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Your Bay Area Flooring Authority. Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. As always. I'm with Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. Okay. It's a new year, so we thought we'd mix it up a little bit. Seating. Yeah, yeah. I'd moved around. I'm in the middle now. We all. I get a good angle on you. How does it feel? Do you feel like you're taking control of things now in the middle? He's been trying for some time. I know. To be honest with you, it's a little confusing. I'm not used to looking at everyone.

you know, like here, I set off to the side. Oh, all the crew. And I look at you guys. Yeah. You made that same complaint when you sat in my seat in the old set. Yeah. And then you went back. I know.

Well, it's a new year. We're all hungover. We had a wild night. Yeah, crazy. Dusty fell off the wagon. It got wild. Wouldn't that be something? This is a prerecorded episode, but wouldn't that be something if that did happen? I had a dream. I have dreams sometimes that I'm secretly drinking. And that no one, I had a dream that I was drinking at the airport and I was like, no one's going to know because I'm just doing this on my own.

You start to get recognized left and right. Hey, having a good time. You're just hammered at Applebee's at 11 a.m.

Do you guys celebrate New Year? I know you don't, Dusty, but Aaron? As much as you can. I don't know. I'm aware of it and kind of watch it as it's happening. I don't really do anything, though. Yeah, you don't go out. Like, even if you didn't have a gig. Like, the last probably six or seven years, I've worked on New Year's. So I've had zero fun on New Year's. It's one of my least favorite days of the year. It's New Year's Eve because those shows have been – I've had tough shows there.

For the longest time. I'm off. Pre-recorded? Oh, okay. I was about to ask you. What about you, Dusty? In 1999, I was 17, and I went to a college party, and they were playing, you know, Prince's Tonight I'm Gonna Party Like It's 1999. And it was this – I danced with this college girl for a while, and it was like the best New Year's. And I've been chasing that ever since. Because you thought it was your last day on earth at that point. Yeah. And I don't know. It could have been. I would have been fine with it. It was –

It was a hot party I was at in Auburn, Auburn University. And you've been chasing that ever since. Yeah. Has Hannah known this? I think so. I'm pretty sure I told her. None of them have ever lived up to it. Aaron parties like 1999 because he was eight. He goes to bed at 730. Well, anyway, Happy New Year, everyone. Yeah, this is prerecorded. Unless something comes up, I didn't have any gigs. Yeah, it's still very early December, so it is weird to do –

Happy New Year stuff. You know, Dusty, when you were on the road with Bert Kreischer, I think this was years ago now, I saw an Instagram story. I think it was on Bert's Instagram of you taking a shot. Yeah. And I remember thinking, oh, man, Bert corrupted Dusty. Yeah. He's been sober this long. He goes out on the road with Bert day one, night one. He's taking shots at the bar.

Yeah, it was my first show with Bert in Toronto, and everybody kept trying to get me to drink. So I just got a shot glass, and I kept filling it up with water. And then whenever people would come over, I would go, yeah, and then I would do shots. Dusty's just instructing me as a vodka guy. I guess that's all he's into. Yeah, it was good. Have you ever been a vodka guy? Yeah, I drink vodka. I mean, I drink it all. Yeah. You know. Gasoline. Yeah, I drink gas too. Yeah.

Vodka is good, though. I do like it. It felt like it gave me a little, like, what are they called? Gut rot? Yeah. You know? Oh, yeah. Never heard that, but. You never heard that? Gut rot, no. That's like a cheap liquor, gut rot. But I, yeah, I like vodka sodas, vodka tonic. My old boss, I used to, when he retired, I would go drink with him on my lunch break at the TGI Fridays, and we would have vodka tonics. It was a great time. Then I'd go back to work. Yeah.

That's awesome. Is this Stu? Yeah. Yeah, we had a great time. Yeah, Stu was, you know, he was... I know his old bosses. Stu was retired, you know, so he was having a good time, and I was like, hey, I'm an alcoholic, so this is... I know Dusty so well, I know about his old bosses. Is this the one with the Play for the Bills? Yeah, Play for the Bills in the 60s or 70s, I think. Maybe 60s.

Well, on the Easier to Drive Tour, I listen to Dusty's podcast a lot. He's stopped doing it now, but. I'm just on a break. Oh, okay. I'm on a break. I didn't quit it, but, you know, it's like I come on here on a Monday and I talk about a bunch of stuff and then I'm like, well, what do I got left to talk about on my own podcast now? Yeah. Well, thanks for prioritizing this one. Yeah. Yeah.

That's good. You could do yours on Sunday, and then by the time you get here, you got nothing. That's actually a good idea. When I start back, maybe I will do that. Yeah, just release it on a Tuesday. Yeah. And then... Well, I didn't... Yeah, I could do that too. Yeah. That's a good idea. I appreciate this, guys. Yeah. Maybe I'd get you guys to co-host with me on the podcast. There you go. And we'll just do it in this studio. Take down some of this Nate stuff. Yeah.

Keep the same production crew. Yeah. I like that. Works for me. Well, anyway, Nate's sleeping one off and, you know, we drug ourself here, hungover, but Nate is still, no. Nate's, I don't know where Nate is, but. His special's out. He's taking over the world. Yeah. You know, he's doing well. His holiday special and his Netflix special. It all came out. Last week. Everything's doing well. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep.

Well, I guess... Well, we assume. I mean, again, this is early December, so don't get ahead of yourselves. You know what I mean? We hope. Let's pretend like it's January 1st. I know. I get it, though. What is worst-case scenario for what happens in the next month? So many, but... I mean, maybe Dusty's the wrong person to ask about that, but Brian, what do you think worst-case scenario is? For Nate, as far as those specials? No, for all of us. Like...

It could be ridiculous that we're sitting here having a good time talking. I don't even want to get into the worst case. That could get pretty dark, even for bad news baits. What about a slightly bad case scenario? Yeah, I die. Well, I can't. Let's just keep it a comedy. I could die in a funny way. Well, I'll say this. Tangled up in a treadmill or something. January 1st was the deadline for...

for my curse to be broken. Sorry, Dusty, but about curses, but Jackie Robinson's widow,

Which I mentioned, and you guys are like, oh, you killed another one. And Nate said, if she's alive by... She's got to make it to the new year. Okay. So... We'll be praying for her. Rachel Robinson. How old is she? Rachel Robinson. She's 102. So I don't know how that's blamed on me. Yeah, I mean, I would say at that point, I mean, that's a long, good life. I mean, those other guys were in their late 90s, and you guys... Right, but it's a track record of you killing people. Mm-hmm. So...

Yeah, I got some stats on the 2024. I did not look up how many people I killed in 2024, but we know Willie Mays, Bob Newhart. I think that might be it. Bob Barker. There's been a bunch. Bob Barker, actually. We need a Brian Bates kill count in the comments right now. Let us know. Bob Barker. That's not correct, though. Body count Bates. BrianBatesBodyCount.com. Bob Barker did die in 2024, I believe, but...

We had previously talked about him. You guys all said he was dead when he was actually alive, and I said, no, he's still alive. Okay, and then that killed him. Yeah. Yeah. He was in our podcast, and then he died just to spite me. We want to get in these comments? Let's do it. Who's reading? I think you, Ryan. Yeah, you read. You're doing a good job leading things. All right. Comments come from Twitter. I'm excited to see you guys, man. I'm excited to see you guys. Yeah, I haven't seen you in a while. It feels like a lifetime. Yeah. Yeah.

It's been a long time. Last week, but... I wasn't here last week, though, so you didn't see me. Maybe that's what it was. Oh, yeah. You weren't, were you? No. Yeah.

In the real timeline, not this timeline we're creating here, this multiverse. Yeah. Dusty had a lot of bags in the back of his truck. I'm like, what's going on with all these bags? I picked up leaves this morning. It was all leaves. Well, I was driving down the road and I saw this guy with his house had a bunch of leaves in their yard and bags. So I stopped and I knocked on the door and asked, could I have the leaves? Are you serious? Yeah. I rang the guy's doorbell. He came out.

He came on out of the house. I think he thought maybe something was going on. Well, yeah. And I was like, can I have those leaves? He goes, yeah, take those leaves. Probably thought you were going to steal others' stuff. What do you mean on out of the house? Like he walked onto the doorstep? Like I rang the doorbell and then he opened the door, came out, closed the door behind him. Oh, I never do that. Yeah. I think it was cold. Probably just trying to keep it cool. I'll stand behind the door. I opened it a crack and then I yell around the corner.

But he probably thought it was some type of scam. Yeah, he'll take your leaves and then he'll take something else. Yeah. So he's probably watching you. Well, I hope so. I mean, I hope he is watching it. Did you take anything else? No, just the leaves. And what are you going to do with those leaves? Well, you know, I got some land. So I got these swales that I built. I have a whole YouTube series on it. You can go to my YouTube, the land series. And I built these swales. So now I want to put the leaves in there to start to compost. As the leaves break down, the water comes in, goes into the soil, feeds the trees. Okay.

It's organic fertilizer. Right. That makes sense. I also want to mention Notre Dame's playing in the college playoffs right now. That's right. January 1st. That's exciting. Who are they playing? Boise State. Somebody like that. Should be a great game. Yeah.

So we'll wrap this up. It was so funny. I was so curious whether we were even going to address that this is in advance. I feel like that's all we've talked about. It's the altered timeline now. Well, if it wasn't for the fact that it's New Year's Day, I probably wouldn't be so mad. I watched a movie. I'd seen it as a kid, but I watched the movie called The One with Jet Li. You ever see that? No. I feel like this was late 90s, and I feel like

This really started the whole multiverse thing that it's almost like a bit of a multiverse from the Marvel series and the Matrix that it feels like Jet Li and the movie The One feels like they really kicked that off. That was The One. Yeah. Got it going.

Because there was multiple him? Well, it's a multiverse in the movie. All right. Because there's been – yeah, okay. I haven't seen that. There's a lot of time travel movies, but I guess it's a little – Yeah, in this one, there's like so many parallel universes, and there's one of each of us in all those universes, and they had figured out how to travel in between.

So this Jet Li character was traveling in between and then killing the other Jet Lis, and then the power, the energy from them would come into the other. So as each Jet Li died, the other Jet Lis got stronger. So this guy was traveling, killing all the Jet Lis until they got down to just two. Sounds pretty fun. It is pretty fun.

All right. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and nateland at natebargatsey.com. At Brian Bates Comic on Twitter. Incorrect. Incorrect. You got to follow him, and then you can ask a question. That's how you should be working it. I don't even know if that's worth it. It is worth it. And you don't... Well, you don't have many followers I have, Dusty. I got a lot. I don't need any more. Okay. I'm trying to get rid of some. Maxed out. Yeah. I have my limit.

Marshall Hoibook. Hoibook? Hoibook. Nate Line has figured out the perfect format for a podcast. Even when one of the guys is unavailable, the consistency sets you apart from other podcasts. Does Nate have any rules that the guys have to follow during each podcast taping in order to keep the content entertaining? What rules has the four of you discussed behind the scenes or do you just go for it and hope for the best? Well,

Well, we're all professional comedians, so we just come on here and talk, and then by virtue of just being funny people, we make this a funny podcast. Hopefully. But to answer your question, I don't even think Nate knows we're doing this right now. Yeah. Just kidding. Yeah. No, we don't have any – I mean, I think the one thing that people think is, oh, do you have to keep it clean? But we're clean –

To me, at least, it's not forced. There's things I'd like to say. Dusty has a couple of rules. I think Aaron and I... Dusty's got one hand tied behind his back. I think that's fair to say. And that's what he talks about on his podcast. That's right. But no, thank you for that. I mean, I agree that we keep rolling no matter who's here.

The show goes on. Except if I'm not here. Well, that's what I'm saying. This is a complete podcast here. We're interchangeable characters here. That's what makes it good. I don't think I missed a show in 2024.

Okay. Have you ever missed any? Perfect attendance. You missed one. I remember one sitting at your seat. I've missed. At the old studio. I think I've missed five. Oh, okay. And just to reiterate, the year's not really over yet, so there is time for you to miss one. That is true. That is true. So don't get ahead of yourself. This multiverse is getting complicated. Yeah.

Two of those times we recorded two episodes the same day. I've been gone three times, but missed five episodes, I believe. You guys try to, like, he's not here. Let's get as many as we can. But anyway. Anyway, thank you, Marshall. I appreciate that. I think that's true. But no, he didn't have any rules that I know of. All right. Chase Peeler. Anything else you want to say, Dusty? No, no, I feel good. Okay.

Chase Peeler. There are so many things I love about this show, but one of my favorites is when someone makes an off-the-cuff joke and Aaron just loses it laughing. It's even better when he's laughing, gets dusty laughing uncontrollably as well. That's fun. It's fun to laugh. Yeah, it is. You know, if we can just get Brian to mispronounce things, then... It'll happen. Then... It'll happen. It will happen. There's always going to be something to laugh at. Chase Peeler is an interesting name. Peeler.

Yeah, it must have come – you know, the last names come from what your ancestors did. Yeah. So Chase Peeler must have been – worked in a kitchen of some kind. Oh, drove off fast. Speaking of Peeler, how he drove off fast. I read that if you buy garlic that's peeled, a lot of times that's coming from China, and they have these – these guys have to – You read or you saw TikTok video? I saw TikTok. I don't read anything. But the – He read the captions. Yeah. That –

They're in this factory peeling garlic by hand, and they peel so much that their fingernails sometimes fall off. So they end up peeling it with their teeth. So if you're buying garlic that's already pre-peeled, it's a good chance it's been in somebody's mouth. Well, they do a good job. Yeah, I don't care. Okay. Okay.

Obviously, that's horrifying. Thanks for telling me. But all the pesticides they're putting on there, Dusty. Well, I think that's terrible, too. Yeah. Yeah. I will defend myself, though, Aaron. Those words I mispronounce, like poem and what was the one I just missed? Mercury. Mercury. Both times. It's not like you're eating every time you say it. Mercury. Mercury. Mercury.

Both times, Dusty, I don't think, noticed anything wrong with it until you called it out and may have said it the same way, quite frankly. I don't know if I would have said it the same way, but I didn't notice until Aaron looks at me and then I go, oh, yeah, I did catch that. Yeah, Dusty will let things slide, too. Yeah. But we did call you out like Dusty when you said compass instead of compass. We talked about your mispronunciations. Yeah, compass, yeah. But I think I say it like Dusty says it. Compass? Mm-hmm. Yeah, that makes the most sense. Okay. Mm-hmm.

Tyler Flink. Aaron, as a new dad, I hope you know about the real hay bear videos, the dancing fruit for kids. Your little girl will love them. What is that all about? Did you watch them? Nah. We did. Dancing fruit. Yeah, it's...

She's a little young still. Do you do Baby Einstein or anything? She can't even look at a screen yet. Yeah, at this point, she should not be looking at screens. She's just starting to lock into the... We got a mobile above her crib. She's just starting to lock into that. And she's like, oh, what's going on here? So that's exciting. She's starting to look at stuff. Yeah. But in a few months...

You know, maybe, I mean, not maybe, Hey Bear, it's just, it's pretty simple. Fruit comes on and dances around and bounces around. And it's just a good way for them to kind of watch it. And then put subliminal messages in their brains, probably. Not much of a storyline, though. It's just kind of dancing fruit. Yeah, see, I don't like, Daisy watches, we let her watch videos. But I don't like, I want her to watch stuff with a story because I want her to learn to follow a story. I banned Cocomelon pretty early. Hmm.

What do you mean? Well, Cocomelon, there's no story. These kids are just coming out. No, there's a story. It's kind of, well, it's kind of bad animation and they're like...

And then they're just saying, I don't know. There's no story really. I mean, it might be a little something going on with the song, but I don't like it. I want her to be able to follow a storyline. Okay. What do you, what does she watch? I like a Peppa pig, a paw patrol. Matter of fact, this Saturday, I just took, um, uh, Daisy to live paw patrol. And I think I saw a video of that. It is the worst show that you could imagine. Okay.

I don't even know that she liked it. I was so excited about it. And it's a Nickelodeon production, so they got high production value. But the costumes, you know, these are all dogs. And I expected them to be like mascots. Yeah. But you can see the person running it. They're like riding it like a horse almost. Yeah.

And I'm like, I expected it to be a full-on costume and they're inside the costume. But it's like, even my daughter's not fooled by it. It's like, right away you could see the people controlling it. You know, when I went to see...

The Lion King on Broadway. In New York, the real Broadway. The touring Broadway show. Okay. At TPAC. Broadway 11 in Tennessee. Okay. TPAC. Okay, off Broadway. I'm like, how are they going to do The Lion King with all animals? Yeah, how did they do it? It was basically that. They don't try to make you think, you know, it's just a person with a...

A little bit of a costume. Were the kids into it? Like, were the kids dancing and singing along and whatever? Some of the kids were. Is it Paw Patrol songs or is it just them talking? It's just more of a, you know, more, there is like an intro song or whatever, but it's more of a, you know, just an adventure thing. They're,

They got a lot of technology to solve some pretty easy situations. They're bringing in a lot of technology. Overfunded police department. Yes, exactly. Just trying to get the turtle across the road. Are you bringing in four or five different dogs? SWAT vehicles. Yeah. They're over militarized. Yes. Eleanor's watched so much Peppa Pig. She started speaking with a British accent. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. I love that, though. Get some class in here.

Yeah, she is really into Peppa Pig. Peppa Pig's great. Bluey, she's not really into, but those shows I like. There's one called Masha and the Bear. I think I've seen that. That one's a pretty good one. It's got a little bit of a story to it. Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. She still watch Miss Rachel? No. She's kind of beyond Miss Rachel, I think. I want Sam to watch a little Miss Rachel because she helps teach you to talk. Mm-hmm.

Maybe you should do some of it. But anyway, yeah. Should I do my own, Mr. Dusty? You start making kids videos. Oh, gosh. Talk about subliminal messaging. No, it wouldn't be subliminal. In your face. Pretty blatant. But yeah, I think those Hayberry videos in a few months, I can see. Okay. I'll try them out. Yeah.

JT Tay. JT Tay. JT Tay. Oh, yeah. Got to see Dusty and Hoyt Sherman in Des Moines. I assume that's the- Hoyt Sherman. Yeah, Hoyt pretty hard. We won't do that again, but that was funny how confidently- Hoyt Sherman. Great show, and we had a good time. Not a great time, but a good time. Well, you know, good time's my thing. Oh, yeah, you're right.

We've now completed three-fourths of the Nate Land Slam. Now just need to get out to see Breakfast Bait sometime soon. Love the podcast. Yeah, take your time with it. But that was a good show. I'd like to say, because I wasn't here last week, and this is going to be a month down the road, but I did... I was wicked, by the way. I didn't see wicked. Oh.

I will talk to you about Wicked, though. But Des Moines, Iowa, I had a great time at Hort Sherman. Really good show. Really fun. I've always done the Des Moines Funny Bone, and I like that club. But this at the Hort Sherman was so fun. It's an awesome theater. I think it was my best show ever in Des Moines, and I had such a great time. And then I went to St. Paul and did a show, and it was really great, too. It was a really good weekend. I missed last week, so I didn't get to talk about it. But really great shows. Mm-hmm.

Really great. These are like some awesome theaters you're starting to do. Yeah. Like legit. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's really cool. That's awesome. Fancy Dog. Why is Aaron always complaining about DuckDuckGo? Why does he just use Google? Well, I end up using Google. What happens is I use Brave. That's the browser that I use. That's my default browser. And the default search engine for Brave is DuckDuckGo or some variation of DuckDuckGo.

Some iteration of DuckDuckGo. I don't know. I end up using Google. And then I could easily go in and change it and make Google my default search engine. But I never do it. Because it's more fun to complain and deal with things on a daily basis. Complaints are fun. I agree. But that's not really like... That's not an interesting complaint. But it's fun for me to have once a day be like, God, let me just go to Google real quick. DuckDuckGo. Horrible. I like the idea of it. But... What is the idea of it? It's like a...

It's like a privacy, anonymity-centered. It used to be, but they're kind of sold out now, though, I think. Oh, maybe. I don't know. I don't think so. Oh, so that's why people use over Google? Yeah, they say they don't track you on DuckDuckGo. And that's what all Google does is track. That's like their business model is tracking you to sell ads to you. And they do a good job. I don't mind. Padre UBU. You think that's right? Dad UBU.

Pretty sure Dusty and I would disagree on most things, yet he's my favorite part of the podcast. There you go. That's what it's all about. Yeah. Well, I appreciate that, Padre. And you know what? The second part. You be you. You know what I mean? But I don't know why you think we would disagree so much. I don't know what I've said that's so disagreeable. I can't imagine. What could that be?

Yeah, I mean, you know, just step out a little bit. Step out of your comfort zone. Look into some things. It's a disaster. Step out of your comfort zone and into Dusty's. Yeah, it's a disaster zone out here. The world is a complete disaster. How many times in 2024 did you predict the world would end? I counted eight. I don't know. I don't know that I predicted it. I just said, be aware. Look out. It's always good to be vigilant. Mm-hmm.

But you could be boy who cried wolf. If I was saying it's going to end, but I'm just saying be vigilant. If the boy who cried wolf was like, hey, guys, some stuff may happen soon. Just stock up, be prepared. Then people wouldn't. And then when he finally goes, all right, it's happening. Everybody would go, well, thank you for getting us prepared because now that it is happening, we're ready to go.

Mm-hmm. The supply chains have broke down, but thanks to you, we have a little food to sustain ourselves for a little while. Mm-hmm. We're not scrambling at the grocery store fighting over a loaf of bread. Yeah, yeah. You're kind of abandoning the analogy at this point. Let's get a little specific. It has nothing to do with the wolf anymore. You and Hannah, I believe. The wolf's out there. Yeah. Garen James. Mm.

The way that Aaron announced shows in 2025 was so cool and creative. The only issue is he didn't include Charlotte, North Carolina. Well, thank you very much. This looks like a fake. My name's Aaron James. And we got a comment from Garen James. I just want to say this is not me. This is somebody with a remarkably similar name. And his in-laws love in Charlotte. He's trying to avoid it. That's right.

This is you, isn't it? No, I love going to Charlotte. I like the comedy zone out there. I'll probably be back in 2025. The dates I announced were only through early May. It was very creative. It was. I don't even know how you did it. It has not... David Copperfield over here. Oh, thanks, man. Yeah, I did some... Check it out on my Instagram. I think it's the pin post right now. I put a lot of work into that. I was doing that while...

We're dealing with the, yeah, a lot of it. Push, push, push. Like some long nights at the hospital and stuff that I was kind of working on those. It has not been tremendously successful selling tickets, but it was a fun. There's nothing like putting a lot of work into something and then it just not doing well. And then the next day you rattle something off into the camera on your phone and then it blows up. 40 million views. Yeah. It's crazy. But thank you. Yeah. I'll be back in Charlotte.

Cool. Good. The Queen City. Did you know that? I didn't know that. Why is it called that? No idea. And nobody can give me a straight answer. Maybe Charlotte was a queen. Maybe Duck, Duck, Go. Maybe there was a Queen Charlotte. Well, maybe it's that simple. Yeah. Is it Memphis? It's Memphis. Definitely not the Queen City. I think Memphis is like an Egyptian city. And they even have a pyramid. They have the largest pyramid in North America, I think. Yeah. Um...

All right. Well, we'll never know. But write in and let us know why Charlotte's called the Queen City, right? Yeah. At Brian Bates comic on Twitter. Follow him. Go right to the source. Google could tell you. Drew Birdsong. We know that Nate and Breadstick had Seinfeld as an inspiration early in their career. And I feel like Aaron has mentioned Brian Regan and Kevin James as comics he looked up to.

Can Dusty share some of his favorite comics growing up? Yeah. Jeff Foxworthy, Nate Barker. I did like Nate. I still like Nate, but I did like Nate early on. The, what is it? Full-time, no, no. Yelled at by a clown. I love that album. Mitch Hedberg, I really like. Steve Martin has an album called Let's Get Small. Love that album. Love it. Mitch Hedberg, Strategic Grill Locations.

Check those albums out. Jeff Foxworthy's first two. Really great. We may have talked about this. Were you ever into Jerry Clower? Yeah, a little bit. I like Jerry Clower stuff, but yeah, I feel like, I don't know. It's really hard to sit down and listen to a lot of Jerry Clower. Yeah. Those are good ones. They are good.

Nathan Taylor on Dusty's Netflix special when he does the Travis Tritt joke and somebody yells out, Dusty says, that might be Travis Tritt. Was that Aaron they yelled out? Every time I watch it, I think it's Aaron. Probably so. Yes, it was. Part of me thinks it was my neighbor. My neighbor did come to the show. My neighbor drinks a lot. And I...

And he came to the after party and he was pretty hammered. What's his name? No, he's a fun guy. But part of me thinks it was him, even though he's never owned up to it. He actually yelled out three times. We edited the other two out. Wow. I wanted to keep him because I thought it was fun. But for time's sake, we went ahead and cut that out.

Okay. So it was not Aaron. I don't know. Aaron didn't come backstage. I didn't tell Tessie I was there at all, but I didn't show up and try to sabotage the taping. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We'll never know. Gary. By the way, I tweeted at Travis Dritt though, and told him to watch my special. And then he did reply and said that he watched it. And he said, that was me that yelled out.

Oh. Because on the special, I go, that might be Travis Tritt right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He said, that was me that yelled at. You said watch the special? Yeah. You didn't isolate the one joke about him? No. And just send that... You said, watch this hour special. What's a good way to see if he really watches? Sift through this and find the one where it's relevant. Well, it's a good special. No, I agree with you. It's called Working Man on Netflix. Hey, I talked to you about you over the course of an hour. Here's the... Listen to the whole thing. Well, go watch the special and enjoy yourself. And then...

You might get a reference, but watch the special. Enjoy the special. I mean, Travis Tritt, he enjoys good comedy too. Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, I mean, come on.

It's called Working Man on Netflix. That's when somebody sends me a link to a three-hour video and they go, check it out. And you go, give me a timestamp. They mention you in this. Yeah. I've done that a bunch. They go, you got mentioned on this podcast. And I go, I'm not combing through this whole thing. Give me the timestamp. I don't think I reached out to Travis Tritt and said, hey, I talked about you in this comedy podcast.

I don't think I said that, or comedy special. But that's why you reached out to him. Yeah, but I wanted him to... He also... He married a Hooters waitress, and I talk about Hooters a little bit in the special. So I talk about NASCAR a little bit. He's going to relate to all of it. I got other country music jokes. He lives in a house. I talk about a house. I got a lot of cigarette jokes. I bet he's gotten into nicotine a bit. And it's like, there's a lot...

That I bet Travis Tritt could relate to. It's called Working Man. He's had a job before. Yeah, exactly. I mean, this is built. I bet he's eating at a Western Sizzlin' and a Cracker Barrel. This special was made for Travis Tritt. Yeah. A woman warm and willing. Yeah. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah. One time, Clint Black tweeted, ask me anything over the next hour. And I tweeted back, just killing time. And he gave me a thumbs up.

That's a pretty weak response, to be honest. That's a fun thing that you tweeted at him, and that's a pretty weak response from him. Oh, I thought you were talking about my response. No, no. Your response was very good, and I'm disappointed in Clint Black. And who are your friends with? I met him. Yeah. Okay. He shut that down. Well, I'd be his friend. I'd be his friend, but, you know. Yeah.

I'm looking at him through the taillights, you know. I wish I knew some of the songs. I'd jump in on this. This is a fun riff I'm not a part of. Yeah. Gary Seinfeld. These are fake names. Yeah, all of these. That one definitely seems fake. Next comic's from Shmord Shmarley. What? Gary Seinfeld. Jeez, dude.

Dusty, I know you desire to be a great ad reader. I don't think he does. Cheers. Here's my personal feedback. Aaron feels like he's talking to a friend and means what he's saying. You ever heard Aaron talk to a friend? What does that mean? That's a fair point. What are you talking about? I'm a good friend. You are. You just don't talk to us like you are. As far as your ad reads, one, if you're a good friend,

It feels like you're reading something someone else wrote. Yeah, well, that's true. And two, it doesn't help that while reading, you say things like, yeah, that's actually true. I don't know how that doesn't help, Gary. That implies that everything else you just read is not true. You should do it with the assumption of it's all, you know. But I think everybody knows these are ad, I think people get it, right? These are ad reads. And I don't, Gary, I don't know that I desire to be a great ad reader. What I desire to do is try to make each ad fun.

and to have you listen as though you're not listening to an ad. You're listening going, what's going to happen here? Am I going to get a laugh out of this? Is this going to be fun? And then all the while I'm feeding you an ad. It's like putting medicine, crushing it up in a hot dog. Exactly. You put the little pill in a piece of bread when you give it to a dog and the dog eats the bread, but he gets the medicine. That's what I'm doing, Gary Seinfeld.

You're big pharma. You're dishing out medicine. I like it. Everyone compliments Aaron on his ad reading. I think you've alluded to the fact you'd like some recognition. I mean, I'll say, though, the reason I think Aaron gets so many compliments is because I praise him on his ad reading. And people go, you know what? He is a good ad reader.

You're right. Because I don't get the same backup here on the podcast for my ad reads. I think the listening audience is- The error gets to go. Anytime Aaron gets a comment, it's because I gave him the nod and I go, now trust me guys, it's good. And then they go, oh, maybe. Like everybody looks to you to see if it's good or not. That's okay. And I don't write them. So I am reading something somebody else wrote. Mm-hmm.

Add some more to the list, Gary. Can you only two, only two pieces of advice? Let's keep it going. Those are two good ones. Let's get a three, four and five in here. Yeah. Let's get Jerry David to write in. That was funny. Michael. I deserve more. Jerry David. Yeah. Cause that was from Gary Seinfeld. Larry David. Michael Mitchell.

Lost a lot of respect for Aaron after that last joke. Oh, sorry. For Aaron when he said he hadn't seen The Rock. I think we all did, Michael. All right. That's weird that your respect was based on whether you thought I'd seen this movie I've never heard of. I'm sorry. I would watch it. You've never even heard of it. Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage? I know The Rock, the actor who's everywhere. That's who I'm thinking of. I don't know a movie called The Rock. Yeah, with Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage and

Ed Harris. Ed Harris, yeah. It's a great cast. I'm not denying that. I've just never seen it. Really great. I'm sorry about that, Michael. It's about Alcatraz. Well, Michael, we're with you on this. Yeah, I lost a lot of respect for Michael after that comment. So we're back down to, we're on a level playing field again, Michael. Thank you for listening. Give us a couple of reasons, a couple of numbers how Aaron could earn your respect back. That's right. Give me, yeah, team up with Gary Seinfeld. Put together a list of how I could...

I could improve what movies I need to watch. Muhammad Ali had a man. What qualities do you take into account when considering someone a comedian's comedian? Does Beat Bagel with his original bits like Shingle Ladies count as one? Oh, yeah. I think it's like, does this comedian make comedians laugh and then not really the audience? Mm-hmm.

I'd say that could be part of it, although I can think of examples. What's an example of a comedian? Like David Tell, I think is a good example of a comedian's comedian, but he's murdering with a regular audience too. Yeah, I think it's often people who didn't get right out of the gate some huge, like they started stand-up,

They've worked the road. They've done the steps to become a great comedian. And they are a great comedian. Right. Whereas someone who maybe had a video that popped off or I don't know. Yeah. I think also they do stuff on stage or they do something in their act that like that is so unique that comedians find it funny. Right. Yeah. I guess that would be true.

You watch a tell you're just like, this is just, he's just like on a different level. There's no tricks. Right. It's just joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke. Yeah. I think so. Who would you consider a comedian as comedian? Besides yourself? I don't know. I mean, I think. Call Travis Tritt. I think Mitch Hedberg is. Yes. Yeah. For sure. I don't watch a lot of comedians now. Clearly you just said Mitch Hedberg. Is that a new thing?

comedians comedian no no you not listening to comedy yeah i think so i mean i've just i do comedy and uh i'm always i watch other comics you know a comic that you take on the road a lot and he did a couple shows in the exact townsend i think is is that in a way because he really crushes in the green room oh yeah you know what i mean but does well on stage yeah terrible act but he crushes in the green room

Yeah, you did great this weekend in the car on the way to the venue. I'll say that. No, Zach's great. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks for those comments. Here are the comments. That's it. 2025 is going to be a heck of a year. Well, let's get into it. Okay.

I was trying to think how I want to start. Well, I would like to say that earlier you had said that this was going to be an episode about things happening, you know, entertainment that happened in the 2020s in this current decade. Well, it is. And we didn't give you a lot of response. Nope, you didn't give me none. So you kind of switched it up on us. But I had put together a top five country songs that came out in 2020. Okay, well, let me... We'll start there then. I thought it was interesting that...

I guess it's of January 1st, 2025, the day this comes out, the decade is exactly halfway over. Oh. Or the 2020s are. I think the decade actually starts on the 4th.

first right i mean 2021 yeah but 2020 to 2024 is done now 2024 to 2025 to 2029 yeah it's left so we're halfway through so i thought maybe we talk a little bit about the first half of the first half i like this i like that i heard nothing from you guys so i kind of moved on i do have a little bit though okay but in our defense do we ever really help you out with it

No, but I asked multiple times. Occasionally. Yeah, occasionally. I did the philosophy episode. You did? Remember that? It was a long time ago. I don't know if I was here. Yeah, I don't know if we could do a philosophy part two with Dusty in the room. Things would change. Well, I don't have a lot here. Okay. I did look up who's somebody famous that I had never even heard of when 2020 started. Tiger. Tiger.

Tiger Woods? No, no, no. Tiger King. Tiger King. That's a good one. Whoa. Yeah, that is a good one. Joe Exotic. So you're talking about Joe Exotic. Yeah, I never watched it, but yeah, I mean, he took over the world for a second. Yeah, about the, there's a theory, like the 2012 theory that no A-list celebrity that you've heard of, you hadn't heard of them before.

Oh. That was the last year. Because it's the way celebrity works with the internet and everything. There's not going to be another Leonardo DiCaprio, a guy who kind of lives in mystery and you don't know a lot about him and doesn't do interviews, right? And he just hangs out on a yacht. Like now celebrity is all in your face. So there's this theory that like it's –

that 2012 is the last year where it's, where it's like that. Also movies are kind of dead now. It's like the, there was a real time where you were going to the movie theater a lot because there'll be fresh movies coming out. There's no, there's never a movie coming out that I'm like, Ooh, I'm excited about it. You mentioned wicked by the way. It's like, there's a lot of reasons why I won't go see that. But one of them is that I saw, uh,

Wicked on Broadway in like 2008. I'd never seen a Broadway play, musical. I was in New York City and I went and saw that and it blew my mind. I was like, this is amazing. And I just feel like nothing being made now is good and they'll ruin that memory for me, this movie.

So it's an objection, not specifically to Wicked, but to any film adaption of a Broadway musical? Well, that I saw. Which that's the only one, right? Right. But no, I mean, it is specific to me why I won't see it. Okay. Because I'm like, I know the story and I really enjoyed it. And I just feel like it won't be good. What about the other way around, though? If a movie became a play?

Well, I don't see a lot of plays, right? So if a movie became a play, I definitely would not go see it. What about, and I think the play came, the musical came first, but what about Grease? You love Grease. I do. I'm so shocked every time I see Grease on that Dusty is into this high school musical. Yeah, I can't believe you're into that either. It's a great movie. It is a great movie. John Travolta is one of the best of all time. Tell me more. At what? Tell me more, tell me more. Yeah.

At what? Yeah. He's a great actor. I mean, you never saw Saturday Night Fever? Yeah, I've seen these movies. Saturday Night Fever is unbelievable. Okay. Stayin' Alive, the sequel, one of the worst sequels in history. But at least those aren't musicals. You're...

Greece is a musical about high school kids. Yeah, but it's cool. Now, I didn't just get into Greece the other day. You know what I mean? I was not even in high school when I saw it. Greece is grandfathered in. Yeah. But yeah, if Greece came out today or they made a play about it, I'm like, no, they would ruin that. It would not be good.

Okay, but the consensus is this Wicked movie. And I had my family in town for Thanksgiving. A few of them went to go see it. Rave reviews from them. And then I looked at the reviews. It's like 99% of Rotten Tomatoes, universally acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. So it seems they've done a good job of adapting it to film. Yeah. Well, also things have changed about me spiritually since that time. And I just can't go see that thing called Wicked. Okay. There's many reasons. Yeah, Wicked's Matt.

What's that? What? Wicked smat? Yeah. I don't know what that is. You know there's a Goodwill hunting? Yeah.

Yeah. My boy's wicked smat. Oh, okay. I couldn't tell what you were saying. Okay. The Boston accent is so good. Did you know what he was saying? No. He was like, I'm just going to let Aaron sit in that. Let's just move on. My boy's wicked smat. All right. What about this? Yep. Let's see if you agree with this, Aaron or Dusty. I was looking up the top movies of the first half of the decade. Right.

And they're generally – and I'm talking about critic acclaimed movies. Critically acclaimed movies. They're generally movies that the general public, I think, would not see because they feel like they're too artistic, too whatever. And it's not a Marvel whatever. There's no built-in fan base. Yeah, I'm talking about like the Oscar award winning type. Yeah, real movies. That critics love. Yeah. But then I look up the top show streaming and things like that. Same thing. The top critically acclaimed movies.

And there are TV shows that I think everybody generally thinks that watches it. Oh, that's really good. And I wonder why that is. What do you mean? Like, give me an example. Ted Lasso. None of these had come out by 20. Ted Lasso, the bear hacks. All those are really good. Most people don't watch the bear or hacks. Nobody watches hacks. I know, but like in the grand scheme of things, like nobody watches those and I've seen those shows, but they don't get the kind, not like, not like, uh,

Not like Game of... Like, everybody watched Game of Thrones, right? Mm-hmm. I feel like everybody's watched it. I didn't watch it either. I know you wouldn't, but...

This is why I don't watch these TV shows. I'll say this. Because, right? It's like when you watch a TV show, you watch one episode. And then at the end of that episode, it's a huge cliffhanger into the next episode. So then you're like, well, I got to watch the next episode. And then you make it all the way through the whole season. And then at the end of the season, another cliffhanger. And then you watch multiple seasons. And very rarely, I feel like, do you get to the end of that show and you feel satisfied with the ending. Mm-hmm.

Breaking Bad is a real... Good example of a show that got out when it was... Got out on top. It ended well, and I felt like it all wrapped up. Good closure. It was really great. Right. Could have gone on another couple seasons, but ended. But they go, and then it's like... So there's never any closure. I like a movie. I think the future. This is what I think. One-hour movies. Give me a full-hour movie. It's a full story. It ends. No cliffhanger.

And I don't have to sit here for three hours to watch it. Okay. That's what I think. That's what I'm going to do. Except I just gave it away. So that's what people will be doing now. Cobra Kai is that.

Cobra Kai is always a cliffhanger. It is, but there's just something about Cobra Kai that locked me in because I really liked the Karate Kid movies when I was a kid and it just locked. The hook of Cobra Kai was now the bad guy is the good guy and now you're rooting for him because you always viewed him as a bully in that, but you see his life was ruined and you're like, now you're kind of rooting for him. Mm-hmm.

But each season, to me, has gotten progressively worse. Yeah. Yeah, after a while, you're like, I'm watching high school karate. It's so dumb. Yeah. But yet, I am going to finish it. Yeah. For the same reasons. Yes. High school karate. Intense high school karate. Yeah. But there's a lot of great, only murder is in the building. I haven't actually seen that. I've heard that's good. Yeah. Abbott Elementary, The Marvelous Miss Maisel. Yeah.

A lot of great, but I guess you're right. Those are still pretty niche, I guess, shows. Abbott Elementary, though, is just a sitcom, right? It's not like a Netflix show, right? It's a sitcom. Yeah. Yeah. It's on ABC. Yeah. 30 minutes. I feel like sitcoms can still be good in that way. Mm-hmm. Because it's, what do they call it, episodic? Is that a word? Yeah. So it's just a show, and those are fun. Oh, someone who I had not heard of, I don't think, when 2020 had started was Morgan Wallen.

I don't think... Was he even on the scene? Did you say your life's better or worse now? I still don't know anything. Completely unchanged. Yeah, unchanged. So like the first... I had heard of him just because I had heard his music and I'd heard stuff that he'd done. But he...

Like the first big news story about him was when he's supposed to host SNL and instead went to Alabama. The party in Alabama was like making out with a bunch of girls. And during the COVID, everybody was mad at him about that. And then he couldn't do SNL. That's the only time I liked him. Yeah.

So yeah, I'd say 2020 is when he kind of broke out. That's when he broke into what he is now. Yeah. The biggest star in the genre. I was trying to think of an athlete. Shohei's been around longer than I thought. 2018 was his rookie year? I think so, yeah. Yeah, but he, similarly, he didn't become like a phenomenon until later. And baseball fans knew about him. Yeah, he was rookie of the year. Yeah, but now he's the biggest star in the sport. Yeah. One of the biggest athletes on the planet. Yeah.

That happened later. Chuck Yeager. Yeah, Chuck Yeager. I mean, I found out about him after COVID. That's for sure. I'm an idiot for a while. He'd been dead for 50 years. Yeah. Dusty learned about him. Anyway, and then I looked up, and then we'll get to your songs. This is all I have about the 2020s. The top songs of the 2020s. The number one song came out this year. I've never heard of it. All right, let me tell you. Number three. Yeah.

Number three, this is from 2022, 15 weeks at number one, Harry Styles as it was. Missed it. You would recognize it. Okay. Yeah, you would recognize it. If you've been through a Kroger or walked through a mall or been anywhere in public, you've heard it. Okay. All right.

These are songs that you like and they're on your personal playlist. That's right. Yeah, these are bits of Bates curated list right here. No, no, no. These are the songs that spit the most weeks at number one in so far this decade. Number two from 2023, Last Night by Morgan Waller. There you go. You know that one, right? How's that go? Last night. We let the liquor talk. Yeah.

Is that a good song? You're not a fan? I don't... Listen, people like him, they love him, and that's fine. But I don't get it, personally. 16 non-consecutive weeks at number one. Crazy. Yeah, everybody's alcoholics now, and they're like... And they love that. Not you guys, but you know. I don't know the song. Number one...

Came out this year. 19 Weeks at No. 1, which tied Old Town Road as the longest running No. 1 song of all time. A Bar Song by Shaboosie. There you go. I like that one. I like that one. It's fun. I heard of Shaboosie about...

Just a few months ago when Nate hosted one of those award shows, Shaboosie was the winner. Nate presented the award to Shaboosie. That was the first time I even heard of him. I had an Uber driver. It was an older Indian lady from India, a heavy accent. And she was telling me how much she loved country music. And she was listing off all these old country singers that she loved. And then before she dropped me off, she played Shaboosie, Shaboosie.

The bar song and for me. Yeah. And I liked it. I was like, this is great. It's catchy. Yeah. It's a fun song. Do you want to give us your five country songs of. Yeah, I do. The first of the 2020s. It's a hot list. And now listen, there's a lot of great songs that are not going to be on this list.

But I put this together. Well, you usually have an honorable mention that's longer than that. Dusty Slay's top five country songs since 2020. And there's several songs. Here's one. My friend, Jamie Johnson, he just put out an album. He hasn't put out an album in like 14 years.

It's a really great album. One song he covered, Charlie Daniels' song, Trudy. I don't know if you know that song. I know Trudy. Really great. Zach Bryan. I found out about Zach Bryan in the 2020s. Really great. He's been taking some heat lately. But Something in the Orange. Really great song. This is not the top five yet. These are honorable mentions. Yeah, this is Black on Black by Paul Cawthine. And I think this is the kind of song that...

Who's our guy? Post Malone. I think this is the kind of song he wished he was doing. This is a great song. I just listened to that song this morning. Black on Black? Really surprised me that you endorsed it so heavily. I love it. Trap drums. I mean, legit hip-hop drums. I'm not saying... Well, I guess I am because it's on this list. Less country than Last Night We Let the Liquor Talk. I guess I'm saying...

Since it's on the list and it's country. But yeah, you're right. I like it though. Okay. Okay, here we go. Now we're about to get into it. All American Singer by Zephaniah Ohora. Really, really great. That is a good country song. Okay. Okay, so now we're into the top five. Okay.

Oh, we're not even there yet. No, now we're there. You did this last time. You just make a top 10 list. Well, I just want to, you know. He's just scrolling through his like songs on Spotify. All right, here we go. Number five. This is a really great one. Suburban Outlaw by Maggie Antone. Really great. Really great country song. Benjamin Todd. I just met Benjamin Todd here recently at Zany's. He did a couple of songs with Jesse Daniel called Shooting Star. That's number four. Number three.

A classic country singer, John Anderson, had a song called Years, which is really great. Great song. You showed it to me. It came out in the 2020s? It did. And there's a girl named Sierra Farrell who's really great. She does a cover of Years, which is also really good. Number two, Colby Acuff, If I Were the Devil. That's a really great song. I don't like Devil. No, no. You'll like it, though. Oh, boy. You'll like it. And then number one.

Top five country songs come out in the 2020. Jesse Daniel, Working Hard Day and Night as featured on the hit comedy special Working Man by Dusty Slade. That's the only one I know. Available on Netflix. That's nice. It's a great list. It's a good list. Great list. I'll have to check those out. Check those songs out. I will. I did look up. Now, this is just for the

past year 2024 some highlights i will say can i say this though paul cawthorne has i don't know if that's how you say his name he has other very country songs and this is kind of a newer thing and i like it because he sounds like johnny cash in the beginning he does and then boom these beats and i'm like the worst drum sounds of all time yeah i'm into it though okay i'm into it all

it all right it's called black on black yeah I'll have to check it out yeah I like it too I'm just critiquing it because yeah you're fair to do it because it's so different from it it's it's almost like every argument you made about music is out the window no it is you know I like this song you're right about it you're all right to criticize me about it but I like it though all right I looked up some highlights Nate land highlights from 2024 just some or milestone moments across 2024 and

January 16th, right out of the gate. Okay. Oh, January 6th? That wasn't 2024, Aaron. I know, but...

January 16th, Working Man released. Big time. Boom. Great special. Yeah, we've heard about it. Came out right out of the new year. Yeah. Came out hot. You know, when it came out, I was going through Twitter to look for people talking trash about it to try to get into some arguments. I only found like two, and you had already responded to them. Oh, yeah. I'm on it. I am on it. All right. That was January 16th. It was released the next day, January 17th.

The first Nate Land we ever missed due to weather. Hey, what's up everybody? This is, you know, the first episode we are not able to record because of weather. Snow. Hello everybody. Aaron Weber here, host of the Aaron Land podcast, reporting from a snowy Nashville, Tennessee, unfortunately. Hello folks and hey bear. Hope you guys are doing well. Sorry we didn't do an episode this week. We are stuck at home, as you can see.

I think we could have done an episode. I just don't think those guys know how to drive in snow. We got a ton of it. We're not great at it in Nashville, so no one can get anywhere. So sorry to have to not be able to record one this week. We thought we could.

Remember that? No, I don't. Oh, it was snowing. Snowing? Snow day, yeah. You were on a plane, I guess, to go promote? I was trying to. Okay, yeah. I got stalled out too. We had to cancel because of all the snow on the ground. I like to think that was God flooding the country with snow so that people would watch my specials.

I think it worked. Yeah. Little seed cloud. Cloud seed. God's allowed to cloud seed. Yeah. He gave you a snowstorm. He gave Taylor Tomlinson a pandemic. Pandemic. Yeah, yeah. There you go.

These are fun. So January 24th, Nate announces the podcast is going to one hour. Just to get it out of the way, I know our last podcast was shorter. We are going to go a little bit shorter. I did not realize this. I thought all podcasts had to be two hours long. And it seems most of them are an hour or even less. And so I know some of you will be disappointed because you like the two hours. Some of you won't care, and some of you will be happy.

February 7th, two weeks later, Nate and Elsa's podcast is going back to two hours. After getting yelled at by all of y'all, we're just go back to normal. We're going to be like George Costanza that left his job, that got fired from his job, and we're showing up today as if nothing happened. That was a fun time. Fastest cave in all of history. He bent the knee so quickly.

April 8th, the eclipse. I brought these two. This is another way to look at it. You're supposed to... All right, it's not working. You hold a note card and you hold that up. It's got a pinhole in it. Right. And it's said to... Maybe because it's two... Now it's probably two. I'll have to wait until it gets more sunlight. You're supposed to be able to see it through there. Oh, that's kind of cool. That is scary. Thank you for coming out tonight.

You made it like you brought that, like, you're like, I went to the Eclipse store and brought these. You're like, no more? That was the first time the world was going to end. Yeah, that's more of it. We did a fun Eclipse episode. And I think that's also the episode where you told people that you were having a baby. Where I announced it. Yeah, you announced it. I guess so. During an ad read, inadvertently. Yeah.

Yeah. Because we did the ad reads later and put them back. Oh, yeah. And I referenced it. You'd already posted to social media, I believe. I think so. But first that people listening. I tore a hamstring running the 40, too. Did you? That day, yeah. Pulled a hamstring. And you got last place, too, huh? I did. Did you really hurt yourself? I tweaked something, you know. Like for a long time it was? A couple days, you know. Okay. You feel it. Yeah.

April 13th, Nate recorded his special, Your Friend, Nate Bargatze in Phoenix. All right, now May, the three of you all went to Hollywood, do Netflix's A Joke Fest, different venues, but y'all had great sets, right? Yeah. Hot shows. Yeah. Yeah.

uh july 24th the first episode on our new set hello folks and hey bear welcome to the podcast i'm neighbor gets the brown baits aaron weber dusty slay all right and surprise boom we are in a new studio here we are yeah i mean this is we i don't think anybody knew this was happening uh

Y'all knew, but even we kind of doubted it. Yeah. You know, we had been seeing, you know, I had seen the room and it was, uh, it was empty. Yeah. It's been that long already. Yep. Time flies. Five months. Yep. Do you miss the old set? Um, I do in some ways.

Yeah, in some ways I do too, but this is 20 minutes closer to my house. Me too. I love the set. It's like an hour to Nate's house. No, I do too. When you do something in some other space for so long, it's weird to change. Right. Then the next stage, July 25th, Nateland announced, don't make me come back there. We'll be joining the Nateland...

entertainment. Uh, started a podcast network, the dayland podcast network. And, this is, you guys are our first podcast, uh, that we have have that we have on the network. Thank you. And we're super pumped about it. Yeah. We're honored to be a part of it. Uh,

Yeah, we're big fans. You know, known you guys forever. And Dustin, you've been out with us. And you guys are killing it. And I think you fit very well. You obviously fit very well into the world that we are doing. Okay. September 7th, Aaron records his special here at the Lab of Zadies. All right. Boom. When's that coming? We got any announcements? January. I don't know if we can. Yeah. This month.

Oh, soon. Yeah. Yeah. So you're kicking off the year. Just around the corner. He released his in January. Now you're releasing yours. Yeah. That's awesome. Come on, snowstorm. Yeah.

September 28th, I think, Olive was born. Oh, yeah. 28th. Yeah. Man. Golly. It's been two months. Yep. It's crazy. Well, it's been more than that when this comes out. It's been three months. Multiverse, yeah. I saw a video the other day, by the way, and it was a guy, side by side, a guy, and it was this baby, and the baby, they had a...

like a cake for it and it said one and they were blowing out the candle and then it was two and then it was three but it stayed a baby and this guy's like I don't think this baby's aging right that's funny and then it was it was months and then finally

Oh, I thought he don't purpose like try to be funny how his son was it? No, no. He just for a month is crazy. Yeah. For 12 months. They did 12 months all the way through each month. They gave him a new birthday video. I was like, I don't think this baby's age. Ready to up the formula at this point. Yeah. The baby's not getting older. October 1st, the consumers launched on the Nate Land podcast.

Nate Lance, explain. First episode came out yesterday. Yesterday, that episode was the Dunkin' Donuts episode. We pick one brand every week and we do a deep dive on it. We're about to get a Dunkin' Donuts right across the street. No kidding? Yeah, that's big, man. Really? Just Dunkin' now, right? Just Dunkin'. You can dunk anything you want now. Doesn't that just have to be Donuts? Yep. Comes out every Tuesday? Every Tuesday. October 5th, Nate hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time.

November, Dusty announced he's recording a new special. That's true. Yeah. In February. February 29th or 28th. One of the two. There's still time to get tickets. Potentially. Now, this is coming out January 1st. It could be sold out. Plenty of tickets.

December 19th, Nate's Christmas special came out. Yep. Rave reviews. We assume. Yeah. And rave reviews. And then December 24th is Netflix special came out. Bomb. That's a big year. There's a lot of milestone moments there. Huge year. A lot going on. Nate Land's big. I went back and looked at the first episode of 2024, and you said it's going to be a big year. Oh, I nailed it. And this year's going to slow down a little bit. Just a heads up.

2025 is going to be... I don't think so. I think 2025 is going to be a big year. I got some predictions. I was kidding. Yeah, go ahead. I'd love to hear it. Yeah, I'll go ahead and do them now.

You're so caught off guard. I'd like to hear the thing you just introduced. I know. I know. I was going to say it from the end, but I'll tell them now. All right. Not that you're not already starting to sell out clubs, but you're going to sell out clubs on a regular basis in 2025. Man, that sounds good. And I made this prediction a few years ago, but I'm going to double down on it and say it again. You're going to do your first late night set. Okay. Late night. Okay. I like that too. Okay. Yeah.

For you, I feel like the Wizard of Oz having a gift. Not that you're not already starting to sell out some theaters, but you're going to start regularly everywhere selling out theaters. Yeah, I mean, these shows are popping off. But yeah, I appreciate it. I got to take it up a notch. Yeah. They are popping off. Yeah, I mean, I'm doing quite well as it is. That's what you got to know. And I think your new special that you're recording for Fib 28 is going to be

acclaimed as one of the best specials of the year. It's going to catapult you into the stratosphere. Boom. That's exciting. Now, Brian, do you want predictions? Well, let me just say for Nate, Nate's the hardest because what's left to do? What is left to do? Nate runs for Senator. Host a award show? Maybe finally get some posters on the wall for him.

He's going to get a photo shoot this year. What if he wins an Emmy for Variety Sketch for the Nate Land Christmas special? Oh, that would be big. Is it a daytime show? I thought Emmys were like a daytime show. There's the primetime Emmys and then there's the daytime Emmys. Yeah, primetime Emmys. That's usually like SNL and those categories. That'd be great. So he could win for that. Right. Could win a Grammy too.

But that's the level we're at now. Major awards is the only thing noteworthy. Yeah, I don't know. I guess he can start doing stadiums. He's going to start selling out stadiums. I mean... I know, I'm joking. I know, but it's been done before. I mean, Kevin Hart did it in Philadelphia. Yeah, it's been done occasionally. Yeah. Nate's got different energy than Kevin Hart, though. Yeah. To fill a stadium. But arenas, I mean, I just thought, how's he going to do that? I know. And they're great. Yeah. Just...

Just announced this new tour. I mean, I guess it'll be a month old again when this comes out. Big dumb eyes right behind you. Yeah. So those are my predictions for you guys in 2025. I appreciate it. That's fine. What about for you? The easier to drive tour started getting a little harder. Oh, God. I love that. The harder to drive tour. Yeah. I can still do it, but it's a little harder. My favorite. I was thinking about our favorite shows of the year. I think I didn't get to do any shows with you.

2024, Dusty. No? Not on the road, at least. Yeah, we did shows here at Zany's. Yeah, but, you know, Matt Price wasn't available to go with us. He always takes Matt with him whenever we do shows together so he can smoke cigars with him. But my...

We got to do shows together in Tacoma. I think that might have been my favorite weekend of the year. Yeah, that was fun. Tacoma. Those shows were great. It was fun. We got new styles. Oh, yeah. Tacoma Comedy Club. That's right. Yeah. Chrissy Johnson at Purpose Boutique hooked us up. Yeah. My car got towed.

Yeah. That whole, there's a lot. Ups and downs. It was a roller coaster of a weekend. It was a fun weekend. Then I drove down, after you flew home, I drove down to Portland, did a show down at Helium. That went great. It was a fun, it was a fun weekend. Yeah, it was a good time. Yeah. Man, what a year. Did you do your Dallas shows?

When this has come out, I did. Yeah. Okay. I sold out every show. All right. Standing ovation. I love it. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. December 13th. Are you getting standing O's at these theater shows? I don't know. I just say. Do you stand out there until it happens? No. I go, thank you, and then I run away. No. Dusty goes, thank you. He stands. He walks off.

Does one of these. No, I don't. I'm not a, I don't know. Some people stand up sometimes, but I'm not, I'm not trying to get standing O's. Okay. I just want people to be entertained by my show and then, you know, go on about their lives. For now. I think once you get the standing O, you're going to go. This show's a failure if I don't get one.

Yeah, I don't need that for myself. Okay. I don't need those. You don't need theaters for yourself either, but it's nice. Yeah. Well, what is nice about a theater is that I'm able to do less shows and cover more ground, right? Like the amount of tickets I sold in Des Moines and the amount of tickets I sold in St. Paul would have been like if I did five –

Sold out shows. Sold out comedy club. Yeah. But that would take three nights. But instead, I did it in one night and got to go to another city. So I'm doing in one weekend, I'm doing what would take me two weekends. So I'm able to do less shows and I'm able to be home with my family. And that's really great. I get to take my daughter to see live Paw Patrol. And that's fun. You think after doing an hour and a half, they might just be standing to stretch their legs?

Could be. Sometimes I get standing in the middle of the show. Jeez, dude. My back's hurting. I'm going to go clap in the lobby. Take a cigarette break. But yeah, I mean, I do about an hour 10. That's pretty much what I do. That's tight. Sometimes I'll go hour 15, sometimes hour 20. But hour 10 is what I like to do. And I'm trying to whittle it down now because I'm getting ready to do the special. So I got to take some stuff out. That's fun, though. Yeah.

I want to do a bit on dreams. You got any comics that does stuff on dreams? There's one that does one about Larry Bird. Oh, yeah, that's me. But I kind of want to take that out of my current set and prepare a whole dream thing. A whole dream hour? Not a whole hour, but a bit.

Okay. The last 10 minutes would be something else. Yeah. Why would you take it out if that's what you're building toward? Well, because I got the special coming up and I already got an hour without that. And you could take that out and do more with it later. Yeah. Okay. So you're not saying get rid of that joke? No, no. I'm trying to get everything down to an hour. Yeah. And then I want to next special really build a...

You guys into dreams? I've been trying to lucid dream last few nights. I saw a thing on Reddit. I had to do it. Can't do it. But it looks like fun. Have you ever tried it? We did a dream episode. Did you? I used to keep a dream journal. Yeah. Were you not here for that episode? No, I don't think so. No, I don't think so. Okay. You guys did a lot of good topics before I joined. A lot of topics I'd like to get in on. No, this was in 2024.

Pretty sure. I guess I missed it. When I waited tables, I would have dreams about waiting tables, being real busy or real behind. And then over the years, it's less so now, but I've had dreams about selling pesticides. And I would have, like I had like 30 stores and the dream would be like, kind of like, oh, I've not been to this store in a long time. I got to get to this store kind of thing. Yeah.

Maybe I was asleep. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, maybe so. Hey. Since it is New Year's, I put together Brian Bates' top five country songs about new beginnings. All right. I like this. Number five. You did a five. You did five. I did honorable mentions. Tell us about 18 of them first and then do the top five. Yeah.

Number five, Welcome to the Future, Brad Paisley. That's a fun one. Yeah. I don't know it. All right. Number four, might go a little bit faster than this. My Next 30 Years, Tim McGraw. I like that one. I don't know that one. I like that one. I don't know it. Yeah. It's about, you know, he's made some mistakes in life, but wink, wink, he's going to try to start eating better and do the stuff we always say. The next 30 years will be different. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he's become an actor.

Yeah. He is a good actor. He is a good actor. Friday Night Lights, you believe he's an abusive dad. Yeah. The blind side. You forget that it's, oh, I forgot he was in that too. Yeah. He's good. Put him around the football field in a movie. He'll do a good job. You ever see the movie Four Christmases? No. He's in that. Okay. Pretty funny character in that, but also at the very beginning, Steve Byrne kind

comic here and nashville yeah yeah he's vince vaughn are big buddies yeah yeah it was fun huh i probably saw that when i didn't even know who steve was yeah um not a great movie but uh steve burns yeah yeah who's the best talking about tim mcgrath who's the best singer that's at acting gotta be billy bob thornton right yeah but he was an actor first yeah oh really yeah

Okay. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Sorry. It's before my time, old timers. I barely even knew he sang. He has the Boxmasters. I thought he was a country singer that turned... Whom I think... That's also in the movie with him. Oh, Dwight Yoakam. Dwight Yoakam. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like Dwight Yoakam...

as a singer a lot. As an actor, I can only think of a couple of things that he's done, but he did Sling Blade with Billy Bob Thorpe. Yeah, that's what he's talking about. His character in that is really... The wires got crossed. It was great. Mustard biscuits. Kevin Costner also sings. He's also a country singer now, I think. He's a singer to some degree, yeah. Yeah, I just thought of one now that's already escaped me. But yeah, I was thinking about... John Travolta.

singer and an actor all right uh patrick swayze also had a hit song she's like the wind yeah well eddie murphy eddie murphy my girl likes to party all the time wow billy ray cyrus hannah montana's dad but never a great country singer though had a huge hit huge hit but never a good yeah yeah why yocum was in uh wedding crashers yeah he was yeah very beginning uh all right number three

Brian Bates' top five country songs about New Year's. Maybe next year, Corey Smith. Great song.

You ever get into Corey Smith? Great. Wishing I was 21. Fun stuff. Yeah, he had a song called 21. 21 is one of the best songs ever, but I don't know any. He is a 45-year-old guy singing about high school a lot, but when you're in high school, it's pretty great. Nate would love him, man. That's true. Yeah. Maybe next year is a great song. It's the same idea as that next 30 years. Yeah. Maybe next year I'll act in my age, get a real job, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. But you know I won't. Deep down, I'm the same old me.

Number two. I've used this song on a previous list that we made. If We Make It Through December by Merle Haggard. That's a great song. It's a great song about he just got laid off the factory. Now here comes Christmas, and he doesn't know how he's going to be able to buy gifts for his little girl. But if we can just make it through December, things will be better. Wow. But they're not going to be. That's where it gets real hard. Well, there are some lines that don't make sense. I think I said last time where he says something like,

maybe we'll move to a warmer city come summertime or something like that. I'm like, well, every city is warmer summertime. Maybe that's what he means. Maybe so. But then the next line is, maybe California. And I'm like, well, that's not a city. You know, this guy that I mentioned, Zephaniah Ohura, I think is his name. He has a, he's very much like Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley at times. Really great country singer. Keith Whitley, great. I just found out about him.

Number one song, Brian Bay's top five country songs about New Year's. New Year's Day by Charlie Robinson. Yeah, I like Charlie Robinson. I don't know that I've heard that song, but. Okay, that is it. I think there's no N in Robinson, right? Robinson? Oh, maybe. Okay. I'm thinking about somebody else then. No, I don't know. All right, that was underwhelming, but I'll do that. All right, I got some stuff about 2025. Okay. We're going into here.

All right, so here's some New Year's. Well, first of all, do you guys make New Year's resolutions? I don't. Not anymore. No, I never. I think I did when you're in school and they make you write one down on a piece of construction paper. I'll be nicer to my sister. Maybe you aren't. What were your old ones?

And why'd you stop? I don't know. I used to, you know, do the classic, like I'm going to quit smoking this year. And, you know. And you did it. Eventually. Yeah. But I quit in, you know, like January at the end of January one time, my final time.

I would, you know, I would buy it. Yeah, I'd buy it. You know, I'd smoke a ton of them on New Year's and I'd be like, I'm going to smoke so much that I won't even be able to smoke tomorrow. And then I'll give it up and then I would just dip. January 3rd, you get a cigarette. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I think we mentioned this on our calendars episode. The reason January 1st is New Year's Day, it was declared that by Pope Gregory. He established January 1st as official New Year's Day in 1582.

Before that, New Year was celebrated spring very often. And that's the real New Year's in spring when things are in bloom and life is coming back around. That makes more sense to me. I agree. It does make more sense. It's a time of new growth, new birth. How do you two visualize the year in your head? If you've got the year mapped out in your head, what does it look like to you? I think April 1st is New Year's.

Okay. So yours is going to look a little different than mine. I don't understand what you're asking, but you don't visualize the year at all in your head as you're like, as Brian just walked us through it. Like, what does that look like to you? Is it moving top to bottom, bottom to top, left to right? Are they broken into groups? Or do you think about the four seasons and quadrants? Like, how does it look in your head?

I think it, my, my Google map, I mean, not map Google maps, but my, uh, my calendar on by, uh, if, if you do it, I do mine by month. So I think, I think in months. Okay. Maybe because of that. But the months in relation to each other, what does it look like? Is it like a four by three grid of months and you're snaking through it or what? Cause I think everybody does it, but it's not like it's, everybody does it a little differently in their head. Yeah.

I don't know. Mine's just straight January on the left, December on the right, and I'm just moving left to right. And that's how I visualize the whole year like that. And maybe above that you can see the seasons. But that's how I visualize it. But not everybody does that. But you do a lot of editing on a line like that, right? Like a –

I'm old school calendar. So I'm used to just flipping one month at a time. Interesting. So you think of them like behind each other, like a calendar. Wow. See, that's fun. You don't think about this at all? I'd never have thought about this at all, but I like it. But access your brain right now. How are you visualizing? I don't know. Now I can see both.

Now I see what you're talking about, but I also see what you're talking about. I can visually see the, you know, it's like a calendar that you tear off. It doesn't flip. It tears. Each day, each day falls as you move through. That day's gone. Burns up. There's no past. Okay. Yeah, there you go. You know? Mm-hmm.

I never thought of it that way, but that's how I see it. Music's playing. The things are tearing off. Like post-it notes, like getting pulled off day by day. Yeah, like a calendar where it has two little things and those things are attached and it just tears off. We're zipping through the year. Okay. Okay. So when you think about the future, you think about going through that.

deeper in the pile yeah okay interesting and that life your whole life is just a giant pile and then as you get towards the end it just gets real thin like like an old person's skin just gets real thin you start to see the veins in there right yeah and then what do you do with it and then that last piece of paper tears off and it slowly drifts like a feather and when it hits it

You hope that it lifts up into the sky and not burns away. Wow. Like the end of Forrest Gump, just a feather blowing in the wind. Yeah. That's beautiful. Yeah. That's beautiful. And you ask your baby's mom, is he smart or is he –

Like me. He's very smart. He's top of his class. And then you cry a little bit. I have a joke where I talk about my daughter didn't grow any hair for the whole time I fried. I'm like, is she follicly challenged? Is she going to have hair or is she like... I do set New Year's resolutions. Now...

I agree with you or anyone, if you've got something you need to fix in your life, just go ahead and fix it. Don't wait until January 1st. I agree with that, of course. But I also do do the things where like, man, I shouldn't be eating all this, but New Year's is three weeks away. I'll just, you know, I do that too. You need benchmarks. Benchmarks. So I'll just, I'll do, so I break it down three categories for me and I write this in my journal, which I do every day at the beginning. Um,

Does he journal every day? He does. For years, he has. Wow. That's amazing. That's how he knows all these facts and stuff. I like that stuff. So he writes down in his journal, Dusty's boss played for the Buffalo Bills in the 60s. Stu Grissom. Stu Barber. Stu Barber. Oh. Who's Stu Grissom? Is that a comic? I don't know. Marquise Grissom. Baseball player. Yeah. But there is some truth. All of his birthday, I'm like, come on.

Because most of this I could just find by looking at the time of the show. But I'm like, I know it's late September. I looked at my journal. Wow. Oh, that's great. I wish that I had been doing that. I got old journals that I can dig through and it's really fun to read. Embarrassing, but really fun to read. And I got journals from when I used to drink. And it's like, you know, sometimes I would write in it when I was drunk. And you could really see when I was drunk based on the handwriting. Yeah, I bet. Because you would do it when you got home that night? Yeah.

That's fun. In fact, I started, Aaron, January 1st, 1995. Wow. So 30 years ago today. Wow. It was a New Year's resolution to start journaling every day? I just thought, you know what? It's a new year. That'd be a good time to start. And I started January 1st. How long do you write? What do you... No, not much. I just write... I don't talk about... Your feelings? Yeah, just facts of the day. Yeah. The stuff that happened. It really helps me like...

come tax time, different things that you're filling in the blanks on some stuff. But I write down for goals. I write down some personal goals, some professional goals, some spiritual goals. Okay. And then I write down some things for each one and

Problem is I don't go back and revisit it as much as I should. Because they say you write it down, never look again. You're just going to forget it. But if it's in your face, you're more likely to maybe try to do it. So maybe that's how you view your timeline as your journal. Yeah. There's probably some truth to that. But that's always going in the past. I don't know. You might be right. But anyway. So that's what I do with my goals. I love it.

All right. So the most common New York's Resolution obviously is eating better and exercising. Those kind of go hand in hand, but that's by far the most. Some other...

My mom, they like to eat turnip greens and black-eyed peas. Yeah. And they say that. Brings you good luck. It's supposed to give you good luck and some wealth or whatever. And my mom was talking to me about it, and I wanted to make the joke. I wanted to go, how's that working out? But I didn't. It's working out for you. Maybe that's what it is. Yeah. It's about the next generation. Yeah.

Right? She cares more about you than herself, I think. That's probably true. Yeah. So it is working out. Yeah. Sorry to ruin the good times. No, no. Yeah. They say, we all say this, and I feel like we feel it, every year, the years go by faster and faster as you get older. I mean, you feel that way? Yeah. I think we all do. Yes. But there is some truth to that in the sense that my daughter, who's not quite three, is

This last year has been a third of her life, where it's been 150 third of my life. Wow. So when you look at it that way, your perspective on life, yeah. Yeah.

It is going to fill a lot longer. And there are also all these milestones that you're trying to get to, right? Like when you're a kid, you're like, you're about to reach the double digits in age. And then you're like kindergarten and then double digits. Every grade distinguishes. Yeah. And then you're like a teenager and then you get your learner's permit and your driver's license and you're 18. You're able to...

you know, be an adult and, you know, buy cigarettes and, uh, and, and a lot of places except Alabama. And then you, uh, are 21. Now you can drink and then you're 25 and you can rent a car. And then after that, that's it. You got your 30, you got 30, you got 40, you know, you got the decades.

Yeah, I mean, every – when you're a kid, it's broken up by school year. It's just distinguished. And then you get a job, and this happened to me. A decade could just go by, and you're like, what happened? Yeah. When I turned 40, I made a goal to do something special each year for myself to kind of distinguish that year. Now I've kind of –

Got a little wax in that. You know, I think about that too. And my 20s was really spent drinking. Yeah. And then my 30s, I quit drinking. And then so I had a decade of sobriety because I quit drinking at 29. And then at 39, I had my daughter.

And then I was turned 40 a week later. So it's like my 20s, I was drinking all the time. My 30s, I was sober and building a comedy career. And then my 40s, I'm a parent. Yeah. You know? It's great. Yeah. I can't remember the specifics, but there is some science about your brain only processes...

insofar as you're experiencing new things. So as you do get older, you're experiencing fewer and fewer new things. So things start to go faster, right? I have this spreadsheet of every show I've ever done. You know, I've done 103 shows with you, Dusty. Wow. 103. That's amazing. That's a lot, right? I thought you were about to say, I've done 103 shows. I would have guessed more.

I've done with Dusty. This is booked shows. This is shows that aren't open mics.

Oh, that, that, uh, so I've just done. Wannagans in Tuscaloosa. You had a note in there. Ended up not doing the show. Got paid anyway. That was good. Remember that? Yeah. We left. Best night of comedy of all time. We drove down there, show up to the venue, look around. We thought this is going to be a nightmare. Yeah. It was a really bad college bar. Hundreds of kids in there. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Not even a stage.

And then the owner comes out and goes, I don't really feel like doing the show. Paid us. We went and got sushi and then drove home. Yeah. Unbelievable night of comedy. We actually went to the Laughing Skull Festival the next day.

Oh my goodness. Okay. I think we drove back to Nashville. Because it's like, that was, you know, I had a great time and I could care less, but in a lot of ways, a personal low when you show up to a venue and no one has showed, so they have to cancel the show. But then we went to Laughing Skull the next day and that's where I met Jeff Singer. I met, um,

um michael cox and so i got jfl off the laughing skull and i got the tonight show off of that and that started a lot so that that weekend began with no one showing to my show at all and ended with some really great things yeah and then 54 shows with you brian if you're curious 54 103 shows you're done with me 103 amazing yeah

I wonder who the most is probably. That's a very impressive spreadsheet. 163 with John Chris. Wow. So that's probably the most. Nate, I've done 67. Wow. And that includes just like Zany's where he shows up.

I saw another one on there, a couple of those, that Traverse City gig that we did. That was a particularly bad gig. That was at a Louie Louie Kitchen and Bar. Yeah, it was a bad one. Yeah. So this is fun. This is almost like a journal. But that run that we did there was really good. The Minong Comedy Club, that's where –

I made a video about that. There's a YouTube video of us doing all those gigs. Of that weekend. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot about that. There's some names on there I've not thought of in a while or seen in a while. Like who? Well, I don't want them to know I haven't thought about them. So I'm not going to say names. Yeah, yeah. But that Dublin Irish pub is where that lady gave you the tag. Yeah.

Etiquette. That's where Etiquette comes from. And that's where all my beef jerky stuff comes from. That Minong gig. The Sault Ste. Marie Kiwiden Casino. That's a really bad gig. I've started saying when I tell that story, if there are enough Nateland people, I go, hey, fun fact, Dusty Slay was on that show too. Really derails the story. So I'm going to stop saying that. But that Minong, I got my camera set up and it's in the video. I had my camera set up filming you

Or maybe it's filming me. I don't know. But the lady comes and closes the door right in between the camera and the stage. That's great. Well, that is fun. That's really cool that you have all that. It's very useful. I hid the pay column. But that's fun to look at, too. Yeah, I bet. All right. Some New Year's resolutions that listed drinking less alcohol.

I see he's already talking about that. Being a morning person. Is that something you think you can do? Isn't that like a personality trait or is that a choice? I always thought it was a personality trait, but I know people who've forced themselves. I don't know if they're morning people, but they at least have trained themselves to. Yeah, I guess it's a choice in that you can go to bed early and wake and then you're well rested. Get up. Yeah. I choose to go to bed late every night. I do too. I'm staying up till three every night.

That's been my last. Because of a baby. Your baby, not just a baby, your baby. Just some random kid. Yeah. So I do the midnight feed and I do the 3 a.m. feed and then I go to bed and then I wake up a little after 9. I'm getting six hours.

on and off about six hours oh let's talk about this greenbrier show you remember that we me and i'm sorry this list is just right in front of me and it's bringing back all these memories well that's what's fun about this you forget about these shows the greenbrier is in west virginia a really really nice casino like really nice and i got there super early in the day and i got they took me they let me hang out in the kitchen and they made me food yeah i'm with dusty this whole time by the way yeah were you were you with me in the kitchen

Oh, yeah. We had to eat down with the- I thought we drove separately and I got there a little before you. No, we had to eat with the peons downstairs. Yeah. And then I watched a magic show. We watched that little bit of a magic show. Yeah. And then they took us out and there was a DJ there and we were going to perform where the DJ booth is. And people were dancing out there and we asked the DJ, we go, hey-

Do you mind doing a little announcement, like a five-minute thing, just to say, hey, we're going to do some comedy here in a bit? DJ comes out very buddy-buddy. He's like, yeah, we're going to do. It's going to be good. It's going to be good. Don't worry about it. Dusty goes, all right, well, can you please just make an announcement?

Because it's like a nightclub. They're really dancing and they're having a really great time. And I'm opening for Dusty. So he goes, can you please just get, hey, we're going to do a comedy show in about 10 minutes. He goes, I got you. I got you. No problem. Yeah. We're going to do it. Acted like this was absurd to even bring up. Yeah.

And then he didn't do it. There were people dancing on the floor and he just goes, all right, now we're going to do some comedy. Didn't even fade the song out. Just stopped it and goes, we got a comedy show, Aaron Weber. So then I got to walk out and explain to them I'm not the main guy. Right. Like there was no intro.

Worst way to be brought up. We both bombed. I bombed so bad. We both bombed. And then immediately when the show was over, the guy who had been so nice to us the whole time, very politely escorted us right out of the property. He goes, give us those jackets back. Yeah. You got to get out of here. Yeah, it was a very nice place. Yeah, we had to wear jackets, didn't we? Yeah. Yeah. So I'm wearing a jacket and a trucker hat. And then we got, and it was so cold.

And they kicked us right out. And then we had to get in the car and drive to Charleston, West Virginia to sleep. That's right. Yeah. Long weekend. Yeah. Anyway. Before that, we did the Cary Theater in downtown Cary, North Carolina, which was very nice too. And that was the show where I sold the merch and I sold one CD and the guy wanted 10%. He took $1 from me. That's such a great story. That's so crazy. Yeah.

That's good enough. I feel like you could tell us a joke. Yeah. Just tell that story. I should, yeah. That's a good idea. Right here, Birch Bitch. Somebody write that down. Yeah. All right. So drinking more water, taking care of your teeth. Yeah. That's a choice. That's not a personality trait. Yeah. Yeah.

Going to the dentist when you're supposed to, that's kind of the same thing. Okay. Supposed to. I guess people cancel or put it off. Every six months or something? Supposed to go every six months. I had a few years where I didn't go. Yeah, I don't think I had to go because I need a root canal, but I haven't been just to go. Oh, really? Since I no longer live with my parents. I'm not doing that on my own. Yeah. Nah, the dentist is a bit of a scam. I don't know.

I believe that the dentist has a purpose, you know, but this whole twice a year, that's a business model. Just, oh, of course it is.

Of course that's what it is, but it's not like they're pretending to operate on my teeth. No, but I'm saying a bit of a scam. If you need dental work done, yeah, I mean, they're there to help you. As a guy who's had a lot of dental work done, I can attest that you need it sometimes. Yeah, cleaning every six months. I'm sure you go nine months. I go six years or so. I clean my own teeth. Yeah. I'm sure you don't clean them well enough. You fill your own cavities?

Put on your own crown. Yeah, pack some stuff. But I was your age, Aaron. I had a long period where I didn't go. And then when I went, man, it was tough. Right. Because you'd put it off for so long. And then after that, I'm like, I'm going to stay regular so I don't have to do this again.

I like to get it all done at one time. What? Fill all the cavities. Let's just do it. Let's make a day of it. Yeah, that's how they do it. Don't come every six months. That's how they do it. But if you go every six months, there's a much better chance that cavities will come. I don't know. See, that's what I'm saying. I don't trust. I don't think the dentist is keeping you from getting cavities. I don't think they are either, but they're identifying them. Yeah. And treating them as quickly as possible.

But you're right. I mean, that's the way we eat and do things and clean our own teeth is going to be the biggest factor. Yeah. Yeah. All right. But despite cleaning your car, I'm not even sure what that means, but I guess it means. I think maybe a little bit at a time. Instead of filling up your floor with fast food bags. Instead of letting the trash pile up. Instead of not going to the dentist for nine years, you do it when there's a problem. Each time I go to the gas station, that's what I do. I go to the gas station and I dump all the trash. Mm-hmm.

And I try to do it more than that. I used to have a really filthy car. When I drank a lot, my car was really bad. That's funny. That's the one thing I keep clean is my car. Really? Yeah. My car is a – I made a T, and I accidentally spilled it all in my car this morning, and it's a real mess in there. Well, since I've had a daughter, my backseat is pretty bad. But as far as just random trash and stuff, I try to get it out every day. Being kind on social media. Yeah.

There you go, Dusty. Yeah. I'm kind, but I'll come at you. But you don't start it. No, I just, you know, I just, a lot of times I like to read comments on this podcast and I just, I want to know what people are thinking about stuff. And then I, you know, and I go through and I can, you know, I'll read something and I'll go, okay. And then all of a sudden I come across something and I'm like, whoa, buddy, take it easy. Yeah, it's a lot. You know, and then I have to come in on them. Yeah.

And then practicing breathing exercises. Oh, I like to do that. I don't do that enough, but I don't think we focus on deep breaths enough. And you should do a lot of deep breaths in and out through your nose. Helps detox your body, they say. Okay. I don't think we, as a, you know, I feel like as a society, we don't really breathe deep enough.

You know, like you ever sit around and take a deep breath in through your nose and see how deep you can breathe in? No. I think you should though. Cause that you got to expand all the lungs. Yeah. The way you phrase that you ever sit around like, all right, let's go into the living room to breathe. Yeah. And then everybody walks in there.

It just does it together. It felt good. It did. It does feel good. Put a little eucalyptus right on your mustache and then deep breathe. Oh, man. Yeah. It's like a real cool. It's a real cooling thing. Okay. Feels good. You ever do that? You don't have a mustache. No. I did during COVID. You did for a minute. Yeah. It's a good look. Yeah. Then I got just a few things for 2025. Things are happening this year. Okay. You know, I argued last.

Again, I just saw the video. Started 2024. I argued that more stuff happens during even month years than odd month years. You guys shut me down pretty quick. You pointed out 9-11 and stuff like that. But COVID was 2020. Right. There's always presidential elections on even years. Okay. Olympics. Yeah. Cicadas. I don't know about that. Stuff like that. Odd years, not so much.

Now, you're probably right. We're just making fun of you, but it'd probably make a great point. I really couldn't find a whole lot for 2025. I mean, this is space stuff, so Dusty's not even going to believe any of it. But January 22nd, so this is pretty soon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn will all align in the sky.

Straight up? Like behind each other? No, I think like a straight line across. I believe that happens. Those are just called wandering stars, though. You know what I mean? They're, you know. Right, right. Okay. They're just kind of in the... But you think they can tell when those stars will wander? Yeah, I think so. You know, they're like beings. They're entities. Yeah. That have, you know, disobeyed God. How do we...

know when they're going to be, are you serious? How do we know when they're going to be where they are? Cause we can do it pretty accurately. Yeah. Thousands of years ahead of time. Yeah. We can know when the eclipse is coming. It's like, how do we know all that? It's all based on, you know, geometry, trigonometry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That happens to line up. Maybe they have communication with, um, you know, uh,

beings. Who, NASA? Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah, that's a great question, Aaron. Glad you brought that up. There's a subreddit starting right now. You, you, me. Right now on Reddit, somebody's starting a new. Yeah. Uh,

And then they scratch their neck beard. And then they yell up to their mom. I'm on Reddit all the time. September 2025. Yep. This has already been delayed. NASA is going to launch Artemis 2, the first crew mission around the moon in a while. And then Artemis 3 is the one that's supposed to land on the moon. Manned?

It's a man mission around the moon? Uh-huh. That's exciting. Why do they always name the things after these Greek gods? Oh, it's great, though. Why do they do it, do you think? What do you want them to call it? Ralph? I mean, it's got to have a powerful name, dude. Apollo. Gemini. Right? Those are powerful names, dude.

And all the planets are named after those things too. I know. Why do you think that is? Because that's just, that's just, that's just how we, yeah. Well. What do you want them to be named? Because like worship. X4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. Like think about, like they've been named that for a long time. Right. So who, like, so they were naming the planets after these gods or were they naming these gods after the planets? No, I think the gods came first. Yeah. Gods came first.

And the constellations, they'd draw them up. Yeah, because that was the... And the days. I'm just asking. The weeks, the months, the year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the days, I mean, they have pretty mundane names. What do you mean? Monday, Tuesday. It's like, they're not powerful names. Sundays for the sun, which you're all aboard. Mondays for the moon.

And then the other ones I do think are like Saturdays for Saturn. Wednesdays for the wind. I don't know what Wednesday is, but I think they're probably. Thursdays for. How do you think Wednesday spelled the way it is? Wedness. Wednesday. I don't know. I'm not happy about it. Yeah. I get mad every time I have to spell it. I know. I always spell it Wednesday in my head. Yeah. Yeah.

So anyway, Artemis 2 is supposed to go later this year. And then I haven't even heard of this company. They're called Vast, Vast Space. And they're an American aerospace company in California. And their goal is to make a commercial space station.

The International Space Station is going away, but they're going to make this new space station where even private citizens could go and live on. Just anybody can hop in there and see what's going on. Well, if you're a billionaire or a scientist. I'll find a way up there. So still not open to the general public then? The rich general public probably. At first, but then – In the same way that Mount Everest is not open to the general public. It takes some resources to get there.

Right. I guess. I don't know. I'm not interested in mountain climbing, but I would like to. Let's get a poor space station. You know what I mean? But any, I guess, major invention at first, only the rich could do it. What I'm saying is it's not a toll road to get to space, but it does require resources. How about we do an experiment where we say, hey, we don't know how good this is going to work, but if you'd like to volunteer, we'll let you in this so you can see how it goes. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, sure. Okay. Homeless in space. And is there a person you would trust what they said that went up there? Only you. Or it would have to be you? No, no, no. I wouldn't trust any of them, but I'd like to. What's the point of the experience? No, but I mean, if you're homeless and you're like, man, I sure would like to get off this street. And they're like, hey, we got an experiment for you. How'd you like to go the farthest away from the street? Yeah. I think that's-

I don't know the word, but... I don't know if I get the point of this, but... Well, why should only the rich get to go to space? I mean, they... Like what Jeff Bezos is doing now with... Is it Blue Origin? Where he sends people up on the edge of...

you know, for your wait list, whatever. There was a doctor. I mean, sure. I'm sure he's still wealthy, but from Vanderbilt, they got to go based on not just his money, but other qualifications. What do you have to say about it? He loved it. So he had a great time. What about those people that were trapped in the space station? Are they still up there? They get, they never got down. I think February's the target goal. Seems like we could. And then he's going to come on the podcast and tell you what's up. I can't wait. Why, why do you think they can't just go get them?

I mean, I think we talked about that. I think there... But that was a while back. I even forgot about them up there. Go get them. Go get them how, though? Send a rocket. Yeah. Lasso them down. I mean, they're hard to get. I think there are no more space shuttles. So we're using private companies. But doesn't Elon Musk like landing space shit? Like he's... That's what we're taking to go get them, I believe. But he already had planned to go at a certain time. So I guess they're sticking to that plan.

Play it. I don't know. I'm sure there's, well, I don't know the reasons why they're waiting so long, but I don't think you can just go like that. I hope when they do it, they'll put a camera on there. Because what I'd like to see is a spaceship take off and then go into space. I'd like to see it go through the atmosphere. Right, right.

That'd be fun. Yeah. And then like orbit the earth and then we can get like a cellular service from it. How amazing would that be if it went out of the, of the, of the atmosphere and then like you can point the camera down and the earth is just, that'd be wild, huh? That way? However. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? Yeah. Depending on what side you come out of, I guess. Yeah.

Yeah. It wouldn't be spinning like that. Depending on what side. I mean, if you come out like right off Mexico, it would kind of be spinning like that. You know what I mean? If you come off in a, I do know what you mean. You come out out of the, what if you come out the Arctic, you know, I'd be spinning like this, but if you come out, you know, Mexico, depending on how you do it. You'd be spinning with it. You think even just right, like how far do you have to get away for you can see it spin?

It's not a distance. It's so... I'm trying to think of where to start. So you never can see it spin. If you stay there long enough, you can see it spin. If you stay in one fixed point. Yeah. Right. But if you're orbiting the Earth, you're orbiting the Earth. Yeah, but we're not going to... I'm not talking about orbiting. I'm talking about coming out of it. Put on the mercy brake. Yeah. Coming out and just stopping. How far do you have to get before you can get out of the Earth's orbit? I mean, far, right? Yeah.

I mean, I'm asking. You mean if you're on the moon, could you see it? Maybe the moon's not even far enough. Well, the moon also. The moon's locked. Tidally locked. Right? Yeah. I'm just saying, I think that'd be fun to see. Right. Yeah, it would be. I'd like to see it. Yeah. Yeah, it would. Mm-hmm.

It would be fun. Just see it whipping around. You know what I mean? Yeah. Satellites all out there. You're dodging it. It's like a Star Wars episode. Would you go to space if they offered it to you? Yeah. Okay. I hope that happens. Yeah. Me too. Me too. That'd be awesome.

I'm trying to go. I'm trying to talk about it so much that NASA goes, you know what? Let's just take this guy up. Shut this guy up. This guy's a problem. Just send him up there real quick. Let's just take him up there. You're playing the long game. And then I want to go, oh, that's cool, man. You want to go, I was wrong about everything? Yeah. It's pretty great up there. Yeah. I mean, I don't even, I mean, I believe it.

Okay. I'm just joking around with you guys. Of course. Of course. We're having fun. We're having fun. We're having fun. I want to ride a star. I want to lasso a star. Ride a star. Ride a star. Yeah.

Well, I wanted to end on those predictions for you guys, so it'd be something upbeat, but we already did those. No, I think it's very upbeat. I think it's going to be a great year. I feel very positive. Mm-hmm. I do feel good. I'll be honest with you. I thought the world might end during the eclipse, and I thought COVID would never go away. The election. Yeah. And yeah, I thought...

We'd be mass riots out here. And it all feels good. Yeah. I'm very positive about it. I like that. It feels good. You know what I mean? I feel good. This year's about to be a train wreck. I feel good. You know, we're a quarter of the way through the- Smash cut to-

That'd be, it would be funny though. When this episode comes out, things have already fallen apart. Take some heat off me for killing people. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So you've got, uh,

I mean, every show you're looking forward to, but February 28th, especially. February 28th, but yeah, this is going to be coming out. And then my first show of the new year, I got the first two weeks off unless something comes up, but my first one,

January 17th, Birmingham, Alabama. I've not performed in Birmingham in years and years. And I don't have the theater here. The Alabama theater or the Lyric? The Lyric. The Lyric, unbelievable. Great venue. And then January 18th, I'm in Pensacola, Florida doing another theater. And I'm pumped about it. That's awesome, man. I mean, I don't get to do a lot in Alabama. And so I'm hoping a lot of my Alabama friends are able to make it to the show.

but do you have any shows that you want to mention that you're already pumped for, for 2025? I mean, I know you're excited about all of them. Uh, well, yeah, I mean, festivals or any, you might just want to wait until they get close. Yeah. Well, uh, you know, February 28th, uh, uh,

I'm very excited about. That's my special taping. It's going to be great. But I am excited about all of them. I'm going to Fresno, California. I'm going to Boise, Idaho, February 21st. Never been to Idaho. There's only a few states that I've not been to in the lower 48. I mean, I guess you could, you know, I don't know that I'll be making it to Hawaii. Would you go? I would go, I think. But I don't know. There's been no offers for Hawaii. But if they offered, would you go? Yeah, maybe so.

What's the hesitancy? I'd like my kids to be a little older because I'd like my whole family to go. Okay. I was just making sure you didn't think that was some fake place. No, no. I like Hawaii. It's out there. Yeah. Okay. But my dad has been married four times, right? And my dad took his first three wives to Hawaii and then they got divorced. So he refuses to take his current wife to Hawaii. Wow.

What is he doing in Hawaii? I don't know. I don't know. Well, it's just all downhill from there. It's so beautiful that you come back to Alabama. Maybe so. What about you, Aaron? Any like...

And I guess I'm asking like for 2025, anything big that you're looking forward to? The whole run. I'm going to a lot of cities I've never gone to before. Detroit. I'm going back to Boston. I love Boston. Like I got some cities lined up that like you look at the calendar and I was like, man, this is going to be a fun, fun first few months. So not, not one show in particular, but like the whole run of it, I'm pretty pumped about. Yeah.

That's how I feel too. I am doing some Canadian shows. I've not done a lot in Canada. I'm going out to like the West Coast of Canada, Vancouver and another place. And I'm doing Toronto. Then your family can go to that, right? Yeah. Hopefully, you know, Hannah will be able to go and her family will be able to come down and see that. Yeah. So that's exciting. Good deal. Yeah. And Nate just announced his tour and he's doing some European dates again. All right. Amsterdam. Yeah.

I think he's doing France. What about you, Brian? You know, you ask all the questions. Yeah. I'd like to reciprocate a little bit. What are you excited about? I'm the same as you. I got a lot of shows that I've never been, places I've never been. I'm excited about that. They're great.

A little bit more off the map than the average place, but I don't know. I'm excited about all of them. But January 3rd and 4th, this weekend, I'm at Comedy Off-Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky. Nice. Great club. Comedy Off-Broadway. I'm going to try to go to a Kentucky basketball game. Oh, that would be fun, dude. I've never been to a Kentucky basketball game. Try to do that. That's January 3rd and 4th. Then January 11th, I'm at The Workshop in Fort Myers, Florida.

Okay. Never heard of that, but Fort Myers is great. Yep. I think it might be the first comedy show they've ever done there. So we'll break that in. February, let's see. I think I'm skipping one here. I did a club called Belushi's in Fort Myers. John. Yeah. Or Jim. I think it's Jim. Yeah, Jim.

It was above a restaurant called The Tilted Kilt. I know. You know about that? Yes, sir. So anyway, that's January 11th. Just get back to me. January 11th at the workshop. And January 25th, I'm doing the Honest Fox Comedy Fest in Marietta, Georgia. All right. A lot of fun comics on that. Is that the social media company? Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah.

Dustin Nickerson's doing it. Steven Rogers. Okay. Big time. And then January 31st, I'm at Stardome.com.

I love it. Hoover, Alabama. I love it. All right. Star Dome. When are you there? January 31st. Oh, just two weeks after I'm in Birmingham. That's exciting. Yeah. Yeah. A little Birmingham takeover. Well, if you could Mitch in me while you're on stage, Mitch in my show, I appreciate it. I will. So all these shows in January, I'm excited about. It's fun places. Big time. It is fun. Let me, I'd like to ask this to this guy, yeah.

About the ad reads? Yeah. When Gary Seinfeld, when Aaron asked Brian about his dates, did it feel like an ad read? Because he was talking to a friend. No. No. Okay. All right. So this weekend, you're where?

Well, nowhere this weekend. I'm off. I'm relaxing. But January 17th will be my first show of the new year. Unless something, things could get added in. But I'll be at the Lyric Theater in Birmingham, Alabama. Beautiful. And then Pensacola, Florida. And when does yours start, Aaron? January 17th and 18th. I'm in Detroit, Alabama.

Michigan, the House of Comedy. And then I got a Texas run at the end of the month. San Antonio, Austin, Texas, doing the Creek in the Cave. Headlining all weekend. Rounding things off at Houston, Texas. Nice. Big month. Coming out. Yep. Yep.

All right, that's it. Nate, I think we'll be back next week. Big time. Right? Big time, big time. Yeah, I mean, that'll be the second week of January, so I don't know. Well, I'm going to guess Nate's going to be back next week. And 2025 is going to be a great year. Yep, it is. We thank everyone who supported us in 2024. That's right. Thank you for sticking with us. It's going to be fun. Nate's going to be shooting some movies in 2025. Yeah. So things just keep happening.

Getting bigger. All right. Thanks so much, folks. We love you. Thank you. It's not lost on us. We're having a good time. Go Irish. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetze, and my wife, Laura, on the Audioboom platform. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nateland Podcast.

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