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We're excited. That's still here. What if we, because we're having to pre-record this one. So what if we fire you and then next week you're not? I mean, well, this, you know, this will be a good, good out. Yeah. This episode. So you're out of it, but then, because the next, next week will be live, right? Oh. What if he's already out? Oh, yeah. What if you're already out? And then this is awkward. Oh, like, so, you know, this will, there'll be an episode in between. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see if he makes it through this episode.

Yeah, we'll go find out. It's episode by episode. Yeah, we got paycheck by paycheck. Yeah. Let's start off with you guys' comments. Chuck Mulliken. Mulliken. Chuck Mulliken or Mulliken? Mulliken sounds...

Mulligan. Mulligan? Mulligan. Oh, yeah. I like Mulligan. Chuck Mulligan. I like Mulligan because it sounds like a mulligan. Mulligan. That'd be a great golf name. Oh, if your last name is Mulligan? Yeah, another Mulligan and Mulligan. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of jokes there.

My daughter refers to this podcast as what dad listens to when he doesn't want to think. There you go. I like that. Yeah. That's what we want to be. That's all we want. Keep your, you know, trying to keep you on my level so when I take over the world, I've made everybody dumb as me. Yeah. Tricked them. Tricked them. Yep. Go ahead. Put your hat on. Like a Luke Wilson. What is that hat?

It was a Chattanooga Lookouts. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. You just threw out the first pitch. Third game. Oh, yeah. You threw out the first pitch. Yeah. Oh, I saw the pitch. It was good. Did you get to practice it? I did. Yeah, there was a batting cage where I got to throw a little bit before him. It was a good pitch. It was all right. I felt good about it. A little movement on it, a little speed. Did you feel nervous? No.

Well, I was nervous because on the way there, they called and they said, there's somebody else throwing out the first pitch too. And you can see him in the video. He's standing very politely next to the mound. It's Memorial Day weekend. So they have a local war hero to throw out the first pitch with me. And so I meet him. He's very nice. He's wearing all Navy stuff. And they read my bio and then they read his bio.

And he got standing O from the crowd. The place is going crazy. I mean, he fought in Vietnam. He's got all kinds of medals and awards and stuff. My pitch was a little better, though. Did he make a good pitch? I mean, it was good for his situation. Yeah, yeah. For a guy that did stuff for this country, actually. Dusty, go ahead. You think they were like...

oh, we booked this guy Memorial Day. And then they're like, and they realize it was you. And they go, well, was he got any military that we could work with? They kept digging. Did he donate to the military? And they just keep digging. They're like, we got to get a military guy. Yeah, we got to get a military guy. But based on this bio, we can't let this guy go. This may be the best thing going for him right now. First up, gout survivor Aaron Weber. And then you got line drive one. It's good for you now.

The guy, the reason we're free. That's what it felt like. All right, now there's the clowns out of the way. I had a little joke in my bio that got a legit pop from the crowd. It felt good. A little line. What was it? I said, he's a stand-up comedian, whatever, but his baseball career was cut short in 2004 due to a lack of athletic ability. Just something simple. It got a big pop.

Yeah. Felt good. Yeah. You know, and then I got out of the way and the hero got a standing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was short. That's fun. You know, this guy's doing it because you can watch him feature all weekend at the, uh, Chad. Oh, you're ahead.

This next guest, this next guy, the guy who fell on the first pitch out, he's going to be doing the announcements at Chattanooga Catch all weekend. If you want to go watch that, get there early so you can hear him. Tim McPherson, watching y'all from Australia. Mate, I can't stop laughing every time you say dead gummit.

Keep it up, guys. Like a lot of other listeners, I've got a stressful job, and I watch Nate Land because I don't have to think. Just fun stuff. Most of it's so incorrect, it's hilarious, but no thinking required. No inappropriate stuff, so I can listen anytime I want. No politics, whatever. It's such a de-stressor every day. Dead gummit. Dead gummit's good. We're bringing that back. Dead gummit is good. Dead gummit's good. Australia. Look at that. Micah Wimberly.

I saw Brian open for Nate a few years back in Dallas. Nate was great, but I walked away that night mostly talking about baits. Love your stuff. It keeps getting better. Nice.

Look at that. How about that, dude? There you go. Threw that one in. Full disclosure, she didn't send that to the podcast. That was just me personally, but I wanted to put that on there. She didn't want to put that out in public. Is that what you meant? She didn't put it on the podcast. She put it on my personal page. I just copied it over. I love it. Is Mike a he or a she?

Tough to say. So you're just bringing in your own comments? I just needed a boost, all right? Yeah. I had someone say this to me the other day. Somebody on the street said they liked me a lot. Someone called me and said, you know, the name is great, but I walked away at night mostly talking about baits. I don't get it very often, so I just wanted to slip it in. There you go. Wesley Gay says,

Hey, Nate, Aaron, and bomb shelter. And dusty. You're in. Real afterthought there. And bomb shelter. Oh, and dusty. And dusty. I just want to let you know that Aaron is now a source. For my final speech of high school, I decided to base my speech off of Aaron's TED Talk about failure. Aaron helped me get a 98% on the speech. Thanks a bunch. All right. Yeah. How about that?

Didn't use Dusty's TED Talk. It was recorded at the same time as mine. Well, you had a hot TED Talk. I mean, I forgot what I was even talking about halfway through. Dusty's TED Talk was hilarious, dude. What was it called? We're having a good time. And then I forgot. I don't know. I'm not good when it's supposed to be serious.

So the audience wasn't laughing, and I blanked out, and then I started doing jokes. Justin kept going. He goes, there is a point to this. I will get to it. And then you stumbled on a good point. You're like, oh, that's it. That's what this is about. Yeah, it was fun. So anybody can do a TED Talk. Yeah. It's pretty open these days. And then, so you just went on, and you chose failure, something you're familiar with. Right. It was about bombing, actually. Oh, it was? Yeah, but I guess I tried to make it you can apply to it.

Failing at anything. How long did you talk? Mine was about seven minutes. Yeah. Pretty tight.

Yeah. Dusty did about an hour. Yeah. I did about 15. But the girl before me had a whole TED Talk about like pooping in a David's bridal. Yeah. And so I go up and I just kind of make a joke. I'm like, I poop in David's bridal all the time. And they left that in there with no context. The first line of Dusty's TED Talk is, I pooped in several David's bridals. And it gets a big laugh. And you're like, what is going on? And he gets into it.

We're having a good time. So, Will Matthews. In the last 20 years or so, the WWE has periodically featured celebrities to compete. What? Did I say periodically? Periodically.

Periodically? Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Periodically is what it looks like. Yeah. Periodically featured celebrities to compete in matches at special events like WrestleMania. Drew Carey, Johnny Knoxville, Stoop Dogg, and Donald Trump have all wrestled. If WWE approached Nate about wrestling a match, would he do it? And would his match be a singles match or would he tag with Aaron and Big Boss Bates?

And what would their tag name be? Yeah, I mean, I probably would do it just because it'd be crazy to do it. I mean, that'd be fun. You know, just to walk out and feel that would be amazing. I'd like to be a manager. Yeah, I would have you. I mean, I would have no damage done to me and you would be...

Just body slam thrown out of the ring. I'd have it. Yes. Right. If we turn a tag out, you're like, give it up. It would be, I would, I would have me and Aaron turn on you. Yeah. You turn heel. Yeah. And then, uh, do it just mainly for that comment you put up at the top. Uh,

That you brought over from an outside source. Maybe that's why I would do it. I would do it. Yeah, it'd be awesome. It'd be great. Yeah, it'd be, you know, just feel that. You got to be famous though. I mean, they have to, you got to, everybody has to know who you are. Well, Pat McAfee just did it. Yeah, but he's in that world. That's true. You know. And he's pretty famous.

Yeah. The people that, yeah, I think a lot of his listeners are probably big WWE fans. And then Michael Wimberly comes out and goes, I never meant it. It's all right at the end. I never meant it. Because I was saying something nice. Amanda Schweda. Schweda.

I'm recently engaged and would absolutely love him to officiate or just attend our wedding. I'm talking about you. My fiance and I are huge fans of Nate in the podcast. The wedding is next September, so he has plenty of time to prepare Aaron and butter my biscuits. Would obviously be invited too. And as an added bonus, there will be a candy bar at the wedding, Sour Patch included. Thank you for your consideration. I mean, a candy bar at a wedding. I've never even heard of such a thing. That's pretty great. That's pretty great.

Eat a donut bar at mine. Yeah. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's right. I remember that. I remember that. Crispy crust. You had a couple of donuts. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Yeah. You come from money like that, you can do stuff like that. Yeah. I don't have anything. I think we served, like, make your own pasta. I think that's honestly what we had. And I think people liked it because it was very basic. I would love that. Yeah. Yeah, I'll see what happens next September.

I've never done a wedding. So, you know. Brayden Klein. Stop reading comments. There we go. Brayden's not a fan, but let me tell you something. That's what a lot of people love the most.

For one, they love to see if their garments are going to get red. And secondly, if they didn't have an outlet to correct all of our nonsense and all our mistakes, I think people would lose their mind. I get that. That was the original point. That was the reason for comments was to give you, because we're going to say so much stuff wrong, I don't want you to have to feel like you're going crazy. Or do you think maybe this is actually coming from a place of love from Brayden saying like, hey, listen, you should stop reading these comments for your mental health.

You know, like it's gotten away from you. It doesn't matter. I mean, if, you know, Braden...

Again, go look at YouTube. You can move this wherever you want. Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't DVR a show and just be like, why do y'all do the slow parts? You're like, move it to the parts that you want to go to. That's the wonderful thing. I mean, like, you know, we're reading these ads. Thankfully, a lot of people, they listen to these ads and they support us. But you're like, I don't know.

There's so many ways. It's so easy to skip. We bookmark it for you. It's all so easy. Yeah, YouTube, everything's- Timestamps below. Timestamps below. You see everything. Go, just skip to the thing that you want, and then get going. He'll do that. He'll never see us talking about his comment. Yeah. He just skips them every time. Yeah. Well, I mean, and rightfully so. This might really, he might be into it now, though.

Now that you've read the comment, he's like, oh, this is really working. Yeah, yeah. This works for me. Yeah, yeah. It's always a weird kind of, you know, if there's no outlet, then I guess I can see. Like if there's no like, well, we can't fast. But when there's, you can go around anything. You could hear just the end.

Listen to the last five minutes and then be done. Brian Botwell. I'm a professor. Botwell? That just sounds like a name for Brian. Oh, Brian Botwell. He's a real person. I'm a professor at a large SEC university, and the conversation on peer review from a while back was just so great.

wrong in so many ways, right in others, and generally just a scattershot of nonsense. As someone who makes his living in the confines of peer-reviewed science, it just made me incredibly happy. I've recently started a project

I started a project to better understand why comedy and horror, two things that seem like opposites, go together so well in so many ways. We've got some ideas, but I'd love to really know your thoughts. Yeah, I don't know if I even understand what you mean by that yet. So, Aaron, what is all this? He said he's working on a project to understand why comedy and horror work so well together when...

They seem to be exact opposite. It's extremes. So the both are extremes. Comedy is an extreme. Funny stories are kind of extremes. Like even though your story has truth in it, you can exaggerate it or make it, it's a bigger, it means you're madder about it than you technically might've been and whatever. And horror is like, I mean, it's Jason, like Friday 13th, like which is an extreme of someone killing someone.

But does it work well together? I think so. I don't watch a lot of horror. I always say horror. I don't watch a lot of horror films. My wife makes fun of me. Horror. Yeah, I just say scary movies. Yeah, that may be the way to go. Horror. It's like an old summer horror. Horror. The horror. We're watching a horror flick tonight. What? I don't know. Do you say other words that rhyme with that the same way? I say mirror.

Mira? Yeah. Instead of mirror. Yeah. Mira. Yeah. I think that's about it. What if you married a girl named Mira? That'd be tough. That'd be tough. She would be upset about me pronouncing it wrong all the time. Just be called her mirror. Yeah. And then you go...

Mirror looking the mirror. Yeah. You go, how you doing? You go, yeah, me and my wife mirror. We just came in. I'm trying to look for a new mirror, a little bit younger mirror. You got them? And they're like, what? Is this thing you're talking about your wife? I need a new mirror. I need a new mirror. This mirror I got is just old as you can obviously see it's old as dirt. And mirror is holding the mirror. And he goes, this mirror is old as dirt. A lot of cracks.

A lot of cracks. I want to get a new mirror. This mirror doesn't excite me anymore. And so, yeah, what do you got? You know, the guy. My mom's name is Edna, right? And her mom always called her Edna. Yeah. And it's like, you named her. Yeah. You can't get her name wrong. Yeah. You can't name her and then not do it. I think we say her last name wrong.

My mom's? No. Yeah. I think my family says your mom's last name wrong. Oh, yeah. No, I think we say Bargetzi, and I think it's Bargotsi. Okay. But I think we've southerned it.

Oh, I've always said Bargatze. So am I doing it the right way, you think? Bargetze. Not by the way you do it, but by the way you think. Probably the right, yeah. Most people do it the way, and I'm just guessing. I think we say it, but I imagine. There was a guy, Arthur Ravenel in Charleston, and the bridge was called the Ravenel Bridge, and nobody knew how to pronounce it. And they brought him on the radio one time to clear it all up.

And then they were like, he said, Rav now. And they were like, are you sure? And then by the end, it's like, nobody was clear on how to pronounce. They were like, I don't know. Yeah. He's like, no, it's Rav now.

And they're like, Ravenel? And it didn't clear it out. And what was the other one? Ravenel. Ravenel. Yeah. Ravenel, yeah. He's a... You ever see that show Southern Charmed? Yeah, it'd be his grandfather. It's about... Yeah. That's how I know that name. Yeah. Thomas Ravenel. Wait, what is it? You know that show Southern Charmed that's like real housewives, but it's just people in Charleston? Yeah, I guess. One of the guys is of the Ravenel family. Okay. Yeah.

And they talk a little bit about that. But comedy and horror work well together. It's all about tension. Welcome to Aaron Lane. He's got a guest today. That's right. Justin Slater's talking about the Ravenel Bridge. All right, a little Ravenel history. In comedy and horror, it's about tension being released. They're being released in different ways. So I think that can complement each other very nicely. Back to Nate Lane. He gave the real answer over there. Yeah. Nate Lane would love to hear about it. Yeah.

Oh, I just did that one. Turn it back over. Braden Klein, stop reading comp. Another one? He did it again? Micah Wimbley. Klein was great.

Paul Collier. When I was in high school, I was so sad about Taco Bell taking away the chili cheese burrito. I decided one Saturday to write a letter to Taco Bell and drop it off at their company headquarters, which happened to be in the town next to mine. The office was closed, but the security guard took my letter, photocopied it, and taped it to the CEO computer monitor for when they got to the office that Monday morning. It wasn't a week later that only my Costa Mesa...

Costa Mesa Taco Bell location had the burrito back and I was able to enjoy it for the next three years before they took it out for good. I signed my letter local sports hero under my name. Maybe Nate should try that for the nation to get it back for good since he has more clout than me.

I don't mean you. You run this town. You're the local hero. All right. Yeah. Maybe I'll write him a letter. I did a Zoom for him, and I told him. Talk about? Yeah. Wow. But I said, will y'all bring it back? And they were laughing, and I was just very... Like what? Yeah. I go, I haven't even started yet. Yeah.

I don't get why the letter was photocopied. Like, did he not trust the security guard to just take the real? He's like, yeah, I don't trust you to photocopy it. That way, if you don't deliver it, I will still be able to mail it in. Yeah. The office was closed, but the security guard took my letter, photocopied it, and taped it to the CO computer monitor. Yeah. I think the security guard lost their job.

Like you're just going into the CEO's desk, taping things there. Yeah, just think about every chili cheese burrito you ate, that guy was out on the street. It's like, you're not allowed to use the copier with my clothes. Yeah. And don't come into my office. Yeah. Maybe Paul, maybe let us know why. Why was it photocopied? I guess he wanted to keep it to, maybe it was to melt. He's like, I'll just photocopie it. I'll have one. You melt. Because he's like, maybe the guy's like, let's try to,

do both, you should mail it in, but also we're photocopying. Andrew Dorfman, who's an owner of Zany's, told Dusty and I a hilarious story back when he was a comic in the 80s and he was submitting to clubs. Back in the day, you'd have to send a

You remember VHS tapes and like physical headshots and he didn't have any headshots. So he went to the library and stuck his face in the photocopier, like face all smashed up. And those were his headshots. And he sent those to clubs and he said, people loved it. They thought it was so funny and unique. Just his face all smushed up against the glass. That's so great. I think I know now why he did it. I feel like there was more to it. Maybe he also put it on someone else's desk.

But he only had one letter, so they made a copy so he could put it on two. That makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. Did you leave that out? Yeah. Oh, you left out the explanation of... This guy left a long comment. I mean, some of these comments are much harder. Let me tell you the story of the day I wrote a letter. Yeah. Yeah.

When I started, I mean, you had to send VHS. Really? I was in that. Did you send VHS? Yeah, I'm the older one. I went through that, the VHS and the real headshots. So you would just send boxes to clubs and stuff? You would send – the headshots were big. You had to get those. And then, I mean, my first videos, they might be in here, which I got to give them to –

Jim Roth from Conway College. I've been telling him. They're VHSs. But yeah, you would get that and you would mail it to the club or something for them to look at. And then it's like, I remember it was still like when email started coming around, someone would still be like, well, mail us. Because some clubs didn't really know email. And then you start going like, but I think email is like...

a little bit easier to do, you know, like, and you'd want to like say, can I just eat, you know, but I, it's not like I even really know how, or then a website came, you're like, well, just check out this way, you know, and then some would not know. It was our, the whole switch was pretty crazy. Cause you just would see these ways come easier. And you're like, you know, it's crazy. And then when you get to like filming your own set on a phone and you're like, I mean, do we, you'd have to bring a legit camera. Yeah.

Yeah. That's like when I was trying to send out stuff, they would say, you need this EPK, the electronic press kit. And it would be this, this and this. And I'm like, well, what if I just put all that on a website and then sent them my website? They would be, people would be like, no, they don't want that. They want to see an EPK. And I'm like, yeah, but this is easier. Why would they not just want to click this link? Yeah. Some places still like that. Yeah. Uh,

All right. Steve Crawford. I was catching up on them during a recent road trip podcast.

And heard the small part talking about Ted Williams' frozen head. I think it was episode 96. And I thought you guys needed to hear some more details. Apparently at some point, Ted's freezer malfunctioned and they had to move his head to another freezer. They needed to prop his head up to keep it from rolling around. So naturally they used a tuna can when it refroze. The can of tuna fused to his head. They couldn't get the can off by hand. So Lab Tech took the next logical step

swinging at it with a wrench. Unfortunately, the first swing missed the can, but foul-tipped Ted's head, sending pieces of his head flying. With an 0-1 count, he made contact on his next swing and knocked the can loose. That's crazy. I got some pictures if you want to see them. Of that? No. I mean, oh, my gosh. I hope Ted comes back now, and he's like, golly, do what?

Where's my ear? And they're like, oh. What's this tuna smell? Yeah. He goes, I'm allergic to tuna now. I used to eat it all the time. Mm-hmm.

Did we talk about just the – I can't remember. Did we talk about just the craziness of the biggest athlete in the world going to fight a war in the middle of his career? Oh, yeah. Just – Yeah. A lot of them did it. I think you said that's like Steph Curry just went to Iraq right now. Yeah. You'd be like, what? Well, it's what – Elvis did it. Yeah. I mean, it's crazy. Yeah.

Pat Tillman, I mean, like what he left his career and like did that. I mean, it's something, it's special. And especially back then, I mean, you know, like they're, you know, I mean, they were just in cray. I mean, cray, it was just a different time. Yeah. Pretty wild. They didn't go play in a game. Derek Cochran. My dad is a preacher at an Assembly of God church, one service. Our keyboard player was not at church that day. It came to the end of the service and my dad was about to give the altar call.

Being aware that the keyboard player was not there, he asked the congregation if someone could please come and play something, meaning guitar or keyboard. A random man, possibly under the influence of something, from the crowd jumped up and went and got on the drums and just started banging out some random beats. It was one of the most awkward, greatest moments of my life.

My dad learned a valuable lesson that day to always specific, to specific, how do you? Specify. Specify. Man, I was getting started the wrong way. And that's what happened. Yeah. It happens in golf. Yeah.

One time you get started wrong way and you're going to get stuck in your swing. And what you got to do is you just got to step out. Yeah. Readjust. Step out and go. Specify. My takeaway is not when I take it away. So, yes, specify. If you go spee, then you're like, well, I can't even where to go. Spee-cify? You can't even, you don't know where to go. Specify who and what to play when asking. That's, I mean, the guy at church was, I mean, the fact that he was,

Maybe on something. Well, I want to know, did no one come? You do the altar call, some guy comes up, starts whipping out some beats, no one comes? Like the altar call, did no one come? That would make you want to go for it, right? Yeah, what if it was a highly successful day with the drum beats? People are like, you know what? I'm kind of feeling it now. Now, what is an altar call? What happens?

That's when you come up and you go, if anybody wants to, you know, give their life to Jesus, come forward now and we'll pray with you. Or if you got some, you got some needs or if you, you know, you just want to pray up here. So they will ask people to physically come to the front. Yeah. You come to the front, you know, it's a real humbling and people are crying. So typically you'd have a little light organ playing. That's so funny. You're throwing the people a bone, like just cause it's, it's a lot, it's a lot to do it. And, uh,

When you get saved, that's what you end up doing. You walk up there and go do it. Personally, this is a small dream of mine. You're sitting somewhere and they go...

Hey guys, the comedian didn't show up. Can anybody, is there anybody out here that could do a little comedy? And then I would go, that's me. Yeah. That's me. That's you at our rehearsal dinner. Yeah. Dusty was ready to go. Popped up, did a set. Oh yeah. I think about this when I go to a concert, I know this is so stupid, but whenever I go to a concert, I just imagine the scenario where the, the act singles me out and goes, what song should I play next?

I run through this in my head all the time. I don't want to pick a lame one. I don't know. I just think that's going to happen. And the last time I saw John Mayer, he did that to somebody in the crowd. He pointed at Bridgestone. He goes, what song should I play next? And there's so much pressure to like pick a cool one. I think about that every time I'm at a concert. What did they say? I'm stressed out. They said it was a deep cut. People were excited. Yeah. Are you, how close do you sit? Not that close. Yeah.

So what's your, yeah, yeah. I'm not saying, I'm not saying, not saying it's a rational. He goes, am I crazy to do this? John got binoculars out. Oh gosh. He's about to. Tiny dancer. He doesn't. Yeah. It's not a rational fear. I don't know. I never. I saw Ben folds at the Ryman and it was called the paper airplane tour. And what you did was they gave everybody pieces of paper and,

And you wrote a song request on the paper, made a paper airplane, and then threw it at the stage. Yeah. Just throughout the concert. And then he'd get up from his piano, he'd walk around and pick one up and unfold it and play whatever song that was. And it was all his songs? It was all his songs, yeah. Yeah. Songs of his. There's a lot of people just getting hit in the eye and just, yeah. Yeah, a lot of bad throws going on.

Yeah. Mine would never be. The idea, yeah, I guess it's a fun idea. It's something unique to do. Yeah, it's something unique to do. You also do your act. A comedian doing that would be hilarious. Write my favorite bits and throw it at me. It's like everything is...

I feel like music, there's a lot of that. They're like, oh, we're going to play. I mean, you just got this safety net of just being like, I'm going to do, I can go play Freebird. I can go play any song. And then you're going to know it. And then we just saw Kenny. I saw Kenny Chesney with Dan and Shay. It was a big deal. I love Kenny Chesney. He didn't play Back Where I Come From, which is a big song. And we were in Tennessee. It made me disappointed. Was it here in town? Yeah.

The Waffle House murder suspect, or what do you call it once they do it? The killer? Okay, yeah. He's convicted, the killer. In his sentencing, they... I was like, what would you call him now? Yeah. He's been convicted. He's the hero? Yeah. Yeah.

brothers. They, in his sentencing, his defense argued he's insane. And the defense they had was he would go to Taylor Swift concerts and he would think they were dating and that she was talking directly to him. And they have all these examples, all the stuff he wrote down, these letters to Taylor and stuff.

And then I look back on that episode where Aaron shows us a video of him down front and everyone else is singing and he's just staring at her. The same episode where he said he helped her get her groceries in. And I think maybe there's something going on here. Yeah. And yeah, I think it's all about me at the concert. I'm a step away.

When you go to the bathroom, do you just keep your hat down? And you're like, excuse me, excuse me. And you're like, he's about to ask me for what song I want to do. And you go, is he? We're in the top section. And he goes, I just don't. When you walk down the aisle of the bathroom, you're just covering your eyes and you just don't. It goes, oh, here we go. All right. I can't even name songs.

Back Where I Come From, I wanted Kenny to play that. That's how many hits he has that he doesn't even play that song. That was a big one. Back Where I Come From was the big song. It was a giant song for me because I would listen to it every time before I did comedy when I moved to Chicago and New York. Because it was like, I was just, from here, I don't know anybody there. So on the subway, I would listen to it. And it's like a reminder of home before you go out and get yelled at by...

A German crowd. And I don't know who's ever got yelled at. But New York, you're performing for just everybody in the world and none of them want to be there. Jonathan Bailey. Nate, I'm curious if you've ever been called Nate Forgetzi. I imagine a PE teacher yelling, hey, Forgetzi, at a young Nate like the teacher on Seinfeld that called George can't stand you.

Seems like you must have at some point, but if not, I just thought you could use a nickname along with Boppet and Gowdy McBrain. McBrain. McBrain. Gowdy McBrain. I mean, you know, you told me I don't know how to read. So, but yeah, I guess if you want to also pile on to that, you could call me Nate Fergetzi. I don't think anybody, no one ever really, I don't remember messing with my name. Like, Bargetzi was already...

It was messing enough, right? Yeah. I mean, you're just this Southern like, what? Yes, ma'am. What's all right, mate? Your name's already like, why are you here? Right. Yeah. It's not Smith or Slay. Yeah. I mean, Slay's a hot one. You know what I mean? Dusty, musty, dusty. I got all those. Yeah. You get a lot of- You don't really mess with Slay, but Dusty is. Do you get a lot of people thinking that's not your real name? Yeah. Because Slay is a comic term. Yeah. Yeah.

So you kind of lucked out on that one. Slaying it. You slayed it. I hear that a lot. Like you're Killer Bees, basically, but you're Dusty Slay. Can you imagine if you said Dusty Slay, if you named yourself Dusty Slay? Yeah, I mean, if it was a fake name. You wouldn't be the comic you were. Yeah, that's true. That is true. I mean, just giving yourself, I mean, Dusty.

is, uh, you know, I had a joke about it at one point long ago, but, um, you know, like a Christmas joke, a dusty sleigh kind of thing. Yeah. A lot of fun. Yeah. It only worked at Christmas time. Well, I would do the joke. I would go, I would go, you know, I'd say, uh, you know, um,

I'd say, I forget the joke, but I would go like, I'd say, I'm Dusty Slay, right? And then I would say, I'd get everybody to say my last name. I'd go, Dusty Slay, Dusty Slay, right? It's really early on. And then I'd get them all to say their first name and then I would go, Slay. Yeah. And then I'd say, if any of the ladies out there like the way that sounds, you know, I was like, I am single. You know what I mean? Because it'd be their first name and then my last name. And then I had another Slay joke in there. Yeah.

It was a dirtier joke as it goes on, but it was a good time. Yeah. Not really worth it. And these were small enough crowds that you could ask everybody in the crowd their name. Well, you know, the time I did it, the first time I did it, it was at this, the music farm and it was like a contest and they pushed it on the radio. I don't know if you know the comic Kenny Z. He was, he lived in Charleston doing the radio at the time. Not Kenny G, Kenny Z. Yeah. So he did, you know, it's probably 300 people there. So the first time I did it, like dusty, like a lot of people said it, it was a lot of fun. Yeah. It felt good.

and then i did it one time at an open mic and this girl heckled me about it she goes oh that was so terrible and it was like she was the one audible voice yeah that i was like i'll never do that again i can't ever i can't ever stomach it she she really pierced right into my soul yeah and she looked dead eyes with me yeah because that was awful yeah i'm glad you made it out of it uh

A little extra. A little pizzazz at the end. A little add it on. All right. This week, we are... What are we doing? Talking about aliens because this is part two, really, because we talked about aliens before. But last month, Congress had their first congressional hearing on...

UAPs. That's what they call them now. They don't call them UFOs. They call them UAPs. What is that? Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. They think it gets rid of some of the stigma of flying saucers.

And it's a little broader. You're talking about the event rather than the actual object. Yep. Right. That probably makes more sense than what I just said, actually, when I think about it. No, I think they're both. It seems like a WWF, WWE kind of thing. Yeah. They're like, there's already a UFO. We've had this for longer than you've had it, so now you're going to change it. I don't think I like it. I don't think I like they're changing it. I think if you change it, you're...

denouncing all the people that have seen it before. And they say they've seen UFOs. So you're almost being like, those people are crazy. So we got a new name. Now, that guy's a lunatic. He saw a UFO. Those people are crazy. This thing is a UAP. You're taking power from all the people that said, I told you these were all true. That's really interesting. I would never have thought of that.

Yeah, because there's no need to change unidentified flying objects. You come from the man family. I am the man. I am the institution. You're the institution. That is true.

yeah what'd you say about ufos well there's no i mean it's unidentified flying object right that's pretty uh i don't know ambiguous is that the word it's like you don't need to change that it's like we don't know what it was and you're like well we should change it to a different kind of unidentified thing yeah there's something they're taking the yeah i think you're right about that yeah so the every from now on

Well, we've known about it the whole time. We've known about UAPs the whole time, and we're open about them. UFOs, we never agreed upon. Mm-hmm.

UAPs are different. It's just a little name thing, but I think that's what... You can belittle people and condescend to people with language like that. Yes. It's the reason the banking industry and finance, they use all these complicated terms for pretty simple concepts because you look like an idiot if you don't use the right terms. And it's a salesman. It's like a way to... Well, this person's like, well, yeah, I never heard of that. And how are you going to put an A in there and not make it alien? Yeah.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Well, I think, are they getting rid of that word? Alien? Yeah. You mean just in general? Because it's a negative connotation? Yeah, I thought they were getting rid of it. You called them something else. Maybe they'll keep it for, we're talking about outer space visitors, extraterrestrials, but... Outer space visitors. Oh, yeah. That's what they're going to call it. They could call it an unidentified alien person. Yeah. That'd be a UAP. Yeah.

They could, but they're not there yet. They want to just stick with what they said. That's what they should be. Who fuzzies UFOs? UAPs. Yeah, exactly. I'm not an alien person. Yeah. Flip it on them. Yeah. So they had this hearing. It's the first time over 50 years. I don't know how Congress works. I don't know who calls the hearing or how they get these people in the room. But somebody, I guess, had enough clout to hold this hearing. Yeah.

And the Pentagon sent two people to speak from the Navy. One of them, I think I mentioned on a previous episode, I'm actually Facebook friends with because I went to high school with his wife and they share a Facebook account. But they're basically like spokespeople and just did not say a lot. Here's what they said. They said there was like 116 unidentified. Now there's up to 400 that they confirm are unidentified.

Are you reading this or are you just memorizing it? Well, I read it. Oh. You're looking down, but your eyes weren't at the paper. And I was like, I mean, that's pretty crazy. You've memorized all this stuff? I try to. Yeah. That's pretty good. I'm trying to see what you bring to the podcast. Yeah. I mean, most of this isn't accurate when I'm saying it, but if you act like you know it, then...

But a couple of congressmen spoke up that were really fired up about it and tried to get to the bottom of some stuff. So this one guy from Wisconsin – you remember that New York Times article that came out a couple years ago that kind of first really got people going? There was this government agency that we didn't even know about that were investigating. And they talked about in there that there was a guy who had seen –

off world vehicles or something like that. And I'm like, why did we never, we've never heard any more about that. Well, they asked about that. And I guess that was from, I thought that just happened. That was from 2002. There was a memo that was circulated and,

from an admiral who was in the Defense Department with some contractor. It's called the Admiral Wilson Memo. And in it, they talk about how there's this secret organization and that they've got these vehicles that crashed on Earth and that they're examining them. They're trying to reverse engineer them, try to figure out how they work.

And this contractor or astrophysicist, I think, I think he's frustrated because he's not getting the stuff that he needs. And this admiral is like, okay, I'm going to help you. I'm going to help you get what you need. And these are the people I know. We'll talk to them. And this is, there's an email exchange and there's a memo out there. Now this admiral denies that it's real. He says, this is fake. The guy, the astrophysicist won't talk about it.

He just won't chime in. Now, he did say once that this organization that supposedly shut down is still in existence. They just call it by a different name, but he wouldn't say what it's called now. So anyway, this memo is from 2002, but at the congressional hearing, they were asked about it, and they just said, we don't know anything about it. These people just kept denying they know anything about it. So...

I thought that was interesting. Yeah, absolutely. That's it right there. That's the, if you scroll down to like page two or three, you see the actual, or three right there, you see that's the actual kind of email exchange to him about helping him get the stuff that he needs. What is it? The fog of war? Well, he's saying, that's just him apologizing for his delay. Because this is when the Iraq war was going on, I think. Oh.

But anyway, he talks about in that memo right there about how... That's so weird just to see the fog of war, current business activity, and losing your new email address is all why I delay, which I regret.

Just to use the word. There's a war. There's people, you know. Yeah. I mean, it's a serious thing. And just to see in an email, just guys like, you know what, dude? I've just been. The war. The war's been so stupid. A lot of paperwork with the war. It goes just like, I don't even know where I'm at anymore. Yeah.

He goes, all right, then I lost your email address. And then, you know, and then, all right. Also, I had current business activity. I mean, who even says that like that?

And with the alien visits. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just had a lot going on. All right. So what did you want to know about the UFO crash? All right. So, I mean, just like that's your regular, just your regular, that's someone else being like, dude, I don't know. I've just been slammed. I got a lot of shows, a lot of interviews, or something like that. I'm just sorry I haven't got back to you. And that version of that for that guy is, the fog of war, current business activity,

uh and losing your new email anyway about the ufo it gets less important yeah it goes along yeah yeah or and i lost your email yeah it's like that he's he's he's fogging the conversation just so so it's like he doesn't want to let you know that he just he just lost your email that's all it was like what's your current business activity because we'll be on the pool yeah

Anyway, so that's the memo that you go on through. He talks about, you know, putting him in touch with name and location of alien reproduction vehicles in Area 51. Crazy. So, you know, the question is, is that real? Is that the guy you know, Will Miller? No. Oh.

The guy that I'm Facebook friends with was one of the people who testified at the hearing, but he just wouldn't admit to anything. Scott Bray? Scott Bray, yeah. He just, we don't know about that. And then the congressman said, well, will you look into it? And he's like, yeah, okay, we'll look into it. Yeah, I'll take a look. Yeah. But with the fog of war, I just don't know. I don't know.

Who knows? I got this guy on Facebook, Brian Bates, been dinging me. Poking him. He does a lot of the video calls. I told you that time I got a video call from someone. No, on Facebook? Yeah. It was, how did I not told this? It was so great. It's a great guy, but he was trying to call me.

and an older, and he's trying to call me, and he did it on Facebook, and he doesn't, like, he hit the wrong thing, so he doesn't video. And so when I answered, it's just me looking at him in the video, and he's just sitting there in his boxers. And he's like, oh, hey. And he's just, like, having to grab stuff. And I just remember, I mean, just...

The most like no fear of just being like, yeah, I'm just sitting in my boxes. I'll just call this guy real fast. And then just to be on TV basically. And he's like, hey, I don't know what I'm doing. It's so great.

And then the other thing the congressman brought up that was – this happened in 1967. But in Montana at a missile silo, the Air Force Base, a red orb was seen floating over the sky and all their nuclear missiles became inoperable. And so he brought that up because he's like, that's a –

threat to our country if there's something out there that can you know disarm our weapons yeah but again they were like uh we've heard about that we don't really know anything they just kept denying that they knew anything so nothing really came from this hearing they say there's no there's they have no evidence out there that it's from other planets they don't know what it is these things that people are seeing but that's where uh

That's the stuff they feel like with the government stuff. These organizations, they don't work together. None of them, you're like, I feel like that's a problem. You're like, y'all should be on the same, aren't you all doing the same thing? You're trying to help, and then they're all like, I don't know. It's almost like they're keeping everything secret, and then it's like a battle between each of them. And so you're like, well, we're not going to get the answer. Y'all don't want to even tell each other the answer. Yeah.

Yeah, like why even have this hearing? It seems like there's not even anything to talk about. Yeah, and is there not like the president or someone up top can't go like, well, then you're just shutting your thing down. Like who, like why can't they just be like, no, no, you got to do it. Or like where it's shut down, now we're going to walk in there. Because it's not a monarchy, man. This is a government buying for the people.

Yeah, but I mean they're not – It's kind of good. I like that all these organizations aren't working together with each other. Then it'd be one big – Yeah, okay. You just talked me into that. I get that. So I get the reason for that. But it's like when they – but if they're not answering the questions of like some –

this kind of thing happens. You're like, well, come on, man. We're trying to all work and be smarter together. Right. So you got to tell us or help us out or, you know, I mean, you're making your, your, your citizens or you're making them go crazy. You're, I mean, you probably ruining people's lives that see something and say something. And then they just get made fun of. And then they get just, you know, these, you know, it's usually poor people that live out in the middle of nowhere. And like,

You're like, well, they're either all crazy, dude, or you made them, you made the stereotype that they are crazy. This is one of the articles that Brian sent me over. This is the Pentagon. They said they're getting more reports, like you said, up to 400, 400 reports now because they say that the stigma has been reduced. Well, what are people reporting? They saw something in the sky or aliens came to visit? Well, an unexplained aerial phenomenon, you know?

Yeah, I mean, but that, you know, it's like that could be anything, though. That's right. Well, there's a congressman from Tennessee, Tim Burchett, who said exactly what Nate just said after the hearing. He's like, this was a joke. It was a waste because they put people up there that just aren't going to say anything. You got to get the people who know something that actually experienced them. Put that guy on the stand who was in that memo and things like that. And he said that he's had multiple sources tell him that we do have like a crashed vehicle.

from outer space. He thinks they're either, it is either aliens or it's us that are testing what we found and trying to figure out how to use it. That's what made it crash. Us making it crash. Well, no, he thinks originally they just crashed themselves. And then now either some of those other ones we're seeing, it's either aliens or it's us who are trying to figure out how to do it. Use their equipment. That's right. Reverse engineering. Whoa.

So maybe they're just done. Aliens are dumping their like Ford. We are like, I got an old ship we got to get rid of. Yeah. What? Like an old ship. They got it. Okay. Yeah. I misheard that. Ship. And then, uh, but that like, so we're like the trailer park of space where they're just, people are just part, they're parking their old vehicles at our yards. Yeah.

And that's what the earth is. It's just kind of like, well, I got to get rid of it. Go dump it, dude. Dump it on those people down there. Or maybe they're like, let's see if they'll work on it. Yeah. This is broke down. And we got enough boys that could take your hat off. And that's why they are going to like these farms and like trailer parks. That's true. Because they're like, they know how to work on cars. They work on any vehicle. And he goes, what do you got here? Aliens sitting over there. Can't speak. And he goes, this generator is...

He goes, well, you changed the fan out? The fan? I don't know anything about cars. Maybe like Boomhauer type people from King of the Hill. I mean, maybe that is aliens. They're like, we can't really get the language, but we'll mess around with it a little bit. You know what I mean? You met a guy before that you're like, there's something about that guy. Is he not really from around here? Yeah. What do you do? What would you do? You?

What's that? Yeah. Yeah. If an alien popped up, like if a ship came, not like just to you, but like in Independence Day where the aliens are like approaching and everybody knows. Oh, okay. Are you like one of the people on the rooftop with the signs going, we welcome the aliens? Or are you like in fear?

I'm in fear. Yeah, I mean, it's just... You know, I think you just would be... There'd be fear. There'd be amazement. There'd be... This is... You know, you just don't even know. And you got to rely on yourself. Like, a lot of it's like you...

you know, it's probably have a lot of gut feeling. Yeah. Feel what you feel on the inside and just be like, I'm going to go with my gut on all this. Because then if you saw it for real, you got to be like, they've never said they, they would all deny. They tell you that this is something that like, it feels like no one's ever going to tell you. Yeah. They're going to flat out say it to you. And so you just got to be on like a gut, like kind of like get everybody as close as you can, your family, whatever, and do whatever and be like,

I don't know. I don't know the answer. I do take some comfort knowing I will not be a key player in whatever happens. Alien invasion, I'm not going to be flying a fighter jet. You're not going to be a Randy Quaid. No, dude. I got nothing. What about that guy that threw out the pitch in Chattanooga? Is that guy? The opener? Yeah. The memorial guy? Yeah.

Now that guy died already. He goes, but that other guy can do it. He's got a good fastball. Decent changeup. Talk to him. He has gout, so he needs to fly something. He's got a left foot. They just put you in there and they put your foot on the gas because you can't move your left gout foot. You can't pull it back off. It's just like a dead foot. And they're just making you drive straight into it.

And you're just trying to wake your foot up like it's asleep. And you're going, I don't want to do this.

Is it Independence Day aliens or like Mars attack aliens, you think? You ever see that movie, Mars Attacks? I bet they're like see-through or something. Like it's going to be some- Like Predator. Is that what Predator is? Yeah, didn't he have a see-through? Yeah, I didn't see Predator. He could go see-through? Well, yeah, he could make himself invisible. But like a chameleon. I feel like it's going to be like, yeah, it's there. Like a ghost? No, it looks like CGI. Oh, okay.

In the movie Mars Attacks, I feel safe. In the movie Mars Attacks, those aliens come down and start to kill people. And they kill the aliens with old school country music. Oh, really? And that's what I'm already listening to in my house. Oh, yeah. That's why. I was going to say, if one of us had to go talk to them, I'd probably volunteer you. Because if you hadn't been abducted, you at least probably know a guy who's been abducted. Yeah, I'd like to go. Just say, what are you guys doing? Yeah.

What are you up to? What... Is this... You're seeing this. This is from a movie, I guess. This is from Signs, the movie. This is what I... This is always what... Maybe it was just when I saw this. Yeah. The stage in my life. This is what I think of when I think of aliens. Is there any supposedly pictures of a real alien? Or like Bigfoot? Or is it always just like the ships and what they're flying? I mean, every picture out there has been...

Somebody's debunked it. There's none that anybody's saying is legit. Yeah. And there's a lot of... Yeah, the gray aliens. Those are the... That's the popular...

These greys. Yeah. There was a movie that came out a few years ago, Arrival, Amy Adams, where they came to Earth and then somebody had to communicate with them. And she was a linguist. Is that the correct term? Yeah. And she had to go talk to them. But there is like a protocol, Red, where if they came, they would send a linguist, a psychologist, biologist, and someone in combat to attempt to get a nonviolent response from aliens. Yeah. So...

Okay.

So you need someone that can talk to them on their level. Yes, you immediately send five people at them. I think you need a regular old person. One of them is jacked with a gun at the rock. Yeah, you need a good pesticide salesman to go out. You need Greg Warren to go out. Sell him a little peanut butter. You know what I mean? Get him out. You need a salesman to go out and go welcome. How you doing? Yeah. Yeah, you know, you want to talk him down. How you doing? You don't send a biologist. I don't even want to talk to a biologist. You know what I mean?

Well, even a biologist, if you sit on him, you're like, well, he's never seen that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. But he's going to know more than we will. Yeah, you might as well get a skin. Will he? Yeah, if it's in, you're like, he's going to come back and go, I've never seen anything like it. It's not, they act like these people, like they're going to be level-headed enough to go, oh yeah, alien time to now. And then you go talk to this alien. You're going to be kind of like, this is nuts. You need a guy. You need a conspiracy. You need one guy that is like, I told y'all. Exactly. And that's the movie Moonfall. Yeah.

There's one guy. And you need a guy that's like... Not surprised by any of it. No, no. Yeah. That's me. Yeah, that's Justin. You don't need a guy that's going to be like, can I get a skin graft? A little blood sample here? Just want to kind of see what we're doing. Just to put his arm around him and...

Gives him a tack and he's like, and he goes, trying to get hair samples. Yeah. The guy that's just going to welcome you in. Come on into the trailer. Let's hang out for a bit. He has a lot more back hair.

I'll tell you that. One of these aliens, the back hair was... Surprising. Yeah. I don't know if it's because they don't have good padding. Especially if they show up with no clothes, like a lot of these aliens. You're going to need a guy that's got his shirt off, just to really cut off jean shorts. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Because all of these aliens, yeah, they have all evolved to not need clothes. I've never made that connection before.

They don't have shame the way we do. They always think that they're the most advanced. What if we've evolved to wear clothes? Yeah. Like we've established, we go, you know, actually we should start covering up. Yeah. Yeah. It's just appropriate. Yeah. Like they always act like aliens are more advanced than us. Yeah. There's a chance that we could be. I mean, you know. But if that's the case, they're probably not making it here. That's true. Millions of miles away. I don't know, man. I've seen a...

donkey get over a fence in the middle of the road. I mean, why can't it be someone dumb animal that's going to make it way. You just go and you're like, why are you here? Yeah, maybe they just meant to go to their moon and then they got off track. Kept going. They showed up, they're drinking. We're so far away from anything though that for anything to get to us, they had to have found a way to travel faster than the speed of light.

to get to us. What if they pop through a little black hole? Yeah. I'm saying if they know how to do stuff like that, pop through a wormhole. But very well could be an accident though. Yeah.

They're just out there. Accidentally. They're like, let's try to get to the moon. You ever get off the wrong exit? Yeah, exactly. End up in some town you never thought you'd be in. The other day I missed an exit and had to do one of the turns with the cops hang out in the middle of the interstate. Yeah. That's what I just had to do because it was like I added so much time. Yeah. So I mean, sometimes that happens. It's the same thing. You don't think there's, what, there's not going to be a mistake where the alien is just like not looking at his, you know, he's reading his hand because your hand's your phone now. He just reads.

And then he goes, what did, did, gum it. I'm a million light years left. And then he goes, sits there and now he's in a farm. Like asking him questions. Because I don't know, man. It's like the me that they talk to of that world. He's like, my parents, I live, we're not, I don't know, dude. This is, this, this calls like,

eight grand to buy this ufo like it goes i mean i still got payments on it i mean i you know it's just he's got the name same normal problems it's just like my parents are gonna be so mad like it's a transmission got stuck on it i just could not i could not yeah squirrels

Yeah, he goes, oh, y'all got squirrels? He goes, they're robot squirrels, but they're squirrels. He goes, I don't know why we have them. What if that's what's happening at your house? The squirrels are trying to get that fuel line put on their ship. You never know. There was, for a while, an extraterrestrial exposure law saying that you can't touch anything. It's a law to touch anything extraterrestrial.

And then everyone's like, well, that proves that y'all know that there's aliens because NASA did this. But this was when we were doing trips to the moon and they were just like, if you bring anything back from the moon, don't touch it because we don't know it could contaminate the whole earth. Oh, yeah. So it's illegal to touch a moon rock.

Yeah. Well, still to this day. I feel like I've held a moon rock. Huh? I feel like I've touched a moon rock. I think the moon rocks were petrified wood. Where would you have held a moon rock? I don't know. I think it's very rare. I don't know that it's so rare that it doesn't even exist. Yeah, I think you'd remember it more than just... I don't think... I don't think you'd just breeze in by and go, you know what, dude? I think... Have I been to the moon? I'm trying to think. He goes...

Did I? I think. You know what? My uncle's Neil Armstrong. That's where it was. Family reunion. He just carries it around in his pocket. Yeah. That's all he does. You want to touch this one? There was a woman who said that Neil Armstrong, when she worked at NASA, I think she lived in Tennessee, and said he gave some moon dust to her daughter just for fun, just to take home with her, and then she found it in the attic.

And I don't know. I think they were like, well, that's probably not true. So that's worth like so much money. Really? Yeah. But I don't know if they went and analyzed it or what, but she was on the news talking about it. I was trying to scoop up a cup of dirt. Yeah. He's always just got a little moon dust in his pocket. And you're like, he's getting older. He's a little, you know, off his rocker. And you're like, man, yeah.

It's grass in it. It's just like understood. If Neil Armstrong comes up and says, you want a little moon dust? He goes, you don't want that moon dust. He's like, look what I found behind your ear. A little moon dust. Omega Watch is weird. I looked at Omega Watch this weekend. And they're the ones they used in Apollo 13 that they used. They're the only watch that made it.

around when they had to come back from space. Like that's in the Tom Hanks movie where they were having to use the burst to get back. And they did all the testing and out of all the watches, the Omega one is the only one that worked. So all the astronauts wear Omega. Wow. And that's why they have a moon watch.

And so it's like, it's the same watch that went to the moon. That's pretty cool. Yeah. It's kind of neat. Yeah. I remember. Okay. So I did, I went to space camp in Huntsville, fourth grade. Oh, so they had the moon. And they have a moon rocket, but I don't think they let you touch it. No. Yeah. It looks like it's in, it's hidden behind two things, but maybe back then they let you get your hands on it. A fourth grader. Yeah. We threw it around like a football. Yeah.

Now, yeah, I've heard of maybe heard of SETI.

SETI, like the cooler? That's a Yeti. Search for extraterrestrial intelligence? No. Okay, well, probably haven't heard of METI then either. Is that meeting extra? Messaging. Oh. So SETI is listening. It's been around for a long time where they've just got telescopes listening for any sound from outer space. Oh, there was a movie like that. Was that Contact? Contact, yeah. That's a boring movie.

My goodness, I thought this was going to be great. You're just listening to them listen to space. You could wrap this up. Oh, I loved it. You could do a thing like, and this much time went by. But anyway, SETI, the Institute's been around since the 80s, but they've been listening longer since then. They've been listening longer? Well, there was one time in 1977 at Ohio State University,

They had a radio telescope, and they were listening, and they picked up a very large signal. They call it the wow signal because the guy who saw the readout wrote wow on it because it was so powerful, and it came from Dusty. That's all right. Just pictures of them guys. They've been in there forever. He goes, oh, finally, something. Wow. Wow. Look at this guy. Wow. That's all he wrote. Yeah.

He's been listening for 40 years. Yeah. And then he doesn't. And then all he hears is like, someone go. And he's like, what? And it's like, you want coffee? I'm making some coffee in here. And you're like, dang. I mean, my whole life I've been waiting for this.

This is how he wrote it. Yeah, that's how he wrote it. Wow. Exclamation point. They never, I think it lasted for 72 seconds, but they could never hear it again. It never repeated. And they tried, tried, tried. But so, I don't know what it was. The alien was on it. I got overreacted. What are this? I don't know what those equations, numbers mean. It's somehow listening to radio signals. But I guess the ones he circled was bigger than...

And then you're, do you hear an actual sound or is it like you read the sound? Well, in the movie Contact, they were hearing sounds, right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I could have, I was dozing off, but I hear it.

I don't know. Maybe just the readout prints out the sound or whatever. They could never get it to repeat itself. This cost $10 billion, by the way. Did it? Wow. There you go. That is wow. What exactly cost $10 billion? Project Cyclops. Oh, Cyclops was not built, but the report form of the basis. My God, so much money just gets thrown around here. Yeah. Who knows? Oh, yeah. No one's... I mean, yeah. They don't even read those numbers. One guy knows them. Yeah. It's like his system. Yeah.

He's like, I do ones for not much, and then I'll throw a three in. If it gets crazy, I'll put letters. He goes, well, how do we know it's crazy? I mean, one says 16. Is that like a big number? He goes, 16 is nothing, dude. He goes, if you see a Q, he goes, so knock your socks off.

All right. Like, don't. And they go, what? Well, can you explain your system to the rest of, like, the other people? He goes, nah, it's hard to explain. He's like, one, one, one, F, S. And that was, I mean, I was like, wow. Oh, my goodness. I go, what has happened? It's been a fight.

And then there's Medi, which is where we're sending messages out in outer space to try to let other people hear us. You up? Yeah, exactly. And of course, a lot of people think that's a bad idea because we shouldn't let them know we exist because they could come and kill us.

Well, if they have the ability to receive and interpret and understand the message, they probably already know we exist. Well, that's the argument the other side makes. Yeah. It probably doesn't matter. But what if they can't find us? I'd rather get out in front of it and be like, hey, we come in peace.

I'd like to not come in peace. You know what I mean? Let's put it out there that we know you're out there and we're not messing around. You don't think that's the strategy? Well, they might not come here because they're like, well, I mean, those guys are just killing each other on that planet. I know. Because they don't care at all. And maybe that is the strategy. We're going to let you know. We don't care about in-house. We definitely don't care about yours. Look at what we do to each other, dude. Man.

Well, one of the first signals they think probably reached outer space was Hitler, the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Germany. Well, that's a bad way to start. That's getting the ball rolling. In fact, in contact, that's what they sent back. I don't know if you remember that. You were probably asleep by then. But they sent back the message. Well, that's why they don't contact us anymore. They were like, last time we got in touch with them. What was the message they heard? Hitler, I think, was addressing the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in the 1930s, and they think,

Just because back then signals were getting strong enough that they were leaving our atmosphere. Yeah. So they think maybe the first message that somebody could hear out there would be Hitler,

addressing the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. So the aliens show up, they got swastikas, they think this is what they're into. We're like, whoa, whoa. Well, then they're going to meet you and go, we're having a good time. Everybody's like, wait, what? That's going to get me in trouble. Well, you better take me with you now. Now, a lot of religious scholars and theologians think that maybe aliens are demons. Theologian sounds insulting. What do you mean?

It just sounds like if you're like, I'm a theologian, you're like, so am I. We all are, buddy. Yeah, everybody's a theologian. Getting lied. Yeah. Well, yeah, I'm a theologian. Oh, you want more butter? Like, I don't know why that makes me think of that. I'm a theologian. All right.

Because in the Bible, there was lots of demon possessions and people were paralyzed and different things happened. And a lot of people here who say they've been abducted by aliens will say they were paralyzed, they couldn't move. And so some religious scholars think they're not really aliens, they're demons. People being possessed. Demon-possessed people.

Well, like a demon. People who saw aliens, the aliens are demons. I mean, I think that they think that those aliens are like fallen angels, right? Yeah. Because the angel, they say a third of the angels left heaven with Satan. So those are the fallen angels. So they lost their beauty, and now that's why they're these blank void characters. Okay.

Yeah. That's what they think. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's like, yeah. If you believe in outer space, you might think that. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. I think that is even the theory if you don't believe in outer space. Oh, yeah. Because they would be coming from heaven and not from just another planet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, there was something called, a demon called an incubus. Incubus. You know this? Great band. Yeah, great band. Thomas Aquinas. That's your buddy, right? Yeah, he's a guy. He wrote about it. You know him? I took an entire class called Aquinas on Angels in college. Oh, it's like a book. Thomas Aquinas. You didn't go to college with him? With Thomas Aquinas? Yeah.

No, he lived about 900 years ago. You do laugh about that like we all know who that is. We brought him up on the podcast before. I don't remember last week's episode. You remember Aristotle? This is Nate Fergetzi. You heard of him? Yeah, I'm Nate Fergetzi. Nate Fergetzi. You've heard of Aristotle? Yeah. Okay, Aquinas is... Yeah, what is it? He's a philosopher? Yeah. He was a philosopher, yeah. But if you gave me Aristotle's government name, I don't know if I'd get it. Like...

You don't know John Bailey? Aristotle? Oh, I guess. Yeah, I guess Aristotle. I didn't know. I don't know about his stage name. Aquinas College in Nashville? Yeah. That's him. That's Thomas Aquinas. Well, I just didn't know. Thomas threw me off. Okay. Aquinas. He said it like, yeah, did you go to college with Thomas Aquinas? He's like, yeah, he's your buddy. Yeah, I said it. He's my buddy. Yeah, you're right. I said it. He's my buddy. Now, they used to...

His classmates growing up used to all make fun of him, call him dumb. They called him the dumb ox because he just could not articulate himself very well in the classroom. So they called him the dumb ox. Is this why you look at that? I'm the dumb ox. I know. And his teacher, his professor, who recognized what a genius he was, told his classmates, one day this dumb ox will let out a bellow that the entire world will hear.

Yeah. See? Still not happened, though. I mean, we're talking about him now. What was his bellows?

I mean, he wrote the five proofs of God's existence. He was pretty influential. There's a college named after him in Nashville. Yeah, I just was wondering what the bellow was. It was an actual yell. It just yelled. It's a junior college. Is it only a junior college? I think so. They got a pretty good basketball team. It's not bad.

Yeah. Any kind of college is good. Yeah. I'd take it. Well, he wrote about Incubus, which is basically a demon. The man? Well, maybe they were named after this. Yeah. But it's a demon that comes to Earth and has relations with women. Right. Genesis 6. Wow. That's in the Bible. Another great man. Yeah, yeah. Phil Collins.

But we talked about the last alien episode, the farmer who, you know, says, my boy's up there. My boy's up there. So maybe that was just an incubus. Could have been. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And I mean, there's a lot of references in the Bible that some people think are actually aliens or vice versa. Some think that angels were actually aliens that came to earth and told people how to live from another planet. Yeah. That Abraham was visited by three angels. I mean, three aliens instead of angels.

Things of that matter. The Nephilim was in the Bible, a group of giants that, I don't know what they were. Well, the Nephilim they say are like when angels and humans mate and then the babies are the Nephilim and then they become giants. Oh. That's Genesis 6. That's what that's all about.

Okay. Man, they covered a lot of ground in the first one through six. They get right into it. They were already at Nephilim. Genesis is a lot of fun, whether you're religious or not. It's a fun... Yeah. It's a King James version. There's giants, and there's a lot of crazy stuff going on in there. But they're around even after...

The flood and all that, because last week or a couple weeks ago, we talked about spies, and I talked about the spies in the Bible who went into the promised land. Well, there were Nephilim that lived there. Yeah. And they came back and said, these guys are giants. They said we're like grasshoppers to them. Right. So whatever they were, they existed. Grasshoppers are pretty big.

Yeah, but if you came up on a grasshopper and that grasshopper had thought, he would think, well, that's a really big dude. Oh, that's for sure. Yeah. Okay, I get that. Yeah, do you? I'm saying like ants are one thing. A grasshopper, every time you see a grasshopper, you're like, dang, that's a big, let me get that out of here. You're not going to talk your way out of this because it was, even if a grasshopper, I mean, it was the size of this cup.

You would still, if I walked up to it, you'd be like, you wouldn't be like, I'll take that guy. He's like, I'm not an ant here. You would go, there's giants. If you were the size of this cup and I walked up, you'd go, there's giants over there. Yeah, I was thinking about it from your perspective in that scenario. Yeah. Like if you come up on a grasshopper, you're still, you know. You're like, it's a decent size. You're like, yeah, that's pretty big for a bug. Yeah. That's pretty big. So you're coming from the giant's perspective. Right, of course. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Yeah, and we don't get to hear a lot from the Giants' perspective. That's right. That's what I'm here to do. You know what I mean? Yeah. They had feelings too. They had feelings too. And hopes and dreams. They're running errands. We're running errands. They're like, we're just trying to hang out here on this land, and then these little people showed up one day, and then the next thing I know, they were back to kill us. Yeah. We still don't know how they did it. That's what Stephen Hawking said. He said that aliens could come here, and we'd be like ants. I mean...

We think we're all moral people, but if there's an ant in the way of us building something, we're not going to think twice about knocking them out of the way. So aliens could be doing that with us. They just stomp on us and then just be like, it doesn't matter. Well, just like you'd be like, why would they wipe us out? But they may be so advanced ahead of us that it'd be like what we would do to an animal or something. An ant farm. Yeah, an ant farm. Like an ant farm just down there living its best life. Yeah, yeah. And then we'd come knock it.

But we're just messing around with our planet. Like ants could mess up your garden. They can bite you. They can, you know, I guess we could bite the aliens. Yeah, I mean, we just mess up anthills just so our grass can be short. Right. Yeah. You know, they don't even need to really build anything. Yeah. Have you ever seen these circles of death that ants can get trapped in?

No. Where they're just swirling in a circle like that, where they're just following the person in front of it, right? They're just following. It's like the cow to the slaughter. Yeah, and they can't, they don't know that they're just walking in a circle. And what happens, they just do that until they dive. Oh, wow. Until they're done. Because they just get trapped in a loop. It really seems like one of those ants should come along and go, hey, guys, guys. Yeah. Well, the guys in the middle are like. They're like, what are you guys doing? They're in a mosh pit. Yeah. Essentially. Yeah.

But they're just following the pheromones, whatever, the thing that they follow. You ever see an ant trail like that and then just run your finger right across it? Oh, it messes up their whole day. They're like, whoa, what happened? You just run your finger across and they're like, what's going on? Yeah, you could save these ants by doing that probably. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to let them die. I don't

like them. I like ants. Yeah, I would save them if I saw that. You just draw the line and then they spread out and then they get back together. Regroup. It's kind of like that word specify. You got to just back out. You got to back out and think about it and be like, all right, all right, all right. Yeah, that's... There's the head of astronomy at Harvard, so kind of an important dude, thinks that there may be a UFO going through our solar system right now.

Because there's an object that entered our solar system from interstellar space. And everyone says, oh, it's just a rock, an asteroid, or whatever. But it's got some characteristics that seem weird. It's shiny, for one. It's got rear view mirrors. Playing music. Yeah. Rems. Because I just had never seen that on a rock. Because, I mean, yeah, I'm not trying to say it's not. I just, you know, it's got...

It speeds up and slows down, which they're like, that's kind of weird for just a rock going through space. It's got some weird name. It's named after the Hawaiian telescope that found it, so I can't pronounce it. But anyway. Coming from Mars, want to know why we sent a thing over there. You got this thing roaming around over here. Yeah. It's turned signal on for, I mean, 200 years. It's still not turning. Yeah.

So there's a thing called Project Lyra, where they want to send a rocket to catch up with this thing to see what it really is. Because his argument, how we talked about a couple weeks ago, that we sent Voyager 1 with the gold record, all that outer space. He thinks that could be something from another civilization that they sent that just entered our solar system. And he wants to go get close to it to see what it is.

So brought your record back. Johnny be good fans. So they want to send a spacecraft to catch up with this thing. Um, they think it would take like 26 years to do it, but,

Is it going to come here? It's going, you mean to earth? Yeah. No, it's just going through our solar system. But that's, even our solar system is so big that, you know, that's a long time. It's so hard to think that long-term about stuff. If like, if I were working for the government now, like, let's go, we're going to launch at 26 years. Like, yeah, get after it. Yeah. You know? But you got to think about how old you are now. What are you, 30? Yeah. So 56, you would be there. I mean, if you, every day was your life to do this.

And then you could be, you know. But if I'm out of office in four years, it's like. Yeah, but you're not the, you're like the scientist going. Yeah, not a congressman. Yeah, you're not going to be voted. Okay. But it's like, so if you're like doing the work for it, and then it would be like, you know, you probably do other stuff too, but you like, what's your big goal? And you're like, we're going after this one thing. 26 years, so.

So long ago. It's long, but I mean, you know, I was. I used to feel that way, son. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, he was, he's. I was your age just to believe it or not. Yeah. Yeah. That was 20 years ago. Yep. Yep. 20. How crazy is that? He's almost, he's almost able to see the satellite when he was your age. He's almost there. Yeah. Yeah. And you are in the exact same spot. There's this, uh, yeah, exactly. There's the, this, you'll appreciate this, Nate, a, uh,

A PhD student who just published a paper that got people upset about how many hostile alien civilizations there are in our Milky Way. You know, usually this stuff is in the millions, billions, whatever. He came up with four. Four what? Four hostile alien civilizations.

in our Milky Way. And he said, I admit there's some limitations because I'm not a, uh, I'm not an astrophysicist. I'm a conflict resolution student. Yeah. So he didn't even major in it, but he did his own equation and came up with this assumption that he based it, um,

He looked on how many external invasions there have been on Earth in the last 50 years, how many countries have invaded other countries. And then he took that data and he applied it to the number of exoplanets in the Milky Way, they think. And he came up with four. There's four bad guys out there. And all these other scientists are like, there's probably a million, trillion, whatever. But he came up with four. So they're like, it hasn't been peer reviewed yet. But so. Yeah.

I've never heard about peer review until these last little bit. Never in my life have I even heard, is it peer reviewed? And then now it's like, I mean, it is being thrown out. It's every day now you're hearing it. It's every day someone says it. And I'm always like, did everybody know about this before? Did you know about peer review? I knew about it a little bit just from college papers and stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I know. Do you know? A little bit from a friend of mine who was a scientist.

I mean, you just hear it. I heard it. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean. Everything's now. Yeah, I mean, I don't really care about people's peers reviewing things anyway. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, your buddy reviewed it. Yeah. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, who's your peer? Yeah. Yeah, it's all good here. Yeah. Yeah, that is, who's, because now it's peer-reviewed. You're like, well, who are they? Yeah, just people my age, you know, around about. Yeah, cheers. Yeah.

Dusty, take a look at this. Yeah, you want to go, I know who, they got to know who to send it to and who not to send it to. It's like a friend sending you something. You go, yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. No, I didn't get a chance to look at it all the way, but you know, I'm glad. He goes, I glanced. Yeah. You're a good guy. I think you're a good scientist. I flipped through. Yeah. Sounds good. Four. All right, four. Four. Yeah. Sounds good. He goes, I think that's better. The other ones are saying millions. I would rather read the one, the guy that has four. That's the one I want to read.

At least he's picking a number. Right. Narrowing it down. Yeah. Everybody's. I mean, the other ones, it seems like everybody's bad. The other one's like, we know, it's basically, you should go, I know nothing. Right. Is what the other one should say. Italian scientist Claudio Macone says there are as many as 15,785 civilizations in our galaxy alone. So only four of those are nefarious. That's good. Yeah.

There are only four of them we've got to watch out for. Yeah. Just 15,000 floating around out there, huh? 15,000. He's like, yeah. I mean, it's just so funny. Yeah. These people, they just come up with these things. Yeah. And it's because it's peer-reviewed. Yeah, my buddies, we all agree there's about 15,000 societies out there. Yeah. Who'd you ask? I ask my peers. I go, oh, yeah, where do they sit at? They sit at the desk next to me, and we're all just talking to no one and have no life. Yeah.

Just looking at dots in a telescope and we go, that looks like, what is that? 7-Eleven on that? Am I crazy? Yeah, we read the wow report. He goes, are you kidding me right now? Is that a red light? It just turned green. He goes, I think it's a dead gum civilization out there.

Do you mind peering this one for me? I'm trying to get this reviewed. People will believe it if you review it. He goes, I'm not really a peer. He goes, I think I'm more of a foe. And he goes, I mean, we're in the same room. That doesn't matter. I do agree. The guy says, how many 18,000? I mean, he had an exact number, right? 15,000 what? 15,785 civilizations in the Milky Way. If you get specific, then it seems more legit. Yeah, it is. How do you get to that number?

Why does everybody act like there's no aliens and this guy's being like, there's 15,000 neighborhoods just up in the Milky Way. Yeah, not only is there aliens, but there's 15,000 societies of them. Yes. Yeah. Just in our one galaxy, there's millions or billions of galaxies. And an ever-expanding. Yeah. And they don't know, how do they know that? Stars, planets. You said within our galaxy, there are billions of galaxies. Oh, my bad. Yeah. I meant there's billions of...

galaxies in our universe. Right. Yeah. Okay. And then our, but we think there's other universes. Sure. There's the observable universe, which is all that we know, but we know that there's a limit to that. So then after that, who knows? Yeah, there's, but there, we know there's a limit to our universe of what we can observe. Yeah. Observable universe. So we know like you keep walking, you're going to eventually hit a fence and there's gotta be another universe, but maybe there'd only be one universe.

And then with Galaxy, so we're the Milky Way. We're named after that candy bar. And then... That's what they'll have at that wedding. Yeah. Milky Ways. Yeah. Why would we be named after a candy bar? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It's better than Baby Ruth. Yeah, but I wish it should get its own thing. Yeah. You know? Kit Kat. Yeah. When did the Milky Way get... It got named after the... When did we call it the Milky Way?

Why do they call it the Milky Way? Because it looks like Milky? Butterfinger Galaxy. That'd be a lot of fun. Because you know what's on the outside, but you don't really know what's on the inside. The Milky Way candy bar was created in 1923. Yeah. The name and taste derived from a then popular malted milk drink of the day, not after the astronomical galaxy. So when did we start calling it the Milky Way? Yeah. So we did name the galaxy after the candy bar. Well, yeah, we might have.

The term was actually used 2,500 years ago. A little bit earlier. We call the galaxy the Milky Way a little longer than the candy bar. But I think saying that you named the candy bar after a milkshake seems a little inaccurate. They shouldn't let them do it just because you're like, man, you're kind of just ruining what we're doing with space. Yeah. It really takes the kind of steam out of it. It's also a candy bar. That's how little serious we take it.

We're naming it as... And it's not even one of our real great ones. Oh, golly, dude. You think a Milky Way is that good? Oh, my God, dude. You hit a button there. Start this podcast over, man. You think a Milky Way is... Milky Way is... Man...

The number one, in my opinion. Oh, no way. I enjoy a Milky Way, but number one? Number one. Oh, my goodness. I don't know if I've even had one saying all this. Oh, dude. Over Snickers, dude? It's like a weak Snickers. Yeah. Snickers with no peanuts. Yeah. It's like a weak Snickers. Dude, a Snickers. Yeah, I'm not trying to eat a meal at a candy bar, dude. I want a Milky Way. It's just nice and smooth. You got caramel chocolate. It's the right texture. It's the right size. Ah.

It's everything you need. It's everything you want. What was first, Snickers or Milky Way? I don't think I've ever had a Milky Way. But people get rid of them. Yeah, like the little fun size. Yeah, it's your favorite one. It's my favorite one, and I don't even think it's close.

More than a Reese's? Snickers came after the Milky Way. The Milky Way paved the way, dude. The Milky Way walked so Snickers could run. It's the most unoriginal thing that you named it after the... Oh, do you want to eat my moon Skittles? Why don't you come up with your own name that's not... You know, you can't... Snickers is a great... Like, that's a name that's made up. I'm just shocked at the reaction that Aaron has had. Hey, would you like a Jupiter? It tastes like banana. Like, you're...

I've never seen Aaron so fired up my whole life. I've never seen someone even think about Milky Ways like that. I love a Milky Way. I mean, I need to try one. I'm not a fan of the dark chocolate one. They try to mix it up. I'm just the original Milky Way. They have a salted one, salted caramel Milky Way. I'm going to look at the – I'll see what the calories are. I bet I can eat one. Yeah. I mean, I won't eat today, but I bet it'll probably be 130, 200 calories. Yeah.

More? They're a little richer than that, dude. What are the calories? I'm just kidding. I don't know. I mean, I can eat two packs of the little Sour Patch Kids. And a regular-sized milk whey, 264 calories. Yeah, so I can eat Sour Patch Kids if I eat two little bags of it because I still...

figure ways I'll never give up on all the things that made me who I am and I'm addicted to those are 110 calories two bags oh okay and they're little bags and it's great Adam and I I was eating like just handfuls I mean handfuls yeah and I would eat I couldn't even talk that's how many would be in there

It's like Jerry trying to, he's got all that gum. Yeah. Yeah. And it was great. What about Mars bars? I've never had a Mars bar. That's like, that's like your. My generation. Yeah. You need your Bitto honeys and all that kind of stuff. Three Musketeers. Three Musketeers is 80% air, dude. It's just fluff, man. There's no substance to it. It is. You bite into a Three Musketeers and you're like, did I miss the candy bar? It's just air, man. It's wonderful. It's wonderful.

Well, look, the inside is gray, so I don't know if I want it all in there because I've never seen anything. Is it gray? The inside of a Milky Way? Yeah. Milky Way's got a little gray in it. No, Milky Way, it's gold, man. It's got caramel. A little gray. Caramel and chocolate. No, no, I mean Three Musketeers. Three Musketeers is just gray. Milky Way's got a little nougat in there. Which is funny that when you're through with tears, you're like, I'm eating something gray in the inside, so maybe don't go heavy on it.

That doesn't look appetizing here. It looks like insulation to a home. Oh, they're great. Let's see the inside. Look, I'm not. It's good. It's all good. But don't say it's better than a Milky Way. Let's see the inside of a Milky Way. I need to try a Milky Way.

I don't think it is. I think Milky Way people throw them out of the way. No one's thrilled. I don't think when you see kids doing it, that's a Milky Way? Yeah, that layer of caramel on top right there. I don't know. All right, now let's do a Snickers. Hit us up with a Snickers. A Snickers, it looks like you just grabbed a handful of trail mix and threw it in there.

There's just a raisin inside. I mean, look at that. That looks delicious. That's the best looking one. Look, a Snickers. I mean, I do love a Snickers. Yeah. Snickers got everything in there, man. All these candy bars. Three Musketeers, Milky Way, and Payday. Well, Twix. All in there. Twix is like the same thing. Every one of these are, I mean, Three Musketeers is the only one that's doing something different.

That's true. They are trying to do something. We got like an Almond Joy. Butterfinger really switches it up. Butterfinger's like, what's some stuff that no one will ever be able to identify? Yeah. I don't like Butterfinger. Never been a Butterfinger fan. I love a Butterfinger. I like it frozen. I love a Butterfinger milkshake. You like that? That's what I'm talking about. I do like that. I may get that on the way home. Yeah. Yeah.

uh i don't love uh i'm not a big butterfinger fan i'll try i'll try the milky way i need i need to try it we'll do it on the yeah we'll do it on the podcast okay we do do we have we done candy bars oh we do a candy bar yeah and try a bite uh like george costanza who they were all what were they twix twix uh they were all twix i used to every morning when i was uh

I would eat for breakfast when I was working at FedEx when I moved to New York and started comedy. I would get a Diet Coke and a Three Musketeers, and that was my breakfast every morning. Sounds awesome. It was a good time to be alive. Loved it. I drink Diet Cokes in the morning all the time. Oh, I drink them. I still drink them in the morning, but it was that and that little candy bar, and I loved it. Mm-hmm.

And if you see those pictures from back then, you can see why. Well, what's your favorite alien movie? Like, do you have a favorite? I don't know. Maybe you guys already talked about this on part one. I don't know. I don't know if we did. You got a favorite alien movie? I have to think about it. Independence Day comes to mind. Yeah. I need to rewatch it. What's the other one where the... I just watched it, where the...

The ship just is like over like in town in Africa or something. Oh, like the day the earth stood still with Keanu Reeves? I think it was a re- Oh, I think you're thinking about the one where there's robots and stuff. District 9 or something? Yeah. Oh, District 9 is fun. District 9 was good. Or is it the tomorrow? The Tom Cruise one? That's fun. Day after tomorrow. Day after tomorrow. Edge of. No. Edge of. No.

Not Edge of Tomorrow, but I just watched it. All these aliens come in. Is that where his life keeps starting over? No, no, no, no, no. No, that's a great one, too. Is that Aliens? Edge of Tomorrow? Yeah. No, Edge of Tomorrow is Tomorrow War, maybe? War of the Worlds? War of the Worlds. War of the Worlds. Yeah. That's based off, of course...

Hey, you know how always like trash, like they're making the same movies over and again, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. And that stuff. Right. And, uh, I will tell you that I, for some reason am okay with Tom. He's Tom Cruise is my, uh, free pass that to make whatever kind of movie he wants. He can do whatever he wants. And, uh,

Look, you guys know I will backtrack on everything. But Top Gun is so good. You saw the new one? Yeah. I want to go see it again. It's just awesome, dude. It's awesome. And Tom Cruise, how I would describe it is he's like Adam Sandler. They just make the things that they make.

Tom Cruise is a movie star. I know he's still doing it, but I feel like this dude's doing his own stunts. This dude's... And Tom Cruise did his own stunts. He does it in all of Mission Impossible. He makes... He does Mission Impossible. It's just your... He's making his own thing versus Gwyneth Paltrow's in an Uber Eats commercial. And that's where you're like, all right. What do you need to be in an Uber Eats commercial? It's like so...

Tom Cruise crushes it. He's staying in movies. He crushes it. He's the greatest movie star maybe of all time. Yeah, I love him. I mean, it really is. No matter what movie, it's like he crushes it. Yeah. I was curious. I've seen it too. I haven't seen it. But I was curious, someone your age, if you hadn't seen The Rich, maybe you have, but if you hadn't seen it, would you think,

It's awesome, dude. Yeah, you're going to love it. It doesn't matter. It's just so, it's a perfect time. You don't think you need to have seen the first one? No, no. I mean, there's some references and stuff, but I mean, you would figure it out. But it's just the timing of this movie coming out. It's just pleasant. It's just fun to watch, it's a fun one. I got a great time to go to the bathroom. Did you do it?

No, I had to go before that scene. He called me and told me a good time to go to the bathroom. I've been telling him I got a great time to go to the bathroom in the new Top Gun movie. I don't think I'm giving anything away. There's not really, you know, am I giving anything? It's the... No, but now that you told me

It's the scene right after they play football on the beach. Okay. So if you see the football on the beach scene, you know you can get up and go. Yeah. Next scene. Yeah. There you go. And you won't miss any action. No. Yeah. You'll miss like a funny thing. Man, I want to know what happens during that scene though. I still don't know, but he saw it. I went during the scene where I'd have Ruth tell me what happened, what I missed, and I guess they go out on a boat. Yeah.

Yeah. I feel like you... He and his girlfriend. You accidentally leave during the most important parts of movies all the time. Well, Henry Cho told me a very funny website you can go to that'll show you the best time to go to the movies. Yeah. And somebody, the last Spider-Man...

is where all the old Spider-Mans come back and someone, just to mess with people, told you to go during that scene where they all show up. Oh, really? And it's just very funny to think about. You get up and go during the big reveal where all the other old Spider-Mans show up. Seems like you'd lose your trust in that website. Well, this was just somebody maybe that posted on social media on their own. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I didn't even know that that happened, so you ruined that for me.

What does it say when you go Top Gun? What is it? Can you click it? Is Top Gun on here? Yeah, right there. I don't see it. Well, because you didn't go down farther. There you go. It's not on these four up front, so it's probably not there. Right there. Cash in mind. Read time, eight minutes. Maybe I'll go to the bathroom while you read it.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is an app called Run P, where they tell you when the best time to run and pee is. That's pretty fun. Yeah, that's fun. Or you can just hold it to hold film. What? What's that?

Yeah. You don't ever have to get up and pee? I do, yeah. Nothing? You said you never peed on a plane. I never have. I pee on every plane I'm on. Even if you didn't have to go. Do you go to the bathroom? All the time. I'm taking two flights just to get somewhere. There was one with Nick. Nick and Travis. They were flying back from LA to back here. And

Nick's like Nick gets there and he meets Travis. Like I think in like, you know, the lounge or something. And, uh, he's like, I go to the bathroom. You will be here for a second. So he's got to like really go to the bathroom. Yeah. And then he gets on, uh, he goes on, he goes, so he does that there. And then he has to go, Nick, uh, has to go again in the, uh, uh, on the plane. So he goes again on the plane and,

And then he gets up and he's got to go again. And they end up like blocking the way where they're like, no, you can't. Like they stopped him. They go, that's enough on the plane. And then he's got a, Nick's got to turn and walk by Travis. And he's like, Hey, he goes, I had a lot of water and shit. I'll be right. And he has to walk all the way to the back.

But within like, I mean, he's barely in the air. He's already gone three times. Wow. Pretty fun. I book an aisle seat on a plane just so I can pee. Just so I don't have to get people up. Yeah, I do that too. I'd rather not have to get people up. I will. I mean, I don't have to pee a ton on it, but.

But it's, you know, I do, you know, I mean, if you're having a drink or anything, you're going to... Something happens to my body when I'm like, it's inconvenient to pee. Yeah. That's when I got to go. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm like, if they're like, all right, this is your last chance to pee. I'm like, well, I better go because...

The moment they shut it down, I'll be like, oh, I'm about to beat myself. Yeah. I got to go right now. Yeah. Is that it? Yeah, that's probably it. I was going to mention Skinwalker Ranch. I don't know if you guys have heard of that. Oh, I have heard of that. Freaked me out. Had to cut it off. What do you mean?

Oh, I was watching people talk about it and it scared me so much I had to turn it off. Oh, really? It's a place in Utah that this family owned and all kinds of weird stuff started happening. Cattle mutilation, crop circles. They said they bought this ranch and they noticed these big chains or whatever on it. I guess they bought it without going there and they had big shutters and

And they just didn't think anything about it. They got a good deal. And they said one night they saw this giant wolf coming across the range. And then these like thin looking alien people came. I don't know. I was like, this is freaking me out. What's the documentary on? I was just, I think I saw it on YouTube just about Skinwalker Ranch. Yeah, I don't know. Is it called Hunt for the Skinwalker?

I don't know. I just, if it got me. But then a millionaire bought it just to try to figure out what was going on there. He's a alien enthusiast, Robert Bigelow, and he bought the property and they've been doing tests and stuff. But one of his scientists said he saw a humanoid in a tree watching them from a distance and there was snow on the ground and

They couldn't get to it, but there was a track with two claws, giant claws in the snow. So they've seen all kinds of crazy things. Cattle's mutilated, but with no blood let out, just killed. I think there's, that's a, have you ever heard of aliens mutilating cattle? Uh-uh. Hmm.

I don't think I even know what mutilating means. I don't know what mutilating means. You said you didn't know. What did you think? When have I ever said I don't think Aaron knows what mutilating means? That's what I thought you said. You're like, I don't even think they know what that means. Explain it to them. When have we ever...

Oh, it's like, I know mutilating somebody. You're cutting it up and it's gross. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they don't know. I mean, I've heard of aliens do that and why they do it. I think it came from Skinwalker Ranch. Yeah. Do they show that in the...

Well, I don't think they have any visuals, really. They're just telling the story. Yeah. And just hearing it, though, like they had the shutters closed and things were coming at night. I mean, it was like, I don't know. I've been traumatized by Unsolved Mysteries as a kid. Yeah. And so that stuff just, I don't like to sleep with the blinds open. I don't like a door to be open to my bedroom. I don't, you know. Yeah. I'm a, you know, I said it already, but.

about being afraid of the dark. It's like people say, oh, you're afraid of the dark. I'm like, yeah, the dark's scary. You know what I mean? Yeah. Don't put me in the dark. Yeah. Can't see what's coming. Yeah. I want to know what's going on. You want to watch yourself get mutilated. Exactly. I want to know what's happening. Yeah. So that's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah.

It's just like a psycho that just has no... Yeah. Because I think that's awesome, you know? Well... Anyway, I'll be at Bananas this Saturday, Sunday. Sticky's Joke Barn. Yeah. Well, anyway, the Navajo Indian, I'm reading now off the screen, they call them skinwalkers because they're known to have...

Navajo talked about shape-shifting characters who lived throughout that. I think this has been going on for hundreds of years. Evil witches who can transform themselves. Native American stuff where they talk about a race of red-headed giants that used to live in the country. They talk about finding the bones. It's red-headed, the scariest part of that. I don't know. That's scarier than brunettes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That's it? Yeah. Yeah.

All right. If you're hearing this on this day, 22nd, I'm at the San Diego County Fair with Leanne Morgan. Oh, man. Nick Novicki will be there with us. Oh, that's fun. It'll be fun. It's my first fair I've ever done. So I'm excited to get to see Leanne. And then I'll be at Paso that weekend in Reno, Nevada. At Reno. Just look at Reno. Okay.

Paso? That's where I'll be. Paso. No, no. Paso. I can't call it. It's somewhere in California. El Paso. Yeah. That's what it was. El Paso. Yeah.

Yeah, it's all on my website. I'll be tonight at Zany's. If you're listening to this, the day comes out headlining Zany's and then this weekend with Aaron at Wise Guys in Salt Lake. I'll be at Zany's June 28th. It's going to be a hot show. There you go. All right, everybody. We love you as always. Thank you for listening to this and we will see you next week. All right. See you. Bye. Bye.

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