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Hello folks, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. Let's go folks.

Welcome to the Nate Land podcast, as I said before. We are here, me, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber. We have Dustin Chafin with us. He's back. Me and him are on the road. We just got back from somewhere. No, Tampa. Tampa, Orlando. Orlando, Fort Myers, Fort Lauderdale. And then we're heading up to, next week, Providence, Port Chester, Huntington.

around Albany and so yeah so we're having a big little run and then LA if you didn't get to come to the first LA show I'll be back there for the Netflix is a joke festival I got a show May 3rd there's a few tickets left for that so that's where we've been and then what so what about where are y'all

Well, I came to your Vecchione taping at Zany's, and that was great. Yeah, the Vecchione taping was great. The crowd was awesome. I know a lot of people listening to this podcast came, and people were just so supportive, and it was so cool to see because it's like this thing that I want to try to create. It's nice to see people.

Like, help us. And that was a big help. I mean, people come because they know who Mike is. Mike destroyed. I mean, it was wild. Like, he did... It went as good as it could go. And I directed whatever that was. I liked it. I saw you back there. Yeah, I was directing. You're telling them what shirt to wear and stuff? Yeah. You're almost like...

There's probably more you're supposed to do as a director, but for my directing of it was like, you know, think of the opening, like helping with it. We designed the set, like some locations of cameras. But the 800-pound grill, they're so great. And then they know how to like call the cameras, like let's go tight shot on this. Like I don't know that stuff. So I let them, I was like, y'all do that. I don't want to be, you know, a cowboy shot. That's a big one. Never heard of that.

Haven't either. So the point, it's a shot. It means you're shooting below the kneecaps and then up above your head. And so it was made for cowboy movies if they were doing a draw and you want to be able to get the whole gun coming out. So they called it a cowboy shot.

Okay. So we got a few cowboy shots in the special. We got a few cowboy shots. I kept saying the hero shot. I've only heard that. I don't know what that is either. It was a shot of you in the green room. Guys, hero shots, number four. I got these cameras for the hero shot. They're like, where's it going to go? It'll be right next to me. And I'm going to go to it a lot.

But it was... I can't wait for everybody to see it. It really was great. And it's just, you know, clean. And it's the clean that we want to do. Clean that you don't know it's clean. And that's what...

Mike did, and that's what it was, and it was awesome. And so, yeah, thanks again for everybody that came out to that 800-pound gorilla. Me and Dusty were together. He murdered all week. Thank you, bro. And then we've been hanging out, had a lot of fun, and then where were you? I was in town all week for the festival. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the National Comedy Festival was this whole week, yeah. Just wrapped up, saw you at the Ryman, that Ari Shaffir show. That was a lot of fun.

Yeah, yeah. I was announced on that show. Then they said I can't be. Because I was with, you know, like everybody at home that listens, we all have our friends that are...

You know, probably going to hell. You saved me. Yeah, I saved Dustin. He's heading up. He's got to come with me, but when I go, I will make him go with me. That's the whole purpose of Nate Land Productions, right? Yeah. You save one of your friends one at a time? Just one. I walk in, I go, yeah, to Jesus, I got a couple of buddies with me. And he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Watch the special. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He was there. A couple of them were like, no, no, no, no. And I'm like, oh, I tried. I got to try. No, it's – they're – I mean, all these guys are some of my best friends. And they're – and that's what I love. That's the point of all this, too, is you have friends. No one's perfect. It's like you're trying to build this not perfect world of just being – yeah, some of my friends are crazy. Yeah. And they do crazy stuff. And I would do anything for them. And some of them are not. And some of them are living life their best –

way you could live life and you should be mixing with all of them and you just be it's like family it's family yeah yeah you gotta love it you gotta go crazy but that art show my agents got there like you can't have your name on it

And it's not because I can't. They didn't want people to come. Because people might come and they don't know. And they think, oh, I'm going to this neighborhood show. And they don't realize every other story that these guys are going to tell is going to be very, very terrible. It was very funny the way Ari addressed it up top. Yeah. He's like, if you came here for that, you can get your money back. I'll give you five minutes to leave right now. Five minutes to leave. And.

And, you know, he really, and he means it in a good hearted way of just being like, we understand. Like, yeah, if you bought this and you thought this was going to be the one thing, it's not. And, I mean, my part was still clean, but it's, they're,

But yeah, and they're all funny stories and it's all great, buddy. So it was fun. The Nashville Festival was great and it's doing great. Well, one thing it's like I saw Gaffigan, he did like Skank Fest. It was interesting where he just did a clean Gaffigan act and I think the audience that was there for that edgy comedy, they went on board and that's the thing too. It's like he converted them to like his style of comedy. They just want good comedy. Yeah. And that's what you want is like they're down. Like all the times I've done comedy,

it's called skank fest. So there, there you probably got to bleep that. Sorry. I didn't mean it. No, I'm joking. Uh, but it's a, it's our buddies, Luis J Gomez. He started this whole thing. Uh, you know, Christine, Rebecca, Trenton, like, so in its, uh,

It's a wild thing, but there's the most love I've felt in that festival than outside of a lot of festivals. And it's people that I would always... I came up, I was doing all those shows that were dirty. I was doing all that stuff that was all this edgy stuff. And everybody would just embrace it. They're like, yeah, Nate's clean. We just want funny. We don't care. Those are the least judgmental people, which is kind of crazy. Mm-hmm.

And then it's kind of the ones that want everything to be politically correct. That's the most judgmental and they don't want anything out like that. His, the group that goes to that is it's people coming from all walks of life and they're just the nicest. Yeah. And, uh, yeah, it's cool. It's cool to see that. Like when, when Gaffigan went up, they like, they love it. It's like,

They can't believe Gaffigan's here. And then they, you know, so it's fun. And that's what we were talking this weekend, you know, just talking about some of your fans have probably been through some stuff. So they might have a neck tattoo, you know? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, we would see a couple of times when you're driving to get to the venue, we would have to drive in front of it. And which was kind of cool because you get to see the crowd go in. So cool. And it is like you always just sit there and you're like, I mean, I'm blown away that people are showing up. I don't even understand how.

You're like, I have to know him, I guess. In Tennessee? Yeah. And it's an incredibly humbling experience to even just see as people walk in. And it's old, young. It's people with tattoos. It's like all this kind of stuff where you're like, they're there for whatever reason. It's like you're funny. Some people like the cleanest. Some people like the...

Not politicalness, not the heaviness. It's just this whatever it is, and it's cool to see. And that's what it all should be. And everybody makes mistakes. Nobody's perfect. I'm not perfect. I make a ton of mistakes. And if you do too at home, unless Jesus listens, then, yeah, we're all just, you know, we don't judge you. I love it. You saved me. Thanks. Aaron, you left the Catholic Church. Go ahead and tell them about that.

The Nashville Comedy Festival is going to be, it's great. And they do it every year. It's really building and it's something that's really nice. And a lot of comics come down and more people in Nashville are knowing about the festival. And it's going to be, it's just going to keep going. And I really do love it. I love that we have a festival here. Do you know when Vecchio's special will be out? No, no.

we already got a clip of it to look at it, but we've got to edit it. We've got to do stuff. I don't know where it's going to be. It can be on YouTube. We can try to sell it somewhere else. There's a whole process to it. I'll let everybody know when we know, I mean, you know, hopefully three to six months, there's an idea of where, but I, you know, we've got some fun pictures of it here. The set, everything looks, looked great. Looked great. Was that Zany's, but they redid the whole, I mean, it looks like, uh, I mean, it looks like a theater in there. It's really, really cool. Yeah. The stage is awesome. Uh,

We got his name right there. I like the idea of that. It was just this side shot with his name. And that's all of us. That's Ari Shafir, Soder, Shane Gillis, Jay, me, Josh Adamatis, Brian Dorfman, Owen Zaney, Sal Vacano, my sister, and then Mike Vecchione. And it's a crew. This is what I love.

I'd love to have a crew. Those are guys that would do anything. That's Mike's girlfriend, Katie. There's these guys and Ray Allen. He was on the show. He helped produce it with Mike, and he opened for us. So does Katie. And this is a group that's not –

My parents would not have wanted me to technically be with these when I grew up. But my parents love them all now, and they all come from very different backgrounds. They all love you. Yeah, I love them. They love me. We would all do anything for anybody. And that's what I love, that we all get just different varying points. Everybody has a different opinion. Everybody grew up different.

I mean, it's crazy. Ari's dad was in the Holocaust. How crazy is that? Ari Shaffir. Like all the stuff. Wow. People get mad. I mean, he does a lot of dumb stuff. Rightfully so, they get mad. But like, I mean, his upbringing with that, it's crazy. I mean, it's just crazy. And that's what it is. Get friends that are just...

If you got a weird kid in school, go talk to that guy. That guy's probably going to be more, you know, just have a good group. Yeah. Don't have a bunch of yous. Right. That's almost the way. You can have a couple yous. But not really. I mean, it's good. Don't have a bunch of yous, you know? You got that David Tell joke, a friend will help you move a couch, a best friend will help you move a body. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Live like that. And that's the advice. Yeah.

Kids are going to go to school tomorrow and just be like, just find one. Kids in the corner and be like, hey, do you want to move in with me and my family? Go as far as you want to go. Let's start with the comments. Heather Waldridge, my best friend and I attended the live taping in Mike Vecchione's special, and they were both fantastic. When y'all talked about fish being meat, my friend looked at me and said, it's Piscastrian.

What is it? Pescatarian. Pescatarian. Yeah. That's like a, yeah, church thing. It's like a religion. People are pescatarian. A pescatarian. Yeah. Pescatarian sounds like, is it being like, I don't know about this. Is that what that means? Is that how it's spelled?

That's how, yeah. Is it pessimistic? Like you're not, you're always a little. That's pessimistic. Yeah. You're kind of like, you know, yeah. Well, pescatarian, it sounds like it's religion. Like we all go in going, I would like to be one over every day. Like you go every day, you walk into church, you go, I don't, let me see what you're talking about. All right. And then I'll let you know. Uh,

I have no clue what that means or why she knew it, but couldn't ask details about that during the show. It's not like she is a scientist or a fisherman, but apparently has a deep knowledge of the food pyramid that she has hidden from me for years. Yeah.

It's a church thing. You know what that is? Pescatarian is, it's like a vegetarian, but you'd eat fish. Oh, is that not the church? What's a church? That's a Piscopalian. Yeah. That's what I was saying. Or Presbyterian. I thought Pescatarian was a, I thought it was like a religion. No. I thought people said, I'm Pescatarian. You go, oh, yeah, I know. I got an uncle that goes to that church. No, I'm baptized. Yeah. They just eat catfish. That's the whole joke I was making. Was that that church goes in. Because I thought a Pescatarian, what is it? A Pesc...

Episcopalia. Episcopalia. It changes everything. I thought the church was pescatarian. And I like the idea that everybody walks in with a little like, you know. A little pessimism. The first five rows are empty. Like everybody's like, I'll sit in the back. I'll move. I mean, let me see if I want to get up. That's what I thought. And then I thought, well, her friend went to, she grew up a pescatarian. The church.

I could be in conversations with people, and I think we would be able to finish the conversation and then walk away. With two different things. No one would know. Yeah, it just happened. It would just, yeah. Yeah, I thought we were riffing about how it sounds like a Episcopalian. Not that guy's a smart dude. That's what they would think, and then it would be like, oh, he doesn't know.

Last week on the live podcast, we talked about people from up north. And Mike said, we got some union folks here. Meaning, we're Confederates. They're union. Yeah. But you went the route of union workers. Yeah. Yeah. You do your own thing. I do my own thing. My own island. You still got laughs. I'm the weird kid that I need you to come talk to. I'm in my own world. Rewinds Retro.

Rewinds retro. Aaron was on today. He really opens up in front of a crowd. It was like a different person. There you go. Unfortunately, I'm back. Yeah. No crowd today. You're one of those guys, like, when the lights come on, you play your best. Mr. October. Yeah, dude. I thrive under pressure. That's what it's all about. Well, the lights are on, and there's people listening. So... You bring it every time. That'd be nice. It's a little pressure.

Spencer Heaton, the fact that Nate said who instead of what when he misheard Brian say cities cover 3% of the Earth's surface means that Nate thought Brian said an individual person covered 3% of the Earth's surface. Nate truly is an enigma. What's an enigma? Like a mystery. Oh, I am a mystery.

That's so funny. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I would have thought a group of people covered 3% of the year. You know? And he said New York is two of that 3%. That was funny. Yeah. We're going to make fun of New York City. Yeah. Stuff comes in, and we've got our own carnival going on here. You don't come out the same. You don't.

It's not a well-oiled machine. Some people are there, some people don't show up. William Ryan. Breakfast Bates needs to open the next episode with a bunch of hats from different pharmacies to let us know which one he chose. That's a good idea. Do you have an update on the whole pharmacy situation, Brian? Yeah, my father-in-law did some research and...

And two of those pharmacists are leaving that CVS and going to a CVS down the street. So we may be transferring just loyalties to another CVS. Which is nice. I think that's really what you're not there for the CVS. You're there for the people. And they know our medical background, which is pretty extensive. Yeah. So. Yeah, you do want that. It's a whole file cabinet. It's a whole. When you walk in, it's.

a whole thing like here comes the squirrel tag guy like they probably put that in because they have to just also know are you around squirrels like we need to know and you go i'm not only around them they're after me and it goes good to know yeah good to know uh yeah i'd imagine yeah you come in it's a it's a thing it's a thing they know us for sure yeah

Way to get medicine for my dog there. Yeah. Oh, and that dog's probably got, it's got problems. Yeah. She's on Prozac. Is she? Yeah. Really? Yeah. She has anxiety? Yeah. Big time. Wow. Try petting her. Big time. Try petting her? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That's a good idea. We just want to medicate our child. We don't want to love her. Is it probably because she's so little? I would imagine little ones are just because you're like, you can just always get kind of squashed. Yeah, you would think she's a rescue the way she acts. She's so skittish about everything. She was bred. Yeah, I got her to breed her. People probably hate me for that. Well, I think you got sold a rescue and someone likes you. Well, you may be right. I mean, who told you they were breeding it?

Well, I mean, we picked her up when she was eight weeks old. Yeah. Unless they beat her before her eyes opened. Yeah. Not all rescue dogs are, you know. Mine's pretty good. Yeah. And obviously not all breeders are good. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. So she's got some issues. We're working with her.

Is it Prozac every day? You put it in the food? Yeah. Wow. Does she have a therapist as well? Yeah, she does. Really? Does she? We have a trainer that comes. That's basically a therapist. She just wants us to give her positive reinforcement.

No negative. Just good girl, Hazel. Good girl. It's all good girl. You can't say don't poop on the floor. Like if it peed on the floor, you would have to go. That's good. Well, you wouldn't say that's good, but you wouldn't say it's bad either. But when she does something like you want, you're supposed to reinforce that positive. Yeah, you're not rolling up a newspaper is what you're saying. No. Going down a little bit. Phil T, you know, your life –

Makes me feel bad. I would go, I'd come down to my level. I want to fly to fly at a different altitude. You have a, you need the dog giving this. Yeah. She's got, you know, acid reflux. Uh,

I don't know if I even knew you gave dogs Prozac. I'm sure it's a certain type of dog, Prozac. Yeah. I bet it's the same. You should just try taking it yourself. Yeah. Not that you need it. Is it the same? I mean, I think it is. We've got it at the same pharmacy. I thought I'd have to go to the vet or something. They called it a CVS. You ought to throw a few in there and see what happens. It'll calm you down. You know? I am pretty wild. Yeah. Yeah.

Maybe your worried face would go away. Just be happy all the time? Yeah, you just, you know, yeah. Jesse Stevens. I've never heard of someone eating the whole apple. And Aaron asked Vecchione if he ate the whole apple. I thought it was an absurd question. Apparently people do eat the whole apples, but there is poison in the seeds. Yeah, I've heard that. A human would have to chew and swallow 150 seeds in a short period of time to die from the poison. All right.

Yeah, I saw a guy eat a whole banana with the peel and everything. Just like, just chomped into it. You saw a guy do that? A friend of mine didn't peel it. Just eat. That's how he eats it. He just eats the banana with the peel on it. Yeah. Oh, my God. It's just disturbing. What if he didn't know? What if he'd just go, hey, what if you peeled it? He goes, and he just did it.

Is he the stem? It's the whole thing. Did he say why? No, he says there's more fiber in it, like it's better for you. People say stuff and you're just like, I don't need it to be that much better for me. I'm going to just peel it. It's like find other ways to do better. I just read this, that there was poison in an apple seed. I've heard that. Yeah, I mean, literally read it last night. I have some like fact thing that gives you just some dumb facts. Snapple cap? Yeah, it's kind of like that. And it's an app.

It just said that. That's crazy. So you could get 150 seeds and just eat them all at once and it could kill you. Man. It's a good way to go. I mean, would they even know? I guess they, I mean, something had to happen to somebody.

I mean, yeah, they would have to be. I was like, if you did that, they'd be like, everybody would agree, it's probably time for him to go. Just eating seeds. Just eating the. Seeding like pistachios. You would have no idea. You're like, I don't know. He ate apples every day, the whole thing. He ate 150 on one day. He had a ton of energy. Connor Knighton. Before Nate moves his entire family to Oregon to live next to a giant mushroom.

You should know. There's not much there to look at. It's definitely not a tourist attraction. It's almost all underground. I did a story for CBS Sunday Morning on the fungus a couple of years ago. The scientist we interviewed said the mushrooms were delicious, but he also said they give one in eight people violent diarrhea.

I had a long drive ahead of me, so I decided not to risk it. After a day of hanging out with experts, it's nice to listen to Nate Aaron and the Babadook talk about penguins and how sad the moon must feel.

So I watch CBS Sunday Morning regularly for years. Is this the guy? Well, that's the guy he's interviewing. There's Connor Knighton right there. Oh, that's him? Oh, wow. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's cool. Oh, yeah, yeah. I see him. And he went down. So this is him going down to look at the mushroom? Mm-hmm. And do you see it so there's not a big mushroom? I think most of it's underground. Okay. That's convenient. We can say we have the largest mushroom. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, there's a lot of mushrooms all over there. Yeah, but it's the largest... It's the largest living object. Yeah, yeah. So you would think that it would be like it's all under... It would be one thing. But collectively, it's one thing. So the ground is all mushroom. Oh, I just thought it was a tree. That's crazy. Yeah, I pictured... Thank you, Connor. That would have...

almost went out there and looked. The humongous fungus. Yeah. You'd be going, we're all in a mushroom. And I'd be like, that's crazy. Look at that guy. Wears a helmet and all that stuff. Where are you going? Looks like a mushroom. He does. How dangerous is this mushroom? Sarah Nistetter. Nistetter.

My husband just said, are the Alps not the same as the Appalachians? Nate, I'm so proud of you for knowing these were different mountains. I think I've already forgot that I did know that. Yeah. Well, last week we talked about the Appalachians. I guess we talked about the Alps too. The Alps are in Sweden.

I'm more impressed. Are they? That sounds right. Swiss out. Sounds right. Swiss out. Switzerland. Switzerland. Switzerland. Okay. Switzerland. Different. It's close though. Yeah, it's close. It's the same ballpark. It's all the same. I think you get your head in the right direction, I'd say. I have to ask when you get closer. Yeah. Like if you got it, you're getting it. I'd be like, just...

Swiss, Sweden, I don't know. Start heading there when you feel like you're getting close. I'd stop at some gas stations. Swifties. Stop at Swifties. Like who's got that knife? Yeah. We know it's not East Tennessee. Yeah. It's not. Yeah, yeah. Sean Smith, Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas.

Is that right? Are growing every year, and there are some mountains that are growing even faster than Everest. The closest contender could overtake Mount Everest in just 241,000 years. So if Mount Rainier doesn't step it up, he could lose his place on the podium. Who was called that? I mean, I can feel science. When you're asked if mountains are still growing? I mean, I have no schooling.

And I just... You got an instinct for it. I got an instinct for like, I bet the mountains are growing. They're just going to be. So are you going to climb Mount Everest before it goes to number two? You have a little more time. Oh, before... Oh, because Mount Everest is still number one. It's going to be number one for another 241,000 years. And Mount Rainier is number two? No, he's just saying that... Yeah, yeah, it could lose it. Yeah, Mount Rainier is going to...

And it always has slip. Yeah. Always has snow, right? It's not like a summertime. You can do it where it's like, nice. Not that. Yeah. We were there in the spring. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, yeah. I mean, Mount Everest might not be worth it by the time you get up there. Have you seen this picture of the queue waiting to get to the top of Mount Everest? Yeah. That's crazy. How backlogged it is. That's crazy. Now this was taken. I know the story, cause this appeared in a Netflix documentary I watched, but there's, there's,

There's only certain weather windows you can climb it. And there was a really small window this particular year. So that's the amount of people trying to get up there. Imagine that. And they got to go walk by them? Traffic jam. Well, they're all strapped onto a metal wire. They're all hooked onto it. So they have to be in a single file line like that. And they're all just waiting for their 15 seconds up at the top. Yeah. You see that's weird. That's the peak up there?

Yeah, I think that's going up to the top of it. But how do they get down? Do they have to walk by them?

You go back down the other side of the wire. Yeah. You have to come back. See, I think, you know, the attraction to just climbing a mountain as you're by yourself and you have this like moment, this like epiphany. And then you're just like DMV. I thought it was really rare to get a view. It's crazy. I mean, you think there's got to be a guy that's like, I'm not, this is good enough. Yeah. Like, he's just like, I'm not going to wait in this line. Oh, I'm sure. And you're like, well, we were right there. He goes, what's the, hey.

Yeah. Got no Wi-Fi. Oh, wait, four hours? Yeah. I mean, that's got to be, I mean, how long is that going to take? He's going to like Uber a chopper. Yeah, it's cold. It's not like there's like a slide down on the other, like there should be like an easier way. Like they go, then you get on this side, then we just shoot you down. Yeah.

And isn't there like dead bodies like there too? All over, yeah. Yeah, really? They actually use some of the dead bodies as landmarks. Oh my goodness. Oh, really? Yeah, because they're perfectly preserved up there because it's so cold. So it's literally a guy? Just a guy who died in the 70s or 80s and the body's still there. And they know like when you get... There's one guy, I think it's like, they call him like green jacket guy. Wow, cool.

because he's just been dead up there and they just know that's one of the landmarks for where you are. What a weird marker. You just walk by him. Yeah. Yeah. Can't get him down. Can't. Yeah. That's not very good motivation. Can you just hook him to that line and just let him slide? Just do it.

Yeah, I mean, why didn't you just throw it? Just push it like a clothesline. I mean, you don't have to hook them to a line. What if you just toss them off? Toss them off. I'm sure that's where he wants to be, though. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's how he wanted to go out. Yeah. Well, I hope Alba's children aren't into climbing Mount Everest. Imagine, you know, like that's, he wants to go, I want to climb Mount Everest. Why can't you do it? You've climbed so many mountains. My dad has died up there.

Yeah, he's marker 10. And they go, well, that's nice. You go, no, no, no, it's worse than you think. It's literally his body. Yeah, his jacket. I just can't. I can't, yeah. Why would you, you know? Trash is another big problem up there because you get to a certain point where you can't

You can't cart this stuff down. You're going to risk your life. So there's just piles and piles of trash up there and dead bodies, and it's kind of a nightmare. Because I've thought about that too, climbing it, but it's less and less appealing as we look at this. Yeah, it's a lot. Dead guys and trash. Just do like Mount Rainier. Just do one that's like... You could walk up, tennis shoes. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah, something that's like, you know, people know the name of it. James Mifflin.

Like Dunder Mifflin. The smallest country by population is Vatican City. In 2019, it had 825 people. Yeah, I was way off when I said Greenland was the smallest. I don't know where I got that, but Vatican City is much smaller. And it's its own country just because...

They're special. That's where the Pope's at. People born there? Is it like only the people that work at Vatican City are like the... I don't know if just straight up like families live there. Yeah. I don't think so. There's like a kid that's like, I'm from Vatican City. And then he's like... And it's just the Pope, right? Doesn't do good in school. And like, you know...

I mean, do they have to show a passport to get, like, you know, or you... I don't think so. I think it's mean. It's for all intents and purposes. I've been there. Oh, yeah? Part of Italy. I've been there as well. Yeah. It's pretty cool. And then it's Italy, but, yeah, so they make their own laws. They make their own... Well, they have their own zip code. Yeah. They have their own taxes. Yeah, it's kind of like Disneyland. And stuff or something. Pope's the king. Pope's the king of Vatican City. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

I think technically he's like the government leader. He's got to run everything, though. Yeah. But it's small. It's only a few hundred yards. So they go to him and the roads are getting bad. There's a CVS there, too. Did you know that? Is there really? No, I'm just kidding. Is there a queen? A dairy queen. No women. Alan Cochran.

Hello, folks. I didn't go to Notre Dame, but I believe Aaron's logic on counting rings in the tree is a bit off. If you cut a cross section of the tree and counted the rings, you wouldn't double them. Being that each ring goes all the way around doubling the number of rings would give you double the actual age. Sincerely, an Armachewie.

Armachui high school graduate. Yeah. Where's Armachui? I don't know. I don't know. But that's a great point, Alan. That's a great point. If you double it and then divide by two, and then that'll give you the answer. So you just count the rings. You just count the rings. I forgot how rings worked when I said that. And it's, yeah, it's like eight. This one's eight years old. Why don't we know how old all these trees are?

I guess it's just nice to know some. We were talking about a tree that's the oldest tree. Yeah, that's what we were talking about last week, Methuselah. And like, how do we even know? Well, maybe you cut a little chunk off of it off and then double that, but you wouldn't have to double it. Yeah. But I mean, you'd have to cut it all the way to the middle. I think the next person comments on how they do it. Oh. Cat Cook. When my dad was a Boy Scout, a park ranger showed us

Back it up. Basic words. When my dad was a Boy Scout, a park ranger showed his troop how they measure trees. They drill a little hole into the side of the tree, and it pulls out a round sliver of wood. From there, you can count the rings. Okay, that makes sense. They drill a little hole inside the tree.

That's how you do it. You don't have to double it. And you don't ever ask. And does the tree get more rings? I think every year it adds one. Oh, it adds a ring. So it just grows and gets. So eventually, is it like real big and fat? Or do they always stop growing? And if you didn't cut down a tree, are they going to get like. If you have this tree in your backyard. No, I think they stop.

That's a good question. Does it have to be certain rings before you can cut it? Is that like a tree law or something? Maybe the rings get very, very, very thin. Yeah, they're marginally. It's marginally bigger every year. I know, but so in a tree in your backyard, if you don't ever do anything, in a thousand years, is that tree going to cover my whole yard? No. I think it would die before then. Yeah.

But if it... How long do trees live? Well, Methuselah, that tree was 4,000, almost 5,000 years old. Yeah, but that was remarkable, right? It wasn't like, there's a bunch of trees that old. So what do you say, my trees, how do you know my tree's not... I mean, we'll see what happens, dude. Yeah. Maybe they'll get better. How long does a tree... I think that's a good question, because trees stop growing, but I guess they keep going a little bit out. Yeah.

I don't like you talking about trees like that. What about those giant trees, like red forest and stuff? Those things are around forever, right? Yeah. Trees can live anywhere from less than 100 years to more than a few thousand years. And they do eventually die? I guess they eventually die. I mean, thousands is pretty good. Thousands is good. All trees do eventually die. Oh, wow. Okay. It's still not the rings. But his question was, do they keep growing while they're alive?

Cause it's the rings would be, you know, does it, the ring stop? And then you're like, how do you know then? Like, do you, does it get a new ring every year? And then it just can only get so big. And you know, that kind of stuff. It's a great question. Yeah, it is. Uh, do trees grow until they die?

Just click, ask the people, also ask. That's right. I always head to that. They do and they don't. That's what it says. What a ridiculous. Yeah. So it doesn't. They stop growing in height, but they continue to grow in width. The height is more or less fixed, but trees continue to add width to their trunks to put out new branches and sprout leaves. Yeah. So that's where the rings would be growing. Mm-hmm. Okay. That's such a funny. Do they grow until they die? Yeah, they do and they don't. Yeah. There you go.

Kelly Callahan, learning that Breakfast Bates was the waffle maker offender was one of the greatest pieces of information I have ever received. I had to immediately go back and watch that section of Nate's special so I could hear it again, knowing it was Brian and pictured his worried face once he realized what he had done. Yeah. You know, it's funny. I probably would have. Yeah, I guess we could have like played it out. I hope we played it big enough. I never thought about, you know, I knew it was you.

So, yeah, it was a big deal. Big reveal. Big reveal. And that's what we did. We got it. Your mom was the original true Bill. Yeah, my mom does great. She'll get you out of everything. She's my true Bill.

Yeah, but I would go. You just cancel it on the app. Do it all through the app. And if they can't do it automatically, they will call on your behalf. No way. Because you give them the information, they'll call on your behalf. It's pretty awesome. It is like having a Nate's mom to do stuff for you. That's cool. Y'all want to hear a crazy story? It happened this weekend. So we have a buddy of ours, Steve Byrne, stand-up comedian who lives here in Nashville. Good friend. He was on the road in Fort Wayne, Indiana,

with Joe Gatto. They went to an antique store and he texted me a picture of this from the antique store. It's a baseball glove with the name Aaron Weber on it, written with a Sharpie. And he sends it to me as a joke. And he says, did you leave behind a baseball glove in Fort Wayne, Indiana? And I said, no. So I took that picture. I sent it to my parents and

Just to let them know, hey, isn't this funny? My mom goes, that's my handwriting. She used to write our names on all the gloves with a Sharpie like that. So that's my mom wrote my name on the Sharpie. And my dad goes, that's 100% your glove. No way. So we don't know what happened. But my childhood baseball glove ended up in an antique store in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which we've never lived there. Yeah. And Steve Byrne happened to be in that store and saw it. Did he buy it?

When I told him about this, he had already left and he tried to go back the next day and they were closed. But we got to find a way to go get it. I'm in Indiana in June. I'll get it for you. Are you in Fort Wayne? Yeah, close. Oh, dude. Hopefully nobody buys it. You got to call them and say, I want that. I bet there's a folk that lives there that'll go get it for you. There might be. Yeah. Yeah, someone's there.

What is the name of this place? I need to find that out, too. Your glove is an antique. That's a good way to find all the information. I mean, it may not be. It's a pretty hot commodity. You literally know everything. You found a glove from when you were a kid in a different city. Well, what's the name? So people maybe go grab it. You know, I don't know. I don't know. I didn't really look it up. Did they have yard sales and stuff? Here's the best guess my mom could come up with, is that the last time they moved-

They had a box somewhere that just accidentally got left behind. And then this got donated to Goodwill or something like that. And it just made its way. We've never been to Fort Wayne. We've never lived there. Somehow made its way up there to an antique store. Do you have any memories with this glove? Absolutely. I remember this glove specifically. Oh, wow. Now that I was like, oh, I did have a mag.

MAG on it. I just thought it was the craziest coincidence ever. You're wearing it and you're asking, like, hey, why do we have to wear cotton on these summer days? I don't know. What is it, Seinfeld? Oh, the baseball uniforms? Yeah. Is it too hot? Yeah. It's too hot. Polyester? No, polyester is too hot. Yeah. And they switch to cotton? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Polyester. Sorry. Yeah.

That's crazy. Yeah, well, if you get the name of it, maybe in a couple weeks you can let the audience know. Yeah, I'll grab the four. An antique store in Fort Wayne. Yeah, if it's an antique store, they're probably like, wow, is this some ancient glove? Yeah. I mean, why else would it... Yeah, you got to be careful how much you want it because then they'll jack the price up. No, they might. I would pay. You know, I wouldn't have even paid

Like if somebody showed it to me, I don't know. Just this whole story was so crazy. Do you want the glove back or do you want it to... I'd like it to round off the story. Yeah. Like the fact that Steve was there and found it, we had just exchanged numbers. It was like a crazy coincidence that he was there and saw this. It'd be fun to have it on the table and talk about it. Yeah. I would have loved to. It would be. If you get it, we can put it up. We'll put it up here. Yeah, we got to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I'll make it happen. I will find it. And we'll end the story in a good way. Yeah. And I believe you with Planet Fitness and that other thing. If you're anything, you're a guy that follows through. What up with a monthly membership to this antique store? Working there. Mom and pop. Yeah. You want to go buy it?

They go, $10. I'll give you five. They go, no. And you go, I'm walking. It's not worth it. Drive back home? Yeah. That's a crazy story. Yeah. And that Steve Byrne is an antiquer. I didn't know that. Oh, you know. Yeah, you know. You're on the road. You're just like, let's just walk around this place for a couple minutes. I mean, that's why you do it. The odds of that are crazy. Yeah, it's insane. Big time. All right, so this week.

We were talking about AI. Allen Iverson. Whole episode just on Allen Iverson. Practice. Artificial intelligence. What do you guys know about AI? We got it in our pockets. Your phone is considered AI? Absolutely. You talk to her all the time. Yeah. There's some things that I just thought was a cool computer program that's considered AI. Like what? Org and drill.

Yeah. Well, like when they talk about how computers will someday be smarter than humans, I think about, all right, a calculator has always been able to add up something instantly. It is smarter than humans. Yeah, that one on Jeopardy beat all those people. Yeah, but that's a specific...

which we'll get into, but are you saying calculators are smarter? Well, I mean, why would they not be smart? Just because they can't do it on their own? Computers? Yeah. Yes, and they don't have logic or reasoning or a conscience yet. It's still someone programming you to do certain things. Yeah. They're trying to give it a conscience. Yeah, I mean, that's what they think it's going towards. Isn't that what hurts us sometimes? The emotions and overthinking? Whereas I feel a computer gets right to it.

We second guess ourselves. Sometimes, you know. So flying cars, for example, that's about to be a thing. Is it? In New York City, they're starting in 2024. They're called eVTOLs, electric vehicle takeoff land. They look more like helicopters. People can't drive on the streets. But they'll have pilots, but there are also going to be some pilotless because they said a computer won't make errors like a pilot would. So it'll be just...

self-driving so it's just like a big drone that you can get in yeah basically yeah and then so you're gonna get in it and then you're i mean but how what are the it takes you around the city to where you want to go you gotta land on another landing pad on top of another building yeah oh so you fly above the city yeah i mean that is i mean kind of cool but yeah i mean i'm terrified even thinking about it yeah so it's helicopters yeah that's terrifying uh yeah you're gonna see some of them go down i'll just take the subway i'm good

And then you got to hope that it really works out to the spot. Like, this is going to be very convenient for, like, a couple people. They're like, it's the best. Yeah. And everybody else is like, I don't know, you got to take the subway all the way down.

well you even have to get to the landing i mean the takeoff place so they send a car to pick you up just to get to that so then you're like well if you're already stuck in traffic why would i want to get in their car but i guess if you're trying to get from one side of the city the other and the landing pads half a block away maybe that's what i mean that's why you would you it would need to be like you need to live next to a landing pad and then where you're going needs to be yeah like if you have work

And someone couldn't move to go do that, and they're like, it takes them five minutes. Well, it's kind of like Nashville. We have a train system, the Music City Star. There you go. It's one train. You've got to live right next to it for it to be worth it, basically. Yeah. I mean, it goes downtown. Yeah. I know a lot of people take it. Yeah, they do. But you have to drive to it. It's not like you're going to walk to it. But it goes from Lebanon to Mount Juliet. It's not bad.

The other day I was on the sidewalk and saw one of those Amazon robot things that has the packages in it. Oh, really? Yeah, and it's just like going down Hollywood Boulevard, or actually it was on Sunset, and it's just going down, and then I just started thinking to myself, somebody's just going to attack that thing and just try to get whatever's inside of it. I mean, it didn't happen, but it's like, how do they prevent that? You know what I mean? But it's a thing now. Because that thing remembers you forever, then you think you're 20,

20 years later, and these robots are crazy, and it just shows up at your house. It's like the Terminator. And you're like, you remember me? That's how it started. Somebody attacked the Amazon. Never seen the Terminator. Oh, that's right. I've been trying to download it. Or, like, I've been trying to. Huh? What?

It's a journey for you just to download it? The first one is amazing. I love it. Maybe I can start it tonight. Well, I've got to watch the other thing. Well, it's definitely when AI goes wrong. That's what the whole movie is. Yeah, yeah. So it's...

Yeah, I need to watch that. I just downloaded Last Action Hero. Okay. You could just do a whole Arnold thing. Yeah, maybe I'll jump into Arnold a little bit. Yeah, I would do Terminator 1 and 2 and then the last one that came out. I would skip everything in between. There's a bunch in between? I think there's three. There's number three. Is he in all of them? No. Yeah. Yeah, he's in all of them, I think. He's in 1, 2, and 3. I don't think he's in the one with the woman where she's the Terminator. No, he's not in that one? I don't think so. Okay. He's ruined it.

Terminator 3, then we got Terminator Salvation, then we got Terminator Genesis. Salvation he's not in. Is he in the third one? Terminator Dark Fate.

I think he is in the third one. Is he not? Six of them. He might be. Could be one. I would agree. One and two are the best. One and two. And then the last one was really good. I enjoyed the last one. He's in that one. It's like when he comes back. But I could keep going if I'm just like, I'll just see what's up. But the salvation is like the beginning of it. So that would be like the first one of the story. Yeah. And then you could just, you know.

Oh, if I do the... Like, Salvation's like, you know, like Star Wars, like the first, like the prequel or whatever. Oh, so you could go to be like, it's like... It's got Christian Bale. So what if you were like, I want to watch, is there a different order to watch it? Like the way you do Star Wars? Is it like, don't watch it? Well, if you want to do the story in order, you would do Salvation first. Okay. Yeah. And then I go to... And then you would go to one and then two. Okay. All right. Maybe I'll do that. Yeah.

But it's about the machine uprising. Yeah. Where they become more smarter, more powerful than us and take over the world. Yeah. And there's a lot of movies like that, but people are really concerned that's going to happen. Elon Musk, who just bought Twitter. Stephen Hawking was concerned about that. Bill Gates. All those people are really concerned that if we don't be careful, we'll program these computers wrong.

They'll eventually get smarter than us, and then we're not careful. Well, how would Bill Gates have any say in that when he's part of it? Like he created part of the problem. It's funny that all the people warning it are people actively developing this technology. We could just all agree to stop. Yeah.

You know? Good. Technology's doing enough for us. Let's not build something that's going to kill us. And I feel like I wonder if they look at it as like cancer and surgery and doctors. Right. And like that kind of stuff where it can really save lives. But you might say, all right, why would a

Why would a robot or a computer want to kill us? So you program it to cure cancer. We've been putting millions of dollars into cancer research for years. Had no luck. You go do it. Millions. I mean, technically. Billions. Billions of dollars into cancer and there's still. Thousands of dollars. Yeah. And there's just nowhere. That was the beginning of the podcast. I know. That was one of his first rants. Where's the money going? How's it all like nothing? Yeah.

I think it makes the most sense in the military. You know, I mean, drones are technically, that's what that is. Right, but to finish my thought, so you program this computer, go cure cancer, and then it decides, well, the way to cure it is to kill all the humans. No humans, no cancer. Because it doesn't have empathy or ethics. It just knows it's got a job, and its job is to rid cancer, so it just wipes all of us out. But what if it was just one machine trying to figure it out?

And then we just don't let it, we keep it in a room locked up like a prison. Well, they'll all be talking to each other. But he's just in there alone. Why does he need to talk to another robot? Well, I guess I just assume they're all going to be linked to the internet. Oh, like some guy walks by with a phone and then your phone strangles you at night? Basically. Yeah. I mean, 2001 A Space Odyssey, that came out in 1968. And even then they were like, that's about a...

a computer on the ship that Siri the first Siri yeah it's called Hal yeah and they had a mission and then these astronauts are like I disagree with Hal's mission I don't think he's right he reads their lips that they're trying to overthrow him and then he kills him

Never seen that either. Yeah. Is it good? It's a slow burn. Yeah. Yeah. It's a long movie. Yeah. I don't know if you would like it. It's not a Nate movie. Yeah. Yeah. I need to go down more Terminator route. Terminator 1. There's a lot of shootouts in Terminator 1. That's the only one you're really going to like, I think. Yeah. The first one. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know if I want to go through the whole journey. Yeah, just do the first one. Oh, I thought he would like the second one better. I think the second one's a better movie, but I think action, I don't know. So I can just go first and second and be done? Yeah, one and two is probably the good way to go. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. So there's, I think we talked about this on the future episode. It's called the singularity, which is the point in our history where computers are smarter than humans and they're calling the shots. And once they get to that level, then they can, it'll be an explosion of improvement because they can fix themselves. And then that improved one can fix itself and fix it faster, faster, faster to the point where we can't keep up. Yeah. And then they're just running everything. So how far away are we from that? Do you think?

Six years? Futuristic Google said like 2040 or 2045, something like that. What is Futuristic Google? A guy who's got a different internet? Just a Google that... A futurist. His job is a futurist. Oh, a futurist at Google. Yeah. That's why you said a futuristic Google. Yeah. So you went into the future and Googled this. Futuristic Google? Yeah.

I'm the old guy here? Come on. I still think we'll always have the upper hand of any computer because we can unplug it. We can destroy it. I think we'll always have the upper hand because it needs us more than... Yeah, but I guess they could self-charge it. Yeah, they could figure out a way. They could figure out a way. I don't know. I trust our weaponry. I think we could... I know, but they are the weapons we're using. So if they just turned on us...

Yeah, but we have to program it. So you're saying it could just start programming it. Yeah, if it programmed and we had it. So that's the war. The war would be. That's Terminator. That's the story of Terminator. That's the exact story. That's the exact story. I don't think it'd be true. I'm like, you're telling me to watch this movie. But I think we won. I think at some point. At some point. And we still have Arnold Schwarzenegger. We do. Yeah. We actually made him good. I don't want to destroy the whole thing. Facebook was working with chatbots, which...

You guys know we've never done chat bot. No. You go online, ask a question and it acts like it's a person reply. Yeah. But they were trying to make it more personable. So they had two chat bots chat with each other to try to figure stuff out with each other. They quickly came up with their own language just that they knew. Wow. And Facebook had to stop the program. Wow. Yeah.

Oh, it's creepy. They were doing shorthand just because it made it faster for them. And then Facebook stopped it and said, no, for the purpose of this, you got to use English. You can't be doing something. Yeah. Told them like that. And they said, okay, come on guys. They go one, one, two. That's the last one.

i do like robots though i mean the idea of just having a robot remember like it was rocky four or something yeah he had a robot and he was like teaching it how to like that he was nice yeah it's a nice robot but you know we interact with with ai all the time now

All the time. Siri or whatever, or you call a phone number and it's an automated voice messaging system, something like that. I think what's going to be really scary is when you can no longer tell that these things are AI. I think that's called the Turing test. When you pass the Turing test, you can no longer differentiate AI from real people. Oh, really? That's when it's going to get scary, when you can talk to it.

And you don't even know that you're talking to a robot because they're so similar. And that's so close. I think, I don't know if it's been officially achieved in some capacity, but we're so close from there. It's terrifying. There's that one humanoid Sophia. Yeah.

And she has citizenship in Saudi Arabia. That's how sophisticated she is. She was on Jimmy Fallon as a guest. I can't get on. Sophia is killing it on there. Well, yeah. I mean, every time an attractive girl wants to add me on Facebook, I'm like, you're a robot. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just every time I'm like, you're not real. Can you pull up Sophia? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, she's obvious a robot, but she has facial features and stuff like that that she can do that...

It was on Jimmy Kimmel. She looks beautiful. No. Oh, it's just Sophia Robo. Yeah. Oh, I do. I do remember seeing this. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, that's like that movie that we were talking about. Ex Machina.

Ex Machina. Machina. God, we say it wrong. Is it not Machina? I thought it was Machina. It's Machina? I thought it was Machina. You know, they never say those words in the movie. They don't. So I think it's just up to your interpretation. I think it's Machina. That's what I thought. Ex Machina. Deus Ex Machina. Machina. Whatever you want to call it. But it's just like this. Like, it's literally. So that's her. Right. So you can still, you talk to that, you'd still know that that's a robot, right? So it's not quite there yet.

But it's going to be terrifying. But eventually, you're going to go... You're saying they come and welcome to the office and you follow this girl and you don't know that... You have no idea it's a robot. Yeah. There's a robot expert that says by 2050, marrying a robot will be legal. Marrying a robot. They'll have their own rights. There's a guy in China who's already done it. Oh, yeah? So he programmed it to... Did you get that? I sent you?

No, you didn't send me the link. What is this? Oh, I'm pretty sure I did. All right. But anyway, he was 31 years old. Hadn't found a wife yet. In China, there's a lot more men than women. Yeah. He's getting frustrated. His parents are on his case. So he built a robot. He married her. Oh, wow. She can't talk yet. He likes that. Yeah. But he's training her to do chores around the house. Oh, wow. Not a fan. So we're just going to go back to the original woman. Yeah, that is right. Yeah.

It all goes full circle. It all goes full circle. If you're listening, that was Nate. 1950s. Yeah, the back to like, yeah.

The future is going back to the 50s. You can't vote, and you're like, all right, so we're just trying to build the woman that we had a long time ago. You're like, yeah, yeah, they're getting a little farther than us. Here's the Chinese man that married the robot. He built himself. Yeah. I mean. That's the way to do it. If I knew about that. Looks a little young for him, I think. 48. Yeah. Could have saved me some trouble.

That's like, I keep getting older, they stay the same age. All right, all right, all right. That's going to be the slogan for robots. There was a chat bot on Twitter that they tried to test

by just seeing if he could interact with different people on Twitter. And it quickly started seeing so many racist and sexist tweets that they had to stop it and shut it down because it was just infuriating people. It got canceled really quick. The best part is there's other guys. They got in the second row like that. I would imagine if you're marrying a robot, you're in love with yourself.

Like you're just completely in love with yourself because you're talking to something. I don't know that guy, but yeah. Yeah, but you're talking to something that is you and that like learns how to talk to you specifically. And so you're like,

You wouldn't even know how to have interactions with people. I know. Because you would be... You're like, I love myself so much. It's so self-entitled. It's the ultimate act of selfishness. I'm going to marry something that I could just unplug or... Yeah. I don't actually have to be a real husband to this thing. Yeah. A woman yelling at you makes you... It's an easier way to become a dictator. You're like, well...

Do you want to be a dictator? You go, I would love to, but that's so much work. So I will start with building the thing that I want to do exactly what I want them to do every time. So in 2050, Harper will be in her 30s. She comes home with a boyfriend and it's a robot. Dad, I want you to meet Hal. Yeah. What do you think? Yeah, she's never going to do that. I mean, I'm not going to.

She's not being led down the road where that's going to become a possibility. That's where parenting has to come in. I'm encouraging Eleanor. Oh, yeah. You're building one right now. I would be like, son, how far can you throw a football? Building a son-in-law, man.

Yeah, I mean, you're going to have a robot at your house taking care of you. I would like that. I mean, what's a thing now in our life that you would like a robot to do? I don't know. I like doing stuff. Clean the house? Dishes or kitchen. You like to watch them do it? Yeah.

Yeah, I wouldn't. You know, I don't think I'd want to take... You don't want to take... Yeah, if they could do stuff... I don't want to take jobs for people, though. Like, I mean, if it's, you know, you're... Yeah, I don't even like the self-checkout. I think that's... Yeah, I use that a lot. But it's just so quick. It is quick. So I do like that. Yeah.

And then I understand the quickness, but I don't... I guess... So I'm using it there. Yeah, you're using it. I'm sure I would get very used to almost anything that would be like that. But I feel like, what are you going to do for jobs? Like, I mean, you could slowly get... I mean, the one thing good about a comedian, even though you've seen like the comedian robot or something. But I mean, like there's...

you know, comedians are kind of your voice in your head. Right. Yeah. And so like, you hope that like, that's still something, you know? Yeah. Maybe a song, like there's still, you just got to hope that people don't. It's creative stuff. It's going to take a while for AI to replicate. Yeah. Right. But this is part of what I was talking about with y'all last week. This is what kind of scared me. Cause we were thinking about this. There's this new technology that just rolled out called Dolly.

Yeah. Okay. This is from a startup in San Francisco called OpenAI. And this is visual. This is software that creates visuals based on text input. Now, if you had asked me things that I thought AI would not replace, I would have said art. Yeah. Right. And this creates art with AI.

unbelievably, based on a simple text input. These are all AI-generated images that have never existed before that this technology is just creating for us. I think there was a movie, I think it was De Niro or something, where it was like they did a fake pop singer, and the whole thing was fake. She didn't exist as a person, but it was always on TV. She had videos, and she had all this music, and it wasn't a real person. Yeah.

So you could do it with music. Right. This is an image of a, that is an AI generated image that does not exist in real life. So the real thing with that though, is like, there's a, you know, not perfect is what makes human, what makes it so perfect. Right. And so there's a point where you, everything can become too perfect and you won't, and then enjoyment is gone.

And so everything's like a transaction. Everything's a business. Everything's just give me this. I want this. Like, so there's going to be conveniences that you like, but like that art, like I'm not, who are you going to show that to? Like you, it's cool now, but,

If you say, I just typed this in and it printed it and you showed it and you have a story behind it. But once that's like where everybody does that, well then why do I care? Like if you show it to me, Oh, you got one of those. I agree. I agree. Remember the thing that you could, you have to mix your eyes and you can see it, you know, like Kramer. Yes. And then, uh, it's like, that was like cool. Cause it was like, at least like there was a reason to be looking into it, but like,

That's why I don't think it would take away art because you're like... If you show me that painting and you're like... That's like seeing like... I got Tiger Woods' autograph and it's just printed on there. And you're like, well, you don't have his autograph. Interesting. You didn't get it from him. Interesting. And no one did that. Interesting.

So there's no story to it. A story to something is the thing that the AEI can't get you. They can get you this stuff now. That could be worth a ton now because of the story because you're like, that's crazy a robot did it. But if that comes the every day, your story is gone. Well, that's happening. Yeah. Well, that's what NFTs are basically. It's just like they're making digital art and then the story is just whatever the artist itself. I own...

Yeah, where they own the picture. And it's something to do with crypto, and the whole thing is kind of connected and whatnot. Yeah, I just... It's flashy and fun, and then I think it's going to... You can't...

Being in front of people. They talk about doing experiences. Isn't experiences really big with... I guess Gen X or Millennial was all about experiences. And so with this kind of stuff, experiences go away. So if you have no experiences, then we're all just living... You're just asleep in a bed the whole time. There's no reason to even live. Right. And so I could see it getting out of control and stuff like that. But you would hope...

And now maybe the generation from generation, like they just slowly get like taken over. Yeah. Well, that's why NFTs are popular because kids aren't going to museums, but it comes up on your phone. So, you know, it's just. Could you tell this thing to paint a picture of your house? You can tell it to do anything and it will create a. And it works now? But a specific thing like. You say paint Nate Bregazzi and it would paint. Yeah. You might be able to do public figures like that, but it's not.

It's not – Because we should do that. It's not pulling images from stuff. It's creating stuff that's never been created before. Yeah. So it learns things from the internet. It learns what the shapes of things are, what the colors of things are, the styles of different artists or whatever else. But then the image it creates is totally creative. Yeah.

And out of nothing. But you can do that right now? This technology, they're rolling it out right now. A bunch of tech influencers have it. And they're demonstrating it on Instagram and stuff. I signed up for the wait list. I can't wait to have this. I think this is the most unbelievable thing ever. Just that you can create an image of anything. It's kind of scary. And they're really worried about people using it for the wrong reasons.

Yeah. Bad things, obviously. I think it's horrible because it's like somebody writing your jokes. You know what I mean? Like there's something to be said about somebody that can paint like that. Talent is... Talent... That's like the robot umpires in baseball. It's like, yeah, dude, part of it is the...

is that it's what kind of ump you got tonight. Imperfection. And then the imperfection in that you got to figure it out as an athlete and that you like that athlete, you figuring out how they're calling something is the talent that I'm paying to go see versus just straight up. Like it's either, you know, I don't know. It changes the game. Like I get the idea with umpires and people wanted everything to be correct. But you know, if they, they got rid of replay and all that stuff, you'd be like, yeah, it is what it is. Like,

I understand the argument against it. Replay is good. But it's a mix. But if you're not, you're still buying people, man. What was it, Michael Scott? You don't fire people, you hire people. Isn't that beautiful? But it's like that idea that you don't... That's what it's about. It can't be this...

where there's no emotion between humans. And it might be that. I don't want my daughter to have that. I would not put that into her. I love the connection of humans. I love that it's special. It's something that's like your heart.

I would imagine that can't, that's, the heart just goes away. So then you're like, what are you buying? Like, then you can have anything. You have literally anything. You can probably 3D print a Lamborghini. So you're like, I don't get, or whatever, you know, you don't get the brain that you're like, the brain is like, the creativity is like,

That's what's cool is the idea that you're going like, oh, this person thinks. I don't think like that. I love the way that guy thinks. So you're doing that. And this all feels fake. Now maybe 50 years from now, they've just been slowly brainwashed into this is all you know. And then they can deal with whatever. Yeah, I was trying to think of an example that we have now that 50 years ago people might have said that's not authentic.

I mean, I can't think of anything. All they want is authentic now. Authenticity sells everywhere. I mean, this podcast does good with authenticity. Like everything entertainment, people just want to be talked to like a regular person. That's like when you see all these interviews with these coaches and it's all the same thing and everybody's a robot in the sense of saying, I don't buy mine. And they have no real, like, just talk to us normal, dude. Like, what do you, just say what you want us to do. And then it's...

It's going to be fine. And that's going away. And, but that people don't like that. And so it's probably our duty as humans to be like,

This stuff's cool to play with and fun with, but you teach your kids, all this stuff doesn't matter. We're here for each other as humans. And we might be fighting these dead gum things. Is that the same program that could write a story? Yeah, this is the same. So another iteration of the same software. This is available now, and I have access to it. This is OpenAI Playground where you can tell this thing to do anything.

with text. We can tell it to write a description for a TV show. You can tell it to write... You can say, like, write a description of the Nate Land podcast? Write a description for a podcast called Nate Land starring Nate, Brian, Aaron, and Dustin. We'll do comedy podcasts. You know what I mean? I mean, really just...

You misspelled dust. Well, it'll, you know, Nate Brown and I are four friends who love to make each other laugh. They're always up for a good time, and their podcast, Nate Lands a Reflection, each episode is packed with hilarious stories, jokes, and general tomfoolery. If you're looking for a good laugh, this is the podcast for you. That's amazing. It's incredible, dude. I played with this for like 10 hours. I take it all back. Write an academic article about the effect of,

of podcasting on stand-up comedy. Let's just create this. I mean, it'll just write the whole article for you, dude. This is all AI-generated. These sentences have never existed. So kids can use this to write papers. I'm sure that they are. I would be if I were writing papers right now. We'd have better colleges if this thing was right. Hope Cohen was about this. Yeah, dude.

It's pretty amazing. Yeah. It's all very scary how quickly it's moving, I think. Yeah. And just how this will be implemented into everything and you won't even realize it. We've probably read, all of us have probably read articles that are generated this way. Wow. Just with plug and play.

AI-generated nonsense. But it's so targeted at... This is a form of the Turing test where if you read this, you would think a person wrote this. Oh, yeah. That is crazy. Yeah. It's wild. Because it does make you think, well, what if... Yeah, like if you... Yeah, because the thing, the world of Santa Monica has changed drastically in recent years, and a big part of that is due to the rise of podcasting.

In the past, stand-up comedians would have to rely on things like late-night talk show appearances or comedy specials on TV in order to reach a wide audience. But now with podcasts, they can record their act and reach people all over the world with just a few clicks. I mean, that's a true point. This has had a big impact on the stand-up comedy scene. I mean, yeah, no, it's – you would – I would read that use, but oh, yeah, that's like someone wrote that. On Vulture or something. But, dude, what if you find out – how long has this been around?

This couple years, this technology has been available. It is true that like, I wonder if that could be, you're going to be like, well, how many articles have I read?

Where if someone's like, yo, dude, I need an article on the effect of podcasting on stand-up comedy, and you just do this, you turn it in, and then that's an article. And the whole thing's fake. But one thing it does lack is any personal connection to it. Like, for sure. Like, hey, I used to do this, or I interviewed this guy, or whatever. Can you put with quotes? Yeah, with quotations from...

Can you put a particular person? Can you put Nate Bargatze? Let me see. Let's try this out. With quotations from

He says it's unbelievable. I'm going to be impressed. Yeah. It's unbelievable, honestly. With quotations from Nate Bergetzi. And here we go. We've submitted it. Nate Bergetzi, a stand-up comedian, has been quoted saying, podcasting has had a big effect on stand-up comedy. He goes on to say that it's given a lot of comics a chance to be heard who wouldn't have otherwise been.

Who wouldn't have otherwise in it helped connect with fans. You've said that. Bargetti's not alone in his assessment that effective podcasting is a stand-up comedy. That's crazy, dude. Second podcasting by his lab comedians experiment with their material in a way that they may not have been able to do otherwise. I mean, this is like, go down. Is that it? You can keep going. This is because as Bargetti notes, podcasting has helped connect fans with comics they might not have found otherwise.

I don't even know if I've actually said this stuff or if...

No, that's all. Yeah. That's crazy, dude. Same you would say. Yeah. Yeah, you would say that. I think we all would. I mean, what if we're reading articles and you're like, y'all are not even writing these articles. Dude, if I were writing some clickbait website where I needed to churn out 100 of these a day, I'd just throw it through this software. And then the fact that you can just put someone's name in and the comments and their quotes are like, if you asked me, did you say this? And you go, no.

Maybe. I've talked to... You know, I don't know. You've done... It's not like you're like... I remember this one time I said it. You're... Because it's something we generally say about podcasts as comics. Yeah. You know, we would...

That's wild, dude. That is wild. What is this called? This is called Open AI. It's called Playground, where you can just play around with this technology. It's free. You hop on here. I spent hours on this, making it write stories. It's pretty amazing, dude. And that DALI, the visual thing, is just another iteration of the same technology, where it'll just create images. And I'm sure, ultimately, you can make videos from it. If I was writing a book,

Would it write a book? Like if it was like, if it said, write a, write a book about Nate Bargetti's career. Someone asked me to write a book. I'm just trying to see if I can maybe turn it out quick. Maybe I can turn it out tonight. You can watch all those Terminator movies. So we tell it, write a long book about comedian Nate Bargetti's standup career. Nate Bargetti's standup career has been on the rise since it started before in regular in 2009. Since then, he has released two comedy albums, Yelled At By A Clown and Full Time Magic.

And this wrote a little bio for you, essentially. Oh, yeah. Because I was going to say, screenplay? What do you do? Like a screenplay? Down-to-earth guy with a great sense of humor. He's active. Sure to appeal. Yeah. So you would just keep... Oh, maximum length. So you could do...

Now, there's starting to be some misinformation in this. This is what's interesting. Bargetze is a native of Tennessee. He said that his comedy is influenced by his father, who was a clown. He also said that he's a product of divorce and that his parents' divorce had a profound impact on his life and his comedy.

Dude, you're just guessing. Just make it stop. You know what's crazy? I've never said this. My dad was divorced. Stop. Oh, wow. I swear. Wow. No, I'm joking. What if that was like, it's that good? How did you know that? You're like, so I get uncomfortable. I go, mm-mm.

Yeah, that's funny. Yeah. God, where are they finding that stuff out? We don't even talk. I'm like, dead. Damn it. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah. It's pretty cool, man. Yeah, it's pretty cool. They're making movies now, though, where Warner Brothers has this deal with Cinelitic where they use algorithms to predict a film's success.

based on the film script. And they insert different actors in it and then they can run an analytics thing to see how well it'll do. And that's how they help determine which actors to put in which movie. So it's just The Rock every time? Yeah. That's why The Rock's in everything right now. Apparently. And then there's another thing called Scriptbook that predicts how well a movie will perform based on the screenplay.

So they try to make this movie in 2019. They announced that the best actor to play this guy called Finding Jack, about a Vietnam War veteran, was James Dean, who died in 1955 in a car wreck. They said they searched high and low for the best actor, and James Dean was the best choice. So he was going to star in this movie, and Hollywood got so upset. Actors, real actors were like, that's ridiculous. You can't start doing this. So they finally pulled the plug on it.

But they were going to cast James Dean. Oh, they were going to CGI. They could just CGI him? CGI. Yeah. Deep fakes. Wow. Wow. You can't just get a James Dean type. You know what I mean? See, but that's what I mean. You're creating a James Dean that you're using a real guy.

I think that's the savior of this is you still want... Like, this is cool, but you still want to hear from a person. Like, the person... You're going to relate to a person. You're not going to relate to a computer. Yeah. I agree. And so if a computer tries to be relatable, it's like... Now, the article thing that you just showed, like, I...

I would be curious to see if people are like, are there people that are, because it does, like people write long articles and you're like, how are you writing these? How do you just pump it on out? Like it's like, and it's,

And maybe it just figures out what you think. I mean, like, grammarly kind of changed my life because I'm not good at grammar and punctuation and stuff. And so that's pretty cool. What is that? It's like an app. And you just write your stuff out. And you have it on Instagram. You can have it, you know, on emails. Oh, yeah. And it just goes in and corrects all your punctuation. Oh.

And then it's like, it just saves me from stressing out that I didn't put a semicolon where I should, you know? So that I do use that, you know, and that's, to me, that's like a calculator for people that didn't go to good school. Right. Well, you can just tell it to just write, write the whole thing for you. Yeah. Now I'll just do that now. Now I don't even have to do anything. Yeah.

There's movies like they use CGI. Well, when Carrie Fisher died, they put her in The Last of Us. There was a Will Smith movie recently where they CGI'd a younger version of him. And

Oh, really? Yeah. And it's him? It was like the, he goes back in time or so, I forgot. He keeps slapping himself. Yeah. Just over and over. Yeah. And then the Irishman, they show, you know, De Niro and those guys. A young De Niro. A younger man. Young Pesci, yeah. That was all done by. That's crazy. I don't mind that. That's, you know, that's like science fiction. Like this. This is Nate as Forrest Gump. Someone on the mainland, Chris Cozzone posted this. Yeah.

That's crazy. Run, Nate, run. I feel like I look like Dustin Johnson. The golfer. That's very funny. I'd kill to have Forrest come spotting right now. I already think I have his brain and I'd kill to have his brain.

You might as well finish it out. Yeah. And that's Kennedy? Is that him as Kennedy? Is that what that is? The black and white one? No, he's meeting. Oh, he's meeting Kennedy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's obviously fake, but then like that Tom Cruise on TikTok, you couldn't tell the difference. I've seen that, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it looks so real. And now they're like, that's a national security thing because you can make a world leader look like they're declaring war. Yeah, yeah. That's scary. That's when it gets really scary. Yeah.

But the upside is, I saw this on 60 Minutes, as I'll watch that on CBS any morning. What does that say at the end of that?

Sorry to interrupt, Brian. I told this software, I said, write a long, dramatic story about struggling comedian Brian Bates who kills his more successful comedian friend Nate Bargetze, and it wrote just an awesome story. It was the early hours of the morning. The only sound that could be heard was the soft snoring of Brian Bates. He had been struggling as a comedian for years, and tonight was yet another disappointing performance.

He had killed at the open mic at the local comic club, but when he got on stage, he just couldn't seem to connect with the audience. He was in his own head and the jokes just weren't landing. So far, this is non-fiction. As

As he lay in bed, replaying the night's events over in his head, he heard a knock at the door. He got up to answer, and there was his friend, Nate Bargetze, also a comedian. Nate was successful, and Brian was always jealous of him. Hey, man, what are you doing here so late, Brian asked. I was just in the neighborhood. I thought I'd stop by and say hi, Nate replied.

The two men sat down and began to talk. Brian told Nate about his disappointing set, and Nate offered some words of encouragement. He told Brian that he was funny and that he just needed to keep at it. But as they talked, Brian's jealousy began to boil over. He looked at Nate, successful and happy, and he just couldn't take it anymore. He snapped, and before he knew what he was doing, he had killed Nate with a lamp.

Brian sat in shock for a moment before he realized what he had done. He had killed his friend, and there was no going back now. He would be going to prison for the rest of his life. But as he sat there, he realized that this was his chance. He could finally be the successful comedian that he has always wanted to be. He would be famous, and he would never have to worry about money again. It was all thanks to Nate Bargetti, the friend who had believed in him.

Evelyn, no one else did. And now he was gone. That's amazing. Wow. I thought all that. I think you think that all the time. And I like, this is, if people want to know if you ever think I've been mean to Brian, this is what Brian thinks in his head. And this is me telling him, being encouraging to him. This is AI generated. And he's jealous.

And so he wants to eventually kill me. This is 100%. I mean, that's crazy. The only part was you wouldn't visit me at my house. But if you do, I'll have a lamp ready. Yeah. I used to. I would visit your apartment. I would come by there. Yeah. Used to be good friends. And you'd be there in jail. Yeah.

We're still good friends. Hide the lamps. I had to encourage you just as long as I could. And then I gave you a full job on the podcast. You're right. Let me keep encouraging you. Here we go. What else do you want me to do?

It's about to be a cow reference. I didn't mean for that to start something. This is a fun story, dude. You can see how this is fun to play around with. Yeah. It's great. It's a good time. Yeah, I'm going to check it out. That's great. But the deep fake thing, the upside of it is there was some company in Asia that made...

some type of drink and they wanted Snoop Dogg to be the spokesperson for it. Yeah. So they paid him just to do his face of deep fake image. It looks just like him and he gets the money, but he doesn't have to, he doesn't have to fly to Asia to make the commercial. So that's the upside of deep fake. Wow. It makes Snoop Dogg's life a little easier. It makes his life easier, but it'll water down stuff.

If people start figuring this stuff out, you're not going to go. The second you were like... It'd be like going to see Tupac when they did the hologram. You're going to go the first tour to be like... Everybody's kind of like, yeah, I'll go see what it is. But then what are you going to do? Are you going to keep going? And then it's like, well, now we have Benjamin Franklin up there and he seems...

Biggie Smalls. And you're like, wow. I'd pay to see that. I'd check that out once. I know, because you're three years. You're like, I'm not going. I don't care what you're going to create. It's not real. You're right. I'm tired of like. It's a disconnect. It's a disconnect. I want to watch someone in real time. You want to watch someone that can do something you can't do.

Yeah. Like that's why you're going to see athletes. That's where you're going to see all this stuff. And it's like, you're amazed at that. Like, I'm not amazed that a robot could jump from the bottom, from the ground to the top of the Empire State Building. You're like, you're going to be like, oh, wow, that's crazy. And then if it's like, how many times are you going to go watch it? You're like, it's a robot. You're, you know, they make the car run fast. You know, I'm impressed by Usain Bolt beating everybody. Yeah.

Yeah, so Deep Blue was the original, but even before Watson. That's probably before your time. Yeah, I don't remember that. Deep Blue played Gary Kasparov, part of the greatest chess player of all time, in a chess match. Gary won the first time, and then they reprogrammed the computer a year later. He played, and the computer won. Oh, wow. And it was a huge deal at the time, which, again, I thought, well...

Yeah. Wait, he beat it and then they just redid it? They worked on it. They increased the speed. They worked on different stuff. Yeah. And they played again a year later and the computer beat him. Yeah. In chess. Did it beat him like quick? No, it was close. Like he won some, I don't know, what do you call it in chess?

games? Yeah. So these matches they would play, it's, they play six games of chess and then it's whoever wins the, so the first match was played in Philadelphia in 96. Kasparov won four games to two. Yeah. He won a match. And then, uh, then I played again the next year, deep blue one, three and a half to two and a half. So there was a one draw. Wow. Between the two of them. So it was still, it's still a narrow margin at that point. So like, if that's the point, like if, so if you're playing chess with a computer, uh,

It's like, well, that guy's so good and he's making no mistakes and the computer is making no mistakes. It's like almost it would be a draw. I guess there's a little like some, I guess computer. But there's so many moves in chess. Eventually you could outmaneuver someone, right? I think so. Because this said the computer was searching to a depth of six to eight moves and sometimes 20 or more moves in some situations.

Yeah, that's where the computer is. It can plot out what all the potential moves are way ahead and just map them out in its head. Some humans can do that on some level, but not... He probably could. Yeah, so now you got a robot. You're like, golly, it's better. He goes, he's going to draw a lot. He'll be close. You're like, what's the point of this robot?

You're like, I want you to win in four moves. Yeah, I want you to mop the floor with these guys. And that's when the robot goes, okay, and kills that guy. With a lamp. With a lamp. With a lamp.

He said that Kasparov said he'd noticed unusual creativity in the machine's moves, suggesting that during the second game, human chess players can intervene on behalf of the machine. Oh, really? Basically, they were calling the shots behind the scenes. IBM denied this, saying that only human intervention occurred between games, which was allowed. Like, in between games, they could do some tweaking.

I'm on his side. Although later the company published the logs on the internet, but they could have changed them. I'm on his side. I mean, to be like, he won the first time, and then the second time...

Why would they not let it go? Like, if you believe in your thing, it's a robot. You know, it's not like, well, he's tired. Yeah. You know, I don't know. His parents want him home. We can't do this. You know, it's like he hasn't eaten today. He's grouchy. Like it's they just wanted to be able to do it to say they won.

And then Watson, a few years later, went on Jeopardy, took on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, and he won a million dollars. So humans take a tenth of a second to perceive the question to hit your buzzer. Watson could do it in eight milliseconds. So it would be like, so they could never even buzz in because he knows every answer.

I don't know if he knows every answer, but I think they all basically know the answers. I mean, Ken Jennings, I think, knows most of the answers. It's just who can get in quickest when they give you the prompt. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Because you can't... The computer has to know all the answers. Yeah, because you pause as a human. Yeah. When you talk, it's got to go to here, out of your mouth. Yeah. Did they beat him at all? Beat the robot? Yeah, they won some. And the robot got... I think he got Final Jeopardy wrong. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. There's sometimes where... I watched a couple of these episodes and very infrequently it would happen where...

You could tell it just didn't understand the way the question was worded and the answer would be absurd. It was something like... It was shovel. And you're like, that's not what we're talking about. I forgot what the question was, but it's like, this U.S. city, blah, blah, blah. And it answered, what is Toronto? Wow. So it got some things wrong just because it couldn't understand it. What an idiot, dude. What a dumb computer. Yeah.

But then later, it went on the Urban Dictionary, Memorize Urban Dictionary, and began using profanity. And they had to wipe his memory. You know how P.O. was talking about like,

sticks and stones and break my bones words don't matter like it's funny that words are gonna kill computers like we've actually built like a society now where you're like words are not supposed to matter it's like it's the actions and then these computers are like it's gonna they're just gonna be cancelled because they like they can't

They can't like not be just, you're like, you can't say that anymore, man. And they, so it's never going to go anywhere. Like we're going to, people can argue about like, I'm tired of political correctness. You're like, it might save us from the robots. Yeah.

That chat bot that I was talking about earlier, it was called Tay. And it went on, it was made by Microsoft and it was supposed to engage with people in a casual and playful conversation. Basically, it takes what they say and whatever. But within 15 hours, it referred to feminism as a cult. Yeah.

It said Caitlyn Jenner isn't a real woman, but she won woman of the year. Neither of those phrases had been repeated, by the way. He just said it on its own. He said the Holocaust didn't happen. They had to stop it. Then it accidentally got re-released on Twitter again during a test, and it started doing pot jokes.

And they don't know. Then it got a repetitive loop saying, you're too fast, please take a rest, several times a second. So it just blew up people's Twitter feeds if they were following it. Wow. There's some things that kind of work out the bugs. Yeah. Yes.

Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, it's crazy. So you asked me earlier about consciousness. Some believe that they'll eventually be able to upload our conscious to a machine, and then it can still be us. We'd be like a cyborg, a robot, but it would be our brain, our mind, all that. There's a company called the 2045 Initiative.

and they're developing, trying to develop a ways to upload our consciousness to a cyborg, to a machine. And they could lap it eventually.

Technically, we could live forever. Like a RoboCop? Oh, really? Like a RoboCop. Is that what he was? Yeah, I think so. I've never seen RoboCop. Oh, that's a good one. Which one should I start with? First. That's it. Stop there. Oh, should I do RoboCop or Terminator? Do both. I, RoboCop? Throw that in the mix, too. RoboCop's kind of a little sillier, whereas Terminator's pretty scary. Yeah. It's pretty scary. Yeah. So...

So is your conscious, your soul, I guess that's what... Well, that's the big question. That's the big question. What is conscious? How do you describe what a consciousness is? A soul? Yeah. No one can really define what that means. Yeah, yeah. A lot of people know what happens at the end, apparently. Yeah.

So the idea is to take whatever that is, whatever the animating principle of the human being is, download it onto some foreign body. Yep. And then let it just inhabit that. Yep. Yeah. But look, if somebody is a giving person, then maybe that cyborg is like just a, well, you know, you're a robot. I think so. Yeah. I think, you know, everything. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're aware of the, I might do it. I hope to God, he got a consent to this, to have this happen. Well, Ted Williams didn't. Oh,

Oh, right. Man, that whole story is so sad, dude. Now, that's different. That's Alcor, and that's where they freeze you and try to bring you back to life later. Yeah. Oh, he's still frozen. Yeah, his head and his body are in Scottsdale, Arizona. Oh, just so mistreated, just like sitting on shelves and stuff. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. It was a mess. Is it still frozen? Yeah. But like it's in a thing? It's just his head? And his body's in a separate one. Oh, yeah.

Why didn't they put them together? It's a mess. I don't know. I guess they have to do it that way somehow. They go, we don't have a box big enough. You go, we'll just make the box big enough. He's too tall. Yeah, he's too tall. So what are you going to do? So they go, I'll make him fit. He gets above the head. Just do the knees or something. That's the main thing, dude. We need the head attached. That's the main thing.

So when they unfreeze it one day, they're going to have to reconnect it, obviously. Why is it sad with this kid? Well, I mean, he's going to be frustrated. There was all kinds of...

man, there were like legal arguments. So like some kids didn't want to do it to him. And it was like, did he want it done? I don't think so. I don't know. Oh, and they make it seem like he wanted it done. Well, how did it happen then if he didn't? Yeah. Why would they ever had power of attorney when he died? Whatever the nearest can. I mean, you can decide the candidate. Yeah. Yeah. And then there was arguments within the family. I need to read up more about it. It was, I saw this thing on ESPN. It was a mess.

Because I always thought it was him. I thought he's enjoyed life that much that he wanted to come back. Yeah, I did too. He did live a good life. So this is like, you can sign up for this 2045. I imagine that's the year it's going to come out. That's the goal. They think it'll be that. And so you're... Yeah. That you let you see, hear, and feel by 2021. Aims for Robot Avatars.

Can you pay for this now? Their website says, create technologies enabling the transfer of an individual's personality to a more advanced non-biological carrier and extending life to the point of immortality. And then, so you're just a robot. What if that's aliens? Well, some people think that. Yeah. They think that it's not like biological creatures that are coming here. Yeah. They're sending robots. Yeah. They're aliens. And you're like, and they come here and they're like, oh yeah, we used to be. Like, what if they come here and it's like us going to...

a history museum yeah and then they just look at us and they're like remember that yeah and they've advanced to the point maybe where they don't even need bodies of any kind they can just exist just their consciousness can just exist without bodies and then what's the yeah and i guess we just can't wrap our head around what's the point of that yeah yeah exactly

Right. Yeah. I wouldn't mind a new body myself. I'm signing up. Yeah. I'm doing it. We'll still be doing this podcast. I'll just show up one day. It's a cyborg. Walk through the walls. I was just like, we got to do it outside. Takes y'all 30 minutes to notice it. Do we got to open that window? You just talk through that window. You're...

that tall here just heads through the window and just sitting there like hey man still not doing keeps huh he goes no no he goes he goes no I didn't want to do the whole it was that was extra and like so I just thought uh you know I did the basic plan yeah yeah you would do the immortality but I'm just gonna do the basics yeah yours just turns around backwards a couple times squirrels still get up in it they go

You have to carry... You have a belt of old Irish spring soap around you that you have to wear at all times as a robot. A lot of oil. A lot of just squirted like the Tin Man. Human hair. Like this Tin Man just goes... You know, still beating it up. You're like, all right, man, I'll see you. Right before you walk, you still get your bearings before you back up. Like, I don't want to fall. Yeah.

So if computers ever get to the point like AI where they're smart as us and become conscious, it's called the Chinese room experiment. It's basically if you're in another room, there's a guy in that room that spoke Chinese, and everything he asks you, you had a book, you could immediately answer him in Chinese. He would think he's talking to someone who knows Chinese, but would you really know Chinese? Hmm.

So a computer, you could program to answer everything you say, talk to you, but did they really know what they're saying or is it just a program? It's like me singing songs. I don't know what these songs mean, but I can say some of the words. You're singing along with it. But I have no concept of the story behind it. Not even processing the lyrics. Not at all. You're just making noises, like a parrot.

Yes. Yeah. I do that with a lot of stuff. A lot of songs. Yeah. I've memorized the words, but I don't know. There's no meaning behind them to me. Really? We were merely freshmen. That song. What's that from? Verb Pipe. That was a song we played our senior year. Great song. Funny enough, it was our senior year. I always thought that was funny. Yeah.

But we sing this song, the whole, that was like, every time I hear that song, my buddy Moffitt, we used to go to, Jeff Moffitt, we'd go to his house. And then, and he, and we would listen, we would listen to that song and we'd sing it. And I still love it.

When I was young, I knew everything. And she, a punk, a who rarely, I always thought it said, and she, a punk, a rally ever took advice. That's what I was like. And she, a punk who rarely ever took advice. I mean like all this down guilt, stricken, solving my head. I seen all this. I don't know what this, I don't, I have no concept when I was young. I'm not thinking about a story. I'm not thinking about, do you want to know what it is or are you just, do you enjoy living? I don't know if I'm not interested in it or if I care. Uh,

I'm trying to get it... I watched Leonard Skinner, some of the old Southern rock we were talking about this weekend. I'm kind of like... I can see that music back then was...

It's just so written out. I kind of like the art of that. I like that there's something. Do you understand the sweet home Alabama? I just know that one part now because of the Neil Young thing. That's almost what made me get into it. What does that mean?

Well, Neil Young was like, I'm pulling my stuff off Spotify because of Joe Rogan. And Spotify was like, okay. Because no one was listening to Neil Young. Yeah. And then, and then somebody was like, Neil Young's always been kind of like a problem like that. And then, or something. And then, and,

in the old sweet home Alabama they say Neil Young something we don't need hope Neil Young will remember yeah southern boy southern man don't need him around anywhere he had a song called southern man he had a song called Alabama that trashed the south yeah pretty extensively so when I heard rebuttal so I heard that and I like I was like oh that's cool like but I would have never I mean when I heard it my whole life I don't I never yeah thought of

I would probably be like, they might have been a compliment. Oh, they like Neil Young. Yeah, well, Kid Rock just samples it and makes it just a fun song. Yeah. That is a fun song. Yeah. All summer long. Yeah, so it's like, I don't, yeah, but I don't take it easy. Yeah, I'm the same way on that. Nate and I had a bet years ago. You probably don't remember this. I said that by 2030, half the cars in Nashville would be self-driving. By 2030? Yeah. When did you make this bet?

five years ago. Okay. Something like that. And I still stick with that. Not that you're going to be able to take a nap in it, but I think pretty much every new car made now has some self-driving quality. Some form. Absolutely. Keep me in the lane. But it's not self-driving. It's going to be, like a Tesla is not self-driving. It can do it, but it's not, none of them are like automatically self-drivers. Hmm.

And half the cars. There's just no way. I mean, people are buying. You're buying 2021, 22 cars now, 23. And they're not self-driving. They can do it. They have some lane assist. Well, that's what I mean. Like some function. Yeah. That's it. We're getting loose. We're getting very. Moving the goalposts a little bit. That's what I said then. I bet if you had blinkers. What do we say about gas? Like I thought, well, Harper ever put gas in a car.

Electric cars. But I think I will make sure she puts gas in the car. I want her to know how to do everything on her own. She doesn't need to rely on anybody. Drive stick shift. Yeah, I'll do drive stick shift. I want her to be able to do stuff on her own. So I think I will make sure that she knows how to pump gas. Now, will she have a gas car or will it just be like,

We buy an old truck that we have. Like, it might be that. And then she doesn't have a gas car. Maybe by then she could not have one. Because it's hard to get to that point. If you get to that point, they start having these cars that are, like, so safe and, like, all this other stuff. And you're like, well, I can't. I don't want her out there, like, texting and, you know, all this kind of crazy stuff that you can't always stop them. So, yeah, then maybe there's, like, a Tesla or something. You know, I don't know. Yeah.

I can't say that, but I mean. Yeah, she'll be right on the end, tail end of it for sure. Eleanor, based on what we said last week, may not even have an opportunity because most gas stations will be gone by 2035, 2040. She graduates high school in 2040. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. 2040. Her robot dad shows up.

He goes, yeah. Where's your dad at? He's in my purse. I went from so tall about this window down to her purse. Your conscious. I mean, so if your conscious is a robot, it's just...

Is the robot just like, I don't know, where's the plug? Everywhere Rumi walks in, he asks where the plug's at. He goes, how you doing? Is there a plug near? And you're like, no one would even want to invite you. You're like, you just always, you go to a house, you plug in, you stay in that one spot. Stay in the corner. It's not even a long corner. It's not even a long corner. And he goes...

And you're like, hey, man, why don't you circle around and maybe meet some people? And you go, what if I get stuck? My battery's been weird lately. I got to go home. Last night I didn't charge for some reason. And so you just always, you can never. You're asking your friend, can I get some of those cheese balls? Hey, what kind of food they got over in the kitchen? He goes, well, I don't know. Go take a look, man. And he goes,

You know, I don't know if I can take the chance. Three-inch cordial. Yeah. If I leave, someone else might plug it in. You're like Frank. Somebody else takes it. You're like George Cassandra trying to use that pay phone at the Chinese restaurant where he's just sitting there waiting like, excuse me, how long are you going to be? You still got your thing plugged in? You might find, you know. Eleanor's got to walk around with that worry of just, ah, my dad just, you know. That's funny. Yeah. All right. That's it? Yep.

That's it. That was fun. All right. Like I said earlier, I will be at...

Rhode Island. Rhode Island, New York. I think those shows are sold out or as close as they can be. And then I'll do the Netflix is a joke festival. May 3rd, I'll be there. And that is, I want to say about, it's pretty sold out. 90% something, maybe. It's at the end. So grab your tickets to that, especially when you come to the show last time I was there.

That's where I'll be. You guys? I'm back at the Grand Ole Opry this Friday. Ooh. Nice, man. Lori Morgan's on this one. Lori Morgan. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Not Leanne Morgan. Lori Morgan. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm in Bristol, Tennessee this weekend at the Blue Ridge Comedy Club. Saturday night, two shows. Come out and see. And then next week, I'm doing the Denver Comedy Underground on May 5th. First time in Denver, Colorado. If you're in the Colorado area. I'm at Comedy Works all weekend after that, but I'm headlining Comedy Underground Thursday night. Oh, that's great.

Yeah, and the Common Works is the best. Yeah. Denver's one of the best comedy towns in the country. Everybody says I've never been there. Yeah, yeah. It's awesome. Everybody there, they're all just so great. Everybody that runs it, it's a good time. Dustin? Yeah, I'll be with you this week. I'm very excited about that. And then I'll be with TJ Miller. He's filming his special at the Tampa Improv on the 4th and the 5th, I believe it may. Actually, that weekend, the 5th and 6th.

Then I'll be filming my Dry Bar special in Provo May 21st, 6, 9, 30. So check that out. May 21st. Provo. Go to that. Go to Provo. Yeah. I got a lot of Utah friends. Come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great.

And that TJ Miller, that's why you don't want a robot. He ain't going to get another TJ Miller. No, no. That guy's the most original person I've ever met. I've known him since we started comedy over 20 or 19 years, 19 years. I know TJ. TJ's when I, when I saw him the first time, I just thought I've never, he was the first original, like I was like, this is the most original person I've ever seen.

Yeah, he's amazing. He's Andy Kaufman, which we talked a lot about Andy Kaufman. He's very similar, yeah. We should do one on like originality, like Andy Kaufman. Like I would like to really get him to learn, but Andy Kaufman is, it's crazy what he was doing. And TJ's, TJ's. Yeah, if a robot tried to do what TJ's doing, its head would explode. Yeah. It's just another level. Yeah, it's not, it's the, yeah, you're buying the TJ package. It's improv, it's all this stuff. He can juggle, come on. Yeah. It's all over the place.

All right. As always, we love you. Thank you so much. Anytime you listen to this again, I try to, I've been saying more on stage. I'll say it here. I will never take this for granted that you guys listen to this. So we will keep coming at it, I guess. And thank you. Love you. See you next week. Bye. Nate land is produced by Nate land productions and by me, Nate Bargetti and my wife, Laura on the all things comedy network.

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