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Hello folks and hey bear. Welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm Nate Bargetti sitting with Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. There we go. Welcome everybody. Excited to be here. You know, we're all here. Aaron, you're back. It's good to be back, man. You got your passport? Yeah. I had a corporate gig in Cancun.

Mexico that's been on the calendar for 11 months. So, of course, I didn't think to get a passport until two weeks ago. Plenty of time. I applied online. I paid for the expedited shipping. I paid for the expedited processing. It was scheduled to get in the day before I left. And then I get a notification that my picture has been rejected because they say you're not allowed to wear a military uniform in the picture. You're wearing camo.

I mean, look at the picture. This is the picture they got. Yeah. That looks straight military. That's crazy, dude.

There's some other reasons I should have been rejected. Yeah. Camo's the least of the problems. So I called, and I'm like, this is not a military uniform. I'm just wearing them. It's an active shooter uniform. They're just like, how unhappy are you? Come talk to us. Well, they tell you not to smile in these pictures, right? They say a neutral expression. And I remember asking the guy. That's less than neutral. You went the other way. Yeah. Yeah.

Turn that smile upside down. That is enough. Yeah. I asked the guy, should I take this off? And he was like, nah, you're good. So that guy rejected. So I missed the podcast. At the gas station, they took the picture. Hey, you think this is going to get through? He's like, ah, it's fine, dude. Your guy doesn't care at all if it gets through. I don't. Like, he's like, I don't. You're fine.

So I had to fly to a passport agency and get a passport in person. And the only appointment available in the entire country was Buffalo, New York. So during the podcast last week, I was flying to Buffalo to get a passport. Got it in in the nick of time. And now I'm back. Lucky. That's yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think you show some life in your picture. You're not allowed to smile, though. You know, you shouldn't frown. You think that's a frown?

I mean, honestly, when I said active shooting, like if they showed that we're on the look for this man, no one would bat an eye. They would be like, typical.

They would be like, how did they let him out? Yeah. That is the picture they use for a missing person every time. Well, I don't, I, yeah, but the other person's missing. We know this man took the, Oh yes. If they posted that and said, we're missing this guy. No one's looking for that guy. There they go. That guy knows what he's doing. He's out. Yeah. He wants to be missing. He's drinking at a motel six. Yeah. Yeah. He chose it. Uh, well, I'm glad you got it. Thanks man. Uh,

I was in your town, Montgomery, last night. Gump town, dude. Gump town. We left last night because it's only like four hours home.

And so I didn't realize that until like last night. And then it was like, oh, wait. I was like, all right. Because usually I wake up on the bus and then I get out and we do the podcast. But then I could get home last night. I got home like 1.45. But it was like we left. I don't ever leave immediately. But I mean, I walked off stage and walked to the bus. And we had the bus like pointed to the street and just was like gone. Yeah.

It's pretty nice. Do you want to hang in Montgomery for the night? I mean, we were going to because I thought it was, you know, if it shows at 8, if it gets pushed, you know, I don't want to, like, get home at, like, 4. Yeah. I'd rather just sleep on the bus and get home at, like, 9, 30 or 10 or something. But last night I was like, oh, we'll get home at, like, 145. So, yeah, I walked straight right on and just left. It's pretty. They said Mick Jagger does it.

Pretty cool. Yeah. That's a real Mick Jagger move. Yeah. Yeah. Just get right out of there. Jagger Montgomery. Yeah. I was going to say, what does he do? He just walks right on the bus. They said Mick Jagger. I've never left. Like, I don't like, like I, I wouldn't normally not leave like this, but like, I was just like, realize we could get home. And it was like, Oh, and, uh,

But Mick Jagger will, like, he says goodnight. The band keeps playing. He walks off stage, walks to a car, and then once the car gets out, they turn the lights up, show's over, and then people leave. And he's already long gone. Oh, he's already...

a few blocks away. I mean, there's people that probably... He might be back... He might be at a restaurant before you're even out of the building. He's on a helicopter out of there. For sure. I always heard there was... There was like Carlin would do it and then Cosby. I heard... Like they would have a... They might have been in Seinfeld. I heard that too. I don't know what that... I think it's a movie comedian. They talk about it. Like they... Or I don't know. Maybe it was... Maybe it was somewhere else. But they... They would leave...

I mean, they have a car waiting. And so when they say goodnight, they walk to the car. And they would have like a bet between the two. Like who could get out there the fastest. Who could get out there fastest. I feel like Ryan Hamilton and Mark Norman told us that Seinfeld's kind of like that. He's out of there pretty quick. Yeah.

Yeah, I think I've heard, too, like Seinfeld has done one where he's got a plane. Yeah. And, like, as you're taking off, you can still see people leaving the building. Wow. Wow.

Yeah, it feels abrupt. I mean, I guess I get, like, if you're touring for 40 years, you know, you could be like, all right, let's get out of here. I used to work with this guy who managed the Buffalo Bills stadium, not the team, but the stadium. And he said in the offseason they would bring in big acts, and this was probably, I don't know, 70s. And they brought in the Rolling Stones and said they –

wanted all their money in cash and they they took the cash to a helicopter pad and the moment the show was over they got they got their money and got on the helicopter i just flew right out with like you know thousands in cash oh it might be maybe a million millions yeah yeah like hundreds of thousands at least a lot of money yeah

Yeah, that's, yeah. It's weird. How do you know that guy? A story like that's got to be true. Well, he was, he played for the Buffalo Bills in the 60s and I worked with him for a long time. He was, he was in retirement age. OJ? He said he was around when OJ was there, but he was, played football when Jack Kemp, who was Bob Dole's running back, running mate, was quarterback at the Buffalo Bills. Oh. But,

But he was my boss. Stu Barber is his name. He was my boss as a pesticide guy. Yeah. He was great. Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. We did, you always know more football stuff than I, you look like you do. I know. You always surprise me. Yeah. I mean, I like football. I don't like a lot of sports. Yeah. But I do like football. Yeah. It's always just like, I don't think you're ever going to.

know who these people are oh yeah but it's got to be a weird way like that it's not just from watching sports center well i used to love sports center but it is not fun anymore you know i mean it's it is like a sports podcast i want to see uh highlights yeah that's all i want some sports highlights yeah yeah i it's sports center's gotten i don't watch it much anymore yeah it's just too much it's when they started standing up

Oh, yeah. That's when it went downhill for me. Stay behind the desk. Oh, yeah. Everyone started doing that. Know your role. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why are you standing around? Well, they started getting, well, that's, they started getting, like, they are the celebrity. And so, like, that's what I always think with media or journalism. Some of that is, like, once they want to be the celebrity, then you're kind of, it's kind of not going to go good. Because you're, you know, it's like, I mean, they're famous. Yeah.

I have trouble watching it. I want to see just the highlights. Then they also throw too many stories in. It's like too many, like, I see you be at midnight and then it's like some sad video and you're like, dude, I'm just trying to see who won what game and I got to watch a 25 minute video of some team fight.

It's very contrived. All reality shows, when I did Last Comic Standing, they were like, what would this mean to you to win this? What would this mean? I was like, I don't know. It'd be great to headline clubs all over the place. They said it like, your heart and soul's in this, right? I'm like, no, I just would like to be the funniest. What would it mean to look your parents in the eye and say, mom and dad, I did it? They would go, my parents would go, what'd you do? Yeah.

I told my dad I was on Netflix. He goes, oh, that's great. And then he goes, what's Netflix again? Yeah. Yeah, they're, I think that stuff's going away. Like, people don't want, you just, like, you just, like, just have the competition. I don't need the drama. Yeah. Like, I think, I mean, Laura watches Survivor. She's watched it forever. Yeah.

But I think she even could fast forward some of the drama of it because it's like, I want to just see them compete and maybe a tiny bit of it, but I don't need. You ever watch The Great British Bake Off on Netflix? It's a competition show. It's British. Sounds like it. I get to say that. It's British, but it's fascinating the difference between American television and British television because it's a competition show, but you know nothing about these people.

They give you like a five second look into their life. And then it's all just about, it's fun. It's encouraging. There's, it's not overly dramatic. It's totally the opposite of what you're talking about. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's fun. Yeah. I like that. And you get to see some nice cakes. Yeah. You like that? I like cake week. I'll tell you that much. Yeah.

Biscuit week, not so much, but I'm into the cakes. Why don't you like biscuits? Oh, like the cookie biscuits? Cookie, yeah, they call them biscuits. You don't like cookies? If there were regular biscuits, I'd be into them. That would be fun. Regular biscuits? Yeah. Cookies. You're the judge of that, and you're like, well, I'm just disappointed in the cookies.

How loosely y'all use the word biscuit over here. You know, you had a nice Montgomery, Alabama young boy come judge this. Yeah. And I expected, this is not what I expected. It's a chocolate chip biscuit? I don't like this. And they'd go, you don't know nothing about cookies? You don't like cookies? No, I'm into cookies too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I prefer a biscuit. Cakes are, I think I've, I enjoy cakes more now than I ever did. Why is that? I don't know. You eating less of them than you ever did? Uh,

I don't think I ever was on a stretch of them where I was just on a run of eating cakes, but I think I just like, you know, nice cake is nice. You just appreciate them. In a certain age? In a certain age. You feel like you're healthier now? You eat less junk food that maybe you appreciate it more because it's kind of a rare, it's like a treat. You feel like you've earned it in a way? Uh, yeah. I mean, I don't know if I've earned it, but it's, uh,

It's, yeah, it is nice. We have a cake like someone's birthday on the road and it's always nice. It's always nice. Gil's slice. I mean, I could eat so, cake and ice cream, I've like, that's, it's fun.

Yeah, that's very fun. It's a good time. Yeah. It is fun. You get a little bit of each and a forkful. It's really good. I like ice cream and pie, too. I'm a big pie fan. All pies? I like pecan pie, but I don't like my big pie guy. I like apple pie, berry pie. Yeah. Berry pie. Like a blackberry, blueberry. Okay. Yeah, you got to be a little more specific. Yeah. Not raspberry. Fruit pie. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. This podcast is off to a good start. I mean, I don't know. You got into pot. We listed our pot. Anyway, we had great weekends. I met Dean Ripa's sister from the Cape Fear Serpentarium. So this is the...

The brochure from the Cape Fear Serpentarium. She brought me some stuff. And I got some other stuff. They sent me some facts and stuff for you to look at. I didn't really get to look at them yet, but I'll look at them when we talk about them one day. But pretty fun. It's still going? No, no, no. Now it's like a bizarro, weird place.

So like it was before. Yeah. Yeah. But now, now, now it's that they were very sweet and they were, they were nice. And they said they loved it. And I, you know, I always like felt like, even though it was crazy, he's like, I don't ever feel like I'm making fun of someone. And, uh, but they were like nice. They're like, no, no, he would have loved it. Uh, so, uh, you know, that's good. And his, and his sister, they, they, they have a son now. Like it's a,

They were very nice. Very nice. It was really cool to get to meet them. But we were in Charlotte three nights, and then it's like Macon, Georgia. There's something else. Little Rock? No, that was last week. Macon, Montgomery, and somewhere else. Mobile?

Augusta? It was Friday and Saturday and Sunday. No, maybe that was it. Macon and Montgomery. Mobile was the other day. Sounds like a Jamie Johnson song. I was in Birmingham last night. I'm sorry I siphoned some of your ticket sales, dude. That's where they were. They said they were short-staffed. That's probably what happened. Where were y'all?

I was in Mattoon, Illinois. This is really the Hollywood of the South. Yeah.

We're really rocking it out. I got out of the South. I went to the Midwest, Mattoon, Illinois. Oh, Mattoon. The Fields Church did a show there. They gave me this Titans. Nice Titans. Oh, nice. Titans aren't doing too well right now, but I still wanted to wear the shirt and think over that. Titans Combine Training. Well, they're not too far from Indianapolis. Oh, yeah. That makes sense. I'm guessing that's why they gave me that. Yeah.

So, yeah, I was in my tomb. All right. I went to the Liberty Funny Bone or the Cincinnati Funny Bone, and it was great. Hot shows. I managed to get out of there without eating Skyline Chili again. Still not had it. I don't know if people have ever talked to you about Skyline Chili, but the shows were great. The shows were really great, but...

Everybody's like, you got to try it. And then there's also the other half of everybody that's like, don't do it. They're like, oh, it's like chili, but over spaghetti. And they put little chocolate flakes in there. And then I'm like, just keep adding ingredients to where I'm like, I don't think so. Yeah. I don't think I'm going to do it. I don't know if you guys have experienced Skyline Chili. I think I've had it. But yeah, I think I've had it.

I mean, up until the chocolate flakes, it just seems like spaghetti. Yeah. But you don't have to get that stuff on there. You just... I don't know. I mean, I don't even know. Like everybody, people are like, do it, do it. And then they're like, don't do it. And then I'm like, the people that don't do it scare you really out of it. Yeah. Why do they say not do it? I think they just think it's gross. Oh, no. I think all your digestive problems, you don't need to be digging in the skyline. That's probably true. Yeah. Well, I would try it.

Maybe one day. I'll get in there and I'll try it a little bit. All right. All right. Keep us posted. It's been a big eating podcast, but... Yeah. Well, I think everybody would like to know when you do try it, so keep it. But the shows were great, though. Oh. What a great place. The club really takes care of you. They put me in a nice hotel. The audiences were great. So friendly. Nice people. Yeah. Great. Yeah, that's a good place. All right, let's start with the comments. We'll try to get something rolling off top. All right.

Sheldon Larson, thanks for this wonderful podcast that keeps me laughing and smiling on my daily work commute. I am so happy that all of the World War II topics that are out there, everyone is focused on the bats. It had me laughing so hard I had to pull over so I wouldn't crash while listening. Yeah, those bats with bombs on them. Bats with bombs on them. It's hard not to talk about them.

Yeah, I mean, and there's a lot of unfunny things about World War II, so it's nice to focus on the bats. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Justin knew a lot, and once we got done with the air, he told me a lot of stuff about how Hitler wasn't all bad, and he had some really strong opinions. It's a little disturbing. I was gone by then.

If you want to know, email Justin. He'll tell you about it. He'll get into it. A lot of people are writing in that they have to pull over while listening. That's really nice. I want one of you to just keep going. That'd be a much better story. I was in a wreck with my cars totaled. Yeah, push through. Brian Gregory. Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. I thought, oh, boy, when I saw today's topics. Mostly because last week was on holiday shopping. What's next? Electric cars followed by War of 1812, perhaps.

Love the randomness this podcast brings, but more so the needed laughs in the middle of a busy work week. All right. We love that. Yeah. Kayla Bell. The fact that Breakfast says, I watched a history movie called Godzilla vs. King Kong, and no one even knowledged the absurdity of the joke he made. Makes me think everyone rolled with it because this is a comedy podcast, or no one knew that it's not a historical movie, both of which would be on point for this podcast.

I believe that it is. I mean, they very well could be, you know, who knows? It could have been a giant. I mean, Godzilla is essentially a dinosaur. Yeah. Right? I mean, come on. Yeah, but we already...

50-50 on that. Yeah. But yeah, so it could be. Yeah. But if there were dinosaurs, we hope that they were Godzilla and King Kong. Yeah, absolutely. Lived in the ocean. Yeah. Yeah. Right before they turned into birds. Yeah. They were on their way. Yeah. Who could fly? Could Godzilla fly? Some of the, no, but some of the ones they fought could. Yeah, that was another. Mothman? I don't know. Mothman. He could fly. Yeah. I can't remember.

Michael Mitchell, Dusty being on computer duty is like Nate being on reading comments duty. I have to wonder if someone wouldn't be better. He Googled like two things and the whole time being wrong about the Godzilla versus King Kong movie when he had an answer five seconds away.

I love them all, but Aaron does bring some useful skills and perspective that is missed in this episode. All right, I'll take that. Well, there's no question about that. Yeah. I mean, whenever I'm asked to do the computer, I'm like, I'll do it. But it's not going to be as good. It's tough Googling when somebody's looking over your shoulder. Yeah. You know, seeing what you're doing. Yes, it is. It's a lot of stress. Yeah. I mean, I think I should go back to doing it. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, it should. Let's see if the people want that. They bring a typewriter out. You got to pass it to Laura and she has to Google it. And then you rip it, hand it. They run it like the old news. Would y'all pass on new stuff like that?

Tap it on? No. Read the story. Would you ever rip a paper and run it on there and go? And they go, oh my gosh. You have the tube like at the bank? Ladies and gentlemen, we have Godzilla King Kong apparently in the Gulf of Mexico. Breaking news. No, we just tell them they're at peace. Yeah. That's got to be a, that's a, that's a something to really learn how to do. To be good at that. To be able to listen to someone talk to you while you're talking and not lose your train of thought. Yeah.

Yeah, that is tough. I think that's real tough. Yeah. Because news people have to be like, oh, yeah, and then it could just be like, bam, man. Because they're not just telling you just anything. They're telling you something so dramatic that they have to interrupt you, and you have to keep talking. Yeah. Like Godzilla and King Kong just spotted. And would you just say, hey –

You'd be like, hey, Brian, Godzilla and King Kong, they have been spotted. And that's where the person goes. Well, if there were two anchors up there, then I would always wait, obviously, until the other one's talking to tell the person. But if it's just one person up there, you got to tell them while they're talking. You just try to do it the best you can. They're trying to do the news and they just hear...

Just whistles. What is that? Whistle nose. Did you ever leave it on and you're just talking? Just flipped up and I'm just blasting the banger. You're like, oh, I got to get out of this job. He's up there like, you know. This guy's terrible. Tornado came through. He goes, it's tornado. They keep saying tornado. Tornado.

You give them some Lebanon news that you think's big. Like breaking news.

New Golden Corral. Well, I'm kind of upset because a couple weeks ago, we talked about famous people from Lebanon. My buddy Nick, who I go to the Titans games with for years, except up until this year, we sit together. Lebanon just had their annual Christmas parade, and he was the Grand Marshal. Oh, wow. He's lived there for like a year. Wow. What does he do? He's on the news. Yeah. So local newsman that lives in Lebanon, Grand Marshal, Lebanon Christmas Parade. Yeah. That should be me. That should be you.

What happened that you guys don't sit together anymore? Well, we didn't renew our tickets this year. But yeah, you've got a podcast. You're moving and shaking. Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, you could have been the Grand Marshal. I should have been. Did you go to the parade? No. I was too upset. I protested. I wouldn't have went. Yeah, I wouldn't have went. This parade looks pretty crazy, man. Is that now? That was this weekend? That's for 2012. 2012. Things have changed since then. I can't imagine it's much different now. Yeah.

How often did you go? You go every year? Growing up, I did. One year, our Cub Scout troop got to ride in the parade. I was very excited about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I went downtown. Were you like 40? I went downtown Lebanon, and they had this little. It's not Lebanon. Come on, dude. Come correct. Lebanon. You better come correct. Lebanon. Sorry. And they have the square. Yeah. And it's beautiful. Yeah. But you get outside that square. That's it. Oh, come on.

No, I'm just saying, like, I mean, I was in there and I was like, whoa, we're always making fun of Lebanon. And I thought, well, this is great. Yeah. And then I drove just out of there and I was like, oh, that is the downtown. Well, any place that has a square, there's not much around it. Is this the square we're looking at right here? Yeah. The parade? Yeah. So the parade is just the school bus is coming through? Well, yeah, it's a parade. It looks like a clown bus. I don't know what that is right off hand, but maybe Bozo's on there.

I'm not making fun of Lebanon. I'm just saying. Yeah. West Main Street's nice. There's a, just off to the left there, there's the statue of General Hatton. He's a Civil War soldier that everyone wants torn down, except if you live in Lebanon. They're like, nah, he stayed. Yeah.

He's our guy. Is he from Lebanon? No, but we just like him. Yeah. Yeah. Y'all just picked one. I really don't know the story behind. Maybe he is from Lebanon. Y'all just picked a guy and you're like, that guy feels like us. Never been to Lebanon before. If you can meet that guy, he's like, I didn't really, I wasn't like really in the thick of it, you know? And they're like, no, no, you're right. Well, we wanted to be Lebanon. We're not in the thick of it. We were there. We were around. We can tell you all about it. But I was pretty far back from the...

Cannons. Michael Mitchell. Oh, no. Jerry Cannotti. Jerry Cannotti. Listen to Nate explain how to stay warm when you're camping exactly while listening to this podcast. After saying you should lay on the leaves to stay warm, he caps it off by saying it's possible nothing he said is true. Love you guys. Keep up the great work. Is that true? I think you do lay on the leaves, though. I'm going back. I do think you want to stay off the ground. Yeah.

Like if you want to stay warm. I think the ground takes heat from. Yeah, I wouldn't get in the dirt. I think you dig a hole in the ground and then the walls would insulate you. That's what I would do. Well, I mean, eventually you're going to have to lay down if you're out there in the woods. But I mean, like I would lay like in a tree or something. Yeah. Or you lay something on it. Richard Kimball just put some leaves over him. I believe him. Okay. Dr. Richard Kimball. From the fugitive? Mm-hmm. Oh. Okay. Yeah.

Michael Clay. Michael Clay. Sam Quesada. As a military history major, this episode is a world's collides moment for me. There was a missed opportunity to talk about Mad Jack Churchill, though. The last guy with a confirmed longbow kill. His life was truly insane, and he stormed the beaches with a sword and longbow during World War II. That's crazy. Yeah. Here he is. I mean...

I mean, just getting after him. So what did he do? Well, I guess he didn't take a rifle. He took a sword and a longbow. This guy must be who Hawkeye from the Avengers is based off of. Look at that guy.

Mad Jack. Well, that's got to be fresh. Even if you're on the other side and you get killed by that arrow, you're like, I mean, you're like, how much slow? You're like, what? Of course I'm the one that has to get, of course. They have to notify that guy's family. Yeah. And you're like, is he dead? He will be. It's just going to be long and painful. It's going to be long and painful. He got shot by an arrow and they're like, what? And he goes, what?

I got this one guy. We got one guy. We got one guy that would have. Did you run out of rifles? No, he prefers it. No, no, he got the long, you know. That would be just the shock of just an arrow. Like, I'm the guy that dies from an arrow. And that guy did. He probably really would have to think, like, it figures. Figures. Yep.

Kelly Russell. I was so excited to see the theme was World War II because I literally just finished reading Unbroken, Olympic runner Louis Zamperini's pretty good biography. Y'all dug into specific athletes and never ever mentioned the

Deliquent. What? I had trouble with that one. Delinquent. I used all my powers on Zamparini. Mentioned the Delawincant-turned-Olympic runner-turned-Army-Bombardier. Bombardier. Is that it? I don't know. Bombardier. Bombardier-turned-Army-Bombardier-turned-POW-Warhero-turned-Evangelist-and-Human-and-it-is-a-Human.

Humanitarian. Humanitarian. Humanitarian. That was a wild ride that covered. Yeah. A lot going on there. I thought I made through. I thought I got through the weeds. That's like you're like, I see land over here after Zamperini. I go, no, no, no. I can see the ocean. Yeah. And then I don't see the... Feels like Kelly put words in there just to trip you up. I know. Yeah. The Zamperini was a trap. I know. You felt so good after that. Yeah. I remember this movie from a few years ago, Unbroken. I think...

uh angelina jolie directed it um and this guy had an incredible life he was like i mean basically just what she said what's a human humanitarian like somewhere like a zoo you look at humans studies humans like a terrarium for humans yeah yeah just did good things oh yeah

Yeah, like I think Jimmy Carter would be considered. It's a good word to use for somebody that doesn't. There's nothing really we can nail down. Yeah. But he was just doing some stuff. He was just a good guy. He was a good guy. Humanitarian. Yeah. Philanthropy. Yeah, we don't really know what he was up to.

John Wiley, regarding Operation Mincemeat, the movie on Netflix is decent. However, I would recommend the documentary on YouTube over the movie. The fantastic documentary answers many of the questions the guy asks. Also, the guy's ask. Also, the person credited with coming up with the idea for the operation is none other than Ian Fleming, who would go on to create James Bond, Keep Up the Good Work.

Yeah, a YouTube documentary, at least used to be, was always superior to the Netflix documentary. That's where you get the real info. You know what I mean? I feel like I mentioned Ian Fleming last week. Yeah, I felt so too. Well, I'm just going to watch the Netflix movie. Well, if you want the lies. You know what I mean? You have to go look at YouTube and you look at like...

Yeah, documentaries are... I don't know if I trust a ton of new ones. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, because it's like... After making Murder, where it was all super fun, and you're like, oh, this guy did... And then there's stuff they left out that you're like, I mean, there's no way he didn't do it. I know, I know. And then you're... I always feel bad for the... It's like, is that family? And you're just making a movie, and you're...

It's a crazy story, but it's crazy because you left out the part that he did it. And then that's the part that's like... And then you're like, well, that was 12 hours of my life. You just completely misled me the whole time. Yeah, well, and if you don't look into it more, then you still think. But then if you start reading stuff about it, you're like, oh...

Oh, wow. For sure. Even movies like Michael Orr talked about the blind side being like, yeah, that wasn't it at all. Yeah. You know? It's like, so you just basically make a lie of that guy's life. Right. But it is how interesting could a...

Like that was a movie. It was a great movie. It was very fun. I think they got the majority of it right. I don't think he said that wasn't – He wasn't just some rich kid that they made up about living in the projects and adopted by a white family. Yeah, and I think a movie is a little different just because it's like – well, it's got to be watchable. Based on true events. But if something is a documentary, then you think, oh, I can trust this. And then it's – Yeah. Yeah, if it's a documentary for sure. You're supposed to be able to trust it, but –

Do you know the difference? Well, it depends on the subject. Movies are called undocumented. Undocumented. Exactly. Well, like the Kennedy one with Oliver Stone, that supposedly was like, that's a movie, but. JFK. JFK. He got, I think, was like, he's like way into JFK. So I thought that, I think that was supposed to be like some true stuff. Does the Kennedy family agree? I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. You haven't talked to him yet? Not yet.

I just watched a three-part series on Shaq. Maybe there's more to come. I don't know. On HBO about his life. And, you know, he takes some shots at Carlos Groves. I don't appreciate that. Yeah, that's your boy. And I'd like Carlos Groves to be able to respond. Carlos Groves is my hero. I got his autograph in high school. Okay. I don't know him. No one does. Okay. Well, if Carlos Groves wants to come on here and...

Yeah. And defend himself? Defend himself. We'll let him. All right. Yeah. But he hard fouled Shaq in the SEC tournament to the point where Dale Jones said Shaq should just go pro because these guys are going to hurt him before he gets his money. Oh, wow. Yeah. Because he couldn't hit free throws. Dale Jones, the comedian? Yeah.

Yep. Sorry, Del Brown. I'm glad you said that. People are like, what? No, Del Brown, sorry. Christina Marshall. The book The German Wife is based on the true story of high-ranking Nazis being brought to the United States first as prisoners, but then mostly granted full citizenship. Yeah, some people tell me to look up Operation Paperclip, which is kind of

Same as the book. Apparently, people like Von Braun, they were Nazis, and then they came here, and then they're like, well, you could do some good stuff for us. So then they got their citizenship. Yeah. So... Yeah, why don't you just go ahead and start NASA for us? Yeah. Go ahead and get that going. Yeah. I mean, that's what happened. Yeah, the world's a crazy world. It is. That is crazy. It really is. Stuff is crazy. It is crazy. You're like, it goes in your...

You're like, there's really no answer. You know, you're like, I don't even know what to say. But just, yeah. Just know that Nate just recently headlined the Von Braun Center, so he clearly supports it. I mean, yeah. I did a guest set, but that doesn't count. That's true. It's worse. He has to be on. Yeah, that's true. He goes, these are my people. It's literally word for word. He really had options. Yeah, yeah. I'm not even going to pay for this. I just want to do it.

CC Morgan. I always thought it was silly when listeners got irritated at you guys for getting facts wrong, but as a professional musician with a master's degree in music, I finally feel their pain. The big band slash swing era began in the 30s and was at its height when World War II began. Some of the most enduring jazz and Broadway hits were composed during the Great Depression and World War II. The nasally tenor music Justin described was more popular during the previous era.

Yeah, I'll be honest. Justin was wrong. I didn't know a lot about what Justin was saying at that time about the music that plays during World War II or World War I. I didn't. Yeah, there's a chance Justin didn't either. Yeah. Good chance. So, but I like when Justin's not here, we don't defend him. We're like, yeah, well, Justin's an idiot. Well, this guy was very upset about it, C.C. Morgan here. But I like Big Bandit Swing. Yeah.

Do you? I mean, I don't have a lot of albums. You jamming out to that in the car on the way here? But I don't mind it. When was the last time you listened to it, do you think? I don't know. Captain America?

Yeah, I mean, I don't have any, but you'll hear it, and it's got an upbeat tune to it. I don't know the instruments, but- Where are you hearing it? Upright bass, probably. Where do you go where big band music is being played? It was kind of coming back popular in the late 90s. Ska music? Like the jump job and- Yeah, yeah. The big bad voodoo dad, Eddie? Yeah, stuff like that. It was kind of coming back around a little bit. Stray Cats? Stray Cats.

CC Morgan, right back and see if that's the same thing. He's like, no, Justin. I like Big Bang. I listened to Mighty Mighty Boss Tones back in the day. Yeah, totally. Mighty Mighty Boss Tones. Yeah, that kind of stuff. Brian Seltzer Orchestra, something like that. Yeah. Okay. My only Big Bang experience is Elaine. Yeah. Going to Big Bang. Big Bang. Big Bang. Big Bang, that's another thing. I don't know anything about that. Yeah. Yeah.

Dustin Stinson. I didn't mean to bring that up. Dustin Stinson. The best part of this episode is when Dusty says the homeless guy that died from rat poison was invaluable to the government. I think he thinks the meaning of the word is the opposite of its real meaning. Love you guys. Keep up the good work. Yeah, invaluable, I guess, means you're the most valuable. Is that what he's saying? Oh, okay, I guess so. I don't even know that I use that word, but...

But maybe I did. But yeah, I mean that the guy, the government did not care about that guy. Gave him rat poison, killed him, and then used his body. Yeah. Okay. So he was invaluable. Yeah, I mean, I thought invaluable, but I guess invaluable could mean, oh, just the height of value. What would be...

Yeah, what's not valuable? I guess you just have to say not valuable. Worthless. Oh, really? Disposable. Unvaluable? Unvaluable. Expendable. Invaluable, I think, means you cannot assign a value to it. Okay. It's priceless. Oh, yeah. So the homeless guy was priceless. And I mean, let's be honest, though, for the work he did in the end. It really was priceless. It was priceless, yeah. Yeah.

So good for that guy. And that's what they go. It's prices. And I go, man, he goes, but I've got it for free. They say that. Yeah. But I mean, it's a human being. Yeah. They're like, would you pay this guy? It's not a price. It's not on it. Couldn't even assign it a price. We killed him. Uh, Justin coffee. Most of the time I'm just listening to the podcast while driving. However,

basketballs and expression when Nate says, so the Nazis started fighting Germany is priceless. I'll be watching the show a whole lot more in the future. Yeah. That's funny. Yeah, we got confused. What it's all about. What it's all about. Invaluable. Of inestimable value. Priceless. Inestimable? Mm-hmm. Inestimable? Yeah.

That's a lot. That seems, yeah, that doesn't seem like a real word. It seems like a college person that goes, what's the definition of invaluable? And they go, I don't know, but I'll throw in another crazy word. It's like, don't put another in in front of a different word to define a word with an in in front of it. Like, what's invaluable mean? Inestimable. Inestimable. And that definition is incalculable. Yeah.

Yeah, it's like, come on, guys. Nate, do you think the way they break down the pronunciation, does that help you? Inestimable. Sounds like Spanish. I don't know why the E's are upside down. Yeah, I forget what that means. I don't know. I don't know why that's necessary. You don't even need that when you can just press play. Inestimable. I've never even heard that word. Really? No.

Then go to college where you speak right to the, talk right to the source. Yeah, we go, that ain't worth nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Feels good to do. There it is. I'm going to do. I love doing that. This is my, I get one bottle of real Fiji water, and then I'll never have Fiji water in this bottle ever again. Oh, wow. All right. That's the real stuff. This is the real stuff.

I bring it out for nice occasions. Mark gets a hold of it, and it becomes garden hose water. All right. All right. This week, we're talking about Texas. Texas. State of Texas. I'm going there. I'll be there. This week? Yeah. Yeah. I thought that's why you chose it. I'll be in Midland, El Paso, Lubbock, and Amarillo. Oh. The western part of Texas, it looks like.

I looked up... Oh, sorry. Go ahead. It's next to Odessa, which is from their... Friday Night Lights. Oh, yeah. I don't even know that. But it's... I never watched Friday Night Lights. Yeah. You know what's funny? Ted Alexandro, comedian, very funny comedian, texted me once and he goes...

Have you watched Friday Night Lights? And I go, no. And he goes, I think you really would like it. And this was like, and I was like, okay. And then I still never watched it. The movie or the show? Which one was he talking about? I thought he was talking about the show. The movie was great. I never watched the show. Yeah. Yeah. The movie is based on a true story. Yeah. And it takes place in Odessa, Texas. Yes. The television show is in a fictional town of Dillon, Texas. Yeah. And it's loosely based on the book and the movie. Yeah. Yeah.

You'd like both of them, I think. Yeah. But I'll be, I was thinking No Country for Old Men. I was about to say, you're going to where some of the coolest movies are. No Country for Old Men, Hell or High Water, which I loved. Sicario. Oh, yeah. All those movies happen around the border. El Paso. Yeah. Midland, things like that. Yeah.

Those last two were done by the same guy, the guy who does Yellowstone. I'm drawing a blank on his name, but he's killing it right now. Taylor Sheridan, I think is his name. Anyway, yeah, you're going to the cool places. The record for largest high school football attendance, we're talking about Odessa, was over 50,000 for a high school football game. State championship game, I'm guessing? I think so, at Cowboy Stadium. I sent you a link to that. Okay.

They've had a few that have been right around there, but I think now they do it at Cowboy Stadium and they can really pack it in. Oh my goodness, 54,000 people in 2013. Wow. Is that a lot or not a lot? It's a pretty good amount. People always go, what's the population? And I go...

I don't know. What is this that you're even... This is high school football attendance. Oh, oh. I thought you were talking about the population of the town. Yeah. Okay, okay. For a game, yeah. Like, why are y'all blown away by a town of 54,000 people? You go, wow. Can you imagine living in the city like that? Yeah, yeah. And that's a ton. Yeah. For a high school football.

I mean, this is... Vandy doesn't have some. No. No. It doesn't even hold that many. Yeah. Even if Vandy wanted to sell it out, they couldn't beat it. So, Texas is the second largest state in the country in size and population. Alaska won. Alaska for size. Oh, population of California. Yeah. Yeah, Alaska's like...

Way bigger than it. Way bigger. Like you, I think. I think it's like three times the size of Texas. Three times? I think so. We talked about it in the Alaska episode. It's crazy. It's like takes up a third of the country almost. Yeah. Yeah. But everything's bigger in Texas. Yep. What is that all about? Don't mess with it. Just because everything's, yeah, I imagine the trucks are big.

You know that slogan, don't mess with Texas? Man, I don't know. Yeah. The don't mess with Texas, I thought that had been around forever. That's a fairly new slogan. It was a litter campaign and really kind of took off in the 90s. Oh, they kind of spin it the other way. It was like, don't mess with Texas, don't litter. Yeah. But the statement would be like, if someone said don't mess with Texas, like if someone said don't litter, you'd be like, don't mess with Texas, don't tell us what to do. That's what I take it as. Oh, yeah.

Like, don't, you don't want to. I think that's kind of what it's become. Yeah. But to start off as an anti-litter campaign. Really? Got rid of that quick. Yeah. Yeah. So I looked up the largest cities in the United States. Five of the 13 largest cities in the United States are in Texas. Wow. That's pretty crazy. Yeah. Wow. Houston is like third, fourth largest in the country. Fourth. Yeah. The one that always surprised me is San Antonio. Because I based.

city size off of sports teams right that's how i think they're big it's like the seventh largest city in the u.s and i had no idea never gets talked about no slides under the radar well they're in they're uh they're in a they're a small fish in a big pond oh yeah and so they they would need to go you move you move them to any other state i mean they're just yeah just move them over to mississippi yeah move in mississippi i mean you're yeah you're you're new york you're right

But they're still bigger than Dallas. And you hear all about Dallas. San Antonio's bigger than Dallas? Yeah. I don't believe you. But Dallas-Fort Worth together is probably bigger than San Antonio, right? Yeah. So they kind of split their city up. Yeah, the DFW metro population is 7.5 million people. Sure.

Yeah, that'd probably be number two. It would be second if you counted them combined. Yeah, San Antonio's metro is 2.6 million. So we're not even... It's not even... Ballpark. What is just straight up Dallas, though? I don't know. We'll look it up. Yeah, that's what you got to look up. You're cheating. You're cheating another city. Well, Fort Worth is like what? Yeah, that is because it's...

1.3 million in the actual city. And then, wow, San Antonio, 1.4 million in the actual city. You're right, Brian. You did your research. But sometimes it's like, what are they all counting there? It's like, I was talking to somebody about that. Like Columbus, Ohio is one of the like, I don't know, maybe fifth largest. I mean, or something. It's gotten way up there. It's huge, yeah. But it's like, you know.

Somebody was saying that St. Louis would be bigger, but St. Louis only counts the metro area, whereas Columbus would count all of the suburban areas around it. Well, I mean, Nashville is bigger than Memphis, but Memphis only counts city limits, and Nashville counts the whole county of Davidson County. Yeah. But for the metro area, like you and I talked about, you said Murfreesboro was going to be bigger than Memphis. Mm-hmm.

Based on nothing, just gut feeling. Yeah, you were wrong. But, I mean, maybe someday it would be. But when you talk about the Nashville metro area, they count Murfreesboro. They count every county. They count Franklin, Brentwood. So that Dallas-Fort Worth, seven and a half million, that's more than just those two cities. That's the whole area around it. But that means there's probably more people that live up there than right around it. It's the second busiest airport in the country next to Atlanta.

But you're right. If San Antonio were in Mississippi, it would be a huge deal. Oh, yeah. There'd be an NCIS San Antonio. Oh, yeah. They're bigger than us. Where are we? A million? Yeah.

We're not even spitting distance. We're 21st, I think. Yeah. In size. Talking about Nashville. Weak. The Astrodome in Houston was the first dome stadium in the U.S. Oh. I remember it was a big deal back in my day. Yeah. I remember talking about the Astrodome in a time where it was like, I didn't know it was the only one, but people would be like, yeah, the Astrodome. It's a dome. Yeah. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like we would talk about it. What's in it? They go Astro. Yeah. They called it the eighth wonder of the world because it was. Is that where the term AstroTurf comes from? Yep. Oh, really? Yep. It was because they played on artificial turf, so they called it AstroTurf. So this was the first ever fake grass? Yep. Whoa. At least in the United States. Okay. I think we probably did it first. What other country would have done it before? I don't know. I just, the way it, according to this, it was the first dome stadium in the country.

Makes me think maybe somewhere else. I don't know. Yeah, you call everything AstroTurf. I don't feel like as much now. What do you call it now? Artificial turf. Artificial turf. I don't think so. I think I call it AstroTurf. Yeah, me too. It's so commonplace now, though. Yeah. You think sports broadcasters and stuff still call it AstroTurf? No, I mean, I think they try to talk better. Yeah. But I mean, I think...

Yeah, I mean – Now they say synthetic. Yeah, now there's like synthetic – like now it's like trying to sound like it's this special thing. Yeah. Just so they can lie to you and make you spend money on it. Yeah. So it's AstroTurf? They go – Yeah. Yeah, like all the – I mean, not all, but most – I feel like most of the stadiums are AstroTurf now. Professional. Oh, yeah. Or some type of synthetic. Yeah.

Kind of thing where it's like a hybrid GMO. I mean, sometimes you'll see them. There'll be a tackle and you just see like dirt fly up for just a second or dust or whatever. Would you, what if you, so you play a sport and they use some turf that's got, you're like, I don't trust what's in this.

Well, I mean, I guess I would still have to do it, I guess. Would you ask to play infield? Well, maybe, yeah. Would you go, I would like to be infield on dirt only? Yeah, I mean. Oh, for baseball? Depending on what's going on with it, yeah. I mean, or how much they're paying me, you know what I mean? You weigh the risk. And then, because I like the idea of a ball right on the fringe of outfield and dirt, and you just won't go and have to get it. Yeah, don't dive for it. Yeah. No diving. I don't think you're even going to go get it. You're like, I tried.

And then the announcer's out to go, well, everybody I think knows Dusty Slay as a... Doesn't really trust the turf. I don't know why they keep playing him in that position. Yeah.

Let him be the catcher. Yeah. Or it's all dirt. Now, if you were an outfielder on grass, you'd play with no shoes because you like to do some grounding. You could be like the Kyrie Irving, like he can't travel to games, but you do it because it's like, well, you know, Dusty's out this week because they just got some new turf over at the Toronto Blue Jays stadium. So big missing hole at old shortstop. That's the thickest part of the dirt in the infield, so he has to play that position. Yeah.

I like that. I like that kind of contraband. First base would be a good one. First base would be a good one. I always felt like first base, I mean, I guess catcher too, it's like one of the hardest because people are just throwing at you all the time. You know? Like, you're not really getting thrown to all the time at third. But you don't got to run that. Yeah, but third, you get some rockets. It's the hot corner. It's what they call it. You just get rocked over at third base. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

And then you got to throw it the farthest. That's true. You got to have a real gun for that. And then first, first you got to be able to like do the splits. Yeah. And just kind of stay in there. And you're right in front of the opposing team's dugout, which I think never gets talked about, but it's pretty nerve wracking. Probably a lot of trash talk. I used to get, uh, people say some mean stuff to me back. What was some stuff they would say about you? Oh,

Oh, would they? Oh, it was ruthless back in the day, man. You played third base? Oh, yeah. East Montgomery baseball. You're standing in front of the opposing team's dugout. We'd be yelling stuff at each other. It was fun. They would make oink sounds? Sometimes, yeah. You were at third base? Played third base, pitched. Oh, I was thinking about first base. Third base feels like a – Well, first base, too, I guess, depending on if you're home or away. Third base used to feel like a big guy position, though. You'd be a big guy. Like Terry Pendleton used to be the Atlanta Braves third baseman. He's kind of a bigger guy. There you go.

Third, I would think, yeah, I don't know. Bob Horner before him? Were you a big guy? Like you were just like a football player. Not that big. I was getting there. I was on my way. Yeah. Yeah. It was like you would go. He's going to win today. Like if there had been one more year of high school baseball, you'd went to first or coached one of the bases? Be a third base coach. You'd just get slightly removed from that. Yeah. You could do a little wave around. Yeah. Yeah. Just get hit by the ball.

Comes your way, you're like, he ain't moving. Third base coach would be the best. Wave him every time. If they get out, go, hey, I thought you'd be faster. You think catching, would you go up or would you stay down? What do you mean? Like, you know, they got to hop up on their legs. Oh, I'll just stay down on the ground. You just stay. I'll just sit down Indian style on the ground and catch it. My mistake, is that a footstep behind the catcher there?

I did catch a little bit. I got bad knees, though, man. It is tough. Yeah, how's it catch you? It's tough to squat down like that. Do you have the knee savers in behind the knees? No, we didn't have that stuff back then. Are you serious? What? I don't know. We don't have money like you did. I never heard of a knee saver, yeah. I had...

Used whatever equipment. Nothing was ever. Harper's catching now, which makes me very excited in softball. But, I mean, when I caught, this is 1989, dude. That wasn't invented. You're using a regular glove. Yeah.

You were, I mean, you had the stuff. You had a helmet and you had the stuff. But, I mean, you had nothing that was, like, protective. No frills. Yeah. The frills was the, you get to wear the uniform. I mean, I loved putting on the catcher's uniform. Yeah. It was so fun. Yeah, it's like you're going to battle. Yeah. It does feel like that. It was, like, great. But when I went to 13-year-old league, it was the last year I played. But then the catcher's equipment was too big.

for me like it would droop and that's when i stopped because it was like well i'm gonna get i'm not even protected yeah it was too small or too big too big so it wouldn't protect i would feel like it would be like i don't know i never well it would be very loopy and i remember the front would come way down oh like it was like because it was like i couldn't get the straps your sternum's just exposed right there yeah yeah

I remember they'd tell you to go catch. Like, well, just go catch and don't have the equipment on while the catcher's getting in. You're like, I don't want to do that. I don't want to take equipment. Yeah. I loved it. Yeah. Harper does it now. It's fun. She plays good catching. Slow pitch softball? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. No, no, no. Fast pitch. Fast pitch? Yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, selling insults.

I'm just impressed. I mean, they're not throwing super fast, Brian, but they're still, they're not lobbing it up there. Some girls throw it. Really? I mean, there's always a couple, because she's 10, so it's like some girls are maybe a little bit older, and then they, I mean, they start, some of them start humming it, but they, she does it. She loves it. That's great. Yeah. She's got a game ball. That's what a game ball is. All right. The King Ranch in Texas is the largest ranch in the United States. It's bigger than the state of Rhode Island. Ooh.

So it's one Rhode Island. Well, it's more than one. It's bigger. So it's 125,000 acres. So who owns the King's Ranch? I'm trying to figure that out. It started off as Mr. King back in the day, but I'm not quite sure now. They mainly cattle there. They did produce a Triple Crown winning racehorse, though. Wow. That's good. That's impressive. Yeah.

Now it's a National Historic Landmark. Oh, okay. It might not even be privately owned anymore. There you go. They got it. Yeah. The government took it, of course. What's the... Always do. 825,000 acres. 825,000 acres. Is that what you just said? I thought so. You said 120. Did you say 100? If I did, I meant to say 825,000. Yeah. I don't know. I thought you said 125, but...

Either way, it's impressive. Yeah. Either way, pretty big. One time we went on... Pretty big difference, though. It is a big difference. Quite a big difference, but I don't... One time the Bates family went on vacation to Alabama, and we asked...

We stopped at the gas station and asked where Randy Owen's house was from the group Alabama. Oh, yeah. He went to Fort. Fort Payne. Yeah. Fort Payne. And we drove by his house. That was our vacation. Driving by Randy Owen's house. And you can't see it, but they said he had 1,600 acres. And we thought that, I mean, we still do. That was just unbelievable that someone would own that much land. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, let me ask, though. Your vacation was to go to Fort Payne, and you didn't know where the house was at until you got there. It wasn't just that, but we took a road trip, family vacation to Alabama. That was a day on that. That was one of the stops. Okay. Yeah. And we stopped at the gas station and asked where Randy Owen's house was. Go to Fort Payne. We'll ask around. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. But I still remember. They said he owned 1,600 acres. Wow. That is crazy. There it is. There's the land.

It's got a pool. Looks nice. Yeah, I couldn't see it from the road. It's just a gate. Oh, he's right. Yeah, it's right there. Y'all didn't see it. He took a picture in front of the gate. Did y'all take a picture?

Probably. Yeah. I just remember there was a lot of trees and a lot of land. I mean, was Randy Owen even like, what are you doing, dude? He's got a real core memory there, right? Pictures of security going, get out of here, guys. Well, I was younger. It was my sister who was five years older than I am. She was the one really into Alabama at the time. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Were they like a teen heartthrob band at one point? No, but they were into country music. My mom didn't like them because these young boys were stealing all the awards from the Oak Ridge Boys. Oh.

Oh, really? Yeah. She didn't like these young guys. Alabama's young guns coming in. Yeah. They were really trying to make them like the Beatles, they said at one point. That's why they, because it was just the three of them were the cousins. And then they kept putting the drummer in the pictures on all the, because they wanted them to be like the Beatles. They wanted to have a group of four. The blonde guy there is not really part of the original group. Well, this is, if I were to remove one of these from the band, I'd definitely pick that guy. Yeah. And the rest are all cousins. Which one just died?

I think the guy on the left, the far left. Okay. Yeah. We went to that. Yeah. The Hank Williams senior.

His museum, he did, it was crazy. He died, he was 29. Yeah. And we were saying, when you see video of him, you're like, he's probably 25 and he looks like he's 40. Yeah. Hank Williams died at 29? Yeah. I actually thought he was younger than that, but I knew he was very young. Yeah. I mean, that guy was, I mean, so young and just was like, he went hard. Yeah.

They said he had a lot of back problems and that he always had pain. Yeah, they were saying he had the thing that Abraham Lincoln had. Okay. Whatever, some... I just heard someone say that. Julian said, he goes, oh, that's what Abraham Lincoln had. Some being tall. Oh. Abraham Lincoln had other health problems too. But what was it? He got shot in the head. Oh, yeah. COVID. That'll do it. Hank Williams was tall.

I don't know. But there's something that Lincoln had that's called whatever. It's whatever they're born with it. And Lincoln had it. Maybe it's the Williams. Yeah, maybe it's that Williams syndrome. I don't know. That's cool. Maybe it was named after him. No, because Lincoln had it.

I figured they would have done him. Yeah. Yeah, they'd probably lead with him. Well, Buddy Holly. Marfan. Marfan syndrome? Yeah. Oh, Liam Nelson, the comedian Liam Nelson, who's seven foot tall, has Marfan syndrome. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, I thought you said Liam. Liam Nelson, the comedian. Yeah, yeah. Not Liam. Yeah, very close, though. Yeah. Buddy Holly from Lubbock, Texas, was 22 when he died. How did he die? Plane crash. Oh, yeah.

Waylon Jennings was supposed to be on that plane. Really? Did he know something? I don't know. They said something. I guess they needed somebody to get off or something like that. It had too many people. He got off. That's crazy. That's got to be crazy. Yeah, apparently Waylon Jennings made a joke as he was getting off, like, I hope your plane goes down. Yeah. And then it did. That's got to... But I would imagine, even if you say that you're...

there has to be a point you're like yeah dude i don't i mean you gotta yeah i was just making a joke yeah but it's i didn't do it yeah yeah you do go i didn't no y'all don't think i did it and they go i don't know it's kind of tough man uh nobody that does it makes that joke you know unless you're smart thing really forward thinker yeah yeah uh yeah i mean plane crash is

They've gotten a lot better. Because, I mean, think about, they went down, Patsy Cline. The great Leonard Skinner. Leonard Skinner, Roberto Clemente. A lot of people back in the 60s died in plane crashes. Jim Croce, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. John Denver. Yeah. Golly, that's a lot. I just said that. Yeah, he died in a plane crash, right? But he was self-piloting, right? Yeah, well, still a plane. Yeah, but I mean...

I'm just saying. I think a lot of those were private planes that were not like they not like I think Leonard Skinner's plane. They were like, oh, they said they were going to fix it. Yeah. After this trip. Right. It had some problems. It had problems. Yeah. And it's crazy to think that they were that then they were just like, we'll be all right. Yeah. You just figure it out.

That's what I always think when I'm on a plane and they come over the overhead and they go, oh, we got some repairs we got to do. I'm always like, let's just go, man. But then I'm also like, nah, I don't want to go down. But you know what I mean? It's so inconvenienced by it that I'm just like, let's just go. Well, it's the idea that you're like the planes back then, like just the careless, they're like, yeah. It almost could show you how safe planes are now is that even back then they were flying and you're like, they probably weren't.

fixed and ready and whatever. And, you know. Yeah. I mean, it's annoying when they come over the overhead and tell you that there's going to be a delay because they're fixing something. But also it's like, yeah, it's nice that you're not running the plane with a check engine light on. Yeah. Yeah. So there are three power grids in the United States. One east of the Rockies, one west of the Rockies, and then Texas has its own. Wow. Wow.

So a couple years ago, there was a big bad snowstorm, ice storm, and most of Texas got knocked out for a few days. So their power grid's not great. Well, then they used wind turbines and they froze, right? Or something. I think there was something to that. Yeah. Yeah, people almost got real bad. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

So in Midland, Texas, where you're going, they found the remains of the oldest known human in North America. They call it the Midland Man, anywhere from 9,000 to 11,000 years old. Turns out it was a woman, but they still call it the Midland Man. Yeah. And it was found in the 50s, but there's a monument there that still exists.

You Google Midland man. You just see, it's just a bunch of mug shots. Yeah. This is not what you're talking about. People coming to Nate show this weekend. That's just like, that's passport photos. Uh, maybe Midland man monument or something. Yeah. I don't know. But anyway, uh,

Yeah, they think it's like the, well, let's don't edit. But anyway, it's there. And they think it's the original. I mean, obviously, there's probably older. I think maybe even since then, they found older. But at the time, they were like, this is the oldest known. How did they know how old you was? They cut a leg open, count the rings? Yeah. Carbon dating. Yeah, they did some carbon dating. What is that?

Well, it's pretty flawed. Right there. This one? Yes. Historic plaque? Yes. It was a plaque, yeah. Oh, look at that. Yeah. Yeah.

How old is he? Oh, 9,095 BC. Found in 1953 on the ranch near here by pipeline welder Keith Glasscock. Fossilized skull, rib, and hand bones have been exposed by weather conditions. Tests indicated these were bones of a woman who lived as long as 9,095 BC. So, tests. Oh, BC? Yes, they don't go into a lot of detail about what those tests are. Yeah, indicated. Yeah, we figure...

We ran a couple of tests on them, and we figure at least 9,000 BC on these things. I mean... Well, they think it was found next to bones of extinct species of horses, camels, mammoths. Yeah. So they can use context clues. Yeah. Must have been around the same time, you know? Yeah. You don't run into a lot of camels these days. That's for sure. Over here. Yeah. They're all at the zoo. They've all been caught. Yeah. Yeah.

Also in Midland, the childhood home of the Bushes. Oh. You can go tour it. Really? Is it a big home? I don't think it's too big, but it's the only home in the world where two presidents lived, two governors, a first lady, ambassador, and a CIA director. Yeah. I thought, did they come from money? I think they did come from money, yeah. They're like an oil family, I think. I think so.

But a relatively modest home, it looks like, unless it goes super deep and it's like a bit of a compound. But from the outside, it looks like a pretty modest home. Where's that at? Midland. Oh. You got to go by there when you're there. Yeah, Midland's the one where it's like the old. They said it was, I don't know, I might have talked about it before, but like when old is like straw.

striking there when it's good. Like hotels are like $500 a night. Whoa. Like when I went there, I did a show building ball there once and we, it was like a red roof in and I want to say it was $300 a night then.

And they said they would go to McDonald's and just tell them, if you quit right now, come work at this old food. I'll give you $100,000. Wow. And like, because it's just, they need- They need to work right then. And the people go there and stay there to work. And so they know you're going to go and make a ton of money. So they charge $500 a night at Red River Fin.

And so like it would be, there's a lot of like you're super rich to super poor because then some of these guys would get a ton of money, but they don't know how to like spend it. And they would buy, you know, you just see them, they're poor. And the next thing you know, they have a helicopter and a Hummer and then they're living in some crazy house and then it all goes away. And then they're back to. Back to McDonald's. Yeah. Yeah.

But they're like, I had a good run. They had fun. Drove that Lamborghini for a while, man. Yeah. They had fun. Yeah. I think a lot of people are happy to have that fun. Yeah. They're almost like, if you told them, if it went away, they're like, yeah, I'm okay with it going away. Yeah. I don't want to do that anymore. Yeah. People like telling stories. Yeah. Yeah. And so you don't get to tell stories if...

You know, if you still have it. Right. If you make the money, put it in the bank, you spend it wisely. There's not a lot of stories. Yeah, exactly. Not a lot of stories. I'd rather have a Hummer for a month or a Honda Civic for 20 years. Right. Give me the Hummer, dude. Yeah. Let's ride it out. Yeah. Well, here's a fun old story. So in Wichita Falls, Texas. Fun what story? Old story.

Yeah. Well, I can't say a very well story. They, uh, struck oil and a lot of people became millionaires overnight. So all these oil companies were coming in. So this, uh, I think you're going to Wichita falls too.

Yeah. Not this time, but I am. Coming up, this promoter came in and said, you guys need to build a skyscraper because you need offices now and all this stuff. So if you guys give us $200,000, we'll build you a skyscraper here in town. So they got the money, gave this guy $200,000.

And what they didn't notice is the scale, the blueprint he showed us was in, showed him was in inches and not feet. Wow. So he tricked them into building the world's littlest skyscraper. Oh, wow. It's called the world's littlest skyscraper. It's a 40 feet tall.

And it's 11 feet by 19 feet. You really got to give it up to that guy, though. That's a good scheme. That's amazing. Yeah. They tried to track him down, but he was already gone. What goes on in there? Yeah, how did he fit? Did they use it?

I mean, their building's still there. It's been through tornadoes, they said, and floods, and it still exists. It's in the middle of a thriving area, it looks like. Yeah, you can tell. Like, it's a legit building, though. It held up. Yeah, it's a legit building. That's like a, you know, that could be an apartment. You know, like a, you know. Like one of those retro, refitted apartments? Yeah, you got your, you know, bedroom on the top. Yep. I think they said 25% of it's just stairwell.

But everybody was so busy with oil that no one paid attention to the construction. Yeah. And then they're like, wait a second. This isn't what we thought. But by then he was gone. I wonder, yeah, I guess did he do it on, I mean, I guess he did it on purpose. But what if he was like, didn't mean to do it? And then it's like, you know, you're like, dude, are we...

You just already started and you're like, I'll just. I guess he took the money before he built it. Yeah. But, you know, people try, somebody tried to do that to my dad. They brought some gravel and they were, they were like, we'll go, we'll build you a driveway here. We'll charge you so much for square foot.

And he goes, okay, that sounds good. And they put it all down. And then when they were done, they gave him this price and the price was way higher. And they were like, yeah, it's about cubic feet. And he said, well, you said square feet. And they were like, oh no, it's cubic feet. And then they were like, the price they gave him was like hundreds versus the new price, which was thousands. And my dad was like, well, you're talking thousands. I'm talking hundreds. You can just take all this gravel up and just take it back with you. Yeah.

Is that what they did? And they apparently were running a scam. And my dad and they got they I don't know if they got caught. But my dad was like, well, I'll just call the city and talk to them about it. And they just took off.

And so he got a free road. Oh, wow. Yeah, it worked out. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I thought that story was going to go. Yeah, you don't give the money away first. My dad would not let them have built a little tiny skyscraper. Yeah, you watch it. Yeah. But I do think when the town is – I mean, that old money is legit. So these things, they don't even care. Right. And you're thinking like, all right.

They're just sitting around somewhere going, we about to get a skyscraper. They got a little coffee or they got something there. Yeah, Dave Elrod's going to get reelected there. Hello Apparel. Yeah, it's a consignment store right next to it. Oh, all right. That's storage now. Going up to the fourth floor, get the rest of those bed frames. Is there an elevator? No, no, no, but there's a lot of stairs. You got a lot of room on those stairs. Yeah.

It's like the big roads that Kramer made. Yeah, the wide lanes. Yeah, it is crazy. 25% of that is stairs. That's not a... That's not a little amount, is it? Yeah. And how do you track a guy down like that in the 20s? I mean, you just can't. No. You're gone. You're gone. You're gone. Yeah. I mean, he would have to really leave, though. You have to... But yeah, you're gone. You're gone. Too bad he doesn't get to see his work. He probably heard about it. Yeah. He never got to...

Really take it in. Yeah. So it's bowl season. The one on right now, the oldest bowl is the Rose Bowl. Probably knew that. Second oldest. Anyone want to guess? Peach Bowl. Based on Texas? Cotton Bowl. That's a good guess. Sun Bowl. Sun Bowl. In El Paso. Going to El Paso.

El Paso. I spent a month there one night. Yeah. Have you been there? No, that's Kramer's. Yeah, yeah. Oh, is that where he says? Yeah. El Paso? Yeah. Spent a month there one night. I've heard road comics do that joke a few times. Oh, yeah. Actually, in a gig me and Aaron did in Michigan, that casino, that host, a radio DJ did a joke like that.

Boatman? No, no, no. That other one where the guy with the messed up arm and the guy had one eye. It was in the casino in Michigan. Way up. Sault Ste. Marie? That casino? No. Did we talk about Boatman's intro? No, I don't think so. Do you want to talk about that? Yeah, sure. It's one of the funniest things I've ever... It's one of my first times on the road with Dusty. And it's this local radio guy hosted the show. So he gets all of Dusty's credits. And your credits at the time were...

Jimmy Kimmel. You just done Jimmy Kimmel. TMZ. Yeah. And you're from Nashville. Yeah. And that's what you asked him to say. Yeah. So he goes up there and he goes, all right, guys ready for the last comic? Anybody here watch TMZ? And this, no. He goes, well, about Jimmy Kimmel Live. I mean,

Nobody? Nobody? What about that show Nashville, huh? Like a couple people? Well, he wasn't on that. He's from Nashville. So, Dusty Slay. Yeah, I mean, surprisingly, it was a good gig, but that guy was the worst. Yeah. Yeah. He just setting you up for... Dusty Slay goes, all right, riding that energy on that intro. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, but this other one was the Island Resort and Casino. I forget the part. It was Upper Peninsula, Michigan. It's the last one we did on that run. It's where we both bombed really bad. I mean, and there was people, you could smoke in there. It was still daylight. There was skylights in there. You could just see that. It was on Mother's Day too. Yeah. It was on, yeah. They had people, you know, people, older people in wheelchairs in there smoking, big biker gang right up front, a lot of injuries to their bodies.

Like one guy was missing an arm and, and like a guy was missing an eye and the leader kept yelling at us the whole time. And I was like, I was like, it's clear. I told him, I said, listen, it's clear. No, one's going to make you be quiet. Yeah. But you're, you're ruining the show. I'm not going to tell you to be quiet, but if you did, that'd be okay. Yeah. And then he quieted down. Uh, he did buy a shirt. Oh yeah. Yeah. But he was the only one. Cause the rest of the people did not enjoy the show. Yeah. Yeah.

And no one was going to do anything to that guy. Yeah. They were terrified of him. I wasn't terrified, but I didn't want to fight him. Yeah. I grew up with around guys like that. Yeah. He's fine. Yeah. You have to like, how old was he? It's tough to say. Probably 50s. He could have been. He could have been. It was a free for all in that show. I don't think there was a single employee of the casino in the room with us. Huge room.

But off to the side of the casino. So they go, hey, it's Mother's Day. Everybody's there for the Mother's Day buffet. So they're going to pop over and see the show. It was just chaos in there. I bombed so bad. I saw the video of that particular set. It's fun. And it's quiet, but you can hear Dusty laughing in the back the whole time about how bad I'm doing. Nothing funnier to me than my friends bombing. Yeah, you get a lot of that. It is. Yeah, that's always fun. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy.

Mother's Day buffet. That's like where you're like, why are we doing a show? They just need something. I know. They have to offer something. And it's like, I'll just give, they give you whatever. And they had this beautiful like theater room that people performed in, but I was not at that level. I was doing the side room where you could, where you could smoke in. Yeah. I've done, I think I did that somewhere. Yeah.

I'm not did it at like a lot of the Connecticut casinos coming up. Yeah. Yeah. Where you're just, you would go. And I remember going to one and I mean, it's just, it's very sporadic. It looks like people are just, there's six people in there and they're, and everybody's at a different, their own table. Oh yeah. And it's just, and you got to go up.

I did one just north of Texas in Oklahoma. I stayed in Texas. That's how close it was. My hotel was in Texas and I drove over to do Kiowa, Oklahoma. A lot of Native American people in there and in the show watching. And they had the, you know, just no laughs. I mean, barely laughs the whole time. And afterwards, these very, you know, mean, stern looking guys come up and they go, hey, great show, man. We really loved it.

And I was like, wow, you did not laugh one time. I was afraid of you. Yeah. They're like, yeah, thanks for coming out here. Yeah, it feels good to laugh like that.

I haven't cut loose like that in a few years. Is this the place? I really appreciate it. This is the same casino we were at, but this is not where we were at. Yeah, Harris, Michigan. And I don't remember it looking like that. This place looks very nice. Yeah. Yeah. We were nowhere near this. They wouldn't let us near this. Yeah. Sage Run Golf Course. That golf course looks awesome. Yeah. Six Flags started in Texas because there are six flags that flown over Texas.

One time, Texas was its own country, its own nation. Oh, wow. How did they lose that? Well, they agreed to come over to the United States, but they were with Mexico, and then they fought Mexico for independence. That's when the Alamo happened and all that. And so for about 10 years, Texas was its own country, which sounds crazy, but it's bigger than a lot of countries. Yeah, when was the Alamo? Like 1830s.

I love that. That sounds awesome. Yeah, you would think they would have just stayed their own. I mean, they're all, I feel like that's kind of their thing is like,

The lone star state. Yeah, it's like the threat of like, we can do our own thing. Yeah, I don't know why they decided to join the United States, but then soon after they did it, the Civil War broke out, so then they joined the Confederate States. So that's one of their six flags that's flown over them. But yeah, they were their own country there. And Sam Houston, where the city of Houston is named after, was their president, one of them. And also a former governor of Tennessee. Oh, he was? Yeah.

I wonder why they didn't call anything Houston for him. I went to Macon when I was in Macon, Georgia, or this weekend. So they said Nathan Macon. All the Macons and a lot of the Macons in the country are named after him. So if you go to a Macon town in the U.S. Or is it Macon County, Tennessee? Yeah. Or is it Houston County, Tennessee? There's a lot of it's Macon.

Nathan Macon. I like to think that he just walked around and talked to everybody to do it. He's like, why don't you call him Macon? And they're like, oh, that's a good idea. He's like, did the other people do that? He goes, nobody did it. He goes, how am I getting to these other places and telling them to do it? And now there's a bunch of Macons. Yeah. There he was. Yep. Nathaniel Macon. Nathaniel Macon.

Good looking dude. 25 in that picture. Might have been. Might have been. Amarillo is the helium capital of the world. We talked about helium. What does that mean? 90% of the world's recoverable helium supply comes from Amarillo. Why? Because that's where it's at. They have helium fields. Helium fields? They grow it? There's a lot of floating stuff out there. I guess so. High pitched floating stuff out there. A bunch of those like...

Those wobbly inflatable dudes just in fields just like going back and forth. No gravity out here. Yeah, helium plant. There you go. I thought you were joking about global helium production was centered near Amarillo with the production of almost all the world's supply for over a decade prior to World War II. I don't joke about my helium. All right, I'm sorry. So I guess that started 1868. On the 100-year anniversary of the helium plant,

being discovered they did a planet a time capsule so in 1968 they put this time capsule in helium and they put in a past book i don't know quite that what that is but i think it's just a book that tells you where to find the account for a ten dollar bill that they put in a bank account so it's supposed to be open in 1 000 years in the year 2968 and in that based on four percent interest that ten dollars is going to be worth a quadrillion dollars when they open it wow

Whoa. Wow. Well, by then, what will a quadrillion really be worth? I mean, honestly. What does that always mean when they're like with interest? Like when you put in money and they're like, well, over time, your interest alone, your bid, like it'll be worth more or something. Well, like... Like how's that going to be worth a quadrillion dollars? Maybe it's compound interest, which means it would just build on itself. Yeah, but like that's where I don't like... So if there's a $10 bill in a bank account, so that means...

Who's putting more money into that? I think the bank uses your money. When you put money in the bank, the bank is using the money to invest in stuff. Yeah. And they make money. So you generate interest from that. Okay. It's a pretty small amount. It's like 1%, I think, is really good. So it just naturally they give you like, so 1%, is that even a penny on the $10? 1% of $10 is, yeah, it's more than a penny.

And you get that every day? You get it every day? No, this is a year. Oh, a year. It's like your annual yield is 1%. Oh, so in one year you get a penny. 10 cents, I guess they say. If you have $1. If you have one. Oh, you get 10 cents with $10. Yeah. So the bank. So you could go. That'd be 1%.

If you put $10 in and then you go close in a year, you would get back $10.10. You would have $10.10 in your account. Okay. If it was 1% interest. Yeah. So in this case, it was... And the banks can't go out of business. Well, it's insured. I think it's all insured. Yeah. But that could go all the way. Remember FDIC? Remember It's a Wonderful Life. That's what happened. Oh, and A Wonderful Life. Yeah. It was a run on the banks. What's that?

That's what they called it, a run on the banks. Right, right, right. It's a wonderful life. So they take everyone's money out of their accounts in the whole town. Yeah, yeah. Scary. Yeah, because if everybody took their monies out of the bank, we'd be in big trouble. Yes. Yeah, because a lot of the money is just like a promise, right? In a lot of ways, there's not really the amount of money that exists. So if we all tried to take it at one time, there wouldn't be enough. Right.

Yeah. Yeah, they don't have that amount in cash at the bank. Yeah. So if everybody went to withdraw, it'd be a real big problem. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Something to think about. Yeah. The mattress looks better. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. I don't know. That's what I'm saying. Banks is only as good as the trust. Yeah. Bank of trust. Bank of trust. Well, that's in the name. Yeah. Look at that. Well, it would be like you could...

Yeah, I don't think I've ever understood how they made... Because they always say that compound interest. But then you're like, if it's part of the quadrillion dollars, well, who's going to pay that? Like, if it's in that bank... Yeah, they're going to be in trouble. Yeah, that bank's going to pay it. Like, you know, it's like you just got to... It's like, yeah, it'll be worth that. But good luck getting...

Good luck cashing that out. Yeah, a bank's going to be like, just because some bozo put this in 900 years ago. A thousand years. A thousand years ago. Like, you think I'm going to give you a quadrillion dollars? Yeah. And it's going to be like Kramer and the bank going like, they didn't say hey. Or hello. Hello. Yeah. Like, you know, it's like there's a point where you go, you got to really trust that that's going to stay in there and that these people are going to give it. Yeah. Yeah.

In this case, I don't think anyone really believes that's going to happen. It's more just a fun fact. But to your point, yeah, anybody who invests their money over a period of time, you've got to hope that the bank doesn't close. You've got to get it out before the bank closes and everybody else wants to get their money out.

I feel like you always got to be on the watch. Yeah, yeah. But where would you put your money if you don't believe in banks like Dusty? Well, a lot of people put it in metal, like precious metals, like gold and silver. Yeah. Or assets. Bitcoin. Yeah. Yeah, but Bitcoin's...

I just found my... When I was born, people in my family, I got two US savings bonds for like 50 bucks. And they just matured to the... They're worth 100 bucks each now. All right. They doubled in value. Took 30 years, but they doubled. Yeah, but like the Bitcoin, like FTX and all that stuff is like... That's just gone. So it's...

Yeah, that is crazy. Where do you put your money? But silver and gold, you just go buy silver and gold? Yeah, you just buy- And literally, you just have gold in your house? You can do it that way, where you actually physically have it. That way, if the money went away, if somehow the US dollar went out of circulation, you would still have something of value. Something tangible. Yeah. I learned in history class-

FDR, after the depression, the New Deal, it was all these new policies and programs. One of them was insuring. This was brand new at the time. Insuring the banks. For me? Yeah. Yeah, this was in real time. I read this in the newspaper. It was current events class. My current events class. Things are going to happen in the future. He insured all the banks. FDIC, which you'll see, I hear on radio, member FDIC, Federal Department of Insurance and Commerce, I think, and up to $100,000. So your money is...

was insured up to $100,000, which back then was pretty much all you're ever going to need. And I think banks still do that. I mean, I think they probably raised the rate. You better hope they don't. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's, you know, yeah, it seems it is crazy. That's the thing. You got to have a lot of trust in a lot of things. Yeah.

I think we talked about this on the, maybe on a previous, the TV episode from two years ago, but there's a town in Texas that agreed to change its name to Dish. So they got free basic TV and DVRs for 10 years from Dish Network. Oh, wow. Who agrees to that? Well, 200 people live there, so they probably just all agreed to it. Yeah, they were like, listen, you guys want free TV? Yeah. Change the name. What was the name before? They don't get it anymore? No.

I don't know. I think they're still called Dish, but I think whatever free they got's ran out. What was the town called before? Clark. Oh, so Clark's not a bad name to give up. And Dish is in all caps. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. I hope they get to renegotiate. We're called Dish as long as you give us free stuff, but once you're not, then we're not.

We're not going to do it. Yeah, they're like, we'll call ourselves Comcast Texas, okay? Yeah. We can fund the deal. DirecTV Texas. Yeah. Yeah. What, go back down? Yeah. Oh, we'll go. So Amarillo, Texas, and farmers, cattlemen in Amarillo, Texas, sued Oprah.

Back in 1998, because she did an episode on mad cow disease, and she said something about, I'm not going to want to eat beef anymore after this. And they said it really hurt their business, so they sued Oprah for defamation. And it went to trial in Amarillo, so much so that she had to move her show to Amarillo for a few weeks while this trial was going on. Oh, wow. So for like six weeks, she did a show from...

She wasn't really worried about it, it seems like. She was like, yeah, I just moved my show to Texas. She seemed pretty... I mean, this is a picture of her. It says Oprah Vindicated. She seems pretty excited that she won. Yeah. How could you even sue her for that? I mean, I guess if you said it's...

hurt I mean it's not like a criminal thing but just like defamation hurt our business and she didn't have any you know they said she's just saying stuff that's not true and at the time her show was probably I mean her word was yeah Oprah says it she's getting people to read books exactly you know what I mean yeah so people are gonna listen she'd be around now that wouldn't even make them yeah yeah

We're so far the opposite way now that you're like, even if she said it, you're like, I don't believe either. I don't believe you. I don't believe the meat. I don't believe banks. You're just like, I don't trust anybody. Oh, I said for six weeks, nearly a year, she relocated to Emerillo's Little Theater. Wow. And during the trial, she hired Dallas-based jury consultant Phil McGraw to aid her in selecting. Tim McGraw's brother. Well, Dr. Phil. Are they related? Both had a strong mustache game. Yeah. Both Tim and Phil.

I bet they've met. They probably met. That's pretty big. The old McGraws. I mean, she helped that town out probably. Amarillo? Yeah. Who do you guys think is the most famous celebrity from Texas? Who do you think of when you think of Texas? Matthew McConaughey. That's kind of...

what I think too. I do think of him. Yeah. He's the first guy. I mean, I think of a lot of country singers. Willie Nelson. Willie Nelson. Yeah. I think, uh, Billy Joe Shaver, George Strait, George Strait for sure. Amarillo by morning. Yeah. Up from 10 Anton. Yeah. It's a helium reference. Rogan now too. I think Texas, uh, I'm thinking the names that jump in when I, yeah, but would you say Rogan? He's not from Texas, but he's, he's Texas. Yeah.

Yeah, that's weird, but I don't think front. You're talking about born and raised Texas born. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think if you're like, I live in Texas now. Yes, Rogan's in Texas, so everybody knows he's in Texas. I mean, Elon Musk is in Texas. Didn't he move his car? I don't know if he lives there. Yeah, they're in Austin. Waylon Jennings says, it don't matter who's in Austin. Bob Wills is still the king. That's what he says. Who's that? Bob Wills was a Texas and the Texas Playboys. He had the swing band.

During World War II. A Western swing band. Yeah. Okay. So Bob Wills was pretty big at one time. Yeah. I don't know if you guys think about Bob Wills when you think about Texas. I haven't thought about him much, no. I think of Nolan Ryan. Yeah. George Strait. The Bushes. The Bushes for sure. Yeah, the Bushes might be.

That might be. Beyonce is up there too, probably. Right? She's from Houston. I don't, I feel like I wouldn't even know. Yeah, there's a lot I would not know where she's from. Okay. So it'd be like, where do you know they're from? The Bushes are probably, right? Matthew Connery just now because you see him out. So it's kind of just who you think. Emmett, I would, you know, you probably go Emmett Smith or Troy Emmett just because of the Cowboys.

But they kind of relocated there. Yeah, but you just would. They did, but you might think if someone said it, you might. Johnny Manziel. Johnny Football. I mean, at one point, his last name was Football. Texas. That's a big deal. It is. Yeah.

Is there a right answer to this? Is there some way to quantify? No, I just wanted to... I think of the Bushes and George Strait and Matthew McConaughey. I had an aunt, a great aunt that lived in Texas. I don't think she's in consideration. Well, that's who I think about, though. Really, East Texas. Her name was Aunt Pud. And we had... They all had nicknames. My grandmother's nickname was Boozy. And I don't even think she drank. I don't know where that came from. But we would go out. We would drive out to Texas.

Texas, go across Mississippi, across Louisiana, out to, uh, out to Texas and hang out with Aunt Pud. And she had all these rabbits in her backyard, just wild rabbits. And we didn't have rabbits in Alabama. So I loved it. And then when I got older, we would go out there and my Aunt Pud told me that the rabbits were like eating all our garden up and she wanted me to shoot them.

And she had a BB gun. So I remember these rabbits that he used to love as a kid. Now I'm like a teenager and I shot one of the rabbits and it didn't die right away, but I didn't want it to suffer. So I had to like shoot it a bunch of times. It was traumatic for me. And, uh, and then I, I don't know that we ever went back out there after that, but I liked my aunt pug, uh, rest in peace. It was traumatic for me. I was like, geez, I love these rabbits. My, uh, uh,

They live in Houston. But I lived in Del Rio, Texas. You did? Yeah. When I was five. I ran away. And now we moved there. My dad was a teacher at St. James Episcopal School. And so I remember we drove there.

I, you know, I remember bits of me. I remember horned toads. They were in Texas and I remember catching them. Crawl dads. Is that the same as horned frogs like TCU? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then, uh, so we, yeah, we lived there, uh, when I was, uh, yeah, when I was five, we lived there for one year, it snowed. I remember that. Kind of remember that, but yeah, I'd lived there. And then I went back and did a show. Like I remember did a college run and it was like along the border. And, uh,

I remember we went in this lady, the girl that booked me was like, she was, she was over, it was all community colleges. So she like booked me at this school and she was like from Georgia. So she was like, this was, this is, I mean, years, like eight years ago, 10 years ago. And she like see me and she liked me and she was like, Oh, I wanted to bring a, you know, comedian here. Well, we go, I go do these shows. I mean, nobody speaks English at these schools really. I mean, it's a second language. It's at best, like it's,

And so I'm down there, and I think it's going to be like, oh, I'm about to do a big run. It was a big deal to do. Community colleges would do a big run all during the day. And then you go do it, and you're like, these people are not going to get any of these jokes. And it ended up being great. She was great. And then I remember we went to an Applebee's to go eat. And they were playing Mexican music.

Is that what you say? Mm-hmm. And then they're playing Mexican music in the Applebee's. We walk in, and then they started playing like Garth Brooks and regular. And I swear. When they saw you walk in. I think they did it. Like it was almost like it was all like it was so many people that were like, yeah, we're just listening to the music we want to listen to. And then like one white person walks in. They're like, and then they just went like Garth Brooks and like. Oh, yeah. And I remember thinking, did that music just change? Yeah.

Midsong. Yeah, it was just like, all right, well, we got to make it normal. What was that? Maybe near Del Rio. I was in Del Rio. They might have thought you were a secret shopper. Del Rio is on the border. So I remember we went over to Mexico once. We got one of those chess-

That was like the marble chest. Oh, yeah. You know, you can buy them at like, do you see Del Rio? Yeah, there's Del Rio. Yeah, yeah. Del Rio is on the border. So we lived there and you could walk over there. The Rio Grande right there. I mean, a few blocks. Yeah. We thought about going the other way. That's awesome. Yeah, we were there. I mean, this is, it had to be 1985. Yeah.

When we were there. Did you ever run away from home when you were a kid? No. You never did that? Not even like, you know. I wouldn't have ever. No. I wouldn't have done it. I'm trying to think if Harper tried to run. Like, I feel. I don't know if I'm making it. Like, I can't remember if she might have said something one day of like.

Did she? I don't know. I don't believe in packs. It doesn't feel like she wouldn't do that. I mean, I know she's 10. I'm acting like she's 50. I'm trying to remember. But for some reason in my head, something pops up about a kid, you know, going to do it. And you watch them just kind of walk. And then you just sit up there and watch them. And then they come back. Like, you know, I want to say when she was real little, like something like, you know, it's very, it's cute.

Yeah, because you know they're coming right back. Yeah, it's the best. I ran away for hours, I mean, multiple times. Really? I'm done with this, you know, or whatever. Enough. Yeah, I just get on my bike and ride like a mile away, and then, you know, I get hungry. Yeah. So I have to turn around and come back, tail between my legs, act like nothing happened. Look at that. Why'd you run away? I don't know. You know, as a kid. You don't want to carry on the Notre Dame legacy? Did you tell them you were running away, or did you just do it? I think I'd probably leave a note. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Do they ever know? Or you were. I think, yeah, they know, but they know me well enough to know I'm coming right back. You know, he'll get over it. He's just steaming a little bit. Yeah. Yeah.

You're really zero. What's the zero threat 30? What's the movie? Zero Dark 30? No, The Office. His movie from The Office. Oh, yeah. Michael Scott's movie that he made. I can't remember. I thought it was something like. Threat Level Midnight. Threat Level Midnight. I don't know. That doesn't really make sense. But I was thinking you go zero to like you're like everything's cool to like I'm running it all the way. Yeah, zero to 60. Yeah. Yeah. You would just. Gone in 60 seconds. Yeah. There you go. Yeah.

Pretend to you. Yeah, I don't know if any of these...

Texas has more guns than any state, more than a million registered firearms. Wow, I really thought it was like Wisconsin or Minnesota. I thought it was something that you wouldn't expect. You didn't think it was our biggest state? I thought somebody had said something like it was Wisconsin or Minnesota. Who knows if any of this is right? Yeah. It would make sense to be. It makes sense that it was Texas? Yeah. For sure. Yeah.

There's a conspiracy theory from a few years ago. Jade Helm 15. Oh, yeah. You know this, Dusty? Dusty's eyes lit up. Oh, yeah. Would you like to walk out of the room? Yeah.

Do you know Jade Helm 15? No. It was a military training exercise. This is in 2015 that all the armed forces were participating in training exercise. But the word got out. People were starting to say that it was really U.S. government was about to try to take over Texas. They were shutting down a lot of Walmarts and operating out of the Walmarts. Yeah.

Yeah, and they thought they're going to try to do martial law and round up. In fact, a lot of people was saying like Walmart was like some kind of like wall backwards is law. You know what I mean? People were really drawing. Tram law? Yeah, like it was – well, they were taking off the T. It was like M-A-R, like martial law. They were really drawing some strength. I'm saying – You got the tram laws. I'm not saying I was in, but I was –

I've watched some videos on it. I mean, I'll watch anything. I'm not. That's not on Netflix. That's a YouTube documentary. It's not even on YouTube anymore, probably. It's not now. But that's why YouTube's the best, though. It used to be. Now they got it off. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah, I mean, even the governor of Texas. When was this? 2015. Oh. So they were just like, we're going to take over.

Well, people were starting to think that the federal government was going to institute martial law, come in, take over Texas, try to take away guns, right? Yeah. And there was something about Walmart and even China, I think. Well, people think, a lot of people think that Walmarts are like secret military, like they can become a military base at any point.

That's what a lot of people believe. Walmart's key? Why is that? Because they just, they say they have the ordering system already built into place to where they can order whatever they need. They have, you know, secret entrances underneath. The shipping infrastructure, they already have all that in place? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Well, like, that's like if there's like a hurricane or something like that, some of these big companies have the, I guess, the ability to like help and like get stuff. Yeah.

But I mean, I think that would just be like, yeah, you're a big company. Yeah. I mean, I don't, I'm not saying I believe it, but I do, I did watch the stuff. I mean, people, it was a bunch of people that would drive around the parking lots of Walmart and they would film different things and people would film the garden center and they would go that, you know, they'd say there's barbed wire around the top of this. It's like a prison out here, you know, that kind of stuff. And you're looking at it and you're like, well, it doesn't look like a prison. Yeah.

I mean, it's probably to keep people from shoplifting, but yeah, it does look like a prison. Yeah. You could kind of get into it, right? You could see that pattern. Yeah, I mean, I can get into it. I mean, I got time to kill. I'm in hotels a lot. Yeah. Some conspiracy theorists have connected the Jade Helm 15 military exercise with an apocalypse caused by a comet or asteroid striking the Earth.

Because the exercise had an ending date of September 15th, which is the same month identified by some conspiracy theorists for the catastrophic impact of a comet or asteroid. Which didn't happen. Yeah. But it's not a crazy leap. What do conspiracy people say about when stuff doesn't happen? Well, I think a lot of people, you know, they just move on. They don't... To the next one. There's not really... I mean, with anything, though, there's never really much acknowledgement. Yeah. You know, they just...

Just kind of move on. Yeah, they just kind of go, all right, well, we tried that one. Yeah, I mean, people will fade away. I mean, there's been people that have predicted things and then it doesn't happen and then they just kind of fade away because now nobody's listening to them now. But couldn't you argue that because you guys –

because they uncovered it, that that's why it got stopped? Well, that's interesting. I have heard people say stuff like that too. They were like, oh, they caught on to us. I have heard that before too. That would be a great, that's the angle you would need to go. And then you're like, I'm 100% on stopping all this. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're welcome. I stopped it from happening. And then you'd be like, well, you need to let one happen. You're like, well, the next one you don't want to happen. Right. Because they're taking over a Walmart. Walmart.

Tram law. The tram law. Or another way to go, we go, it did happen, and you just didn't even realize it. Yeah. The world did end.

Yeah, I mean, that's what some people will say stuff like that with biblical predictions and stuff. People will say, well, you don't think it's happening because it's not on the news, but it did happen. People will say things like that. I've heard that before. I mean, I'm just into watching it all. I'm into seeing what's happening. Right, right. I mean, it's a lot of fun for me. Were you into Y2K or were you too young? No, I was too young then. But you would have got swept up. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, oh, yeah. That would have been. I mean, yeah, that would have been incredible for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we were a little worried about it. I mean, that's the year I graduated high school, you know, so I was about 18. I mean, and it's like, you know, we were worried about it a little bit, but not. I think I remember being a little like you're like, it was a crazy thing that you're like, something's going to happen. What did people think was going to happen?

Well, they just said that all the computer systems were just programmed for... Like at 99, it would just reset. Right. And then everything would be... All the banking systems would be messed up. Missile defense systems probably. Power grids go down. Power grids. Even my grandmother came to our house that night just to... Oh, so y'all were worried about it a little bit. My mom told me my grandmother came. I don't even remember her coming, but she would never come to our house.

Yeah, because I mean you would, you know, then you're just, now people are talking so much about, there's so much, every day is the craziest thing ever to happen in the history of Earth is every day. Right. Oh, yeah. So it's now I think, you know, but then you're like, it was. I think that's the example though. There's borderline unifying.

Yeah. Because it was everybody was like kind of like on board like, oh, you know. I was about to say a little bit the opposite. I feel like because nothing really happened, obviously. I think people thought some stuff would blow up too. Yeah. Yeah.

But then when nothing happened, people said, see, I told you all along nothing was going to happen. It's just a bunch of media blowing hoo-ha, whatever. But I feel like because, I feel like this is an example of they got on top of it, not the media, but just anybody. They fixed the problems. Yeah. I think if they had just ignored it, there would have been some major problems. Because they worked on this for a long time leading up to it. Yeah, it didn't sneak up on them. No. Y2K, it's like they saw it coming on the calendar. Yeah. Right, so they got on top of it. Yeah.

I don't think anything will happen. That might be a good place to stop. Yeah. All right. I feel great. All right, everybody. I will be in Texas this week. Midland, El Paso, Lubbock, Amarillo. Come out. Yeah. And then New Year's Eve, Toronto. And my special. I did not. Yeah, yeah. We didn't talk about that at all. I'm surprised. We didn't talk about that. We didn't talk about that at the very end.

You want to save that for next week to talk? I have some questions about the title and stuff. We can talk about that. Yeah, we can talk more about it next week. But it is at Amazon and all that. So we'll talk about it next week because I forgot to say it. But yeah, January 31st, Amazon. Yeah. This Friday, I'm with Henry Cho at the Schulz Theater in Florence, Alabama.

January 7th, ASW Whiskey Exchange in Atlanta and January 28th at Fox River Church in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Nice, man. I'm San Diego, California this weekend. Mic Drop Comedy Club. Pretty excited. Friday and Saturday, three shows. Come on out.

Wow, that's amazing. I had no idea. I am also in San Diego at American Comedy Company. Oh, are you really? Yeah. That's crazy. I had no idea. Oh, my God. We're in San Diego at the same time. That's going to be great. Well, it's not going to be great for my ticket sales, but it's going to be fun to see you out there. I had no idea. Where are you going? Where are you at again? I'm at Mic Drop Comedy Club. I think all that stuff is very close to each other.

I don't know for sure, but I know the club and a lot of that's right there. But people can go see both this weekend. Yeah, that's right. Okay, well, yeah, let's do that. That's right. Let's spit it that way. Yeah. Wow. That's pretty cool. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Nice. San Diego. Go see that ad. Yeah. Look at that. Aaron and Dusty. Aaron and Dusty. You go see them. That's pretty fun. You go see. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, yeah. All right. Look at that. That's fun. That's going to be great. All right.

You guys want to guess how many states we've done now? Oh, yeah. I don't know. 12. 13. 15. 16. This is our 16th. Oh, wow. We'll make it through it. It's a milestone. Yeah. We'll do some more. All right. We didn't cover nothing of Texas. Yeah, we did. Talked about why'd you kick. We love you and see you next week. Bye. Bye.

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