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Hello folks and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Borghese, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Ola Dusty Slay, the cowboy. All right. It's kind of a, he's got a, if you listen, he's got a cowboy shirt on, got a little, I feel like a New Mexico or. Yeah, I might've got this in Texas.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I said New Mexico. And I think it's got our Mexican. Close. Like a little more Mexico. I think it's got a Mexico vibe. Got a cactus, cactus. Yeah. A little Mexico country. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. You know, if you go down to San Antonio, it's the Mexican guys keeping the cowboy look alive. Yeah, that's what the shirt, I think it feels, yeah. Yeah. Did you ever wear a bolo tie? I've never owned one. I mean, I'm not against it. I like it, but I never can make myself wear this shirt out in the world. Yeah. Yeah.

But you are today. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good shirt. It's a lot. It feels good. Look at even the cuffs. Yeah. Some kind of greenery there. Yeah. They put stuff where they could put stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever worn that on stage? I never have. Because in Huntsville, you had kind of a Western shirt. Yeah. I bought two of them. I wore the other one. It's a little more plain. And I wore it for an hour on stage, and it made me very uncomfortable, and I never wore it again. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. But, you know, this may be some grand old Opry type shirts. Yeah. Come on out with that. I can see that. Yeah. Yeah. You look like one of the Opry square dancers. Yeah. I told him at the Opry that one day I want him to bring me out and I'll just come out and start singing and see how long it takes the audience to know that I'm not a singer. And the guy goes, it happens all the time. Oh, really? Yeah. So I guess people will sing at the Opry not very good sometimes. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I would think they would think, you know, cause you're like, uh, you know, Leslie Jordan was like funny and. Oh yeah. So it's like, they might think you're that. Yeah. That could be it. I'd go for that. The new Leslie Jordan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I can't go for that. He's very joyful. Yeah, he was. I mean, you're joyful, but it would be, it's a different vibe. It's a much different vibe. It's a much different vibe. I could see Leslie Jordan saying we're having a good time. Leslie Jordan's never been banned from a Joanne's Fabric. Well, that's true. I don't know that that's true, Albie, but I bet he has. We know somebody here has been. I don't know if I'm banned, but they don't want me in there. I'll tell you that. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

They see that shirt. They're like, well, look what you did last time. He put it together. So we're here. I'm home. We had a great show this weekend. And then I leave today to go. Tomorrow I'm going to L.A.

Through Adam Kroll's podcast, When He Comes podcast, and then Corden, James Corden, with Jamie Lee Curtis. Really? Yeah. All right. Nice. Yeah. So it'll be fun. Are you going to be sitting on the couch with her, do you think? Yeah. Yeah. I think so. Isn't that how he does it? Well, sometimes they leave. Oh. Right? Am I crazy? Or sometimes, like, are you going, you're probably, she's probably first. Yeah, yeah. Aaron. Yeah.

Sometimes they'd leave right after. Yeah. That'd be cool if she stuck around. I've always saw them as just two guests, but I don't watch James Corden much. I thought it was all shows. Anyway, that'll be cool. No, his is usually they stay together. Yeah, I think his is a little different. I think they talk. I think it's both guests kind of stay on there together and he kind of talks to both. Okay. I believe. Okay. I watched it this week in my hotel room. It was David Bautista and...

female comedian. I can't think of her name right now, but they just take turns. Oh, yeah. He'll ask her a question, then ask him a question, then they interact together. Yeah. You tell her how you watched Halloween in a drive-in theater. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I'll tell that story. I got to find a... Yeah, because I was all... I was like, I didn't even find a picture. I just had a big thing of popcorn. Yeah. And then Guma's going to come and be like, here's my popcorn I got. And they're like, well, we got Jamie Curtis here, so we'll probably keep the camera on her a little bit. Oh, all right. So I guess you don't want to...

I guess you don't want to do the popcorn thing. Yeah, it'll be very fun. And then I can fly home and go to career day. Have you done career day before? I did it last year.

How did it go? Do you do okay? Yeah. You know, I don't know. You know, you talk to the kids. They ask questions. Last year, so we – it's all about what you're going to give these kids. You know, it's about – you got to give them something. Oh, you bring in something to give to the class. You bring in something. We got some good stuff. We got some hats. So this one we're giving hats away, which I think are going to – I think it's going to go over good. Last year I did meet and greet passes.

that we signed. - They had to use. - Yeah, I go, I had a lot more meet and greets this year than normal. I was like, these kids were selling them on eBay. But I was like doing it. And then I told, I brought a marker. I was like, I'll sign it. I mean, I'm trying, I was like, I don't know what to get. Like, I don't know what to tell them, what to give them, you know? And so I was like, I guess I was like, let's just get a box of meet and greet passes. I'll just sign them. So I was just signing them. And then Harper comes through and Harper goes, he'll sign your name.

Just tell them your name and they'll sign it. And I'm like, Harper, don't. And then, I mean, it is every kid telling me their name. And some names are so long. And I don't know how to. So then, I mean, it becomes, I mean, we're barely going to, it's almost over, career day. And I'm just having to be like, what's your name? And then Harper's just like, I'm on over. Like, he'll do it. And so I'm just having to sign all these crazy names.

So you won't be signing the hats? I'll sign the hats. I already told Harper, I go, let's not go with the names. I was like, that's, I think that it kind of slows everything down a little bit. If they want to sign the hat, I'll sign the hat. But these kids don't care.

Is it the same kids as last year? Probably. Yeah. You should require them to have a meet and greet pass to see you this year. Oh, yeah. That's good. I go bring it back. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. Are you competing against other parents in this? Yeah. Is there like a dental hygienist trying to talk right after you? Yeah. Last year I was set with a surgeon and he brought like a skeleton. So...

Yeah. I mean, I was next to him. And no matter how cool your job is, if somebody brings a skeleton in, it's tough to compete. It's pretty good. Yeah. It's pretty good. Yeah. I mean, I don't think Pete, you know, it's like, I don't know what to give him. It's like, it's all about, I get, you know, it is tough. I'm doing it. I'm telling a joke about it on stage now because it's just a different thing. But it's, yeah, it's, you know.

It is fun, though. It's like I miss so much stuff. Because I was going to have to miss this one. But I just miss too much stuff. And so I was like, I got to get home for this. So it's just going to be a long 24 hours. It'll be fun, though. It'll be fun. Come rolling in.

You know, tell them on no sleep. Tell them that. Yeah, tell them that. He goes, guys, I don't even, you don't know how tired I am right now. You don't know how lucky you are to have me here. I'll tell you what, guys, I'm drunk. He goes, how do you get through it? You go, you drink. No, I don't drink. But it would be funny if a dad came in a little drunk.

Oh, yeah. I bet it happens. Oh, yeah. It's about to. Yeah. I bet you get some schools, the ones that are closed for when you're like, why are we closed today? There's no snow. There's always like- The threat. Yeah, because there's people that live on some back roads, and those are the ones why you close school. It's usually for just the percentage of people. So I bet there's some dads up there that-

I went to Robinson County, Coopertown Elementary for a little bit. And that's like, it's more farm. And so like, I mean, their career day is like, I mean, these kids are just seeing their career day is the job that they have currently in elementary school. It's like, what do you do? Oh, well, we go. The kids in elementary school can do the career day. Yeah. Because they go work the farms at like, they're in elementary school. Yeah. Leon Morgan, who also grew up in Robinson County, said that

That's a big tobacco county, and the high school boys would be out for weeks when tobacco season was going on because they got to do it. Yeah. Yeah, my dad, when he was teaching there, I was in elementary school there. But, yeah, I mean, yeah, career day would be. The kids talking about what jobs they have. Yeah, just the high school kids. Yeah. Like a kid two grades above them just going, what do you do? He goes, well, you know when I'm gone most of the year, you know? So, yeah.

uh so that's what i got going on uh where were y'all at i was in raleigh at uh good night's comedy club friday and saturday sold out both shows all right yeah that's crazy yeah i saw our buddy john thornton jr yeah yeah hung out with him and uh thursday night i was in maryville tennessee doing a show for uh true purpose ministries it was at a church there and it's a

Addiction Recovery Center, and they had a singer right before me. I had a fallen singer. I'm like, all right, I can handle this guy. This guy was also a preacher, so in between every song, he'd be really putting in some testimony and stuff. I'm like, this is getting tougher and tougher. People are getting into it. And at the end, his last song, he said, let's just get everybody up here who's went through the recovery program, who's now...

clean, and we're going to sing, Oh, Victory in Jesus. And he gets everybody up there. They're clapping. Everyone's standing. They're singing. People are crying. They got babies up there. And I got to follow this guy. Wow. It did not go well. No, I did fine, but it's a tough follow. Is it? How much of a break did you have between, were they all back in their seats before you went back on? They were. Now the director. Still crying now. Yeah. I slip on a tear up there on stage. Yeah.

The director of the program. Did you walk through the crowd as they walked back to their seats? I have to elbow a baby out of the way. Excuse me. Excuse me. I'm next. So if you guys don't mind. It was, I mean, it was pretty quick. They, the director of the program gets up there. It was a good little buffer, but I mean, he's got a powerful story too. He's an addict that's recovered and now all these people are, you know, and they show a little video and it's pretty powerful. And then I get up there and.

Boy, marriage is hard, isn't it? Hello, folks. Yeah. Think addiction's bad? Try marriage. Yeah. How many people you think got started back up after you? A few people fell off the wagon? A few people just got out of a bar. I set some people back, but no, I met the mayor of Dusty Town. All right. Was it a crowd? Oh, really? Oh, that's awesome. Yeah.

was the crowd that went on stage. Was it so much of the crowd that you almost could have been like, well, y'all just stay up there and I'll stay down here. Yeah, it was a lot. Yeah. It's easier. I'll just do the show from the seats. Logistics wise, you're already there. Let's just do it. I've done a show where there wasn't enough people that they just set the crowd on the stage.

It was like instead of it was like almost like too big of an auditorium that they're like, well, we're just do it on like that's their backup plan is just to set it on the stage. And then you do it. Everybody just. Yeah. Yeah. Because there's not enough people. You're in a it's like 2000 seat place. And so you just they're just like, well, we're just sit seats up here and do it on the stage. Yeah.

You could do something like that. I should have done that probably then. I feel like there was a show. I'm trying to think if there was a show where it was the audience. Yeah, it was something like that. It was like when we brought the audience on, just brought them on the stage. There just wasn't enough people.

It would be fun on a show like that, you know, to be like, yeah, you know, it is nice to be recovered. I'm just kidding. I never did drugs. I was smart enough not to do that. Yeah. To go there. Yeah. Well, my closing joke is usually about a fake testimony that I give. And I mean, the whole joke was basically what they were sharing. So I had to like.

do some editing in my head real fast find a new closer and then my fly and then the closer i switched to um about canceling my newspaper subscription also i say i'm going to prison which all these people just shared so i'm like all right i'm already in this one well when people have so many problems you're like you can't avoid all the jokes right i think but they're not gonna be sensitive about it no like the people that's the least sensitive yeah yeah

They liked it. Yeah, they were great about it. Yeah, I think once you've been to prison, words don't hurt. Yeah. Right? Yeah. I wonder if they go, like they watch the show, I wonder if they ask, they're like, you know, because these people are all pretty fun people, so they just brought the opposite to do the show. They go...

Who's been walking the line, never veered off. We got him. We got the guy. We got the guy. It's too much if it was also you were like Dustin Chafin does those. And I did one for an N.A. narcotic, narcotic anonymous group.

But I'll tell you, they heckled me. It was rough. Really? Yeah, it was in a gym. I think we talked about it with Dustin on, but it was in a gym and I was in New York and we go. And so Dustin, I was just going to open for Dustin and Dustin like had stuff for this because he was in this. And so he knows how to like deal with it and talk to him, whatever. And I remember I went up and they had, it was gym lights. So then they cut the lights off in the gym. Well, it gets too dark.

So they're like, we need to cut the lights back on because you can't even see the stage now. So they're trying to like find like the square to cut on. So at least there's some light on the stage. So, you know, when you cut on gym lights, it's like, it takes a minute. So then they're like, we got to start the show. We start showing the lights aren't even going yet. So I'm just like in the dark. And then I start.

And it went so bad at one point, I think I said, well, I thought you people were supposed to be nice. And then it was, yeah, I got, it was not good. And then Dustin murdered. But I had a rough go. Those lights were still warming up. They were still, they weren't there. They weren't there. I saw you, you went to the tallest, or what is it, the biggest little skyscraper?

yeah in Wichita Falls Texas and it brought joy in my heart that because of this podcast maybe you were like the tour guide and knew everything that was going on I did know we asked a lady there they have a shop there now but we asked a lady there uh about it and uh

So she told us even more, but I did say this. It was crazy. There's been a few things I've explained where I'm like, oh, I've learned this from the podcast. And I don't even remember these podcasts, but they somehow, they sit in your brain. You end up just kind of saying something about something dumb. And then you're like, I don't know how I know this. Like by osmosis is what they say. Yeah.

Yeah, it just sits there. Yeah. And it pops out. That, yeah, that place is, it's crazy. It's very small. I mean, it's so small. They have a building. At one point we were going, we've started running on the road, really giving it a go. Love running.

I've learned, I've learned, I think I always liked running and I just never was too lazy to do it. More than hiking? No, I like hiking. I like hiking for, but I think hiking for, you know, you're out in nature and all that. But like running is like, man, it's just really helped with me being super busy and being over, it's a lot of stuff is very overwhelming. Yeah.

And it's like just the schedule gets overwhelming. And it's, you know what, this is all, everything I've wanted. So I don't, you don't want to feel sorry. It's, but it's like, it's helped when I run. It's like, you just feel like you just get, it's just like going away. It's like almost like meditation. You know, you just kind of like zone out. You're in your own little thing and you just can focus. Did you ever see the movie What Women Want with Mel Gibson? Mm-hmm.

You remember one of these and he's in advertising and his campaign is for Nike sports. Oh, yeah. And that's the campaign that he introduces to them. I think the line is no games, just sports. When you run because you just tune everything else out. It's the simplest form of being doing exercise. Like I'm doing a thing to train for like a half marathon. And it's like you run four minutes, walk one minute or two minutes. You know, you need just do that back and forth. And eventually it gets like you do it very long.

But I'm seeing these towns. I went running in every single city, Wichita, Fall, Texas. We were running. We saw that. So not that I wouldn't, but I mean, I don't know if I would have saw that because you're just kind of like sitting around. So you go run. We go see Little Skyscraper. And we see another thing that we thought was it, and it wasn't it. That's how small that is, is there's just like side buildings that are bigger than that. And then we went running in every city, town.

Wichita Falls, Texas. I forget where else I was. Tupelo, we went running to Elvis's house. So we just ran to his house. And, you know, it's fun to have like an end goal. You're like, all right, we'll just run and then we'll stop at Elvis's house. Mm-hmm.

And then Baton Rouge and I had to be somewhere else too that I'm blanking on. But Baton Rouge, we were running along the Mississippi River and saw, we didn't get all the way down there, but saw LSU Stadium like kind of in the distance and ran back. Like it's just like, it's like, you're like, oh man. Cause it's, I've gone to so many cities and you just, even if you go walking, you just don't really, cause you're not walking, you can't, you're not walking three miles. Yeah.

But when you do a little running, you're just like, yeah, just out and about. That's how I always felt about biking. Biking, you can really see stuff. But yeah, walking so slow that it's like...

Yeah. You know? But running's hard for me. Yeah. The word jogging has kind of left our vocabulary. Nobody uses that word anymore. What's the word? Running? I think everyone just calls it running. Yeah. But back in my day, jogging was like a slow run, you know? Yeah. Well, I'm jogging. My thing that beeps tells you to go, it tells you to jog.

It says jog now, so it still uses it. But I know what you mean. You just say running. Yeah. Yeah, because you know what? I mean, I want to take those –

electric bikes out. They're not even in an ad today, but I want to take those on the road. That's what I've been doing. Yeah. Oh, really? I took it on the road this weekend. Folds in half. I put it in the back of my car and take it out anywhere. It's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's what I want to do. Because if you go do the running, the jogging, you get the exercise over it, then you can actually have some fun and go actually just ride on that thing like a motorcycle. You can take it around anywhere. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's fun. It's fun.

Where were you? I was in Asheville, North Carolina this weekend. Four shows at the Wortham Center for Performing Arts. It's a lot of fun. Two shows sold out, which is awesome. All right. And I had like a weird, a weird, there's a weird person at every show.

So Asheville is a weird town, dude. Yeah, it is. You know, it's like Austin says keep Austin weird, but Asheville is there's some odd people there. Nice people. But one show I took a picture of it. A guy in the front just said a big shirt that just said I poop today. He was wearing that. Was it a mirror? Yeah.

That feels like something you would have on. You wear Walmart slippers. That's true. And then there's a girl at one show. This guy. This guy was hanging out with him. Wow, look at that guy. Yeah, he was into it. He was a fan. And then there's a girl at another show that was... Was that guy a fan?

That guy had no clue who I was. Oh, yeah. Okay. So he's not going to be watching this podcast? He's just confident enough that he just wears that shirt. He's going to a comedy show. He's like, it'll be hilarious. Yeah, he's going to a comedy show in that shirt. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And well, if you wanted to discourage him not to wear it ever again, you did it when the headlining comic asked a picture with him. Yeah. There you go.

And he's like, did the shirt work? It goes, worked again. It works every time. I was the star of the show. Yeah. Maybe this guy's battled constipation in his past and he's just, they got happy. Well, we talked about it a little bit. They got happy. Yeah, yeah. He was proud of it.

And there's another girl. Did you go, did you? And he goes, no, no, no. Not yet, actually. I'm open. Yeah. There's a girl in the front who had been drinking. And the whole show, instead of laughing, she was just. Oh.

Like snapping a little bit, but not really snapping, just like rubbing her fingers together. She's doing that the whole show. Yeah, that's tough. And then at the end of the show, I'm saying, I said, hey, thanks for everyone for being here. I'm going into my spiel. And she just goes, this isn't court. What? She's so drunk. Yeah. She's like, this isn't court. Yeah.

Did you think this was a courtroom? You're like, no, ma'am, your court date's tomorrow. We don't know what it's going to be about, but it will be tomorrow. But, dude, the shows were all great. Thanks for everybody that came out. Asheville's a weird place. Some say their own dialect. So you might need Babbel to help you

Get through. The next time you're in Asheville. You know, the AI thing. Talk about Batman writing AI. We were doing it this weekend on the phone. AI writing jokes. You know, people's voices. Like Becky Owens' voice. Yeah. So it was like, you think comics will... You could write an hour. Our Eric Barber trainer said it's...

He was like, it won't let you do an hour because it said something like, that's not – it's hard to do an hour or it's not – don't do an hour. It stopped it for some reason. Like an ethical reason was like, it's not right to do this. Like the AI said that. But I mean you could – are comics going to be like, I need new material and you just go write me –

You know, 30 minutes in my own voice. I bet they're doing it already. I bet open mic people are doing it already. Are they good jokes? They've never been good. The ones they sent to me have never been good. Yeah, but it's like you could, you just then go, if you write a set, like if I need new material and I'm like, write me a, you know, I tell AI to write me a joke about something, anything. Yeah.

And then I just start doing the joke. I mean, it's in my voice. What I think it can be actually useful in is not something that broad, but you can go like, you ever like, I need an analogy for this. You can just write me three analogies comparing this to this and it can churn them out for you. It can be helpful in that way. I don't know about write me a new hour in Naparket's voice. That's not going to be super helpful. Yeah, but if you write a joke, like can you type in there? Yeah. So like...

I'm trying to do something I'm not talking about. Like, you know, write a joke about Asheville. In your voice? Yeah. So we have the prompt is write a stand-up comedy bit in the voice of Nate Bargetze about the city of Asheville, North Carolina. Do you want to read it? Yeah. Hey, what's up, guys? Nate Bargetze here. So I recently went to Asheville, North Carolina. And let me tell you, that place is something else. First of all, I've got to say Asheville is like the Portland of the East Coast.

You know, they got all the hipsters and the craft breweries and the vegan restaurants. I mean, I saw more man buns in one day than I've seen in my entire life. The thing that really got me about Asheville is the art scene. They got all these galleries and studios, and I'm looking at some of this stuff, and I'm like, what is this? Is this art, or did someone spill paint on a canvas? I saw a painting of a dog that looked like it was done by a kindergartner.

And people were raving about it. They were like, oh, it's so raw and emotional. I'm like, it's a dog, man. It's not the Mona Lisa. Don't even get me... Don't get me started on the street performers. Yeah. So it's basically that. AI has been to Asheville, it sounds like. Yeah, they wrote a lot of stuff. But this just feels like... This is like an open mic comic has walked on the street and just looked at things. There's no real jokes here. It's just observations. Right. But, I mean, if you could like...

Like regenerate means it'll just give you another idea. Yeah. It'll just run it again with the same prompt. Yeah. And the outcome will be different. How's everybody doing tonight? Good to see you. So, yeah, it's like a combination of a hippie commune and a retirement community. I mean, that's not terrible, especially so specifically for Asheville, if you're doing it.

I mean, it's like built by the Biltmore huge mansion that was built by the Vanderbilt family. It's like a castle, but with air conditioning. So it's not great, but it's like... No, no, no. But I mean, someone that's like... It's just like, is it going to get where you could just... You just get all your stuff out of it. I think so. It's going to ruin everything. And then you're...

I don't think it'll ruin anything because I do, there's got to be a difference. I think an audience could tell a difference, you know, between that versus. You hope. Now they can, but give it some time. Yeah. Yeah. It kind of be like Deep Blue. Remember when it played Gary Kasparov in chess and the first time the world chess champion, he beat it pretty bad, but it kept getting better and better and learning more. And it finally was better than he was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But you're not going to have any personality in your thing. That's the, but it's, see, that's if it's right in your voice. But I guess you're, you would have to have a voice. That's, that's the, that's the thing. You have to have a voice. So whatever you're writing in, if you're trying to write a Johnny Cash song, well, you have to be like Johnny Cash. Like Johnny Cash can use that. But if you're just a, someone coming up, I mean, you're going to have to just copy people.

And then you're, you know, I guess you could steal someone's like essence or whatever. What makes them? I mean, Elon Musk has been saying for a long time that AI is going to take over everything and we're going to not be able to keep up. That's why he wants that neural link so that he could, so that we can plug into our own brain to update ourselves so that we keep up with AI. Yeah. He's been saying that for way back years ago. So let me guess, you're on board with this? Yeah, I can't wait. Yeah.

Well, Elon Musk is involved with this company, OpenAI. He's like a partial owner. Well, he wants to sell Neuralink. So he's like, let's get this going here. Yeah. Yeah. What are they going to plug in? Well, I don't know. I always just think about the Matrix when they wake up from the pod and have to unplug the thing from their head. It somehow connects your brain to the internet. And so you could Google something yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't know if we're going to see that. I hope not. Like, we are not going to see this. Oh, we're already there. Yeah.

You're plugging, but not a person. Somebody tweeted from their brain. Do you know what I'm talking about?

There's been a tweet sent by a thought. I like that you took it to other people right away as if we had not seen it. Well, you know. Yeah. He didn't say in the group. Look at this, actually. You know what the tweet was? Hello, world. Oh, really? This happened. 62-year-old Philip O'Keefe from Australia suffers from ALS, and he used a device to tweet from his thoughts. And the tweet said, no need for keystrokes or voices. I created this tweet just by thinking it.

hashtag hello world i still dedicated mine to tiger yeah i don't know thomas may have something to say about it yeah that's pretty amazing so we're already there there's already the technology so that guy put that in there and he just thought it he had some kind of device where he just thought it and then he was able to like a bluetooth bluetooth for your thoughts god that's kind of like what even get how does it even tell your thoughts

I have no idea how it works. I don't want that thing hooked up. Well, that's like, you know, what if you go, how'd you think of that? That's so insane. You just walk around the corner and you just see someone on a computer. He's going, hello world. And he's, you know, just someone sending it. So here's how it works. A node is implanted into the brain via the jugular vein in the neck.

placed in the chest under the skin, avoiding the need for drilling into the skull or open brain surgery. It sits on the motor cortex, part of the brain in charge of voluntary physical movement and picks up on brain signals. So the user can look at a screen with a keyboard and envision which letters they want to type.

Through a device placed on the chest, a machine learning algorithm will then process the brain data and translate those signals into specific digital commands. It'll just know what you're looking at on the screen. Yeah. Pretty scary. All this technology and he's on Twitter. First thing he does. That's crazy. Uh-huh.

So get ready. Where were you at? Indianapolis, Helium. Great weekend. The opposite of what we were just talking about. Yeah. Is it? No, I don't know. It's just very funny to go from that to be like, Helium. Yeah. Helium's great. Great shows. I haven't been to Indianapolis in a long time. I used to go there like three times a year. It was great to go back. That was, yeah, I like Helium a lot. Y'all just missed each other. Yeah, about one week. Oh, that'd been cool. It would have been fun. Yeah.

Good. Maybe for Dusty, not for me. That's what I said. I even had a lot of people that would say, I'm coming to Dusty's show. They post about it. I'm like, well, I'm there this weekend. They're like, yeah, I can't get a babysitter this weekend. Some people just say, just come with Dusty to his show. Well, it would have been good, though, almost to if you were up in that other room, and then it's like people could just go one show and the other show.

Some guy tweeted something like, I missed Dusty's show when he was in my backyard, and now I'm seeing Nate 55 miles away. And I'm like, there's really no need to share that. Yeah. That's how far back my seats are. Yeah. That's a person.

It's 55 miles away. You know, I'd like to say, though, while I was in Indianapolis, I did the Bob and Tom show. And I've done that show a bunch of times. And I have struggled on that show. Oh, really? And this time. Struggling in what way? Like to get a word in? Well, they have a lot of people on the show. There's like six people in the room at all times or more. And it can be hard. But I had the best time I had ever had there.

And it was great. And I think this podcast has helped because we got, you know, we got four people in here. We're all, you know, so I think I'm, I'm practiced now. Yeah. It was good. And they were very nice to me. I think it helps that I've, you know, been on Netflix and some late nights. Now they like me when I'd gone there before and had done nothing. They were like, who's this guy? Yeah. They are great. It was really fun. Bob and Tom was a big deal for when I was starting comedy, uh,

or before I started comedy, I would listen to them every morning when I read water meters. And that's where I have Greg Warren and, uh, just a lot of comics I would hear on that. And it was like, I want to be these guys. Like Mike Birbiglia was big on there. And like, so it was, uh, Bob and Tom was a big deal for me. Uh, and it is great. Is that a show where you do, where you would do bits? Uh,

Or is it? Okay. Well, I just kind of, it was almost podcast style. I just sat in there. We told some jokes, but I was there for about two hours and it was just, yeah, it was a lot of fun. It would be, you would do bits on that. And a lot of those guys used to do that back then. Now you can go on and you can just talk more conversational. Okay. But it's great. All right. Let's read some of your comments. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews, and Nate land at Nate Bargetti.com. Elizabeth. Hey, hello folks.

I know others have probably said this before, and thanks for all you do. Having the podcast really meant a lot this week, especially with the band back together. It helped me laugh and keep from crying after a really hard breakup. God bless. Oh, sorry. All right. Well, glad you're not crying. Get back on the horse. Yeah. I am glad that she's not crying. You guys laughed like I said it in a way that I wish that she was crying. Uh-huh.

She might be now. You got her started again. Charity Hagen. Nate, the guy you talk about laughing in Phoenix is my dad. His laugh is unforgettable. He's had a hard year this year, and your show really made his whole week. Thank you for being you. Well, that's awesome. I mean, he had a good time. Too bad you cut him out. No, no, his laugh's in there. You hear it. We just...

No, we took it out some other places, but he's in there. He's in there. That's awesome. He's got a great laugh. Yeah. It was just, you know. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing when it laughs like that. I've had people like that where they're laughing. It's like, I don't want to be like, hey, stop laughing. But I do want to be like, hey, have a different laugh. Yeah. Enjoy yourself differently. Yeah. Carly Seas. You skipped one. Oh, Brittany Sawyer.

Unbelievable that Nate didn't ask Sandler what the double V names are about in his movies. I read that sentence. The folks need to know. Yeah.

Yeah. I didn't think about it. Yeah. I think that was more my worry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is Dusty's crusade. Yeah. Yeah. If I remember around the beginning, I did. I was trying to pick his brain about other things and just career stuff. But I'll make sure I get this double V thing down. I mean, Nate did ask Joe Rogan if Barry Sanders could dodge a bear. I did that. Yeah. So I did that. So I'll get to the double V thing. Yeah.

Trying to get some, pick a career advice. By the way, I got a friend that doesn't believe in the moon. Why do you do double Bs in the names? Just as you walk out. Just go, ah, dead gummit. I got a buddy that thinks Apollo 13 was fake. What's the double B thing?

He's dying to know. He's dying to know. He's got a few ideas. He's on the top of a building right now. Carly C's, Breakfast and Dusty hyping up Miss Rachel, his peak toddler dad. Yeah, a lot of people that say after we talked about her on the podcast, now she's coming up in their feeds. Oh, yeah. Well. That's what happens. It's great. I watched two or three episodes this morning with my baby.

Two or three episodes. Well, you know, seconds. They're probably quick. Yeah. Okay. So he couldn't let it go. Let's see how it ends. Jordan Dunn. If Aaron Standard, for based on a true story, moved... Let's get into this sentence. Different. I don't know what I'm doing with sentences. It's like, I think when you put punctuation there, I...

So those quotation marks threw you off right there? I get going. I don't know. I'm like, if Aaron Stannard for a based on his... I get it where I get my voice gets myself trapped, where it's supposed to end and the sentence is like, we're in the regular sentence, dude. It's the middle of a sentence. If Aaron Stannard for a based on a true story movie is exact historical accuracy, he may want to just avoid all movies based on true stories.

This would result in him not getting to watch his beloved Sorkin films.

Turns out Mark Zuckerberg and Billy Bean didn't give five-minute monologues every time they spoke. What's my point? Remember the Titans is the best movie ever, and Rudy was off sides. Man, I'm sorry. I struck a nerve, Jordan. I apologize. I definitely understand if you're making a movie based on something that really happened, you have to massage the story. You have to restructure it in a way to make it work for a movie. My point was that Remember the Titans, they changed everything.

fact like things that are the whole movie's about they changed like necessary and i can't figure out how to word this but well having the guy get hurt before the game instead of after it seems unnecessary yeah well how would you word it actually if what you said was based on a true story so give us the other example give us the movie example that's

See, I would think that's one that I'm okay with them just fudging a little bit for the storyline. But the point of the movie is they're the only team with black and white players. And then you find out every team had black and white players. That's what the movie's about. Yeah. So you've changed the facts in such a way that it's not based on anything factual. Anybody can make up that story. Exactly. That was my point. And yeah, I mean, look, social network, Moneyball, they're not.

you know, we're not reading a transcript of real life, but they didn't change huge facts in the story. That's what I'm trying to say. And Rudy was probably offsides, but we had already won the game at that point anyway. Yeah, and the guy only got one play. I mean, let him have the play. Yeah. The guy's got a lot of issues, and when college is over, life's not going to get better for him. Yeah. Well, I do, yeah. Rudy was, no one really cared about Rudy. No. That was the whole thing with Rudy, right? Like, the, like...

Joe Montana didn't like what we talked about before. That's the thing with Rudy is they're annoyed they made a movie about. Well, it's funny because some form of Rudy happens at every college, every season. Yeah. All the time. It's not as original as a story as I'd like to. Or high school. Every year at the end of high school basketball or football, they'll put in a kid who's been on the bench for four years, the team manager, and sometimes they'll let them score. Exactly. And sometimes that might have been me.

I'm not saying it was or I'm not saying it wasn't, but we didn't have video cameras back then. Did that happen to you? No. Oh. No, no, no. We're ahead, but low risk. They tried to let me score. I still couldn't do it. I kept missing. There you go. They let you walk out there and just ask for autographs. The other teams rebounded it, giving the ball back to you. You keep missing it. Yeah.

Kev F. Being a bald man myself, if I had hair like Dusty's, I would just stay up at night and brush it continuously while running my fingers through it. Yeah, dude, that's a blast. I love doing that. I love to just sit up late, brush it, smell it, feel it. I like to stand in front of a fan, let it flow. Oh, there you go. Danny Smith. I love how Nate summed up his AT&T Pro-Am experience with, this was a dream come true.

And out of all the things I've wanted to do, that was one of them. I feel like there's a merch opportunity with that quote, keep up the great work, fellas. It was a dream come true. It's hard to like say, you know, I was listening to Bert Kreischer's podcast with Louis C.K. And they were just talking about like when Louis did Madison Square Garden and

He said he would take the train there, the C train. He did it eight times. He would just take the train there like he was going to work because he was going to work and he goes and does Madison Square Garden. And then he would get on the train and he would go home. And it wasn't like in the moment. It was like, you know, he's like, yeah, it's what I just went to work. And then he said he went to see Bob Seger and he just went to go watch.

And, you know, he thought in there, he's like watching Bob Seger. He's like, it's crazy to think like me and him are the only two people in this room that have played this room. Yeah. Yeah. And then he said he started crying. And like he said, someone told him, his girlfriend or something at the time told him, because he was like, why am I crying? And he was like, maybe then he was able to like wrap around what he had done. You can't when you're in it. But then when you see someone else do it, you kind of go, man, I did, you know, or something. I don't know.

So when I do the pro-am next year, you'll fully appreciate it. That's what I say. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's like when you're doing, you're in it, when you're doing stuff, you like, it is, it is hard to, I mean, you, I am aware of how appreciative and how lucky I am to do this, but it's also hard to completely wrap your head around that what's happening. You know, it's like, just like every show, it's hard to wrap your head around that anybody is there to,

and that would know you i don't see you crying about it well you're still in the moment too yeah yeah i'm not it's not this is not about at&t i've just it's about everything yeah i think even when you when i do bridgetone like it's going to be overwhelming but i don't know if i'm going to handle it the way someone might think i should hand because i don't know how to handle that situation like it's not the end it's not like you go i did it it's over it's like that's right but i think it's uh

Yeah, you're going to have other times that's going to be like, golly, that's crazy. Like be able to look back on it. I mean, I'm in it right now. I'm in it. It's also a progression over time too, right? Like if you went and did an open mic and then the next day you're selling out Bridgestone, you would be like, wow, this is overwhelming. Overwhelming. You've been like building up, you know? Yeah. It's almost, but everything is overwhelming so much that you can't let it be overwhelming or I'm not going to be able to do the thing that I'm supposed to do.

So some of it is that you have to go, because it is overwhelming to think when I go walk around, I mean, I don't think there's not, I really am surprised that a single person would know who I am. I almost think the audiences when I go out are just kind of like, well, we just come to comedy shows.

Like, you know, it feels like that. And it feels like you can go walk around. Like, you know, Baton Rouge, you're like, I think I could go walk around the lobby. And I don't think someone would notice. Like, I don't think it'd be weird. Because it doesn't make sense that it would be weird. I mean, I don't know why it would be. You know, you just think you're like, well, I'm just a dude. I'm just from Old Hickory, man. Like, I don't know what to do. Like, it's like, I'm just, you know. Taking the train to work, essentially. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Essentially, like, you know.

It is special, and I know it's special, and I'm aware of how special it is. And I am appreciative of it and all that stuff. But, yeah, I think it is hard to wrap your head around everything. It'd be like telling a professional athlete, can you believe you were just out there on the field playing that game? And they're like, yeah, but I got another game next week.

If I get too wrapped up in it, I ain't going to be able to perform. Yeah. It's a long season. Yeah. Which I'm not, we're not, I'm not going, I don't want Danny to think we're, I understand that's very, what he said is very funny because that's funny. He also mentioned your callback on the door. Didn't make sense, but. Did he? No, I'm joking. What callback? Last week when we read the guy had the callback idea for you. Oh yeah. I did it. Maybe since I did a callback about the door last night.

Oh, really? Yeah. And it like didn't go good. And then I just like got out of it. Not that I'm not doing it. I did a callback to the ultimate. By the way, if you come into shows, you can, we did it all weekend. Our, none of it's on the special. All right. That's crazy, man. Yeah. None of it's on the special. It's hard. Antelope 720. Nate, as long as we were talking wardrobe. Wardrobe.

What shoes are you wearing for your special? Very nice. Rag and Bone Metro Runner. There they are. There they are. Different color, but that's the... Yeah, yeah. That color is good, too. They were great. They look good on the stage being reflected. Yeah. Yeah, they were good. I'm not even a shoe guy, but they look good. They look good. I wanted to mix it up this time and not do Nike. I actually like those. So, yeah, they were good shoes. Brandy Hobart. Hobart. Aubart.

Nate's special is rated PG-13 due to his use of the words murder and dumb. How do I know this, you may ask? Am I a ratings expert? Do I have a secret in with Amazon? No. Nate's sister Abigail posted it on the fan page. Have they had such a falling out after the new tattoo that he won't even speak to her? Yeah, there you go. Abigail's trying to get in. She's having to get Brandy to comment for her.

Now, Abigail told me that. She told me that. She texted me that yesterday. Still won't talk to her. No, I'll talk to her. Murder and dumb. Murder and dumb. She just told me that, though. I didn't know. Yeah, murder, because I said murder and dumb. Dumb is crazy. Murder, you're like, okay. But dumb? Murder, I don't even, I mean. None of it makes sense to me. What's dumb? Why can't you say dumb? I don't know. Hmm. Hmm. I mean, it's kind of, what are, like, you know,

Ratings and standards. What are we doing? Yeah, that takes it from G to PG-13, saying dumb? Yeah. That's crazy. Do you think stupid would be okay? Is there a stupid more harsh? I'm talking about me. I say I'm dumb. Who you're calling dumb matters at all. Yeah, wouldn't that matter? Maybe dumb is like... Because dumb also means mute, right? So maybe somehow it's... Like a medical... It used to. I mean...

Deaf and dumb. It still does in the right context. I guess, but nobody says dumb. Like, oh, he's talking about that guy being a mute. But you also don't know a lot of mute people. I don't know a lot of them. No. They're hard to talk to. Maybe because you call them dumb. Maybe that's why y'all don't get off to a great start. Are you dumb? Are you dumb? Joshua Crowe. Nate referred to having too many choices being frustrating.

This is known as the paradox of choice.

It sounds like it's already made up, but it sounds like Josh is making this up and he's like, let's see if it works for me. Businesses think that customers want more options, but it actually causes anxiety. I'm in the restaurant business and two examples of this in my industry are cookouts menu versus five guys menu. One is simple and enjoyable. The other causes panic attacks. So five guys has got to be the simple one, right? For sure. Because it's just like one patty, no patty. Yeah, it's true. It is. I get that.

We talked about this a little bit when you were gone because you watch a restaurant show where they- Restaurant Impossible. And Aaron said that the one thing they always do is simplify the menu. Yeah. Because it makes it better. Just focus on what you do well. Yeah. I mean, even that, if you're making a million things, you're probably not making any of them that well. Yeah. Well, it's like Cheesecake Factory is the only, I guess, kind of opposite of that where theirs is so complicated. Yeah.

But it's like there, you're like, well, I can go there and do. But yeah, and I mentioned that, I think, but Golden Corral, if you're doing steak and Mexican and Italian. Well, the thing about that is like you don't, at a Golden Corral, you don't have to choose. It's a buffet, right? Yeah, you just put it on there. Buffet, you want choices. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. The more choices, the better. Yeah.

If you go to a buffet and there's one vegetable, one meat, one starch, you're like, well, I could have just ordered this. Yeah, people... Buffets are... They're never as good as any buffet. I've rarely found a buffet. Like, salad bars are great buffets. Yeah. And I've rarely found a buffet that's, like, great because it's the food sitting out there. Yeah. Even when you go to Vegas, you go...

There's some places in LA that have a hotel that's like very nice and they have a buffet and they have a lot of stuff and it's good, but it's all just a little like the food sits out there a little bit, you know? I used to like a Chinese buffet. Chinese buffet actually works. That's where it's at. Yeah. That's about it.

Why is that any different than any other type of food? Because Chinese food just sits out. Yeah. It's allowed to sit out. Yeah, it is. It is allowed to sit out. It just sits out. That's what it's about. They just come by and mix it up once in a while. Yeah, stir it up. That's the cookout menu, by the way. I don't know if I'd get a panic attack from that, but it definitely is a lot. It's a lot. Yeah, but I know what I'm doing now. Yeah, I've never had cookout.

it's good you get a tray and then you pick like a main thing from the tray and then you get two sides and then you get a you know drink with it i've been on my streak we're trying to make a because red rocks like dreadlocks is like my after picture

Oh, from the last time you were there? Yeah. Okay. Because the last time I was there, I was pushing. I don't like to say I was 200. I was probably hit 200, but that was 200. So now I'm down to like 174 again. But I went back up to 180. I went up, down. So now I'm on a- You ballooned to 180, dude. I would love to go to cookout. I was 180 in sixth grade. Yeah.

Your shirt weighs 180 now. I don't know. That'd be very funny. That's very mean, but it's very heavy. That's a very funny idea. That's how it goes. God, my shirt weighs that much. If someone said that, my pants weigh more than that. What kind of pants you got on? Sounds like a workout. How much do you think Al Jody John's pants weighed? Nine pounds. Belt on? Yeah. Belt on, pushing 15 probably. Yeah. Yeah.

Like jeans? I'm thinking like jeans. Yeah. Like a heavy material with a belt, wallet in, maybe 20. You think he could wear jeans? Did they have Andre the Giant sized jeans? Well, he had some stuff made, I'm sure. Yeah. And there are people, there are, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. Yeah. I mean, he wasn't, he had clothes on. Yeah. I was going to say, he didn't wear. Even a big and tall shop, you're like, well, actually we did not plan for this. Yeah.

Well, I think he gives them a heads up. I'm a literal giant coming in. Maybe have some stuff ready. You heard of me. They call me Andre the Giant. Yeah, he's got pants on right there in that top picture. Yeah, but not jeans. Yeah, maybe he's not wearing jeans. He had to wear those pants because they had to make them. Yeah, like some sweatpants there. And they're a little too short. Yeah, dude, he can figure it out. He's got money. If you've got money, you could have somebody make something for him. He has jeans on over there with Arnold Schwarzenegger, doesn't he?

Yeah, there it is. Okay, look at that. That's a fabric pant. That's not really a jean. It's a jean color. Yeah, you're right. It's crazy. And Horace Westinghouse is huge. And he's just, yeah, they're just so big. Were they in a movie together?

That's kind of looks like Conan. I think that it's Conan the Barbarian. Can you imagine every day is just look how big you are? Yeah. I mean, geez. It's every, it's never not that. You never walk in a room and just be like, is that Cream? That's Will Chamberlain. Will Chamberlain. So Will Chamberlain, at least like they got to sit there and just talk.

They can just talk about other stuff. Yeah. Not being huge. Yeah. Well, Will Chamberlain, I mean, looks as big as... They're the same height. And he's big, dude. I thought Andre was even bigger, but Will Chamberlain's a big dude. Yeah. Super Scott Crawford. For the record, there is no dark side of the moon. There is the far side of the moon. However...

There's a common misconception about the moon's backside. I'd like to clarify. Oh, I can't wait. Here we go. Super Scott. The sun also shines on it. The first humans to view the backside of the moon were the crew of Apollo 8. Crew member James Lovell was also on Apollo 13. Hey, Bear. James Lovell. That's who Tom Hanks played in the movie. So they went around the moon. Yeah. That's true. Yeah, they orbited around it. I bet. They get pictures? Yeah.

No, they were in a hurry, right? Couldn't get it real fast enough. That's too bad. We have pictures of the other side of the moon. We do. Yeah, we did this last week. I was about to say, maybe Pink Floyd kind of popularized the term dark side of the moon. To bury...

Like when you search for it? No, I wasn't saying that. For SEO purposes? We always say Dark Side of the Moon, but he's saying that's not even a real thing. Maybe that Pink Floyd album is what- Maybe you should type in Far Side of the Moon. Do we talk about that's the theory that Disney did that with the movie Frozen? Mm-mm. That they were trying to bury search results about Walt Disney's frozen head? So they named the movie Frozen. Oh, really? So if you Google Disney Frozen, all of that's pushed to the side. Oh, wow.

That's a conspiracy theory I like to bring to the table. Yeah, yeah. That's a fun one. Yeah. I don't know if that makes that much sense to me, though. What do you mean? I don't think enough people are Googling his frozen head. They were before. Yeah, but not... I don't think that was... What were they helping to look up? Because then you could just go Walt Disney's frozen head, and you'd be like, okay, now I'm back to exactly what I want. You just add head to it. Yeah, you add head to it. Your game's over. Well, look.

Yeah, but if you Google Disney Frozen, I mean, it's all the movie. But I mean, I don't know if I would Google Disney Frozen if I was looking for his frozen head. Try Frozen Head. Disney Frozen Head. Try Frozen Head, I'm sure. No, just Disney Frozen Head. Yeah. Because that's what you would do.

I mean, if you're listening, there it is. It's a bunch of stuff. You're right. You're right. Look, I didn't say it's the best conspiracy theory in the world. I just said. If the movie were called Frozen Head, then that would be. That would be. Disney's Frozen Head. Yeah. About a princess. Cryogenically frozen head. Yeah, that would be. And he goes, is that about Walt? Is his head frozen? Yeah.

Just the head? They didn't do the whole body? I think the head was taken off the body. Like Ted Williams. This is what they don't want us to know. Yeah. So they named the movie Frozen. I think, look, they didn't go in. They didn't create a, let's create a movie called Frozen to bury this stuff. But I think somebody in marketing was like, oh, that'll be nice. Call it Frozen. Knowing in the back of their head, it's a nice little ancillary benefit. Walt would have wanted this. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't think so. All right. I mean, I don't think I believe either, but it's, again, funny that's the one conspiracy theory you guys won't get on board with. I know. Yeah. I don't think the most basic one, too. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. Bianca Huber. Bianca Huber. Huber. Huber. I would like to confirm that Nate is Michael Scott. It's amazing how his character even speaks with a cadence like Nate.

Their absurd humor also makes them so similar. In my continued observation, Brian is Aaron and sometimes Pam. Aaron is Oscar, who is a very underrated character. All right. Dusty is a Jim and Dwight love child. We're having a good time. All right. There we go. I like that. That's nice. I mean, I would argue that I'm probably Toby.

I was like, Toby. A lot of people have pointed that. They even did a little montage of Michael and Toby and then Nate with me. Oh, really? It's very similar. Why are you the way you are? Yeah.

I like Dwight. I like the Dwight character in the British office, whatever his name is in that. Gareth. Yeah, it's great. Really good. Yeah, you would be Dwight. Some holidays you don't believe in, some you create. Yeah, I've been trying to grow beats forever. Yeah. I can't get them to grow. It's hard. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So this week. Country music. Oh, there you go. All right. I got the country music voice. Yeah.

Yeah, that's why I dress this way. Yeah. Now, who is Jesse Daniel? Jesse Daniel's a country singer that I like a lot. Very, like a new, kind of a new country singer. He's great. Very good.

From California. California country. Okay. And I met him. He came to play in Nashville. I met him. We hung out, took some pictures. It's great. Now, you know country music pretty well. Pretty well, yeah. I'd say you and I are probably more mainstream country. Kenny Chesney. That's a big one for you. Yeah, I love Kenny Chesney. I...

Country just blew up in the early 90s, and that's when I was in college. And Garth Brooks played the Murphy Center at MTSU where I went to school. And I stood in line and got me and –

A bunch of my friends' tickets. You'd go to any show. You'd go to everything at MTV. I was just always there. Every single thing. Yeah, just sure, why not? I saw George Strait there a bunch. Wow, that's pretty awesome, though. Garth Brooks, George Strait. No, no, I think you'd... This is all at the early stage of their career. This is before they're famous. No one knew who they were. Well, Garth Brooks, is it their height? I mean, if he's playing the basketball arena...

Well, that's true. Now he does giant stadiums. Yeah. But that's when he blew up. I don't think he would come to the Murphy Center. Well, that's true. That's when he was blowing up, though. That's when Friends in Low Places and The Dance and all that had just come out. And I'm saying you should go to this stuff, but I think you were probably a good friend. You just knew, like, this is in town. We got to go. Because a lot of people, I think, miss stuff.

Those examples, people were coming from all over to go. That was a big deal. But I would go to an MTSU basketball game where there was a couple thousand people. You had plans every night. I did comedy at MTSU. Had you been there, would you have come to that?

I'm sure I would have. Yeah, if you go back and travel back into the future. It's funny to think now there's... 30-year difference. Yeah, would you have gone, would you have went to the world's first fair? Yeah. How old were you in like 1992? 10 years old. Were you doing comedy then? Well, I was making people laugh, but mainly getting in trouble.

The crazy thing, Nashville has so many venues now to see music. But then there was the Municipal Auditorium, which still exists, downtown Nashville. And it's like a relic. They still do shows. Yeah.

But then MTSU's Murphy Center, people have to go to Murfreesboro to see a big show. Really? Because that's where the judge did their farewell tour, and there was no Bridgestone Arena. I wouldn't mind doing a show at Municipal Auditorium. It'd be fun. I mean, obviously, Bridgestone is what I want to do, but then go do one from Municipal Auditorium? Just because that was...

a big deal that was the you know place I don't know how big is it how many seats have you saw this one I think it's like five or six thousand yeah yeah I remember watching basketball we had a we had a Ronnie Marietta coach yeah Adam Somm played on it yeah they still do like OVC basketball tournaments and it's bigger than I realized 9700 in the round wow might be able to do a weekend there next year yeah yeah

But who were like your biggest country music? Were you into country music as a kid? I was not at all. Or have you ever been? I got into it when I moved to Nashville because you just can't avoid it. Growing up in Alabama, nobody surprisingly, none of my, and a lot of people in Alabama do obviously, but it was just my family and my friends and like the guys I hang out with. Nobody listened to country. They thought it was lame. Yeah. I thought it was weird. And then Nashville, it's just everywhere. So I just embraced it.

Yeah. Yeah. I guess I'm saying the 90s, it became like a cool thing. Like it wasn't just like the, you know, everybody listened to it. Yeah. I mean, I grew up on 90s country and I, yeah, I mean, I love it. I Googled the most bestselling albums of all time and every chart would tell me something a little different. But according to Wikipedia, Shania Twain's Come On Over is the seventh greatest...

selling album of all time was that uh any man of mine probably yeah man i feel like a woman that song probably yeah it was a great one yeah huge she's one of the best selling of any country artist isn't she from canada yeah yeah she had some real crossover appeal too though because she's like you know she's country but it's debatable i mean it's a lot it's like pop country

Well, let me ask you about this. Why are country music fans, they're the only fans that are defensive about their genre in a way that no other genre is? Because I feel like now...

It's almost genre-less, the music. Everything's everything. It's like, who cares what's what? But you'll hear that from country fans all the time. Well, it's not real country. Well, it's this. You have to qualify it in a way. It's like, who cares? Well, I just think there's some aspects you look for in country that you like, you appreciate, fiddle, steel guitar, stuff like that. So it's about the instruments. Well, yeah, there's stuff that makes it country. And now it's just like people with Southern accents singing pop music a lot of times. Okay. Well, like folk.

like folk music would probably be country like you count that as like yeah in a way yeah yeah

So like Americana? Yeah. I mean, I don't know all the genres, but yeah, it's like, I don't know. There's just stuff I look for where I'm like, well, this is, I mean, yeah, it's country, but it's like, so I feel like all music is like becoming like pop rap now. Like every genre is like that. Like rap is like pop rap. Pop has got a little rap. Well, you're having AI probably write songs. It's almost, that's where you're going to see it first.

Oh, I'm sure. Because you really could just have AI write a song. Yeah. And then if you get the right person to sing it and you get beats behind it and it's just enough that everybody's like, I like it. And then it is what it is. Yeah. But it loses any soul. It was like, what's that guy's, has the crazy voice? He talks like. Wolfman Jack? No.

It's like, you go on Letterman a lot, David Letterman. Tom Waits? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like that guy's voice, right? He sings, it's crazy. Yeah, he's got a beard. Yeah, it's not like it's this great voice. Yeah, it's not good. But it's like you're buying into what he's- His whole thing. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah.

So like Old Town Road, a couple of years ago, it was climbing the charts. Billboard's high country song, got it number 19. They took it off the charts because they said this isn't real country. Well, I think there's no reason why it shouldn't be considered real country now in the state that it's in. But yeah, I mean, it's not a – I don't find it to be a country song by my standards. But by the standards that are being set –

I don't know why it's not. Does that make sense? Oh, you're saying if the song had come out in 1992, you're like, obviously this is not a country song. But because the genre has evolved to where it was in 2018. Yeah, it should be. It should be country. Yeah, I think so. All right. It's a very reasonable take. That's what I think. Yeah. I think it's been more weeks at number one than maybe any song ever.

That song was everywhere when it came out. I mean, they got... It changed Lil Nas. They got a hold of him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, good night. That's, you know... It almost makes you not want to hit song. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you want to go, he was not... I mean, they... Like, I mean, you really do feel... They got a hold of him. Because I... It's wild now. It's wild now. Yeah.

So the birthplace of country music, actually not Nashville. Yeah. Montgomery, Alabama. No. Memphis, Tennessee. I actually mentioned this on our Tennessee episode, but it's not Memphis. Oh, it's Tennessee, Johnson City. No. Like East Tennessee, I would think. Bristol. Yeah. Oh, that's what they say. Well, they've got the birthplace of country music museum there. Well, I could put up a museum. Okay. Yeah.

I'm just saying, what gives them the basis to claim that? I think they did their first recording session in Bristol. I always feel like country is like a mix of blues and bluegrass. Okay. That's what I always think. Okay. And it started in Bristol? Well, it started in Appalachian Mountains. It was called hillbilly music. And then after a while, they're like, eh, let's maybe call it- They themselves were calling it hillbilly music? I think everybody was. Okay. Yeah. They just embraced it. You're like, why? Well, hillbillies were singing. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And then it kind of became more country. And then, so in 1925, this, I act like I'm trying to remember all this, this insurance company, Nashville. You went to your first show at MTSU. Wasn't a university. Excuse me. The National Life and Accident Insurance Company.

bought a radio station to promote their, I guess, insurance. And they do live radio shows. And their motto was, we shield millions. So they call their radio station WSM.

Oh, and that's WSM. That's the Nashville radio station now. That's still the radio station. And they did a show called WSM Barn Dance, where they just played country music. And then one night, right before it, they were doing opera. And when the guy came on for the barn dance show, he said, you've been listening to opera, but now you're going to listen to some grand old Opry. And it stuck, and then they changed the name of it to the Grand Ole Opry. Wow. Why do you call it Opry? Just...

Just trying to be like, you're opera, we're opry. Yeah. I don't know, just kind of like slang, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Slang. And then the Grand Ole Opry kept growing. It was at the Belcourt Theater for a while here in Nashville. And then it kept outgrowing that. We did a show there. Belcourt Theater? We did it. I think I've done that. My first CMT is at Belcourt. That's right. We did one with Kenny and his friends. Then it moved to East Nashville for a while, and it kept getting bigger. Yeah.

Can you imagine, uh, just, you're like, we do them for Kenny and his friends. It is funny. Like this is people, this is podcasts all over the world. And they just, they got to just in the middle of it, be like, remember we did that show for Kenny and his friends were like, Oh yeah, that's right. I remember that. And people were like, I don't even, who is Kenny? I thought you meant Kenny Chesney. That's what I thought too. It's our buddy, Kenny. Oh, okay. And my buddy, Kenny, it's my buddy I grew up with. Uh, and, uh,

It's so funny that it just made me just, and I talk about it. I say these names all the time. I'm not saying it because you said it. It just hit me as you said it to be like, I mean, a lot of people listen to this podcast. Yeah, from like Finland. Yeah. That have no ties to any of it. And you're like, remember we did that show with Kenny? Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I really just thought Kenny Chesney because you had already mentioned that. Yeah. No, no, no, no. I thought it was weird you were on a first name basis with him, honestly. No. Like who were his friends? Garth Brooks. Kenny Chesney. Kenny Clayton.

Yeah. I mean, it's just insane. So Grand Ole Opry kept on outgrowing it. They moved it to the War Memorial Auditorium, which is still doing shows in Nashville. And then finally into the Ryman. They started charging people to get in because it kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

And then it just kept growing. That's crazy. I've done shows at a lot of those places. War Memorial, I did a show. Did a show at the Ryman. Did the Opry several times. That's great. Yeah. That's fun. Yep. Elvis. You are country music. Yeah. That's right. I mean, this is as close as I'm going to get. Yeah. I may write a song one day. Can you sing? I can't sing, but I may write one. Yeah. I wrote a song. Did you? Mm-hmm.

With Walker Hayes. Yeah, this was four years ago now. You wrote this song. Are we ever going to hear it? I do have it. I don't know. You did a recording of it? It didn't get released.

No. Him singing or you? Him singing. Oh, wow. Yeah. And he's become, I mean, he's become like a huge star since he's done it. Yeah, yeah. The Applebee's. Everybody thought it was the Applebee's song, and it wasn't. Trust me, you would have heard about that. Yeah, you'd be talking about that. So that during COVID, that TikTok video blew up of Walker Hayes doing Fancy Light, and it became a huge... Do you know this song? Yeah. Yeah.

Keep in mind, this is Walker Hayes' friend of the pod, Dusty. Yeah, yeah. No, no, that's the song you're talking about, right? Yeah. Yeah, okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It became a huge hit. Yeah, I mean, yeah. No, I was at the ACMs and I saw him do that song in Vegas. Okay. It's fun. It's a fun song. I mean, it's not my kind of country, but it is a fun song. Sure. Yeah. Sure.

Just a couple things. Elvis played the Opry, and they didn't like his dress, the way he was dressed, so they were like, you're not a good fit for us. He did do it, though. Yeah, as a teenager. And... It was in his house. Elvis' house. Yeah, you mentioned it. You ran there. Yeah. Yeah. And it was... That's all I said about it, though. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Sorry. Let's get back to the news. Yeah.

I'm just saying, you ran there. Yeah, I ran. Yeah, but I was... I mean, we could have talked about it. Elvis' house. But we'll get back to you. Well, go ahead. Tell us. No, no. He's like, tell you. I ran there and I saw this scent. I ran there. I saw it. Did you get to go in? Yeah. Yeah, I bought a ticket. It was two bedrooms. I mean, not two bedrooms. It was a kitchen and a bedroom. This was his childhood house? Yeah. Okay. He lived there until he was 14 in Tupelo. And their homes were...

It was just two rooms. So you had the bed and the bedroom, and then you had the kitchen. Like back then, because it was like they had to do so much stuff just to even operate a house back then. You had to get up and like, if you want anything, it's a lot of work. You got to go get it. You got to go, yeah. Right. If you want breakfast. This is pre-fridge probably, right? They had a fridge in there. You'd have to put a big thing of ice in it. And then, I mean, you know, probably change it every day. They would deliver ice every day, right? Yeah.

I don't know if they delivered it or they brought it, but it's, yeah, you'd have to. The Iceman. Yeah, Iceman Comics. You'd have to go, you'd have to get it every day just to have this stuff work. If you want anything, it's the most work. Yeah. The house is tiny. Yeah, we have it pretty good these days.

It's not even imaginable how, like, it's what they had to do. I mean, even my dad growing up had to go to an outhouse. Yeah. It's like, it blows my mind. Every time? Yeah. I mean, like, well, you just, I guess you could just go outside, you know? But it's like, you know, we had, you know, we have a bathroom in our house that I had to get the toilet fixed. And I was like, ah, I got to go into the bedroom every time. You know what I mean? It's like, imagine having to go out back. Yeah.

Uh-huh. Every time. Sometimes I wish we should probably bring that back. Well, you want to go pee outside. No, let's just separate all of it. Oh, have the bathroom outside. Yeah, yeah. Just have it all out there. Yeah. That'd be better for everybody. Yeah. That seems like a lot. It's pretty obvious when it's like, all right, I'll see y'all in a little bit. Oh, I don't care about that, but I'd just like to keep everything. You hit the garage, you go...

You get in your car, drive over to the... Drive to the bathroom. Go to your bathroom house that you have built. Growing up, I lived in a trailer with one bathroom, and my brother-in-law would... He was a bigger guy. He would go to the gas station if he needed to poop because he was like, he was like, that's going to just... Yeah, it's going to ruin the house. He would just go to the gas station. Yeah, good for him. I've done that before. That gas station, just like... They're just like, here we...

And then you just see him grab a paper. Never buys anything. Puts the paper back. All right, I'll see y'all in a couple hours. See y'all after dinner. Yeah. And in Japan, don't they separate the bath from the toilet for that reason?

Oh, they're in different rooms? I thought so, because I feel like where you clean should not be where you poop. It is odd to put them all in the same room when I think about it. I've never thought about it until now. It's odd. It is odd.

Why do you choose? Why do you put those? Why not put the oven in there, too? Well, that's weird. Yeah, that's too far. It's like two unrelated things. It's where we keep our plates. Not really. It's like where you go clean. It's taking care of your body in there. Okay. It's a body thing. No, put a treadmill in there, too. That's the taking care of your body. You could. I mean, yeah.

But if you came over and I had a treadmill in the bathroom. One's gross and one's not. Well, if you had a treadmill in the house, I'd be happy, right? I'm sorry. Let's just get a treadmill. You know what? And if you put it in the bathroom, buddy, then I don't worry, but let's just get it in the house.

So Johnny Cash got drunk one night and performed at the Opry and the mic wasn't working right. So he took the mic stand and busted out all the lights on stage. Oh, there you go. I've been there. You know what I mean? I've wanted to do that before.

He got banned. With comedy, it's like you need one thing. Yeah. Did he get unbanned at some point? Yeah. Okay, because his picture is everywhere there. Yeah. Now they have a Johnny Cash room. Yeah, he's like, well, the mic work, they're like, I don't know, it's the 40s. You know? And he busts the lights. You're like, man, that's $90,000. That's going to cost you. Like, we barely have electricity at this point. Yeah.

But yeah, he's what a cool guy. You had to be just mowing. That's all stuff that you like to hear in the rock star and are this kind of like thing. But in the moment, you're like, dude, just some dude has to. We're all dealing with the Mike situation. Yeah. And now we don't have lights. Now we don't have lights.

And then he left. So then he left there when they said, you're out of here. He's like, I'm just going to drink some more. And then he wrecked leaving there. And the cop that came and worked the scene was June Carter Cashett. June Carter at the time's husband. And he already had a thing for June Carter. So his night just got worse. Wow. He's driving back to Henry. He lives in Hendersonville, right? I don't know if this time he was, but yeah. Drove drunk back. Oh, yeah. All the time. Yeah.

That probably wasn't even illegal back then, though. No. If you're trying to cash, especially. I think that cop right had a couple pops. Yeah. He goes, I didn't think everybody was a little like, you throw a couple back and you go, all right, let's get out there. Yeah. Let's mix it up. George Jones wrote a lawnmower to buy.

Yeah, they arrested him. Yeah, you know that story? Yeah. You don't know that story? No. Oh. His wife took away all the car keys for him to go out and buy alcohol, so he saw the Ridenmoor out in the yard, so he went and got it and rode. Like down the road. Yeah. And they pulled him over. Yeah. He was hammered, I'm guessing. Yeah. I guess so. I don't know if that was just the music video that they pulled him over or...

I thought in real life they pulled them over. Maybe they did because you can't be riding a lawnmower on a main highway. Yeah.

But you know that story, Dusty? I don't know that I ever heard that he got arrested or pulled over. But I did, I mean, yeah, it's very famous that George Jones would be riding the lawnmower. I thought it was that he got pulled over. And maybe he did. Yeah. But so many country songs reference George Jones riding a lawnmower. Yeah. He was called No Show Jones for a while. Yeah, the possum. Also that. Wow. Because he would not show up to shows. Oh, really? Because he was just drunk? Yeah. Wow.

There's stories that some – like Mike Judge has a Tales from the Tour Bus. I never watched it, but I saw a little clip on TikTok. I can never find it. I don't even know where you can get it. But he talked about how George Jones would like –

I guess he had like some kind of like anxiety, right? So he'd get real nervous. And so before the show, he would just disappear and then just leave town. And he said he would go sit in a hotel and drink and eat fried chicken. And like his manager would call him. He said this manager called him one time. He answered the hotel phone. He's like, I knew you'd find me. Right.

But yeah, so he used to just miss shows all the time. I mean, it's crazy that you could do that stuff and still just have a career. Like how hard it is to keep your career going. I feel like that's the lack of entertainment back then. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. You know what I mean? I'm not saying there's, but it's like now you just have so much options that you can't treat an audience like that.

Because they're like, okay, well, I'll just go to, you know, I'll look at my phone. There's just a million things. Right. And back then was like, what are you going to do? Who are you going to go watch? Who else are you going to go see? And that's the allure of it a little bit. But you're like, you know. I think at one point, though, George Jones was not, none of the promoters wanted to book him because they were like, he may not show. Yeah. And we don't want to spend all this money. Not a bad concern. Yeah. Yeah, I think he had a few resurgences in his career.

So then... Is he still alive? No. They just had a TV series about him, right? Yeah, George and Tammy, I think. I have not watched it. Everything's on some weird streaming network that I don't have. So I don't watch anything. Yeah.

Yeah. I wish they'd just kind of bring it all together. Put on CMT. Yeah, exactly. CMT needs something. They do. CMT used to be my favorite channel in the world. Yeah. You watch Circle Network? I do watch it a little bit when I find it. When do you find it? Yeah, I mean, I don't watch a lot of regular TV, but when I see it on, I do watch it. When the clouds hit right, that entertainment comes on. Yeah, exactly. You're like, oh, mom, it's going to be a good big night tonight. Yeah.

So the Ryman did not have air conditioning. So they're doing all these shows and just in the heat. Whoa. And by the late 60s, the Ryman was kind of getting run down. And the Opry's so big that there's still not enough space. The Ryman holds like 2,300, I think. So they were like, let's build a bigger, more modern. And downtown Nashville then was pretty run down and just a lot of

Not what it is today, for sure. So like, let's go out to find some land out of downtown Nashville, build us a new Grand Ole Opry house, bigger, more modern. And then the president of the Grand Ole Opry was in Houston and he went to the Astrodome. And I guess there they have Astro World where they got a bunch of other stuff going on too. So he's like, let's do more than just the Grand Ole Opry house. Let's build a theme park year round. So that's where they came up with the idea for Opryland. Yeah. So Opryland. I want Opryland back.

Opryland and the Grand Ole Opry House both opened in the early 70s. I came to Opryland one time when I was a kid. I loved it. Yeah. I want to make it. Yeah. I hate that they got rid of it. It was so fun. Well, this is, we've talked about before, the ultimate vision. This podcast keeps growing is to reopen Opryland, but call it Nate Land Theme Park. I love it. I love it. I have my own conspiracy theme ride. Yeah. I want to make a Nate Land Theme Park. I can do a trip to the moon. Yeah.

I'm planning rides in your park. Yeah. Yeah. I'm planning rides in your park. Yeah. Well, we all did, but yeah, that'd be a good one. The president, Richard Nixon came opening night and played piano on stage. Wow. Really? Yeah. Good for him. And then they took a circle from the Ryman and put it over on Grand Ole Opry stage. And now performers stand in front of that circle.

Or in that circle. Yeah, that's the actual... The circle network. Yeah. That's what I call it. Yeah. Oh. Isn't that nice? Yeah. Oh, yeah, because if you're at the Grand Ole, you're standing on the... Yeah. And they say you can only step in the circle if you're performing there, but I don't know if that's true.

Is that true? You can only step in?

I don't remember who I saw, but I was so little. But it's fun to be an audience member as a kid and then later not even be a country singer and get to do the opera. You found a way to get up there anyway. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. But didn't you sing your first time there? You came back and sang. Oh, I did. Yeah. For some reason, they were doing something at the end. They've never done that again.

But they all came out and held hands and sang. I forget what the song was. May the Circle Be Unbroken. May the Circle Be Unbroken, yeah. And I just was like, well, I want to go out there too. So I just walked out and started joining in. Because it was at the, it was at every performer. I don't know if anyone invited me, but I was like, I performed tonight. Uh-huh.

I'd like to say that. Did they introduce you or they didn't say like, Dusty say? Not when I came out with them to sing. Did they introduce everybody else? I don't know. But I was like, I want to sing on the opera too. Yeah. I forgot about that. That's great. Yeah. Wouldn't Lauren Alaina and John Crist and some other people...

There? Maybe. They had been there before when I was there. I don't know if they were there that night. I was there. Yeah, you were there. Did you go out there too? No, I left after Dusty went up, I think. I'm glad it meant so much that you forgot about it. Yeah. Well, I forgot about the singing. I mean, my dad came and my dad's buddy and they had metal detectors and Aaron had a knife. He had to go back to the car. I had a knife. I had to go back to the car. My dad had a knife. My dad's buddy had two knives. Wow. I mean...

And no one was giving a little heads up? No, we had no idea. And y'all's group, no one texted to go, yo, they're not letting knives in? No, no one knew. We're all from Alabama, all bringing knives in. I had no idea.

When you did the Grand Ole Opry house last year, I happened to be walking in with your dad. And when he goes through a metal detector, it's like the Matrix. They call it insecurity. Because he's got, what, the fake hip? Knees. Knees and, yeah. Oh, he's got a bunch going on. A lot. Wow. There's a lot in there. Yeah. There's a lot happening. Yeah. So that's just a problem everywhere? Like airports? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, you see like the older men, but they'd be younger. They'd have to just wave them. They just know before you get going, we're going to be... It's going to be kind of bouncing around over here. Uh-huh. Yeah. Do you know the country singer Dottie West? Yeah, I know a little bit about Dottie West. Somebody's going to give you a lesson in leaving. Somebody's going to give you a lesson in leaving. She did that song? Yeah. Because that...

Because that song was remade recently. Dottie West is an older... Yeah, Dottie West did that song. Okay. Well, she's from McMinnville. Yeah. It's Dottie West Highway leading out there. So you might replace it someday, right? With Dusty Slay? Well, I don't know. I like Dottie West. I don't know if I'd like to replace it. Dottie and Dusty, maybe. Maybe a ramp? Yeah. Maybe I get a ramp. The Slay ramp? Yeah.

She was on her way to the Opry and her car broke down. I always got through some bad news in here. Her neighbor saw her. He was an older gentleman. He said, 81 years old, I'll give you a ride to the Opry. She said, well, floor it because I'm running late. On the way there off the Brawley Parkway, the ramp there off Brawley Parkway, he was going 55 miles an hour and lost control and wrecked.

And at first, they didn't think she was hurt. So she said, just treat him. I think he's worse shape than I am. But she had some internal injuries they didn't know about. And like three days later, she died. Wow. The ramp at Bradley Parkway is just always difficult. There's two crosses out there for Dottie West, too. Oh, is that right? Yeah, there's two different spots. So I don't know what's going on there, but.

I saw it the other day. There's two Dottie West crosses out there. Not even really that close. You talk about Dottie West a lot? Well, me and Hannah. Hannah likes Dottie West. We do talk about her a bit. Yeah. I knew that about that she died there. And I know Dottie West Highway going out to McMinnville. And me and Hannah always sing that song. Somebody's gonna give you a lesson and leave and some... You know the song?

I don't know. I do, but I know the remake. You're like a cold-hearted man or something? I thought that was like Mindy McCready or something. Jodie Messina. Jodie Messina, yeah. Covered it in 1999. Okay. All right. How about that? Jodie Messina. Jodie Messina seems to pop up all the time. I did the opera with her recently. She was so cool. She took pictures with everybody. She's hanging out backstage.

Heads to Carolina, Tails, California. Yeah. She's got some heads, man. I'm doing all right. Yes. That's the other one. Yeah. Three, four names. Joe D. Marie Messina. Yeah. That's a lot. They just go by Joe D. Messina. It is a lot. That's a lot. We have four. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, on our way here, I'm assuming we all came our normal way here, we passed the WSM radio tower. When it was built, it was the tallest structure in the United States. Really? Wow. And second in the world just to the Eiffel Tower. Isn't that crazy? That's how big the Eiffel Tower is, basically? The Eiffel Tower is probably a little bigger. Yeah. It's 808 feet now. It was 878 feet when it was constructed. I didn't lose feet.

They took off some of the top on purpose. They gave it to... Scoliosis. They gave it to Lipscomb. Osteoporosis. They said they gave it to Lipscomb Elementary, which is across the street there, and they use it as a flagpole. Oh. But they took it off and said so radio coverage could reach Chattanooga. Apparently it was too high and it was going over Chattanooga, so they wanted to reach it. But it was a clear channel...

whatever that means, and it could reach 40 states. Wow. Just a radio broadcast. So that's how the Opry came so big because they could reach so many people. Still pretty crazy. Yeah. Yeah, I've gotten gigs, corporate gigs off people hearing me on the Opry in another state. Really? Yeah. I mean, the Opry's great. Yeah, it's still going, I guess. Still like really that strong of a, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, it's, yeah, I mean, and they air it on Sirius XM too. So I've gotten, I've done the show. It's a little delayed. So I've done the show, got in my car, drove home, put it on the Opry on satellite radio and heard myself again. That's fun. That is fun. Yeah.

Nashville got the name Music City a couple ways. In 1871, Fisk University was about to close. They had financial issues. And the Fisk Jubilee Singers started touring the world performing to raise money for the school. And the Queen of England, Queen Victoria, said, you guys must come from a city of music. And that was the first time that that had ever been said. And then it started...

And WSM later did a radio show called Music City. And then Johnny Cash had a TV show on ABC, a weekly TV show. And they would start saying, coming to you live from Music City, USA, Nashville, Tennessee. And that's how the name Music City kind of became a thing. I thought it was like that. But I thought, too, I heard that a big reason a lot of the bands were here because we were so centrally located for touring.

It was very, that's why like buses are all out of here and that's a big part of it. That's why I moved to Nashville to do comedy. Yeah. It's, it's just like, I mean, that's why all the, if you want a tour bus, they're all here because it's just the easiest to the most touring. The markets nearby or. Yeah. Yeah. You can go do, you know, you're very like, it's, you know, you can get up Chicago quick and get up to, you know, wherever. Mm-hmm.

But they wouldn't allow, the opera wouldn't allow long-haired country boys to perform. You had to cut your hair. And people complained about it. So outlaw country kind of started. Because they also wanted a certain sound. You had to use Nashville recording artists. That's what they were rebelling against? Was it a haircut guideline? That was...

part of it. It was more the country sound. They wanted to use their own artists, do their own styles. And Nashville said, no, you got to use these particular artists. I mean, these musicians and they's like, I want to do my own thing. And they want to record in Austin, different places. So the outlaw movie. Well, yeah. Well, country music was like, uh,

Probably a little more, you know, buttoned up and that kind of stuff. And then you have like the Dustys come in. Yeah. You see like old school Willie and Waylon and all, they're all clean cut, real clean cut guys back in the day. Right. Yeah. And you would have been Lil Nas X back in the day. Oh yeah. You would have been,

I don't know if I'd have been that extreme. People would have been like, this guy's not real country. You'd have been the Sam Smith of that generation. Yeah. Yeah. I got my inflatable outfit in the car. But yeah, I mean, that's why, you know, Charlie Daniels has that long haired country boy song that I really like. It's long haired country boy is probably my favorite. It's a great song. A Vini song? Yeah. I mean, that got a lot that I like. It's hard to narrow one down, but that one I think is my favorite.

Long-haired country boy, Charlie Daniels. But you seem like Outlaw Movement would have been your guys. Yeah, I love all that stuff. Willie and Waylon. Yeah. Johnny Paycheck, really great. Take this job and shove it. Yeah. But he does that Don't Take Her, She's All I Got song, which it was covered in the 90s too. Right. But it's his song. It's great.

In New Orleans, I found a bunch of people that knew that song and we just stood outside and we all just sang that song. It was, I don't know how it happened. I think they were drunk, but I just love country. We walk around asking people if they know this song. We started talking about Johnny Paycheck and then somebody started singing it and we just all joined in. Yeah. It was great. Wow.

I feel like in rap music, there's a lot of people that die from being shot. And in rock music, a lot of people die from drug overdoses. Country, I feel like, has a lot of plane crashes. A lot of alcoholics in country. Well, I'm sure that's true, too. Who were the plane crash deaths? I can only think of... Well, Patsy Cline. Okay. John Denver. Okay, those are big ones. Jim Reeves, who was huge at the time. Yeah. Troy... Aikman. No, was it...

Montgomery Gentry, one of those guys died just recently in a helicopter crash. Oh, I didn't know that's how he died. Yeah. Jim Reeves, do you know him, Dusty?

I know that name. He was huge in country back in the day. There's a conspiracy theory. Oh, boy. He knew Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. He knew them both. Oh, wow. And he died not long after the kidney assassination. Wow. Now, he was flying his own plane. There was bad weather. He lived in Brentwood. He crashed in Brentwood. They probably got him. But...

I wanted to share that with you. Yeah, they probably got him. I'll check it out. I guess Jack Ruby owned a restaurant or something, a social gathering, and he knew Lee Harvey Oswald and Jim Reeves performed there. He's named Gentleman Jim. That was his nickname. Yeah. That's a fun nickname. Gentleman Jim.

Yeah, I mean, some of the country, when it gets too old, it is not a lot of fun to listen to for me. If it's too old, like if it, you know, 60s is maybe the cutoff. Once you get to 50s, the recording equipment's not as good and it's just hard to listen to. But there are some gems. Hank Williams, who's the guy...

Oh, man, I can't think of it. There's a – David Allen Coe's son, Tyler Mahan Coe, does a podcast where he talks about a lot of the old country, and he really digs into the stories, and it's really great. Yeah. Country music has a lot of royalty. They like to get a lot of titles. So you know who's considered the king of country music?

I would think George Jones. No. Morgan Wallen. This has changed a few times over the years. The King, Garth Brooks. That's a good guess. George Strait. Oh, the King. Yeah, I hear them say that. Yeah, George Strait. Yeah, that makes sense. He's good. The Queen's a little bit... George is the best. George Strait is really great. All right, the Queen of Country. Dolly Parton. Patsy Claw. I would think Dolly Parton. I mean, the way they... I mean, some people call her, but Kitty Wells.

Okay. They might need to update that. Yeah, maybe. We might need to overthrow that. Tammy Wynette's the first lady of country music. Jimmy Rogers, the father of country music. These titles don't make sense. So she's the first lady, so she's the wife of the president? Who's the president? Well, George Jones says you marry her, but I don't know. Here's one I don't even know. Do you know Nikki Lane? No. She's known as the first lady of outlaw country. I don't think so.

Do you know Colt Ford? I do know Colt Ford. Is he like the king of – Well, Colt Ford I like. Or Hick Hop? Yeah, I like Colt Ford, at least the old stuff he had. But he started a movement that I'm not a big fan of. What's that? Yeah, that Hick Hop, as they say it. There's a girl that's really gone viral, and I hate to make fun of her because everyone's piled on her. I don't remember her name, but it is –

I think I saw it. Yeah, it's not good. Yeah, I liked it. Did you? I mean, I hope she has success and I hope she makes money. I don't want to hate on her, but I'm not into it.

But I, you know, as I was on TikTok, I saw other country girls like doing the lip syncing to it. So it's like, it's got an audience, you know, there's country girls out there that are like, oh, I love this, you know? And it's kind of fun to have like a outlaw country woman. I mean, Gretchen Wilson's long gone from the country scene. She's the real deal though. Yeah. Yeah. Gretchen Wilson's the, I mean, yeah, she's the real deal. Yeah. Like that's, uh,

everything she says, I'm a redneck. You're like, she is. And if you've met, and I've, I've never met her, but I've seen her out. Like it's, it's something great about just being like her where you're like, Oh, that's, she's, she's all of that. The most authentic. Yeah. And,

And, you know, Trace Adkins, I've hung out with Trace Adkins a little bit. He's really great, really tall guy. And he told me that he now he's told this story since then, but he told me I was supposed to open for him and it stormed. So they wouldn't let us perform. So we sat on his tour bus and he told me that one of his wives shot him with a pistol in the side and it went through his both of his lungs. I think through his heart. I think he almost died.

And yeah, he had some serious, it was, he's been married a few times. One of his ex-wives. Wow. He's telling me that as he's smoking cigarettes and I'm like, wow. All right. So you have recovered. You've lived. Yeah. Yeah. But he's lived a lot. Yeah. He has. He's great. I like him a lot. Yeah.

That's fun. Some buddies of mine from Lebanon got into a road rage incident with Tracy Lawrence back when he was at the peak of his career. Tracy Lawrence. Tracy Lawrence, time marches on, is one of the best. Do you know Tracy Lawrence? No, I was thinking Fast Car. That's Tracy Chapman. Yeah. What do they do? I don't know what the true story is, but they somehow got into an altercation going on I-40, and Tracy Lawrence pulled out a gun and fired a shot. Okay.

Oh, wow. I love it. I love it. Tracy Lawrence got robbed. He was walking a girl back to her hotel room and some guys robbed them and I think shot him. Wow. I like Tracy Lawrence a lot. I heard a couple of things about him back in the day, but he had a really – a lot of paint me a Birmingham –

Texas tornado. Great stuff. What'd you hear stories about him? I don't know. I think just him being an alcoholic and just having some, some stuff going on. Yeah. And I can't verify, so I don't want to say it, but I, Oh, there it is. It's in the thing. Oh, what's that reported? Uh,

So it says that he was charged with reckless endangerment, possession of an unlicensed firearm after confronting and following home two teenagers on a highway in Wilson County, Tennessee in April of 94. So that's your friends. Yeah. How about that? Yeah. So they reported it. I'd imagine your friends would have called and reported it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, this was your friend's? Yeah. Oh, geez. Yeah. They said he fired a shot. Does that, or did that say he just pulled a gun on him? Well, it says reckless endangerment in possession of him, so I'm sure he might have fired a shot, but I mean, I would imagine, yeah. Well, this is what I'm talking about with real country. Yeah. I mean, people out here shooting and- Don't be, what were your friends doing?

I don't know. They may have started it. They may have cut him off or who knows. I mean, they didn't know who he was at the time. They're just driving home from downtown Nashville to Lebanon and there's some guy in a pickup truck. They were being dumb. He was being dumb. He just happened to be a huge country singer. Colt Fuller was pretty – just back to that. I mean, he was pretty fun for the time because there was no country rapper. So it was a pretty fun – I mean, Bubba Sparks was the closest we had. Is he still doing stuff?

I don't know. Jelly Roll is the big one now, right? Colt Ford? Yeah, I did. One of the first few times I did the Opry, Colt Ford was on it, and they presented him with some sort of award for how many albums he'd sold or something. He's still active. Yeah. Still writing a bunch. Dirt Road Anthem, that was such a huge song at the time. Remember that? He did one with- Was that with John? Oh, okay. He did one with John Michael Montgomery. Yeah. Okay. How about it? He was a professional golfer.

Colt Ford was? He was? Oh, yes. I've played with him. So now this all makes sense. You thought it was Larry the Cable guy, buddy. Yeah, he's a great golfer. I golfed with him at Legends. He's an unreal golfer. Yeah, he's a professional golfer. I know. I know. I remember. I remember the day. Now I remember. I didn't remember it at the time. All right. Yeah.

I might have his number, actually. He might be here. I think we're buds. Garth Brooks is by far the most best-selling country artist of all time. Almost doubles the next one, George Strait. Garth Brooks still has no songs on streaming services. You can't find him on Spotify. He's not on YouTube. Why is that? I don't know. That's just what he does. You have to buy it. Yeah.

I think he doesn't like them or like they don't pay and they don't, you know, whatever reason. Yeah. And I heard someone saying that they think he's missing out on the next generation because everybody just streams now. But I'm sure if he's the most selling of all time, he could care less. You know what I mean? Sold out. He toured and sold out, whatever. Yeah. I'm sure when it's, yeah, they're not. I thought about it with Elvis this week because we were saying like, look at like with Elvis, like we were looking at his like, who are you going to see their house?

Presidents. Yeah. And that's about it. Yeah. I couldn't think of someone that I'm like, who am I going to go see where they were born? Right. And so then Elvis, like with Elvis, he's making so much money that are like their thing. The estate. The estate is. And then they just made the movie, Elvis. So you're like, there's another 40 years. Yeah. Because the movie's a big movie. And it's like...

If there's any dwindling of maybe like people are getting old and they're kind of forgetting about Elvis, the movie comes out 40 years now. Now, anybody that's 20, when they saw that movie, they know what Elvis is. And you just got them until they're 60. And all you got to do is come up with this. Yeah. So this shouldn't Garth Brooks, he has all the money in the world. He has all the status, whatever. You don't think at a certain point, you're just like, well, let's think about legacy.

His legacy is there, though. If his legacy is not giving into that, I mean, he doesn't need it. But if there's a whole generation of people with no access to his music at all.

They do have it. I mean, other countries, like I know in Ireland and all that, these guys are such big country fans that like, it's just, you're not going to get, he's bigger than. It is hard. Like, you know, I got a big country music playlist that I put together on Spotify, but I can never add any of my fun Garth Brooks songs, you know? So, I mean, it's a loss for me. What do you think Garth Brooks' signature song is?

I think Friends in Low Places. More than the dance? Yeah. Yeah, I don't even know the dance. And I'd listen to it on the way home, but it's not on Spotify. You don't know the dance? I mean, I'm probably wrecking it. I don't know it by the title like the other one. I know probably every Garth Brooks song, but yeah, Friends in Low Places is probably the most. You know, Mark Chestnut cut that song first, and it did not take off for him. I've never heard of Mark Chestnut. That's probably why. But Mark Chestnut had a bunch of hits too. Oh, yeah. Bubba Shut the Jukebox? Yeah. Yeah.

But he covered that first and it did not take off. Huh. What about Lynyrd Skynyrd? What is their signature song? Well, Sweet Home Alabama. More than Freebird? Ah.

I would think so. Freebird, everybody yells out Freebird, but everybody knows Sweet Home Alabama. I think Simple Man should be the big one. Tuesday's Gone is probably my favorite. Simple Man's incredible, but yeah, Tuesday's Gone is great. But I hear Sweet Home Alabama outside of Alabama more than I ever did in Alabama. Oh, sure. Indiana, it's like I remember driving to Indiana, it's played everywhere. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

As soon as you hear that very opening, people just get excited. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Leonard Skinner has, you know, a lot of people seem to not believe that or not know that they died in a plane crash, most of them. The lead singer, at least. But they have six albums before that. All incredible. All great. Anything that happened after that, I don't know. Reba McEntire's band was another one. Died in a plane crash. In a plane crash? Yep. Wow. Wow.

Yeah, it's a lot. A lot of plane crashes. But Leonard Skinner, Southern Rock. What they were doing back, Leonard Skinner had their plane was like, should have been checked on. Probably. No, that's what it was. I watched the documentary. It was like, they were going to take this last flight and then get the plane checked on. Yeah. Okay. I saw that too. Yeah. I mean, this stuff, they're flying back then. It's very much like, they're just like, let's go. We're partying. Whatever. Yeah. Yeah.

So Garth's by far the best-selling. George Strait's had the most number ones. Alabama's the biggest country band. Dixie Chicks. My Home's in Alabama by Alabama is so good. That is a great song. Yeah, Alabama's a really great band that, you know...

I love them. Old Flame. I saw, I opened for them in Iowa one time and it was great. And then they talked about the song Old Flame and they talked about, you know, kind of like how that one David Allen Coe song they say is the greatest country song ever written. They said that about Old Flame. And I think it may be, I think it's really, really great. It's up there.

It was the greatest country song ever? Yeah. It's up there. So Taylor Swift's not on this list, I'm guessing? Maybe they don't consider her. At a certain point, they stopped counting her? Yeah. Shania Twain's the best-selling female artist. Yeah, I mean, I think Taylor Swift's the best-selling artist maybe ever, right? Up there. Up there, yeah. For sure, that's why I was...

But she left country long ago. She left country, yeah, but even if you only include those. Oh, yeah. I think the best-selling album of all time of any music in the United States is The Eagles' Greatest Hits. Eagles' Greatest Hits. Eagles. Oh, not The Eagles. Not The Eagles. Eagles' Greatest Hits, but worldwide it's still Thriller. Okay. Because Michael Jackson's so big in other countries, too. Yeah, I mean, he's another one. You'll see his house. Yeah. Yeah.

Would you go see his house? He's from Gary. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, how many artists can you name their childhood home? I can name his. I can name Tupelo. Yeah, I know his because it was a house of horrors, wasn't it? I mean, he had like a horrific childhood. But... And Gary. So he can't even like go outside and cheer up.

You go to Michael Jackson's house, they're like... Elvis is like, there's a proper... And they might have a proper thing. They have the church he went to. I mean, we all know that Dolly Parton's from Sevierville, and she's got Dollywood, but I don't know if there's anything for her childhood home or not. Well, I think you would go to Dollywood.

Like that would be. Yeah. And maybe if you grew up, you know, a certain poor, I mean, the house is gone.

Well, Elvis, they said they bought, they didn't buy the house to keep it, but when he went back and did a thing there, before he was super famous, but he was like, he went back there and played. He bought the house because he was going to do something for kids and make it something. And the laying around it. But he figured they were going to knock the house down because it's old and just build something else on it. And they did it. And then he got super famous. And then they were smart enough to like, let's keep it. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, like, you know, like let's say I got to Elvis fame, right. You know, I mean, we all know that's on the way, but you know, my childhood home is a trailer and it's already gone. Yeah. So, you know,

It's gone. Gone. I don't mean to bring the podcast down here. Tornado? I don't know. It's just gone. It could be a tornado. Yeah. But the ditch is still there. Yeah, well, I mean. Tusty Slay's Childhood Ditch. Yeah. Put a sign out there. Yeah. Yeah. Here's Michael Jackson's home, by the way. Oh, they do have some. There are nine kids in that little house. Yeah. And I'm guessing they've done a lot more to the yard.

Cause it's a pretty nice yard. Yeah. Yeah. It looks good. Well manicured. Yeah. All right. I guess that's a good place to stop. All right. We did it. It's good. We did it. Yeah. We tackled it. Uh, all right. I'm about to head to Cordon. Uh, I'll be somewhere. I don't know. I'll go to Joe's a special. I'm coming to Europe, Oslo, all that stuff's coming. Uh,

A lot of stuff in March, April. And we got more dates. More stuff's coming. We're announcing more stuff. Yeah, look at this. London, Dublin, Oslo, Brussels, Amsterdam. Yeah. So a lot more stuff coming. And we will keep announcing. This weekend I will be at Blue Ridge Comedy Club in Bristol, Tennessee. Birthplace of Country Music. Birthplace of Country Music. Maybe I'll go to that museum. Yeah. Check it out. I'll be there Friday, Saturday. See if Aaron can set one up. Yeah. Yeah.

Blue Ridge Comedy Club, this Friday, Saturday in Bristol. Please come see me. Your Bridgestone's officially sold out, Nate. It's sold out on that. I believe it's... Yeah. I was going to... Yeah. I don't know if it's true. We have not made a big announcement about it yet, but it's... Yeah. I think it's sold out. It's amazing. Click it and see. Yeah. It's...

I think you can still get single seats. Yeah, not much. Like, can you zoom in? Yeah, look at that. You can zoom around. Save that for Brian's fans. Yeah, you can zoom around. Like, you can't go out too far. It's like that. Look at that, dude. Wow, that's what's left.

So it's wild, dude. It's insane. A lot of people for that show have asked me, is there going to be a meet and greet? And yes, there is. Meet me in Concourse H and I'm going to take you down, bring $20 cash. Don't look at Nate. Just stand over on my corner. But yes, I will give you a meet and greet. No, there will not. That's going to be a bit of a zoo.

Being at home. Yeah. Yeah. So there's just like those single little single tickets left. So it's, yeah, essentially it is sold out. It's exciting, man. Yeah. It's wild, dude. It's crazy. It's like 16,000 some people. What about you, Aaron? Where are you at? This weekend I'm in West Bend, Wisconsin at the Bend Theater. So I think it's like an hour outside of Milwaukee. If you're in the Wisconsin area,

greater area come out and see me then i'm in lowell arkansas next weekend at the grove and then nashville zanies and st louis so come on out all right i'm at uh portland oregon helium this weekend and then corvallis oregon uh uh at a theater there so it's gonna be great thursday friday saturday portland sunday corvallis it's gonna be great all right boom all right well thank you we love you

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