The Nateland Podcast - #64 The 2000's

Episode Date: September 15, 2021

On this week's podcast, we continue our look at the decades by discussing the 2000s. Nate, Aaron, and Bing Bong debate what the decade should be called, Aaron shares the qualifications for being Pope, Brian relives the Music City Miracle, and Nate ponders whether he's qualified to participate in the Paralympics.    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] Vuori -  https://vuori.com/nate   For our listeners they are offering 20% off your first purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at  VUORI.COM/NATE    Not only will you receive 20% off your first purchase, but enjoy free shipping on any U.S. orders over $75.       Upstart - https://upstart.com/nate    Find out how Upstart can lower your monthly payments today when you go to UPSTART.com/nate.   That’s UPSTART.com/nate. Don’t forget to use our URL to let them know we sent you!    1Loan amounts will be determined based on your credit, income, and certain other information provided in your loan application     Doordash - https://doordash.com   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.    Subject to change, terms apply.

Hello folks, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm neighbor Getsy, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber. All right, everybody, welcome. Welcome to the podcast. Sorry, my voice is still... I woke up maybe 15 seconds ago. 11 o'clock. It's a tough one. We had some all... We've had some rough traveling to get here. I think all of us. And we'll tell you all about that shortly.

But I want to start with you guys, with our comments. First up, Paul Snyder. Listen to Nate and Aaron break down Shakespeare and Romeo's name and then immediately have Nate butcher the name of the next listener, Dunstan. It's exactly what keeps me coming back each week. Forget Cliff's notes. What this podcast needs is a director's cut that is longer and goes on more tangents. This is my go-to podcast when traveling.

Thanks for all the laughs. That's like the, what's the movie that did that we talked about? The Zack Snyder cut of the Batman. So we should have that. I think we're giving you everything we have. I was going to say, that implies we're making cuts. There's no cuts. You can probably tell we're giving you everything we have. I was going to say, that implies we're making cuts. There's no cuts. You can probably tell we're not.

Yeah. Cuts would be, this would probably be watchable. Joe did chime in, by the way. Oh, really? Yeah. It was his favorite episode ever. Yeah. He loved it.

Yeah. Yeah. Did he really chime in? Yeah, he did. Oh, that's funny. He made it. There we go. Yep.

Dwayne Bateman. Seems like two names that don't go together. Dwayne Bateman. You know? Does it? Yeah. Am I wrong? No, you're not wrong.

Dwayne Bateman. I think that sounds like a perfect line. I thought Dwayne Wade and Patrick Bateman. I think that's why. Yeah, yeah. Because you think Dwayne Wade and Patrick Bateman. I think that's why. Yeah, yeah. Because you think Dwayne Wade. Not Jason Bateman? And maybe it's Dwayne, The Rock, Jocelyn.

Yeah. Dwayne Johnson, Dwayne Wade. How you doing? Dwayne Bateman. It's like Cooper Manning of that group. Maybe the hardest I've laughed in a Nate Land podcast was Nate saying you'd see a picture of Romeo and Tupac together it was so out of nowhere it was hilarious you remember saying that not really but what you were saying what Juliet was saying wherefore art thou Romeo he realized she was crazy so he faked his own death oh like Tupac yeah you see a picture of him with Tupac. Yeah, just hanging out. Elvis in the back.

Matthew Van... Oh. Matthew Vander Kooey. Is that it? Kander Kooey. Kander Koo. No, Vander Koo. V-A-N-D-E-R-K-O-O-I.

Kooey? Kooey? Kooey? Vander Kooey. Vander Kooey? That sounds much better. Kui? Koi? Koi. Vander Koi. Vander Koi. That sounds much better. Matt V. Matty V.

Vander Koi sounds, that name goes to, it wasn't good to be in like, it's a pretty good last name. It's only NFL kicker, doesn't it? Yeah. Vander Koi. I hope they're Vander Koi. There's two O's though. I don't know.

Yeah. Vander Kui is Hawaiian. To my surprise, Matthew's I don't know. Yeah. Vander Kooie is Hawaiian. To my surprise, Matthew's not Hawaiian. No. Yeah. It's another Dwayne Bateman situation. I want to see where they're located. To my surprise, this past Saturday.

These both sound like fake names that you're like, we got back-to-back witness protection people. Like, to my surprise, this past Saturday morning, my wife told me we had tickets to Nate's show in Greensboro, North Carolina, and I needed to start packing for the trip. Hands down the best live stand-up I've seen yet. My wife was the one to yell, let's go, folks, from near the front row when Nate walked out during the late show, and Nate gave it a little acknowledgement, and now she won't shut up about it.

We love the podcast. Thanks to all three of you for everything you do. Maybe one day we'll make it up to Nashville to see Bubbles and Rudy strut their stuff too. You need to come up and see them. They only do local shows. That's what it sounds like. That's what he's pointing out, yeah. Yeah. No other state wants them, but head on up. You know, I loved, I got yelled, let's go, folks, every show.

We did eight shows. Yeah. And every show. And I was like, let's go, folks, every show. We did eight shows. Yeah. And every show. And I was like, that's it. That's pretty cool. That's why it's, like, I'm glad we're at Hello Folks here. It's figured its home out. It's a nice place.

They yell, let's go, folks. It's very inside. A lot of people don't know we have a podcast either, so they all think we're crazy. They think those people are crazy. And then I acknowledge them, and they're like, we don't know what's happening at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. podcast either so they all think we're crazy uh they think those people are crazy and then i acknowledge them and they're like we don't know what's happening yeah yeah um brady baron my wife and i got to see nate this past sunday in charlottesville virginia but in order to do so i had to miss the bears game i signed up for nfl game pass to service for watching full game replays

seemingly for this exact situation i logged logged in, clicked on the game, and was practically smacked in the face with the final score. The website seemed to enjoy spoiling the game. Unbelievable. Nevertheless, I really enjoy the show, and I'm a huge fan of the podcast. That's tough. Yeah. You know?

I mean, because you just don't want, A, they got rocked, right? Yeah. And then you don't want, you know, I mean, cause you just don't want, uh, a, they got rocked. Right. And then, uh, you don't want, you know, you know, I've always think that with like ESPN,

like if you don't record it and they're showing the replay, but then they always show the score at the bottom ticker on the bottom. Yeah. And you're like, come on, man, you gotta, you gotta like DVR it.

That is tough. Uh, sorry, Brady. Sorry for all of it, you know? And then at least you have to sit through that game. Sometimes you're kind of happy where you're like, all right,

they got blown out. You're like, I would have wasted three hours. That was the one to miss. Yeah. Arden Darnell. My friends and I thoroughly enjoyed my birthday gift as we watched Nate perform live for the first time. I was pretty proud of the shirt I created for this.

Just thought I would share. Hello, folks. Look at that. That's a great shirt. It's you, but it also for some reason looks like Baker Mayfield. Could be either one of us. It does a little bit look like Baker. I was going to say me, but okay.

I think it's more Nate than me. I don't think so. It's obviously not me. I was kidding. Not sure if your head would fit on that shirt. I'm not sure if your head would fit on that shirt. And you see your sideburns on her arms. And I made an Aaron poncho.

He thought it was going to rain. I loved it. Thank you, Arden. Very good show. Chase Schubert. Larry Bird actually hurt his back redoing his mother's driveway having said that doesn't change the fact that he could have sure hired someone else to do it for him that is true as right his mother's driveway yeah still just like yeah get someone else I picture a very long driveway for some reason I don't know if that's

the uh I don't know why maybe they showed the. It's like a driveway that goes down a hill, then back up a hill. It's like a crazy long driveway. That's crazy, too, if you can Google Larry Bird's mother's driveway. That's literally what I was about to type in. Yeah. But, yeah, it just says it. I don't know if it's – Yeah, this is a...

If that's the house... This is the house he built for his mom. He built it. That's what this article says. Well, I don't know. I think he was a part of it. Yeah, he probably... I mean, he might have paid, but he's like... He stands there with all of them

when they go, alright, today, boys. Larry, how you doing? You just seen how things are going? He goes, I want to them when they go, all right, today, boys. Larry, how you doing? You just seeing how things going? He goes, I want to help. We go, okay. Somebody said that he would come home off season, I guess to French Lick. I forgot. And you just see a guy riding a bicycle around town, a six-foot-nine guy in short shorts riding a bicycle.

It was clearly Larry Bird. Wow. He's just a part of the people. It's tough to blend in when you're six-nine. Yeah. Yeah, you a bicycle. It was clearly Larry Bird. Wow. He's just a part of the people. It's tough to blend in when you're 6'9". Yeah. Yeah, you can't. I mean, it depends on how big that bike is. I think that's the best picture we can find.

You would need a big bike so it looks normal. One of those old-timey bikes, basically? Yeah, you'd almost have like a tandem one, and you ride on the back, and then your hands are on the front, and then everybody's like, no one really notices it. Then they notice the bike more. That family bike we showed where the woman was sewing? Yeah, on the back. Yeah.

Larry had to get one of those. Yeah. Rocky Duncan. Most of the time, you guys sound like little kids. Having J Color at the table made you guys look like little kids, too kids too uh yeah he's a big guy he's a big guy came to the greenville show which i think we're going to i don't want to talk about i don't know what the had a little bit of us weekly news yeah because they i guess he's with uh uh you know, the same with the article said, Jenna Kramer. I didn't know anything.

I was not a part of anything. You didn't give them the tip? I was the – they said, what's your source? I was the source. I called them. I kept calling it U.S. Weekly all week. I don't know why. I kept saying it.

If I talked to anybody I talked to, I was like, I go, they mentioned this in U.S. Weekly, which is a completely different magazine than us week like not what you would think you're like why would they write about that in us weekly i don't know it's usually just about american flag stuff but some reason they talked about jay color this week of all weeks not 11 20th anniversary. US Weekly. He's talking about Jay Cutler, his new girlfriend. And at the end of it, he said, oh, by the way, 20th anniversary of 9-1-1. That's like the Tom Brady. Janelle's husband wins the Super Bowl. Yeah.

Yeah. It was very fun having Jay there. And it was cool. And yeah. It's funny to read that stuff. It was just like, you know, I was like, God, that's crazy. Yeah. But that's, people are obsessed with that. I'm not involved in it.

I had nothing to do with it. Can't fix them up? You're in the world though. That's what's crazy. That's what's crazy is you're in the world of all that. I'm in the world and they're like mixing it up. And, you know, and I'm like, man, you know, crazy. I said, do you want to meet my friend? He has a camera and works for TMZ. in the world and they're like mixing it up and you know and i'm like man you know crazy i said

you want me my friend he has a camera and works for tmz it's a buddy of mine uh actually uh adam glenn i know i'm friends with he's great and he worked for tmz forever i think does it on his own now he's a comic so i do know someone that's in that world like uh but he's a comic he's a good dude um i just read i just watched an interview with him this morning with Conor McGregor yeah he interviewed him and cause Conor got in a fight with Machine Gun Kelly

at the yeah yeah yeah threw a drink at him I saw the clip of it I mean it's just so funny like what

he tried to punch him what happened Megan Fox something I don't know He's just so funny. Like what? He tried to punch him. What happened? Megan Fox something. I don't know. Is that her? Yeah, that's her. That's her right there. I'm pretty sure.

I like it because it's like no matter how rich they can get, you can't take that out of them. You know? Like it's still like I'll still fight everybody. Right. And you're like, there you go, man. You're still who you are. That's still like i'll still fight everybody right and you're like there you go man you're still who you are that's what got you here that's what got you here you still i'll fight every single person so just a fist coming for his face yeah i'm sure you're gonna go like not scared yeah i mean you gotta be and he's gotta he broke his leg two

months ago yeah now he's already trying to fight me she gun kelly i feel he's gonna fight jake paul i just think he like i think he's on the path about that no he was still wants to fight in the ufc yeah that's what he said he's still not done with it but it's part of me that thinks like they make so much money the jake paul thing and then like that's he's kind of born like mcgregor's like you know he's the champ champ he's done all the kind of stuff i mean i still want to fight he's still very fun to watch fight yeah but it's like go do something like that dude that would be i would lose my mind if those two guys just them the build-up to that fight yeah it would be so fun uh but Yeah, machine gun killing. I don't know, man.

What are you going to do? You know? Megan Fox. She's been around forever. She's in the mix. She's in the mix. She's from 90210. Didn't we say she's from Tennessee?

I think she is. Because you said she seems very Tennessean. I mean, she shows it, you know, representing us. She's in the middle of a brawl right here. In the middle of two dudes fighting. I mean, you know, what else do you want? I just love, like, an older person's got to be, you know, like, oh, did you see the Conor McGregor machine gun Kelly fight? I mean, just to be like, like a mafia guy or something like that?

Yeah. Machine gun Kelly. Like, I thought he died. Did he work for Al Capone? Yeah. And you're like, yeah, he did he work for Al Capone and you're like yeah he made it he's still still doing good he performed at the VMAs

he was at the VMAs last night it's crazy glitter on his face unbelievable him and Romeo he's with Romeo there's one island

they all go to Elvis, Romeo Tupac and they live forever that's the crazy part or or where was that jay schubert we did that rocky duncan we did that uh kelly kj smith i like the kj uh was that her middle name or uh i think maybe her name's kelly smith but she by KJ. Oh. So that's added there. That's two letters you don't see together very often.

KJ? Yeah, there's like C-J, A-J. I like KJ. KJ's awesome. Kevin Johnson. Maybe it's Kevin Johnson. Maybe Kelly Smith and Kevin Johnson have an account together. Kelly, Kevin Johnson, Smith.

They share an account? They share an account. And she goes, do you mind if I leave a comment on the mainland podcast and he's like you know no that's i don't even know it was what's your name again kelly smith that's right uh i always thought i hated color i couldn't have been more wrong yeah we got a lot of that yeah because he's fun he's fun. He's fun. You know? He's a good guy. Stacey Simmons. Jay, literally the armchair quarterback, telling Aaron how to Google.

What is that? It's a mean one, right? Well, like armchair quarterback someone. Yeah. You were playing the game. I was bombing. I was bombing on Google. So you were playing the game and then saying, like, yeah, Jay, yeah. Jay, at some points, he was just like, just give me the computer.

Yeah, let me have it. I was like, here you go. You got it. Yeah, yeah. I was loving it. I'm sure you were. A lot of comments were like, you got to give Brian the computer back. And I think we've forgotten what it was like.

Yeah. You know? Our brains, self-defense mechanism, you only remember the good things in the past. Yeah. Forget the bad. Brian, when Brian had the computer, the screen was facing outward. And he's like, it's hard to type. Yeah.

Typing over. Yeah. What is this? Is this a 2015 computer? I've never seen this. This is not very ergonomic. I was listening to the Jay Keller episode of my earbuds while standing at a urinal at work. Bonzo asked Jay how far he could throw a football, and I couldn't control my laughter.

I felt so embarrassed that I had to quickly zip up and flee the restroom without washing my hands to avoid having to explain why I'm laughing while going to the bathroom. Mike, just be honest. You didn't want to watch the video. Just admit it Look That's how you handle it We've all been there

We've all been there You go in there And you're like No one's in there You're like Perfect Right And then if they're

Sometimes if they're still At the funeral I just go stand Cut the water on Just stand there And I cut it off Maybe grab one paper towel Wipe off my dry hands

And be like Alright man I'll see you out there Like you know They have hand sanitizer Outside the bathroom, too. I always use that. You know what I like now? I saw it at the airport this weekend.

Some of these, the sink has everything right there. Water, soap, and the hand dryer right there at the sink. Yeah. And it's just a one-stop shop. I don't like a hand dryer. Yeah, I don't either. Well, if that's the only thing you got, then you have to use it. But I just hope they have hand sanitizer.

They should put hand sanitizer in there. Well, those are all over the airport. Let, if that's the only thing you got, then you have to use it. But I just hope they have hand sanitizer. They should put hand sanitizer in there. Well, those are all over the airport, but they're almost all empty. You say, just get rid of soap and water altogether? Doesn't people, we don't have enough water? Just send the water to California. They need it. So just give me hand sanitizer. I'm going to get rid of most of the water in the house.

We have no water upstairs. They don't have to ship an iceberg if they would do that. If they do that, just cut down on washing hands. No one ever brings that up. No one ever offers that as a solution. We go through a drought, just tell people to stop washing their hands. Don't wash your hands anymore. Are you just going to sanitize your whole body?

No, you're still having to shower. But just getting rid of all the sinks. You remember the sinks we got in the world? Yeah, just brush your teeth with hand sanitizer in the sink? No. In the shower. In the shower, brush your teeth. Move more stuff to the shower.

Okay. Shave in the shower. I would shave in the shower. Yeah, brush your teeth in there. Yeah, I always shaved in the shower. It was awesome. I never brushed my teeth in there, but I wish I would. Just to save time?

Yeah. I know. I just don't. I forget about it, but I wish I could. It's not too late. You go do it. I mean, it's still the hardest part is when you go to bed at night or you're about to go out and you got to stand in the shower with your hat on and people are like,

God, is it starting to rain now tonight? You're like, no, I'll brush my teeth for a little. Claire B Wilson our daughter was born Friday September 3rd and her name is Indiana we're calling her Indy we thought it was good timing that the newest episode was Indiana she's officially the youngest Nate Land podcast listener welcome to the world Indiana there's a pic oh look at that. I fell asleep doing it. Friday, September 3rd. That's the day we recorded the episode. Oh, yeah?

That's pretty crazy. Oh, wow. That's crazy. Indy. Congratulations. Keep waving. Congrats. That's awesome.

Sean Herring, in response to Nate's question about what to do with deer roadkill, I was a police officer for a small town where there was a prankster going out and leaving get well soon balloons next to roadkill. Turned out to be another officer. That's very funny. That's so great. I like that. We got a picture.

Oh, there's a picture of it? Yeah. If you don't want to see a dead deer. Don't look now. Yeah. I mean, even Pete is is like that's too much man and you're like well what a that's a sense of humor right there yeah i mean he's buying get well soon balloons everywhere he's got a bunch in his car and they go golly man if he comes in every time and they're like get some new friends or something you don. Why is everybody crumbling around you? He's like, no, no, no, it's fine.

I mean, he's made by 40 of these balloons? Well, these look like all different places around the country. So apparently this is a thing. Oh, it's a thing everybody does. I mean, I don't think that's all the same place. I don't recommend searching for this on Google Images, guys. Yeah. A lot of dead animals on there.

I apologize. Yeah, do Conor McGregor and Sheegan Killen. That's a little bit easier. You know, look better off. All right. All right, everybody. So we had, yeah, my voice could sound kind of crazy now i don't know i did eight shows this week and the shows were unbelievable uh they were just so nice it was so nice to be back out the

let's go folks when they yelled that uh it was a lot of shows four nights eight shows uh i got back last night and uh it's it's been fun you know it's been it's just so nice to be back out yeah yeah i saw the video you walking on stage that's really cool yeah it's a cool walk yeah and then i met tyler joseph uh the next night we did so this shirt that's what i was at jason day's got a, like a for their foundation, Browder Day Foundation. And so they do a golf tournament. And then we all hang out at Jason's house. And this shirt is LPGA. It's Michelle Wee West thing that she wears.

Very comfortable shirt. I'm trying to get my daughter to get into golf. So I'm just trying to look the part, though hints her way. Yeah. She did. I wanted, I told her i would show everybody this she got the game ball on her softball game that's awesome yeah played shortstop they she caught it second through its second base got the girl out and that's i mean they they've just learned how

to play like three weeks ago they don't know anything about softball and we've played some teams where you're like well they've been playing together for a long time yeah and then so she knew to she scooped it up the girl ran over she threw it to the girl got the out game ball that's awesome pretty excited about this right here uh so very very fun for that their the their name is the nightmares did you name the yeah you came up with that we come out to uh enter sandman uh that's how the girls run out just remember like i don't know how the song goes but it's it's uh yeah they voted it's very funny i'd say kids are just the greatest thing on earth and uh they all wanted to name she wanted to name hers Flame,

which is her favorite horse. She goes to this little horse camp, and she has a full-time job there at nine, but the horse there is named Flame, so she wanted to be called the Flames, which I thought was a great name for baseball, and then every other girl had like a fun name, and then they let them vote and three of the girls

all voted for nightmares so they're like we're the nightmares still a horse reference is it uh nightmares yeah a mayor isn't a mayor a horse at night yeah a nightmare loose yeah i don't think anybody's thinking about that you sound like you i mean you sound like the uncle that talks to the niece you're like i'm still still something and they're like and the parents at home going we gotta get this fixed and you're like i'm still nightmare guys a nightmare i'm just saying you could still spin it as a horse yeah as a horse reference you could that's true uh yeah it's uh do that we're on a roll there you kind of shut it down I'm sorry Yeah

Do they play at night? They do play at night Alright I said you're going to I was like you're going to have You're going to have nightmares Our team I was like telling them I was like you go tell them

You're going to have nightmares About us every week We lose I think first week we lost 15 to 4 So someone's leaving home With a nightmare Them Us It's a nightmare but they're very fun i

love watching them it's so fun and they're she uh she did catching in practice sunday and i was i was a catcher and so i was pretty pumped about that you know i'm gonna tell her some stuff to go do i gotta go buy all like we bought her the glove and everything and uh and she likes it she likes it a lot so uh i was very pumped that she got that uh and then uh yeah so i did the show i'd like i said jay color came to the show and uh uh with uh you know is on that us weekly yeah jenna kramer i don't know. Yeah, they were in the Us Weekly. A little different type of magazine, a lot of gun stuff. And then they go a little, the gossip part of it.

They go in the Us Weekly. I mean, I don't know why, dude. I couldn't not say Us Weekly. I had Joe Zimmerman and Mike Vecchione were with me this weekend, if anybody was at those shows. They're both two amazing comedians. And I was telling Joe and Mike all weekend weekend because they mentioned us all of it and they were uh they said i was like us weekly mentioned us i wasn't even realizing i was saying it and joe was like are you saying us do you mean us weekly uh so but it was nice i was in the mix of just some you know some kind of some celebrity gossip do you think kristin was her name cal cal cavalieri do you think she hates you now

i hope not i mean i've actually met her too uh so i'd be friends with everybody i don't you know i don't know what i don't know what all's going on man yeah i'm just you know i don't know what all is going on, man. I'm just, you know, I don't want to lose Jay. That's all I don't, you know? So I want to tell him, yo, I'm not the source. I just tell him, look, I wasn't the source, but this is one of the bigger things that ever happened to me in my career, Jay, and I need you. Well, at least it says they had a fun date.

What if they broke up there because the show was so awful? Yeah. You brought me to this? It was great because they broke up there because the show was so awful? Yeah. You brought me to this? It was great because they say a lot, the show was super great and all that stuff, which was nice. It would be funny. Was the show good? It was not, so we were able to focus our attention pretty hard on Jay and Jenna. And that was nice.

So it was nice that they did that. Aaron also, you had a big week. Yeah. First of all, I did the Tulsa Looney Bin. That's not what I'm talking about. But yeah, no, it was good. Talking about the first pitch? No, but you can talk about Tulsa.

I'm just kidding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tulsa Funny Bone. Looney Bin. Looney Bin, sorry. Looney Bin there in Tulsa had a lot of podcast fans come out. And the Eatons, i think their name was they're a couple that likes the pockets they brought a tube or a can of gout ointment for me to autograph which is oh they kept it they kept it they kept they wanted me to sign

it eatons he needs it but you didn't bring two and go just sign one and then the other one's for you? It's called Gout and You. That's what it was called. We'd love for you to sign this. So that was very fun. That sounds like a book you'd read about gout. It does. Yeah.

How to deal with gout. Gout and You. And you're like, all right. So you just found out you have gout. Yeah. What now? He goes, well, you're already, all right. So you just found out you have gout. Yeah. What now? He goes, well, you're already probably sitting down. So.

Stay sitting down. Stay sitting down. It's called gout and you? Gout and you is what the ointment was called. That's a good name. Yeah. Yeah. So that's very fun when people do stuff like that.

Yeah. All right. Yeah. And then the first pitch. The first pitch I threw out. Oh, my God. What? You just kind of trailed off after.

I thought you were just rolling into the first pitch. My bad. My bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The first pitch was awesome, man. Yeah. So somebody, Wade, who works for the National Sounds, is a podcast fan. So without consulting me, I'm glad he did it.

He added gout survivor to my bio so that as I'm walking to the mound, the announcer goes, our first pitch tonight is Aaron Weber. Aaron is a stand-up comedian and gout survivor in the Nashville area. So super funny. That was really cool. That's why minor league baseball is awesome. It's how sports should be. really cool that's why minor league i mean minor league baseball is awesome yeah it's how sports should be like that's so funny the names are funny it's just great yeah yeah it was really really really cool just to get to do that and uh do a high strike what does that

mean that means it was pretty high it was pretty high high. A loose one. You need a favorable ump. Did the catcher catch it? Oh, no. If Larry Bird was your ump, you'd be like, he would have called it a strike. That's right. Yeah. Six foot nine. Six foot nine.

Larry Bird. The mascot didn't catch it, man. That was the mascot? It went over his head? The mascot was catching it. How high did it go? No, it went through his glove. Oh.

He just missed it. Oh, it was too much heat. Okay. It was too much okay it was too much heat for sure you could you go on the mound i walked all the way up to the rubber yeah through it did they say anything to you afterwards like no yeah they're like we just we don't care anymore dude oh really no not really they're like it's the end of the season they're like yeah just just go out there and do whatever yeah did anyone react when you threw it? Watching the video, you actually hear a couple people kind of boo from the top

because it was not a great pitch. Yeah. But there were people there that were fans of the podcast. I got a couple let's-goes as I was walking around beforehand. Oh, that's cool, man. It was really, really cool. Yeah. I need to go to Soundscape.

I haven't been to their new stadium. I need a Sounds hat. Yeah. I'm going to go up there and buy it. Well, Wade, who runs to their new stadium. I need a Sounds hat. Yeah. I'm going to go up there and buy it. Well, Wade, who runs all the merch and stuff. Oh, he runs the merch. Yeah, or I don't know his exact title. He has a little more than that.

Yeah, he might be. Yeah, Wade, I think he sweeps up or something like that. He's the president. He takes a trash shot. He'll look around. When he picks up all the cups that everybody leaves, he'll see if there's some hats laying on the ground. Maybe he can grab you a couple.

Yeah, he's in there. He's a big fan. He's a big fan of the podcast. And Bates, you had your Grand Ole Opry debut. I did. Yeah, man. It was great. I mean, it was the Clampetts come to Nashville.

I took the family. Oh, yeah. Your mom had to be thrilled she was and um my sister went and my wife and we pulled up and the guy at the guard shack said hello folks oh really didn't watch the podcast oh yeah but i thought it was a good sign yeah we pulled in and they treat your first time i mean they roll out the red carpet they had my own assigned parking spot with my name on it. And your dad called me that morning

and he said, hey, we're debating. People here are saying you're just on the Grand Ole Opry show tonight, but I told him you have your own show at the Grand Ole Opry tonight. Yeah. And I'm like,

you thought I had my own show at the Grand Ole Opry house a month before Nate did. Yeah. He's like, I thought so. And I was like, no, I'm just on the show. He believes in you more than you. And then he said, oh, it's just the, I'm not going to, He's like, I thought so. And I was like, no, I'm just on the show. He believes in you more than you.

And then he said, oh, it's just the, I'm not going to, he's like, those tickets are too expensive. I'm not going to come to that. Somehow it's flipped like I was trying to talk him into it. And we hang up with him just being like, I'm not coming to that. Yeah. And then the show went great. Everyone treated so good.

They gave us a hat show print of the show. Very nice. I don't, but... That's it right there. There's the poster. Oh, yeah. What is that called? Hatch showprint. It's a... Oh, it's not just a poster? Did they change it to poster afterwards because it made more sense? A hat? That's the name of it.

Like H-A-T showprint. H-A-T-C-H. Hatch. Hatch. Show... Oh. They're a local company that does a lot of posters. Hatch showprint. Oh,T, showprint. H-A-T-C-H, hatch. Hatch. Yeah. Show, oh. They're a local company that does a lot of posters. I thought you said hatch, oh, hatch, showprint. But they're like legendary, like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, they're, yeah, no. And they gave me one, and my mom, we got in the car,

and my mom said, I wanted to get one of those too, but in the gift shop, but it was $12. And she's like, I'm not paying $12 for a poster that they're just going to throw away after. but it was $12 and she's like I'm not paying $12 for a poster that's gonna they're just gonna throw away after so my mom didn't get one

because she didn't want to spend $12 so but we had we had a great time the show was great do you go first no I went I went third

oh wow is it all singers mm-hmm and then you yep how much time did you do John Connolly right there? Yeah, it was John Connolly.

I did 13 minutes, which that's pretty lengthy. That's long, yeah. For the Opry. Yeah. Yeah, it went great. Yeah, I mean, they treat us great. So it was a lot of fun. Yeah.

There was me with my mom in the reserve parking space. You got that sign now? I do. They give you that? Oh, they give you that sign? give you that sign yeah oh wow yeah that's cool yeah they uh they really treat us great yeah and my mom yeah she had a blast so much fun yeah that's the the best that's awesome she could have just gotten that poster yeah and that's so great it's $ is a lot, you know? She's like, oof. I mean, I think she could have probably said, that's my son. Can I have it?

And they might have said, sure. If I just asked the Opry, they would have gotten me another one. Right. But we were in the car driving home. She's like, I'm not paying $12 for that. That's ridiculous. It's a piece of paper. I'm going to throw it away when I get home anyway, so I don't know why I would pay $12 for that? That's ridiculous. It's a piece of paper. I'm going to throw it away when I get home anyway,

so I don't know why I would pay $12 for it. But yeah, it was great. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. Look at that. It's already aired. It's on. People see it?

No. I mean, this was just radio. It's the radio. Yeah. That's how you were meant to be. Yeah. That's the closest I've come to like, I mean, because you can, I think you listen to WSM radio. Well, obviously online you can listen anywhere, but I think their signal goes everywhere. Yeah, yeah.

No, it's a, yeah. I mean, it's probably one of the biggest radio shows. You know, longest running, isn't it? I think it's the longest running, yeah, live. 95 years. Live radio show. 95 years. Yeah.

That's crazy. They're coming up on their 5,000th Saturday night or something crazy like that. It's been going on a while. 95 years sounds better than 5,000 Saturday nights. Does it? Yeah. 5,000 is a lot, though. 95 years is a lot.

Yeah, but 5,000 is a bigger number than 95. But I think I have to go like, okay. So you just think about the Saturdays, but 95 years sounds crazy. It's like when we talked about how lightning is so much hotter than the sun, but you needed to hear an oven to kind of get it down. You have to kind of – Yeah. Okay.

5,000 Saturday nights. Got to do some math there. Yeah. How many Saturday nights are in a year? 52. Yeah. So that's almost 100 there. Yeah. How many Saturday nights are in a year? 52. Yeah. So that's almost 100 years. Yeah.

That's all that. That wasn't that much. But you're trying to just get me to go. So it's 95 years. So you're trying to guess the thing that we should just be saying. We should just be saying 95. That's what 5,000 nights is. 5,000 nights sounds like someone's Saturdays. Sounds like someone's just going like, oh, we've been doing this for 5,000 Saturdays. God, that's that's what 5,000 nights is 5,000 nights sounds like someone's Saturdays sounds like

someone's just going like oh there's we've been doing this for 5,000 Saturdays you god that's crazy how long has that been 95 years ago yeah that's what I was looking for and I would have been probably if I didn't have to search through this to find that answer it never stops at 5,000 Saturdays and they walk away and they're like can you believe that it's 5,000 Saturdays and they walk away and they're like, can you believe that? It's 5,000 Saturdays. I've been alive for 2,500 Saturdays. No one celebrated that on their birthday. Guys, welcome. This is my 1,000th Saturday and I couldn't be here without any of you. That's fair. Maybe they should, right?

Yeah, maybe. I don't know, the Opry seems to think so. They've been pushing that for a while, coming up on number 5,000. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean,

yeah, it's crazy. It's a lot. Oh, Derek Barganci liked it. There you go. He listened. Yeah.

It's awesome, man. Oh, what was I supposed to mention? Oh, well, you were in the Atlantic. Oh, yeah. It oh yeah very nice yeah very nice article yeah nice as main and staying up that doesn't sound like that after just i don't think

they listen to this podcast literally i saw some people comment that i like haven't listened to nate called brian aaron losers and idiots on the podcast uh i think they just made it among comics who have made it Yeah Just a select group Well it's fun You know it's like that's what You know I always think that It is like sometimes you

But it's just us being comics Like that's what you do Like it was This weekend we had Shay was playing in uh greenville we both started in greenville and then so we had uh john augustine came doug brown the guy did the music at the beginning of this and he's done a bunch of other things that are way better than that i think that's his only credit uh you know he got lucky enough to land the opening song of this podcast.

And so we all went. We went golfing and stuff like that. But, yeah, you start getting back around comics, and it's just trashing each other. And it's like that's just, you know, it is what it is. But we are nice about it afterwards. Right, right. You know, that's the fun part.

But it was a very, very nice article. Tim Alberta, he was with us that whole weekend with all my buddies and my family. And it was very, very cool. Very big deal. I mean, the greatest headline I could ever ask for. I know. It's very nice. That's what I do want. As much as I sound like i uh my humor is slow calls you a human xanax bar at one point

i think he said he asked me he goes i've heard that is that accurate to say i was like i get i don't know where you've heard that but he's like well people are talking and he totally made that up and he's like hey people are saying this he goes real downer is that fair to say i go could you go zane x barney goes all right uh uh yeah he it was no it was great he was super nice and that's what i do want i want to i would rather be known like i like that like you want to be the funniest stand-up you could ever be but i want to be nice to everybody and like i give a hard time to us to our friends to other comics but i don't do that you know it's not like i'm just a nightmare yeah try to meet everybody right take pictures have fun everybody's very very nice and so yeah

that's it it's very very nice article yeah it, it was great. So, all right. Well, we're going to get started. We're going to do, just now get started. I'm just praying for all the people. How you doing? Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. All the people that fast forward the whole front. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. This week, we're going to talk about the year 2000s. Not the year, but the 2000s. That's the thing. What do you even call the decade? The 2000s? I mean, that's what we call it, I guess, but the 2000s. That's the thing. What do you even call the decade? The 2000s?

I mean, that's what we call it, I guess, but that's not right. I call it the O-O's. O's. O-O's. The O-O. It's three O's. O's. It is three O's.

The O's. Yeah, but the decade. There's no T. O's. Oh, 2000. That's why you call it you called arts why would you call it arts what did you what did you think i just said arts but you said oz no os okay i might have said oz but i meant os yeah i might want to fast forward a little bit more. Like the O's? O and then S. I just don't know where the T came from. Did you say oughts?

Yeah, oughts. The oughts. Where does the T come from? It's the ought means like we call the first decade of the 1900s. Yeah. It's called the oughts. Was it? The oughts, the 10s, the 20s, the 30s.

Yeah. Oh. Yeah. I've never heard that ever. You remember. Yeah. I've never heard that ever. You remember. Yeah. Well, I was about to say, finally in a decade, you can remember and bring something to the table. Oh, I'm sorry.

Yeah. Ooh. You're starting off with aughts, so not going good. I know someone said if you, to be 21 now, all they look at is if there's a 19, they don't look past that. Yeah. Everybody that was born with a 19 in front of them are all 21. Yeah. It's very easy right now to be a bouncer.

Yeah. My old roommate's a bouncer on Broadway. He was like, I can tell if his ID's fake so quickly. Why? He said, I can just feel it. Yeah. He just holds it and he just knows. He goes, I ain't buying it. Yeah. Yeah. And it and he just knows. He goes, I ain't buying it.

Yeah. Yeah. And he goes, well, it's paper and it's this big. That's what he feels. He goes, I'm sorry, I've never seen an iPad. I don't know how to license the size of an iPad. Oh, let me see. You were born in 1935.

Really? Yeah. Aughts was Really? Yeah. Otz was mentioned. Yeah. In Wikipedia. What do you call it? I mean, I always call it the 2000s,

but I know that's not technically right. Yeah, because we're technically still in the 2000s right now, right? Yeah. I mean, now we're in the 20s. Finally, we're in a decade.

I know what to call it. Yeah. The 20s. Do we call it the 19s? Well, it wouldn't be... That would be a year. Are you talking about the last... The 2020s.

Oh, you're talking about the 2020s. Yeah, 2020s. No, the roaring 20s. Right. Okay, yeah. But the last two decades, I don't know what... The 10s.

You got to get us out. The 10s is easy, right? I feel like 1920s, like we call it the 20s. We're still referring to 19 when we say 20s. You've got to get us out. We need to all be, once we're all dead, and then in the 70s,

they will be like, my grandfather was born in the 20s, and they will know it means 2020s. We're too close to it. We're in the thick of it right now. So I don't think we can call it the 20s because we still all think old 20s. Right. I think the next generation will. I wonder if you talk to like Harper.

Does she say the 20s? We talk about it quite a bit. I don't think she says. I don't know what she says. So this was the first decade of the 21st century. I don't think she says. I don't know what she says. Yeah. So this was the 2000s, the first decade of the 21st century. I don't think she understands 1900. Like, I was born in 1979. That sounds insane.

Yeah. You know? I mean, it sounds insane to me. Uh-huh. You're just so, you're like, golly, man. It's a whole just another world. Mm-hmm. It sounds so old.

79, born in the 70s. It's crazy. As you were too. Yeah. When you did Grand Ole Opry, like 800 Saturdays. That's probably right. Yeah, they go, this is the 800th Saturday. I never thought they'd make it this long.

I have been alive longer now than... The Grand Ole Opry? Well, than half. Than he-haw? Not he, but... The pencil? They weren't at 2,500 shows when I was born. When you were born, did they not have softball?

Who was softball invented? Look up and see when softball was invented. It was bigger than that. I'll say that. Yeah. When I grew up up softballs were bigger well these were little kids well they were all the same size

1887 softball was invented so you at least knew what it was that seems early for a softball I know in Chicago Illinois I'm guessing it was still a men's sport back then I feel like you would be a guy that would invent softball like you would be playing baseball that would invent softball.

Like you would be playing baseball and you're like, what if we just throw it underhanded and make the ball bigger? A lot easier. A lot softer. Yeah. A lot easier. Make the whole bat a sweet spot. Yeah, the whole bat's a sweet spot.

And they go, I guess so. Yeah. He's like, maybe get some girls out here. And it's just you playing with the girl. Let's get it out there. I was telling Aaron about this guy, the king in his court. Have you ever heard of him? No. It's four softball players, and they would just beat everybody.

Just pitcher, catcher, shortstop, first baseman, and they'd never lose. Really? Yeah. Well, I mean, this was fast-pitch softball, so they rarely could even hit it. It was men? Yeah. So men play fast-pitch softball? I mean, yeah, there's leagues there.

Yeah. Here they are. And they would play teams of nine, right? And one guy – Teams of 10. There's four guys and two, four, six, seven eyes. If you're listening at home and you can't listen, four guys and only seven eyes, and they beat everybody.

They would beat teams of nine or ten people? A guy's got an eyepatch on him. Yeah. With just four dudes. Yeah. Seven eyes. Yeah. What position does that guy play?

He's got to be on the left side of the field. Maybe. I don't know. Because I'll play first, obviously. Yeah. That's the first thing, obviously. Can you run over to third? Well, I remember. It's going to be a problem. I think that guy in the middle probably was a pretty big help.

I thought you guys were old. Who would they play? The old guy in the middle there was the pitcher. Yeah, so who, where was this? I mean, they'd go over the cut. They're kind of like the Globetrotters, except it wasn't fake. I mean, they really would beat you. They beat a whole team.

Yeah. Because it was rare anyone could even hit it. Yeah. And if they did, they could barely hit it. And then they would just rock everybody when they would get up to bat. Yeah. In his fast pitch. He said he wanted to do just three guys,

but he realized if they all got on base, somebody's got to bat. Oh, yeah. So that's where the, he goes, you know what? Next best thing, bring my buddy buddy jack he's got one eye how much of a slap in the face is that fine we'll do four but our fourth guy yeah jack go stay in the right field he just stands on the white he stands on the uh outfield line. He goes, he played first base and he's like,

you know what? Never saw a runner touch the bag because he just never sees it out there. He catches the ball and goes, has to look and be like,

out? Oh, great. Throws it back. He doesn't know where he's at. That's unbelievable, dude. I've never heard of that. how long do they do that for um i think they did it for i think this is like during the 60s and 70s

wow king in his court i think that guy didn't i tell you he's from alabama from huntsville or something i think so yeah i think that i think that's why we started the greatest softball player of all time yeah i mean, that's crazy. He's so old looking. He's so old looking. And he just was killing it. Yeah.

Four guys. I mean, that could happen again and everybody would watch it. Yeah. Four guys beating an entire team. Yeah. Did they ever lose ever lose i mean they lost some but they won the vast majority like they were juicing a little bit yeah well so i mean i've seen so when you play like church ball there's men's softball in church yeah and i remember seeing there is like leagues where a home a home runs an out. So, like, you're only allowed to hit – some of them, a home run was an out.

And some of them – Wait, why? Because these guys could hit home runs every time. This was slow pitch. And they would be – you'd always be playing with a guy that's like, that guy had a cup of coffee with the Cubs. And then he's out there just balls gone. And so they could – there's teams that could just all hit home runs.

So they just all had to – That's interesting. Yeah. of that makes sense though yeah i mean it was i played i played in chicago when i was chicago i played softball for maybe or restaurant i worked at or something uh but you'd always play some teams that were just you're like these dudes you know didn't make it to the pros maybe Maybe they played in college, and then they just come dominate. So they had a catcher, pitcher, and then two guys in the infield. I think a shortstop and a first baseman. Yeah. Maybe the guy with the one eye was the catcher.

That'd probably be better to put him there. I guess, but boy, if you miss it, it's going to hurt. Yeah, but he's just tossing the – yeah. He's like, he just knows to – He just keeps his head angled a little bit. Always catches it. King. King.

Right here. He just doesn't know where his – yeah. He's just sitting there behind the plate. He's coming home. He goes – and he just has to – he doesn't even know. That's their only weakness was all the times someone stole third. It goes, and that's the only thing people couldn't figure out was like, if you steal third, I mean, you can just walk by him.

He's like, he's always startled. Oh, God, where'd you come from? He's coming. He's coming. All right, the 2000s. Yeah. The aught alts it's the first decade of the 21st century in the first of the third millennium first of the third millennium so i had to think about that seemed like it'd be the second millennium but yeah zero to a thousand was the first thousand to two thousand okay second yeah actually the new millennium started on uh 2001 yeah this is the

kramer yep newman yep um then it started the first place was everybody celebrated 2000 yeah yeah yeah it was y2k yeah were you guys worried about y2k uh i think a little bit i mean like it was just like you didn't know if something was going to happen. I mean, there was all this stuff, like, everything's going to go down. I don't know. It just, yeah. It was, like, so futuristic, it felt like. Like, you're coming out of the 1900s. Not that we didn't have stuff, but you didn't have computers.

We didn't have all this stuff. So then right when you get 2000, everybody's going to get computers. The internet's kind of going. So I feel like everybody was, you know, like, just talking. Like, it could be crazy. Trying to think where I was. We talked about this on the 90s episode. Yeah.

You said you didn't have a job that would require anything to be shut down by Y2K. Yeah, yeah. You were either driving the drunk car simulator or. Maybe I was. I think I was doing that. Yeah, I think I was doing that. Which actually just reached, those people reached out to me. Because they listen to podcasts uh i don't know they listen to podcasts but uh they might come to a show which i'd love to see well new zealand was the first uh country in the

world to welcome the new millennium that's where it starts yeah but they're first every time yeah that's yeah every night yeah every night they're first. I got a buddy there. I call him every day. I go, how's it looking today? He goes, stay in bed. I go, all right. Make some heads up. It's not good. Yeah.

Is New Zealand farther? It's like New Zealand and Australia. They're very close, but. Yeah, New Zealand gets it first. Yeah. So there had to be one guy. I wonder if there was a guy standing on the ocean to go like, you know, as the time zone passes him.

Yeah. And he goes, I was the first to see the year 2000. Yeah. But then I like to picture there was another guy in the ocean, and they both had to keep just backing up to be the first. And they finally agreed, let's both be the first. And then right when it came, one guy dropped back and he goes, are you kidding me, dude?

And then when they don't realize, too, then they kind of go up and then the guy just pokes his head up out of the water. He's been behind them the whole time in the scuba gear. So they're actually the second and third guy. First! Yeah. Yeah, they even have a city, Gisborne, New Zealand. There it is. There it is right there. There's Gisborne, New Zealand. There it is.

There it is right there. There's Gisborne. Well, that's water. Wow. Google. They live on the O in Google. New Zealand's a lot smarter. I knew a guy, or my sister, I think had a boyfriend that was from New Zealand.

He played basketball for New Zealand. Oh, yeah. Or was a basketball player, yeah. Man, that's a journey, man. Yeah. So the time zone just comes out of nowhere and then it hits that little gizmo what was the crooked line the dotted line and then it's like so southern ocean i mean they got to be like well we saw it like i guess that's where it ends yeah i mean who's the last one i wondered to get it? Yeah, who's the last? Oh, let's go to the other side.

Or it's probably right in front of New Zealand then. Yeah, so go up. Hawaii? No, Alaska. Is that line even the line? Yeah. That's from Google Map. I don't know if Google messed it up.

I don't think that's a time zone line, though. Well, why would they have it there then, Aaron? I mean, how do you see the North Pacific Ocean and the Philippine Sea. It looks like a kid that was just drawing dots. Well, let's look up the time zone now. Of the world, probably. Yeah. All right, there you go.

There's the world. Yeah. I mean, that's not the one I would have clicked on. The other one has the words. This one? A cave drawing. Yeah. You just did the opposite all right yeah go down scroll down let me find it right here oh boy where does it begin

oh no all right we'll get back to just see just look at it need jay cutler back on here to whip me into shape dude jay's gonna see this and be like. Told y'all. Yeah. So the 2000 presidential election was one of the craziest in history. George W. Bush and Al Gore. It wasn't decided until over a month later. Yeah. So Bush was sworn in in 2000. And then. Were you in the news then?

Was it just, you know. Yeah, because Gore's. Wall-to-wall curve. Gore's campaign, where they watch the results, he did it in Nashville. Yeah. That's where they. Did y'all go? Well, I mean, I was working, so.

Yeah. I know. Did you go to it when, or you were at Channel 5? I was at the station. Yeah. Yeah. But obviously, I mean, national news from all over, well, I mean, all over the world was in Nashville, because that's where he was. Yeah. But obviously, I mean, national news from all over the world was in Nashville

because that's where he was. Yeah, Al Gore was on the plane behind me once. The big guy. Yeah. Is he big? Yeah. I called his house once and he got mad at me. What did you say?

Because I asked who was speaking. Yeah. It was when I was working the news and we had heard that his mom had passed away and they told me to find out. And I called his house and he answered the speaking. Yeah. It was when I was working in the news and we had heard that his mom had passed away and they told me to find out and I called his house and he answered the phone. Yeah. And I was so surprised

he answered. I was like, who's speaking? Yeah. Which is really rude to anybody that you call. Uh-huh. Yeah.

You call them and immediately go, who am I talking to? Yeah. Let me call you back. Hello? Let me call you back. Hello? Let me call you back. And then he said, who are you calling for?

And I said, Vice President Al Gore. He said, this is Vice President Al Gore. I was like, oh. I was like, well, let's kind of see how your mom's doing. She's dead. And that's what happened? She was okay. She was all right.

But he wasn't happy that I called him. Was this when you tried to start the TMZ section of Channel 5 News? You just trying to get on the horn? You were one-on-one on the phone with the vice president. Yeah. At his home in Carthage. That's pretty crazy. I was just so shocked he would answer his own phone.

How'd you get his number? We had like contact numbers, but you just don't ever think you're going to get the actual person, just like somebody there. Yeah. This is during landlines. Yeah. Yeah, butlers.

I mean, the guy, I know, but he's like, I'm at home. I answer my own phone. I'm tending to my sick mom. Yeah. Brides. How far can you throw a football? Yeah. Al, Albert, what do you want to hear right now?

All right. So Bush is elected president. And then a few months after he was elected, of course, we just had the 20-year anniversary terrorist attack, 9-11. I'll spread it in there. Let everybody know. Terrorist attack. Where were you in 9-11 i'm screwed in there let everybody know where were you in 9-11 uh i was i stayed home that day i was i was recycling tires and uh i had to get up at like six every morning to do or something i called in sick that day yeah i don't know you felt something i felt you were a suspect for a while. Yeah, yeah. Interesting. I had a lot going on that day.

And they, no, I felt, I just was like tired. I felt, I called in sick. And then Laura was getting up to go to work or something. You were married? No. No. So maybe Laura wasn't there. Oh.

Yeah. All right. Ruined everything. Sorry. I guess I said Laura was going to to work she called me yeah yeah until we get up and look at the news and then uh we watched it and yeah it was crazy craziest thing ever yeah do you remember fifth grade i was in fifth grade principal came on over the speaker and goes there's been a plane crash and we were like why thanks we don't care and then we just went home after that yeah

they let everybody go home they let everybody go home half day yeah so we were pumped yeah yeah we didn't know any better we were like this is awesome oh man what a day yeah yeah i'm gonna remember this day forever we got a half day yeah you and your classmates get together every september 11th and go remember this day today we got out of school yeah yeah it's awesome yeah yeah it was it was crazy just had the yeah yeah i mean just unbelievable my wife was at the white house yeah uh ruth worked Ruth worked for Condoleezza Rice for the, and she was in the situation room when it happened. So they told her to

get her contacts together. They're going to try to, Bush was supposedly coming back to the White House at that time, and they were going to meet with some foreign leaders, so she had to get the contacts together to arrange it. And then things just kept getting crazier and Secret Service came in and grabbed Cond of Lisa and ushered her out. And then.

Pushed Ruth in the way. Yeah. She was 25 years old. I mean, she had just started there a few months earlier. And her boss, this woman who was kind of like a mentor to her and like a second mother said, just give me the contacts and run. She said, I've lived twice as long as you have. So you just get out.

Whoa. Oh, wow. And so she just left. This woman just told her to do this. And, you know, Flight 93. She ran to the Pentagon? Yeah. Flight 93, if they hadn't taken that plane down, they'd think it was going to go to the White House

or the Capitol. Oh, wow. That's what they did think? Yeah, they think that's where it was going to. That's where it was heading, yeah. Yeah, so that's what they did think yeah they think that's what it was going to where it was heading yeah yeah so one more plane they thought it was going capital i mean probably where the white house would have been probably where yeah but he would have never but i think can you imagine i mean oh man those people in flight 93 is awesome yeah the fact that they were able to even realize that like you know they knew the other stuff and uh i mean obviously everybody on the planet's just brutal but yeah yeah i don't know if they

would i wonder if they would have even made it there like because they those fighter jets go up and it would have been shot down anyway yeah i mean had to be shot down somewhere you know you think but i mean it's such a crazy thing that i it's almost no matter how smart and prepared you could possibly be yeah how do you even know to stop something that insane i know i know and if it's cut them so off guard yeah yeah yeah those people are amazing so this is ruse she's like three months in working at the white house a few months in yeah yeah and you're like oh man this is easy job i'm coasting and then this happens it's got to be crazy yeah to be in the thick of it yeah yeah to be there i mean that's the one yeah it's crazy yeah yeah all right so um any other

massacres oh i got a bunch on here i mean kat was going to say, let's do Katrina next. Yeah. All right. The Pope died. Oh, no. In the year 2000? 2005. Oh, yeah.

That's when they have to redo it, though. They have to reelect it. They do the smoke. Yeah. Yeah. It's fun. We watched that live at my school. That's the kind of stuff we would watch live. Well, it's kind of like, it's a sad thing that the Pope dies,

but it's pretty fun to watch. That's how they let everybody know, the city know, they put that smoke up. Yeah, so Pope John Paul was Pope from 78 to 2005. People liked him, right? It's a long run. It's a long run. Yeah.

Was he shot once? He was shot once. And then he brought the guy in and gave him confession. Wow. The guy that shot him. There's a famous picture of the two of them. He let him confess to him? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. He came in. Did the guy confess? Did they say that? He gave him confession? That's how you say it? Is that how they found him guilty? Well, he did.

He goes. Tricked you. Where were you at on this day? And he goes, I promise I'll forgive you. Yeah. I'm going to forgive you. He goes,

it's got tape recorder. I don't know where I was. Where were you at? He goes, I think I was pretty close to you. I promise I'll forgive you. Just tell me. Oh,

that's him. Yeah. The confession, the sacrament of where you, you go to a priest and you. Yeah. That's gotta be wild, dude. I mean, that's gotta, can you go to a priest and you – Yeah. That's got to be wild, dude. I mean, that's got to – can you imagine you shoot him

and then you're shaking his hand and you're like – Why did he do it? I mean, that's crazy. That's like – He forgave him. It's like me watching Jay Cutler play in college and then he's here. But a little bit. Five times that.

I mean, I could at least talk to this guy about the same thing. Like, was it crazy when the Pope came and he'd go, I don't know, I would stop him and go, let me tell you my Jacobus story real fast

and then you do your Pope story. Is that guy dead now? I don't think so. The guy that shot him? So did he and I have to go to prison? I think he, I think he went to prison. So just the Pope forgave him.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. He goes, no, let him go. Let him go. Don't press charges. Was that in prison where they met? I think so. I think so went to prison. So just the Pope forgave him. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He goes, no, let him go. Let him go. Don't press charges.

Was that in prison where they met? I think so. I think so. Yeah. Okay. That looks like a prison outfit. Doesn't it? Because he's wearing the same thing in this other picture.

It says, what does that say? So he now cares for stray something. I'd imagine dogs. Now cares for stray animals. Yeah. So he's rehabilitated. Yeah. U.S. son. Oh. Yeah. So he's rehabilitated. Yeah. U.S. son.

Oh. Yeah, he's been in prison for three decades. Oh, yeah. He's 62 years old now. Yeah. I mean, golly. Was John Paul II, was he the most loved pope? When he died, it was the largest Christian pilgrimage ever for his funeral.

Four million mourners went to Rome. Yeah. More heads of state than ever. Four kings, five queens, 70 presidents and prime ministers, and 14 heads of other religions. Yeah. They just put him out there at the funeral, huh? Yeah.

He's like sitting in the front row with everybody. Should we get a casket? Yeah. Let's just drop, huh? Yeah. He's like sitting in the front row with everybody. Should we get a casket? Yeah. No, just laying. Yeah. I mean, everybody wants to see that. It's such a crazy. It is.

Being the Pope's got to be wild, man. I mean, you just. You know what's crazy is just I'm eligible to be the Pope, technically. Oh, wow. Because you just have to be a baptized Catholic. You can't be married, have to be you have to be a baptized catholic can't be married can you yeah you just be a baptized catholic oh really the only is the only qualification has a pope ever been married i think back in the day yeah 1700 way no way before that i didn't know and then you think now you could be the one that brings it back no i don't think look i don't think i have a shot at being the Pope. I'm saying on paper, I qualify.

Oh, I thought you had to be. Would you like to wear what he wears? You don't even have to. I would love to. Yeah. He's got some great outfits. His hats are pretty cool. Yeah.

It's like very like just down, very, very comfortable. He's got one of those hats, I bet. Yeah. Oh, I would love that. Pope, I would love that. So if I just went and got baptized Catholic, I could be Pope? You'd be eligible. On paper, you're eligible to be Pope.

Oh, so right now. You don't have to be a priest or a cardinal or anything to be elected Pope. Would they look at it as like social media influencers? Look at your numbers on there. Gaffigan could be the next Pope. Oh, yeah. Good luck, Gaffigan. Maybe run for it.

Can you run for it? You can. My understanding is you can kind of campaign for it. You don't, like, officially list your name on the ballot. Yeah. But you can kind of. Walk around. Cajole.

Rub some elbows. Yeah. And Pope Benedict just quit, right? He tapped out. Yeah. Which is very rare, it's very very rare from what i understand and just like i don't want to do this yeah do you think the pope ever carries does he grab a wallet like john cena yeah i mean he just when you see him walk out you just see a

little wallet shaking behind his he's got pockets on those ropes? I mean, he's got to have someone with him at all times. So, like, I imagine, like, he just doesn't buy anything. Like, it's almost like you just live freely. Like, anywhere you want to go,

you just go do it and there's no concept. Money doesn't exist. Like, does he have to grab a license? Does he ever walk out with just a ball cap on? I don't think he needs ID ever. What if he just wears a hat?

Like who did we say? Queen Elizabeth? Yeah. What if him and Queen Elizabeth want to go get some coffee? Two of them together. And he wears a ball cap just with that gold cross. And they're like, you got to do a little more. It's not still.

He goes, what? You think you can still tell? You go, I mean, it's the gold. It's real high. It's just a ball cap. It's still high up. Why don't you wear a Yankees ball cap or something? still he goes what you think you can still tell you go i mean it's the gold is real high like it's just a ball cap still high up like once you're like a yankees ball cap or something and i think that would help both of them don't get it she's sitting in a chair at the starbucks that's like a queen's chair because why just brought my own chair is that i go but you guys are drawing so

much attention normal people don't bring their own thrones around. He's forgiving people in line. Yeah. Someone cuts him in line, I forgive you. I forgive you. Oh, thanks. I didn't see you there. Music of the 2000s. You want to guess the top-selling artist?

Britney Spears. That's a good guess, but yours is better. Eminem. Eminem. Yeah. Britney wasars. That's a good guess, but yours is better. Eminem. Eminem. Yeah. Yeah. Britney was fourth. Ooh.

Christina Aguilera. Boyz II Men. Beyonce. Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey. Boyz II Men. Or Beyonce. Beyonce was fifth.

Oh, God. I'm going backwards. Yeah. What's the genre of music? Garth Brooks. No, there's no country. Oh. And Eminem was twice as much As the next guy

Would we know him? Yeah I would never get this But you would know him Lincoln Park Lincoln Park was number two? According to this And Coldplay Lincoln Park's awesome man

I listen to him a lot now and Coldplay yeah that makes sense Linkin Park's awesome man I like I listen to them a lot now I'm just kind of fascinated with that the guy that the main singer who sadly died but it was like I just his voice and stuff was like crazy he was just like a very interesting guy

you know their music was big in my childhood, for sure. Yeah, they had two of the top four albums of the decade. Hybrid Theory. Hybrid Theory's number one and Meteora. Okay, that was the next one. Wow. Wow.

All right. Sports, Athlete of the Decade. Jordan. Nope, that was the 90s. Oh, Toby. Or Lance Armstrong. Nope. Nope, that was the 90s. Oh, Toby. Or Lance Armstrong? Nope. Oh, that's a great guess.

You guessed this person for the 90s, and then you guessed Jordan. Toby? Or wait, Shaq? No, who did I guess for the 90s? I don't remember. I don't know. Tiger Woods. God, I knew that one.

Tiger Woods. I knew it. Yeah, and we looked at How many records He was number one How many weeks He was number one Let's just re-show that clip Yeah

Lance Armstrong was second Yeah Lance Armstrong Roger Federer third Still playing Yep Michael Phelps fourth Tom Brady fifth

Okay That's enough And Usain Bolt One of the greatest American One of the greatest American runners of all time. I only mentioned Tom Brady because it's the 2000s and he's still going. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty amazing.

Yeah, yeah. I think everybody knows that. Okay. It's maybe the only thing we've talked about since 2000 is the fact that he's still playing. The Lakers won four NBA championships 2000s. Yeah. Patriots won

three Super Bowls. And the Red Sox won the first World Series in 86 years. Yeah. Curse is broken. Right? Yep.

Curse of the Bambino. Imagine y'all having a podcast system. That would be it, guys. I quiet down so y'all would see if I leave. This is day code.

How about back out and just let them see what it would be. Let them what does it feel good if anybody it did not feel good just like reading uh the last five minutes haven't felt good i feel like we were rolling before that we were it's it's uh it sounds like you're just reading you know like a newspaper like you like on local radio well i am i'm trying to get things started. Yeah. This is a podcast. And it's a comedy. A lot of, you know, it's like Tiger Woods won on a Sunday at Will Beach.

Beautiful day that day. King Review Jr. turns 30 in six months from now. Anyway, back to you. Let's do the weather. Okay. 72 degrees today. Fun. It says fun on there.

72 degrees, fun. Fun day. It was fun. Expecting Hurricane Katrina in five days. Yep. Right after 9-11. Anyway, back to you. that's what you should you know how uh uh john krasinski did the good news thing which is the greatest thing ever you should do a bad news

bad news baits that's every other newscast is what i mean that's what everything but john krasinski i know but you could actually this is pretty good of a thing. If you were Bad News Bates, we could even let this be a segment of the thing. Just do Bad News Bates, and you just give bad news. I think we'd get a segment of that, whether we want it or not, every episode. I know, but now we have a name for it. Bad News Bates is a great name. Someone's probably called you that. Like Bad News Bears, Bad News Bates.

Probably. Baby Killer Bates. Baby Killer Bates. Baby Killer Bates is a good one. Yeah. Well, I was talking about sports then. I'm going to keep going. The 9-11 talk was a little more lively than the sports talk. Well, I'm going to keep going.

Right out of the gate of the 2000s, January 8, 2000, the Music City Miracle. Oh, yeah. You were there. I was there. Yeah. I have my brother-in-law, Joey Robbins, was that. He left.

I always love hearing his story. He was walking on the bridge, like heading back, and just hears, just the biggest roar ever. And they're like, what happened? It's so funny. Don't you think it's almost worth it now he has the story of that that's almost better than if he were there yeah i mean the experience though is like because he was there we we have both was it pretty cool being there no did you i mean i don't know what brian's doing what is brian gonna be he's gonna like i'll be honest he wasn't that special it's maybe one of the greatest plays in the history of NFL football.

Yeah. And your question to him there is, was that pretty neat? We're interviewing Michael Phelps with all his gold. He won the most gold of all time. Aaron with the first question. Michael Phelps, was it, would you say, fun winning those gold medals? That's fair. I just don't, Brian, so where were your seats how old were you what was the situation

are you a guy that storms the field late 40s yeah nicest guy in comedy nicest guy nicest man in stand-up don't ever forget that well as i've told you um i was the guy yelling, get out of bounds, get out of bounds. Oh, man, yeah. Because I did not see the play develop immediately. I didn't think he was going to make it a whole way. And all we needed was a field goal. So I'm like, he's going to get tackled, and the time's going to run out.

So I was like, just get out of bounds so we can kick a game winning field goal. But he didn't listen to me, and he just kept running. He heard he was like nah where were you sitting i mean i was at upper deck okay yeah he's up there don't that's why i couldn't hear him he's up there his seats are your seats are better now though they're better now i'm into your old too when i was when we went was that your old seat yeah there's still good tickets at this point he's had season six the whole time yeah ever since they've. Really? Yeah. But that

was the first year in Nashville. Oh, I didn't realize that was the first year.

They played Memphis and Vanderbilt. It was the first year at that stadium. Wow.

First year they were the Titans. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, man. PSL.

So was it a good time? It was great. It was a great time. I love my seats. Now, Nate,

when I took him, he was like, these are your seats? No, I didn't mind them. You're up there high. Yeah. Yeah, you got a good time. I love my seats. Now, Nate, when I took him, he was like, these are your seats? No, I didn't mind them. You're up there high.

But, yeah, you got a good view. Are you in the aisle? On the aisle? Yeah, you're on the aisle. I didn't mind the seats. When I took you, we sat in a – did I not take you? Yeah, we sat in the suite. Yeah, there you go.

There's the difference. When you took me, there was a lot more, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. Now we're on the aisle. When I get big enough, I know we came in on the other side. He always walks through. He walks a long way. I want to high five everyone.

Excuse me, excuse me. And then we sit down and I'll go, why don't we just enter that other side? And he goes, I don't even think about it. Get out of bounds. Spike the ball, Spike! All his plays are just, let it go in the end zone. Don't catch it. If Bates was coaching the punters, he'd be like,

he wouldn't even see a punt catcher out. He'd go, just let it hit. Everybody just try to stand up and let them go by and then just let the ball hit. Let's not have any problems. Did you ever have a Lance Armstrong, Livestrong bracelet? Probably.

I think so. You were big into bracelets. Yeah, I loved a nice bracelet. I remember when that became a thing and I was like, I waited it out. But you're anti-trends though, right? Yeah, I mean, I was hanging out. But the rubber band thing was a trend. I think I'm just late to them, and then it looks like I'm doing them alone

because everybody's kind of moved on. Already moved on, yeah. But I think I wore the yellow kind of thing. Now I'm just more, I notice the trends more, and I don't, yeah, I don't know if I want to. I just don't want to do it because everybody's doing it yeah and so it just doesn't seem as fun right to me right uh but you know but everybody's yelling let's go folks so i'm fine with that yeah that's a trend yeah it's a small trend that

80 of us are doing but that's the kind of trends i like the ones that start just tiny and they're just special. Yeah. You know? At the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games, Spain had to return their gold medals after found out their basketball team, nearly all their players were found to have no disability. They just faked it. They were dominant. Yeah.

They had wheelchairs? I think so. So they're in wheelchairs how did they find that i mean that's so funny the guy goes in the locker room oh guys i almost forgot to tell you they're all standing up taking a shower hey why are y'all's wheelchairs not wet i think what do you mean well i mean everybody else's wheelchairs are wet because they they can shower in a wheelchair. But you guys are, you have them all parked outside your locker room. How's that happen? What happened, Aaron?

Spain was stripped of their intellectual disability basketball gold medal shortly after the games closed. After somebody, a member of the victorious team and an undercover journalist, revealed to the Spanish business magazine that most of his colleagues had not undergone medical tests to ensure they had a disability. The IPC investigated the claims and found that they required mental tests, which should show that the competitors have an IQ of no more than 75. So that's the cutoff. You had to have an IQ lower than 75. They never took that test. So they just claimed the had to have an IQ lower than 75. They never took that test. So they just claimed the whole team had an IQ lower than 75. None of them did. That's enough to be disable?

You could qualify for this team. Dude, I could dominate. Like, all you have to have is less than a 75 IQ, and you can play in the… You don't have an IQ lower than 75. Aaron, come on. What are you talking about? But, I mean, honestly, that counts? I guess so, according to this.

How low is 75? What's the average IQ? 100, I think. Oh. Well, that doesn't seem that different. God, that seems crazy. I would just think disabilities, like wheelchair kind of thing like that, 100 I think oh well that doesn't yeah god that seems I mean I would just think

disabilities like wheelchair kind of thing like that like I mean the fact that these dudes went along they were fine with that yeah

they go alright guys before we walk out I need everybody to walk into the door do not forget all of you hit your head

on the door forget to duck we got a game to win out there boys Forget. All of you. Hit your head on the door. Forget to duck. We got a game to win out there, boys. That's crazy. Highest grossing films of the 2000s. Oh, man. The number one is the highest grossing film of all time.

Avatar. Yeah. You know, it's so funny. Someone said that too about Avatar. Isn't it crazy? It's the highest. Someone said to me, they read it. I don't know.

The highest grossing film of all time. Nobody can really tell you anything about it. Had no impact on anything. No cultural impact. No cultural impact. Star Wars, all this other stuff. All these big movies had every Titanic. No cultural impact. No cultural impact. Star Wars, all this other stuff, all these big movies had every,

Titanic. Titanic's huge. All this stuff, Avatar, the most watched and, I mean, y'all saw it?

Yeah. Do you remember it? No. I never saw it. It's the one where they're all blue. Yeah. And it's just Pocahontas

that everybody says. It's like Blue Man Group kind of like in space yeah that's what I think but they sent that to you because we've already

we talked about that on here right what about how we've talked about how that movie had no impact like number two

is Titanic yeah with James Cameron did y'all see Avatar y'all remember it isn't Avatar James Cameron too yeah that's what

we talked about in the 90s episode how that's the number one movie. But people still talk about that. Titanic. Yeah. I'm the one that had to keep Air and Land podcast going. I know.

So I've now filterated. Infiltrated? Infiltrated. 75 IQ. You're carrying two podcasts now, dude. I think if I played in that team, they'd be like, he has his IQ 77. Like that would just be

just enough. I mean, where they're going. I don't know. Blue Man Group, unbelievable show, by the way. Yeah, it is a great show. Have you seen them? Yeah, I have. Have you seen them, Brian? I haven't. They're so good, man. Yeah. I don't know if it's the same dudes. The whole point of it is that they're blue good man yeah i don't know if it's the same dudes the whole point

of is that they're blue we're blue today kind of oh god it's like you were slowly regaining faith in the episode. Yeah, it was all coming back together. And then he just watched it go off the rails again. Oh, yeah. We're wearing blue shirts. Inventions of the 2000s. The Segway.

The Snuggie. Well, I'll just tell you. Segway in 2000. But the Snuggie's not. We talked about that. What's the other one? i can't remember the name uh what are the two it's snuggie and uh the two what slank it the slank it look up slank i've never heard of that slank it is the original is the original one it just looks like a big hoodie but it's not it's like a poncho snuggle i did me and yannis pavas did a commercial for slink it really yannis knew the guy that invented slink it and then what

happened was they it became so that it was doing good and then a big company comes in and they just and you can't like i believe you can't you know like trademark it because it's like a couch it's like a blanket like you know what i mean like it's it's not something you can't trademark it because it's like a couch. It's like a blanket. You know what I mean? It's not something you can really do. So then what happens is these big companies, Snuggie, comes in and they go, well, we'll do it and we got more money behind it. And then Snuggie becomes the most famous thing ever.

Wow. And Slanket does not. So there's people in this company, which is just infuriating of just, there's a lot of mean accounts like this and stuff like that. Not all of them are people on jokes online where it's like, they just let someone else create the thing. And then they just get the big following and then they put it out and everybody's like,

wow, that's the thing. And you forget like this dude is the one that came up with this idea. And we knew that guy and we, uh, Giannis knew him. But he couldn't get it patented, huh?

So then they were, uh, we have a commercial on, uh, YouTube and we uh yannis knew him but he couldn't get it patented huh so then they were uh we have a commercial on uh youtube and uh i'm watching the vandy kentucky game and we just went to yannis's house so the commercial we did was like he filmed he just filmed us the official slink it commercial and this is the marketing he had to that all he had to do was pay us. And we're watching Ditch Films' Giannis' and Jesse's Couturo. Let me turn the sound up here. So we just did this. We filmed it all day at Giannis' house. We just went to his house and filmed all day long. Do you have audio on this TV?

I don't know. Yep. That was me waking up at yannis's and yannis laying there i mean we just went over there all day so we did like we got up look at us look at look at yannis look at that's yannis right there i mean this is dude even know, 2006? And we hang out all day? And so we just set up a camera. Those of you listening, it's Nate and Giannis hanging out in their living room. Yeah. Post this.

Yeah, we'll post it. Order a pizza. Go to one, there's one part I screamed. I'm watching the, no, no, no, right there. Go to one. There's one part I screamed. I'm watching the. No, no, no. Right there. Just leave it. Yeah. This is.

I'm watching the. Vandy game. Vandy Kentucky game. It was on CBS. And like they. It was very exciting. I just picked my nose. I mean, we got it all.

There it is. There it is. Yeah. All right. How long ago? That's good. This is. Yeah, all right. How long ago? That's good. Look at the year. I'm guessing 2009. 2009.

Yeah, 28,000 views. The downfall of the slinket was this video. Yeah, I remember I watched Vanity. Remember, it was like 2009. Vanity in Kentucky was on CBS. Yeah. And it was crazy because I'm in New York, and I'm like, they're going to play the main game on CBS. Yeah. And it was crazy because I'm in New York and I'm like, they're going to play

the main game on CBS. I want to say we lost, but it was like barely. Our basketball team was pretty good then. And it was like very close. We might have even won. Oh, this is basketball.

Yeah, basketball. I was about to say football. No, basketball. Yeah. And I almost, was that the year we went to the SEC Championship? That's about right.

Yeah, yeah. And then so, yeah. And I remember, man that the year we went to the SEC Championship? That's about right. Yeah, yeah. And then so, yeah. And I remember, man, it was such a great game. But we did it, so go buy Slinkit instead of Snuggie. Yeah, yeah. iTunes came out in 2001, and then nine months later, the iPod. No. You've been waiting.

No. It was like Wikipedia. Is that what your gasp sounds like? Is that a gasp? I thought it was more breathy. Yeah, there you go. That's more of a gasp. That's more of a gasp.

Yeah. It's tough to fake a gasp. I know. It's sound like a whoo. You're struggling with, you know, a gout's moving up. And you're like, whoo. It's moving up to my neck. You go, is gout just your feet? No, no, no. It's moving up to my neck. You go. Is gout just your feet?

No, no, no. It spreads. It spreads. Wikipedia in 2001. Thank goodness I was there. They're asking you to donate. I noticed on your thing. How Wikipedia is.

I should do that. Yeah. The Blackberry in 2003. I want to get another Blackberry. I never had one. I never had one either. I just had another one. I just had another one. I never had one.

They're going to make a comeback at some point. Yeah. Like iPhones aren't going to last forever. BlackBerry I thought was the coolest phone ever. It was the coolest phone. Yeah. Everybody had one. There's a keyboard on it.

People had money. The only ones that could afford it. Or like a real job. I had a Cricut phone. When Cricut came out. Yeah. You had Cricut too? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Myspace. 2003. when cricket came out yeah you had cricket too yeah uh myspace 2003

yeah facebook 2004 oh good i'm gonna keep going youtube 2005 first video on youtube i think i've seen charlie bit my finger no it's the elephant or something zoo me at the zoo me at the zoo it's called me at the zoo yeah so yeah is it still on there yeah yeah it's the elephant or something. Zoo. Me at the zoo. Me at the zoo. It's called Me at the Zoo? Yeah. I think so, yeah. Is it still on there? Yeah, yeah, it's still, but we're not. Just people can look it up. Look up Me at the Zoo on YouTube. Twitter 2006.

I mean, all this is in this decade. I like to show my sling it commercial. That means nothing. And then the first, YouTube changed the world. And you're like, let's go look at the first video. Don't waste anybody's time. They already sit through my sling it commercial, so don't you dare. let's go look at the first video don't waste anybody's time they already sit through my sling it

sling it commercial so don't don't you dare that's what I was thinking show the first YouTube the first iPhone in 2007 oh yeah big big day

it was $499 for 4Gs or $599 for 8Gs 8 gigabytes yeah I just did my iCloud you called them Gs yeah people not say that

that's how they say it what do they say gigabytes yeah five g is the four g is like it yeah that's the signal that's the signal i'm sorry yeah uh to go uh the air Land crew love that yeah Aaron Land yeah they're a younger crowd that's right over there yeah you know

most people didn't even catch it they go oh wow wow 8G us guys born in the 70s yeah we don't get it

I just updated my iCloud storage to 2 terabytes 2 T's yeah because it said it I'll be honest with you I don't even know what's on

this icloud storage i remember they you just get an email they're like do you want to do it more and i was like yeah i did like the 200 gigabyte whatever it is monthly and i was like that's good i don't know if i put stuff on you have all your photos automatically backing up on there probably yes so yeah and then it said you're almost out of space. And so I went to terabytes, which I don't. Is that forever? Is that a lot? It's a lot, yeah. And then so they're like, you're cool now.

But I don't even. It's just a matter of time. Is iCloud more important than I know what I'm doing? No, you're fine, dude. What if I don't do any of it? Do you still need iCloud? I don't use iCloud for anything. Anything?

No, I just have it all on the phone. So you just delete your phones or you just have them on your phone oh so they're backing up to iCloud yeah they're backing so I could delete all the phones off all the videos off my phone you could and then I just go that I would make sure they're on there first I hope you do that I could delete them I don't think I care yeah I'm not a super, super sentimental. Is that sentimental? Yeah. Cinnamon guy? I'm not a big sentimental guy.

I'm trying to even get better. I try to do it like I think. You take a picture. I like posting a picture and stuff like that. Yeah. But then you kind of just move on. I'm never going to look through these. I mean, my daughter is the only ones,

like my family and my daughter is the only ones that I really want to, you know, I have a voicemail on my phone that's my daughter singing a song to me when she was like five. So I like- You'll keep that forever. I keep that. I don't want that to go away.

I don't want like the videos of her going away. But as far as the other stuff, I mean, I don't care. It's just a lot. I'm the exact opposite. I mean, half the videos on my phone, like I've said've said my act is just because my daughter's on my apple id yeah so i mean every time i look at my phone i just have 70 videos of her like hello guys let's go and what do they say uh what do they say like and subscribe now like and subscribe how do they say it what's up guys

you know it's her and my niece, Maya, and nephew, Zach. They made a bunch of videos when they spent the night. All right. All right.

See, I add a little more to it than just going, you know, Blue Man Group sold 1,200 tickets year 2000. I was throwing out

that the Red Sox won the first World Series in 86 years yeah i think that's interesting i mean we know it it's not too i was that we were there no one listened this was born in 2000 yeah i think i'd be surprised yeah i guess because they could be their 20s yeah somebody's 20 21 yeah that's true you know and it's being taught in high school classes all over the country it's in history books that's true you know and it's being taught in high school classes all over the country it's in history books that's right yeah this class i'd love to go see a history book

now i don't want to get in the weeds with it but i'd love to like just get a breeze through like what are y'all talking about uh-huh like how far back you know are they do they say anything that you're like i guess they do 9-11 and so you're you know it'd be kind of crazy to get a history lesson from your teacher that was like, I remember this. Because usually it's just old history stuff. I don't ever remember coming up that far to modern day and history class. I don't even know if we touched the 1900s ever. Y'all didn't touch the 1900s?

We did a little bit, but i don't feel like we ever talked about like the 80s and 90s you just got to 1899 and you go yada yada yada y'all are here already so let's uh you graduate thank you very much the civil war ended yeah y'all didn't talk about world war ii or pearl harbor oh we probably did all that i'm talking about yeah i mean like the 80s and 90s where i don't i don't know anything about what happened. Yeah, well, I don't think it's that. That's much different than, say, in the 1900s. You're right.

Hitler had quite a bit of a run, and I'm sure some history classes talked about that. Yeah, he had a busy decade or two. Yeah, for sure. The top-rated TV shows of the 2000s. Seinfeld. Friends. Seinfeld was over.

Everybody loved Raymond. Whoa, Seinfeld ended in the 2000s. Seinfeld. Friends. Seinfeld was over. Everybody Loves Raymond. Whoa. Seinfeld ended in the 90s. 98. Yeah. Friends. Stupid. Friends was.

I think it's final season. Everybody Loves Raymond. No. No. American Friends Home Videos. No. Sitcoms. This is just TV shows, period.

You're on Candid Camera. MASH. Survivor. First year. MASH. Free first year match csi for three straight years yeah and then american island for the last four i've told the csi story right i don't think so i i believe this is true could be wrong i thought i've told it uh i believe it was csi there's a big reason like someone, someone would tell me, like, when we were selling, when we pitched these TV shows, you always think, well, if this, the network that you're pitching to, you're like, when they say no, we can go anywhere, and we're just pitching to the other networks.

Which they always say that. It's not that exactly true. It happens, but it's not as true as it once was. And a big reason for that was CSI. So, and I believe it's CSI. I could be wrong on all of this, but I think it's not as true as it once was. And a big reason for that was CSI. So I believe it's CSI. I could be wrong on all of this, but I think it's, it was, I was told it was the show was CSI. And where's CSI at now?

CBS? Yeah. Okay. So like say, I forget, maybe it was ABC, whatever. They had CSI. They shot it and they didn't like it. And then they, CBS goes, hey, we're, we're take it. We're buy it. And they go, and they didn't like it and then they CBS goes hey we're we're take it we're buy it and they go not only can you buy it but ABC was the production company that that made

CSI they go your production company can take it over we don't believe in that show and then that show became the biggest show ever and it's a billion dollar mistake a multi-billion dollar mistake and so since then a lot of stuff like that, because your production companies end up being like Universal, which is NBC or CBS. You know, you kind of with the Disney, ABC, like you end up kind of being, that's the studio and then that's the network. And so it's all kind of in-house. Production companies can kind of go everywhere. And the other ones can't. I mean, modern family was abc and then i think it was 20th century fox that shot it so they but they like to try to keep them together like so

20th century fox likes to be at fox or you know whatever they can kind of go but it kind of stopped for a while because they made that mistake of just going like now you and i mean if they would have kept cadet if they would have kept the production of it it would have been a big success so much and they go we don't believe in it at all you can have everything there's gonna be eight spinoffs i mean it's like the biggest franchise ever yeah it's crazy crazy uh reality shows just blew up and i'm still coming to the 2000s the aughts yeah uh like i said american it's actually called the 2000 no one says aughts okay i think you'd be surprised i don't think a lot of

a lot of erin land listeners call it the aughts yeah yeah i don't it's the problem with erin land there no one says aughts you hear aughts like out in the wild you hear aughts i think a lot of people would know what you meant when you said it. I'm not saying that they might not know it. I don't know what it means, but I'm saying you hear it. Yeah. I don't think you hear it. I don't think you hear it in casual conversation very often,

but I think we need to raise the bar in this country, honestly. And say the aughts. Uh-huh. That's a good place to start. O-T-S. How do you spell aughts? O-U-G-T-H? I thoughts? O-U-G-T-H? I thought it was A-U-G-H-T.

That's the word? Is that right? Spelled like that? Aaron Land says that's right. Yeah, the aughts. A-U-G-H-T. The digit zero. The decades in 2000, 2009 is the aughts.

Back in the early aughts, he worked as a marketing specialist. That's their sentence. I would walk out of the room. That'd be on his resume. All right. Back in the early aught sentence. I would walk out of the room. That'd be on his resume. All right. Back in the early aughts, this next guy worked at the marketing next. You ought to be ashamed he came in here like that. He has his resume broken down.

Aughts is like one section. You're like, hey, you can go ahead and leave. I swear to you, I oughtn't to ever hear that ever again. Well, the reality show, like I said, actually the last five years. That's words to catch people that are dumb like me. That's how they get us. You throw in an oughts? No, they throw in something like that.

That's how the 2000 Paralympics. That's how they found out. Yeah, that's how they found out. They go, how's your oughts going? And then I have to go, what'd you say? And he goes, idiot. And that's how they know. You're not real.

Gold medal gone. In England, they call it the naughties. Call what the naughties? The aughts. The aughts. So they call the 1900s the aughts? No. Yeah, because the 1900s, no one was being ridiculous.

Is that why? Maybe. Yeah. They were more just living life. It wasn't going so easy that they started making up random things. Yeah, they had real challenges back then. When was this word invented? Oh, let me look that up.

So in England, they called it the noughties? In England, yeah. The equivalent term in British English for aughts is the noughties. Yeah. Aaron read that just so of everybody listening. I don't think you knew it you read it as if it's like one of those things where once you read it you're like oh i do remember knowing that yeah you do no i've never heard yeah all right all right well all the big reality

shows real housewives bachelor american idol all those took off in the yeah still going strong last comic standing just like tom brady last comes to him yep um never got on it i've told that story though right yeah yeah i don't think so i was just trying to move it along yeah oh i'm sorry you want to just continue some more reading i'm not sure you know what entertainment is i'm kidding tell the story like people just want to hear no just let them keep going all right well the aughts were the nazis uh last time i was standing i auditioned for it when the first time i auditioned for was in chicago uh at chicago zanies we stood out in the it was i mean maybe 20 degrees and we had to get out there in the middle of the night and then we

and i remember the worst part was across the street, there was a bank that showed the time and the weather. And it was like the worst thing ever because you just couldn't not see it. And so you're just seeing it just be like, it was so cold. And the other one, we go to New York, we do it. We sat out front. Sven Wexler, a guy that I moved from Chicago to Nashville, or to New York with, he had a van. And so we would sit out front, Sven Wexler, a guy that I moved from Chicago to Nashville, or to New York with,

he had a van. And so we would sit out front. It was like Hannibal was there with us, Hannibal Buress and Rich Ronovich. I mean, Dustin Chave. I forget who was all there. And then we would sit out there and then we would be like, all right, you can go sit in the van. One of us, because it was cold there, you go sit in the van and we'll stand out. And then we would just switch, which very fun it was very very i mean it's not ideal when you say it but like in the looking back you're like this is what this is why you're starting man like this is you're staying outside you spend the night outside you don't go to any sleep then you go do a important audition maybe you're going to get through it i never got through it uh and then i remember i did finally you're able to get it because a lot of people don't know i remember they do but after a while when you get kind of higher up you don't have to go do that

you don't have to go stand in line there's spots that they like american idol has that where the kind of the bigger singers they still audition but you're not but they don't got to go wait in line with everybody else it's like starting with a callback yeah phase yeah yeah yeah yeah almost like that yeah and they might even show them at the beginning auditions too but there's just not going to make them because the you know a lot of times you know so the longer you're into something because you would be like well i'm not going to do it anymore i'm not going to go stand in line anymore so they got to be like well we'll let you just have a time yeah and you come and it's

always like brutal because you walk by all the comics waiting in line. But you're like, I was out there waiting in line. You're like, yeah, this is the point. And so I remember we go do it. Greg Giraldo was hosting. One of the funniest things I ever heard he said, when Craig Robinson was hosting the last comic standing, and he was in the movie Hot Tub Time Machine, he said, he goes, Craig said something like like all right i would like to promote uh my new movie hot tub time machine and greg giraldo goes oh what's it about

that's all he says it's very funny hot tub time machine's the name yeah oh tell me more about it uh but i remember i did that show and uh it's it's one of the only regrets i have two regrets in comedy when the daily show audition in that audition and it hurt me it's it's one of the only regrets i have two regrets in comedy when the daily show audition in that audition and it hurt me it was the first one that really really hurt because you wanted it yeah i just you know i was clean i was like i'm doing all the things i'm supposed to be doing to get this thing yeah and i did it and they said no and i you know i tried a bunch and i never got it and that was that one hurt most. Did they give you a reason? The jokes I chose were just like didn't make sense.

I think I had the evolution joke about like, you know, whatever, 98% monkey DNA. I did that. And then I did a joke about homeless people or something. And it was like, they were like, they don't go together, which makes total sense. It's like one of them's being like, you know, this one thing where you're basically saying you're a christian and the other one is you're making fun of homeless people and i just looked at like well those are my two jokes that work the best yeah right and so i'm just doing the jokes i'm not thinking of like the narrative i'm not thinking of like the idea that your joke should kind of really go together like instead of just going here's my five slammer jokes it'd be better

if someone or i believe if there's comics listening this year have to do an audition i think it'd be better to have your five minutes go with each other like let them flow into each other that's a better thing instead of going like well here's my five best jokes make sure they even if one joke's maybe not the best make sure it's good but have it you know open and close and make sense cohesive yeah and then i mean i left i remember calling laura i was like i just man that was that was that was the most down i've ever felt about my in the run of my comedy was was that i remember i remember walking down from gotham i walked alone i was like my stomach hurt i just was you know you know, you're just like, everything's going to change.

And you're like, I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm the only one clean. Yeah. And y'all are not letting me, you know. Yeah. But you're doing better than maybe anybody ever on there. Well, I'll show them. Nicest man in stand-up.

I bring it out. I call him every day. I go to Greg Gerardo's grave and i let him know no that's sorry that's too that's not the nicest man i just greg greg would have loved that joke uh i opened for greg once and uh i'll never forget that but one of the nicest moments i ever had with greg giraldo uh i was uh it was me i think pat dixon was emceeing pat d Dixon knew Greg and I didn't really know Greg well. And he was like, I bet I had a car. And so we were going to do a college

and, uh, Greg was like, you can emcee and, uh, I'll, you know, and I can drive them down there. So we go pick up Pat, we go to Greg, I'm driving. It's very cool. Greg just telling us all these stories. And, uh, I remember I got out of of the car this white Honda Accord that we had that my brother just had I think they had a way to get rid of it finally it that one Honda Accord it was Lars cars we've it's been everywhere my whole career was through that Honda Accord and uh so Greg I remember I never forget we got out of a like a truck stop or something to just go to the bathroom, stretch. And I remember he opens the door, he's standing on the other side of the car, and I'm on this side. And I knew he was married and he had kids.

And I asked him, I go, you know, because we were at that point probably thinking about having kids. And I was like, what do you think about having kids? Like, does it really hurt your comedy career or something like that? And he just looked at me, he goes, it's the greatest thing that's ever happened to me in my life, is having these kids. And I think about that all the time. And it's, you know, he loved and loved, loved his kids.

And so I always think about that. That was a huge part just to see that, you know. And then I watched him that night and you're just like, this dude was just unreal, unbelievable comedian. You know, so, yeah. It's so great to hear a comedian not cynical about stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's like what I just did.

That's what I think, the nice thing about Stanton, or the idea that is like we're always usually very, I'm sure there was a joke followed right after that. Right. But it's like there's a curtain that we go like we still i love everybody and it's like yeah dude i love my kids it's the greatest but you're not going to go with comics you can like you basically can open that curtain show it and then you're like you got to shut it quick right because you don't want to let too many people because then then everybody's like because we're just like we've talked about that but like you're just uncomfortable with like, even with us together just being this kind of sweet kind of thing.

Like we can tell, you know, me and Soder can hug and be like, I'm like, I love you, buddy. He's like, I love you. And then we'll just trash each other for the rest of the time. But there's the moments. That's just kind of, I think, the comedy aspect, which I think is great. I think it helps.

That's what, you know, helps you being a comedian. You're always kind of just trying to be fun funny right right uh some pop culture moments the 2000s um the halftime show the super bowl with janet jackson the war girl malfunction let's show that yeah i remember watching that and i remember just being like you know because all like kind of like is that what i you know i never i didn't see i've never watched halftime shows you don't i think you i thought you would no i mean i usually i mean it just depends on it but usually that's when i if you're a part that's when i get up and go to the bathroom and get chips and get ready for the second half and that takes good 30 40 minutes so you're like that's why you time it out you're so during the

regular season you're like i'd make it back time it out. So during the regular season, you're like, I'd make it back mid third quarter. But Super Bowl, I don't ever miss a second. You got to get the jar of salsa open. Yeah.

I go pee. I go fix some stuff. I go pee again. Come back. Get my drink ready. Pee one more time and then sit down and then boom.

That's true. I have to pee right now. You watch the Super Bowl halftime show? Yeah. I mean, that's all part of it. You want to watch the commercials. You want to watch the halftime show. Like, I mean, I'm not saying if I don't completely care about it,

then I'll look at it. Then maybe I do talk. But, yeah, I watch. I mean, back then I was definitely watching the halftime show. The Sopranos ended in 2007, one of the most unusual endings. Yeah. Shows. Most unusual endings in shows.

Oh, because it ended that way? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was. That's what they say on there? That's what I said. I'm trying to move fast because I can tell you're- You can feel it.

I can, yeah. I'm trying to help you with your timing. We should cut the podcast off like the Sopranos this episode. This episode just goes. It's going to go to nowhere. Don't stop believing. Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift at the 2009 TV VMAs. That was big.

Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, that was crazy. Did you know her then? I did. Did you talk to her about it? I talked to her family about it. Yeah. Because I went on, this was right before our senior break of senior year of high school.

And this was like maybe two weeks after this happened, we went on vacation with her family. And so it was like all we were talking about at the time. Because it's crazy. It was crazy. It was this huge cultural kind of moment. Like Obama was commenting about it like it was insane what were they saying yeah i mean just they're upset well i mean what are you gonna of course you'll be upset like i would imagine it's just you know you're like what are you what are you gonna do but it's like that moment she was just like it was like her stardom was like it's not like she didn't deserve something

like she's the biggest ever not like beyonce didn't deserve something it's like you know like right you know it kind of is the beginning of showing how kanye's kind of out there a little right his own thing right yeah but beyonce and ari swift i mean they're probably the same kind of you know they're both just mega mega mega stars yeah you know their-hmm. You know? Their own stratosphere. Yeah. I think I remember when it first happened, some people thought it was rigged, like they thought they did it on purpose. Yeah. I think they hashed it out, and then they might have got weird again. Yeah, they had beef on and off for a while, I think.

But yeah, I definitely understand thinking that that could be planted. Yeah. I'm cynical in that way too i always think this is all you know i don't think that one i don't think i don't think it was and i don't think anything was as cynical back then i think that was the start yeah that almost you could i wonder if you could look at that and go that because that's the start of reality tv it's the start of all this you know when you start figuring out reality tv is like written and you're like oh this you watch kardashians like all made it's all kind of like directed in this certain way it's all

kind of people you know and i wonder if that like people saw the response to that and so now it's like well let's try to recreate those kind of moments yeah and so maybe it is and i i feel like that was a real moment and so you know when michael Michael Jackson died in 2009, TMZ broke the story. And that was, they said the first time, that was a shift from just your national news

to what TMZ is. Now you see that a lot more other places, but that had never happened before. And then, I don't know this,

Conan took over the Tonight Show June 2009. By January 2010, they moved Jay back in. Right. And then Conan left a few days later. I never did. I did Conan before.

I did Conan after. And I never did that. That whole Tonight Show stuff, I don't know. I don't want to, you know, Conan was very, very good to me. But that's a weird kind of thing, man. I mean, Jay, people would always, Jay Leno is, I mean, the nicest guy ever. Like, and he called me after my special. Like, I'm not trying to just say that, but he's that kind of guy.

He's a real, he's just a comic. And he's a comic that calls you and just goes, man, that was great. We loved it. You know, it's like just a real comedian that wants to just be a comic and hang out. And he was number one. And I get why they wanted Conan to move up. I totally get it. Conan, though, is doing what Conan should be doing now.

Conan is crushing it. Conan's unbelievable. The stuff that he does, he's so funny. And him going to these other countries, Conan is just the greatest at that kind of stuff. It's actually kind of like, you're like, yeah, dude, this is it. This is your future. You're going to be just better than you probably ever was or ever were. And he was great.

Conan was the only one I watched. But I always thought that when they kind of, you know, I always felt bad for Leno. Leno got a lot of like, I thinkeno is a good guy that's a blue collar dude that was like you know i'm just trying to i feel like he looks at himself like uh like he works for this company i show up every day i do what they want me to do yeah and then so then he gets caught up in like kind of the attitudes and the you know kind of of everything and it's like he's like i just do what i'm supposed to do he was number one and then they go we'll go do conan he's like okay and then i think conan they did conan i don't know

how good it was doing and then they go we'll go bring leno back and leno's like okay i'll do whatever you guys want me to i get like he's a you know a company man kind of person which is admirable you know like you can't be mad at a guy for that. That's what I've always thought with that. I always thought that with the Letterman stuff. I don't think he's backstabbing. I mean, he was the best comedian coming up. Everybody watched him.

I don't think Leno was ever a backstabber and did stuff. I know people like Letterman. I get it. Letterman went and did crazy things, but Leno did great, man. Leno's a great, great guy. Letterman wasman was great too but i mean letterman i don't think like leno would be if you go if i never did a show but i would hear you go do his show he's back there talking to you he goes and meets everybody he does all this kind of stuff letterman you don't see him yeah he walks over to you at the end and y'allall wave, and then that's it. It's not as personable.

You almost probably feel like he doesn't want you on the show. And Leno was not that type of guy. So I did not do either one of the shows. Letterman, obviously, is unbelievable. I'm not trying to say one's better than the other one. But I always just think Leno gets a little too harsh of a rap. I mean, he's just a great dude. And this is coming from the nicest man in stand-up.

So don't ever forget that. All right. That's it, right? Yeah. We're done. We did it. You think we'll do the 2010s? The 2010s?

Oh, I guess so, because it's 2021. So maybe we'll do the 2010s. I don't? Oh, I guess so because it's 2021. So maybe we'll do the 2010s. I don't know. What are they called? The oddies. Ottens. Ottens. The begottens.

And, yeah, so maybe we do them. I don't know. Yeah. You know, I got to see. You know, I might even do this podcast. So we do need yeah we will we will do something we're not going to do them

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