#80 Baseball, Sonny Gray & Intern Cole
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What's up, everybody? Welcome, like we said, to the Nate Land Podcast. We are sitting here with Brian Bates. Aaron Weber has COVID. You didn't say hello, folks. I said it. I read the, I did the ads already. So Bates is here, obviously. Aaron has COVID. So we had Sonny Gray sit in, sitting in for later. And right now we have Cole. A lot of people don't know this Cole.

But we have, you've been interning. You're a first intern. Yeah. As like, you know, you're going to go to college and you have to write this down. Did you write it down on your college? I did, yeah. You did? What did you put? Put intern for the Nate Land podcast. And they're going to be like, what does that mean? Yeah, it means what it means. It's something to put on it. Yeah, just something. Well, it sounds good. Do you think they'll call me and ask me? Ooh, would they? They might, right? Yeah. Do they do that?

I don't put your contact on it. I don't even know if they could. You care if Brian calls them, he would like to call them. Did you ever do references at a job? Sure. I feel like they never call.

Well, probably the jobs you were doing. The jobs I was doing, I don't think they called me. That's like you put your buddy on there. Yeah. Like then you get, I guess, a real job. So Channel 5, y'all hired someone. Y'all really, you'd call all their references? Yeah. Some resumes would say references upon request. And sometimes if you're on the fence about it, you're like, well, you're out because. You didn't get me. Yeah. Would you sometimes not call the references because you didn't care? And you're like, ah, this seems like a good person. Uh.

Um, I mean, I'm sure it happened, but usually you want to check the rep. Usually that's the most important thing to find out if. And so you call them and you're like, Hey, yeah, we're about to, we're looking at hiring, you know, Cole Meyer. Like he seems like a good guy. And you're like, yeah, he's a good guy. Do they ever go like, eh, you know?

Well, sometimes people, you need to tell your references that, hey, you may be getting a call. Yeah. That's the proper thing. Sometimes people wouldn't know that they were listed as a reference and they'd be caught off guard. And then they're like, no, he stole from us. What we would try to do is find references that they didn't list. Yeah. Because you know they're going to list three people and say good thing. We try to find someone who just worked with him. Oh, wow. And that's when you get the truth. Yeah. Would you ever not hire someone because of that?

Yeah. Oh, would you call them? Yeah. When I was a manager, I would. Yeah. So there's someone could be listening to this. They didn't get to, they might know who they are. They didn't get the job because you called a reference and what they were like, ah, it just doesn't show up on time or it's something like that. Yeah. Or just difficult to work with or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. And then you're like, all right, we'll move on.

Yeah. The biggest thing was just people who, if people would complain about their old job in an interview, you're like, well, there's just a, it's just a matter of time before you're complaining about this job. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is all good stuff to learn. Cole, you're a senior in high school, Ravenwood, Ravenwood high school, right? Yep. And we don't know, you don't know the college you're going to go to yet. You're figuring that out.

I need to soon. You need to soon. It's coming up. We want him to announce it. We want him to announce it on the podcast with three hats. Do you narrow it down to like three? I think so, like two or three. Ball State. I could get it down by the time. Yeah, MTSU. You got to pick one. It's Notre Dame. You can narrow it down. Notre Dame, MTSU. MTSU or Donald's Christian Academy. Go back to high school. Yeah.

Do you have it narrowed down? I think the deadline's like May. Oh, okay. Like final, final deadline. Yeah, yeah. So did you do a safety school and stuff? I think most of them I applied to are safeties. So I did. Do you want me to tell you? No, no, don't. We don't want, don't say it. Because we want it to be a good reveal. But like, so is the safety school, what was your, MTSU, is that your...

Yeah, I don't even think, I mean. That was your school. It's not that hard to get into MTSU. So it's, your safety school is like, you're just like, all right, I'll go here at worst case. And then I'm going to try for like Harvard and, you know, all that kind of stuff. Right. You're super smart. And he's like real smart. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I work with him. Yeah. He's the smartest person on the show. Smarter than Aaron.

And Aaron's going down. Yeah. You know, he was smart at one point. And now he's definitely hit the. He's declining. You know, and then he got COVID, so he's probably even dropped a few more spots. Yeah. But it's, yeah, it's like, I remember kids talking about safety schools, but I never, you know.

Every school was my – just a school, getting in a school. Safety school was not going to school was my safety school, was not going to get a regular job. That's what I put down for my safety school. Yeah, I really wasn't thinking – I mean, I think I applied just to MTSU and got in, and that was the Bates family way. The Bates way. Did everybody go to MTSU? Yeah. Yeah.

You just drive up there and go, we'd like to go here. The middle Tennessee state. It's just a good, like. It's a good college. Good college. 30 minutes from Lebanon. That's a good. I remember thinking, man. It's far enough. I have moved out of town. Yeah. Living it up. Yeah.

You've ever been to Lebanon, Tennessee? I haven't. Yeah. I actually have a buddy that's going to go there. Tim TSU? Yeah. All right. Tell him to put Bates down as a reference. Yeah. Had to go back in the archives. And they go, when he graduated here? Black and white picture. Let's read some of you guys' comments. This is from the Universe Part 2 episode.

Stephen J. Orlando, hearing Nate ask whether it would hurt if someone punched you in outer space because there's no sound, then suddenly making a brilliant analogy between the center of the universe and the center of the ocean is why so many people love this show. What a roller coaster. Keep it up. That made sense, right? Yeah. Yeah. People were praising you for like just pulling that out and how brilliant that was. Brilliant. I'm brilliant.

You know, I should be teaching. He's like Rain Man. He can't do basic stuff, but. There's pockets. You know, it's stuff jumps in there. They got your moments. They got your moments. Do y'all talk about the universe? When did you start talking about the universe in school? Is it a very broad? Like, I don't think we've covered it since like middle school. Oh, y'all get away from it that quick. Yeah. Just don't touch on it really. Yeah. Yeah.

No one ever brings it up and just says, let's talk about clouds today. You don't have a class today.

What is... It's not biology. You take whatever science... You take science again? You don't... You kind of... Science over? You're done with science? Today we're going to dissect the cloud. Yeah. I'm taking environmental sciences. Oh. So like kind of talking about clouds. Yeah. Oh, a little bit. A little bit. Yeah. All right. Cole does great research for the podcast. I mean, for people who don't know. Yes. That's what he does. Yes. The research for podcasts is very organized and he finds stuff that...

I hadn't found and sends it to me and does a great job.

Thank you. Yeah, here we are. We're going to tell you you're fired shortly. Cole, I don't want to say this to your face, but you are fired. Read this from a comment. I'll pack it in the bag. It's your mom. Your mom wants you home now. If you don't, I'm just reading off the top. You got to go. Misty Watkins. Einstein said, if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand what you do. You don't understand what you do. I love that quote and shows that Nate shares that same philosophy for the entire podcast.

taking complex topics and simplifying them into comedy is pure gold. Good job, guys. This is off the bat, too. Pretty solid comments. They love you. I'll tell you that. These two people that get me, Stephen and Misty, they get me. And Stephen Jay Orlando, he owns Orlando. How about that? You know a guy who owned that? Phillip Wolfe.

Carl Sagan was one of the weirdest dudes ever. I almost read like Carl was the commenter. Philip Wolf wrote this. Carl Sagan was one of the weirdest dudes ever. I was an electrician at Cornell where he was a professor. I worked at his house and had to have a conversation with him. He said he used to have aliens over for dinner. I said, can I meet them? And he said they would only talk to him and his family. I never did any work there again. Yeah, don't ask those, you know.

I'd imagine you can't, if you're having dinner with aliens and it's like, you're like, can I meet them? You're like, dude, I can't just bring another person in. Yeah, I'm on Carl's side on this. Look how long we took to introduce Cole to this audience. So imagine if we were having dinner with aliens. We can't just pop you over here. No. We'd have to ease you in. Y'all talk about aliens in school? No. Man, why not? Do you ever raise your hand and just bring it up? It's a little too...

I think just try to keep it too serious in school. They don't want to be fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Can you study aliens as a major? I don't think so. No, not yet. That'd be fun. That'd be fun. Will you go to undergrad? Will you be undergrad and then you'll be done? Or do you think you'll go to the overgrad? It's like I have a doctorate in alienology. You want to go for a doctorate? Yeah. How far do you want to go to school?

I don't know. I think just masters, actually. Yeah. Doctor's too much work. Yeah, he could be a doctor. He's far enough. Did you say doctor in?

No, Dr. Ritt. Dr. Ritt, okay. So you just get a master's and you're B. You don't really know what you want to do yet, though, because you're a senior in high school. Some kind of business. Yeah, that's good. It's very broad. You're going to go to college. I'd like to do business stuff. All right, we'll take you. Do you have to pick? You don't have to pick now. It's not like set in stone. You have to...

like choose a major when you apply, but you can change it always. So I always wanted to do like something with zoos, like work with animals. That's what I always thought. Zoology. Yeah. Zoology. That's like a, that's a dumb person. That's a person that's not going to school says that usually. Is that true? It's probably true. I think, cause it was like when you don't know and you're like, well, I like, I like animals. I like penguins. I like penguins. So I can go study them. I like sports. I like sports. Maybe do that. Yeah.

You watch Seinfeld? I haven't, no. I should. You should. I've heard it's great. You know, your family's from New Jersey. That's your world. It's where you come from. It's your heritage. That's how you grew up. Probably got an aunt that was on the show. Maybe.

Curtis Watkins, the number of possible chess positions is more than all the stars in the universe. There's a fun dinner fact for you. I guess because who would say that at dinner? The Weber family. Number of possible chess positions is more than all the stars in the universe. I don't even, but how? That means we have an exact number. Do they have the exact number of stars? No, but it's in the trillions, I think. Yeah.

Yeah, of different ways you can play. Do you play chess, Cole? I know how to, but... Yeah, don't play it. Is it like a smart thing? Yeah, it's a smart thing.

I guess you wouldn't know. I play checkers. Okay. And we just do, I play checkers. That's the dumb version. That's the dumb version. I let them come back in. So once you jump one, you're allowed to bring one back in. So that's even the dumber down version. And we do a triple where you get this triple one. He can go off the board a little bit. If you jump the thing and get three, he can leave the board and come back on your side.

It gets real dicey. There's between 10 to the 111th and 10 to the 123 positions. Oh, they're close, though. That's good. That means they know the number, including illegal moves. Oh, okay. If you rule out illegal moves, why would you even... That's what that says. This is the Shannon number. So Shannon did this. And...

Shannon. Shannon. Typical Shannon. Over here doing, she comes over doing cancer stuff and Shannon goes, I got a chest thing. And she represents all the possible move variations in the game of chess. It is estimated there are between 10 and 1-1-1. I don't even, what would you, what do you say? Cole, can you explain that? You know. What is, how do you say that?

I think it's 10 to the 111, right? 10 to the 111. I think I learned that in college. Yeah, it's not there yet. You're not there yet. I'm not there yet. That's a good answer. Good answer, Cole. Good answer. 10 to the 112th power into 123 power. And then you go, all right, that's cool. Thanks, Shannon. Yeah. It's a lot. Jennifer Weiss, what was the deal with the star meter on IMDB? Aaron was at like 9 million. What was that being measured by? I was on the road, so I may have missed the explanation.

I don't know why. Why was she on the road? That's it.

That's it. She's like, I don't know. I was in and out. I was driving on the road. That's such a funny. She's like, you guys might have said it. I went in eight. And then when I got back, I missed the whole thing. She let it roll. She let it roll. I left my car running. And I went inside, and I got caught up in there for a while. What were you guys doing? I wasn't going to go back. I was listening to it live. They want to hit rewind. Yeah.

I was on the road, so I may have missed the explanation.

The star meter on IMDb is – it just ranks you like where you would be as a celebrity, basically, like a star. And so if you're doing a lot of stuff, if you're not doing – Aaron's like 9 million. He's a guy – he's a comedian out with COVID. I mean, he's probably at 15 million now. He dropped big time. Bates raised up. And so, Cole, you're probably higher than – you'd be on IMDb now as a celebrity. Wow. And I don't know who –

What they base it on or who makes the decisions. Shannon, probably Shannon. Shannon does it. Shannon probably does all the star meter stuff too. You know, she got into that.

I'm further down on IMDb than there are chess moves. Yours is, you're like 10? You're like, that's good. Now that 111 up there and you're like, oh man. It's such a big number that they have to start, they have to put the other number up at the top. Yeah. Is it 10 to the 123rd power? I think so, yeah.

And so what is that? I think it would just be a bunch of. It just keeps going. Like that's when they, they don't even care. No one's writing that down in a real situation. So they just kind of like, it's so many numbers that you're like, just start putting them next to it. Like someone said that one time, they go, just put it next, just put it on the top. Maybe that's where I had a numbers put. Now just start recounting, put it up at the top, right? Yeah. Like a postage stamp.

The Office episode. Paul Shepard. Nate is absolutely Michael Scott and Breakfast is most definitely Toby. The relationship on this podcast usually plays out much like on The Office. I'd like to talk about a trial I was on with a Skratton Strangler. How excited would you be to be in a jury? Oh, I'd be great. You would really like it? I love it. No, I just got called first ever time I left a jury duty, but I got out of it. Because of COVID? I was on the road. Oh, you were on the road? Yeah.

That's what you said? You and Jennifer? Y'all on the road together? Jennifer, I don't know what she did. She stopped at a Stucky's, but I was doing shows. Yeah. Bucky's or Stucky's? Bucky's is the big gas station. Is that what you meant, or you meant Stucky's? No, I meant Stucky's. I go to the bar. Yeah. Well, I was supposed to do it, and I got out because of COVID. Because they were like, they didn't have it. It kind of worked out.

I don't think I would mind it, but I don't know how much. I think I want it more than I think I would. Like, Laura wants it. Laura would love it. They should just let people be like, who wants to do it? Because there's a lot of people that really want to do it. Would you want to do Jury Duty?

No, I wouldn't. It just doesn't sound that fun. To judge a man and possibly put him in life in prison or maybe death row. I can judge people all the time. Yeah, you judge people for free. I'm doing it. Yeah, exactly. Go on the internet. Go on the internet and judge away. Why would I go have to be locked in a room? Exactly. Exactly. If you didn't make people go, there's no way they'd have enough jurors.

Yeah. Yeah, that is true. You got to make them go because you're going to have to go one day. Unless it's just the same like 12 people that got everyone. That they love it. He didn't do it. Next. Bring it on. I definitely did it.

Rachel Poe, for clarification on the fitness orb popping by accident, the Office Ladies podcast explains that the orb was supposed to gradually deflate and Dwight would slowly sink to the ground. The prop master told him that the only way it would pop would be if John Krasinski hit it right on the seam. That was nearly impossible to do. They had 14 orbs, and the first 13 takes went as planned. But on the final take, John hit it.

right on the scene and it popped they ended up loving the accidental pop more than slowly the fading orb so they put that in the episode instead there you go do you watch The Office I have I've seen it all oh yeah now we're talking what's your favorite episode

I really like the older ones, like the first few seasons at Diversity Day. Yeah, the racist ones. Yeah. That's the one that got removed. You can't really show that now, but... No, I'm sure. You can probably mark a few of those colleges you wanted to go to off now. They're listening to this and be like, ah, no, there goes your scholarship. Of course you'd like that one. So long, Harvard. I'll tell you what, my volunteer estate's looking pretty good.

Pride Rock 92, unpopular opinion, but Michael Scott was always my least favorite part of the show. The Jim Dwight back and forth is what grabbed me from the jump, and the last two seasons are probably my favorite. That sounds like the Pride Rock 92's version that wrote the last two seasons. I enjoyed watching both Jim and Dwight grow, and the characters that came from their reconfiguration are some of my favorites, like Robert California and Nate. Already anticipating no one having my back on this one.

I mean, yeah, if you like it, dude, I get it. You know, I look, I said, I liked the movie Fantastic Four that everybody hated. Watched it alone on a cruise ship. Thought it was great. And I was just talking about this weekend. I thought it was the one because you're alone on this boat. And I think I get off the boat, like ready to talk to people like, huh? How great was that Fantastic Four? And everybody was furious about this. And I was like, I thought it was great. So, yeah, you like what you like.

So, yeah, it is funny. It's funny that you're like, you were this, I mean, you were wanting Michael Scott to get, you were like, finally. Yeah, Scott, get him out of here. Everybody's crying when he's leaving and you're just standing up applauding. Your first episode was the first episode after he left. I like it. Angie, Nate Land's version of Scott's Todd is Nate saying he'll play golf with us folks when invited. That could be true. That's very true.

We'll get there. It's going to come back to me and I got to play 450 rounds. What's that? That's very funny. Yeah, that's a good example. I will. Yeah, I want to. I did play. I play, but I'm just not playing. I can't. It's winter.

You just start, yeah, I just got through. Wait, no, I haven't been playing. I haven't. I play when I get home, and I would like to play on the road. I do not have the time. It's just not, it's just so hard. That's it. That's the only reason. Jesse Moppen. Steve Carell had already been in Bruce Almighty, Anchorman, and the 40-year-old version before he played Michael Scott on The Office. He was already an A-list actor.

Really? He was in Bruce Almighty and Anchorman before The Office. I think 40-Year-Old Virgin came out between seasons one and two of The Office. Yeah. But 40-Year-Old Virgin is the first movie he starred in. Yeah. I mean, Bruce Almighty and Anchorman, he was a side character. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I wouldn't call him an A-list actor when The Office started.

Well, Bruce Almighty, he was not the main person? No, that's Jim Carrey. Oh. Oh, yeah. He was the news anchor that... Yeah, yeah, yeah. 40-Year-Old Virgin, he was the main person. Yeah, but that came out, I think, after The Office. I think that was between seasons one and two. Yeah. No reason to look it up, so... That's what we said last week. I think I did look it up. Yeah. James Stogdill.

Stoge deal. Since you guys talked about the proposal scene so much, I had to share a plan. I plan to take my wife on a trip and stop at the Fairview gas station to propose. When I found out it was a fake set, I thought nothing would be more accurate than building it myself. So here's the photo of when I proposed to my wife. I made sure we watched that episode probably five times the month leading up to the proposal for information. She said, FYI, she said yes.

Here's the photo. Yeah, there's... Wow. That's what he built? Yeah, how do you even... That's what it looks like compared to... Yeah. I mean, look at it. He built it. Yeah. How do you even build that? You just got a spot for that? I guess so. How do you got a... That's it. So on the office it says, please stop engine, and he put please say yes on that sign beside it. Oh, please say yes. Please stop the engine. Oh, yeah, that's awesome. I mean, that's... That guy's probably from the South.

you know it's not there's not southern people the only people that got something like that they can do that too like you know i feel like they're they're like lebanon you got he's like where you go do it he's like you know i do it out back you're like you're like you know i could build a gas station out back like i don't know he built a room that's a whole room yeah i mean if he built maybe he did build that or maybe he had the room i mean that's crazy dude didn't even if he built that whole room

I don't know. If he, yeah, that's, I mean, that's impressive. I'm glad she said yes. Yeah. She said no and he says, turn it all down. All right. You just hear a tractor turn on. It just comes through the back window and just smashes it. And then they go, yeah.

Yeah, that's coming out. You kept it up. That looks awesome. Yeah, you should let other people put it. But now that they're in their marriage and she's like, are you going to take that down? That was her thing. We could use it for a baby room. That'd be nice. Well, I have the baby sleeping there with the gas. Leanne Morgan episode. Dan Buell. Dana, I think. Dana. Dana Buell.

That's a good name. This was the best episode to date. First, you guys are so genuine and sincere and want to make the best show for your fans, and it shows. I think that is why you're all such fan. I think that is why you are all such fan favorites. I agree. You know, it's funny to say that, and then Aaron's not even here. So now you see who wants to make it. Even Cole cares more than Aaron. You know? Cole has COVID too. All right. Uh...

Tales from the Crypto. All right. Leanne Morgan is great. I'm from Canada, and after listening to her on the show for two hours, I was saying y'all and telling people in my work that they were from heaven. I think I called my boss a darling precious angel at one point. Yeah, she's the best, man. I mean, it's just the sweetest, and that's how she talks.

A lot of people were commenting in her tone, and it is very contagious. I find myself after hanging out with her a while, you start talking like her. It's very nice. I think I should go vacuum their car. That's what the, you know, I mean, it's just very sweet. Funny comment. I'm with Leanne this weekend. Can I promote that show? Oh, yeah. I'm with her in Norfolk, Virginia. I hope I'm saying that right. Norfolk. Norfolk? I don't, I mean, I think it's close enough. I don't think that's one that you're like,

I think, you know, a different name would be Wichita might be like, you know, YGT. I hope I'm saying it right. You were close. Close enough. That's on Friday, Tyson's Corner, Virginia on Saturday and Reading, Pennsylvania on Sunday. There you go. Cole, you got class this week? Yeah, school starts on Wednesday. So where are you going to be? What's your first class? Guitar. You're going to be guitar? Yeah. What time is that?

It's at like 745. 745. You want to see Cole go to guitar? 745. Ravenwood High School. Ravenwood High School. Ravenwood, Tennessee. What's the next class? 37027. Yeah. What's the next? I got accounting. Counting. Counting one. So pick what you want to go to. What if people don't want to get up that early and they want to come in later in the day? Come in later. What's the last one?

I got AP Environmental Sciences. Oh, there it is. That might be a good one. Two o'clock. Where y'all just look out, y'all cut the grass or something? Pretty much. Take pictures of trees. Yeah, stuff like that. Yeah. That's cool. 745, you're playing guitar? Yeah. Good.

But is that good though that you ease into the day with that? Yeah, I love having it as my first class. Yeah. And I already know how to play guitar and it's a beginner's class. So it's like... Why'd you take it? Because I needed art credit. Because it's 7.45 in the morning. 7.00 p.m. There's a meet and greet afterwards. Do you have to bring the guitar to school or does it just stay there? Well, you can leave it there, but I'd take it home on the weekends and stuff. Yeah, and play at home. Well, not really. No.

So you could play, like, so you're just in this beginner's class. Shouldn't be in it. Yeah. What's another art that you could take? What did you almost take? Like regular art, like painting and drawing and stuff. That's not cool. Yeah. So I'll do guitar. Is it like an electric guitar or is it?

No, it's acoustic, but you can bring, like if you have an electric, you can bring it. So I haven't brought it yet. Y'all just do like Dave Matthews band all day long? Yeah. No. Are you better than the teacher? No, he's way better. He's good. Yeah. And then, so you're going to be, so in college, you're going to sit there and

You know, someone's going to be like, oh, like, you know. You're the guy at the party. You're the guy at the party. You're like, Cole, play guitar. And you're like, I don't know. All right, I'll try a little bit. And then you just pull it out. Just pull it out. And you tell them I took guitar beginners class. Yeah. Senior year. There you go. We locked up with the ladies, Cole. Tell you what. Liza Martiniu or Liza Martiniu. Liza. That's probably Liza.

I recently started listening to Nate Land Podcast from the beginning and just finished the 38 Alabama episode where Nate was quitting soda. I am pre-diabetic on the verge of becoming full-blown diabetic. I was feeling overwhelmed because of how I would have to change my lifestyle drastically with no end in sight. We all talked about giving up things and holding each other accountable. And I thought to myself, if Nate can do it, I can do it.

So here I go starting my gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, soda-free, joy-free life. Also, I'm more than a year behind on the podcast, so I guess I'll find out if Nate succeeded in giving up soda.

Liza, bless your heart. You're a precious angel. Look, it still worked because by the time she gets up to current, she's already done it. She's already done it. So you're already here and you're looking at me going, I was pre-diabetic. Now I'm on the verge of becoming full. I might be full blown by the time you get to this point. Well, I was going to say you helped her, but I guess two episodes after that, you were off it. So she'll find out pretty quick. Well, she's at 38. What episode is this?

We're at 80. Oh my goodness. We're 79. So Liza, if you're, I'm looking at this, if you're watching this right now and it's probably a year, 50, it'll be a year from now. She said she was a year behind. So a year from now, if you're watching this and you're just getting to this naturally at its own, at your own pace, I let you down.

And I hope you stuck to it, Liza. I'm sure you did. That would make me, nothing would make me happier than Liza. Do it. I got to go do it, Liza, because I think I've got to start now because I think I'm going to be, I've got big, big problems. I got big, big sugar problems. And I'll, so going forward, I will be talking about what I'm having to do. Starting now? Starting now. I think I'm going to have to.

I think I'm going to, you know, yeah. So that's such an uplifting. She's going to do it. Liza, I'm talking to you from the future and you did it. Congratulations. And hopefully by the time you caught up to this, I've already got mine. So now we're actually still, me and Liza are on, we're on the same page more than she even realized that we, you know, she's going, that's great. Uh,

Cole, when are you going to lose weight? I need to gain weight. You run. You're in cross country, right? Not anymore. Not anymore. Why not? Done with it? The season ended in late October. I was talking to your dad. How many miles did you run this year? Could you guess how many miles you think he would have ran this year?

I don't know much about how long you run in cross country. Just miles. How long is a cross country race? It's a 5K. 5K. 5,000 miles. Go ahead. So this year. It's not 5,000 miles. 3.1 miles. 3.1 miles. And this is for just this year? Yeah. But outside of the racing, what do you have to do? Like practicing and stuff. Practicing and everything. I'll say 300 miles.

It's not it. What is it? Oh, I ran about 1300 miles this year. 1300 miles. And that was from, that was from January to the end of October. Yeah. He's, then he stopped running. Yeah. 1300 miles. How far would that be across the U S?

A half. Like half. 3,000 miles is total. That's what the US is. So he's ran half the country. Wow. Yeah. Does it feel bad that you've ran that much and you're still here? It does feel bad, actually. Yeah. You should be somewhere else. Yeah. Yeah. I get that. That's why I don't run. Kind of feels pointless. Yeah. Yeah. He would leave and go run. I'd see him, you know. I mean, if he ran it in the afternoon, I'd see him. I'd never see you in the morning. I'd never see you in the morning.

I think I've seen you in the morning. Like if I'd go in earlier, but for some reason I had to get up, I'd see you walk out there and be like, all right, there you go. Did you go do cross country in college or are you done? No, I'm done. You don't, we think you're run forever. I mean, your dad ran, your brother runs, like y'all, you're a running family kind of, you know, would you, you think you run, you think you'd just be casually running or you're? Probably. Yeah. Like what's the, do you run marathons?

I've done a half marathon, but... You could do a whole one. I probably could, but you're not supposed to when you're younger. It's bad for you. Yeah. So maybe when I'm older, I'll try one. Who decided that? Don't listen to these people. But what would you do a 5K in?

Like my fastest? Yeah. So my fastest is 17 minutes and 16 seconds. I don't know if I could drive that. I think if you told me, if you live three miles away and you can get over here in 15 minutes, I'd be like, I don't know. And you would do better running. Yeah. Yeah. Do you need to gain some weight? How are you going to gain weight? You're going to just- Eat more. Get after it. Yeah. You got to eat. Put some weight on you. Bill O'Sullivan, male nurse here.

There's an easy blood test to see if Nate has type 2 diabetes. The test is called A1C, and it measures what your average blood sugar has been over the last three months. If your test results is less than or equal to 5.6, it's normal. 5.7 is 6.4 is prediabetes. Over 6.5 is full-blown diabetes. Given that Nate is the greatest average American, my bet is that he has full-blown diabetes. Let's go, folks, to get our blood test. So you can just go buy that at the store.

I guess. Yeah, I'd go buy one tonight. I was supposed to go to physical tomorrow, but I couldn't because I'm going to... I'll be at the Tonight Show. Everybody, if you're watching this, it comes out Wednesday. I will be on the Tonight Show that night. And I... So I want to go do this to see if I have it. I could. Why don't you call it full-blown... Like, doesn't that feel aggressive? Don't mess around. Like, I don't know. Yeah, but you should be like... That sounds, you know...

not as like pre-diabetes feels like you can still go either way pre-diabetes yeah yeah that's true but then it's like now you got it full blown you're like well didn't what are you supposed to just kill yourself now like it's just you know like you're pointless there isn't even live you're full-blown diabetes can you get rid of it no i'm gonna guess you're double digits i'm above six points you're about a 12 yeah yeah it could be man it was i we you know uh

I just can't. It's bad. I think I'm going to talk about it on tonight's show. It's just I can't. Like, it's just too much. I'm full blown addicted. I got to be addicted to sugar. And it's bad. So me and Liza, I got to get off sugar. I want to see if I can do it. So good. Getting the sugar, you know, gain some weight on you. You're young. Not bad to get into it right now. Yeah.

All you got to do is stop it when you're like 45, 42, something like that. I'm 42. So you just have to quit it then. Yeah. You have a good run at it. What are you? It's 18, 17? 18. 18. Yeah. Get after it, man. You're skinny. You're pregnant. You're probably going to be fine. Yeah. You like candy? Yeah. What kind? You a chocolate guy? You're a Sour Patch guy? I do love Sour Patch. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. They're good.

Aaron J., can we get an update on Brian's health? Because I've been concerned since the awesome baby news combined with the I might be having a stroke, followed by we still don't know what the diagnosis is. Praying all is well. Well, thank you, Aaron, for asking because these guys have not. No. Way to go, Cole.

Still trying to figure it out. I've been to numerous doctors. My doctor thought I had multiple sclerosis. Oh, really? Which I was like, doc, Nate is not going to be able to pronounce that. So he said, just say MS. Oh, he thought you had MS? He did. Wow. Yeah, yeah. But now the neurologist doesn't think that's the case. Oh, boy. I think I'm having a stroke. Yeah. Y'all saw that too? Yeah, the light went out. Okay. Okay.

I was like, man, it's happening right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You go, what's that? Everything's normal. Neurologist does not think it's that. It's not really sure what it is. I go tomorrow for MRI. Tomorrow? That's not good. I'm also having a stroke. Yeah. Lights are going out. I can't talk. Yeah. But I go tomorrow for an MRI.

Hopefully we'll find something from that. MS sounds like the guy didn't even really do a test. You walked in, you said the same thing. He goes, sounds like MS. Didn't even look at you. And you go, what? He goes, I shouldn't be saying that out loud. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I don't think it's that. I mean, neurologists really couldn't find anything. So if the MRI shows nothing, then... Could be diet.

Yeah, that was the first thing they looked at was my diet and did blood work, thought it could be a vitamin deficiency or something, but that all came back good. It could just be I'm getting old. Yeah. I'm about to hit the Wolford Brimley cocoon line. You know what that is? No.

In the movie Cocoon, which was about old people that found the Fountain of Youth, Wilford Brimley was 50 years old in nine months in that movie. So now that's a whole thing where anytime an actor hits that, like Tom Cruise is way past that now. Wilford Brimley, you thought he was an old guy then. So now that's a whole thing, the Wilford Brimley Cocoon line. Right now, you'd have to be born...

April 11, 1971. Yeah, April 11, 1971. So I'm going to hit that here in a few months. If you were born today, you don't hit it until 2072. But that's like a whole thing now when actors or anyone hits the Wolfer Brimley cocoon line.

Wow. So. And what did they, they just say that? Yeah. Because it's usually now like, well, Tom Cruise, I feel like was the first one really people pointed out, like, cause he's still starring in all these Mission Impossibles. Yeah. And Wilford Bramley was playing a really old man. Yeah. And was now younger than him. And now it's just kind of kept going. Well, you got to think of the health of it all is just, I mean, look at, uh,

people are just in shape now and these and then now like they you know they had to look at these athletes look at Tom Brady like they just people stay in shape now they it's it's not like the old like you know everybody's learning more about stuff everybody I think eats probably you know people that end up being more conscious about their health and like so they just end up not being yeah the old same old is not the old

But he was much older. He was like 20 years younger than all the other actors then. He just looked old. Yeah. He just died a few years ago. Yeah. And that movie came out in the mid 80s. Yeah. But so that's what's up with me. Baby doing good. Due April 8th. But the doctor said she'll probably come mid March. March 25th.

Maybe. That would be great if it waited that long. But they always throw something crazy at you to scare you to death. And then they'll say, but it's fine. Yeah. I mean, we'll go in one week and they were like, well, we found a hole in her heart. Yeah. I mean, it's a real thing. We freaked out about it. And then they're like, it's nothing to worry about. It happens all the time. It usually heals itself. The next week we went in, they said, it's not there anymore. Yeah. Wow. This past week, they were like, so if she doesn't have a nasal bone, we'll blah, blah, blah. And we were like, wait, what?

And they're like, yeah. And we're like, she doesn't have a nasal bone. They're like, well, we're not sure. We can't see it on ultrasound. But they said, that's not a problem. She said, a lot of people do not have nasal bones. Oh, wow. And they don't even know it.

um because most of your bone is just skin tissue and she said it'll affect her none yeah if that's the case i mean i hope she has one yeah but they always scare us to death yeah what's so you see like why would you tell me that i guess or at least tell me up front this is nothing to worry about yeah but this they tell you that and then they tell you yeah nothing to worry about yeah you don't know a nasal bone sounds like it's important

It does sound like it's important. I'm still kind of holding out hope that she has one. Yeah, yeah. She's measuring very, very small in the one percentile right now, but they think she's going to be all right. There's a lot of people that end up being in that percentile. They end up being in it? They go back to it. Cole's in it right now. How does it feel? One percentile. Doesn't feel good. No, she'll be all right. A lot of people were born, you know, and they all...

They all come up great and big. Didn't Tentito? Was he? I don't know. But something, probably. I think she'll be Tentivo. Yeah. I'm sure. Same body type? Same body type, yeah. No nasal bone. Jimmy Dorsey.

I bought, what if she doesn't have a nasal dome? No one ever would have known, except you talked about it on this podcast. And now she's 18. She's like. It's ruined her life. Yeah. She's like, well, no one, you know, the nasal bone thing. I didn't even know I had, didn't have one. Now the whole school knows.

Jimmy Dorsey. I bought my wife tickets for the Austin show. Luckily, she's just as big of a fan as I am. Christmas morning arrives and the time comes for presents. Before she opens any of hers, she wants me to open one of mine. Two tickets to see Neighborhood at St. Austin in February. After I got over my initial confusion, all I could do was just smile and hand my wife her next gift.

We now have four tickets to your Austin show. Not even different shows. We both went for the 930. So long story short, she and I was seeing Nate from orchestra row C and somewhere back in row X will be two of my wife's friends, but apparently I've never heard of them. All right. That's pretty great. Yeah. It's a good griff. I wonder who got, uh, who bought the better tickets? I bet she did. Yeah. Yeah. You think?

I think I would be the one that buys the better tickets than my wife. Two of the wife's friends are an ex, so probably that's the one the wife bought. Yes. Yeah. C is great. Yeah. He's like, ex? Are you kidding me? Are we even going? There you go.

Andy Burns. Having four young kids, my wife Michelle and I agreed not to spend much on each other for Christmas this year. An agreement we would make annually and then predictably break. This year, we mutually violated a no-spend contract by unknowingly both purchasing each other a pair of tickets to Nate's upcoming show. I'm really looking forward to seeing the show with my best friend. Plus, it would be cool knowing Michelle is there somewhere to see you in Pensacola. Yeah.

He's going to just go with them and just split them up. I mean, that's a good thing. I think marriage, a lot of, you know, you could, yeah, just go with your buddy. Cole, you think about getting married? Someday. Yeah. Not soon, but. Before you get out of high school, you want to lock it down? No. No? I don't want to be one of those people. Yeah. I've been with my wife since I was in high school, but I get it.

He got married in high school. No, I've been with him since I was 21. But yeah, my parents were seventh grade. You've really offended a lot of people. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. No, you're too cool. Now you're young. You guys are going to wait forever. That's the new thing. Now it seems crazy to get married in your 20s, I think, right? Yeah. Yeah. You going to do what I did? I don't know. Are you going to wait that long? No.

We'll see. Yeah. I got more important things to focus on right now. He might be retired though. He's just getting started. Yeah. Jacob Shipley. On Christmas morning, I'm opening up presents in front of my wife and my in-laws inside a small bag for my wife as a note that says we're going to Nate's show in Kansas City in January. We have two kids under two, so two nights out are

are few and far between. I'm so excited. I say to my wife, you're kidding, right? No way. Are you serious right now? My mother-in-law starts crying. Based on my reaction, she was convinced it must be a pregnancy announcement. She was heartbroken that it was tickets to see some dumb comedian. Had to take Christmas out

Had to take a Christmas intermission for her to get a Kleenex and calm down. She may be bummed that she's not getting another grandkid, but I'm pretty stoked about the tickets. That's awesome. You got to go explain that. I mean, she was like, it's happening, you know.

And then just going to this show. I get it. I'll be your grandchild. You want me to come over? Just eat out of the refrigerator? You know? Just come and get me a Sunny D. What do you got in here? Sunny D? You ever drink Sunny D? I have. Yeah. It's good. Yeah. They still have it. Yeah.

Yeah, we did. I do want to talk. We're going to talk about this and then we'll have Sonny on. I ended up watching. You ever watch Hallmark Channel, Cole? You even know what it is? I know what it is. Yeah, it's an older lady channel. It's... I think more women watch it. Oh, yes. I really trash it. Well, they got me. All right. It's an old lady Nate channel.

It was on our TV all weekend, this Passover and Christmas. I've watched a few of them.

Cause it's like, you can start them and it's hard to, it's just these movies that are, uh, the actors are always really good in them. And then the story is just, it's very pleasant. And there's enough that you're like, well, I want to see what's going to happen. And you end up just going and kind of keep going and seeing what's going to happen. Uh, there, I get it. I think I get it. I get how you could watch them. They're just very comforting. It's, uh, you know, it's easy to watch. So I was watching this one and, uh,

This blew me away about making TV shows or movies. So just play it. And you'd have to see this if you go to YouTube and check it out. So drives up, right? Yep. Middle of the road. She's going to meet this guy. You're hoping they get together.

Okay, you can pause it there. So she just, what do you notice about that scene? Parked the car in the road. She just left the car in the road. She walks, oh, he's standing in a parking spot. If you go back to it, she turns down a road. That's a regular road.

turns down the road gets out he's like hey good to see you and she just goes what are you doing and then leaves the car in the middle of the road and walks to the park walks through the parking spot not even they sit down they're not even there's no fear there's no worry of like let me move the car real fast i don't i feel awkward it's in the middle of the road and people she's just like how you doing she gets out of the car and yeah the truck is even parked

You could move the truck out of the scene and I would probably be okay with it. But the fact that you have a truck parked, now the whole road is blocked in this magical town. Like I always think when they make these, does it not, does someone there not go, hey, she just got out of the car.

and left they should this is why this is back to my you got to have normal people at things and you you should have a normal person at every set that just goes but why did she leave her car in the middle of the road and they go you know what that's why you're here to help us because we're we're just actors and we don't we don't drive cars that's what you see all that doesn't like acting you see like them shoot basketball and then you'll be like

They don't even, it looks like they've never seen a basketball before. You're like, did you have a childhood basketball?

Like, sometimes these actors, like, did you, I always thought if I had to play a movie, if I had to play basketball in a movie, I would look like I knew how to play basketball. John Krasinski was very good. Very good at basketball. They all looked like they knew how to play. Like, Michael Scott did it, and that was the whole point. Right. But it's like, the other one's all kind of new. And you can tell when someone, they get the ball, and you're like, I mean, I don't think, did they have, like, what did they do as a kid, you know? Did you play basketball? I did.

As a kid, yeah. But if you were acting in a show, you could probably do enough or it did look bad. No, it looked good. It looked good. Yeah, that's what I mean. Would you leave a car out on the road like that? No. As an actor, would you go, I'm uncomfortable just walking away from this car? Would you feel that? Yeah. Yeah, right? Wouldn't you? Yeah. Wouldn't you go, should I pull it over to the side? I guess they're saying maybe there's no way for her to have got out of the car

You know, I think they're implying that she did pull over to the side. There's some snow on each side. No, the end of it. So look, she gets here. Yeah.

She just leaves it. I mean, at least park it over on that side, like you park it on a two-lane road. But she leaves it. But I kept watching this. Then when she leaves, she goes back to the car that's in the road. And then you see a car behind her come. Okay. So the car is on the road. And that one's there. Like, I get maybe she should have come in the back way or they didn't want to show her back in, stuff like that. But just re, you know.

I think sometimes they could be making this and they're like, well, you want to fix it? And they're like, I mean, like one guy will care and it'll be me. And then they're like, that guy doesn't need to be on this channel anyway. And this is how they get me off the channel. That's like, yeah. You're the only person. I'm the only person. I walk in, I go to one book club with my wife's friends and then I get kicked out because I'm, you know.

like George Costanza when he goes to that book club. I was thinking about when, on The Office, when they had the book club and Jim wanted to join and he just made fun of them. Yeah, yeah. And they made him leave. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Cars in the road. I mean, they're possibly going to date, you know? They're going to maybe get married. How could you marry a woman?

That you, I would never, I would, I could, I mean, I would be 10 years into that marriage and I'd go, why did you leave that car in the road? There's other people driving. I mean, we're in, it's a busy town. Why would you not move it? You know, do you think you would, could you get past that? You don't think you could. Would it stick with you or would you move on?

I think it would stick with me. I think it'd bother me. Yeah, it'd bother you, wouldn't it? You think you'd be fine with it? You'd park right behind her. I think you'd go, you'd pull in. You're such George Costanza now when Susan, talk about the stalls. He's trying to convince Jerry, like, you know, like you wouldn't move, she wouldn't move on. Well, I don't even know how, how does he not?

Even as he's holding the coffee, he's like, I got your coffee. And she does it. And he goes, hey, here, hold this coffee. I'm going to go ahead and move your car out of the road for you. Because that's insane. She just gets out and strolls like, you know, nothing. As that guy, he sits down with her. And he doesn't think...

You know what? Maybe they're meant for each other because they don't realize they just, their whole relationship is just, they just get out of cars and just anywhere. They should have more movies. They're just in the middle of a highway and they're just interstate. They just go get out. They got to run away, you know? And they're like, where's the car? They left it in the middle of the road. It's crazy. You should watch every Hallmark movie and just analyze it. Just find one thing. I looked up who's been in the most movies.

It's the girl from Full House. Yeah. Candice Cameron Burr. She's been in 29 of them. Wow. Yeah. She was in another one that I watched. Yeah, they're great. I mean, they're just very pleasant. They're nice. Yeah, I don't mind them. I get it. The car thing I didn't care for, but it was, you know, just couldn't get past that.

But besides that, because the lady's a nice lady. And it's like, then she now is not a nice lady to me because she left her car in the middle of the road. Like that's,

He turns the whole character. I couldn't believe it. Like, why would anybody want to date her? You know? And why would anybody want to date that guy? Because that guy just lets that happen. How does he not? The next scene should be him going, hey, did you see her come? Like, they should have someone behind her honking. And then she goes, oh, sorry, I left the, there's a parking spot right there. I just left it out. I saw you. I got, you know, I was excited to see you.

I mean, if she parks there, gets out, grabs a coffee, thinks of the coffee and gets back in the car, I'm fine with it. At least even do a little, at least just a little jerk to the left. Like she, I mean, I think she just stays exactly straight. Like she doesn't, there's not even a little, like just a little nod to the left of being like, you know, I gave it a shot.

Did you watch his Allure? No, I watched them all alone. It's so funny. It's supposed to be the true spirit of Christmas, and you're just furious at this lady. I think I'm in the true spirit. I don't think she is. She's the one leaving the car, and that's the Grinch right there. He doesn't care. Just leaves it in the... All right. Cole, thanks for... People wanted to see you. No one knew you existed until now, but now they know, and they know you're there.

You can go check him out at Ravenwood. How long will you keep interning with us? Until I go to college probably. Until enough's enough. Can you keep going? Like if you're at Harvard, could I email you? Cole, could you look up why spiders? Pennsylvania. Yeah. You might have started giving me. That was his first one. Oh, yeah. Why are school buses yellow? That's one we looked up. Yeah. You looked that up? I didn't. Oh, yeah. Can you tell me?

What? Nah. Is it a lot? No, it's pretty simple. Okay. What is it? It's just the most eye-catching color is school bus yellow. That's like a real color.

It's not yellow and it's not orange. It's a combination of the two. Yeah. It's called school bus yellow. Some guy did some research. Most people think red's the most eye-catching color. I think it blended in with trees. Stoplights and stuff, but they said yellow catches your eye even more. Yeah, I could see that. And it really works well with the black lettering. During the fall, New York, upstate, got a red school bus, drive right through it. If you look in the trees, you think it blends in. Wouldn't make sense.

She had a red. I mean, that stick out there. I mean, her, that's a green. She drove a green something. Yeah. That car kind of stuck out more ways than one. The car stuck out. Her attitude sticks out. You know, his attitude sticks out. The whole thing is a major problem. This town probably wants them to be gone. Thrilled for them to be gone.

uh candace cameron she wouldn't do candace cameron wouldn't do that she wouldn't do something like that no she would have called it she said i can't just leave the car out in the middle she's like what if i just why don't they just have her walk him walk up why don't she park just have her be parked on the side down the street she gets out of her car and walks up move that red truck and have her have her back have her parked there and she gets out and walks around just show her like go up and back then and then they did it i don't know aaron's okay by the way he's

Be very just nice and cautious not to. Oh, I thought he died. No, he's fine. He's just on the tail end of the incubation period or whatever it is. It's called not incubation. I don't know. Whatever it is. He's fine. Okay. He'll be back next week. All right. He'll be back. All right. Yeah. Well, here's Sunday gray. Cole. Thanks for all your help. Let us know when you go choose colleges. We're going to let you. I will. We'll do hats. Yeah. Might do seven hats.

It'll be fun. It'll be fun. All right, what's up, everybody? So we have Bates, obviously, here. And then here is Sonny Gray filling in for Aaron Weber. You think anyone would have noticed...

What do they think Aaron's lost this much weight? And they're like, man, Aaron is doing great. So you're being nice because I'm in Aaron's spot right now. This is Aaron's spot. Yeah. Okay. So you're him. You're the third co-host of this podcast. Yeah. You're the first time we've ever done this where we've had one person out here and we have just, right? Well, Mark Norman. Oh yeah. Yes, that's true. We're trying to get Aaron out of the podcast. So, uh,

We're just trying different people. I've missed one. Yeah, Bates has missed one. I've missed none. Well. Yeah. Does that make sense? I would like to. No. I don't know. I'd like to see what y'all just talk about. Well, we're glad you're here. Sonny Gray, everybody knows, pitcher for the Reds, Cincinnati Reds, played at Vanderbilt and local from Smyrna. Smyrna.

Smyrna. S-Town. Old school Smyrna. They have like a sign with your name at Smyrna. You have like when you drive in, it's like home with Sonny Gray. Everybody always said that. Everybody always said that there was one, but no, it's just...

They do have two high school state football championship signs, both entrances, the entrance in and the entrance out. Are they one of yours? They're the two that we won when we were there. That you have. That we. As a team. As a team. But, yeah. What position did you play football? Quarterback. So you were just a star quarterback, too. Because you went and played quarterback in college? If I wasn't 5'10", maybe. Maybe. But.

Drew Brees 5'10". Is he just that much better than you? He's so much better than me. Probably. How far can you throw a football? How far can you throw it? Oh, yeah. About 10 yards right now. How far could you? In high school, a high school football, probably 65 yards. Yeah, that's good. 65 yards. High school football smaller? It's a little smaller. It's skinnier than a college ball, and it's just overall smaller than an NFL ball. What about a women's ball?

I don't know if it's a child ball. How far do you think you could throw? One of those little balls that those little nerf balls that have the nerf and then it has the thing in the back. Yeah. With the arrow. Yeah. The things you could throw that a hundred yards. You could throw that end zone to end zone. Could you throw from the warning track to home? In the air? Yeah. Right now with a crow, with like a running start and a crow hop.

I don't know if I could get it all the way there, like right now. A hop. Yeah, one hop. Probably. We never tested like that being pitchers. We would always throw from foul pole to foul pole. Yeah. So we would throw across the outfield. But you could get it foul pole to foul pole back in college when we long tossed all the time and then right after. What's the point of long toss? You always see people warm up. I see when you go warm up. When I've been to watch you and y'all get real far away from it, is it just good for you to do that?

It's if you believe it, it's good for you, but I mean, it's different. It's like everyone's, it's a philosophy that I, I, I liked because we would always go out real far and then come back in and we would, it would be long toss and then compress, compress your throats and take the energy that you had from 300 feet and, and condensate down to 60 feet and do the same thing that you were doing at 300 at 60 and just continue to, I don't know. And then

The ball should jump out. It's kind of like throwing a weighted ball or something. Yeah. It was like the old school weighted ball. Okay. Now it's all weighted ball. Throw weighted balls and do this and then throw a baseball. There was a pitcher who got pulled a year or two ago and...

And he got mad and threw the ball from the mound into the stands. Out of center field? Yeah. And I was impressed he could do that. I played with him, actually. Who was it? Trevor. Trevor Bauer. Oh, yeah. He played for the Reds. He played for the Reds. That happened recently. It happened this last year with the Indians. It happened when he was with the Indians. And then he played for the Reds after that. But we played high school summers together and then came to –

Came full circles. We were drafted in the same draft class, so we always kind of knew each other. And then he came up in Cleveland. I came up in Oakland. And then we crossed paths there in the middle, and then we came to the Reds in the middle. So, yeah, he was there for like a year and a half. Everyone always gives him crap for that. They always like – so tell me about that time you threw the ball –

Is it just like they're... It's impressive. Yeah, is it? You're just in that moment. You're just mad. You don't care. I guess. I guess. I don't know. Well, it's like your moment here. Sonny Gray rubs his behind. Gray rub his butt on the mound? You're

Here's some unintended effects of the MLB barn. What was that for? He was at bat the previous inning. He clearly has something on his butt. Yeah, so I was hitting in the umpire. The Reds wanted to make sure everything was cool, so they had Lance Barrett go in the dugout to check him out. Of course, I'm hoping it's Pine Tarpon.

The solution they came up with to cure this sticky situation was to have him rub his butt on the ground. That's like you did it so quick. So I'll tell you what happened. Then they show a dog doing it. It's just like Sonny. Just going, rubbing it. Sonny, put it in mute. So I was in...

I was hitting and then I came back to the dugout and I kind of rent my hand and I had pine tar. Oh, I mean, with the new sticky stuff. Can't have any sticky stuff or you get kicked out for 10 games. So I kind of like, oh no, what are we going to do? So I told the manager, I told David, I was like, hey, I got pine tar. And the umpire came over and he did this. And he's like, you got to change your pants.

I was like, change my pants. Like, I got to go out and pitch right now. Yeah. So you want me to just say, hey, time out. Like the pitcher had to go change his pants. Yeah. So I was like, so then I just kind of like laughed at him and I picked up some dirt and I just rubbed it on, rubbed it on there and they were still talking. I just ran to the mound. I was like, I'm out. Like, I'm not changing my pants. That's not happening. Yeah. I'm out.

So I run to the dirt and I say, hey, hey, hey. And the umpire looked at me and I sat down on the mountain. I rubbed dirt all over it. I said, is this good? Is this good? And that's kind of like where he was at. He started laughing. It was like thumbs up. But he told me, he said...

He was like, I'm cool if you keep it there as long as you don't go to it. Yeah. I said, I promise you I won't go to it unless stuff hits the fan, then I'm going to be all over it. I'm going to be all over it because I'm going to need it. But I don't know, man. I go blank. You know you came to me with a Vandy that one time. You just go blank and you just do stuff like this. So you can have pine tar on for a bat, but the pitcher can't have it. So if you grab a bat, so your bat can't have pine tar on it.

I mean, it can if you wear batting gloves and stuff. So pine tar, that's so crazy that you can't use it, but it's that much in the locker room. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. Is it just sticky in a dugout? It's sticky. Just very sticky everywhere you go. You just feel like... It's just dirt, stick. You just go home with papers on your hand and you're like... Smelling like a pine tree. Yeah. I'd always lay down in bed and my wife would be like, you smell like a pine tree. And I'm like...

I'm sorry. Roll over. And you've had games, though, where you completely changed, like got naked. I have. So that's not unforeseen. It's not weird with me. I do a lot of weird things, especially playing baseball. You'll just strip down completely naked. I'll just start over sometimes. In the middle of a game. Yeah, in the middle of a game. I try to find a way to reset. It's like my, I don't know. I try to find a way to reset, and sometimes I'm just like, there's so many things that go through your head or go through my head, and I just like,

So after an inning, I was like real hot and I was real hot and I just needed to cool off. I was like, I just need to. So I just twice I've done it. I've run in the dugout. I run into the locker room real quick and I just start taking my jersey off because I'm sweating. I'm just like, and then I take my shoes off and then I just, and then I just keep going. I was like, I'm going to just change real quick. So then I sit there and I'm sitting in my locker mid game. And then I'm just, and then I'm like, all right,

Put some more sliding shorts or underwear on and some pants and socks and cleats, jersey, belt, hat. And I'm like,

Feels like a new day. And then you just go out and do your thing. How much time do you got? Do you know you got – Not time. Not time. Sometimes I'm like – one time in Miami, I'm like trying to button my pants and tuck my shirt in as I'm walking through the dugout to go back to the mound. Do you have the game on in there? Yeah. So you're just kind of watching. Are you just kind of like, man, it would be great if we could get a long inning? I would need a long inning, but it never happens. It never happens, yeah. It's like three outs in three minutes, and you're just like –

Here I go. Yeah, sometimes you pray for long innings. How close is the dugout to the locker room? Is it just right down the hall? Well, in Cincinnati, you go down the stairs and you go –

You go through this little thing where there's windows and people are eating dinner. Yeah. So you kind of always just wave to the people. And then you go up these stairs, up these stairs. It's probably 100 feet. Yeah. So nothing crazy. Yeah. So you can make a move like that. You can make a move. Yeah. You can make a move up to the clubhouse and change real quick. That's what we've talked about. So when you were going to warm up for last season, I went and pitched. Or I stood in the box. And it was...

Stallings yeah Jacob Jacob Stallings who's Kevin's coach John's kid he plays for the Pirates still wanna go club this year yeah yeah look at that and I was there at the beginning of that you know

I helped him do that. But he, so he's catching it. And then, so Sonny's pitching and he's like, well, I just want to feel someone like in the batter's box. And Sonny just goes, so just get in there. And I'm like, I looked at Sonny, I go, how do you, do you feel amazing, dude? Like I wanted you, like, I don't want you to be like, I don't know, dude, I feel a little foggy today. Cause it's so, you throw it so hard.

And you're just there. Was that scary? Mike Yashimski once, I told him, I said, I could go hit all, I should go, who plays the Giants, Vandy guys, so we all hang out. And I go, Sonny said I could, he'd bat for me, or I could bat for him. He'd pitch and Mike goes, I don't, he goes, I don't know if I'd do Sonny. He goes to me, he goes, somebody goes, Sonny could get wild on you. I could, especially if I throw, I could. He could throw something and it gets wild. No doubt. No doubt. I'm the king of the dirt ball. You love it. I love it.

What was the one stat that you said? Oh, you led the majors in wild pitches? Yeah, sounds right. In 2020? No audience. So no crowd. You're just throwing wild to be wild. Just out there, just throwing the ball as hard as you can. That makes it worse, right? Because everybody just hears it go thud, and everybody just turns around and looks. No. I mean, it's mostly in the – I will say my wild pitches are mostly in the dirt, so I'm probably a catcher's nightmare. Everything I throw is like a sinker going into the dirt or a curveball. I also throw a ton of breaking balls, so –

breaking balls. They go in the dirt. They go in the dirt. But you want, you want them to go in the dirt. Yeah. Yeah. You want them to go. And I mean, you want them to breaking balls. You kind of want them to be down. You don't want them to spin at the top.

But, yeah, I can throw the ball all over the place. You ever look at the stats and like, that was a pass ball. I didn't even know that. I didn't even know that. No, I don't say that. No one's going to tell you that except us. Except the comedy podcast. Yeah, most people don't bring it up. It's not something they lead with. I love it. Hey, you got to lead something. You got to lead something. You got to lead something. I think that's a great stat to lead in. I mean, talk about...

You could tell a batter right before he goes up. You're like, by the way, he led the league last year in wild pitches. All right, man, have a good at bat. You don't know where this is going to go. You don't know where this is going to go. He doesn't know. You don't know. Step in lightly. Yeah. Step in. And then they took sticky stuff away from us. Yeah. There they go. And he was, you, this is the guy you want, Pintar. They should have a rule. Sonny Gray can have Pintar. The rest,

No. When do you start honing it in? Like when you're playing Little League and then you move up, when does it like you start getting like real good? Is it like high school or like college where you're like, you're not really going to hit anybody accidentally? I mean, I know you're going to hit someone accidentally, but in the pros. 2022. Where you're kind of like, okay, like now you're pitching.

Well, like, yeah, when I stood there to bat, like, you obviously – Yeah, I knew it. You're not going to hit me. No, I'm not going to hit you. And so – I'm not going to hit you. Everybody – if you make it to the pros, you're obviously good enough to go, yeah, dude, I'm not going to hit you. Right. Is there college pitchers, though, that might hit you? Or, like, is it where you – they would be like, I don't know, dude, don't stand there. Or you would probably – if you had a high program, you're probably still pretty good. The guys that would hit you would be like a lanky thing, and it would be a lefty throwing to a righty. Yeah. So if you were left-handed –

I would have a better chance of hitting you than if you were right-handed for me. What? So if like a big lefty or the only two things that would hit you is like if a big lefty or a big righty, they throw and they just like arm doesn't catch up and the ball just goes. Yeah. And that's coming up high. That's the one you don't or a lefty or a yank that would probably hit you in like the, the knee. That probably wouldn't a knee or ankle or foot. That probably, but that would be a yank. But what do you think it would do to him?

He just turned 50. Oh, man. He's had two strokes, we think, recently. I mean, would it break? Would it shatter his knee? No. You think you would be able to – I don't know if I'd be able to handle it. Was it scary, though, when he was pitching? You were standing there? It's so fast. It just comes – It's just probably different. You don't know. Yeah, it's something that leads your hand to – it's just instant. And that's straight – You don't even have time to react. It's just you just – I think I wouldn't wind up. You just got to go for it. Yeah.

I didn't have a bat. You didn't have a bat. I mean, that sounds even scarier. I feel like it would be scarier with the bat. Yeah. With the bat. Because then you're like, I want to try. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know, though. I don't know. I remember in Little League, some guys had puberty in some hat, and the Little League is so close that they're halfway to the mound when they release. That's terrifying for a kid who's 4'2", 50 pounds or something. You remember that? I mean, kids are such different sizes that age. We had a kid, Jeremy Lyons, that went to my high school, DCA, and he looked like someone's dad was out there when we were 12. He just, like, honestly, he just looked like, yeah, he's, like, bigger than most dads.

And he'd be out there, and you're like, he shouldn't be. We're 12. You're like, I'm tiny. I mean, I was good until 13. And then when I was 13, I liked it because they went to the bigger mound. So the pitches were pretty easy. 12 was getting like, you're close. And you're like, man, they're throwing some heat. But then 13, they're far, and it's not as fast. And you're like, well, that's my favorite. That was my favorite lead because it was –

Because they're not strong enough to throw it. So it's a lot of ball. There's kind of just, yeah, 12 is. 12 is big. You start using the big barrels. And then I guess 13 is when you start. You go back. You do go back and lead off. Some people can do it when they're like 10, 11, and 12. You were only 13? Like that's the only age? Yeah, it was just 13-year-olds. Mine was 13 through 15. One league. That was what? Babe Ruth.

Okay. Yeah, when he was playing. He played with Babe Ruth. Wow. Yeah. Did you ever play Lebanon? No, we didn't play Lebanon. We played Lebanon in football, in high school football, but we didn't play Lebanon in baseball. What county, Smyrna?

Rutherford? Yeah. Rutherford. He knows every county in Tennessee. Whoa. Well, did you stay up just looking for all the counties that give you reports or something when they come out? You hit an age and you start knowing them. We play sick with you more than the normal. I do think you do get an age where as you get older, just stuff sticks with you different than you would ever dream. Yeah. I don't know if it's counties. I don't know if I have counties yet. I'm starting to lose stuff.

Like, I'm like, would set my phone down, like, and then now it's like, I'll be like, where did I set? And I'm having that happen a lot more than normal.

I used to know where everything's at. You used to be a good phone fighter. I would not set my phone down. I'll forget what I was going to do. I'll go do something, get distracted, and then come back and then forget. That's my everyday. Yeah. I mean, I think that just might be like a... Everyday thing? Like a tension thing. A tension thing? What is that called? ADD thing? Yeah, ADD. Maybe you're just getting ADD when you get older. Like talking to myself over here. Attention. I guess it is attention to something.

ADHD. ADHD, yeah. No one had that stuff. You know what? I always think no one, because they didn't test for any of that stuff. So you just didn't have it? Well, I'm not saying they didn't have it, but it matters what. You basically didn't have it if you didn't test for it. No one asked. So you could be loaded with just, I mean, I would be in a special school if I went to school right now. But back then, you were just...

thrown into public school like a horse just jammed in and it didn't, you know, who cares? He got the yips second base. I got the yips in, in, uh, in church league softball. Yeah.

He couldn't get it. Running? No, no, throwing. I had it from shortstop everywhere. Shortstop, I played short a second, and I couldn't throw it to the first baseman. I would launch it over his head, and it'd go in because the softball dugouts are open, so it'd always go in and land. Church league. At church league, and I just couldn't time it out. I mean, I was like a nightmare. If the ball came, it would have been better for me just to walk it back to the pitcher. I

I just hold it up and call Tom. I'll stop the runner if it comes to me, but don't ask me to throw this ball. I mean, dude, it's so embarrassing. There's nothing left. It's just... Their church split over it. That's how bad it was. They weren't allowed. They weren't allowed in. Oh, God. They went... I mean, it was just... They're Catholic now because of it.

It was, they, yeah, it was, it's embarrassing. You don't, you got to talk to these people and like, you're like, I don't know what to tell you guys. And they're like, ah, it's all right, man. And you know, I'm getting basic outs. I can't get, it's, I mean. And everybody's looking at you. Yeah. Everybody's just staring at you. I mean, just launching. You launch it and they're like, damn, there goes, there goes a nigga again. Here he goes.

Yeah. Yips are a big thing in baseball. Do you even talk about it? We don't. You probably don't talk about it. I don't care. I don't care. But it is a thing. Some people, it is a real thing. And some people believe that talking about them or I think I'm,

I mean, Hardy Lee, the league in wild pitches. Yeah, yeah. He probably should talk about it. He probably might help me here. Yeah, yeah. It's a therapy session. He's been a great game. A Hall of Famer once he got the yips for 10 years. Best pitch we've ever seen. Once he came on Nate Land. Yeah, I figured out, oh, I just got the yips. That's what it is. Yeah, I think if you know what they're caused by, then you –

you want to have them. Yeah. And so it's like, you can figure out, but people haven't golf all the time too. Yeah. I had it with chipping for a while and it just, you can't. That's a tough spot. Yeah. But once you know why you're doing it and now I, now if I hit it like a, yep, I know I'm holding it and I'm not releasing. So then you're like, I don't know. You're not worried about it. Cause you're like, Oh, I know, I know the, I know what I did. Yeah. Once you find the fix, then you're kind of just like another thing to blame it on. You still do it. It's not, it's not your fault. It wasn't me, dude. I got these shoes on. They're different. Right. Uh, if, uh,

So we want to talk about New Year's resolutions too. Are you a big resolution guy? You've always been in shape. That's a big one, right? That's the main one. I don't know what you would do. Yeah, so what would an athlete resolution be? Less wild pitches maybe. Could that be this year's resolution we started now? Haven't thought of one. Have you ever done one?

Not that I can... Yeah, because the main one's got to be getting in shape. But you don't have any goals in baseball? Yeah, I think goals... Not leading the league in wild pitches? Yeah. Maybe doing it two years in a row? Yeah. Has anybody ever done that? Well... Maybe. I have... My biggest things, I just want to be...

I don't know. I love my family. That's a big thing for me. Oh boy. I hope you can do that. I hope you can do that. So last year you're saying you didn't love it. Yeah. And this year you'd like to, I would like to love my family more. I would like to, no, I'm saying, so just stay close to, stay close to family, take care of family. Yeah. Do that. I mean, baseball is do well in baseball, play, enjoy it, have fun, pass it down to your kids. Let, let them, you know, let them enjoy it while, while you can. And, and,

I don't know. That's kind of it for me. A little different than Nate's. Yeah, that's the biggest things for me, though. I mean, that's the, I don't know. Yeah. Yours is. Sour Patch Kids. Sour Patch Kids. Well, I think I get off of them. I think I have type 2 diabetes. Okay. Someone said that on the podcast, so I probably have it. I still got to agree. I'm supposed to get tested tomorrow, and I can't because I'm going to fall. Diabetes? Yeah.

Well, then I found... Then everybody in my family, I think, has diabetes. It's not good. And then, so... I've been trying to get off sugar. I have a big sugar problem. I think I'm really addicted to it. He's going for type 3. I drink... I've been drinking soda. I went and got a soda diet Coke, but...

And I just drank it the other day when I was filling up. I mean, it's like filling a bucket up. Yeah. Like you're at the store. I was at like a Firehouse Subs and I'm like pressing the thing and it's a bucket. It's a bucket of diet. It doesn't stop. And it's almost embarrassing how long the person's behind.

Like you're behind, you're like, I'm sorry. And then I got to take a sip of it. And I'm like, just, I'm going to top it off. You know, I'm not going to get a little bit more. Take a sip. Fill it up more. That's it. It's just, and it's a, it just is makes, it sounds like a fountains on. Yeah. And you're like, it's just, and you can order us.

I will say this. We drove to Cincinnati recently for New Year's, and then we drove back on Sunday. Big place to go celebrate. I mean, it was gorgeous. It was gorgeous. It was 40 degrees and raining and snowing, I think, all day. Didn't see the sun for three straight days. It was awesome. Big vacation spot. Yeah, go. So we stopped by. We stopped a fast food place. We stopped fast food on the way up, and we stopped fast food on the way down. On the way up, we stopped...

McDonald's got the new spicy chicken sandwich and and on the way down we stopped a KFC Taco Bell like combination so I mean you had an option to do either one you could do both we did do both yeah so but I had that thought with the coke because I like a coke and I always I mean I love having coke

That is my one. That's like a small, but I try to get the small, like the cans, like the small ones. You get regular Coke. Regular Coke. Coca-Cola Classic. Yeah. But, you know, it makes your hands feel bigger, you know, little guys. Yeah, yeah. But I like having those. But I was looking in the window, and they were filling up a small Coke, it felt like, or whatever it was. They do Pepsi. Pepsi. I know everything that everybody, like Taco Bell's Pepsi. And I was looking at it, and I actually had that thought. I was like, that's...

That's a lot of, I think I said it to Jessica. I was like, that's a lot of, I think I call everything Coke. Yeah, you call everything Coke. I started saying soda just because people, because I'm talking to so many different audiences. So I'm trying to just kind of cut it. But in the South, you call everything Coke. You're like, I'll take a Coke. And then you go, what kind? What kind of Coke? But you say, you want a Coke? And that's how you, and then you tell them what kind you want. That makes sense. Yeah.

But I did. I had that thought, but I did enjoy it. And I also really do enjoy a nice Coke. Yeah, that's what they do. They're good. They're delicious. They're deadly. You drink them. I will drink them. Yeah. I like to drink them. Jay Cutler, the opposite. Won't drink them? He won't. I told him I like soda. And he goes, yeah, I do too. I go, do you drink some? He goes, no. I go, but they're so good. He goes, yeah, that's why. Yeah, they are good. And he's a diabetic. And he's a diabetic. He's type one. You're born of that.

I think. So he has to have sugar. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Does he, he has to some. A little bit. Like a piece of chocolate when your blood sugar is low. Yeah. That's what he'd be eating. That's why he's always frown face. He had a sour ball. He needed a Coke. He needed. Yeah. He just needed a little, he's bringing him over a little small Coke and he goes, all right. And he goes back in. What New Year's resolutions do you have? Uh,

Yeah, I don't ever think. It's about to lose. I need to get off sugar, I think. I think that's going to be. But how much weight would you like to lose? I don't know. I don't even know if I have a number. I mean, I always think I want to get in the 160s. How much do you weigh? 190. Oh, but you're like built. How much do you weigh? I think 180 something, 183, 5. I'm always right in there. Never weighed over 200. I've been close. That's a win. Yeah.

And then I think I would like to get to 160s, in the 60s. What kind of 160s? I don't know. Let's just get there, then I'll go from there. Let's just say this. So I weigh about 185, and I like to get in the 160s. So let's challenge each other. Who can get to the 160s? Yeah. I think I'll get there a lot quicker than you. Okay. That'll be the challenge. Who can get to the 160s? What would the bet be, though?

Just pride, I guess. Yeah. I don't know. We could, we will weigh in on, on this podcast. Oh yeah. We're way in. 160. So we're both in the one. 165. How about that? I think if you touch the 160s. Any of the 160s. First one to touch the 160s. First one to touch the 160s.

That would be a good one. 69.5 round up. You got it. So maybe you got to be 0.4. You got to be under, you can't be rounding up to seven. You got to be fully in the 60s. 169.4. Yeah. So you got to be able to say with the, you know, and be like, Hey, I'm in the one sixties. That's a lot.

That's like 15-something pounds. If I get off sugar, then it'll be a breeze. I mean, that's a big one. Sugar is... It's like the main thing. It's the main thing, dude. I was like, yeah, I'm already reading a book on it. When we were watching the fight over here the other night, I remember you hand me some Sour Patch Kids. I remember that. You ate them. I did eat them. I was like, well, man. There ever. We got them over there. A box there. Kevin said this one. It says Grammy on it.

uh, Grammy Nate. Uh, but it's a, yeah, you eat them. I think I eat more. I might talk about this on Fallon when I, cause I got to think about what I want to talk about. Cause I'm doing panel on Fallon Wednesday. And so, uh, do you know what that is? Nope. Yeah. Nope. So it's, it's so doing this night show. So I'm going to, so if you're watching this, this comes out Wednesday, I'm doing the tight show tonight. Uh,

And so y'all have always done standup. You know, you've seen when I go out and do standup on the show. So the panel is you go straight to the couch.

And I've done it once, but- Well, we would call it guest. A guest. Yes. Yeah, it's a guest. For a stand-up, it's a big deal. Oh, so like the thing like this, and then the couch is right there, so then you just go like- You know when they interview like a celebrity? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They always have one there. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. That's nice. So for a comic, it's a big deal to not have to go do stand-up, and you get to go just sit on the couch. Yeah, that's cool. Like the main thing. Yeah. Oh, no pressure. You got that. Well, it's Cate Blanchett.

it's her and then me i'm second but second said that's good no usually i'm third i'm at the end i come out you know that's all i've ever done everybody's already asleep yeah everybody's asleep everybody check out well you're being a comic on it i still like doing comedy on it but the good thing about sitting on the couch is i can kind of do i think i can do comedy i'm actually going to ask i want to talk to gaffigan about it like but it's like i think i can do some of my act

But I can do it in conversation. Not a lot of my act, but, you know, I got a little chuck about losing weight or something about eating better. And like, I think I can mix that in a little bit because it doesn't count. Like, it's not, you know, if you're doing it like that on the couch, it's just a little taste of your new act. Right.

Right. And so it's not all of it. It won't, I mean, it's a little tiny piece of it. So I'm trying to figure out what to talk about. That'd be cool. Yeah. When you, when you leave for that? So tomorrow, today's Monday, I leave Tuesday and then we'll take Wednesday. I'll watch Johnny Carson reruns. And now obviously all the talk shows have a formula. It's the A-list celebrity, B

B-list celebrity and then the entertainment, the comic or the music. I'm just trying to be to a list. Before, I was like, you're the clown act. But on Johnny Carson, they would have like, the first act would be like a guy juggling swords or something. And then they'd have like Tom Selleck. I mean, there's no order on that show. It would have the craziest thing ever first. And then the biggest star in the world would be on at the end sometimes. Yeah, that's funny. And that's like a...

Fallon show? Same type of thing? Tonight show with Johnny Carson. Okay. Have you heard of Johnny Carson? I mean, how old are you? 32? Yeah, I'm sorry. It's all right. You know the Tonight Show? I know the Tonight Show. Yeah. You know Jay Leno?

You've heard of Jay Leno? Jay Leno with Chin? Yes. So before him was Johnny Carson. Oh, I definitely don't know Johnny Carson. But Johnny Carson was... But that's awesome. So is Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Tonight Show with Jay Leno? Yeah. Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Okay. So it goes in order like that. So it's all in the middle. But so the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, it was the biggest show on air. I think it was... When did it stop airing? I don't remember. Early 90s. Yeah. I mean, I don't really remember watching it. You were...

So you had to be born in 89. So you would have never seen it. But I mean, I don't think I saw it. I saw it, but then I watched reruns on it. Yeah, that's cool. He's a big TV land guy. You ever watch TV land? No. Which is old shows. It's Andy Griffith. I like that. I do watch a lot of 80s sitcoms. I Dream of Jeannie. I Dream of Jeannie. Yeah.

I don't watch those, but yeah. I like it. He's not too far off. I like it. I love it. You've been pointing out how your favorite shows, most of them are from the 90s, and someone...

that almost everyone's favorite shows are from when they were in their 20s. Yeah. Those are kind of the ones that we stick with. That's probably true. Yeah. Your music too. Laura and we were talking about it last night. Laura said, like everybody kind of likes the music that there was like in high school and right out of high school and you kind of like that and you just kind of stick in that era and then you go, I've gone a little bit even older sometimes.

Now, I could listen to 70s and 80s, and then I can catch myself like I'm not moving forward. I'm not as good as going forward with music. I'm kind of like, all right, there's a stop, and then you're like, I'm done searching. I'm with you. I feel that. Yeah. 100% can feel that. What was music like when you were in high school? When did you graduate? 2007? 2008. 2008, it was like the...

Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J stayed with me a lot. I guess I love them. Is that what you still listen to? Yeah. I mean, a lot of times. You listen to it before you play? I listen to Lil Wayne before I play. Big Lil Wayne, like the Lil Wayne, Eminem era. Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, that was kind of like college music.

And then I've never been huge into music. When I was younger, I wasn't into music, really. Yeah, I hear it. I get it. I wasn't either. I was just kind of like, go. I just was going, doing stuff. But we didn't have access to music, I guess, like people do now. Yeah. I mean, people, I don't know. Well, Samaritan's a third world country. A lot of people say that. This is the 2000s you're talking about. Yeah.

I mean, to what it is now, you could pull up anything in a second. I think Napster was around. Yeah. I mean, he listened to the radio instead of watching TV. Yeah. I mean. I agree. I was never a big music person. I wasn't allowed. I think I wasn't allowed to listen to anything, so then I just listened to like, it was either Christian music or

I just didn't care. Like, it was like, I just, we weren't listening to the radio and then, uh, I couldn't watch anything. So, but yeah, it, when I, you couldn't get any music. Uh, and then I remember 2001, like Napster, you could download stuff and all that kind of stuff.

And, but you'd have to be into it. It's either like, it's a lot of stuff now. I even feel as we go farther, it's a lot of like, either you know how to do it or you don't. And eventually like, you know, my daughter's going to grow, your kids are going to grow up. They're just going to know how to use a phone. They're never going to not going to know. Like that's just ingrained in them where we didn't have that.

As, you know, Smyrna, by the time y'all got cell phone tires. Yeah. I mean, when was it? 2015? Yeah, still working on it. Still working on it. Yeah. Y'all can do text, but you can't do calls. It's true. Yeah. It's just a big dead zone when you go through it. Yeah, yeah. You just go through it, and you're like, I'll call you back in 10 minutes. Yeah. You know, at Zany's, when comics come through, they often...

We like just to make fun of a local town. And for whatever reason, Smyrna has become the town that people tell them to make fun of. It's just a good name. It's just a good name. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with Smyrna, but it's just a good name that sounds funny. It's a funny name to say Smyrna.

Because you can say it however you – Smyrna. Smyrna. Smyrna. Sounds pretty Tennessee. Smyrna. Like Smyrna. And it's spelled S-M-Y-R-N-A. S-S-S-M-Y-R-R-R-N-A. S-M-Y-R-N-A. That's y'all's cheer? Yeah. Y'all just spelled your town? They were impressed. That was how we rolled. That's what we did there. We played – I played at Lebanon. We played Smyrna. And you guys had a catcher, Mudcat Brewer.

Yeah, I know the name. Yeah, Mudcat. I mean, I hope so. I know the name. He was legendary. There should be a sign about him. Mudcat Brewer. Mudcat Brewer. Yeah. Was he like 50? Well, he is now because we were the same age. I know that name. I know that name. I remember coming up in Smyrna and hearing Mudcat Brewer. Yeah. Such a good name. It's a great name. Yeah.

Where is he? Is he just a big-time pitcher? He was a catcher. He was just really, really good. He was kind of legendary there. Yeah, that name. Then he went to MTSU. I don't think he played there. Maybe he did play there, but we had some classes together. I would call my friends from high school. I was like, you ain't going to believe who I have a class with. Mudcat Brewer. Because they knew Mudcat Brewer. Yeah. Yeah.

Smyrna. It's a good town. I enjoyed. I mean, so I moved to Smyrna, seventh grade, and I liked it. Where were you at before then? In the Woodbine area. Yeah. Like a little south of Nashville. You've been basically Nashville your whole life. Yeah. I've lived in Woodbine. This little, yeah. We used to go to that Boys and Girls Club right by Woodbine. We lived there.

We kind of moved around a lot when I was little, but in that particular area. Yeah. And then we moved to Smyrna because we were going to the nice- It was big time. It was a big- It's like, step it up. It was a big move. Yeah. And went there in seventh grade and lived there until 2000 and-

Well, then went to college and then moved back to, well, then moved, lived in Nashville, moved back to Smyrna. And then I got to join Nate. Yeah. There you go. Took my rollerblades over here today. Did you? No, I wanted to though. I wanted to. I stopped at home and I was like, I'm just going to rollerblade over there and make it four. Yeah. Do you think the coaches in Woodbine are like, oh my, if he'd have just stayed, we could have had...

Sonny Gray on our team in our school maybe I was gonna go to Glencliff High School yeah yeah my cousin Chris Bargetzky went to Glencliff I watched a football game at Glencliff yeah I watched numerous football games at Glencliff yeah

My first apartment was Gazebo Apartments right there. Really? Woodbine, yeah. Maybe I'll talk about this later. We're just getting off on. Sunny. Let's talk about this after. He was getting real local. So Mudcat. So how's he doing? How's his family doing? Mudcat's family. I know his mom had something with her. Is she doing all right? So what were the resolutions? Do you have one this year?

um to beat you in this weight loss challenge now that we have a weight loss weight loss 169.4 that's gotta be the yeah it's the first one to get there yeah that's what you want to do instead of just like maybe should we do 165 is it gonna be easy to get 20 I mean you think you're about 185 we can we can weigh in before to see yeah and then yeah see first one yeah and instead of like just say by a certain date it's a lot 20 pounds it's a lot yeah

Instead of a date, you want to do like a speed. First one there. First one there. Yeah. So how do you start?

Starting now. Yeah. Starting now. You just get going. You just do it. Yeah, maybe that, you know. He just ate McDonald's, so I'm off to a good start. I mean, oh, you did? Yeah, on the way here. Yeah, so it's still in there. Oh, I mean, it's still in his face. Yeah, yeah. I got it out of the way, though. Yeah, he got it out of the way. I won't get it tonight, so we're going to go.

The top New Year's resolutions. Number one, exercise more. Two, lose weight. I mean, those are kind of the same thing. Get organized. Learn a new skill or hobby. Live life to the fullest. That's Sonny's. That's mine. Save money. Quit smoking.

Spend more time with family and friends. Yeah. Travel more. You probably got that down. And read more. Oh, God. Read. That should be number one for you. Yeah. Read more. I am reading a book on quitting sugar. I'm reading it right now. Really? Yeah. Trying to get off of it. That's cheating. I didn't know that when we agreed to this. I just, I haven't, I've made it. I'm on like chapter one. I'm still eating sugar. Uh,

It hasn't gotten you off yet. It hasn't gotten me off yet, but it's the point of it. It's supposed to get you off of it. How long do you think resolutions last for? Like a normal resolution? I think it's February. I think most people don't. January, and then you're just like... They're done. I mean, they do it. I think gym membership spike so big, and then people just stop going. It's Planet Fitness. Aaron, who's had his...

He got rid of it. People have memberships there for years because they don't get $10 a month. So they kind of forget about it. They sign up New Year's. It's like free to sign up, whatever, New Year's Day. And then they know you're so lazy as a person. You're too lazy to even come because you've got to go to the store to sign up. And they know. They just go, yeah, just come in and tell us to our face that you don't want to be here anymore. And people just go. That's what they do. That's what they do.

Did you see this McDonald's where in China... Oh, it's not coming up. Oh, I think I saw it. The bicycle? Yeah. What's the point of it? People think it's to help you lose weight while you eat terrible food. Yeah. Which I guess it would do that, but it's to...

For energy. Like, they use it to power up their phones and stuff. Oh. So they're making you... They make you do that. You don't have to do it. But if you sit there, it's... It's while you eat. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I don't know. I just... If you're eating it, I'd rather just sit there. I'd rather sit at one of the regular tables. You know? I think it's an energy saving thing. Yeah. I don't know if it really helps.

Would you get – do athletes come back and they're, like, big? Like, you're like, oh, you got after it? Sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes. Yeah. Does everybody still work out, like, off? Like golf? No, like, in your off schedule, you're, like, still – you worked out today. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I think probably people will try and have, like, a – however much off period of time, just do whatever. Yeah. And then kind of, like, go back into it and do their thing. But I don't know. I guess –

Everyone's really different. Everyone shows up to spring training at different points. Yeah. And that's, spring training is so long anyway. So it's, everyone shows up different and just kind of goes from there and does their thing. But you could, you could have a gauge, but it doesn't really mean anything. What's the, what's the hardest position you think to play? Catcher. Yeah. Catcher. No doubt. Cool. Why is that? Your knees? Just, you just get beat up. Yeah.

And it's, I mean, they're the toughest ones to me. Every play. Think about all the plays. Every one, every game. Every game. And you got to put that stuff on in between innings every time. You got to show up with the pitchers. You're basically on both. You're on the pitchers and the position players. So it's kind of like you go to double meetings. You go to double –

you do double. You do everything the pitchers do and then you do everything and then you do everything the hitters do but then you just kind of do what catchers do too. Do you buy like, like in football, you know, the quarterbacks like buy all the offensive linemen like presents. You have to do that with, and you only have a catcher. I was thinking about it right now for the first time. Give them a 20 or something. It's like, hey, great year. You got changed. You go to dinner, you do things like that. You do things you, you,

I've always had great relationships with the catchers and guys. What's the craziest thing you've ever seen in a game? Just something like that would never happen again in a million years. Good question. That fight we had with Pittsburgh.

I mean, I'd been to some... I think we have it. Good answer. Good answer. We have it. We were trying to lead you into that. We were hoping this is what you'd say. This is very... How tall is that guy? To me, he's like 6'7", and he just... What's getting this fight going?

Well, you're losing 11-3 here. It was a long thing. Oh, man. So the series. Yeah. I mean. He just goes and fights the whole team. And I've been in a lot of brawls over the last couple years. There I go, running in there, sliding. Where were you at the time? I'm right there sliding. Pause it real quick. You're just at the bottom now? I know you come up. I've seen this video. You come up later pretty prevalent. See, I'm straight up. Go straight up with your finger. One more. Left. Left.

Oh, right in the back. Down. Right there. Yeah. That's you right there. And you're just on. And you're trying to get them apart or you're just trying to hit them? I'm trying to get them apart. So you think everybody's trying to break it up more right here? I don't know. This was a fight. Like, this was different. Why was he fighting? So Derek Dietrich, number 22, when we played in Pittsburgh, like the series before, it was like an ongoing thing. He hit a homer and he stood at home plate for about 10 seconds. Yeah. And he just...

Just stood there. I was like, ooh, a little aggressive there. And then he ran around, popped his chains out. All like five of them. Ran around, did his thing, hit home. And then they start yelling. They start yelling. You're like, this isn't good. So then they hit one of our guys. We hit one of them. They kept throwing. And then you kind of get into a little argument, get into a little scuffle.

And then they come to Cincinnati the next series. And you remember like, oh, still OU won or, you know, guys hold grudges or whatever. And he came in the game and they were yelling at him. And it was kind of been a lot of yelling going back and forth. There you are. Yeah. You'll be a peacemaker right there in the middle. I'm in the back. Right there. Right there. So right in that moment, you're being very level headed. Look at that. You're the one that's kind of trying to talk him into it. Like, come on, guys. Are you like, hey, man. Are you patting him?

Can I call you? Like, do you? Yeah. What are you saying right there? Do you even remember? I mean, it's probably a blur. You just going. I just knew that there was, it was kind of over and it was, now it's gone. Like, whose fault is it? Yeah. Like, you get a lobbyist. But it's not over. Yeah, but it's not. Yeah, but it's not. You're thinking like, and then it goes. So you were talking to the wrong person. Like, that person was calm and you should have went and talked to the other. No, no, I stay away from that. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, Puig is gigantic. That other guy was gigantic. Yeah. The, it's just, this one was just a crazy one. Like it just didn't stop. Let me go. Would y'all fight? Like you, do you ever, does anybody ever try to fight after the game?

Meet me in the parking lot thing? Yeah. Is it all like... Not that I... Would that not be the most realest thing if a dude was like, showed up at the guy's house and said, I would like to keep... Would it be too far? House? What if it's car? It's house. House? Son, we got your address right now. House is a little much. Yeah. Didn't Jalen Ramsey do something like that? Did he? Like him and Golden Tate, I think there was like... They had a real thing, wait for me after the game. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, they... I mean, do they even buy Tim? Are you kind of just over it? You're like, I don't know. I think one of them was dating one of them's sister or something. Oh, that could be going. Oh, that's... Yeah. Married to or something. That might be driving to someone's house. They probably do go to people's... Yeah. So...

Yeah, that one just kept going, but I don't know of anything meet me after. There's no like storial baseball stories of like, you mean? No, not that I, not of meet me. No, I think it's kind of like, that's why sometimes, I don't know. I think it's kind of like if you want to do something, you do it out here. And then once you go, you go. Smyrna though. Meet me at the Mapco. Yeah, meet me there. Yeah, I mean, is it different because you're from Smyrna and y'all fight more?

is it you love it yeah i was into it yeah yeah yeah so you're on the you're on the bench and you're just like so that when you so when you do this when you know that you're you've you've this team he did the are you mad at him for doing the home run thing are you like sometimes is it like man we're gonna have to fight these dudes next you know you're gonna have to fight them or you know something's going down yeah are you worried that you're gonna get hit

I'm a pitcher, so I'm not necessarily worried about it. You're like, for him, you're like, dude, you're going to get hit. Or something's going to happen. Yeah. And worst case is you do it and somebody else on your team gets hit. They got to take the punishment of that. Just press play. I thought I muted that. So this is the Yankees and Tigers. And you're titled in it, Brett Gardner and Sonny Gray. So this is between y'all two. Y'all get started? You come in very late on this. No, I was –

I was in, I just joined the Yankees. I was there. This is August, 2027. I was there maybe two, two weeks, three weeks. So this is your initiation. Yeah. I had to, I had to, I had to go do something. You had to show off. Yeah. You had to go like, no, I love this team. Yeah. Like, here we go. Like you're my boys. I will die for this. So,

Yeah, this was an interesting... So something happened with the... Is that you there on the ground? That's me right there. Yeah. On the right. Yeah. And that's now my current teammate, Nick Castellanos. Oh, that's him. That's Castellanos. That's Castellanos. And I played with him for the last two years. So you're on top of him. Right. And are you and him fighting or you're just trying to keep him away? Well, he was...

He was being peacemaker in this. What I've learned playing with him, Tyler Austin was being like, I'm going to get you. And Tyler Austin's a really big guy. Yeah. So I saw Tyler Austin...

during this brawl with one other guy. And I was like, I'm going to join his team because, you know, he's got me. He's got me. So I get on the ground with him and I'm just like, I'll hold him down while you just do your thing. So I was just, I was kind of just body weight in this one and holding and making sure Nick couldn't move and Tyler was just doing whatever he was doing under. So it was kind of like,

You know that. And then me and Nick. And then he, both of you end up on the Reds. Me and Nick end up on the Reds. Yeah. Yeah. Like this is 2017, 2018.

Yeah. And I mean, so neither one of you forgot about this. Oh no. Cause it hasn't been, I didn't know. I didn't know him at all. It's just kind of, have you ever caused a brawl just because they thought you were going on, but it was really just another wild pitch. You go, no, no, no, no, no. I'd leave the league. And yeah, this is what I do. This is what I do. This is what I do. That's how you should calm everybody down. No, no, no. This is what I do. This is not, it's not my fault. I promise. Yeah.

So when you go in there and you know he gets – you were on the Reds first, and then he came on. And you're like – you hear the name, and is it just like a pit in your stomach? You're like, oh, man. It's not like saying you're going to fight, but just like the pure awkwardness of you and this dude have fought, and now you have to get along. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's not what you – it's not what –

Not what we led with, but it was shortly thereafter. How long do you take before you say, what's up, man? Are you saying it quickly? Yeah, right away. Right away. You got to see where you stand. You fill them out. Yeah, like, hey, man, how you doing? Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's like a fight with your wife. You're trying to go. I saw that someone this weekend, someone was calling their wife. You know when you call your wife and you're just trying to...

hear her tone to see how mad like is she mad or if you can you gotta talk make some jokes go what's going on god where was that I was just there this week I did that today yes my buddy Kenny just did it yeah I was gonna say was your poker night

Yeah, we went over to Kenny's and he's on the phone and his wife's going to hear this. Someone smoked a cigar near the entrance and so they could smell it in the house. And so his wife's like, dude. And he's like, no, I'm fine. He's down there with us. He goes, no one's smoking down here at all.

And then he's like, what are you doing? Like, she's like upstairs. Like we're in the basement. She's up. She's trying to sleep. And then you smell it. And you smell it. And he's like, no, nothing, man. We're just going, what's going on? He's like making a couple of jokes. You're just trying to get that tone switched back to like, she goes, you know, so she's like, well, what? You're being stupid. All right. And then you're like, all right, she's cool now. But if it stays mad, you're like, well, I got to go fix it.

I gotta go. I gotta call it and do it. I gotta go do something. I gotta do something. Yeah. I think that's the, like, cause I don't know if women don't do that. I don't think they do it that way, but we are like, I gotta just let me fix this. Cause we don't want to fix ourself.

right but i can fix this and so i can just get her you know i can do something else i mean you can be on the phone you're like no do smoke this what is she it doesn't matter you can't tell me what to do i'm not gonna tell you her start barking like tim allen you're like hey just let me two seconds no one's even down here smoking cigar you go i don't even know what that is i've never seen one yeah yeah you do that going off

You call and try to get the tone. A tone is everything. It is. A tone is everything. It is. And that's what's missing with text messages. Because you don't know the tone. You don't. And a tone is how you operate life. You got to fill that tone out to be like, what kind of tone is this? What kind of, you know...

You ever started a text and you're like, the tone, it could be misread. I'm very sensitive to it. So you'll call them? Yeah. I'll call them or I'm very sensitive. That's where your ha-ha's get thrown in. Exclamation points. Yeah, just to be like, because you're not taking it. You're trying to make sure that you're like, I don't care. If you put a period, does that mean it's over? If you don't, is it open? Yeah. I don't enjoy texting. Yeah. I do not enjoy it. I'd rather not.

I like a phone call. I like a phone call. I like a phone call. You a big social media guy? Don't have one. No, not. I used to. I used to do it and do it for, you know, because you could make money and you could do this and. Make money? I'm doing it wrong. Well, you do like ads. Well, yeah, like ads. Send out tweets for. Send out tweets for, you know. X amount of money. You talk, you send out tweets. You got to send out.

whatever 10 tweets and yeah go to shoney's and or whatever hashtag breakfast baits and get five dollars off yeah i'm gonna try that yeah yours might be shoney's you should be a sponsor for sure yeah you should you should wear exactly what you're wearing you should drive there right now

I was actually going to go after the podcast. All-you-can-eat buffet. Did y'all go to Shoney's a lot growing up? It was very popular. It was a nice place. It was. Shoney's was like big news when you were going to Shoney's. We talked about something the other day when we were playing cards over at Kenny. Someone said that. They said Longhorn.

And then, God, what was it? I forget. You know, it was like something like something saying something about it. Not Applebee's, but there's something. And they said Longhorn. They go, oh, Longhorn's like a nice one. Longhorn's where you went for birthdays. Yeah. Longhorn. That's what's so funny is like if you go other places, no one. Longhorn's sick house was like, that's like, yeah, that's like you go for like prom, a birthday. It's like a fancy. You're like, whoa, that's one of Longhorn. You get dressed up. You get dressed up to go to Longhorn.

In Lebanon, we'd go to Western Sizzlin'. Sizzler? Sizzlin'. Sizzlin'? Is it not Sizzler? Oh, is it Sizzler? I don't know. Y'all have your own? We might. What if y'all built y'all's own? Or Ponderosa. Oh, yeah. I remember Ponderosa. I remember there was one. Yeah, I love all that stuff. This is the sugar thing, you know? Yeah, it's Western Sizzlin'. It's where it started. Western Sizzlin'. I thought people said Sizzler. Sizzler might be a separate thing. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, this is where the sugar started.

But it's okay. It's all right. I think in the South, you have a tougher time. I think in the South and when you come up, it's just a different time now. Back then, I think it was hard to avoid. No one ate healthy back then. They didn't sell anything. It wasn't a thing. You didn't have money. You couldn't. It's a lot harder to eat healthy without money. You're athletes. You have your meals. You have to make your meals. You eat the same thing every day, basically. Yeah.

At the field, so you can eat a lot of your meals at the field and they have just... Y'all go to concession stands? Yeah, and get the chili dogs and the corn dog. Every now and then. Before the gates open, they go, all right, everybody go eat. Y'all just have to go walk around to the different concessions and that's how y'all eat. Or you can eat just everything you want. Toledo Mudhens pitching coach Doug Bockler is a fan of the podcast.

He told us to do an episode on baseball in the wintertime. So we're kind of honoring his request. Oh, yeah. But he would, when he pitched for the Padres, we showed that video, he would sneak from the bullpen and steal people's beers from the stands. Like they put it down and he would grab it. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah. They would never know it. You've done it. You don't say it. No, I haven't. I haven't done it, but I would. There's stories of pitchers getting drunk though. Like, and yeah. It's fair. Fair. Yeah. Fair stories. Yeah.

I mean, if you're a pitcher, you're starting. You know you're not playing. If you're starting, you come up with a lot of different things. People set up golf nets in a room somewhere. The locker rooms are so big, there's just different areas. Set up a little golf net and just go in there and hit golf balls during the game. Do you ever feel, y'all play so many games, do you feel some of them, you're like, these don't matter?

You know, like, there has to be. If you're being honest, I'm like, oh, whatever. Well, there has to be. Yeah. There's a lot of games. There's a lot of games. You play 182? 162 games in 180 days. Yeah. That's a lot. So that's so crazy. So, yeah, there has to be games. But you know, like, hey, we got to, you know, you could be like, all right, we've had some fun. We've had some losses. And then there's a point where you're like, yo, dude. Yeah. We're going to be. Yeah. I think if you can just, I think 500, you can't get too far below 500. Ever. Ever.

It'd be nice to not be nice. So as long as you're around 500, you're always within strike and distance just to go on a 10-game winning streak or just do something. But if it's like August 1st and you're way out of it, those last two months have got to be hard. I thankfully haven't. I've been on maybe two –

Two teams, one team, two teams, two years of my career that's been like that. Most of them luckily have been, we've been on a good team and we've been pushing for that. But the years that we have, but you're out of it.

and you got two months left it's kind of like what are we doing yeah you know what are you doing here i watch that's when that's when stuff goes in all different directions yeah you're like the story picture is drunk and he's pitching yeah like well yeah david wells uh it's i remember watching the white socks game when i lived in chicago and like it was the game it just didn't matter and no fans are there and no one's uh and you can just tell you're like

But, I mean, is there motivation still to play? Like, you're still trying not to be. As an athlete, do you want to win that game? Yeah, you want to win. Yeah. I mean, you want to win. It always feels better to win than lose. Is it nice to, if you can't, like, is the motivation, so if you say y'all are out of it, but you know you can knock these people out of the playoffs too, is there motivation that you're like, yeah, that's fun. Yeah, that's fun. That's fun. That's fun knowing that you can, like, you know, ruin someone else's.

Someone else's chance. Do y'all take the, what is it called? Poster board material? It's not poster board, but is that, you know when they- Bulletin board. Bulletin board. Hang it up? You talking about bulletin board material? Well, you always get that bulletin, like you just gave this team bulletin board material. Is that a real, like- Which is a very old school- It's an old school saying. You'd have to now print it out. It's a meme material. Hang it out. You gave them memes. But yeah, yeah. But it's still, I mean-

Yeah, but I feel like if the media wants to do that, they can just do it. They can just do it. And they can either say, you can either take it for how you take it, or you're just like, some of you are like, I don't care. Some of you are like, I hate this team, dude. There's just some teams you don't like just for whatever reason. Have you ever been the guy who's had to retaliate and hit someone? Retaliate. I should retaliate. Have you ever re-haliated? Either way. Not that I know of.

But retaliate. Like someone else hit someone and you're like, hey, dude, you got to hit this guy now. I did it. I've done it a couple of times, two times that I can remember of currently. One at Vandy when we were playing Tennessee. It's a situation you just don't like. It's Tennessee. You just don't like them. So something happened and me and Coach Corbin got thrown out of that game. We got thrown out of Friday night at Tennessee.

So we had to miss three games. Yeah. And that was, we had to, yeah, we had to miss three games and that was the rule. So because we had already got warned or something like that.

So we got thrown out for the Saturday game and the Sunday game. And then I had one more game and he had one more game to get thrown out for. And it was, this is a long time ago. So I think it's fine to even say, I don't, I don't think it's illegal. We'll find out. Yeah. We're going to say, and then the next game was Friday and I was supposed to pitch, but we were suspended for the game. Like we, we, we weren't going to be able to from the game. So,

Next thing you know, we show up on Monday and we have a game on Wednesday at Austin Peay. So somehow...

within the span of 24 hours. We got a new game and we were traveling to Austin Peay on Wednesday to play this game and that was our last game of the suspension. So then now we both could play and pitch again on Friday. I think it's Tennessee. Well, Tennessee was the weekend before that next week. SEC game? SEC weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So then on Friday, he could coach and I could pitch. So a mysterious Austin Peay

games just showed up on the schedule just just kind of just just showed up here here you go we went to austin p played that game we were suspended for that and then we were we were back yeah back like we never left yeah but let's just coach corbin you know yeah what's a smart way to do it i mean i think everybody does everything that's so funny to be able to add that in uh god what was i gonna ask i was gonna ask you something i was gonna ask you if you uh ever stole first base

What does that mean? Like picked it up out of the ground? No, Bates stole for it. Oh, I've heard you say this before. Yeah, yeah. I like it. I like it. See? Yeah, you know. I like it. You were playing and you go with it. I remember laughing at it. I stole second base in the little league. It was such an easy play. I thought they must have fouled the ball off.

because I got down there so easy. So I turned around and just started running back to first. And about halfway down, the first baseman was like, he's coming back. There you go. There you go. You can have it. And they zipped it down, and I had to dive headfirst into first base. You can have it. It was a bang-bang play. Yeah.

And you're excited. You get up and you're just... Even here in a second, it's just so wonderful. I mean... He gets up and just doesn't know what happened. He's just athletic. Everybody. How old were you? I was Little League, so I was like somewhere like 11 or 12. Yeah. I mean, that's when you know about baseball too. Yeah, you're too old to be still in first base. I was hoping you'd say like four or five. Have you had someone...

Still home? As you pitch it, you see that they're going? Bryce Harper did it to me this last year, I think. I think I got him out. I'm pretty sure I got him out. But it's new now because you... Sorry, I'll stay closer. When they shift everyone and there's a runner on third and there's two outs, there's no one even close. So the runner on third, he could just...

He can go to halfway. He can just go, like do whatever he wants because the third baseman's playing shortstop. And he's like, well, there's nobody over here. And then if the pitcher's in the windup, especially, you know, then they start, so they're starting to do that more. And I remember, I was always told that if someone tries to do that to you, then just hit the batter because dead ball, everybody, just throw the ball at the batter. Hit him, dead ball, runner goes back to third, batter goes to first, but at least, you know, it didn't steal home on you.

So I remember him trying to do that this year, and I don't think it was super. I don't know if this is it or not. No, but see, he's a guy that does it. He'll still home. Yeah, yeah. I mean, a lot of guys will do it now, but, yeah, he'll do it when he's probably just mad. Yeah. Yeah. Guys will do it, so that is a thing. Does the coach tell you to do it, or you just are like, I don't care? I don't know. I want to try it.

I never stole in a bag. That'd be something. Yeah. I don't know if I'll be able to hit. That's a new year resolution. Yeah. Go steal a base. Yeah. I don't know if pitchers will be hitting this year or not. Oh, at all. Maybe not. I don't know. It could be over completely. It could be completely over. Because of COVID. Because of COVID. Everything. Yeah. Because of COVID, they just go. That's the reason I'm sitting here. You know what? I'm sitting here because of COVID. Pitchers can't hit anymore. And you're like, what does that do? You're like, I don't know. Oh, they're putting the DH in the NL? They're talking about it. Wow. They've been talking about it, and it's been...

Because they did it because of COVID. Yeah. And then last year... Why did they do it because of COVID? Because of COVID. Because of one less person? Because the season was shorter. Oh. And like... Oh, I thought it was like, there's one less person touching the bat. And that's, you know, there's one less person. I thought it was too. They did it in 2020 because the season was short and whatever. And then 2021, they talked about it and pitchers hit last year. So then this year, who knows what's going to happen? I mean, we're locked out now. So we're not even...

I don't know. We're not even allowed to talk to anyone. It's a weird time right now with the lockout. You can't talk to your agents? You can talk to agents, but associate with the team and there's no baseball things going on. Normally, this is a time where it starts doing its thing again.

So that's just being locked out itself is weird. I don't think it's happened in 30, long time, 30 years maybe. Oh, we remember. The last one, I was probably 12. There wasn't no Warp Series? Yeah. Yeah. Like that thing went on strike. Is this the same thing? So the strike-

So lockout was the first thing to happen, and then the strike couldn't happen unless there was a lockout. So now that there was a lockout, if there is some type of agreement or there's not or whatever, then the players can just – so if the owners say they want to have a league, like, okay, we're going to have a season with these rules or whatever, the players can say no, and then those players would go on strike from there. So that's still a possibility. So you are locked out right now. Now is a lockout, and it's –

It's interesting. I mean, it's... So if they locked you out, could you go to Iowa to that Field of Dreams and still just... We're supposed to go to that next year. The Reds and the Cubs, but... Because there's no locks there. There's no locks. It's just corn.

Smyrna, we just jumped. This is what the podcast would be if I didn't show up. This is why I got to show up. We just jumped the fence. Sonny, you were about to say about Smyrna. Go ahead. So I don't know. It is a weird feeling. It's a weird spot to be. Have you ever played in that field? The Field of Dreams? No. No.

Cool field, though. That's a better question than you could go there because they don't have locks. I think it was a good point. You made a lockout joke. Yeah. Does it mean, yeah. Could you go to the stadium anytime you want to?

stadium you would be able to if it wasn't a lockout but it wasn't a lockout you could go and be like do you have a key you have you go to cincinnati and there's always i mean it's just like you think of it but if there's people that work there year round yeah so it's not like you have a number you call and you say hey i'm yeah and i want to and you just and then they just open the stuff and you open and you go and there's probably there's probably people there yeah they let you practice whenever people because people work out

in the off season in Cincinnati, people work out at their stadiums in the off season. They live there. Some people live in their home, in their home city. So then where's a better, they just work out there. Or a lot of people live in the spring training. Like a lot of people live in Arizona or Florida or one of these places. So they would go work out at the spring training facility and all that. That's the biggest thing. The main stadium is being locked out. I mean, like not having access to that, like no big deal because that's,

that's a small but working out at the minor league spots that's a that's there's a lot of people that that use that stuff because there's a lot of people that live in those areas yeah so that's different you go to the sound stadium and i don't think so i don't know that's a good question for the sounds i played one game for the sounds yeah yeah one game i was on a rehab with um oakland

It was an old Sound Stadium. No, did I go to the new one? I don't know. Think about it. It meant a lot to you. Yeah, I think I went to the new one, too. Do you have the uniform still? I have the hat. Yeah. I kept the hat. They have a good, I always like the Sounds logo and stuff. But we were Oakland, right? For a while, yeah. For a while, we were Oakland. We were Oakland for a while. Did you go minor league?

Triple-a was drafted in 2011 by the by the A's and then I went to Midland or I was so then I went to double-a yeah the next year went to Midland, Texas and

lived a summer in midland texas i've been there it was i mean i had a host family so you they put you up and you live with the in midland at least you live with this just a host family just like people could come live with yeah with you and laura yeah just players come live you play with the sounds these are people who volunteer to volunteer to host players so you go and live there and then you play so i was there for in midland for three months in the middle of the summer

It was very interesting. It was very cool looking back on it because you just got hay bales rolling everywhere. They got those oil pump, oil rigs in the parking lot. Like that's real. We was right next to Permium, Odessa Permium. So I always think of that movie, Friday Night Lights. Like we went down to that high school.

But there's nothing there. I mean, there's just nothing there. I haven't played golf there. I did – it's so windy. Was it windy? It's the windiest. It was a rich town. Have they ever talked about this on the podcast? Like it's – Midland was a place where they would say if like all –

If it's like pumping good or like whatever, it's a town that's either like the wealthiest town or they're the brokest town. Yes, yes. And everybody does that. Like Red Roof Inn's at that point when I went there were $300 a night because it was the money. They would go to McDonald's and offer people a hundred. They would give you a hundred grand to walk away right now and go work at an oil pump. And then, but because it was like some people, it'd be a town to do. There were some people, they'd get so wealthy.

And they wouldn't know how to, you know, like they were just the brokest people ever. And then they're the wealthiest and they like go buy a helicopter. And like, so it's like one day, like someone's doesn't have anything. Next day they have a four Lamborghini. Like they don't know how to, you know, it's like just these people get, and then they lose it all. It's like winning the lottery back. Yeah. It's like, you just constantly kind of go back and forth to be like,

I mean, this is, I have no idea if this is true, but it seems like a lot of people could be like, you know, everybody's kind of like, oh, I was a millionaire at one point and then I lost it all. You know, but it's like, that's just what it is. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I remember family trying to come into town and you could not get a hotel room anywhere and there's just hotel, but, and then they're,

$300, $400 a night for nothing. Not a four seasons, just any hotel. Like you said, Red Roof Inn. Yeah. And then after that, I went to Sacramento. Was in Sacramento in 2013 for the first half, played there. And then 2013, went to Oakland, lived in Oakland for...

Five years? Yeah. When I say live there, like live there. But I always came back to Tennessee and then lived in Oakland for the season. You lived in Oakland or San Francisco? We lived in San Francisco for one year before Gunner. Me and my wife, we lived in San Francisco. That was 2014 in like 60th floor of a building. And it's just wild. It was apartment was probably the size of...

This room? Yeah. This right here? Yeah. And beautiful place, but I mean, just crazy. We would always go for walks. We would try and go. We lived on top of this hill, Wondering Con, and we'd walk down, and every time we'd walk to this coffee place or whatever, and you just got people behind cars just pooping in the street. It was freezing, freezing cold. Yeah. Freezing cold. San Francisco is always a little chilly. And then...

But fun to do. Yeah. And then we lived in Walnut Creek. Beautiful town. I mean, there it is. And then we went to Walnut Creek. You got to look past some stuff. It's a beautiful town. It has its spots. And then we went to Walnut Creek and lived there for a while. And then it was gone. And here we are. And here we are. And now we're here. And now we're here. Yeah. You think when you retire, you'll stay in Middle Tennessee? I think so. I mean, I got a gunner is in...

uh first grade doing his thing and then declan's not far behind him so we get kids in school doing their thing and i've always liked middle tennessee so yeah we're from here and they're blowing up we're from now we're blowing up did what do you think you wanted do you have any idea what you'd want to do in your tire or you don't even think about that yet no i haven't really thought about it yet it's like smart enough baseball it's like asking that uh it's like asking the

A high school kid, what do they want to do, I guess? I don't know. Yeah. It doesn't really matter. It's like you do it and then you'll be like, all right. It'll be weird, though. Like your whole life has been baseball. Whole life since I was four. Yeah. It will be weird. I don't think I'm close to it yet. I still got some baseball in front of me. But it is. You talk about, I mean, I went and worked out at one o'clock today and I normally...

I normally like work up at workout at nine or 10, but I'm. Yeah. Why are y'all doing it in the afternoon? I'm trying to do this. I'm trying to just do this new, there's a new sleep. I'm trying, everything is in baseball is going to sleep, like sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep is the most important. So it's, it's big from, and I would wake up early and have a fast morning and then, and then go. And, but some people are, we're going back later, like on spring training last year, everything was pushed back.

everything was pushed back from showing up at 6 a.m. to showing up at 11. And then you do that. So you have a slow morning, come up and have the bulk of your day, like the most important part in the middle of your day, and then going and doing it that way. I like that. Yeah, you stay up later and do... But I liked it. So I did it today at 1 o'clock, and that was the first time, and I liked it. I'm normally good at 9. I think I would like it. You always heard about like...

And I imagine for late games for you guys. But the basketball, like they would take a nap because they have to be in their prime at 9, 10 p.m. And so, you know, for comedians, we have to be super awake. And if you play a night game, is your adrenaline always just going or do you ever, you're like, God, I'm tired? Like, you know. You can get tired, but if you pitch or if you're one of those late inning people, if you pitch the, like the closers, for instance. Yeah.

I mean, they just think about it. They just go and go and go. And then they just spike at like 10 o'clock, 10 p.m. They just go. And then how long are you going to come down? How long are you going to come down for that? Yeah, it's got to take them a while to fall asleep. So that's the big thing. When you go to pitch to people, do you go in the league to be a closer? Or you work to be a closer? Most of the time closers are –

throw hard, but they're probably like starters that moved a little bit older. Failed starters that... I don't even have to say it, but that's... Closing is very important. I don't know if he ever started. Yeah. It's like those... That could be your specialty. Yeah. You just become like...

But you, every five days you pitch, but then other days you can kind of relax and take it easy. They have to be on call every day. Yeah, every day. Every day. And they don't get in every time? And they don't get in every time. Because if it's a blowout, then you're good. Yeah, they're not going to pitch. They're not going to pitch Wednesday. Yeah, or you lose. What if it's a blowout and then they get it back into play? Yeah, you just got to be – It's just kind of all over. And that's the thing. And then the starters, you have so many different –

in baseball. You've got a starters and you've got everyday players, bench players, bullpen guys, late inning. And like everyone is on a different program. Yeah. Like starters, you pitch once a week. So you got to fill your time with the other four days. But when that, but that one day you do pitch, it's,

You empty everything. So you're working your week up like this, and then you go, and then you crash real hard, and then you're kind of just trying to build yourself back up until that day you pitch. Whereas a bullpen guy, you're kind of just – you're always a little bit more, but it's just –

It's a different game, and then you got to do it every day. What's the best pitching job? Starter, closer? A lot of people say starter. Oh, really? A lot of people say starter. Because you get the time off. Yeah, you get the time off. And traditionally, starters get paid the most. And you could pitch. There's no rules that you could pitch every day if they wanted you to. There's not a rule that says you have to rest so many days. A starter? Yeah. No.

no not a rule but it's just like they need you to you got to rest or your arm yeah you got to and they're transitioning out of it too they're changing i mean that's another why baseball is kind of where it's at right now is because they're they're transitioning like a lot of things but another thing is they're taking everything and they're trying to combine it to you know starters would would make more so now they're trying to put six starters in a rotation what they'll do is that'll give starters less starts less innings less money yeah

bullpen guys use bullpen guys more because they get paid less and it's, it's different. Yeah. So baseball is in a weird spot for sure. For sure. Technology. Yeah. Technology is getting crazy. I always think it's a, I was saying that with quarterbacks, like I feel like eventually in the NFL, it's still big to have a quarterback, but you're like, you have like some guys that can run and you're like, I mean, you just could get a bunch of them, like just a bunch of running court, like quarterback just becomes a pretty running kind of position. And,

And it's like, you just kind of like, they, they, maybe they're like running backs where they have a good two, three, two to five years. And then you just kind of move on. Like it's, you know, it's like, cause it's such a threat for having a running quarterback. Yeah, it is. It is. And then the ones that can throw, that's a, that's a, they do both. And if you can do both, are the relief pitchers who come in? I think they're only when you're behind.

There's different parts of a bullpen. You have different guys that throw in different spots. You kind of know what role or whatever you have. How many no-hitters have you thrown? None. None? None no-hitters. Ever in the? No. I want to. That could be a New Year's resolution. Yeah, a no-hitter. Throw a no-hitter. Let's throw a no-hitter. That'd be fun. That'd be a good New Year's resolution. I threw one when I was 12. A couple complete. I already have one. So I'm the only one right here that has a no-hitter. Yeah, you're the only one. You want me to talk to you about it? Just the pressure of it?

They won 9-8. It's hard. I walked a lot of people. The other team still won, but no one hit. There were no hits allowed. No hits, though. That's all that matters. I walked a ton of people, but no hits allowed. Hit a few guys. Yeah. When it's a no-hitter, is it that everybody kind of does the same thing? Oh, it's the same thing. Because we were part of one this year with Wade. He threw one, and it was just kind of like,

First four innings, everybody's feeling out the game. Five inning comes around. You're like, okay, sixth inning. Everybody's like trying not to mess it up. Seventh inning, eighth, and then eighth, seventh, eighth, you're kind of just like,

You know, stay out of this. What did I do? Do the same thing, do the same thing. And then it's fun to be a part of. Yeah, because the team is involved. I mean, if you drop a – Yeah, I mean, every ground ball, it's like you can make one play. Yeah. It's fun. Yeah. All right. I think we're good, right? We did good. You filled in. First co-host. First co-host. Well, besides Mark Norman. Second co-host.

First non-comedian co-host. Yeah. Be the last, too. Uh...

You called. You texted me this morning. I texted you this morning. I was like, hey. And I was like, it's a snow day. Like, I've been up since I got woken up by two boys at 6 a.m. this morning. This was like you were for sure supposed to be off today, and you weren't. Yeah. You got a call. This is what a starter pitcher does. Just show up. Just show up. You're ready. You're always ready. Relief. Show up with your call. Today, yeah. Today was like a relief. Yeah, it was a relief. But then we needed you the whole game. And then...

You're like, I'm supposed to be like two innings, right? This is in the middle of a nap time. Yeah. You're like, no, no. And you're on your weird schedule now. I know. We messed you all up. No. I love it. You know I always come up here. I love you, buddy. And I'm glad you came on. And my bats, all I got are all from Sonny. Yeah, saw that. So thank you for doing this. It's awesome. Sonny Gray. No social media. No. When you throw a no-hitter, will you thank us in the postgame?

The Nate Land where you say hello. All you got to say is hello, folks. Okay. The day I came up with this resolution. Hello, folks. No, I won't say Nate Land. You're going to say that. Yeah, I'll drop it. But worst case, you just say, you know. Oh, man. I...

I had my Nate Bargetse, the green, you know that green Nate Bargetse iced coffee whip shirt that I bought in Arizona? Yeah, I made him buy it. Yeah, I had it and I meant to wear it, but next time. You wore it when you pitched. I did. You wore it like a new. I love that shirt. Yeah, it's a good shirt.

So it does good for him. So it makes you a major league pitcher, everybody. All right, everybody. Thank you guys. Happy new year. Talk to you next week. We'll see. Don't forget tonight's show. I'll be on tonight. All right. Thanks everybody for listening to Nate land podcast. Be sure to subscribe to our show on iTunes, Spotify, you know, wherever you listen to your podcast. And please remember to leave us a rating or comment.

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