? An extra cheeseburger with tomatoes. And we're like, I guess, yeah, that'd be cool.

And then she comes to the empty spot and tosses you. And you just, boom. Didn't even know what happened. I love it. When you go through a drive-thru, when you're driving a car and you go through a drive-thru, do you order out of the back window? Never. No.

I mean, when you're driving. When I'm driving? Yeah. And you lean back far enough that you're in the back window and you roll down the back window. And when they pull up they're confused you're all the way back in the back like shack just in the in the back they expect the front to roll up and they just feel that back and they're like we're getting oh uh who's driving i'm I think Shaq would have to do that. He has to do that. He'd almost have to, yeah.

He has to sit, yeah. Shane Etheridge. I'm wondering if there are any jokes any of you guys have regretted doing after the fact because it doesn't fit who you are now. This podcast. Real-time regret yeah yeah uh live regret in the moment i've had some stuff i've had some jokes where i was i think like me uh i have some i think i've had some jokes some dark jokes like i forget one's on like laugh factory and i regret doing it. I don't even want to say, uh, it's a great joke. It's not a bad joke to be honest,

but it's mean. And I actually had someone, uh, they emailed me a lady, uh, and, uh, I was like,

yeah, yeah, sorry. Like I, I was like, I don't have control over that video. The video's up. And,

uh, but I was like, but I don't do that joke obviously like it was like you know just kind of very mean-spirited joke so i i don't like that one but just because it's it's you know and then it was like personal so i responded to her she was very nice was it your wife yeah yeah uh your wife emailed each other yeah that's so funny to think about just in the same house you text a lot sometimes do you do that you text is fine yeah but like to send a dear name yeah is the stove on no subject

uh i don't know do you have any i mean i've always been clean but i definitely when i first started trying to get last i would innuendo yeah like stuff that just bad and yeah i wouldn't do now yeah i think just for me it's like just the quality of the comedy there's some just i had some terrible jokes not long ago still have some i'm trying to get rid of i think everybody knows which ones. I think everybody listens to the album. They can pick. No, yeah, there is definitely some, yeah, old, you have some old jokes here.

Yeah, I mean, I used to do real dumb ones. Nate, I noticed that you tend to start your sets with some variation of, all right, this is it. We're doing it. Is that kind of like the comedy version of your pre-shot waggle and golf? Kind of, yeah. It was kind of started with just letting the audience hear my voice. So it was when I would go on stage and you're in front of people that don't know you and I've got to get them into my rhythm. I found it being very,

the quickest way for me to do it without wasting a joke was to go all right this is it all right we're doing it it's happening and i still do it now uh some of it's just to get it started you know and it's it just you can hear me i talk my rhythm you hear just that little sentence and then i can start my first joke and i'll end that first joke will work otherwise sometimes your first joke doesn't really work because they're kind of like, what? People are kind of confused about something, your voice or something. Did you say his name?

Matt Crone. Matt Croney. Or Croney. Depends if the E is silent or not. I bet it's Crone. Yeah. And I bet a lot of people go, Matt Crony. And he goes, here.

Yeah. Michael Marks. I just want to say thank you to Nate for his comments before the 1970s episode regarding drinking. The way he put it as it was just wasting too much time really hit home with me. I am 32 years old with two young kids. I definitely don't have a drinking problem, but I really wanted to cut down. Hearing Nate and then reading Alan Carsey's way

has changed things for me. I just completed my first week completely free of alcohol and I absolutely love it. Waking up with energy is amazing. My wife laughed at me yesterday and said, all it took for you to stop drinking was this comedian who you think is God apparently. love you guys and the podcast again wait to see nate in saginaw in november hopefully i'll be several months alcohol free then and then we can you know what michael mean

you maybe go booze it up right after that show me and michael both get off the wagon right after we see each other in november and get, wow, that's great, buddy. It's a great thing. It's a great thing. I promise everybody. The older you get and 32, that's a great time to, and if you're younger, look, if you don't have a problem, go have fun, man. But most times when people don't, it's like, you don't have, not everybody's drinking problems are the same. They're not all hiding. I've seen people.

I remember, I think I talked about it at the time I worked at the water company. I don't think so. There's a, when I first worked there a long time ago, this guy I knew was an alcoholic. First time I really saw it up close and he would drink here in the day. He'd come to work drunk, like i mean 6 a.m so you're like oh he didn't sleep and he's just been drinking and he's there was times he'd show up there and you're like you shouldn't have drove dude like you should have called me and like

i don't know how you came to work uh we were in a trailer park once i think i talked about dusty because he was in trailer park reading water meters and he was drunk and he got real mad at me and threw a shoe at me in the trailer park like we just look like we belong there and we're like reading the water meters uh and i remember him and seeing that and so there's that and so people think i don't have a drinking problem and so they but that's what they think it is they think drinking is just like this oh you got to be uh i need to be drinking during the day and i need to be you know all this kind of stuff. But sometimes it's not that.

It's just like you're around alcohol too much, and you're drinking just enough to waste a lot of time and waste that next day. And so that's a great way, Michael, just stick with it. There will be times you'll think, you know, you definitely miss it, but you only miss that first drink. That's a great soda, is what he told me. Soda, you only want the first drink. You only want the drink when everybody goes, all right, cheers, everybody.

That's the only one you want. That's interesting. Once you get past that, you don't want anything else. Yeah, but that. Everything else is a nightmare. Yeah. Everything else after that gets a couple of dollars. But the one drink does lead to the other.

But the one drink leads to the others, yes. But there's nothing better than the first drink to go like all right everybody get a drink hold up your drink everybody wants to here's to a great night here's to a great night like that's that's all of the drinking builds up to that moment and then once it goes it gets on past that you're like it then then you just misery are you a toast guy nate do you ever give toast no i'm not a big fan of them uh i've never liked them really yeah you don't like the camaraderie of uh i again in the let's go way of things it's gotten you know we're toast isn't let's yeah it is all right everybody let's go i know but it feels like we're at applebee's and it's uh all right everybody huh guys great podcast today like it's you're going like all right

dude we're just eating let's just eat like i mean it's every single you can't even sit down with everybody you know you're like what's it been last wednesday we got together let's one more time and you're like oh and you're you're like oh i guess okay last Wednesday we got together let's one more time to and you're like oh and you're you're like oh I guess okay yeah glad we're together and you gotta take a drink I gotta hit the table and do like I'm a like I'm an Irish uh fiddler on the roof just like yeah I think it's too much. Too many toast. Too many toast. It got out of control. Cheersing.

Yeah. It got out of control. Cheers. Cheers, everybody. Cheers. Cheers. And you're like, look, I don't mind cheersing after something. There's the time for it. Yeah, there's got to be a reason.

There's got to be a reason. You got to be doing something. It kind of slipped into, you know, it's free wings at Fridays. And they're like, huh every friday we meet here tony florio a good friend of mine told me that he and his brother worked out a deal where they got to work out for free in exchange for cleaning the gym a couple times a week uh when i asked how often they worked out he said never did once. This went on for at least six months. I still laugh, and I think about these guys just showing up a couple times a week at this gym, cleaning it, and then leaving.

That's very funny. Because it sounds like a great deal. You're like, oh, yeah, dude, we will work out. But then you would get to a point where you go, dude, I'm there already twice a week. I don't want to go to my place of work. And you're like, but your work is how you're getting there. It's hilarious to think even while they're there, they don't just work out.

It seemed like while they were cleaning, they would either work out before or after or something. But even then, it's just get in and get out. And just to – I mean, that guy who gave him that deal, that's so good. Six months, you got your gym cleaned, and then you're like, do the guys work out? You're like, I don't think so. I only see them when they come into work.

That's very funny. How long does it take to clean a gym? I mean, we're still dependent on the- Well, think of the plant fitness that you quit. It's a pretty big- I know. That's twice a week you go in there? That's not-

It should be more. Maybe this is a small gym. I'm sure it's a small gym if they work out a deal. It's twice a week you go in there? That's not. It should be more. Maybe this is a small gym. I'm sure it's a small gym if they work at a deal. Like it's like a guy's. Probably a smaller but more expensive gym. It'd have to be for this to be a good deal. Yeah. I'm trying to think of Planet Fitness said you could come in and clean this Planet Fitness twice a month.

Yeah. Or twice a week. Twice a week. Or $10 a month. Which one do you want to do? Or fitness twice a month. Yeah. Or twice a week. Twice a week. Twice a week. Or $10 a month. Which one do you want to do? Or $10 a month. Yeah.

This feels like they were young when they did it. You know what I mean? I would imagine if they're not, that's even better. Yeah. If they end up being like, no, they were in their 30s. I would love that. But this feels like they're 16, 17. Yeah.

And then they go there. And they probably don't really have a job. And so it was nice to go do something. Yeah. But it's funny that that guy got free. Nate, the worst word I butchered. Chris Radcliffe. Oh, Chris Radcliffe. Nate, the worst word I butchered while reading out loud was horse divorce. Hors d'oeuvres. Hors d'oeuvres.

Hors d'oeuvres. Yeah. I pronounce it as hours devours. And probably got ridiculed by my friends. I'm curious how you're pronouncing it right now. I said horse divorce. A my friends. I'm curious how you're pronouncing it right now. I said horse divorce. A horse divorce. A horse divorce.

It's been happening a lot around here. Horse divorces. What if you get a lawyer? That looks like a business card should be that. What do you do? I do horse divorces. And then he goes, oh. Specialize. Specialize do horse divorces and then he goes oh specialize specialize in horse

divorces so they get divorced a lot more than you think imagine what what do you think it is and you go i think it's zero and he goes it's every one of them there's not one horse that i've met that stays along with his running mate they're all so. They're all so unhappy. They're all so unhappy. And I deal with horse divorces. I got more than I want. And then someone comes over and gives him some caviar and he goes, oh, thank you. Because that's what they'd be serving at a horse divorce party. Upscale. Upscale.

Upscale hours devours. You know, if you don't say, what is it? Hors d'oeuvres. Hors d'oeuvres. How did they get to that? I don't know. Do you think anybody says that word correctly the first time they see it? There's not a chance.

Yeah. And even if you know it, you don't see that in your head when you say hors d'oeuvres. Yeah. You know, nobody does. Horse. You about to say, Brian? I was going to say, I can see how he would, hours devours. I could kind of see that leap.

Horse divorce is a little more of a leap, but. Horse devours. I guess duvres. leap horse divorce is a little more of a leap but horse divorce do i guess do phrase i could have said horse d do uvray horse do phrase excuse me would you like any horse do raise please oh i will you know i don't mind if I do. I was picturing you as a waiter at a fancy event, walking around with some pigs in a blanket. Can I tempt you with some horse divorees? Divorees? What's that? Horse divorees.

This is horse? No, no, no. It's pigs in a blanket. What's the matter? You don't need any cutlery for this. What's the matter? You don't need any cutlery for this. What's the matter? You don't need any, yeah. Cutlery.

Cutlery. You don't need cutlery for this. This is horse divorce. What do we got going here, you know? This is a civilization. Just add every, you can almost make that a whole sentence. Yeah. Horse divorce, cutlery. Validity. just add every you can almost make that a whole sentence yeah forced divorce

cut Larry and validity what was it you said yeah validitimity validitimity yeah what's that

what's the Mary Poppins song validitimity esmigalagosius supergama esmigalagosius I knew I was saying it wrong, but I thought I knew. That one I knew,

I was like, for some reason the right words weren't coming, and then I thought, well, let's just see what words. Let's get to the docious part at the end. Yeah. The docious. Horse divorce.

Just seeing a horse in court just sits there both i don't even want to look at every judge why is the long face all right every he goes he loves it every time he goes all right i always start like that what's the problem uh and she doesn't want to be near me anymore a lot of jokes like that that's what the law the lawyers have a good time it's a good it's a fun place to be at a horse divorce to go in there horse divorce court horse divorce court and to go in there and they bring in the little the ponies the ponies and they're just sitting there and they're branding them and you got golly one shows up with a bunch of brands all over him and you're like boy, this one's trouble. Look at all the brands he's got. He's got a bunch of,

he's got, he's all branded up. Alan Meeks. Brian, thanks for keeping the dress code business casual. Nate and Aaron

look as though they have games to coach after the show. Love the show and hilarious banter. Thank you, Alan. That sounds like a guy that would be on board

with your dressing. Alan Meeks. Alan Meeks, I'm here at the Earth. That's what they say. Yeah. We dress, I do dress like,

I dress like someone who plays golf. You got a normal shirt on today. I dress business casual business casual today's not the day to how you let out meeks down i'll tell you that almeeks finally gets his comment gets read he goes ah and then look at and he looks over breakfast across the breakfast table and sees this

what is this from? Why are we doing this? Why are you dressed like this? This is to honor the 1990s, today's subject. All right. I'm 90 years up. I got my Tennessee Oilers mug here. Which is from what year?

1997? 1997. That was the first year Tennessee had a football team. Yeah. Played Memphis. Graduated high school. I did. 1997. 1997. That was the first year Tennessee had a football team. Yeah. Played Memphis. Graduated high school. I did.

You graduated high school in 97? Yeah. We both graduated high school in the 90s. Yeah. Both went to college in the 90s. Yeah. So I'm almost exactly 20 years older than you. Yeah. And I remember just a few things about the 70s.

Do you remember anything specific about the 90s? Not about what was happening in the world. I remember stuff in my life from the 90s. You don't remember any events or anything? I was born in 91. That's when you graduated high school? 90, actually. Yeah.

I was in college in 91. Yeah. I remember the home run race of 98. I remember watching that. Okay. That's good. Do you remember Jordan playing for the Bulls? I remember watching Kobe play against Michael Jordan in the All-Star game when Kobe was a rookie.

Yep. And I remember knowing who Michael Jordan was, but not being old enough to be aware of the significance of all that. So does Michael Jordan, Kobe meant more to you than Michael Jordan? I saw more. I saw his whole career. Yeah. And I caught the tail end of Michael Jordan. Yeah.

And I know him from Space Jam mostly, just in my childhood. Yeah. You know? It's interesting. I always say, like, I was never the big kobe fan jordan fan but i felt like i always if you were probably our age like we just got done with michael jordan and then kobe was the same thing and you're like well i can't watch this guy but like there's people that like it's funny like you are like people younger than you like kobe's everything yeah and then there's people that lebr's funny, you or people younger than you, Kobe's everything.

Yeah. Then there's people that LeBron's everything. They don't even remember Kobe or Jordan. Everybody has their thing, but I feel like you always miss. I kind of came back on LeBron because just my age. It was like I saw Jordan, and then when Kobe came, I was kind of like, all right, I'm kind of not paying attention to it like I was about Jordan, so I didn't really pay attention to Kobe too much.

I mean, I remember Kobe and Shaq playing and all that, and then I kind of came back to LeBron. I was like ready for like that again where I'm like, all right, I'm ready to devote my time to like a guy. It's like you just – like you skip. I remember when Kobe and Kevin Garnett came in the league. I think they came in the same year, and they both came straight from high school. Yeah.

And nobody – Moses Malone. Yeah, his last guy. But that was before even my time. So I just like – there's no way these guys – Really? Yeah. I don't even think it was allowed for a long time.

That was just the norm is so many kids are coming out of high school. It was a big deal. Okay. Was Kevin Garnett first? I thought they came out the same year. Moses Malone was the first one, and then it didn't happen again. I mean, look up, like, there might have been, like, some, yeah, it might have been Kevin Garnett was the first.

I don't think it was allowed for a long time. Yeah. I think there was either age or you had to go to college. But I just remember thinking, these guys are good. Kevin Garnett, time. Yeah. I think there was either age or you had to go to college. But I just remember thinking, these guys are good. Kevin Garnett, 95. Yeah, the move was highly controversial. The conventional wisdom at the time was that high schoolers were neither emotionally nor physically mature enough

for the rigors of the NBA game. But Garnett was selected with the number five pick in the first round by the Timberwolves. So that's crazy. Because I remember when they went back to you have to play one year in college. And Kobe was the next year. And Kobe was the next year. Kobe and Jermaine O'Neal. Yeah.

And then Jermaine O'Neal had a good career. Then after that, it just kind of started. And it was like Tracy McGrady. Yeah. Then Al Harrington, Rashard Lewis. All those guys are big names. Darius Miles. I mean, I think they were all big names, but they all did kind of big stuff.

Like, you know. And then it gets to where it started getting back to, I think, the bad way, where it was like guys were doing it, and you're like, they're not even making it. And then you're like, they're throwing their whole careers away. Yep. Yep. Was it Kwame Brown that Michael Jordan jordan drafted you know i just uh who

oh no he went to ohio state the guy greg odin i saw him in vegas oh yeah yeah i've seen him twice like uh i forget somewhere else too like out and about like uh he looked i he looked 48 when he's in college he looked like a biblical character. Yeah. Well, he just made a ton of money and just got hurt. He'd feel terrible, but he made a ton of money, dude. So he went one, right? And Durant went two? Yeah.

Yeah. God. I just never. I just got played. I mean, just, yeah. You know, just a college kid college kid yeah just a young man yeah in college he looks older in college than he does in the nba that mni shamaline a lot of a lot of athletes sometimes you uh you see them and they uh

he played in the big three too but a lot of athletes you see them and then they like they you're like john rom is 26 years old uh as a golfer and i thought he doesn't look you're like it's so young yeah like uh you know yeah he just yeah just a cop uh positive for covid again and now the olympics Did he really? Yeah. I saw DeChambeau. That happened to him. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy.

He missed. They pulled him from that one tournament. I saw that. He goes and wins the US Open and goes to the Olympics. Test positive again. Yeah. And you're like, I don't even know. At this point, you're like, COVID might just be a Jon Rahm problem. It's a no one else problem.

Jon Rahm needs to wear a mask at all times like he this dude just gets covid constantly he just had he's give us a day he doesn't have so i got a nashville cats hat do you remember the nashville cats uh yep we went to uh their didn't have a championship game I went to it They lost They Arena football team Oh awesome And this was our first Besides the Nashville Sounds

Like our first Professional I mean I think we'd had Some minor league hockey But This was such a big deal For football And I remember

Corey Fleming Played for them Yeah He was a local guy That played at Tennessee Went pro Andy Kelly Was the quarterback Who Was the quarterback At Tennessee So it was a local guy that played at Tennessee and went pro. Andy Kelly was the quarterback. He was the quarterback at Tennessee.

So it was a big deal. Yeah. And their games were so much fun. They played at Bridgestone Arena, what's now Bridgestone Arena. What was it then? I think it was just called The Arena. I don't think it had a name then. The venue.

Where are you guys going? The place downtown? The place to be. The place to be. The place to be. The place to be. Yeah. So did you have an NFL team that you cared about here before the Oilers moved, or were you just big Cats fans?

I was a Washington football team fan. Really? Yeah, and I never said the Redskins. Even then, you called them that always. He knew. I knew. I felt it as I played with a Donaldson Warrior on the side of my helmet as a junior.

I played for the Warriors. I liked the Redskins because my helmet, my year or two I played football, we had Redskin colors and all that stuff. So our helmets were like Warriors. With that logo? Kind of that logo logo so it was like uh uh someone's gonna find a photo of you and you get canceled oh yeah it's it was more cartoony looking yeah it makes it worse like uh it was a little no uh no we were the donaldson warriors

i might uh let's see if i have it i probably have a I probably have a jacket. And they, but like, but because of that, we watched, there's yours. We were the Seminole midgets. Oh, good night. I mean. You cancel each other out with political greatness. I mean, mine's not that bad. I mean, you know. We were the Seminoles, but that was the name of our division. Can't sell each other out with political greatness. Mine's not that bad.

We were the Seminoles, but that was the name of our division. Did y'all come out with a gong getting banged? I mean, good night. What are y'all? I don't know. Just anything that could be just remotely not appropriate. Y'all just, you know. The whole crowd just like doing that. Like, oh, just tone it down a little bit.

Everybody feels the heat. You wearing face paint? And y'all played the Bears. That was the Prattville Bears right there. Oh, you about to put a move on that guy. I'm about to break that kid's ankles, dude. Over pursuing there. What did he do?

Was this the last time you ran? That successfully, yes. Yeah. For sure. That's awesome. Did you get by this guy oh 100 100 i ran for 3 000 yards this season do you remember this at all i vaguely remember playing on that team i was seven in those pictures so this isn't as i was this was 99 so i was seven about to turn eight yeah well good times those are my 90s memories yeah all right so 99 yeah i was i mean close to starting i was well i started in 2003 i moved to chicago in 02 so that was well into my career in 99 yeah how do you feel about the guardians by the way

That was well into my career in 99. Yeah. How do you feel about the Guardians, by the way? You like that name? No. You don't like it? No. I watched PTI, and they talked about it.

They had the Spiders. They had another team called the Spiders. Yeah. It was like an old baseball team. So I was like, why would you not just take that? You're like, Spiders is actually a pretty cool name. But I was thinking about it. They could say the Spidersiders and we'd be like, well, that's stupid. You're probably going to get everything. But Guardians doesn't...

If you don't know, the Cleveland Indians changed their name officially to the Cleveland Guardians starting next season. And their logo is like a baseball... This might be coming out in the middle of next season baseball. Yeah? You think it'll be on the shelf that long? We might hold it.

Michael Marks is back to drinking by the time this comes out michael marks he needed that comment for inspiration to keep going me and michael both we've already done the show i got michael to start back i i think every new name seems weird you're like that's so dumb and then after a while just get used to it Guardians does feel I don't think I like it because it's like you're stopping the Indian thing because you're trying to

you're trying to be nice and polite so then Guardians feels like you're trying to be like so now we're the Guardians you're like alright dude just so now we're the guardians like it's it's kind of you're like all right dude just be the dinosaurs yeah be an animal like no one cares just go be you know train the t-rexes the cleveland caterpillars nobody that's not bad that's not bad yeah i love an alliteration i I'm a sucker for it. Cleveland Caterpillars.

The Caterpillars. Well, the spiders, like, that would have made sense if it's, like, connected me. The Cleveland Spiders. Do you know how the Nashville Predators got their name? Sounds like a bad story. From your joke. From your Predators joke. My dad's a Predator.

My mom's a Predator. My uncle's a predator. My mom's a predator. My uncle's a big old predator. I don't realize how southern I am until someone does my jokes. My dad's a predator. His hands, on the back of his like this.

My dad's a predator. My mom's a predator. My mom's a predator. Oh, folks. That's how Pete Brown goes. We don't like mutants. We don't like mutants. And that's all just. His whole show is his hands resting on the back of his hips.

Always a very uncomfortable position. Why? I don't know. Have you ever seen people stand like that? That's what old people do. It's like Forrest Gump stood like this. Yeah did and then it's always yeah it's like it's a very uncomfortable you're like does your wrist not hurt like and people are just like no this is how i wait for the bus yeah well maybe is it what is what is brian does he have a headset mic or does

he just have the mic in front of him he leaves it out there and he touches the top and he goes, hello, folks. Because he can't move it down. My dad's a predator. That's a good guess. Yeah. Where did it come from? They found a saber-toothed tiger underneath downtown Nashville when they were doing some construction work.

Really? Just anywhere downtown Nashville. Well, I got it specifically here. It was 1971 during construction of the first American national building, now the UBS Tower. It's a partial skeleton of a saber-toothed tiger. So they held a contest to see, let people pick

what it should be called. 75 names. They got it down to the final three, the ice tigers, the fury, and the attack.

But then the owner of the predators said, it's my team, so I can choose what we call it. So he said the predators,

and they became the predators. I like this guy. He just totally ignored the polls and did what he wanted. Let's go, folks. I think this guy gets it. You know the polls and did what he wanted. Let's go, folks.

I think this guy gets it. You know what? Turns out it's my podcast and my team, and I can do whatever I want. What were the other names? The final three were the Attack. Let's see what I say. The Attack, the Fury, and the Ice Tigers. The Fury?

F-U-R-Y. And the Ice Tigers? Ice Tigers is terrible. I was about to say, I like Ice Tigers. The Fury? Mm-hmm. F-U-R-Y. And the Ice Tigers? Ice Tigers is terrible. I was about to say, I like that one. You like that one? Ice Tigers? It's different. The National Ice Tigers?

It's different. I don't like the name being a concept, like heat or fury or wild. Sounds? I need some sounds. Yeah, I don't like that either. You don't like the sounds? Give me something concrete. Oh, I like wild sounds. I need some sounds. Yeah, I don't like that either. You don't like the sounds? Give me something concrete. Oh, I like the sounds.

I'm open to throw out the first pitch. September 7th, Nashville Sounds, if you're listening. I still support them. I'm just saying. The sounds are great. I love the sounds, Zane. I just feel like we lean into the music thing quite a bit. That had to have been weird, though. Well, that's kind of our thing. Yeah thing quite a bit and that had to be weird though

our thing yeah but what else do you want it to be you know the predators the ice tigers the meat and threes is that what you want dude that would be awesome nashville meat threes imagine the concession stands the nashville meat and threes. Imagine the concession stands. The Nashville meet and threes. Just some big. What's the construction look like? We're doing bigger seats for sure. We know our audiences. We can't be squeezing everybody in. It had the room to hold 2,000, but we did 800 comfortably.

I imagine every seat is like those desks where the little thing flips out right in front of you. And you just got a full meet and greet. You guys just all ramps. No steps. No steps. They just. Still out of breath. Yes.

Yeah. Seventh inning stretch is like. It's just. like you actually need yeah yeah it's like a real like people like get up and i've mentioned a lot of rascals just right around the ballpark it sounds awesome you know i'd go i'll throw out the first pitch national meeting threes national meeting threes you're just sitting down from a rascal scooter. Yeah. They pull you up in the back of a truck. They just backed it. Drive over the mound. And you don't even get out of your chair and you just throw the first pitch.

And then they just drive you off. And then you go out and then they unload you from the truck. It'd be, they should do a show. They should have a team that's for the larger folk. Yeah. They're just big. Nobody's doing the wave at that one.

No one's doing the Nashville Big Bones. Sit down and wave. That would be a good name. The Big Bones? The Big Bones. Alabama Big Bones. The Huskies. That's what the Huskies is.

Oh, yeah. Nebraska. No, Washington. Washington Huskies. Corn Huskers. Corn Huskers corn huskers yeah washington huskies yeah now that's like the wolf right i know but it's also husky kind of big they're big over there is what basically they get husky pants what if they should let other states pick the team name to be like what do they go what, what do you, they go, what do you think of? Mm-hmm. You know.

So what's Kentucky's? Let's say we get to name Kentucky's team. It'd be, yeah. We have caves. Cave. Kentucky caves. Kentucky bat caves. Bat caves.

They have the Louisville bats already. Yeah. So it's not far off. So they kind of nailed it because they named themselves what other people would name them. Yeah. So we're just sounds. So that works out. I get, yeah.

Reds. I like Cincinnati Reds. Cincinnati Reds is nice. They were the Red Stockings, I think. Yep. Reds is good. But you don't think of red when you think of Cincinnati. That's true.

Well, that was so long ago. So you got a Cincinnati Reds jersey right there. So it agrees. Autograph. I bet when the Nashville sounds first, that's such a weird name. That was probably hard to get on board with. It probably sounded weird. Yeah.

Yeah. Cats is good. Nashville Cats is good. With a K. Yeah. The K is funny. Apparently that came from a song. There's a song called the Nashville Cats.

Oh. I looked that up. When you walk in somewhere, they look at you like a merch. Like you're just a merch. I mean, wherever you go, you just buy Planet Hollywood Nashville. Yeah. Do you remember when they're? Yeah.

One down there? I went to the grand opening. All the celebrities came into town, and we were a media sponsor, so I got to be down there with them. Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams. Their movie had just come out that weekend, The Eraser. They were in town promoting it. Bruce Willis sang on lower Broadway.

It was pretty awesome. What is Planet Hollywood? You don't even know what it is? I don't even know what it is. Is it like the wax museum? No. It's just a theme a Hollywood themed restaurant oh it's like hard rock cafe okay but like but instead of music it's just movies yeah and it never really took off and I uh they still have one in Opry Mills uh

no I don't think Hollywood I don't think so but it was like a fun it was like hard rock everything they kind of put on they put them everywhere they went after dude i mean they went everywhere and all these celebrities were part owners yeah but then it just kind of i think there might be some left it closed the one in national closed in 2001 so it was a pretty pretty short ride dude open in june 96 yeah yeah had financial problems couldn't yeah yeah had financial problems couldn't couldn't hack it dude

it was you know tough to make it in this city yeah the thing was is like it was like it's fun you're like

yeah that's cool yeah and then you go to it once and then you're like I don't need to ever go again yeah I don't know how the Hard Rock Cafe still stays open

in Nashville and that place has been there forever yeah I feel like my whole life on On Broadway down there? Yeah. Yeah, since the 90s.

Yeah. Maybe because of our music, so it kind of works out that it's like – I mean, it is prime location. Yeah. Yeah. It might be the best location of any place. Yeah. Right there on the corner, you see the river.

I forget it's even there. It's just like you never hear about it. Well, kind of because there's a parking lot in front of it, which is crazy. And there's usually not that. Yeah, I hear about it. Well, kind of because there's a parking lot in front of it, which is crazy. And there's usually not that. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that's crazy.

All right. I don't know how local we need to get on this. Well, just my attire. I think I'm done. These socks came from, no.

What do you think of when you think of the 90s? I mean, surely you remember. Saved by the Bell. Yeah. 90s. Yeah, I remember. That show remember... Saved by the Bell. Yeah? 90s. Yeah, I remember.

That show or like that aesthetic? That show. Okay. We used to watch the show. I think it was airing live then. Would it come out on Saturdays? Mm-hmm. So I remember Saved by the Bell,

Dawson's Creek TV shows a lot. I remember the Titans coming here and going to a game and they played the Redskins at Vanderbilt. Were you – I mean, high school. So you said you were a Redskins fan. When did you get on board?

Did it take you a while to get on board with Nashville's team? No, I remember – so my buddy Ryan Malone is a Steelers fan still. And I remember he was like – it was like kind of a debate. Do you trade your, do you go for your home team? Or do you stick with your true, you know, like that you kind of grew up a fan. And I, but I was like, I was pretty like, I was like, you can't not cheer for me. It's hard for your home. He's still a Steelers fan, though, but he was a diehard Steelers fan.

And he was a Steelers fan because of Andy, because their colors were similar as far as black and yellow. And it's like, all right, I'll just be a Steelers fan. So he's a big Steelers fan. You had to pick teams. I know. It's so funny. That's why you choose a team as a kid, and then it just lasts into adulthood.

Yeah. Because you like the colors when you were a kid. I totally get that. Oh, so many people do that. I mean, you've got so many Cowboy fans. It's all this random stuff. Some of these games people could see. So, yeah.

So I remember. But then I became a Titans fan, now, now we're all in. Yeah. Do you remember OJ and all that stuff? I, so I remember, I do remember OJ. I don't remember it as much as everybody does. Yeah. I always like think about that.

Cause I wish I did. Like, you know, I remember it all happening. I remember it doing, but I just don't think I was, was it 95 it 95 yeah the crime happened in 94 and his trial was not allegedly yeah allegedly sorry uh yeah well the crime definitely happened yeah we don't know when it happened for sure yeah a crime happens okay allegedly allegedly i'm having there uh uh i remember like but you know i was like nice so 94 95 i had to be 15 14 50 you know you're just not yeah yes you you don't have the uh what is it the wherewithal yeah the bandwidth is that it the band i think wherewithal wherewithal works i said where yeah well it depends on how you finish the sentence i said where a thaw where i wasn't really wearing thaws back then so i couldn't i didn't i wear some

thaws time to time where we what is it wherewithal wherewithal wherewithal what does that even mean i don't know yeah but i think it's all like the mental fortitude i think you're using it correctly the capacity i don't think i had the wherewithal to think this is this. I remember it being on. My parents watching it, but like you're. The presence of mind. The presence of mind. You got to realize you have no, you're not on the internet.

You're not on all this stuff. You're not checking blah, blah, blah, all this thing. So you're just kind of like, you go outside. You're just like, you live in just your town and nothing's around. And you just are like, I live, I'm playing with my buddies. Well, also, did you care who OJ simpson was at that age probably not right i mean because he was way before your time brian you grew up watching yeah i remember when he uh usc i remember the hertz commercials where he ran through the airport yeah yeah o yeah. O.J.'s sneaky, like, played old.

Like, an old-time player. Like, you think O.J., because he's been so famous just with everything that you don't realize, like, he played, did he play in the 60s? 60s, yeah. In college, yeah. In college, like, that's crazy.

And you're like, oh, dude, that's old. He played with, like, the one bar on the helmet. Like, it looked so old when you watched the clips. I remember him from the Naked Gun movies. I love those movies. He was in those. He was great in them. Naked.

I think we all say naked. That's very Southern. You say naked? Naked Gun. Naked is how regular city folk. I'd probably say naked. You'd probably say naked. Naked Gun movies. I I probably split the difference where

we going naked gun movies we're gonna go over a movie theater and watch naked gun movies go what's that what are you doing boy I was trying to say earlier Tennessee oilers oilers and Laura couldn't figure out what I was trying I have a hard time with that word I say oil yeah I I don't do it I a hard time with that word I say oil I can't say oil is one of my words I can't say on stage and I had a joke about that not that I changed it I forget what the word but I couldn't say oil

I'd say motor oil just so if I go I could go change to oil people are like they don't know they go you gotta say petroleum just to avoid yeah i would petroleum would be i gotta go fuel fuel petrol i remember i was still in college when the chase happened oj chase happened that was just such a crazy story um

but to your point if you don't have cnn CNN or something, you're not going to see it just around the clock. You would see it like on the- On the news. Yeah, like on the news or just on TV. It's going on. Bigger than like the Casey Anthony trial was? I think so. Yeah, probably.

Far to me. Yeah, because it was the only thing- I'm trying to think of another trial that kind of dominated the news headlines for a while. I mean, they call it the trial of the century. Wow. They also call that Scopes Monkey trial. I was going I mean, they call it the trial of the century. Wow. They also call that Scopes Monkey trial. I was going to say, you can't just keep throwing that around. But the trial went on forever.

I mean, everyone who testified became a celebrity. Right. Yeah. Kato Kaling. Still are. They're making TV shows about it still right now. Greta Van Susteren. That's how she became first well-known, I think.

Yeah. It was from that. You know who that is? I know Greta Van Susteren from Fox News. Yeah news yeah but casey what is what was she doing during i think she was given legal analyst analysis then oh yeah patricia clark and uh who compare it who would have to do that now for it to be as big of a story like if you could give a modern comparison to somebody who's not only famous and successful and was good at what they did, but also

beloved in the way. Peyton Manning, you think? Career-wise, gotta be done. Gotta be somewhat out of the limelight. OJ had been done longer. That's a pretty good one. But Peyton's beloved by people

and it would definitely shock us if Peyton murdered his wife. Nicole, his wife, were they married? Yeah. They were still married. Oh, they're still married? Oh, maybe they were divorced. I don't know. Estranged? Yeah. Allegedly. So maybe Peyton

has done this and we just don't know yet. It'd be amazing if the story comes out by the time this airs and it's all they're talking and brian's dead and so is so is peyton and you're like god dude these guys we might go to the top aaron of number one podcast i was trying to think of someone like charles barkley charles barkley yeahley. Charles Barkley would almost be funny. Yeah. But someone who's been out for a while, but still,

we still well know. That's, yeah, Shaq or somebody? Yeah. Yeah. I feel, Charles Barkley is so,

everything he does, I think he's so funny that it would have a totally different tone. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I think it might change pretty quickly

if he murdered two people. Yeah, yeah. OJ was in a naked gun and those were pretty funny that's a good point that's a good point he goes all the way down the stance and his body flips off the california angels gang yeah that's the top of the world yeah you're making great points i retract it but i bet your mom was all about ojJ trial. Oh, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, like, yeah, the big trials now. I'm trying to think of the last big. Was it Casey Anthony? Man, I guess so. Other than, like, the way more, like, George Zimmerman and that kind of stuff.

Derek Chauvin. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But it didn't, like, like even those it's uh yeah there's something different about like that's like some of those are like uh the times we're in and blah blah all that kind of stuff i understand that and there's a difference between like this kind of like it's like uh there's a soap opera you feel right this kind of there were so many things not i mean it's

brutal because it's a child, but it kind of does have it where it's got... There's all these... The news are just all over it. Yeah. There were so many crazy stories, soap opera-y, involving athletes, not even sports-related. OJ, if you count that, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding.

That was just another just... that dominated the news cycle for that was right before the olympics yeah and uh i remember that when was that 96 he was 94 94 i remember that and those olympic women's figure skating which is always very well watched anyway was just one of the most watched events ever, I think. Yeah, because Nancy Kerrigan was huge. Did Tanya Harding end up competing that same year in the Olympics? So she was being accused of this and then ended up and went out there and competed? She did it, and then I think she stopped. She had issues with her laces and started crying.

And Nancy Kerrigan did not. She was hurt, right? completely out of the olympics i don't even remember i feel like she competed oh i thought she had a rehab and then she came back the next time and almost won i think she can i can't remember the time between the it's so crazy what are the they did when it first happened i think i do remember it being like nancy like they first they're like who did this we didn't know and then it was just like oh it's when it first happened, I think I do remember it being like Nancy, like they, the first,

they're like, who did this? We didn't know. And then it was just like, Oh, it's the other skater. And that's like, I mean,

it's a man, they made a movie out of it. They did. I did. I talked about it in the special. And she, uh, she really didn't know anything though. Did she?

Tanya Harding? Yeah. I thought her husband did it. Got Jeff Galooly to do it on without her blessing i don't know man i don't know i think you're being you're being pretty generous there with the facts brian yeah i'm a big tony harding fan just like what she represents so there's that there's uh mike tyson biting evander holyfield's ear. Oh, that was, oh man. Yeah, so I remember that.

90s were great. Yeah. They were, I remember when that happened. Was I watching that? I was. Yeah, I think I remember. I don't know where I was. It was a rematch and Holyfield had beaten him the first time.

He's on his way down. Tyson was, this was the end. He was getting near there, yeah. He was so invincible. February was, this was the end. He was getting near there, yeah. He was so invincible. February 90, start the decade, he loses the biggest upset in boxing history

to Buster Douglas. Then he came back and then, yeah, then Holyfield, fought Holyfield twice and second time he bit his ear off.

Not off, but partially off. Partially off. Yeah. Crazy. One of the- He was losing when this happened? Yeah. Yeah, and he accused Holyfield of headbutially off. Yeah. Great. One of the. He was losing when this happened?

Yeah. Yeah, and he accused Holyfield of headbutting him. Yeah. It's kind of hard to accuse somebody of headbutting after you bite their ear. It's kind of like, yeah. That's why he did it. Yeah, he was getting frustrated saying he was headbutting him.

So he just lashed out in anger. Yeah. I just watched a documentary on Tyson. It was very, very good. And they said he was the most recognizable person on the planet at his height. At his height? Yeah, like. Oh.

Yeah. That's standing. Among 510 males. The height of his career. Yeah, I can see that. And now he's got the tattoo all over his face. So it's hard for him to blend in. Very, very famous.

Yeah. He's up there with the queen. And there's not many kind of villains. I mean, he went to jail for sexually assaulting a woman. Yeah. He abused his wife. He bites a guy's ears off. And now he's still so beloved in this next chapter of his life.

It's pretty crazy. Everybody looks past the lot. Everybody looks past the lot. He's almost like the reverse OJ. Well, yeah, maybe if you just don't murder someone, people can deal with quite a bit. Yeah. There's a line, and it gets drawn.

Yeah. And it's the death of another person. Don't brutally murder two people. That's all we're asking. Yeah. Do you remember when Monica Sellis got stabbed? No. Who's that?

Tennis player. She was the number one tennis player in the world and she got stabbed on court. On TV. During a game? During a match? Yeah. Yeah.

There was a Seinfeld where she comes back and Kramer's the ball boy. Yeah. Gets her hurt. First match back. Yeah. A fan of Steffi Graf ran out there and stabbed her in the back. Yeah.

Why? Because she was the number one player, and he was a fan of Steffi Graf. I mean, he's obviously crazy. Yeah. Yeah, he's not a real man. They didn't do an interview with him afterwards. Talk about it. Well, you know, I've been debating it for a while.

How crazy is that? That happened. Can you imagine that happening happened can you imagine that happening no seeing that now like just like the most famous tennis player yeah gets stabbed and i mean the announcers of that wasn't it on tv or maybe it was i just remember seeing the highlights i don't remember if it was live or not it's the french open right quickly do the highlights of it and uh right here we had this match got called. Stemnograph gets stabbed in the back.

I think I only remember... Vanessa Williams. She closes her match out. And you're like, what's that? No, go back to... Go back to the stabbing? There you go. Now, she's on the...

What is it? The DL? What is it? Injury Reserve. Injury Reserve. She's on the IR. Got stabbed. Oh, God. At her house? No Reserve. Injury Reserve. She's on the IR. Got stabbed. Oh, God.

At her house? No, no. On the court. Oh, yeah. We have footage. During the match. We have footage. We'll go to it later.

Brian's always watching the highlights, huh? I believe he's eating cereal. She got... What's going on in there? Steffi Graf got stabbed. Yeah. No, they breezed over pretty quick. I guess it wasn't that big of a deal. Now that you make that point, on in there. Stevigrath got stabbed. Yeah. No, they breezed over pretty quick.

I guess it wasn't that big of a deal. Now that you make that point, I only remember seeing Monica Seles, that shot of her on the ground with them

treating her. Maybe they purposely didn't show the stabbing or maybe as a kid, I just didn't see it. That is crazy.

I missed that one. They haven't done a 30 for 30 about that one, I guess, yet. Because I haven't heard of it. She was so young. She was 16 when she won the French Open, I think. Yeah.

Did this end her career? No. She came back, but she was never the same. I mean, that's, yeah. I mean, she's still younger than I am now. Yeah. She's 43. Yeah.

Yeah, so she got stabbed in 93, and then she came back, started playing professionally in 95. You're possibly, Bates, older than the knife that was used. I'd say so, yeah. Yeah, there's a great chance that is Brian older than the knife. I was 22 years old when that happened, so probably so, yeah. Yeah. Oh, man.

Do you remember Monica Lewinsky and all that? Yeah. Yeah, I remember all that happening. But, I mean, like this is – in my 90s, I'm just – Living life, man. Well, I'm a teenager, basically. just living life man well i'm i'm a teenager yeah basically so you're you're paying attention to news as much as a teenager is by not really like you know by by it's happening my parents are talking about it right but i'm not especially something like that they're not gonna be no

talking about that around the kids i started at my tv station the day after the oklahoma city bombing oh wow so that's what got you into the news i just remember being so nervous and now i'm like started at my TV station the day after the Oklahoma City bombing. Oh, wow. That's what got you into the news? I just remember being so nervous. And now I'm like, I got to learn everything about this bombing. So when I show up for work, you know, I'll be up to speed on it. Yeah. Do they ask you stuff?

Well, no. Ask if you did it? Where were you yesterday? There you go. Yeah. That's the first thing. It's pretty convenient. Wow. Wow. Perfectly times out's the first. It's pretty convenient. Wow.

Perfectly times out that the drive from Oklahoma City is about the start of your shift. We told you to be here at 8 a.m. and doing the math. Well, I did have to be at work the day after the Olympic bombings. Yeah. And I went to the Olympics. Yeah. In Atlanta in 96. And I was there for like two days.

And then I drove home that night because I had to be at work the next morning. And when I woke up the next morning, it was on the news about the bombing that had happened later that night. Oh, wow. So on paper, it looked like you bombed it. I could have been a suspect in that. Yeah. And then headed back to Nashville. Yeah.

Yeah. I was almost the Richard Jewell of that situation. He just got away. That was in the 90s too, right? 96. God, there's been a lot going. A lot happened. Yeah.

A lot of stuff movies are made about. Yeah. 70s and 80s stunk. 90s is where it's at. That's where stuff started to happen. Yeah. Look, I threw out some pretty morbid stuff in the 70s

that got shut down, but now that we remember it, it's all fun and games. Yeah, that's right. Now you get it. Princess Di-Di. There we go. Keep it coming. I remember that.

Yeah, we've talked about that a little bit. I was in Memphis to see the Tennessee Oilers. Yeah. You're scooting by with your bag like Newman and Seinfeld when he goes to the Super Bowl. And he goes, excuse me? He's going, what is he having? You have all your stuff, your mug and your just bag. Giant popcorn.

Spent $120 in the gift shop. So we'll talk about, I mean, Columbine also happened. That was pretty bad. John Bonnet Ramsey. Whisper that in there man john benet ramsey um john benet ran i remember that like that but that didn't die when was that early 90s i thought that was like the 40s yeah that was 96 didn't the famous kid go missing in like the 40s yeah they're talk about that the lindbergh yeah the lindbergh okay my bad yeah probably same thing uh so the world wide web uh first one online in 1993 because i said world wide web just funny the way you said it yeah the internet's started do you think that they when they start the world wide web they thought they go i bet people say world

wide web and they don't think www I remember people calling it a lot the information superhighway. Yeah. People called that unironically? Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. Back in my day. 93, it goes on.

Woo. In 96, Hotmail launched, first web-based email service. Wow. They were the first.'s surprising i have a hotmail still you use it for professional for no okay it's just what is it still out there i don't even yeah it's uh i need one for when everyone emails about asking you stuff you just give them that account give them your hotmail they're uh yeah it's now it's just like an email that's like so old there's nothing no one would ever send anything

now it's like just used for if it's like you require an email yeah on something you can just like i just put that one in you don't have a hotmail i did i don't still have one but that was my first email yeah but that that's it is a good way to do it. You just create some email that's like, you know, I'm going to go back and use it. Maybe I'll clean it up and sort through it and get it going again. Before Google, there was Ask Jeeves. You guys heard of this?

Oh, yeah. I remember Ask Jeeves, for sure. I think it's still around. It's called Ask.com, but they had the whole thing where it was supposed to be asking a butler questions. Right. I remember the guy. Oh, okay.

I thought it was before your time. I remember Alta Vista, man. That was the search ends of the 90s. In 93, CDs finally passed cassettes as more sold towards music. Didn't you say cassettes are making a comeback kind of i i was at a sub pop store at the at the airport in seattle and all the new indie bands they had cassettes there for sale did you ever that was interesting did you ever have a pager or your friends i did yep i remember getting a pager uh and friends? I did. Yep. I remember getting a pager and you couldn't.

And like you would text, you know, one, four, three was, I love you. Did you know that? Uh-uh. You're right. Too old for it. You were too old for a pager. Like for this kind of. One, four, nine.

One, four, three. Yeah. I. Do you know why? Can you guess why? One, four, three. First three letters. I. Is it I-L-Y? No. No. I don't know why? Can you guess why? One, four, three. First three letters? Is it I-L-Y?

No. No. I don't know why. I is one. Love is four. You is three. Oh. That's how you wrote out everything?

Yeah, we did on one. Yeah. No, you'd write it like you had a girlfriend at the time. I didn't know. You'd text it. That's how beepers work. That's how you set messages. Well, you would talk in numbers.

So you would have would talk in numbers. So you would have to like talk in numbers. You know, 911 would be like, you need to call now. 143. Maybe 143. I don't remember. Look up beeper. Yeah. What does it say?

Why does it look? Why does it 143? There you go. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. There you go. I love you. There you go. Based on the number of letters in each word.

Something to do with Mr. Rogers, too. Mr. Rogers used to say that number a bunch, I guess. Interesting. We had a buddy who wore a pager and he's like most people there's no reason he needed to have he just thought it looked cool so we would me and my roommate would go like we take turn he'd be over visiting he'd be have his pager on we go in a back room just one of us we call from a phone his pager and just put in some fake number and it wouldn't be instantaneous like a cell phone is now

it'd take a minute yeah for it to go through so by the time he gets it we're already both back out sitting in the living room and he'd get this page and he like god who is that and we just watch him call some number of somebody and he's like dude i've got the number right here you just you just texted me and he would get furious and then he started catching on like i don't know what this is so then we had to start putting lebanon prefixes because he was from lebanon so he's like four four all that god i recognize that number i just can't think of what it is and it would just be something made up yeah we did that for for months yeah and i think he finally gave up his pager because he was like this thing i'm just getting crank calls all the time it was just just us. Maybe finally here's now.

Yeah. Big fan. I could never do crank phone calls. I couldn't either. Someone just asked me about doing one, and I was like, I'm not the... I don't like them. I'm uncomfortable. I'm super uncomfortable, dude.

Yeah. I've talked about playing pranks a lot, but I'm good with pranks. The way I kind of just make i gotta make it feel like i don't like when i do all the pranks with nick about the nancy kerrigan it's like i can get caught up if i can make it where i can be laughing yeah and i made that one where i'm start laughing because i'm like i'm like i can't believe yeah you even know no one knows like how do you think people know this and like so the if it's that kind of way i can do it yeah and then i gotta stop it and then i gotta move on and then let it sit so i like pranks but i like those i'm not a good on the phone yeah bothering a stranger yeah

yeah well this is one where we didn't have to do anything except just dial a number let him do the rest right yeah yeah like i could do that yeah i could do that one all day yes yeah uh jeff bezos founded amazon in his garage in 1994 i was under a box and at first i found it he was just moving stuff out of the garage honey what's this it says amazon on on it. He goes, oh. No? It started off just an online marketplace for books. Yeah. And then eventually music and videos, and now it rules the world.

Minimum wage in the 1990s, do you know? $3.25? $4.25. $4.25. That's right. That's what I was paying. Yeah. Opry Land I was paying. Yeah. Opryland closed 1997.

Yeah. Still biggest mistake in Nashville. Why'd they close that? Such a good theme park. Opry Mills is doing well, right? No. Not anymore. After the pandemic?

I don't think so. I mean, I think people still go out there, but I don't think it's as good as it was when it first started. I mean, theme park was so great it just it was his own little theme park i run a theme park yeah well speaking of amazon did you know i was at the mall in albany new york this weekend they had an amazon prime store in the mall have you seen those places it's like you get in and you show that you're an amazon prime member and everything's cheap oh yeah it's great i had never seen those places before i like that because you can actually go see the stuff you're right pick it up and hold it and yeah what is this stuff just like nonsense

it's just like a mixture of every kind of thing yeah a lot of amazon devices like brick stone yeah like one of those kind of stores. Yeah. But it's all right there, and it's all cheap if you just show them that you're a member. Yeah. You can take over the physical mall, too. Yeah. I hope that malls don't ever go. You still like shopping. I mean, maybe people just eventually will be like, oh, I don't care.

They won't even know. It's like, yeah, you try it when you get it, and then you send it back. Like, returns will just become everything. Yeah. You know? Do you want to get – you probably know because I sent you my notes ahead of time. The top movie of the 1990s.

You saw that, right? Mm-hmm. Of the whole 90s. Yeah. Home Alone. It's a good guess this movie is the biggest grosser of all time until 2010

Titanic yeah yeah it's twice as much as the second one and it was another James Cameron movie that topped it right

Avatar oh yeah aren't they doing another Avatar I think so it's crazy to me that Avatar did so good. At least talked about movie. Do people talk about it?

Not the way you would think for the most. Like Titanic is still on all the time. Avatar, you're like, I don't, I watched it once because it was like you had to go watch it. And I've never watched it again. Did you see it in 3D? I don't remember. I feel like that was one where you're supposed to see it in 3d so maybe that's why i don't show it as much on tv but i mean it just doesn't feel like

it gets for being it's the most i agree it's the most it's the yeah number one of all time yeah i've never seen it that's the blue one they're all blue they're all blue is it good i mean it must be it can't be terrible i mean i i enjoyed it i thought it was good but i agree with you totally saw it in 3d i think it was because you were going to see it in 3d maybe i did see it in 3d but it was like the idea of it was like it was such a you were going to go it wasn't even about the movie as much as it was about just seeing the experience of it yeah but like not better than titanic no. Titanic was great. Yeah. And Titanic had the big soundtrack.

Yeah. It was just so much more worth it. Yeah. Yeah. The 90s, I looked up all the top. I mean, the 90s was, to me, the best decade ever for movies. There's so many good ones. Scream.

Yeah. Ooh. It did good. Jurassic Park. Independence Day. Independence Day. The Lion King. Great. um it did good jurassic park independence day independence day the lion king great jurassic park's great jurassic park's also one of the big blockbusters man yeah uh the blair witch project all being remade right now yeah think about that like that's the that's the mean like 90s were like jurassic park was a whole new thing no one's the, that's the mean like nineties were like Jurassic Park was a whole new thing.

No one's ever knew that. Scream, whole completely different kind of thing. They, you know, then they just started almost like Scream. Like they almost started that Scream, Scream 2, Scream. Like it kind of started that world of just like, oh, y'all like this thing? We'll just keep doing it. Yeah. Wasn't Blair Witch Project kind of the first to do the shaky cam low budget

everybody thought it was real yeah we all thought i remember i remember blair witch very much i remember thinking it was real yeah yeah um look at this run that tom hanks went on in the 90s okay from 92 to 99 these are in order order. A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Toy Story,

That Thing You Do, Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail, Toy Story 2, The Green Mile. And Castaway. And Castaway is in 2000. I mean, what an un...

I don't know if anybody's had a run better than that. No. Those are all classic. Go up a little bit more. What else is it? And in the 2000s, you got Band of Brothers, Road to Perdition, Catch Me If You Can. Then he does The Terminal.

Then he started Polar Express. But that 90s run was insane. Da Vinci Code. Yeah. Look, he's still making money in the 2000s. But there's Toy Story 3 and 4 and Saving Mr. Banks. He's always there. Yeah, pretty wild. Rudy came out.

Rudy, best sports movie ever made, man. Yeah, it's pretty great. Came out in 92? 93, I think. I mean, it was 92. Joe vs. the Volcano in 90. Wasn't that a big movie? I remember it. I remember it. Joe versus the volcano in 90 isn't that wasn't that a big movie I remember it

never heard of it I remember it like the burbs I remember yeah big I remember the burbs too in 88

I mean he just took off and was just like you ever see that punchline movie yeah the movie with him didn't stand up so I talked to him about it

oh really yeah I talked to him about when he because I was like I just asked about doing stand up because I thought he did when he because I was like I just asked about doing stand-up because I thought he did stand-up and I was like did you do stand-up? I always heard you did

and he said no. Michael Keaton was a stand-up comedian but Tom Hanks said he never did it and I would say we'd always joke about there being lockers oh that's what I was going to ask you about yeah they show up to a locker room I've never seen it they're like stand-ups at a club they show up and they show up in a locker room yeah i've never seen it oh they're like

stand-ups at a club they show up and they get dressed in a locker yeah yeah and then it's like they head out it's so funny to do this show it's funny uh pulp fiction shawshank redemption yeah the matrix still never seen shawshank redemption people you haven't no that's why i just talked about no i talked about on the podcast yeah because people get mad yeah that's Still never seen Shawshank Redemption, people. You haven't? No. Did we talk about that? No, I talked about it on the podcast, yeah, because people get mad. Yeah, that's probably my favorite movie. Yeah. I think it's the best movie ever made.

Just when you get some time, watch it. You'll enjoy it. You'll love it. Yeah. It's so good, man. It's kind of a thriller. Have you ever seen Whiplash? No, no.

No. I think you like Whiplash. Yeah, you said that. You would love Whiplash? No, no. No. I think you like Whiplash. Yeah, you said that. You would love Whiplash, too. Yeah. It's like another car wreck, though, right? There is a car wreck. Oh, there is.

Okay. And Whiplash? Yeah. Oh. Is there? Yeah, have you seen Whiplash? Yeah, but I don't even remember. There's a car accident scene in it.

Okay, I don't remember that. I've only seen it once, so I just remember how good it was. No. Maybe it's not. It's an unbelievable movie, but there's a car accident in it. Books. John Grisham was the best-selling author

of the 90s. Read all of them. Pelican Brief, The Client, The Firm. Didn't you? No, I know. I've read Patterson. Some Patterson books. Oh, yeah. But J.K. Rowling debuted Harry Potter in 1997. You have read those, right?

No. I read The Hunger Games. Okay. That's right. Same thing. Like a teenage flying through the clouds, you know, whatever. Whatever nonsense. Yeah, I was there. Harry Potterter i don't think i've ever even watched i'll watch them if like harper wants to like i'll go through all that stuff all the stuff i just don't care like yeah uh so i was never just i was just never into it they're

remaking it as an hbo hbo series harry potter yeah yeah I don't think I'll care. Oh, it'll be awesome, man. But you loved it. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, but I didn't like the movies at all. So if they remake it well, I'd be obsessed with it. Oh, you did not like the movies?

No. Because you like the book so much? Yeah. Well, the movies were not very good. I mean, they're objectively not very good. So, I think. But I thought people loved it. So maybe not objectively. I guess people,'re objectively not very good. So, I think. So maybe not objectively. I guess people, yeah, I guess subjectively not very good.

They did pretty good, but. Yeah, they made a ton of money. Everyone loved Us Up Aaron. Let me back up about a minute and restate. I personally didn't like them, but I know a lot of people did, and I respect their opinion. Yeah. The most watched TV episode of the 90s was the cheers

cheers finale in 1993 1993 million people watched it it was on for 11 years yeah but tv like number one shows wise the last five years of the 90s it was back and forth between seinfeld and er yeah it would be one every year, back and forth for the last five years. And they both, NBC, I think they both came on Thursday nights. Maybe back to back. I can't remember. I remember my mom watching ER.

Like was, I loved it. Yeah. That was back too when you had to go, like it was like my show's on, get out of the room, don't mess with anything. Kind of fun. Yeah.

You know, like it's like the, it's hot. Yeah. Quiet. Get out of the room. Don't mess with anything. Kind of fun. Yeah. It's like the, it's hot. Yeah. Quiet. Watch my stories. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I feel like maybe it's just a function of who I hang out with, but does anybody talk about ER still or care about it in the way that they do

Seinfeld? Well, I would, it's not really. Not in my world. Not in your your world it's just not fair to be because your world is not and there's not anybody doing this many seinfeld references on any podcast on earth yeah that's so true you're just around people that obsessed over seinfeld uh so and so i bet they're not talking about either one. It's not until it's still on, but ER is still huge. But Grey's Anatomy came along and I think isn't in the same show. It's been a lot of hospitals.

I'm going to start dropping some ER references in this podcast. Did you watch ER? No, but I'll go and watch it. You will? While you drive home? You got a long drive ahead of you? I remember Friends was so big, too. I never watched ER.

I did watch Friends, and George Clooney and Noah Wiley made an appearance on like a crossover thing. I remember that was a big deal. Oh, yeah. First Prince of Bel-Air. I watched that. I remember watching that last episode, and I cried when that ended. Really? Yeah.

It was great. Then there's a couple scenes of that one that's like- A couple scenes of that show that will make you cry. Yeah. How come you don't want me? Yeah. Yeah. Home Improvement.

Yeah. Full House. Baywatch. Beverly Hills 90210. Man. 90s was great. What a great decade. Yeah.

All around. Got some great true crime. Originality. Right. X-Files. It's before it's time. Yeah. That Got some great true crime. Originality. Right. X-Files? It's before its time. That's what they're doing now. Is it not, unless I'm wrong, but is all this original?

Like, isn't it all original stuff? 90s. I like to take ownership of it. Yeah, I don't know. Wall and Order started in the 90s. It's still on. They were still, they're making stuff for, they were making stuff for me. And so when they started making TV for your generation, it all went bad.

I'm watching all the same stuff you're talking about. No, you hate all this. What are you talking about? You never even heard of ER. Did you watch Barney? You're asking people still talk about a 90s hospital drama? Is it still like, is that a little water cooler talk still going on? Yeah.

No, I know it's not in the zeitgeist. I'm just saying it's not talked about. It's not referenced. Stat. Yeah. Anita. Well, I don't even know. Yeah, it's not referenced like Seinfeld.

1-4-3. 1-4-3. You asked if I watch Barney? Yeah. Maybe when i was super super young and then it became a joke to watch it you would get made fun of for watching it so everybody would be like no i don't watch barney back when i'm still wearing a new kid shirt yeah you're ridiculing kids for watching barney it was the number one show on television from 92, 93 season. Oh, weird. On PBS.

Weird. That's crazy. But I feel like that's a kid thing. So it's like that's, you know, people start putting kids in front of the TV. And so you would have. I mean, there's stuff on. I mean, that's like now you could go see YouTube videos of these YouTube stars that are like it's got a billion views. And you're like, I don't even.

What is that? That's insane. We've talked about this before, but what did I think Barney was watching that show? I thought it was a dinosaur. I thought it was a real dinosaur singing to me. Oh, as a kid? Yeah.

I don't think you think it through that much. It's just, it's funny. What do you think it is? You just don't, i don't think any kid is breaking it down like that i mean you might be your family might be this makes sense y'all probably talked deep about it but i think most of us would just get thrown in front of a tv our face hits the screen and then we're just like and it's just barney like and you're not thinking about whether it's a mascot or if it's a real thing or no no for a second that you start thinking about that it's over that's what i mean but i i see kids see mascots and i just don't i don't know what they think they're looking at uh they they're just like it's they're obviously not aware that it's

you know guy in a mascot costume yeah it's a big scary yeah but I don't but they're not I don't think but they're not freaking out they don't think it's a real dinosaur

what's the same with Sesame Street some of them do what's that I mean Sesame Street was my generation yeah I just don't think

I even thought about Big Bird if he's what he really was I just think he's a big bird yeah you think

is this where Big Bird lives so you just yeah you kind of think well Big Bird lives on this street you think it's a real you think it's it i don't remember i think you think big bird lives there and that's it you don't think that's crazy that there's a yellow bird living on the you know and we're all just fine with it like you know you don't think it's not like you someone's sitting there going i mean now i do it's a little weird right yeah it's a little weird i mean i did the same thing i wasn't sitting there thinking about bar mean, now I do. It's a little weird, right? Yeah. It's a little weird. I mean, I did the same thing.

I wasn't sitting there thinking about Barney that much. But now I watch kids watch it. I don't get it. Yeah, it's not for you now. Thankfully. Yeah. I mean, I'm still into it. I don't think you hurt their feelings if they're going to air.

It's like, I don't watch the show anymore. They go, yeah, I'm glad to hear that. That's what they would say. That makes us feel, then we're doing our job. If you're not into Barney. I really outgrew you guys. Yeah. We hope so.

We hope so. Is Barney still alive? I mean, I think he's extinct. I don't know if he's still around. Well, dinosaur joke. Music. You think that's what they told him when they fired him? I don't know if it's still around. Well, dinosaur joke. Music? You think that's what they told him when they fired him? The actual guy.

Hey, Jimmy, can we talk to you in the office? Do you know what's going on? Do you hear what animal's going extinct? And they're like, he's like, no. You. Pack your bags. Get your purple butt out of here. Meteor's coming, buddy.

Meteor's coming. That's what they all need. Ask for it. Just type in Barney.com. I'm losing it, guys. It's all right. I'm losing it. Music of the 90s.

Grunge took off in the 90s. Smells Like Teen Spirit. Rolling Stone named it. It's the top song of the 90s. It's a great song Yep Were you into grunge? I don't know

No That's probably A little before your time Country music also Became just huge In the early 90s Nobody was bigger Than Garth Brooks

Billy Ray Cyrus Had the number one album Of any music genre In 1992 Is he only from Don't Icky Breaky Heart That's by far Cyrus is the number one album of any music genre in 1992. Is he only from... Don't... Make You Break Your Heart.

That's by far his biggest song. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. He's so famous. And then now the Lil Nas song that he did. Basically, is it two songs? And this dude's got a straight up... I mean, Garth Brooks type fame. I mean, his album was called Some Gave All, which was a song I remember.

Yeah. But A.K.E. Breaking Heart was by far his big song. He's not Garth Brooks level. I mean, he's definitely, he's transcended his- Well, now he has, now Miley Cyrus. He's transcended his own success. Yeah. for sure. Yeah, I only know that one song,

He Break Your Heart, and then the Lil Nas X song. And then you have stuff with Hannah Montana from the movie. But in 92, he had the best-selling album of any music, so he was about as big as it was. And Shania Twain in the late 90s

was about as big as it was. I remember her being huge. Yeah. Yeah. She, yeah. Do you remember the Macarena? Yep. Was that- 95?

96. Yep. Pardon, 97. Oh, never mind. I don't remember. Was that the biggest song of all the 90s? I don't know if it was the biggest song. It was the greatest one-hit wonder of all time, according to VH1.

Who was it by? Was it the- Los Del Rio? Yeah. That sounds right. They're my favorite. One of it by? Was it the... Los Del Rio? Yeah. That sounds right. They're my favorite. One of my favorites. What's the dog song?

Oh, Who Let the Dogs Out? Yeah. Who Let the Dogs Out? That was... It's the Baja Boys, right? Yeah. Baja Men. Baja Men, excuse me.

The Baja Men started in the 70s, dude. Did you know that? Yeah, I think I... You may have told me that. It took that long to get a song. Yeah. I tried to dig into that once. I couldn't believe that.

They started in like 76. Yeah. Billboard named Mariah Carey as the artist of the decade in the US. Okay. That's fair. Top selling Christmas toys. 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Big. This was all I was into.

It was right G.I. Joe's. Okay. They're just like action figures. Yeah. Did you have toys spatula spatula was the number one spatula for a while and then i hot wheels and stuff yeah i had toys dude yeah lab experiments just books books lab equipment there's a pen in your mouth and you go well where so where is Sesame Street, though? What state is it in?

And your dad's like. I mean, your dad's just trying to go to bed. He's like, Baltimore. And you go, okay. Okay. Okay. And there's a yellow bird running around this street. On the wire.

And nobody's calling the cops. We're not seeing it on the news. OJ, we're watching that. No one's watching. That's a four-year-old. I'm watching the OJ trial. Yeah. We sit there and watch thej trial still don't think

you did it and then you're telling me no one's getting this yellow bird no one's straight that's what you're trying that's what you're trying to tell me dad right you very calm father father dad man that owns this home. Very disrespectful. I want to know how many of these you had, Nate. Super Nintendo. Yep. Talkboy. What was that?

That was from Home Alone 2, the little thing you talk into it and immediately play back what you just said. I probably never had any of the real, I had always the off-brand stuff. Talk girl. Well, I had, I remember my pair of Jordans I bought. I got them at the Dollar General store,

and they just don't have the logo on it, but they made them look just like Jordans. And so my parents would only give me those. You can never afford these shoes. I mean, these shoes were- They're ridiculous. They're ridiculous. They were in your-

So he's like, you never would get them. I remember this kid. This poor kid showed up to PE one day with Jordans, but they're fake Jordans. The, the, the, the silhouette of Jordan had, you could see laces on the shoes. This kid got trashed so bad for wearing fake Jordans, man. I don't think he ever wore them again, but he tried to sneak them by. I can identify with that.

Yeah. Yeah. Having some flashbacks. I'm sorry. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers? Yeah. I'm trying to think. My brother, I think, was more into Power Rangers than I was.

I think I was about out of toys. I was G.I. Joe, Ninja Turtles. You know, it would have been that early 90s, late 80s would have been more of my toy thing. Pokemon? No, I was gone by then. All right. Gone.

You might have been in Pokemon. Never. It was never Pokemon. It was jumping trains. Never any anime, anything like that. All right. I'll finish up some sports. Athlete of the decade, you can probably guess.

Tiger. No, he's a little bit later. Oh, Jordan. Jordan, yeah. Jordan. Bulls won six NBA championships. Athlete of the Decade You can probably guess Tiger No he was a little bit later Oh Jordan Jordan yeah Bulls won six NBA championships Cowboys won three Super Bowls Yeah Yankees won three World Series

Wow Boxing had some crazy stuff happen Besides what we already talked about There was the guy who landed Parachuted into the fight Do you know this? No In Vegas?

Yeah Like a melee breaks out because a guy parachutes in during the Holyfield Riddick bow fight. They called him Fan Man. And isn't that the announcer? He's like, this is not. There's a famous announcing. Is it Marv Albert?

I don't know, but there's a famous. He goes,v albert uh i don't know but there's a famous he goes this is not what we wanted to oh there's a scar on this yeah i think like it's crazy i mean the fighting gets the melee is really bad yeah really really bad oh this is hilarious he just lands he lands he mistimed his land a little bit yeah and they're just beating him up in the stands yeah yeah and then they just destroy him good well it's like arrest him but like you you can't kill the guy uh and then why does it and then doesn't it become even more of a fight I don't know

it's a long video I think they just reshow it the parachute's trapped there was another big melee in a weird another boxing match there was another big fight

and that's the one where they got like it's the between the two fighters and their teams, and it just gets crazy. Tupac was killed, well, not leaving Mike Tyson's fight, but he had been in the fight earlier that night. I remember that. Do you remember that happening at all? No.

I mean, I know about it, but I don't remember it happening at the time. I don't think i knew who tupac was till way later yeah and biggie yeah all this good yeah i remember watching uh seeing biggie's funeral i think on tv yeah when did he die 97 maybe maybe like tupac i remember but i wouldn't have known to like go like try to probably look for his funeral and Biggie I might have been Is it bigger than Princess Dies?

You think? No It's bigger than MASH Yeah It was Well Biggie was It was a big It was big

but It was Biggie It was as big as Yeah as Princess Die Magic Johnson I remember when he announced he had HIV and immediately retired. Yeah.

And then he returned, 92 All-Star game, got MVP. And then people protested and he retired again for four years, but then returned in 96 and played. I just remember he kept retiring. Yeah. He was coming back. Coming back. Chris Rock, I think, had a joke about apparently HIV makes you very undecisive.

Yeah. He played for the 92, the Dream Team. Yeah. Greatest team ever assembled. We didn't even talk about that yet. The U.S. won by average of 44 points. Players on the other team got their picture made and autographed, which I fully support.

Yeah. I mean, Carlos Gross could have been on some of these other teams. Would you have went over there before the game started or after? I would have done it during. Yeah, yeah. If he shoot a free throw, I'd be right next to Jordan. I'm like, hey, try signing this real fast. Do a selfie.

All right. Tiger came on in 97. Yeah. He went professional in 96, age of 20. April of 97, he won this first Masters by 12 strokes. He was the number one player in the world by June of 97. Yeah. He went professional in 96, age of 20. April of 97, he won this first Masters by 12 strokes. He was the number one player in the world

by June of 97. Stayed there for like the amount of weeks was nuts. Yeah. The amount of weeks he stayed number one. I mean, just...

Is it longer than anybody? It's not even close. Yeah. Look at the streaks. The longest number one. Like, it's not even close. Look at the streaks, the longest number one. It's not even remotely close. Yeah, 281 weeks. And then his second place is him is 264.

Wow. So he basically lost it, and then he did it again for the same amount of time. Yeah, and for context, the next person is 96 greg norman in 97 yeah so it goes from 260 six more rows just say uh jack newcastle on there nick faldo kick yeah click that i don't know if they even ranked it oh boy oh it made you go to oh boy yeah dustin johnson tiger woods again on there at 60 and then greg norman again rory mcelroy so it's funny maybe they didn't really do it when uh jack nicholas was uh so it's pretty

funny like so his 60 is basically like he was like 281 that started in 99 and then what's his 60s 2013 oh so he got back up oh wow so then he oh ends in 04 and then basically gets it back by june and then runs it for another five years nine months later he gets it back and then loses it again then gets it for you know another year and a half yeah and 2013 yeah pretty wild a couple of baseball things. Cal Ripken broke the consecutive games. I remember watching that game. Something I thought would never happen.

And the home run race, which you already mentioned. McGuire and Sosa. I remember that very much. The strike happened in 94. People were down on baseball. And that was like a perfect, it was the best. Perfect rebound. It was the best.

Nothing was funnier. They were breaking in on every channel and just being like, here's Sammy Sosa up to bat. It was just, you need something like that. That's what I think is almost what's bad with TV now, is that kind of stuff is not around as much as it was. I mean, everybody was watching that. They were breaking in every channel everywhere.

It was just like Here we're going to show Sam Sosa button Here's my Marlboro button And then they would hit a home run It's like softball It's funny to think about That we never crossed our mind Like McGuire hit 245 home runs in four years

The year after he hit 70 He hit 65 People forget about that He broke the record again the next year yeah that's crazy yeah that's wild all right the last thing i went on last thing of the 90s y2k do you remember that yeah so you were in college uh i was already probably out i was already done with college i forget uh i forget where I was just wondering if Y2K affected your work in any way. No, I don't think I had a real job.

As a mover? Yeah, I don't think I had a job. Bouncing tires. I might have been doing the drunk driving simulator. Can I tell you that job? No. That's for another time. No, I don't.

Sorry. That's for another time. No, I don't. There. Sorry. That was we drove. I did this drunk driving simulator where you would take a neon car. Type in drunk driving simulator. Maybe you told us during the odd jobs episode. Yeah. And you would drive slow.

And I believe I was doing that during this time. And neon. Yeah. And you would. I mean, maybe it's different now is it and you would you would take it and uh is that right there that under the white car right here yep and so we would go uh that's actually that's you in the car somebody in the back seat uh see i mean and so you would you would take that to schools you took that to school yep with uh this other couple and you would pretend to drive

no you would be in the passenger seat so i'm i mean i'm and uh i would there's a break over there for me because they would drive to and it would like be delayed turn like you would try to turn and it would turn late oh yeah yeah if they pressed the brake it wouldn't stop it'd be a delayed stop

you wouldn't and there'd be like alright stop and don't hit this kid sign I mean I was 19 yeah or 20

and I'm like with all these like high school kids you wouldn't get the kids drunk it was like going on the road for the first time I like had money when I came back

because like you got paid and you would get paid to be traveling on the road. And so I would never spend any money on the road. So I was 20. Is that when Y2K was? I was born in 79. Yeah. So like I was,

yeah, I think I was 20. So I was, I might've been somewhere like during that, during Y2K. And then someone stole the car. Really? While you were out on the road?

Yeah. We parked at this hotel and we walk out the next day and the car's, someone broke open the thing, got in, sold the car completely. Wouldn't they wreck it? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I can't remember. I feel like you could drive it.

It would drive normal. Oh, okay. Because you had a computer and you would like type in like, so somebody get in the car and you go like, how old are you? There you go. Y2K probably happened. Yeah. How much do you weigh?

I think you ask them how much they weigh. And then you put like how many drinks they had or like their alcohol level. So depending on what the level was was how hard the thing would turn yeah that's so crazy stealing that car and you have to enter your weight and yeah all this stuff just to leave yeah that's funny i haven't looked at that car in a long time well i was working at the tv station in 99 so we were all hands on deck for y2k i mean people thought the world might end yeah Yeah. There was like, people were stocking food and.

Were you doing all that? Were you prepping? No, I wasn't prepping, but. You got a gun. No. You had a plan.

You grabbed all your memorabilia. By Carlos Groves. Yeah. Autographed magazine and my new kids on the block shirt. And became my bunker. Me and Carlos. But obviously nothing much happened. Yeah.

Because we prepared. Right. That's the whole argument. People say they overreacted and the other half says, no, it's because we took it serious and prepared. Right.

Yeah. We did it. We did it. Like we did this podcast. 90s. That's it, right? That's it. That's it. We did it. right like we did this podcast 90s yeah that's it right that's it that's it we did it we'll see you next time thanks everybody for listening to nateland podcast Be sure to subscribe to our show on iTunes, Spotify,

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