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Hello folks and hey bear, welcome to the Nateland podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. All right. And we have sitting in with us today, it's a big one. It's a big one. People have been asking for this a long time. Our boy Ryan Hamilton. All right. Thanks fellas. Yeah. Very excited. It is exciting. I'm excited. Yeah. We're glad to have you. Yeah. Thank you, pal. Yeah. I appreciate it.

Yeah, I've been around Ryan for... Oh, my gosh. When did you come to New York? 2008. Yeah. Yeah.

He was the first person I knew who actually personally knew Jerry Seinfeld. And you've opened for him for many years on the road. Yeah, for a while. And when I opened for you, I just like, just sit there the whole time, just listening to stories about being on the road with him, going to movies with him. Right. Everybody loves to hear about the routine. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody loves that. Yeah. Yeah. Routine is good. I have no routine. Yeah.

You don't? No, I'm trying to get a routine in my life. It's all falling apart, Ryan. So, well, we will get into that. One announcement. Aaron, you see the screaming. It's happening. There it is. There it is. All right. This Friday, Nate Land YouTube, where you're watching this right now, maybe.

Just scroll on over. Loves food so much, put it right in the title of his album. Wow. It's special. Jeez. Took the wind out of my sails there, doesn't it? Sorry. I didn't know. I thought you were done. Well, not only are you doing that this Friday, you've got another big thing coming up this Monday.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Tonight Show on Monday. Tonight Show. Wow. Look at that. Yeah. It's almost too much stuff. Yeah. Wow. It feels like a lot. I don't think I like it. It's like... Overexposure. Overexposure. I go, let's comment back. Aaron will be off the podcast the next two months just to give you guys a break. It's like Snoop Dogg. He's just everywhere. He's everywhere. So, yeah. This Friday, January 31st, Nate Land YouTube channel. Aaron, wherever special signature dish...

Very, very pumped about it. Tonight's show on Monday. Making moves. This is your first kind of big out in the world. Yeah. And if you saw Chappelle's last SNL monologue, very similar. He comes out with a cigarette, sits down on a chair still immediately. They told me I couldn't smoke, but I will be sitting down my whole set and just pontificating about the world. Turn off the monitors. You got a Xan in now. Oh, for sure. I always have one. Yeah.

No, I'm pumped, man. It's exciting. It'd be nice if you just had your signature dish that you could just eat out. I should bring out a signature dish. Yeah. Just eat throughout my set. Yeah. Yeah, just... Any advice for all y'all that have done all these late night sets? And Nate's done it 50 times. Ryan's done it a bunch. I'll take this, guys. Yeah, Brian. Brian's gone up late, but I don't know if he's done it. Uh...

That's funny. Yeah, I don't... How many times have you run the set? A bunch. Running it two more times a night and then all weekend. I feel good about the set. Mm-hmm.

They might make some changes last minute, but I feel all right about it. Yeah. You feel all right or you feel good? You said, I feel good, and then I feel all right. Well, I was worried I came across a little too confident. Yeah. I walked it back a little bit. I hate the set, but no, I'm kidding. You'll hate it too. I always think it's never going to be as good as you think it's going to be when you do it in the room.

Does that make sense? Yeah. Like you're going to murder more in clubs. Yeah. And so when you do it in the room, you got to know just it's not – I mean the crowd's great. They're laughing. It's awesome. Yeah.

You build it up and you think, oh boy. You think it's going to be... It's almost every special I've taped either. Everything you tape never is as good because there's just too much pressure on it. I think for the audience, for you, for everything, that it just can never live up to what you think it's going to be. And then so...

But, I mean, just, yeah, you do it. You just go and everybody's watching on TV. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah, and I would say it'd be good to get a set where you don't get the reaction that you think it deserves before doing it. That way you know what that feels like. That should be hard. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Because you don't want to have it just bang, bang, bang, and then you go on The Tonight Show, you do one of the jokes, and it doesn't work. You're like, well, why didn't it work? It's been working every time I did it. Go bomb with it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Try to bomb. Yeah.

Do you have any experience with that? I'll see what I can do. See if Birmingham has any spots. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Friday night. Come on down. Yeah, there's got to be a weird room that you can go –

Do it in. Are you guys running in New York? Yeah, I am. I kind of bombed with it the other night here at the Dark and Dirty Showcase. Oh, there you go. And it was pretty rowdy, and I got them by the end, but it was tough sledding up top. That's good. Do you add cuss words in between? Oh, yeah. That's how you got to get them. Start screaming at them. Yeah.

Yeah, that's good. If you bomb, yeah. As long as you've bombed with it. I always think you've got to bomb with it. Yeah, it just happens, right? Well, you go run it. Right, too many times. Village Lantern, some weird spot, and then next thing you know, you're just in the, your five minutes is two minutes. Yeah. Do like Dusty does and run in front of the stagehands. Yeah, I did do that. He does this. Ryan, do you do that? You run your whole set in front of the stagehands? Yeah.

Oh, that's a good way to bomb. Like when they let you go out? In rehearsal. In rehearsal. Wow. No, I've never done that. I've always done the full set. What made you do that? I don't know. I just feel like... His ego? Yeah. He does extra time. I just want to feel what it feels like to do it out there. Wow. And I also feel like, yeah, it's the worst reaction you're going to get. Yeah. What is that time out to? Like a minute and a half? Yes. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Wow. Do they get nervous? Like, are they like...

Hey, it's going to be, you know, has anybody ever said like, it's going to be better than that, right? No, I mean, maybe they thought it, but they never said it to me. Actually, this last time I was there, they actually laughed, which threw me because they never laughed at my pre-show performance. You're finally getting to them. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. You almost be like, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're not supposed to laugh. Yeah, they really threw me when they laughed. I go, whoa, whoa.

I even said I wasn't expecting that. Are you going to do that, Aaron? Probably not, man. I mean, probably not. Yeah, I wouldn't either. I bet it is freeing to think like this will not be like my actual tape set. It cannot be the worst set I've done on this stage today.

Yeah. Right. Do you think I'm the only person that does that? Maybe. The way they're reacting. I mean, I don't know. I'm trying to think. No, I'm sure someone does. But I remember they always said to do it. And I was like, I don't want to do this. Right. I feel...

like too weird and then I mean I maybe have said like I want to say this yeah or they'd say your highs or your lows and mine's like I'm gonna be right in the pocket for the whole time like we ain't we ain't going that high it's funny that you pause like where you think a standing ovation is gonna happen or something yeah it's just silent you're just waiting for it

Well, good for you. Thanks, man. Yeah, that's fantastic. I'm pumped. Yeah. It's going to be a fun week coming up. I feel like you can stay on them, too, a little bit. You don't have to let them, like the applause or something. Feel free to kind of cut it off a little. Oh, step on it a little. Step on it a little bit. Not crazy, but step on it enough to be like, hey, and then I went to the store. Don't bow or anything. Yeah.

No, well, it's just like sometimes I feel like applause breaks don't play always as good as they feel in the room as on they do at TV. Okay. And you may not have to worry about that. I hope to God this comes up. It's a best case scenario. I can't imagine that will happen. But if it does.

Worst case, they do that wide shot you were talking about last week of see foul in the background and he's just doing this. Worst case is we just don't hear about this anymore and I'm not on the show. I think if you bomb that, I mean, I imagine if you bomb horrifically, they go. Well, there's been cases. Yeah, I know. I know of a couple of them. It's got to be real bad. I mean, it would be hard to...

I think they even showed them. I mean, I don't know. Did they ever not air one? I know there was one that they aired, but they made it where you can't find it online. I know that one. It was on Jimmy Kimmel. But there's a – like Sebastian has gone back and talked about one where he bombed pretty bad on there, like years later on The Tonight Show. They air it just so they don't – if you never come back, they want people to know why. Yeah. Yeah.

I was saying, I could bob so bad they never mentioned that I was supposed to be there. You don't want them when you get done, then Jimmy goes out and has to start doing his act to fill in for times. They go, can we get the roots? Could y'all do a, I don't know, a five-minute number in case we cut some stuff? It's going to be great. It's going to be great. Jimmy's the best. It's the...

It's the best one to do. It's so fun. It just makes you feel like you're in show business. Yeah, that's what it feels like. I'm doing some stuff. It's so fun. Go eat afterwards. Lucy going? She is going, yeah. Go eat afterwards. Signature dish. I've got to go get the signature dish somewhere.

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The only way to get 20% off is to go to joindeleteme.com slash nate. Enter code nate at checkout. That's joindeleteme.com slash nate. Code nate. All right. This weekend, I was in D.C., Washington, D.C., working on the new hour. I'm trying to think what it – I mean, I was at Soul Joel's, my buddy Soul Joel, in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Have you been? I know of the place. I've never been there. Yeah.

It was great. He runs a great room there. And I started with Soul Joel. We all kind of started. When he was coming up and he was running shows, and he would put a lot of us on a lot of his shows, like Julian, Lee, Vecchione, Giannis, like a bunch of us. So we went there on a Tuesday, and it was great. Wow, that's cool. Super fun. Yeah. Drove back in the van, went to a Sheetz.

I did not eat good. Yeah. But I'm going to start. Yeah, but I'm going to. But I didn't want to. It was Julian. They make milkshakes. And it's like midnight. And they're willing to make them at midnight. Yeah.

Which is not your fault. That's not fair. It should be illegal. Usually, your people are pretty anti-ice cream. Yeah. They don't want to give it to you at midnight. Right. Yeah. And Sheetz was like... Sheetz is a great company. They are. They're into it. And they go, look, we'll do it. And then Julian got a peanut butter cup...

milkshake, which I don't even normally get. And then I saw him watching him make it and I'm like, golly. I wasn't getting anything. And then I was like, look at that. Reese's Cup or Butterfinger milkshake? Reese's Cup. I don't like Butterfingers. You don't like a Butterfinger milkshake? Oh, a Butterfinger milkshake is... I don't think I like Butterfinger as a candy. I don't know if I've really ever had one. A milkshake, though, is pretty wild. Oh, man. It was good. So...

Cookies and cream. So I drink some of that. Cookies and cream are good. That's a good milkshake. It's a good milkshake. But I'm still going to get down. I'm going to lose my... Nate made a big proclamation last week. Yeah, I'm going to lose my weight. It's not starting now. I listened to that episode. That's pretty exciting with the donuts. Well, it's... Yeah, yeah. It hasn't started. We're going to start it...

next week michael scott scott's thoughts over here yeah starts monday because i got but it's gonna go monday we're gonna get after you have that's great when is the deadline july 8th july 8th okay yeah my daughter's birthday oh perfect so eric texted me a video of you ordering might have been there it was there he's like tell everyone not to worry about me yeah i'm gonna be fine yeah uh no yeah he was uh yeah eric

Put a clip of it, or he cut a clip up, like of them talking about it, because it was very funny. But yeah, we'll be all right. We'll be all right. We're going to get there. Go hard. But DC was great. Thanks for everybody that came out to the DC Improv. That's another great club. And Stroop, Joe Zimmerman, Julie McCullough, we all had fun. So yeah, it was great. Awesome.

Wednesday night I did Aaron Weber and Friends here in Zanies. Oh, yeah. Kind of bombed, but... Yeah, I know. But... It was up there a little too long, but you didn't mind. Yeah.

We're out. You're welcome. Two minutes in. If it were a five-minute set, it would have been great. I thought this was his friends. He did great. It was a fun show. Yeah, I was up there. Friends of Aaron's I thought would be friends of mine, but they are not. Wow. But...

Saturday, I did the Honest Fox Comedy Fest in Marietta, Georgia. That's basically a Nate Land light comedy fest. I mean, it's Dustin Nickerson, Steve Rogers. Oh, really? Johnny W. I'm forgetting some people now, but just a lot of people that you've taken on the road with you or have done the showcase here. And it was a lot of fun. Yeah, I did two shows down there Saturday night. Great crowds. A lot of Nate Land folks came out. Nancy Johnson.

gave me this mug. Easier to drive tour. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ryan, that's the tour he's on. Brian Bates tour. It's easier to drive to the plot. Yeah.

Nate proclaimed that. That's pretty good. Did you drive or fly to Honest Fox? I drove. Okay. To Marietta? His tour is always like, you could, but it's always an awkward stop where you're like, you might as well just do the seven hours. Yeah, yeah.

Either way, it will be seven hours. Right, right. Yeah, right. Security and everything. Security and everything. Might as well. Easier to drive. Just might as well drive it. If this tour takes off, you're going to be in a real pickle because you're going to have to go to places. Well, that's the... That's not going to happen. They got to come to him. Oh, I see. I see. That's the deal. Right, right. That makes sense. That's the whole point of it. Right. Yeah. So there's going to be a circle, a Brian Bates circle that... Yeah. Yeah.

That's it. You want in it. That's good. You wish you were in it, Ryan. He makes his audience fly. Yeah. I do. I wish I was in it. Yeah. He's the only one that makes his audience fly to the shows. I want to drive alone. He's like kind of Vegas, but it's just kind of the state surrounding. But he's got a residency in a circle of America. Easier to drive, harder for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Put that disclaimer on there. Yeah.

It could be just kind of a shape of your head on a map. Yeah, that's your radius. Have you ever wanted to go visit downtown Demopolis? Well, come tie it up with Brian Bates. Easier to drive to. It's a nice hotel. Demopolis. That's where Laura was born. It's called Real America, guys. Just go to the elite cities. I get out there. He gets out and mixes it up. Right. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Thank you for moving that hair, by the way.

He means like Madison, Wisconsin is an elite city. He's talking about even in from that. Right, right, right, right. Yeah. Well, you know, you're –

You can move around the country and do it in different places throughout your career. So right here, you're in Nashville. Yeah, and we'll start in the southeast for the first 20 years. Yeah, uproot your family so that you can hit other areas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's turning down gigs left and right. I love my career, guys. Apparently, you guys have issues. I love it. I think it's great.

They called him about North Dakota, and he goes, come on. He hung the phone up. He goes, you couldn't pay me enough. Come on. What, are you out of your mind? All right. Where were you at, Ryan? Oh, I was in Huntsville. That's why I'm here in Nashville. Huntsville. Yeah, my first time there, and it was great. It was like such a nice little weekend. Mm-hmm.

Did you know a lot about Huntsville going into it? It kind of surprises people if they're not familiar with it. Well, every time you tell somebody you're going to Huntsville, they go, oh, okay. Well, it's half rocket scientists, half Alabama. Yeah. And they're really smart, and it was fun. I had a good time. And I think I knocked off...

All 50 states this weekend. And to be honest... That's big. Alabama was the last one? I think maybe Alabama was the last one. I knocked off Arkansas a while ago. In the Alabama side, we wish the rocket scientists would leave. Yeah. That's kind of the vibe I get from them. Yeah.

50 states. Alabama was the last. Yeah. Wow. I think so. That's so funny. Your last two states were the first two I could ever get booked. Alabama and Arkansas. Oh, really? Those were your first two? You went to Mississippi first? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I love Mississippi, but I'm just saying. Hattiesburg. Did you go to Hattiesburg? I've been to Hattiesburg. That's right. There's a guy, I'm blanking on the name. Ken Oliver. Yeah. Well, him, and there's another person that runs in Hattiesburg. They get a whole little run that they do.

and you would do Louisiana, Hattiesburg. I did Hattiesburg. Yeah. Hattiesburg, you'd knock off pretty. I got to hang out with the mayor of Hattiesburg while I was there. Oh, how about that? My friend, Vince Fabra, uh,

He went to college in Hattiesburg. Yeah. And his old college roommate is the now mayor of Hattiesburg. Oh, wow. We hung out in the mayor's office. Wow, you got some pull. I'm trying to imagine any of my old roommates being a mayor of a legitimate city. I just saw one of my old roommates got arrested for stealing $25,000 worth of guns. So.

And he lived with me. He did live with me for a while. Did it feel like it made sense? Oh, yeah. Okay. You weren't shocked when he saw it. He didn't even look shocked in the mugshot. Yeah. Yeah, I did it.

I got I just have Montana left oh really I've been to Montana I've been to all 50 states but Montana's the last one I have performed oh really you just told me you've done a show in every yeah yeah yeah I got Montana that's funny mine is and I'm hoping to get it yeah I'm gonna add something this year well March 7th I'll be in Montana boom whoa Montana's great you're not driving there I'm hitting the road now

You're flying to Montana. Yeah. He drives to the layover and then gets on the plane. I'm driving to Denver. Easier to drive or cities that actually people should drive to. Yeah. Nobody's flying there. Yeah. Bozeman. Where are you going? Last Best Comedy Club. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a nice spot. Where did you do a show in Montana? Bozeman? Or?

I did Bozeman. I did Missoula. I did Helena. And I did Billings. All your work was in Montana. You got Billings? I did do Billings. Yeah, Billings was great. Billings was great. Yeah. Have you done Montana too? Oh, yeah. I went to Bozeman and Billings. Arkansas was one of my last ones to knock off. Yeah. It took a while to knock Arkansas off. Arkansas is hard. I did a college there a long time ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's not easy. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Aaron, you were running your set this week. Yeah. Where were you? Oh, golly. I thought you wanted me to talk about Arkansas. What do you think about Arkansas? I like it. There's a great club there, The Grove. Yeah. Yeah, The Grove. Northwest Arkansas. I was in town. Where was I in town? Yeah, I was here. Don't tell?

I did a Don't Tell show. I did my show. I did spots everywhere. Just bouncing around town. Nothing exciting. Working the set. Working the set. Could be working, though. Could be working. Well, I did Evansville, Indiana. Did a theater in Evansville. Never been to Evansville. It was a great, hot show. After the show, a cigar bar called Cigar Cigar opened their doors to us. They were closed. Opened their doors to us. Let us have cigars. Big time. Had a great hang. Yeah.

And then I went to Indianapolis, another theater show, great show, hot show. Is that the Clows or the Clows? Clues is apparently how it's pronounced. It's not how it's spelled. It looks like it's spelled Clows, C-L-O-W-E-S, but it's pronounced Clues.

uh i did victory theater in evansville clues in indianapolis i've been going to indianapolis for a long time i love it there it's such a great city i had a great time yeah hot show i've had good shows there yeah it's fun yeah i love it i used to do crackers back in the day oh yeah did helium a couple of times and then this is my first theater show there yeah it's awesome it's awesome yeah i've done that's great yeah i did crackers a bunch helium

Crackers used to really be a great two club. Yeah, two. Broad Ripple was a good one. Yeah, I did downtown too, but Broad Ripple was the one. Oh, Broad Ripple was so hot. And you met an 8-Land fan on your drive home.

Oh, yeah, I did. On the way home, this car pulls up next to me and this lady's staring at me, which is not really that strange for me. I get wild on the road. It's not that weird. And I gave her a wave. I just go, okay, hey, lady. And then the back window lets down and the guy has a sign that says Dusty. And then he flips it over and it says, hello, folks. Whoa. Yeah, they recognize me on the interstate. Oh, wow. Wow.

Yeah, so it was fun. We waved. We had a good time. How long did you have to stay with them? Long enough to scare my friend Vince. Vince was like, maybe folks on the road, though. Yeah. I got a little excited about it. I kept staring at him. What's the sign say? Driving. But then they went around me, but then it felt like, ah, they're not really going faster than I'd like to go. But I was like, I got to. You can't pass them now. I'm not going to go back by them. Wow. So I got to.

You know you got a real distinct look when someone recognizes you flying by on the freeway. Yeah. That's crazy. I mean, I was like, this is wild. I got recognized on the interstate. That's what I'm talking about. That's big time. Yeah. Yeah. And then you got to decide, how long are we all together, you think?

A couple hours? No, no. You're on the interstate. They live in Hermitage. Oh, you mean, I mean, I saw them for a while in front of me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I stopped for coffee and bathroom breaks a lot. So eventually I was off. I was out of there. But it was fun.

A little hint. I mean, I don't know how they do a sign. They just had a sign. Just set up a piece of paper and it was kind of floppy sign. And I wanted to, you know, have something back for them, but I'm like, well, I'm driving and I don't really have...

paper handy throw your merch tell them right on the window yeah throw a coffee mug at them that would be great yeah just lean back just lean back lower your seat i'm gonna incoming yeah but yeah that was fun that was hot that's amazing yeah

All right. All right. We're good. We can start with the comments now. We're going to read some comments. Okay. Some people last week, you can chime in. None of them about you. Okay. That's good. You could not be here, to be honest. But you're here. We do want you to be a part of it. You can make fun of people, too. In the comments. Katie Shea. This is the funny episode in a long time. Funniest. Funniest. What did I say? This is the funny episode in a long time. Oh.

They're always funny, but this one had me in tears. The pressure Nate put on Aaron to explain gravity was incredible. Good one, guys. All right. A little gravity talk. How do you feel about gravity, Ryan? Well, it's all present. Is there a debate on gravity? What's the debate? You would think there isn't, but it turns out there's a huge debate. Well, we were wondering about the space station, and we were just trying to get Aaron to explain to us, you know, how come...

You're not floating. Why are you... Right? Why were you floating? Yeah, you're like inside the space. Inside the space. If you sunk a metal ball and you were laying in the metal ball in the ocean, you would just lay flat on the metal ball. But when you go into space, you float. Right. So why come that...

Yeah, exactly. So why come that? Whatever that is, why is that not in there in the ocean? But it does seep through. Somehow it seeps through. And obviously we all believe in gravity, right? We just wanted Aaron to explain it to us. How's it getting through, but it's not getting through under there? Wow, boy. I mean, you got me. I don't know. Exactly. That's what we're saying. No one knows. But Aaron wants to answer. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a frustrating thing because I can't... When you're orbiting the Earth, you're in a free fall, technically. But you're moving at such a speed that you're in orbit because you're free falling, but you're also...

You have speed this... I mean, I need to diagram it out. But if everything stopped, you would fall to the ground. If you stopped moving. Oh, yeah. So if you were up there and everything... So it's just like a wind. It's like that machine at the carnival that spins you around. The people in the space station would always be like... There's no air, so there's no air resistance. That's the thing. The space station is going... But like if you...

So, like, when they're always outside the thing. But they always got to be attached to it. But you would think, like, if they got attached to the thing, you'd be like, whoop. No, because they're already moving. They're moving that speed, too. Yeah. So, the International Space Station. So, it all really works out. Yeah. I guess, at the end of the day, that's all you need to know. Yeah, yeah. Everything works out. What about calibrate it? When George Clooney floated away in gravity. Yeah. Is that...

That's pretty accurate, you think? You never see that guy again? I know a lot of people have picked apart the physics of that where a lot of it doesn't make any sense. But I know that we got it pulled up right here. The International Space Station orbits the Earth at 4.76 miles a second.

So that means the people inside of it are also moving that fast too. So if they step out of the space station and stop touching it, they're still moving at that speed. It's not like they're no longer moving that fast and they fly back. And what makes it like, yeah, and they're just going in a circle.

They're in orbit. Yeah. Yeah, but these are all words. I know they're words. Yes, exactly. But you move until something slows you down. So there's no air resistance in space. So once you get going, you're just going. Yeah.

So they're being tugged down by the Earth's gravity and moving super fast that way. So what it does is it just orbits you. So they're caught in a perfect, like really you're kind of caught in a perfect... Yeah, it has to be... So if you went up a couple, you'd be like, well, now we're going slower maybe. I think it would be different, right? I think it has to be that right. They have to calibrate it just right. Yeah. Okay. There's a lot of moving pieces. Smart people doing this stuff. How many people ever get lost in space? We haven't lost anybody. I don't know.

Not a lot of people get up there. Well, not that we know of. That's true. Maybe they just don't tell us. We're having a jar. Maybe the people up there right now are lost. They might be. They do it in the movie Apollo 13, but I guess it's based in truth where at one point they had to just look at the Earth and just head towards it because they had to shut off the navigation system for power. So they literally were just like,

going off eyesight. So that's pretty crazy. That's probably as close as we've gotten. We lost a bunch of people on the way up. Mm-hmm.

They die in a fire. That's not going to do it in space, though. Yeah, that's not going to do it in space. There's those people who were, I don't know if they're still in the space station, but they got left up there? We've been covering it pretty closely here. Oh, you have been? One of them is from Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Oh, really? Close by, old friends with Brian. Oh. And they delivered them some Santa hats. That's good. So I think we were wondering, probably instead of getting the Santa hats, they were like, maybe just get us out of here. Yeah. They go, but why don't you use the thing that you used to bring the Santa hats? Yeah.

Can you take us back? And they go, no, it just fits Santa hats. I think they have an attic of the space station. They go up there every Christmas and then go get the tree down. The lights up. Fourth of July and all that stuff. Yeah. We want to have him on the podcast once he gets back. Oh, cool. Okay. Or at least I do. All right. Well, I'm telling you guys stuff you already know. All right. Uh,

Cherry, Cherry, Cherry, Cherry Allen. Dusty just continued to read the ingredients list at a quiet volume. Had me dying. Just mumbling about how there's no reason there should be that many ingredients was hilarious. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we were talking about Krispy Kreme donuts, and Aaron pulled it up, and there's some wild ingredients in there. It doesn't make any sense to me. I thought it would just be wheat. I think what makes it good, that's like, you know, that's like,

in orbit. You know, it's like... Perfect combo. No one knows what it is. Right. You know, you start naming what is in it, you're like, no one knows what it is. Nate looks at gravity like a gas leak. Like, you know, there's a hole somewhere and gravity got in. Yeah, that's what I figured. Yeah. Yeah. So which of these ingredients do you...

I don't think this was the list that we had pulled. No, it was a different one. This is Krispy Kreme being like, let us put our spin on it. Yeah, I recognize all that stuff. A little castor sugar. I know we're having a lot of that. A little glaze stabilizer. Water's listed more than once. Tapioca starch.

They're so desperate, they put water on there twice. A little emulsifier. You can never have too much water. Or vegetable shortening. What's a yeast dough concentrate? You know, those sorts of things. Right. What makes up a yeast dough concentrate? Probably yeast. You guys ever had an unstabilized glaze? You don't want to get an unstabilized glaze. No, that's what Dunkin' Donuts has. Unstabilized glaze. Yeah.

That's voodoo donuts. John Clark. I think Brian is too smart at times and his clever lines go unnoticed by the others. Yeah, that's what's happening. Love the podcast. Looking forward to seeing Nate when he comes to Charleston, South Carolina this summer. What's he talking about? The last 240 episodes.

How many episodes have we done? This is 237. We've done that many episodes? That many, dude. Golly. For 237 episodes, we tried to get you on, Ryan. You made it happen. Is that right? Well, I'm happy to be here. Sorry it took me so long.

That's all right. So there's not even an example. That was just you putting something in. Well, he commented this week. I took out the one specific because when we were talking about Greg Warren eating some donuts and I said, yeah, he's a consumer. And he said,

I noticed it. Actually, we made eye contact. I actually think that I got more than it deserved. That's why I took it out. My bad. Maybe John Clark's not all that smart. Yeah. Or maybe that's just me. John Clark sounds like a name Brian Bates would make up. Yeah.

I put in the thing about Charleston just to make it not obvious. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not even going to Charleston. I'm going. Well, do you want us to bring the podcast to a screeching halt and give Brian his flowers every time he makes a joke? Applause brags every time. Yeah. Maybe once again in 240 episodes. Good joke, Brian. Jensen Thomas. Nate being able to do math. Sorry.

Jensen Thomas, Nate being able to do math in relation to donuts is like Kevin from The Office only being able to do math in relation to pies. Yeah, I don't even know if you realize you were doing it at the time, but you were just flying through. You're doing algebra. Carry the one. Yeah, I don't know. I think I can do math. I just do it my own way.

Honestly, I make fun of Common Core, but I bet Common Core is probably kind of how I think about math. No, you're who it's built for. Yeah. They didn't have it. I was the head of the game. Right. I could have started it. You were doing Common Core before it was cool. Before it was common. Uncommon Core. Krista Nebaker. Nebaker. Krista Nebaker. Go, Nate!

I live in Idaho and did 75 hard in the winter through many blizzards. If I can do it, anyone can. You will love how you feel, I promise.

That was a tough one for me to do. Well, it's 75 hard. I'm going to do it. I'm back to 75 hard. It was not going to do it. That's the diet that you talked about last week. Yeah. So you got to, do you know what it is? I've heard about it. Yeah, you got to work out twice a day and then be on a diet, read 10 books. No, read 10 pages. That'll be the hard part. That's pretty different. That's pretty different. And then the water. But I think we're back on it starting Monday. So if you've seen this, now we're going to start Monday. Okay.

Starting now. Now. That'll be like February 3rd. We'll see what we can get out of it. Krista says if she can do it, anyone can. I do think I need to know a little more about her before I believe that. She said she was my age. Oh, okay. Oh, and she did it recently. Oh, I believe her. In the winter through many blizzards. I'm sure she's from Idaho. That's what 75 hard is. White hole...

So your winter up there is like, you can't go outside? Where I'm from in Idaho, it's rough. It was 40 below last week. 40 below? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Holy shit. Yeah, up in the mountains, it gets cold. But I don't know where she's from. There's a lot of different places in Idaho. Is there? Yeah.

Learn a lot. 40 below. 40 below is insane. That was uncommon. Is school canceled just because it's like, come on. Where my family's living now was 40 below. Where I grew up, we would get out of school at 20 below. 20 below. Yeah. Yeah.

So y'all had to wear like special coats. You got to wear a coat. Yeah, good one. The best coat you got. Yeah. This isn't trying to code out weather. This has got to bring the heat. The most coat. But I would think you have to wear like, you know, when you see, when you buy a winter coat and it's good up to whatever degrees, that doesn't really matter here.

But there, it's like, nah, it's serious. To be cool, would people try to wear less coats?

Yeah, people don't. I mean, yeah. It's not even got cold out here. I remember going skiing and wearing a ball cap because I wanted to be cool. Oh. And that was a bad idea. I think I got frostbite on my ear, actually. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's, yeah. Yeah. They cancel the schools here if it's windy. So I can't imagine. I mean, negative 20 seems like a crazy place to draw the line.

I guess that's just how y'all live. Yeah, I don't, I mean, I guess I didn't realize even Idaho got that cold, but I guess up in the mountains. We don't think about Idaho a ton. Nobody does, really. Yeah. What do you think February 21st in Boise is going to be like? Well, Boise's a lot more temperate. Okay. I'm from right in the corner of like Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. Okay. Up in the mountains.

It's a really clever way to plug your dates. Oh, is that what you're doing? I mean, I'll be there February 21st. And boy, I just want to find out how cold it's going to be. 33 degrees there right now. You can manage that. 33. It's above freezing. No, you're going to be fine. It's a good time to go because people want to be outside in the summer. Now, is the summer and fall is unbelievable where you're from. Really? Yes. Amazing. That's where it's all for. It gets like...

jacket weather every night and it never gets above like 90 you know wow yeah really nice for about a week and a half and then uh how many people grew up in your town a thousand oh really thousand people wow yep tiny little town still talk to them all all of them every one of them every one of them yeah we just had a high school reunion actually i had like 60 people in my class i know you had a small class a small class too yeah and so i kind of feel like they're like

cousins almost or second cousins i kind of know what they're all doing yeah i talked to their parents and their parents talked to my parents yeah whatever so yeah but i mean thousand people's like uh java thousand people in 60 when you're graduating class yeah 62 we had one of the best biggest ever best ever one of the biggest ever this is a big deal yeah yeah

You think Idaho's really underrated or are you pretty happy with its place? What's the name of your town? Ashton. Ashton. That sounds fancy. So what do you got to do to fly there? How do you get there to fly? Like, what do you do? I got to fly either through Denver or Salt Lake into Idaho Falls and then drive an hour. Okay. Yeah. And has your family grew up there the whole time?

My mom's family's been there forever. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you got it there. 1,127. It's the world's largest seed potato growing area. Yep. That's pretty nice. And the oldest dog race. Yes. You know about that? Well, today's topic is Idaho. Oh, is that right? Well, I can wait. Oh, my bad. I'll wait. I'm sorry. I didn't know that. We were getting into it.

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Andy Wexler, not trying to feed into Dusty's conspiracies, but two seconds after Nate read the comment about the Wicked movie and witches, the power went out. Yeah, everybody keeps calling them conspiracies, but it keeps coming true. It's Harbors the Truth.

Well, it'd be a better theory if it hadn't happened the last three weeks. Yeah, that's true. Happened once when I was announcing my shows. But who knows what, yeah, I mean, yeah. So anytime evil is about. Power goes out here a lot. Yeah.

That's what I just said. I'm trying to get it for you, Ryan. If I hit you by accident, I'm sorry. Well, at least he'll know. He's like, I'd almost rather you let the fly go around than hit me.

My bad. I'll cool off. Paul's getting on you. Ty Wimmer. Ty Wimmer. My favorite part of this episode is when Aaron says a lot of the actors from the Friday Night Lights movie and TV show are the same. But indeed, not a single actor is on both the show and movie.

then that Notre Dame loss may have him out of sorts. Oh, wow. That's insane. Someone's calling him out. To do zero research about it and then write in a comment where you're this wrong is crazy. So is it... Wow. Connie Britton, who's...

The one or two lead actor on the series is the coach's wife in the movie. And then there are a bunch of smaller characters. Buddy Garrity plays a booster in both movies. I think Brad Leland is the actor's name. And then Coach Mack in the series. He's a ref in the state championship game in the movie.

There's a bunch. Just maybe be one of your best burns. What do you mean? I mean, you're burning them. Oh, I'm destroying this guy. This guy has no clue. Do a little research, Ty, before you ride in. Do a little research to stop Ty and start winning. You know what I mean? Maybe he was thinking about it. That's why his last name is Wimmer. Yeah. Ty Winter. Now, it's that last sentence in that comment that got to me. I wouldn't have been cool about that. Notre Dame may have him out of sorts. It did for a while, but I feel good about things now. Yeah. I feel good.

Perry Jerry Rickonator. Perry Jerry Rikenator. That's a great name. Perry Jerry is fun.

I love The Breakfast Club, but how could they have forgotten Napoleon Dynamite? We didn't list a ton of high school movies. Oh, yeah. Great movie, though, Napoleon Dynamite. That's in Idaho, too. I was going to say, more of an Idaho movie than a high school movie, I feel like. That movie came out, and I was at a premiere of it, and I could not... I mean, I was in shock at how accurate it was. Oh, really? Yeah. It blew my mind. Yeah. It was so funny, but I couldn't believe...

that they captured. Like you related to it. Oh, wow. So much. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Like I thought it was a documentary. To Napoleon or just to the. Kind of to Napoleon. But to the farmer. Just the whole thing. Oh, the farmer was like, that's a real guy. Yeah. You know that that's a guy. Yeah. It's not an actor. I think they actually just had that guy talk. Yeah. That was not scripted. I bet they did. Just a guy talking. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that was crazy. I mean, I watched that and thought, well, I guess my career's over. These guys already did everything about my life. Yeah. But...

They got a proclamation from the state of Idaho for that movie. What does that mean? The state legislature passed something acknowledging how nicely they portrayed the state and thanking them for portraying Idaho in such a favorable way. I love that. Can't find my checkbook. Hope don't mind a paying change. Laughter

It's a great movie. It's a great movie.

And Uncle Rico is a beloved character that, I mean, so many pop culture references. Those guys are so good. How did you go to the premiere? I went to some premiere because I knew somebody. I mean, that show was like, that movie was like an independent thing when it first came out. And those guys went to the same college I went to, but they were there a couple years after me. So I kind of knew people who knew them. I can't remember why I ended up there. But it was like a, it was that movie that,

It wasn't a big release. I think it was a Sundance thing, maybe. And then it kind of like... Caught on. Yeah, yeah. Is there a town in it? They're in a town called... It's right over the Utah border. What is the name of that? I don't know if they name it in the movie.

But I think that's where they shot it. Okay. Franklin County, Idaho. Okay. Filmed at Preston High School in Franklin County. Yeah, Preston, Idaho. I think the director – Do you know Preston High School? I know where Preston is. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. How far away are you from Preston? Like maybe two hours, two and a half hours. Okay. Yeah. I mean, Brian could get there on his tour. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, who books that? Yeah. Yeah.

I was the age of 13 when this came out. Like, for a five-year stretch, this was the most quoted thing at all kids my age. Your mom goes to college. All that. We quoted this movie all the time, too. We're asking because you have a movie like that –

was a big movie when you graduated high school that oh that's that's like old school or napoleon you know yeah yeah that was a big one yeah old school was what year did you graduate i graduated in 94 so this was after i graduated unbelievable year for movies really oh yeah do you remember a big movie from high school uh i don't know no i don't

from high school remember this movie coming out fiction shawshank shawshank this on the podcast i didn't watch shawshank when it came out actually i still have i mean shawshank pulp fiction forest mask the mask forest straight to the mask yeah we're talking the mask ron you tell me you don't remember the mask i remember them i don't remember like in high school i guess forest gump was big

Dumb and Dumber? Oh, Leon the Professional? Oh, Dumb and Dumber, probably. I've been debating watching that Leon the Professional. It's so good. Is it? My mom used to say that you look like him. Because I look at the picture, and I always think, I don't know, I've got to follow this little girl now. That's what I think is in my head. It's so good.

it's very violent but so good well the thing when I read the thing I'm like it's exactly what I want and then I see the picture and I'm like I gotta follow some old girls I've never heard it called Leon I just always heard it as the professional I remember a lot of movies right after it's so good wow

All right. Well, I mean, I'm not going to do it tonight, but you got the same eyes as this guy. I do? Yeah. He's wearing sunglasses. No, but I know what he looks like. Yeah. Okay. I think Pet Detective was around then. I think that was 95, maybe. No, we've already said the ones that were. No, Pet Detective was 94. Oh, there we go. What a year for Jim Carrey. Three movies in one year? The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, and...

Ace Ventura come out in 94. That's crazy. Oh, True Lies? That's a great one. These movies are all throughout the best year. Best movie year ever. What about Tommy Boy? When was Tommy Boy? 97. Oh, that was later. That was mine. Oh, really? I graduated in 97. Maybe it was...

Street Fighter? I don't know that. Maybe it was 95. Little Women? Angels in the Outfield? Angels in the Outfield, great movie. So did you just watch movies all the time when you were in high school? That's all we did. I was working at a video store in 94, so I took almost all these home. A Blockbuster or something else? No. Adventure video. Family video? Not a mega video. Yeah.

Blockbuster. Blockbuster. Yeah, yeah. I'm doing Family on your mind. We had a tanning bed. Mega bed, yeah. You had a tanning bed? Blockbuster had benefits. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. What did it cost to run a movie? Do you remember?

Maybe like $0.99 or $1.99. It was around that. Was it before credit cards? I think you could do credit card if you... Yeah. It was one of those where you had to get out that big thing. It was a pain to do. We would get so mad if somebody paid with credit card. Really? Then how did you get people to return stuff?

Do you have to pay and charge their account? Yeah, you had the card, the venture, like the mega. Technically, you really couldn't, right? Maybe we had their credit card on file. Or their bank account or something. I don't think we were that elaborate. I think they just had an account. They had an account. You had it right at, yeah. They had an account. You couldn't get another. Yeah, you. Because then I think that would be the problem is like, what are they going to do? Like how are. They could steal once, but then they couldn't. Right. Run again. Right. Oh, okay. We had a drop box with a camera on it. So. Okay. If they said, I returned it, you know.

We could prove if they did or not. Did you ever have to do that? I didn't. Maybe the manager did. Uh-huh.

I think I remember being $1.99, 99 cents worth. Yeah, that's what I remember. They had like a 99 cents bin where you could go and get some stuff. You never rented anything. Or did you have DVDs? I remember renting a few DVDs, video games we would rent. I think it was the most fun. It's the best. It was a great time. It was a great time. It was a great time. Physical media. It's where it's at. You're much more invested. You rent something and take it home, and it's this or nothing. You're going to stick it out. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

And it's more like you sit there and you go, all right, y'all ready? Like we're, it's, it's more of a, it's little stuff that it adds to versus now. It's like, you kind of take everything for granted now. Like maybe I take Leon professional for granted. Cause it's there. Shawshank. I take for granted. It's always on. Yeah. So I'm like, well, I don't need to see it. You should though. Well, one day I got two now. I have seen Mighty Ducks one and two. Uh, uh,

I'm trying to think what I watched the other night. I watched something. A movie that's... Oh, Maverick 94? It was great. Richie Rich? The Client? I started watching something. There's an argument to be made. This is the best movie in your whole life. You know what I started watching? Yeah.

I tried to start watching West Ruing last night. Did you really? Yeah. What was that? I think this is your second or third try at it, right? Yeah, so I had started the first episode maybe eight months to a year ago. And then I just pressed... It said resume play. I just went right back into it. And then I was like, kind of did it, and I made it into the second episode. And then I was like, I don't know how to go. It was like I was signing...

My book. Well, I'll show you. So I have to sign. So I have signed copies of my book. This is the cover of it. All right. There it is. There it is. Big Dumb Eyes. Big Dumb Eyes. Oh, that's what you've been saying. Yeah. I thought you were saying the Big Dumb Eyes. Yeah, I know. A lot of people. But I had to sign. So I got to do signed copies. And...

And so I was like, yeah, I think I just was having to focus too much. And then I think I also got a little bored. That's not a good zone out and put it on in the background show. Can I just skip to a season? Or do I got to go through the whole thing? I think you asked that three years ago on the pod. There's episode Crackpots and These Women.

That's where I was like, this show's great. That might be the one I want. That's the second episode. No, it's either the third or the fifth, and it ends with Martin Sheen gives the speech to the staff at the end where you're like, oh, this is as good as TV can be. I remember feeling that. It took a while. You can go ahead and skip, I think. I don't know why y'all are laughing at me.

You just said you made such a big statement. This is as good as TV can be. I said I remember feeling. Okay, that was just funny to me. How old were you? I'm not mad at you for that. Maybe 13 or 14. How do you have those feelings at 13? I can't even imagine thinking about TV like that in depth.

But then again, we were probably watching step by step. I don't think. Yeah, I was. I've never was watching anything that. No, I didn't. He's. Yeah. You're intellectual. I mean, I remember the Incredible Hulk. And when there was a second Hulk, they had to fight each other. I thought this is the best television's ever going to get. Yeah. Was it like a gray Hulk? Television barely been around. Yeah.

Yeah, everybody was gray because it was black and white. I didn't know Hulk was green until 1994. At first he didn't know it was two Hulks. He thought his TV was just skipping. And then he hit the side of it. And he goes, wait a second. I think this is on purpose. Yeah. Yeah.

Stephen Bass, just like Nate, I never made my high school basketball team and resorted to playing church league on carpet. Aaron, I forward you a link to this. But this made me eligible for a halftime contest I got randomly selected to do at halftime of an Auburn game in college. I won five grand in dramatic fashion.

I then also went on to walk onto the team my junior year and play for Coach Bruce Pearl. Wow. Oh, that's this kid? Yeah. Oh, wow. I know Stephen Bass. I think you do. I think you play pickleball with him. He made a layup. Oh, yeah. Now he's got to make a free throw. Yeah, he's like a good. Stephen Bass hung out with me at the parade. He's got to make a three-pointer. Now we got to make a half-court shot here. Oh, no. That's the dramatic. I mean, he airballed the three. Now he's got to go back, set it. That's got to go in.

Oh, man. I guess you get three tries at each. What do you got? Like 30 seconds, I guess? Yeah, you got 30 seconds. Oh, there it is. So he made that. Now he's got to make the half court shot. Three, two, one. No way. Oh, man. What a feeling. That's crazy. Yeah, Stephen Bass. I hung out with him at the parade. Oh. Yeah. This is amazing. I had no idea.

Smart that you just go that other way. Go to the other goal, yeah. Look at this. Man. And then I think the other link I sent you, yeah, it's just him on the Auburn basketball. He went from getting cut from his high school team to actually making it. Playing for Bruce Pearl. Look at that. This guy crushes it. 6'6". How are they cutting him from his high school team? I had cigars with that guy.

Yeah, he's a big guy. How about that? Incredible athlete. Wow. You didn't know this at the time? No, I had no idea he was this. He's a professional pickleball player, right? Yeah. Oh, really? I think so, yeah. Wow. He's invited us to come play pickleball with him in Kid Rock.

Oh, yeah? Yeah. That's an interesting kid. He's the most interesting man in the world. See, that's what happens. You cut us from the high school basketball team, we're going to make you pay later in life because we're going to be killing it. He's with Kid Rock. I'd like him to go play against my dad. He plays pick wall all the time. That's his hometown Murphy's Bowl. Is he good? Oh, my dad is good, but I'd like to – my dad –

Him and my buddy Adam Son from high school, him and my dad played together, and they're on the same team a lot. I would like my dad to see a professional. He might have seen, because all these old people, they get into it. Adam Son's not old. He might know Adam Son. Adam Son played basketball. He's probably young. Adam Son, he graduated with me. He played for Belmont.

This guy played 2013. Yeah. So you forget. You're like, hey, maybe you know Adam Son. We graduated in 1973. Doug Destiny Farley. Dusty, you're coming to Boise, Idaho, February 21st. Is the material you're going to be performing on the 21st your new special you're shooting on the 28th? Or are you already trying out new material? Either way, I can't wait to see you.

Uh, well, I had no, I had no idea that was in there. I would not have slipped that plug in for my, uh, but I, um,

Probably be the exact material that I'll record on the special. Because that's very close. So it'll probably be the exact thing. Yeah, so hold off for the special. Don't go out. I'd wait for the special. Yeah, come see it live. No, go see it live. See it live, you know. It's always, you want to see it live, then you see it's always going to be a little different. Yeah. It always feels a little different. That is true. Now, I read that Idaho wins. Is that-

What's that? Idahoans. Oh, Idahoans. Yeah. How do you pronounce Boise? Boise? But less with a Z and more with an S? Yeah, Boise. Boise. Boise. Boise. We say Boise, but... Yeah, there's always too much emphasis on the last syllable for some reason. Boise. Boise. Boise. Boise. Then get out of it. Boise. Boise. Idaho.

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Kyle J. Ferguson, boys, is the current capital of Idaho, but Lewiston was the original capital. Southern Idaho residents wanted the capital further south, so the Idaho Secretary of State, Clinton DeWitt Smith, named himself governor while Governor Caleb Lyon was out of state duck hunting.

Essentially, the Boise folks were like, we are the capital now and went and stole all the stuff that made them the capital. That's awesome. Wow. I didn't know that. They don't teach that? I love Boise. No idea if that's true. I don't know. Why is this a comment? I've been saving that. I don't understand. It's a fair question. It's a fair question. I have a running list of – we do every state.

oh okay you know this is probably state 30 maybe we're on okay oh people will say hey when you do our state here's a fun fact oh and i save it and today's that day i said that probably three years ago we've been waiting for you right yeah yeah we've been holding off wow i had no idea you are our idaho yeah okay we could i had no one else all right are you the only comic from idaho

Do you guys know Dan Cummins? Yeah, I know Dan. Yeah, Dan's from Idaho. There's a few. There's a few. Yeah. But I started in Utah, but I grew up in Idaho. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah. We've done a Utah episode, so. Okay, well, I won't talk about it. Do you know how Idaho got its name?

No, it's in Idaho. It's an Indian word, a Native American word, right? A lot of people think that. It was actually a woman there who got around named Ida. I've had a lot of audience members tell me that, but I wasn't sure it was true. It was supposedly a Native American word. She's still around, you think? February 21st? Yeah, she's going to be in Boise on February 21st. Yeah.

A politician named George Willing came up with it. He said it meant a Native American word meaning gem of the mountains. But later, after being pressed on, he admitted he just made it up. Really? Just a made-up word. Wow. These politicians in Idaho are ruthless. Yeah. I know. That's a good made-up word. Yeah, it is. I don't know if I can make up a word. Yeah. Your beatbox is broke. Your beatbox. Yeah, I mean, but name a state. Idaho sounds perfect. Yeah. Yeah.

That's unbelievable. You look at it, it should be called Idaho. Wow, I did not know that. You think you can make up a state name? No, but I think a lot of it is you're familiar with it. I think if you had never heard it and I said it, you'd think that was weird. Yeah, I know, but for it to work out like that. Yeah, it's worked out great. It's like gravity.

It's the gravity of America. It is. You're cheating. You're cheating. It's what's holding us back. Keeping us down. That was very funny. He didn't. Yeah.

It's based off of a real girl, though. Ida. They're not sure if even that's true. Oh, okay. But Ida sounds like a name. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Ida. Yeah. I mean, when it comes down to this, and I don't know, maybe they didn't use the ho term back then. You know what I mean? But it's like if there was a real girl named Ida, and then this guy's like, oh, I just made it up, Jim of the Mountain. Now it sounds like it did kind of come as an insult to this girl.

Yeah. Poor girl named Ida that probably just rejected this guy at some point. Right. And then instead of him just accepting the rejection, he's now name calling. Yeah. I mean, all the stuff that happens, it sounds like y'all were founded in 1964. I mean, like even the Capitol things, like he was a state duck hunter. You're like, is this, how recent was this? We've kind of been in the same place for a long time. And yeah.

Yeah. It's interesting he said gem because they call it the gem state. Yeah. Yeah. You know that. I do know that. These guys do. Why do they call it that? A lot of gems. I guess. Good job. The gem state. Yeah. I don't know why. Yeah, there's a lot of gems. It has over 80 variety of gemstones.

There you go. Is that high? I mean, you could tell me that's the lowest, and I would have thought. It must be high. Yeah. I don't know. Something like that's got to be high. No one knows. In the late 1800s, Ida was one of the top 10 most popular girls' names in the U.S. It's now about 1,200 in popularity. Hmm.

Oh, okay. So it's dropped down significantly. Probably the state name has probably hurt the overall name for a girl. I mean, if you name your kid Ida now, you're just teeing her up. Yeah, exactly. Right.

It's too bad. That's a shame. Too bad. Either called Idaho or you call it a potato. Or Ida. Or Ida, just a bad name in general. No, isn't there a potato called Or Ida? Yeah, there's a potato company. Or Ida. He really hung him out to dry. Just keep going. He's like, all right. Yeah.

In 1990, there were 1 million people living in Idaho. They just hit 2 million. Wow. Wow. It's the fastest growing state over the last couple decades, right? Yeah, they keep saying that. Yeah, that's what I hear. Everybody's moving there. Yeah, why is that? I think people want to get out of certain places and they're looking for...

You know, like you guys are growing here. Everybody's just moving around. Everybody's moving around. Yeah. Where do they move? Boise. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of people move to Boise, but a lot of places. Where's the best weather in Idaho? I mean, Boise's probably the most temperate. Yeah. Yeah. It seems like they would want the capital to be there. Yeah. It makes sense. Yeah. I don't know how it... I mean...

Yeah, it makes sense if you live south. They're like, we've got to conduct a lot of business, and it's pretty cold up here. The northern part of Idaho is like –

I mean, very sparsely populated. And you can't even get from southern Idaho to northern Idaho without leaving the state. Like, if you're going to drive, this would be terrible for your tour. But if you're going to drive... Why is that? Well, he would do a stopover. It's very remote. It's like part of the most remote wilderness in the whole country is like in northern Idaho. Oh.

Oh, wow. Oh, like close to Spokane up there? Yeah, but like between like Spokane and Boise, it's all mountain. Do you think it'll be bad near Spokane February 23rd? Who's there? I don't know. I think it'll be great. You're there the 23rd? I'm there. Spokane Comedy Club, February 23rd. Oh, wait. Y'all are going to be kind of up? Yeah. How far is Boise? Stick around. It's a ways. Yeah. You got to go through the Boise National Forest. Scroll back down to Spokane, by Spokane. Okay, yeah.

uh that curta what is that cordelaine cordelaine that place is crazy yeah it's beautiful right yeah it's gorgeous a lot i've golfed there i golfed with dust oh really yeah yeah it's a nice spot yeah a lot of people love it a lot of like second homes and yeah it's my fourth homes there your fourth that's how far i've been wow yeah i didn't even i don't even have a second and third yeah i went to the fourth yeah yeah

Second home's cliche. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here's a fun fact I read. You can get to Idaho by boat from the Pacific Ocean. No way. Oh, okay. Well, that's what Lewis and Clark did. Wait. They went all the way to the Pacific through Idaho. Yeah. But they walked to...

To the coast, right? I think a lot of it was on boats. Okay. I could be wrong. There are rivers that run inland that you can get off of. Oh, this was... I don't know. Take the river. Brian used to be in... When he did debates, this was one of the main debates. So I don't know if you want to go against me. I don't know if I want to. This was a hot topic back when he was in high school. Current event. Yeah. Lewis and Clark were there. Yeah. But maybe...

Yeah, I don't know how much of it was in boats, but I thought they did that. I don't know. What kind of Bigfoot sightings you guys got up there? A lot? I know people who swear that they've seen Bigfoot. Really? Yeah. I mean, so I know... How far are you from Boise? Like four and a half hours. So you're north? I'm like east and a little north. Yeah. And then...

So, like you said, by Spokane, if you get up in that, do people go up there and camp and stuff? Is that known for hiking, or is it remote where no one really goes? Oh, you can go up there. I mean, yeah, it's beautiful, but it's very remote. I did a river trip, like 10 days on the river, and went to all these places. The only way you can get there is on the river or to fly, like these little planes. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.

And you just feel you're in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. It's so amazing. But hiking though, like people, extreme hiking, they could, they would do over the mountain and stuff. Oh yeah. Yeah. Lots of that stuff up there. Yeah. A lot, a lot of it. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it's beautiful. I think I could go to some extreme hiking. Yeah? I mean, it started out extreme, but do like three days. I remember the last time you went on a big hike, you came back pretty excited about it. It's the best. I like the feeling of, I feel like I'm in the middle of nowhere. It's the best. And then you haven't done it since? We just, I mean, it got so hard.

But it's like, because I don't, we did it on the road and we were up in Banff and we went and hiked and it was like 10, 11 hours. And you're just like going and going and it's awesome. And you're just like out there. Banff is popular, so you would see some people. But yeah, if you could go somewhere like that where you're like, you're almost guaranteed to not see anybody. Yeah.

Yeah, it's like, you know, it's nice. You got to have the right people to be with that are willing to, you know, that can do it and go. Yeah. You know, but it's...

Yeah, it was... That was overnight or you did one day? No, no, that was just one day. But I mean, when we came back to the... There's a hotel there. And we came back in there to go eat after with our buddies and it felt weird. Because it was just, we've been alone for 11 hours. And then you just walk back into like normal restaurant and you're like...

You're just like, huh? It's like you got to reintroduce yourself to reality and be like, huh? Because you walk in just feeling like a maniac because you've just been out. Hey, bear. Hey, bear. So, yeah, I would – yeah, the idea of just going up there. Do you know the singer-musician Mike Posner? Have you heard of him? He's got a bunch of big songs.

He walked across America a few years ago from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean. And he said in an interview, he said the weirdest thing when you're walking, like cities are so weird. You don't think about it, but cities are such a small little part of the country that you're just walking and walking and walking and a city pops up and you're like, this is just so odd. It's like out of nowhere and it's crazy. And you walk past it. But most of the country is just...

Oh, yeah. The woods. The woods. Well, that was like a thing. I think I saw it on a video about someone being like, Americans don't travel. And then it's like, well, you put America over where Europe is. You're like...

Yeah, we're traveling. Right. Imagine these are all countries. Right, right. We're traveling just like you're traveling. Right. It just doesn't feel like that because it's... Yeah. We came together. Yeah. Right. Yeah, if they were just divided, like if we had to show our passport to go into Alabama, it would be like we're going to another country. Yeah, but America fits over Europe by...

A little or a ton. I'm not positive, but it's a good bit. I think. Oh, Europe is only slightly larger than that. I was the exact opposite. No, but if you look at it here, I mean. That's what you said. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it's crazy. Well, I don't even... How does that... Oh, that's Europe underneath it. It's the green. So we're bigger, right? Yeah, why are we all out in the water like that? Don't put us all out in the water and then be like, you're not bigger. Yeah, so they would say like, oh, they go to a bunch of different... That's a little bit easier. Who's in charge of this mound? Yeah, dude, that's crazy. That's big. So that's like Ryan is from...

the uk right and we're from romania yeah yeah that's the same distance yeah right yeah yeah that's pretty crazy yeah and that's what i think they so they think like oh yeah we've never been to all these different cultures like we you know yeah we just came together as a group we're doing some stuff dude we travel yeah um 38 of idaho is owned by the u.s forest service forest yeah

Forced? What did you think? I thought he said forced. Well, forced is right too, though. It is forced. They forced us to get out. 38%. That's a lot. Yeah. Who are they? United States Forest Service? Yeah. Like Smokey the Bear? Smokey the Bear owns Most Divide House? That's the only guy I know who works there. How do you even buy it?

It's just a government agency that handles it. I think in some ways it's good because they're not letting people bulldoze it and destroy the forest. But in other ways, they're like, this is ours. We took it. Yeah, it does feel like this. They just said, yeah, that's ours. Wow. Nevada has 80%.

Yeah, Idaho top five. Yeah. Oh, well, that's totally different than what I just said. Well, I think this is total federal land. So there's other stuff besides Forest Service. Right. Some military bases. Nevada, 84%. That's so crazy. It's most of the state. There is the Idaho National Laboratory. It's the country's largest Department of Energy facility. Yeah, that's near where I grew up. What do they do there? They used to make nuclear subs there.

In Idaho? Yeah. It's way out in the middle of nowhere. It's crazy. You drive around out there. There's all these fences and buildings. You don't know what's going on. But it's the Idaho National Nuclear. Well, of course. What's going on in here? UFO reverse engineering. Well, any of that stuff is always weird when you're out in the middle of nowhere and you're like, oh, this is some kind of military place. You're like, what's going on out here? And then you don't know. Yeah. Yeah.

We went out there on a field trip once and saw this nuclear facility. It's pretty amazing. But then they're building next to it. They're probably grafting different species of animals together. You saw what they wanted you to see, right? Yeah, yeah. It was controlled. That's what I was about to say. Yeah. You didn't go see the real thing.

Yeah, I don't think they showed it to us on the field trip. So you grew up near nuclear stuff. Do you think that's why you are how you are? Probably. Yeah, got a little like you're a little too close to that. The first city that was ever powered by nuclear power is in Idaho, I believe. I think it's called Arco.

Yeah, Arco, Idaho. Small town in eastern Idaho, 1955. They were doing this in 1955. Fully powered by nuclear energy when the Borax-3 reactor turned on. It is now the site of the Idaho National Laboratory.

Well, how's the city doing now? Not much is going on there. Yeah. But did nothing bad happen? No. No. It's a cool little town. I've driven through it. It's like a cool, tiny little town. I thought they did have an accident there. Oh, did they? Maybe. I don't know. I think there was a nuclear reactor accident. I felt like somebody... Oh, maybe. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah.

Well, they don't mention it on their Wikipedia page, so they really blew right over it. Yeah, I was looking for a section called Disasters or something, but there's not one. I say let's do it then. They've been doing it since the 50s. Are they still doing it, or have they stopped it? Aaron, look up Atomic City. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, okay. I mean, if it worked there, why would it not work everywhere? Let's do it here. Atomic City is an unincorporated area in Bingham County.

Population 41 up from 29. It's booming over the last 10 years. Big influx in Idaho. Okay, so it's the halfway point between Blackfoot and Arco. Okay. What about it, Brian? I think that's where they had the accident. I don't say it there. Still, they don't mention it. The Idaho PR...

They're scrubbing this stuff from Wikipedia, man. They don't want people to know. And the population is up. So the spirit of the population collapsed. Yeah, yeah, big time up. Almost doubled. Yeah. It's crazy. It's like there's one store and one bar. Yeah. The store no longer sells gasoline. Why don't they sell gasoline? New laws pertaining to its underground gas tanks. So that's interesting. Can't have gas underground.

Yeah. Because of the nuclear stuff. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Exactly. We have gas stations where I live. You live in a real city. Yeah, yeah. A big city. You got banks. Yeah, yeah. Dusty, when was the last time you needed to go to a doctor but you pushed it off? Today. Well, you probably made an excuse, like you're too busy.

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1805. Pretty big deal to you guys? Yeah, we studied Lewis and Clark in fourth grade pretty extensively, I think. Sacagawea was from Idaho. Yeah. Did you take an Idaho history class in school growing up? A class about specifically Idaho history? Fourth grade was all about Idaho history. Do you have that? We had fourth grade with Alabama history. Oh, yeah. I guess you just pick wherever you live. Yeah, the state. I think we're onto something here. I didn't know they already did that.

We had square dancing. Really? Yeah, we learned how to square dance in grade school. Yeah, it was very cultural. Do you keep up with it? I haven't kept up with it. I've learned to call. I decided to learn to call square dancing. The Idaho Quarter features a peregrine falcon, which we learned from Joe Zimmerman's The Fastest Flying Bird. Oh, of course Joe knows about that. And then the state Idaho, and then the state motto, Esto Perpetua.

which means let it be perpetual. What does perpetual mean? I think forever. Yeah. All right. Let it be perpetual or it shall be perpetual. It's the state motto of Idaho that we're just going to go on forever. That's kind of what it feels like when you're there. Nah, we'll always be here. It was the 43rd state, so one of the last ones. Two time zones.

Pacific? Oh, yeah, Pacific, I guess so, way up north. Spokane is in the Pacific. You've got a great seal. I've always said that. The seal of the state of Idaho is awesome. There's a lot going on. You've got a guy with a pickaxe. You've got a deer. They even call it a great seal. It's a great seal. Great seal of the state of Idaho. I think I read they were the first to have a woman on their seal. Oh, never mind.

Kidding. Very progressive. They have more whitewater rivers than any state in the U.S. Continental U.S., I guess. Okay. But you have a lot of bears and stuff like growing up. Yeah. You have to keep an eye on. Yeah, we would get stuff. I was just home and went for a walk and saw a couple moose. Yeah. That's cool. Deer.

What about wild cats, mountain lions? Where my family lives now, we had a scare in the neighborhood where there was a mountain lion out. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and people were spotting it. You got to keep the kids in and stuff. It's terrifying. Yeah, those are scary, yeah. My mom grew up seeing a lot of grizzly bears, but I haven't seen many grizzly bears. But I've seen bears, like brown bears, black bears. Yeah, yeah.

I've seen a wolf one time out in the wild when we were out getting a Christmas tree. We would go cut our own Christmas trees up in the mountains and I saw a wolf one time off in the distance. That was pretty wild. They're huge. I can't believe how big they are. But yeah, we would get all sorts of stuff.

How close were you to the wolf? I didn't feel in danger, but it was like, wow, that's a big creature out there. This is saying Idaho, there's about 80 to 100 grizzly bears in Idaho. Imagine having that kind of impact with that few people. Those are powerful creatures, man.

Got a hundred of them. I don't know how they know that. Yeah, they track them very carefully. There used to be less, and then they've introduced more, I think. I don't know. We live close to Yellowstone Park where they're protected, so they get out of the park often, and that's where we see them. Yeah, because we live near the park.

Once they get out, you can just mow them down? No, no, no. Federal offense. You'll go to jail. Federal offense? Yeah. For killing a grizzly bear? I think so. I mean, you'll go to... Yeah, it's big. It's a crime. Okay. Yeah. We had... Once we were in Yellowstone hiking, we were walking and this guy had a big shotgun with two dogs because people bring guns against like a bigger attack. Yeah, right. Yeah.

There we go. That's where Travis goes. He goes, this guy's hunting bears. And I was like, I just, I go, I don't think he is. I think it's, and he goes, he was like, he goes, no, I've seen hunting and that guy's hunting bears. And we were on like a main trail and the dogs are just roaming. And I was like, Travis, there's, he would be the worst hunter ever. And A, it's against the law. So this guy's just like, I don't care, dude. I'll just go hunt grizzly bears. But they, you have, you have to carry bear spray and all that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, we used to... Yeah, you got to be careful. I mean, maybe there are some very select bear hunts. I don't know, but you can't just...

What about when you were kids? No, it says there's no hunting season in Idaho. Intentionally shooting a grizzly bear is a felony. So if you do do it, be like, no, just be like, throw your gun on the grizzly bear. Throw, you should carry drugs in a gun. You go, look how many drugs. Plant it on the bear. Plant it on the bear. That's just, yeah. Yeah. Uh,

Can you imagine if they intentionally, how would they go? You go, no, no, no, the bear was coming at me. And they're like, let's see the claw marks. Yeah, they go, I don't know. It doesn't seem, how do they could prove it? Yeah, I don't know. So if you shot one, you would just go, no, no, no, he was coming at me. I guess, yeah. I don't know. I guess they could tell by the bullet. So if it's a shotgun, it's like, well, then, yeah, obviously, probably we're close enough.

Maybe. He had a sniper rifle. Yeah, if they go, well, it looks like this innard from two miles out, you go, hey. He's coming at me. You know how fast they can move? How close do you want him to get? Yeah. Yeah. Did you want him? He goes, well, next time I'll let him get on top of me and stab him with a knife like reverent. Is that the name of the movie? Revenant. Revenant. Yeah. Revenant. I think that's it. Is reverent a word? Reverent's also a word. Yeah.

Yeah. What else? What did you ask? Have you played in the woods? Well, I'm just saying like, you know, as a kid. Growing up. Did you guys play in the woods? And like, if you did, like, did you have encounters with stuff as a kid? Like we would see, I grew up in Alabama. We would see snakes and, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, where I grew up, you know, I grew up around a lot of potato fields. Okay. So we would get, you know, in the winter, we'd see foxes coming out and we would see

uh deer and stuff we had a river like a like a mile behind her house so there was wildlife back there and then we would go fish on the river and we would see stuff like i would see i got real scared by a beaver one time out fishing in the water they're pretty big you know they slap and it's loud yeah i mean they're chopping down trees with their teeth yeah they're pretty scary yeah

I feel like a beaver, do you think a beaver doesn't get the respect it probably thinks it deserves? Because it probably does deserve more respect. Yeah. And a beaver's got a little chip on its shoulder. They're kind of treated as a joke, like cute little animals. Yeah, yeah. But he's like, do you know what I'm doing? We're vicious. He's like, I can rescape your whole landscape out here. I'm chewing down an entire tree.

Yeah. Damming up a river. Yeah. They do look. Look at it. They look fun though. Yeah. They look fun and they look like, get out of here, beaver. But. They're wild. This beaver's like, yeah, dude, I will. I will destroy your world. Whatever.

What about the, there's just little animals that kind of, prairie dogs. Yeah. You have those there? Yeah, yeah. All sorts of little. I saw some of those in North Dakota. Yeah. Just in a little field out by the hotel. Oh, yeah? Just prairie dogs. I had never seen anything like that. They just pop their heads out? Yeah. Yeah. All over the field. Were you in a neighborhood? Are you on land? When I was young, we lived in town, but we lived right on the edge of town, so it was like-

We lived next to like a cow pasture, but it was in town. Yeah. And then we moved out of town when I was like, I don't know, 14. And we just lived out amongst potato fields. I don't know if I know this, but you grew up... You have siblings? Yeah, I got a brother and a sister. Yeah. Are you... Where are you at? I'm the oldest. The oldest. Yeah. I'm the oldest too. Yeah. Is your sister...

Middle or youngest? She's the youngest. Exactly like me. Really? Wow. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Did you grow up in Idaho by chance? You did? Yeah.

well that'd be awesome yeah we would get out of school this is kind of interesting we would get out of school for two weeks to harvest potatoes they would let school out wow every year so everybody school shuts down the first two weeks of october now would you actually be working those two weeks yeah i would go get a job i mean because like what else you're gonna do so that's yeah i would go get a job and we would make our uh we'd

We'd make money. I could make money. I could be like a 14-year-old kid and make like 600 bucks. I bought my first car off my spud money, we called it. Wow. That's what we called our spud money. I used to have a joke. I'd say, that's now my street name.

Spud money? Spud money. Yeah, that is a good street name. Spud money? Yeah. Do you hate potatoes now? No, I don't know. I just wonder if you ate them all the time as a kid. But I guess we all eat potatoes all the time. Yeah, yeah. Like right after potato harvest, you could just go out to the ends of the rows and there's always potatoes sitting around and just...

But that's only like a short time of the year. Can you just grab them and just eat them like an apple? Do people do that? I guess you could, but I don't know. A little salt? A little salt on there? I've eaten a raw potato, yeah. Really? Yeah. Wow. I never have eaten a raw potato. Do you think y'all talk about potatoes more than anywhere? Like just in general, potatoes. Every day, potato gets brought up. Well, kind of because...

Yeah, because the whole community lives and dies by the economy of potatoes. Yeah. Is there something about the landscape that makes it best for potatoes? I don't know a lot about the science and stuff behind it, but yeah, the soil and the climate that we have. I think you want cold weather for potatoes, too. Yeah, yeah. They say Idaho's environment is the perfect combination for potato cultivation of rich volcanic soil.

Oh, yeah. Warm days, cool nights.

So it's just like, yeah, the perfect place. Gravity. It's just perfect. It works out. It just works out. Just any way different would be a disaster. Well, just like Earth, for that matter. 93 million miles from the sun, but if it was 91 million, it'd be too hot, or 94 million, too cold. But that's a pretty big range. That's a pretty big range. Yeah. It's a pretty good margin of error, a couple million miles. I think even just a few miles. We can float in between. No, not even a few miles, because it varies. I mean...

We can't move at all. The orbit around the sun where the distance from the sun varies a lot because it's not a perfect circle around the sun. That's why our seasons are... That's why we have cold seasons and hot seasons. They're distance from the sun. You know what I mean? Does that make any sense? Yeah, but like Hawaii is just in the... They're killing it. So they're just like perfect. Yeah.

Yeah, their position on the Earth is... Near the equator. Like really worked out. See, and that's not... Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm saying. I think just a few shifts here like that would be devastating. What kind of shift are you talking about? I don't know. A few hundred miles of the Earth away from the sun. It could be devastating. Maybe a few hundred. I don't know. I think we've got a little wiggle room there. We do? Yeah, I think so. Because we're moving a little bit. How much, you think?

We're typing how much wiggle room we got from the sun. Yeah, we're putting AI through it. So Earth's orbit around the sun has a wiggle room of 5 million kilometers, which is, of course, means nothing to this podcast. Yeah, a few hundred. It is, yeah, 3.1 million miles. I guess that destroys my theory then.

Well, it's kind of exactly your – well, 93 million. Yours is dead on. Yeah. You were exactly right. I thought if I said it was a million – Just take it. If it was a million in either direction, it would be dead. This is why we don't stop. The one time we do stop and give you flowers, Brian, you fight us back. Boom. No, no, no. I wasn't right. I wasn't right. Take the win, dude. That's – Take that. Sure. My boy, John Clark. Yeah.

We try to teach him. John Clark. John Clark. Yeah. But it's... That's the most creative fake name I could think of. John Clark. I like the Reddit question there. It goes, that was a stupid question, but how much wiggle room do we... Because I bet they say that in the science lab. They go, we got some wiggle room. The Goldilocks Zone. Yeah. When they're looking for these exoplanets that might have signs of life, they're looking for planets in the Goldilocks Zone.

But to have that much wiggle room, but then there is such a varying degree of temperature in between, you know, North Idaho and Tennessee. Or even Southern Idaho. Yeah. But then we have 500 million miles of wiggle room. Yeah, it feels like we have tons of wiggle room.

And I don't think that has been laid out to me appropriately. I thought we couldn't move at all. And it turns out we're all willing. We're like a bowling ball going down. We can hit everywhere. Why did you think...

It's colder in the winter than it is in the summer. I never was asked that question. And so I've never had to think about it. But why would there be so much difference in between Mexico and, you know,

Idaho. Yeah. Alaska. Yeah. Canada. The shape of the earth contributes to that. That's a few thousand miles, but yet we have 500 million. 3.1 million. You keep changing the number. 500 million, I agree a lot. 10 trillion. 7 trillion miles. All right, so 3.1 million we have of wiggle room. You would think that just a few- How many miles is America?

Yeah, 3,000 left. You got a whole nother Earth. That's what I'm saying. 2,800 miles. That's what I'm saying. I still don't get what you're saying, but I'm glad we're talking about it. Right here, we got a little space.

What do you mean a little space? Like from the distance from Idaho to Mexico. Right. Yeah. That's a few thousand miles. Yeah. But then you can move. We have a variance of the earth can move 3.1 million miles away from the sun and it not affect us too much. Oh, it does affect us because the seasons change, right? Because we're- So we're always kind of sliding. Yeah.

No, no. I understand the seasons, but I'm saying if we're in winter, our normal winter, but this time we've wiggled about 3.1 million miles away, that's going to be an extreme winter. Yeah, we would want to wiggle towards the sun.

I think we're all... My understanding is the wiggle room means it's not a perfectly circular orbit around the sun. It's elliptical. Right. So the wiggle room means the distance between the closest point...

and the farthest point away from it. Oh, see, my understanding of wiggle room is like, we're on an axis. This is always our spot. It's not going like that. One day, that's not what, that's what wiggle room is. I thought it would be like you spin a top and right before it slows down, now it starts moving. Wobbled like that. If you spun a top on this table, it would go, it would be, you know, you got a little. Does the car fit in the parking lot? You're like, yeah, it does. You go, but how much wiggle room do I have? Because you got some wiggle room. You get your door open. There's a spot. I think,

But do you have some little room? Because people will go, look, the universe is so perfect. If the Earth were an inch closer to the sun, we'd burn up. That's what I just said. Well, yeah, yeah. But, I mean, we're 3 million miles closer to it in the summer than we are in the winter, according to this, according to my understanding of this, which might be wrong. I think we also need the moon to be exactly where it's at.

The moon helps a lot. The moon's nice to have. I just think our definitions of wiggle room are off.

We need the moon to keep the ocean back. You ever see the movie Moonfall? You ever see the movie? I think I have. You talked about Moonfall. You love Moonfall. The moon's falling, and so the oceans are suddenly like really, it's a good movie. I'll watch that tonight. It's the best. It's great. Ron, are you familiar with Snake River Canyon? Oh, yeah.

So 1974, Evel Knievel. Yeah. Is this a big thing? Yeah, I know about that. He jumped over it. That was like a huge deal. Yeah. So he had a rocket-powered motorcycle. Oh, yeah. I didn't know that. With a parachute attached. Wait, when was this? 1974. And they carried this- Were you there? On Wild World of Sports. You remember watching it? Live. When I was two? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, y'all don't have TV yet. Why is that funny? Did they go, did he just announce it on the radio and y'all go, yeah, I bet he made it. And he's off and he's on the other side. Thanks for tuning in WSMV.

Wow, is that it? No, that is not it. Well, this is a guy doing it in his honor. Whoa, he hit the drum. Well, what happened to Evel Knievel is his parachute opened too soon. He made it across, but then the wind slowly started drifting him back. He crossed back over the river and landed like 10 feet from where he was. I didn't know that. Oh, he went all the way back. He just slowly started going back.

Oh, wow. So he went over. Yeah. And then. Made it. Made it. And then the wind took him back. And it really was like 10 feet from. I mean, it was something crazy. Yeah. He said if he landed in the river, he would have died. Wow. I didn't know that part. So this is a guy in 2016, more than 40 years later, who completed the jump in his honor. So. Yeah.

54 years old. Why would he have died in the river? Really just a harsh river? Yeah, I think it's, yeah. Probably very cold. Yeah, I don't know. Very rough and cold. It's a big, steep canyon. You know, you want to land, if you're in a thing, you don't want to land in water. In a parachute tied up. Yeah, you get all tangled up. In a suit. Maybe he said that just to make it more. Yeah, I bet he did. Yeah, you know. Yeah.

Is that the Evel Knievel one? I think that's old Evel Knievel footage right there, the old one. And then this guy went back and just did it. Yeah. You got to get when the wind's right. But he made it. He made it. Yeah. Whoa. All right. Why is that guy hanging out with William Shatner? There it is. There's the canyon. I don't know. Yeah. God, it looks awesome. Is it windy? They look like different planets. Is it very windy? It's very windy where I grew up. Yeah. Very windy. I don't know. It's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah. Well, Grand Canyon.

Yeah, Snake River goes right through my town too. That's a different part of it. Just snakes on through there. How big is it? Is it like that big? Yeah, it's big. Is that one of the ones you're supposed to acknowledge? That's up to the viewers. Snakes on through there? It's up to you people to decide that. Yeah, come on, John. John Clark's screaming at his computer right now. Because we should, they should just mark rebates.

Does jokes. The oldest ski resort in North America, Sun Valley, is in Idaho. The world's first chairlift was installed there. Wow. It's a cool place. A lot of Hollywood people used to go there. It changed the skiing business because before you just had to literally...

hike up oh really go down wow must have been like an extreme sport before that right like i guess so yeah i guess probably didn't people just didn't do it yeah or you do it once and then you're like kind of the skiers before were so mad you gotta think they were like oh now everybody's out here they got a lift well i bet they did uh before they might have had like us the

like a wave runner what do they call the snow snowmobile yeah maybe that's a wave runner for the snow yeah it's a perfect description of it yeah you got it you do a lot of snowmobiling yeah we used to snowmobile that pretty fun yeah it's fun did you have a snowmobile yeah oh wow we had a dare by have to have one well we had to have one because we'd get snowed in and then school would be canceled but my dad would have to have a way to get to work sometimes

Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. Snowmobiling to work. Outside, like just freezing. Yeah, a lot of snow. I mean, sometimes it's really- You guys have never snowmobiled? I snowmobiled a little bit. I don't think I have. Canada. Oh, yeah. My bad.

But I'm saying like your dad has to make just like no heat. You're just like sitting on a motorcycle and have to go drive to work. Seems cool. It wasn't that far, you know. So it was pretty easy for him. But there was no other way to get there. Snowmobile into work seems cool. I'm impressed by your dad. You're like, nah, it's pretty easy. He could have walked. He should have walked. Yeah.

Come on. Random story. I was with Dusty. I think we're in the UP of Michigan. And this guy reached out to Dusty and he's like, I want to come talk to you about doing a show at my place. I don't even remember this. He goes, let's go. Come have lunch at the restaurant. And we come there and he's like, dude, in the winter, it's great. We'll do a show here. Everybody will take their snowmobiles up.

and we'll do the show. Dusty's like, that's great. And then the guy goes, all right, it was good to meet you. And then leaves and didn't pay for our lunch. Do you remember this? Oh, yeah. He made it sound like I'm going to buy you guys lunch and talk about this and just stuck Dusty with the bill. I remember that guy not paying for my lunch. It seemed like he invited us to the restaurant. Yeah, and he just left. I don't think he ever did a show there. No. No. I forgot about that, but I do remember a guy not paying for my lunch. Snowmobiles made me think of that. Oh, I was going to say. It's a weird tangent. Yeah. Did you have to buy his lunch?

I think he did eat. It just was, it wasn't like. And it wasn't great food either. Dusty was mad about it. It was almost like his restaurant. Like he really forced us to come there. He was like, do come here. Come here tomorrow. I'll get you guys some food. Sort of thing like that. Yeah. Dusty goes, I saw the Cisco truck in the back. Yeah. It's all just the same. Everything's the same. All food's the same. Yeah.

A couple of companies that started in Idaho. Albertson's Grocery Store. Oh, I love Albertson's. Keith. Yeah. Keith Albertson. He kept the stats for it. Buck Knives. Oh, I didn't know that one. Yeah. You got a Buck Knife? Probably. I don't like the knife. Yeah. Oh, I thought it was like a store. Well, it's a brand. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I thought it was a type of knife, but it's a brand. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. They're in San Diego. No, it says founded in San Diego. Oh, whatever. Their headquarters are in Post Falls, Idaho. Oh, this says founded in 1902 in Mountain Home, Idaho. Well, it says 1902, 133 years ago in San Diego. All right. So it has nothing to do...

I like that they put the math in there for us. Yeah. What does it say up there at the top? So he made his first knife in Mountain Home, Idaho. Okay. Then after World War II, he moved to San Diego and set up the shop. Okay. So it's a guy that had a knife in Idaho. Yeah.

150 years ago, and then he left. There's not a lot about Idaho, guys. It feels like Idaho's trying to make a claim. I'm going to put this on Idaho and not on Brian. This feels like Idaho's making a claim. Well, their headquarters is in Post Falls, Idaho. They all make it back. They all come back. Hoyt Buck. Hoyt.

That's a good name. That's a great name. Hoyt Buck. That's a great whole name. I mean, Hoyt Buck. Hoyt Buck. That's a guy. If you're born Hoyt Buck, you're going to do something. You're going to make a knife. You better. You're not going to. Yeah. You're going to be in the mix of this. If you don't have a knife, you'll make one. Yeah. Dude, look at the Chuck Buck. Chuck Buck. Yeah. Al Buck.

Former CEO, Chuck Buck, former chairman. I'm Hoyt Buck. This is my son, Chuck Buck. I mean, that family is intense. Revenue. Yeah, number 320 employees. Yeah. Paul Boise. Paul Boise. Yeah, and they're, yeah, look at that. Some movies shot in Idaho. Bronco Billy.

All Clint Eastwood? I don't know what that movie was. I don't know. I've never heard of it. I've never heard of Clint Eastwood. Pale Rider, also Clint Eastwood. Whale Rider? Pale Rider. That was a good movie too. Remember Whale Rider? That was Hawaii. My Own Private Idaho? That makes sense. I mean, I feel like you're making these movies up. That's with River Phoenix. And Keanu Reeves. Yeah. Yeah.

And the movie's called My Private Own Idaho? My Own Private Idaho. That's what the movie's called? Yeah. Why is it called? What's it about? I've never seen it. You've never heard of it? It's a Gus Van Zandt movie. My Own Private Idaho. Nate, it's loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV. Yeah. So, come on. Give me a break. I've never...

Yeah, who knows with that. So Napoleon Dynamite, basically. Yeah, exactly. Some famous people from Idaho. Aaron Paul. Oh, that's a good one. Breaking Bad. Yeah. Oh, right. Graduated in 1997. Wow. Centennial High School. Wow. Which high school? Centennial High School in Boise. Wow, he really grew up there. Yeah. Is he... Yeah. Yeah.

Where is that school? How far are you from that school? Centennial? Yeah. That's in Boise, so it's a ways. He's big city. Yeah. You're a little more. Yeah. You're the real deal. You're a real deal, I know. Ryan Hamilton. He's Hollywood, I know. Yeah. Ryan Hamilton is pretty high on the list of famous people from Hollywood. All right. Yeah, that's good. I got the notable residents. I think you made this list yourself. No. Look at the Wikipedia for Ashton.

Yeah. Well, yeah. That's pretty cool. Wow. That's cool stuff. I mean, that's the dream, to be the notable resident of New York. I'm shocked that Ashton has a Wikipedia page. Is that dog sled race a big deal there? Yeah. I mean, it was, and it still exists, but I remember hearing about it all the time. There was a big, I think it was international, or maybe just a big national dog sledding race in the, probably like the 40s, 50s.

Do you refer to Ashton a lot in your act? Yeah. In my first special, I talk about him. I mean, I don't mention the town. He still does that material. Yeah. I wonder if, well, who's made it big from that small of a town? Like, you know. You would have to be, he was from. Chippewa. Oh, yeah. You're pretty far behind, Ryan. Yeah.

Sorry, I didn't know Elvis was going to be. I thought we were going to have fun. Jumping out of the gate. Is Tupelo smaller than Ashton, though? No, not even. That's what I mean, then. We'll see what it is. Tupelo is a population of 37,000. There's probably 12 Elvis's there. We're talking about he had 1,000 people. But Ashton is still 1,000 people. Ashton's 1,000 people. So to make it

From that small of a town. Yeah. Oprah Winfrey. She's from a town of 6,000 still. Still. Still like New York compared to where Ryan's from. Taylor Swift. 4,000. Again. Where is she from? Pennsylvania. But I mean, what's like West Reading, Pennsylvania? But that's not, that's probably Reading, Pennsylvania. What's Old Hickory?

because if you count oh now i see where we're going with this no no no i wasn't following i wish 23 000 so all right so but old hickory so we're 23 000 but i wouldn't like old hickory is a west redding's like a server you grew up in like a straight up there's no suburb there's no suburb yeah that's true that's what i mean like there's no suburb so it's like a thousand a thousand people

Carrie Underwood, small family farm in... Oh, that's pretty small. ...Shackataw, Oklahoma, 3,000 feet. That's small, but we're still not at 1,000. Still not at 1,000. You might win, Ron. People's high schools are more than 1,000. But you've got to weigh in how big the star is you're talking about. Well, that's what I think is... I think the... You're...

The number's helping you more than the other. Okay. So we're in a... Like, we're going against Taylor Swift. I'm having to bring in, like, yeah, yeah, but you were near some cities. I'm talking about, I got a guy that was...

His dad took a snowmobile to work. Even if you're one out of 3,000, you're one out of 1,000. Yeah. Well. Pretty good. Okay. I'll take it. Maybe the most famous from the smallest place of all. Of all. Is what we're saying. I mean, I've never thought about it like that before. It's a weird thing to think about yourself, but it's fun when other people do it. Tina Turner. Yeah.

Tina Turner's from Nutbush, Tennessee. Nutbush, Tennessee. What county is that? Oh, that's probably what, 10,000? McNary, maybe? McNary. It's West Tennessee. Population. Let's see. This is the big one. 259. Good night. Woo!

Sorry. 259 people? That's crazy. She's dead, though, right? That means most of the people there made it famous. You just have to keep adding things. No, that is alive. Yeah. Wow. Michael Jackson probably from small. He was from Gary. Gary is a big city, yeah. Yeah. Wow. Haywood County. I was wrong.

Wow. Anyway, famous people, Aaron Paul, WWE Hall of Famer Tori Wilson. I think I know her husband. Really? That's a good way to end. I do. Okay. I do know her husband. I just met him. Wow. Yeah. All right. Idaho. That was Idaho. I don't know. Thank you. You did all the work on that. As usual. Yeah.

John Clark gets it. Number one fan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll do... Show this week. Yeah. Show this week. I'm Vegas. I'm in Las Vegas. So I'll be out there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Big dumb... But yeah. Big dumb eyes. Pre-order the book. Go ahead and pre-order it. That's always a great thing when they say when you pre-order...

uh so do that very fun may 6th so it's exciting yeah pre-orders have been going good and the cover looks nice yeah i haven't shown you see the back of it but uh my uh alias that i check my name check under i don't use my name oh don't say it i gotta change it because it's still this oh okay but it's it's about to be done wow i'm giving it away so we have a funny story about it uh so i gotta change uh

Do you do an alias at Starbucks? No. What is... Oh, is that someone who got it for you? Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, I'll sometimes do it like if someone else is there. But like if I was with Ryan, I would go Ryan just because it's like...

Because nobody knows him. Yeah. My alias now I use is Ryan Hamilton. That's my joke. I don't want to be bothered. Nobody recognizes it. Nobody. That's what I was telling Joe Zimmerman. I was like, yeah, I'm going to use another alias. Joe Zimmerman. It's going to be a fun joke to always just say whoever you're with's name. So I plan on doing that quite a bit.

This Friday, I'm at Stardome in Hoover, Alabama. Just a few tickets left, so don't wait until Friday. You might miss out. That's not Birmingham. There's another one? Well, it's a suburb of Birmingham. It's not like your town. I see.

And then Marion, Illinois. Quentin, Virginia. Here we go. Easy. Driving on. Winter Haven, Florida. Cocoa, Florida. Not Cocoa Beach, Florida. Cocoa, Florida. You go flat on that, though. I am. Oh. And Mars Hill, North Carolina. That's what I got coming. There you go. Mm-hmm.

I get to plug my stuff? I'm going to be on, where am I? Oh, Kohler, Wisconsin this week. Oh, yeah, that sounds good. That's where the golf course is. Oh, yeah, it's like a nice resort. Whispering Oaks? No, Whistling Straits. Oh, okay. It's like a crazy resort. Yeah. So that's Kohler.

It's, yeah, we're, I'm almost positive. Yeah, Coldwood, Wisconsin, the American Club. Is it a club or is it a? It's a gig, but it's like a public gig. Yeah, public gig. So, yeah, they have a crazy hotel there.

In Kohler, I believe. So I had a joke about not being able to turn the light off in a hotel room, and it was in Kohler. Kohler. Oh, really? Yeah, it was. I'm pretty sure it was in Kohler. Because I think that's where Whistling Strait is. There's like a crazy nice hotel there because there's Black Wolf Run. There's like a bunch of very nice golf courses.

And so it's an amazing place. And then they had, I did a corporate gig in that hotel, and I think it's like a really nice hotel. And that was the one where I couldn't figure out how to turn the light off. Yeah, I keep hearing about it. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, it's cool. I think it's also connected to like the sync people, Kohler. Oh, yeah. Those are the people. Oh, yeah, yeah. The Kohler. Yeah. They're doing pretty good. Yeah. They have a hotel in...

Green Bay, I think, I've stayed at. Kohler Hotel, the same people. Yeah, West Palm Beach, the Villages, Florida, Newark, New Jersey. Yeah. Yeah, awesome. West Palm Beach is great, too. That place is great. Yeah. Kravis Center. Yeah. All right. Aaron Weber here. Tonight, Wednesday.

The 29th, January 29th, Houston, Texas at the Houston Improv. I'm in San Antonio tomorrow night, Thursday. And then Austin at the Creek in the Cave all weekend. And then Friday. Signature dish. Check it out. Signature dish on YouTube. January 31st. It's a half hour. Just knock it out. Put it on while you're doing the dishes. Yeah. Check it out. It's a perfect amount of Aaron. It's...

A little more than you'd like, but I don't think so. I don't overstate my welcome. I think it's a perfect amount. Thanks, man. Yeah. 30 minutes on the dot. 30 minutes. Love it. Okay. And watch them on the Tonight Show. Yeah, and the Tonight Show. Oh, yeah. Shoot. Yeah. So much. Forget how much you have to plug. Yeah. Yep.

Okay, this weekend, Friday I'm in Red Bank, New Jersey, and then Saturday I'm in Philadelphia. Never been to Philly, never been to Red Bank, New Jersey. Oh, really? Wow. Two theater shows, gonna be great. I saw you at the Villages on February 8th. I'm actually at the Villages on...

On the February 25th. I've never been there, but people keep messaging me like, you're going to the villages? What are you doing? I guess it's a lot of, I don't know. Good or bad. Yeah. They just, I think it's a lot of older people. Oh, yeah. So they're like shocked that I'm going. It's kind of an area where the older people, like, you know, it's like they've retired there and now they're kind of partying with each other all the time.

Yeah. That's what there's this. Yeah. But I'm excited about it. Yeah, me too. Yeah, it looks fun. I love Florida. Yeah. And Florida in February, get out of the- Absolutely. Get out of the cold. Wait, we're not overlapping. When are you there? I'm there the 25th. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right.

We did it. Ryan, thanks for coming in, buddy. Thanks for having me, guys. I really mean it. This was so fun. I appreciate you having me. It's nice to see all you guys at once. We opened the Albany Funny Bone together. That's right. Ryan was headlining. I featured. And then he got a big corporate gig and bought me a steak. He said, I just got a big corporate gig, and he took me out for a steak. Wow. I don't remember that. That's awesome. That's great. Me and my wife. Ryan is, yeah. Very nice guy. You're the best. Yes.

You guys. Like, we love you. Thanks, Dave. Everybody knows that you're the funniest. Oh, you guys are great. Thank you. All right. We love you guys, and have a good week. See ya. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the Audio Boom 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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