#100 The End (of the World)
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Hello folks, welcome to the Nate Lamb Podcast. Let's go folks. Well, welcome everybody. Thanks for listening to this. This is the 100th episode, right? Yeah. Yeah, pretty crazy. Did you think we'd make it? To 100? Yeah. I don't know.

I don't think I thought of it. You didn't think we'd make it. Yeah. Brian and I. Yeah. You knew you'd get here. When I look at both of y'all, I think, golly, how did y'all slip by me for 100 episodes?

No, I don't know if I... No, I mean, I thought... I don't know. I don't know what I thought when we started it. But it's... I mean, every time I go to shows, people come up. They listen to it. They love it. It is fun to do. So it's great. And I love that... I mean, I love how much people are listening to it. And so it's fun. 100 episodes. Yeah. So with 100 episodes...

We are going to change up something a little bit. And yeah, Bates, you go. You move up to my role, Bates. I'm in your role. People voted and they wanted more Brian. So we're going to change it up and we're adding a fourth co-host. Oh, man. So it'll be four of us.

I know people, you know, we've mentioned stuff like that. I think it's fun. I'm excited about it.

It's just another comic, someone that's funny, that I think fits very well with us. I believe we haven't blurred out right now. And if you're at home and you're trying to guess, you can pause it. If you want to pause it and try to take a shot. I mean, you think they could... I don't know. He's appeared on the show before. Aaron, do you want to take a guess? Would you have any idea? Yeah.

I got a pretty good clue. Well, he's blurred out, Aaron. So how could you see him? Can I guess? You took that like it was a real beating. I thought we were going to go play long. You made it sound like I really just yelled at you. Oh, yeah. It was a cower over here in the corner. You go, I'm sorry. My bad, dude. Can I guess? Yeah.

I'm going to say it's the guy that used to work with your sister, who's the Bigfoot expert. He is. It is. We brought him in. He was great. He was amazing. Welcome to Nate Land, Dusty Slick. All right. All right. We're having a good time. Having a good time. Wow, that buildup really had me. You know what I mean? Yeah. I was more nervous about that buildup than going on shows. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, look, I think we're big fans, obviously, and I think you fit well with us.

You grew up poorer than all of us, which is nice. Yeah, bring in a real poor aspect to this. A lot of money floating around this table. Yeah. Well, we didn't have money. Aaron comes from a pretty wealthy family. That's right. He comes from Royals. Yes. And then, but so me and Bates wanted to feel, we wanted to be able to punch down. And we were like, well, who could we get? Oh, Dusty was in a trailer park. Yeah.

I brought food stamps with me this time around just to pass out, just so you knew what they look like. That's how we're paying them. Full disclosure, I fought against this pretty hard. I just want people to know. I said Dusty's a little too aggressive, I think. Doesn't fit the vibe of this podcast. And I called Aaron and yelled at him. Yeah.

We voted and two thirds were against it. But Aaron, I mean, Nate was for it. So my vote counts more. Yes. Luckily. But they they wanted to vote. They voted me out. Yeah. Well, I'm pumped to be here. You know, this is fun. So it's great, man. And we're excited. I think it makes it, you know, it's I don't think we're all have another comic on.

And, you know, and you got big shoes to fill. Greg Warren was on last week. He did great. I know. That's why I knew I was joining. And then Greg Warren has to come in here and crush it. I mean, you know, the whole peanut butter thing. Who knew, right? I know. I mean, I did the same thing with pesticides. And I can't turn that into what he's done with peanut butter. Yeah, he did great. But to be honest with you, less people care about weed and grass killer than they do about Jif or peanut butter. What is it? Peter Pan, he did?

Jeff. Yeah, it was Jeff. That was a big recall. Yeah. When he was in last week, I was like, God, why did I already call Dusty? No, Greg is awesome. I'm very excited to have you, Dusty. So 100 and on.

Let's see. Maybe this will be the thing that... Yeah, it's about to get hot. It's a hot podcast already getting hotter. You know what I mean? It's about to be real hot. I don't know what's hotter. We signed Dusty up for 200 podcasts, but I've only signed up for 50 more. So...

Well, let's get started with the Missouri comments. Josh Hudson. Hey, guys, I have binged all the episodes and I'm glad to be listening in real time now. I wanted to drop a tidbit about the shark that was mentioned in the Missouri episode. There was actually a shark attack in Missouri back in 1996. I will include sources for Nate.

I would guess that that could be why there was a shark on display at the wildlife exhibit that was mentioned. Keep up the good work. As a UPS driver, you guys help Wednesday be my best day at work. Well, good for you. Thanks, Josh. Wow. I didn't know that.

Missouri is a wild state. There's a lot going on in Missouri. So they have sharks. Apparently. Is this your first time reading this article right now? Yes. Okay. Apparently what happened is these sharks swam all the way up the Mississippi River and ended up in St. Louis. That's quite a hike. From the Gulf. From the Gulf, yeah. Yeah.

I feel like people from St. Louis went down, captured sharks, and dropped it in the Mississippi. That also could be. They wanted pets, and they were like, this is a lot to deal with. That's definitely, it could be 50-50 on that. I mean, I could see that happening just as easy as them making it up. Shark, oh, wow, they show you where, what's the, oh, there's been one? Zero documented shark attacks in the state of Tennessee. That's encouraging. Oh, yeah, that's good. That feels good.

That is a relief. But how is there in Illinois? I guess, I mean, look, this is the same way. They come up the Mississippi River right there. Oh. Went right by Memphis. They're like, nah. It's too dangerous even for us. Yeah, yeah. Keep going. Everybody be cool. Everybody be cool.

I know a guy who got his leg bit off by a shark. You know a guy? From Lebanon. Really? Yeah, he was in Panama City on his senior trip, and he was out in the ocean, and a shark bit him. This is a guy you went to school with? He's younger than I am. I went to school with his brothers. Okay. And his dad. I went to school with his grandfather. His dad's not much older than I am, I'll say that. His whole leg?

Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy. It was like national news. Like all the way up to the hip. Craig Hutto was his name. This was late 90s, early 2000s. Wow. Oh, yeah. And his brothers went to high school with you? His older brothers did. Yeah. Yeah. How old was this guy? Yeah, I'm just trying to figure it all out. I think he was on his senior trip in high school. Yeah. Wow. That's crazy. I mean, that was like, yeah, that was big news. It was huge news. Yeah. Is he still there?

I don't know what he's doing now. He has an artificial leg. Honestly, not the worst thing that can happen in Panama City. Yeah. In a lot of ways. Even for him that weekend. Yeah, it could have saved him some trouble down the road. He went to the hospital, avoided some other stuff. Yeah, that is true. A drug addiction. You're saying he's lucky. Yeah. Yeah, he's lucky that it happened.

I feel like they should be the mayor of Lebanon. Yeah, that's probably the front page of the Lebanon Times. His uncle is the mayor. Oh. Of Wilson County. Of Wilson County. Yeah. Well, he's on his way. Yeah. I mean, he's like, because it's like a real guy that battles. I hope he runs for mayor and he runs hard against sharks. Yeah. That's his main campaign. That's his main campaign. No sharks in Lebanon. No sharks in Lebanon. Keep Tennessee shark attacks at zero. Zero. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, frame the other guy as like some business shark. And I've dealt with sharks. What about... Big shark. What is that? So New York, is that Pennsylvania? Yeah, Pennsylvania's got one or two. Maybe where? From the Great Lakes or something? Or what's above that? Maybe I think you... Is it totally landlocked here? It looks like a little sliver's got some water. That's all they need. That's all you need. That's all they need. They'll find a hole. They find... Yeah. They get...

What about alligator attacks? Look up what states. All right. That's fun. Brittany Sawyer. I think we should let guest episodes just be about the guests and do more state episodes like Rhode Island. All right. Yeah, Brittany. Well, now we've filled this little guest spot. So now it's going to be a lot of just, you know. Jump right into Rhode Island right now. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, we do need to do – yeah, we can just go through states now. People love the states, and they don't like it when we veer off, talk about other stuff. Yeah. Well, I mean, I can't help. Sometimes it veers off. But, I mean, we said we'd have Greg back for Missouri Part 2. I'm sure somebody will bail out here. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Someone will work out. Probably Dusty, but... Yeah, we're trying to funnel someone out. And y'all can, that's the next guest. Figure out who that is. Episode 101. We're back to three. We gave it a try.

Wally Gustafson. Gustafson. I bet it's Gustafson. Wally Gustafson. Nate was talking about how he had trouble going to the bathroom when someone stood next to him in public restrooms. In college, I had a buddy that if we went into a restroom and there was only one guy using the restroom in a line of open urinals, he wouldn't stand next to the guy. He would get in line behind him. Yeah.

I mean, I understand even not being able to use it with one guy, like if he gets in your head about it. And that's so funny to stand behind him. Could you imagine if you had it to yourself and then a guy comes in and stands behind you? Oh, and you're like, yo, buddy. Yeah, it's like, don't put it on me now. Now I can't pee. I don't know why this guy's behind me. Yeah, just wait. Like fake wash your hands or do something in there. Start writing a letter. Yeah.

I don't understand why every bathroom doesn't have the dividers in between. I'm in the airport the other day and there's still a bunch of open urinals. And not even the one that you can get real close to. It's like a half trough. Was it O'Hare? It was Charlotte. Charlotte. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I thought I can't remember O'Hare. Yeah. It's crazy. Some of these we talked about last week.

But at an airport, I think I've seen it too, like you said. And that's absurd. They should be ashamed of themselves. I mean, this is 2022. It's like a little bit of a toilet right there that you got to aim for. Like, let me at least get up, put my whole body up in there. You touch the urinal when you do it? Well, you get close. You get close. Yeah. It wouldn't take much for you to hit it. Yeah. Yeah. A little push and I'd be right up in there. I mean, your sleeves and everything. Yeah.

You just get... I go, ah, I had an accident washing my hands. Yeah, and what is it? You just got wet like a... Just a square. Just a square on your shirt. The literal shape of a urinal is just on your pants and shirt. Get all the way up. I got a little shy bladder here, guys. I got to get all the way up. Don't mind me, boys. Take it off my shirt. Yeah.

So this is alligator attacks? These are fatal alligator attacks, and it looks like they've only occurred in the southeast. So fatal alligator attacks. They have not found their way up to the rest of the country. Why is it painted like that? Yeah. I think it's just an artistic decision. So what's the green, though? What do you mean, the green? Is that green? Are you talking about blue? No, no. Next to the blue is a bunch of green spots.

I forgot you were a little colorblind. Yeah, what color is that? That's more like a dark red, kind of a maroon color. What is that? I don't know. Sorry. Why would they put that in of a map? Is there a grid? I don't know. I'll dig into this a little more. I thought we were just looking for broad strokes here. I didn't know we wanted to dive in. I think there's been some that have been farther up. I think the most happened. I'll read the scientific study report. Red seems worse than the yellow. Oh, there it is right there.

Yeah. There's the colors. Yeah. We still don't understand. We got a label here. I don't understand. That's just a non-native H-C. The other map was so good. The other map was so good. What is an H-U-V? I don't know. I'll look into all this. Sorry, everybody. Hayden Kane. Hello, folks. I attend the University of Central Missouri, and our mascot was a mule. The boy sports teams were the mules, and the girl sports teams were called the jennies.

Never knew why we had such a lame mascot until now. Also funny that Nate said all the other state animals die off when mules are the only ones who are sterile and rely on donkeys and horses to continue to populate. Love the show. Keep up the great work. I don't mind that Jenny's name for the girls. I think that's kind of fun. Is that what a female mule is? A Jenny? It's his sister. I did not... No, yeah, I imagine it has to be. But Jenny's is kind of a cool name. Yeah, mule is...

The mules. I didn't know a mule was a cross between a horse and a donkey. Oh, yeah. But I looked it up, and they can't breed because they have 63 chromosomes. Yeah, they're sterile. Oh, yeah. So. I don't know how many chromosomes you have to have to mate. Well, I didn't either. A horse has 64, and a donkey has 62. Yeah. Oh.

No. You would think the donkey. A female donkey is called a Jenny, by the way. Yeah. Yeah, we kind of took that from the. Well, I just wanted to confirm it. Well, I'd be pretty surprised. It's like the men's team is the mules and the girls' team is Jenny. She's like, is that female donkey? You're like, no, nothing to do with donkeys. They're called Karens.

any all right we went on another route no alligator yeah i've got a breakdown we made it in oklahoma that's good this is better this is just in 2016 i mean we can look at other years but this is a pretty good year we've got all the fatal animal attacks that's not for just that year that's up until then yeah i don't have sharks you're not doing it never mind just i'd rather i

I went to the Oklahoma Zoo with Justin Smith, and they said there was an alligator attack up there. If there was 128 fatal shark attacks in one year, that'd be a big deal. Maybe it wasn't fatal. You're right, Brian. Yeah. Yeah, I think we'd have heard about that. It would have been a real problem. The year of the shark, 128 people died. Half in Missouri. Yeah. And then he goes, no, I don't remember them talking about that. Yeah.

Peanut butter and potato chips comments. Madison Hill, I'm worried episode 99 with Greg could bring the whole podcast down. Greg reminded us how entertaining it is to listen to someone share on a topic they actually know about, have real-life stories, and know the inside secrets we never knew. It's going to be tough to go back to a topic filled with Google research, random tangents, and no personal stories. I'm here for it, though. Wow. She's right. Yeah. Yeah.

Robin Gordson Wilcox. Nate saying he bought into Dippin' Dots sink line and hooker.

And wanting to be their spokesperson is the perfect ending to the episode, in which he also admits to not knowing what Procter & Gamble is, as well as not understanding how stocks work. Just when I think this podcast couldn't get any better, they proved me wrong by topping themselves. Sink, line, and hooker. I actually didn't even catch that. I was just thinking, like, I'm into Dippin' Dots, too. I do like them. Yeah, they're good. I didn't notice it at the time.

It was the very end of the podcast, and I was looking down for one more to throw out. But yeah. Yeah. It seems like a lot of people brought that up. Sink line and hookers. Yeah. I don't know if anyone's ever said that before. Yeah. No one's ever said civilian station. Well, that just feels like, honestly, that feels like you're really into it. I mean, I know the real one, but I mean, even that one's like, you're even more into it. Yeah.

Sink. Sink. The kitchen sink. Like all of it. Really good. Get right in there. What is the saying? Hook, line, and sinker. Hook, line, and sinker. And it's a fishing metaphor. Yeah. Now this is no longer about fishing.

Yeah, we might make some Sink, Line, and Hooker t-shirts. Yeah, I'd love it. Chase House, I love this week's episodes. I personally work for Frito-Lay as a route sales representative. According to Greg, we are the money company, and I'm here to tell you we are.

We have four different brands that sell over a billion dollars a year. Fritos, Cheetos, Doritos, and Lay's. And that's all just your regular flavors. That's not even, they're not even trying. He's like, we're not even scratching the surface. We're not even, you know, that's our just main, you know, that's money in the bank.

These other low-level companies can only ever fight for second place in a battle for snack food supremacy. If you want a taste of greatness, I can hook you up with samples of all flavors available. Wow. We can be our own test market. See, this is how they get you right here. He's doing exactly what Greg said they did. Yep. Yeah. I'll send you some free stuff if you want. Yeah. And it's working, to be honest with you. It's working. I would love some free samples. Yeah.

Well, that is what they do in the pesticide world. I think he knows Aaron. I was always fighting for second. Tell you what, I would love Aaron. He's like, Aaron, we already sent you some. Aaron, I don't know if I got to go with that. Tell you what, I'd love to try some. What do you guys have?

Now, Greg says Jif got too much publicity last week, so Skippy did a hit job and brought out this recall. Oh, that's true. That's true, yeah.

Were you saying you were a second? Well, you know, yeah, when the big companies, I mean, they always send out the free samples. I was fighting for second in pesticides, you know, and we don't have free samples to give out. Even second place doesn't. Yeah, I mean, well, we're fighting for it. We don't even know if we were in there. I would have like some mosquito wipes or something like that, but people are looking for the good stuff. You just like if someone sees you driving around in your truck with a...

Yeah, like we had a mosquito on the top of it. And then he goes, you ain't free stuff. You just open your glove box, start shoving. Well, I wish I had a truck with a mosquito on top. Yeah. We had outdoor events and the big company would have a grill, grilling out hot dogs. They had a 50 foot inflatable ant.

And we had, I had a little, you know, some mosquito wipes. You know, I'm like, oh, hey. I got it, you know. And a pencil. And I'm sweating, you know, and I look bad. I picture it dusty like a third grade science fair with that trifold poster. You just got one of those set up out there. A little diorama. Exactly. That says, I don't know why I'm out here. Yeah, yeah.

Riff Quantum. Quantum. That's a fun last name. Scientific. Riff Quantum. I hope he's a scientist. Yeah. I once stayed in Columbus, Ohio, another test town in the USA, while on tour with a band. Ari's in a band.

Riff Quantum. That's also a good band. It is a great guitar name too. Riff. Yeah. The locals were told us that living in a test town can be a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because you get a constant flow of new candies, chips, soft drinks, and fast food restaurants to try. In addition to the regular ones that everybody has. However...

It's also a curse because sometimes you can end up falling in love with a certain food item only for it to fail the test and never be seen again. Ooh, that's true. Can you imagine just you're like, what happened? It's like the chili cheese burrito. Taco Bell. What happened to that? It's gone.

For a while, you could maybe, I would ask, I don't even ask anymore because it's embarrassing you go in and you know. The people that would have even seen the Chili Cheese Burrito at Taco Bell are dead. So, but they used to be able to like, you could find a place randomly on the road that'd be like, they haven't got the email. They haven't got the letter that said we're shutting down the Chili Cheese Burrito. Chili Cheese Burrito was great. I never had it, but I'm into it. Yeah, it was good. Cool.

Clifton Hatfield, the Dippin' Dots inventor, first sold them at Opryland USA. Wow. That's where I had Dippin' Dots the first time. That's probably where I had them too. Wow. That's good. Maybe that's why we felt like we were the test. Maybe we were the test. Yeah. I mean, they were great. I was like, this is awesome. Little ice cream balls. They did better than our theme park. Yeah. They hung around longer. They hung around longer. Michael Sinsheimer.

There was an oversight in the Procter & Gamble brand discussion. The brand discussion was great, but would have loved to hear the gang discuss the logo controversy around the Satanist symbolism. Dusty, I'm glad you're here for this. Yeah, so that's my father-in-law, first of all. Yeah. Thanks for listening. Yeah. Thanks for checking it out. Oh, yeah. I got the old logo pulled up here. Yeah, is that how Lizzie says her name? The H is silent. Sinsheimer. Sinsheimer.

Sounds like that. You're still saying it. Yeah, well, I guess when you look at it, you want to say Sin Shimer. The S and the H are just divorced. The H is silent. That's right. Sin Shimer. I go, H is silent, but Sin Shimer. I did do that. You emphasized it more. Yeah. I go, well, the H is still there. You go, yeah, it's just not. Just say the H is there. It's not the route you're probably going to take. Yeah, just don't be obnoxious about it. Yeah. Sin Shimer.

Here's the logo. We've got kind of a man on the moon. Yeah. And people allege that we got some devil horns here at the top and the bottom. And then we got an inverted 666 here at the bottom. Yeah, I would say it's too aggressive a symbol for what they apparently do. And like the name Procter & Gamble, this is like I would like that. You're like, what are they? This is like some evil...

whatever. And then you're like, what do y'all do? And they're like, we do like, like potato chips and stuff. And then you're like, yeah, well dude, this is a lot. It's a lot. It does feel like a lot. I agree. The 13 stars represent 13 colonies. They said, well, what does that even, I agree. Why are you even getting the colonies involved? Like who, you go,

You're overthinking this, dude. It's so funny to be like, their job is to, what do they do? They do advertising? They make a bunch of stuff. They own these brands. Yeah, they own the brands. So to own the brands, which is meaning you have to come up with ad branding to sell it, and then to be, well, your main thing is that bad. It's crazy. It's a shock that they even made it in the business.

I agree. And this was a 20-year thing that they finally had to go to court about it because it was an urban legend that they were Satanists. There was this story that the president of Procter & Gamble went on Phil Donahue's show and said, yeah, I'm a Satanist. There's not enough Christians to even matter to stop us. And for years, churches...

would not buy Procter & Gamble products. The way the guy went on? That's not true at all. It was just an urban legend that he went to Philadelphia. Back then, it was harder to look stuff up. People talking about Procter & Gamble. If it got so big of a thing, I would think they would call the...

The company. I mean, that's so crazy that you could lie about something that was on TV. Yeah, Urban Legend, that's a national television show. I know, but those are the early 80s, and Parker and Gamble denied it the whole time, but the rumors kept spreading that, yeah, they went on Phil Donahue, and you had no way to look stuff up. I know, but I think that they could be like, he's never been on Phil Donahue, but he's never been on the show. Yeah, they never asked Phil Donahue about it. Yeah, they never called Phil Donahue and just say,

Hey, was he on there and said that? No, I don't think so. Why would we have the Procter & Gamble guy on? Phil Donahue. I have like, you know, I have like married couples fist fight. You think we would just also be like, let's get the Procter & Gamble guy. You think he's like, yeah, I'll do it. Yeah.

If he's a Satanist, he might. Yeah, but it would be... Yeah, I don't... The symbol, this is a lot. Yeah. Now it's just P and G. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's probably good. They really abandoned the logo thing altogether. Yeah. Yeah. Chad Anders. We have an entire episode about peanut butter, potato chips, and various other junk food, but no mention of the weight loss challenge. The people need an update.

I have an update. I actually weighed myself today. I weighed last night and I weigh essentially exactly the same. What is it? Like 185. What did I weigh?

191, I think. 191. Yeah, what are you down to now? I weigh 176.6. Wow. Yeah. That's great. That's crazy. 15 pounds. Yeah. So my theory was, I knew your barber was going on the road with you as your nutritionist. I thought it was just for one leg. And I was like, no, he'll slip up. And then he'll slip back. And then I saw him at Mike Vecchione's taping. He's like, no, I'm on the road with him permanently. And I was like, uh-oh, I may be in trouble. Yeah.

He's been doing great. We just count calories. Calories in, calories out. You know, I'm not saying it's the right way, the wrong way. I don't want, like...

I'm a big, if whatever works for you can work for you, do whatever. If you're trying to lose weight, just do whatever you think you should do. Whatever you probably should do, you're not going to. It's like even just getting something started. When people talk about eating, I might have talked about it, like no carbs or something. You're like, just do it, dude. And then commit to it. And if it gets too much of a problem, then stop.

But like, just like commit to it. Yeah. It's the dining is all about just committing. So it's like whatever little thing you want to make believe in your head. They're like, well, do you don't want to do that? Because then you eat carbs and then you, you know, and it's like, well, dude, if you can get way down. Yeah.

Like, no one's fluctuating like that. No one's, like, going, like, Atkins and then getting down to, like, 50 pounds, and then they just have Brad, and now they're next day 200. Like, if they have the determination to get to that 150, then they can keep it at that 150. Even if it was like, hey, you should probably not do Atkins anymore. It's not. I know it helped you here, but then, you know.

Also, the fact that Fritos, Cheetos, Doritos, and Lay's is a billion-dollar industry, maybe that's the problem with some weight loss. Yeah. Makes it hard for sure. That stuff is real good. I don't know anybody that's like, you know what? I went all Doritos, lost 50 pounds. We did it with – someone gave me – like I'm eating this Halo Top ice cream, which is great, 300 calories.

And then, uh, we do, I've learned though, like you want to eat protein. Cause I can, like if you eat something kind of garbage, like I'm going to be hungry. Uh, I mean very quickly after, and I will be starving. So then you can start being like, all right, well I want like some meat. I want protein. I want something that I know will fill me up. And then, uh,

I ate Haribo or Haribo, whatever those gummy, sour gummy bears. Because I mentioned those, so we had a nice couple brought me some of those this weekend. And they're in the medical field. They're doctors or something. But I ate, look, I looked at the servings. I could eat 12 of them. It's 110 calories. Yeah.

And so you're like, I'm still like, now, I could do that as a meal. Like, you could eat Oreo cookies if you do calories and lose weight. You would feel miserable. You won't ever feel full. But it was like nice to be like, well, I ate 12 of them. I love them. 12, you know.

Last night I had a little packet of Sour Patch Kids because I was losing it. I think it was 110 calories. You're just doing that. I don't want to go down too far. I rode that because that's the road that I get stuck where I'll be like, well, I'm going to just eat the whole bag. But

Do you find that you enjoy them more now that you're eating less of them? Man, I really like those. When I had them, yeah, they're so good. I just eat them all in my mouth. I just put every one in. You eat all 12 at once when you get 12? I think if I went too slow, it would be too hard. So I just jump it all in. Yeah, it does. I love it.

Oh, yeah. When I only have a few of a thing, though, I like to – I'll eat, like, the ear off of it and then the head. Like, when I would have a kid, you know, being poor, you have two Reese cups, and that's all you got. Yeah. So you would eat – I would eat, like, the sides off of it. Yeah. And then – I think I did that, too. Like, you can keep it slow. But this weekend, I just –

I wanted them, and I had 12 of them. And I had the calories to spare. So it was like I could eat it. And I was like, well, I just got to eat these. And I ate 12. But I mean, I could eat 12 every night. I mean, if I wanted to, just be like, all right, that's what I'm eating. See, this is where we're wired differently. If I had two Reese's Cups, I would eat them both. I'd stack them on top of each other.

Just indulge and then just be sad for longer after that. Oh, yeah. I never had the patience or the foresight to like, let's ration this out over the next few minutes. Oh, yeah. I would freeze them. I would eat all the chocolate off, then eat the peanut butter. I mean. It's like surgical. Yeah, like you're living in a desert for many years. I got to make it last. This is my candy right here. I got to work it. Dionne DeBeld, right? Yeah.

Deon DeBell. Yeah, that sounds right. Hello, Nate, Aaron, and Briar Brush. My wife and I are big fans, and we saw Nate and Brickyard in Fort Wayne, Indiana in early 2020, about 10 days before the world shut down. You both had us in stitches with your 100th episode approaching. I thought you guys might get a laugh from looking back at a master list of every nickname for Big Daddy Bates from the start of the show.

We have it? Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. How many are? So on this list, he's compiled. He made this. 269 different names for Brian. I don't think that counts briar brush. No, we got to add briar brush to that for sure. Bon Bon, Broomstick. T-Bone. Some are not bees. Lunch Lady. It starts off. Yeah, we got Mike White. It starts off. You're starting to see the genesis of this. Yeah.

And then it just evolves into Brontosaurus, Butterball. Wow. Benjamin Buford Blue. This is awesome. Thank you for putting this together. Yeah, that's awesome. This is a good reference. Yeah, we'll post that on something. But breakfast is the most popular, right? Yeah, breakfast was like, I think kind of how it started, but it's just. Well, breakfast was one of the earlier ones, and Nate said that was his favorite, and then it kind of stuck. But there's a lot of. Where does a lunch lady come in at?

They said I was like the lunch lady because I hung out with the lunch lady when I was in school. There's a vagabond who's just thrown in there, too. There's a lot of mean ones in there. Boat ramp is pretty good, too. Because that's so... Big lot bait. I like that. Big lot's bait. Yeah. Yeah.

There you go. I think I speak two languages because my wife's from California and my mom, the bases have always been here. Yeah. So when my mom comes and stays with us, I have to be a translator. We just had, we got another critter issue. She's just nonstop. Oh, I mean, it's getting out of hand. It's really getting out of hand. But I was going to bed the other night, just got Eleanor down like 2 a.m. And I was like, I smell a skunk. Yeah.

And it got worse and worse. But then I went ahead and went to sleep. This has nothing to do with my mom. But then I woke up next morning, the smell's gone. I'm like, oh, it's gone. I guess it moved on or whatever. Just don't look into it anymore. Well, I mean, it's gone. So I'm like, what are you going to do? I looked out the window. He went out there smoking a cigarette. I'm like, not bad.

I don't know if it was a cigarette, but someone was getting down. Late that afternoon, I go walk the dog. I come back in. Smell's still there. It's completely there. We just got used to it overnight. It's permeated throughout the house. I got the Opry in like three hours. Yeah. And I think maybe all my clothes, everything smells like skunk, but I can't tell.

So I was really, I was considering going to Walmart and just go up somebody in the aisle. Like, you smell something. It's through the whole house, you think? Yeah. Like it's gotten into the closet? I think so. I think so. But you just can't tell because you're used to the smell. Yeah. Okay. Then Ruth got in her head that she looked online that gas leaks can sometimes smell like skunks. So now she's thinking maybe there's a gas leak. This is where my mom, my mom comes to stay with us. So you bring your mom into this. Yeah.

You think it's a skunk. It's got a third generation. Possible gas leak, and you go, you know what? Let's get my mom down here. Skunk is the best case scenario. Yeah, it really is. But she was already awake. She came in, and she's like, that ain't nothing but a polecat. Polecat. That's what my mom calls skunks. Have y'all ever heard that? I have heard that. No. So my mom has all these words I have to translate for my wife.

what they mean, but that's what she calls a skunk. Nothing but a polecat. Did you ever find out? It's still there. I mean...

Did I ever find out if I smelled or? Just any of it. I mean, I'd imagine you wouldn't be the first person that formed on the Opry and smelled like a skull. That's probably true. I told the story. I mean, there's a bunch of. They're like, this guy fits in. I told the story that night on the Opry. Yeah. How I was afraid I was going to kill Jeannie Sealy. Oh, yeah. There's still a little, like, friends are coming over now bringing us food and seeing the baby and stuff. And we just, we often just stand outside and talk to them because our house kind of. Yeah.

No one's looking into it? I mean, I haven't called a professional, if that's what you're asking. I've went around the house, looked underneath, tried to find the source. How many days has it been?

It's been over a week. So we're just going by your mom saying it's not a gas leak. No, no, no. I called. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were talking about finding the skunk. Well, I mean, yeah, just anything. We did call the gas company and they came out and they said, no, that's just a skunk. Were they irritated with you? The gas company? Yeah. Yeah. I called them about a gas leak one time. I thought it was a gas leak. They're like, there ain't no gas out here. It was so mad at me. I'm like, I don't know what you say to call if you smell gas. Well, we have gas. You don't even have gas? No, I had gas. Oh, yeah, if you have gas.

I thought you just had a Woodbird-y stove. You're off the grid. Yeah, yeah. You don't have a gas hookup out here. Yeah. So I was off the grid this weekend.

with, or not this weekend. So in between shows, before we went to Vancouver or something, we had the bus and we had like probably two days to stop. And so we went to Lake Tahoe. I've never been to Lake Tahoe.

And so we're staying at this hotel. And the back is this. So they go to these mountains. So one of the last days, we're like, hey, let's go on a hike, right? Me, Eric, I'm a skinny man now. So me, Eric, the barber, and Chase, my son. Which a lot of people have still come up to him, and he doesn't know why. Chase is his merch guy. Yeah. But everybody, people go up to him and ask him if he's my son. Because people thought...

I had a son that was 23 and I've just never talked about it. Never mentioned it. And then, uh, so people always come up and ask him and he'll get, he said this weekend, someone DM them and said, uh, are you Nate's son? And he goes, no. And he goes, he goes, why are you asking this? And he goes, I just do what I'm told. And Chase was like, I don't know what that even means. So I haven't told him yet. Yeah.

But so we were going to do this. So we go on this hike. And at first, we were just going to do like a side hike and go around this reservoir. It wasn't like too crazy. And then we end up realizing we have more time to go do it. The top of this mountain is a volcano. Whoa. And Mount Pluto.

And so we're... And we couldn't see... We haven't seen Lake Tahoe. So we're on the other side of the mountain. Lake Tahoe is like 20 minutes. And so I wanted to be able to see some of Lake Tahoe. And they're like, well, if you go to the top of that, you can. And so we're like, all right. Well, let's see. You want to hike? We go on... We end up going on a 10-mile hike. Wow. And so... And I think...

I want to say either 3,000 elevation or 1,000. It was a crazy amount of elevation we changed. So we started at the bottom. So these are ski slopes.

So we go up, and we start going sideways up and down the trail that you can kind of walk it. And then we're like, well, it's getting – I mean, dude, in this point, you're getting the shade up there. I mean, it feels like it's 45 degrees. And then I have shorts on. We're smelling the ground, right? Oh, yeah. And then – so one point we're like, well, we're not going to make it to the top if we keep going the long – kind of the zigzag way. Mm-hmm.

So Eric, who's a lunatic, is like, well, let's just run. We're following the ski lift. Yeah. And he goes, well, the ski lift is right there. It's like, that's the top. And we get to one point, it wasn't the top. And he goes, I think that's the top. And you're like, I'm not going to. At this point, I'm like, I can't do any more of this. Like, we've been hiking for hours. And like, who knows if that's the top? We can't see. It's like, whatever. So he's like, I think it's the top. So Eric runs up there. Yeah.

And then it comes back. I mean, like 30 minutes later, we're just kind of waiting on him, looking at how to get down. We're very high. And then he comes back. He's like, that's the top. And so Eric does it again. We're like, wow. All right. And then so we do it again. And we're just going straight up under the ski lift. So you're not on the path. I mean, it's kind of climbing. Yeah. And so we get to the top. Now go to one.

Yep. And so this is, so we made it to the top. This is the top. And then it's, this was, it's, this is a black diamond slope. So it's me chasing Eric, but we find these poles. We got a view of Lake Tahoe at the top. It's, I mean, there's a post office, there's a post office building up there. It's kind of crazy. And then go to the next one. And then, yeah. And so, I mean, this is it. So we have to watch. So now to come back, cause we're like, all right, well, what's the easiest way back?

Walk down the diamond slope. Dang.

And so we're just walking down. I mean, it's a diamond. From the top, we just go straight down this thing in the snow. Did someone fall there? That was me sitting down. Because I mean, I only fell a couple times. But dude, it would be, I was like, well, maybe if I slide. But I'm scared to slide. There's rocks and stuff under all this. Yeah. And so like when the snow's up, you're not going to hit it. I'm scared to slide. Oh, at the top too. By the way, the water we had, I drink water.

right before I went hiking, put it down and had no water. So we went on like what we thought was going to be like an hour hike. And now we're into like hour four and a half.

But we found an unopened bottle of water at the top of the mountain and we drank it. Whoa. Yeah. I don't know if you're supposed to do that. Oh, you should. But it was not cracked. Oh, well then, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how long it's been up there. I mean, like, there's like... It's not like I'm in the... You know, I'm at the top of ski soap. So, like, there's bottles of water, like, everywhere because people...

But most have been drank out of. This was still sealed. This was still sealed. That's for you then, man. Yeah. So we all shared it. Four hours, I might have drank an open one. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we would have. I probably would have drank an open one if we didn't see that one. Yeah. Because there's- Not if it was Dasani. No. No. I would have drank it. So we drank that. And then we came down. There might be a video of us walking. The other one is-

Don't even have to worry if it's going to do a whole thing. No, it's not going to take long. Yeah, it was wild, dude. It was the most... So Eric basically just skied down it with his feet. And he goes all the way down. And then me and Chase... And Chase is trying to just stay with me.

Tell the old guy. Well, there's a point. It is. You come 43, you're like, I'm not going to get myself. Yeah. I don't want to get hurt doing this. And so, I mean, I fell down. Then I was like, well, maybe if I slide a little bit as I sit down. That's the coldest thing ever. Yeah.

And so then I just was basically, you kind of got to zigzag back and forth a little bit. And then I finally got to some dirt and then we got down. I mean, we were gone for four and a half, five hours. You did about 10 miles, he said? It was, yeah. That's a pretty substantial hike. Yeah. Especially not on a hiking trail. Yeah. Oh, the opposite of a hiking trail. Yeah. Well, I do like hiking. It's fun. I mean, it's, you know, I did not bring my phone. I had, that was kind of a day, like I had some call, like I had just some career stuff that it was like,

And, and so it was like, I was like, I'm not leaving my phone. And I just went out and like, it was, it was so great in the fact that like, I had like, it was like, you know, a stressful day in a career day, but it was a frustrating day in a career day. And so like, it was, it was like,

It was so nice that when I came back, you felt so satisfied. Right. Accomplished. And then I had to do a call right after when I got back. And it was just nice to be like, and I call you like, you know, whatever.

I've already conquered a mountain. Yeah, you're like, I don't care about this call. Yeah, I'll do whatever. Like, I'll just do my own thing. And so, yeah, it was very satisfying. But I hope it's, I hope I don't have to do that much to be satisfied. Like, that was, like, you know, I mean, but you just feel like, you're like. Yeah, you don't want to start off with four hours. Yeah. You know what I mean? Then now, each time, you're like, you walk two hours. You're like, well, that wasn't what I did last time. It was even worth it. Yeah. I love the fact that, say, when you go hiking, just, you know,

make sure you take your phone and some water. They both had phones. Yeah. Eric's died immediately. I mean, we weren't even on the hard hike. We were, I promise you 30 minutes in this hike. We're like, uh, so I was like, Eric is like, we'll take a picture. Eric goes, my phone's dead. You're like, so Chase's was fully charged. So we were good. That's my son in the front. Uh,

And they're – so, yeah. But it ended up being awesome. I mean, we got those sticks up at the top. We brought those back. I mean, we're in shorts, standing in that – I mean, it was – That's really cool. It was pretty wild. 10 mile hike. We were off the grid. I was off the grid. I mean, once – Yeah. Chase had a phone. I mean, you feel like we need to get down. I mean, we don't think we're going to be in trouble. We're on ski slopes because it's like I know everything just goes down. And so everything is –

That way. But I mean, you look around. I mean, these mountains, dude, like it's it's oh, this is where Donner Pass is. So I posted that picture. I was on Donner Pass Road when we went down there. So these are the I mean, these aren't the exact mountains, but the Donner Mountains are right there.

And so we could have went hiking on those mountains. Where the Donner Party happened? Yeah, we had to drive a little bit farther. This was easier to get to. But exactly where the Donner, I mean, the road I was on that had, where we went and ate breakfast is called Donner Pass Road. So the whole town, that's the town. So you go to Lake Tahoe, it's like 25 minutes. It's like you could, and you can go, I think you can go hike

where it's like, you know. And almost the same thing happened to you guys. Oh, we almost, yeah. We almost. What's the Donner family? The Donner party, you know, where the cannibalism, where they got locked in and they had to eat each other. Oh, oh yeah. I heard about that. Yeah. Yeah. So there, well, it's all from there. And so Lake Tahoe, it is like, you can see it though. Like, it's funny. I want to. Oh, they got trapped on the mountain and then they had to be cannibals. Oh, that's pretty scary. That's where you're walking. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, yeah, I wasn't right. I mean, there's, you know, I mean, you see, I'll be honest, you see Ritz Carlton Sun right behind me. But it's, if you dive into that picture. Five feet. We are out there, man. We are out there, dude. Don't even, you don't even know what it's like. How hard it is. But those are the ski slopes. But we were up there. But we, at one point, we go off another route.

But we lose track of the mountain. I mean, right at this point, we know where we're at. But we lose, there's points where you could end up going, where we were, we got off so sidetracked and that it was on one way that we had, we looked at his compass to be when we were like north, south. So we knew, all right, north is for, but then you're like, where's our hotel at?

And, you know, and you're like, well, we know South is, so we're like talking about which way to go. And you know, you got to go down the mountain, but it's like, you just don't know. Are we going to end up like the wrong side? Yeah. Well, yeah. That side or just end up way off where you're like, you know, you feel like you could come out and you're like, you're 20 miles from the hotel. You're on a, you're on a road, but then you're like, well, now I gotta, you know, we've got to get someone to take us.

It was great. It was pretty thrilling. That's awesome, man. We need to go do the Donner. Next time I go, I got shows in Reno. I might go do the Donner Pass. Maybe go do that. Do they have the house that they were in that you can visit? They have a little museum and stuff. But I bet you could go walk it now and you'd be like, y'all died from it. That's probably the hard part. Because look at it. You look at those mountains in the back.

They had to go over those. Right. There's not... Like now, there's a hotel there and it's like we go... It's still a hard... I mean, this is a hard, hard hike. Yeah. I mean, switched into borderline climb because we just were going straight up this mountain. So it's not easy. Yeah. And then you look at what they had to go through. I mean, it was... You just saw like...

Where the mountain went down, you go, let's try to go through that part. And they got snowed in. Feet and feet of snow. I wish I knew more about what happened to them.

How long does it take to be a cannibal? You know what I mean? Like, how long would you have to not eat before you're like, I'll eat a person? It was snowed in on a Monday. Wednesday, they were eating each other. Wow, that seems quick. Okay, as I said, that seems quick. They were up there for months, right? Yeah. Like kids. Yeah. We have people that listen to podcasts that are descendants from the Donner family. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so today we're going to talk about, let's get into, spell it, eating people, the end times and off the grid. If things go bad and we all have to go, which one of us do you think lasts the longest? Go our separate ways? Well, I just mean if things get bad, something goes down in the world and we all got to get out there and survive, be survivalists. You and I are out immediately, Brad. That's what I think. What do you think happens?

I mean, you might not make it over just a regular week. They have, you know, electricity goes out for a couple of days. I might not have made out of it. I don't have, you know, I'm not a prepper. I don't have anything. I don't have anything to last me more than a week.

At my house. I don't have a gun. Yeah. I'm worthless. If something like this happens, I'm worthless. Nobody on the block turns to me for help. I don't grow anything. I'm the anti-Dusty in a lot of ways. Dusty's been preparing for this for his whole life. Open for it.

Yeah. I mean, sometimes it does feel like, you know, like if the power grid went down and like all cell phones were out, you'd like, it'd be a real relief. Yeah. You're like, I don't have to do social media for a minute. Yeah. This is great. Do you have stuff prepped? Like you have food? Yeah, I got a couple of things. You got land, right? I got some land. Yeah. I'm working on a cabin. Yeah. You know, I got a cabin. I mean, it's like, you know, but you got to get out there. What'd you get the location? Uh,

I'm joking. He posts video. Well, I talk. I'm joking. You talk about it, but you don't get the point. You don't want to give the location. Yeah. Well, not the exact, but. Yeah. Yeah. I got some. Yeah. Yeah. I got some land out and I'm trying to build a cabin and I got, I'm growing some fruit trees. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I like the Edelman, but Menville, Tennessee. I'm sure they're going to find you. Do you not want to show this? No, this is fine. It's on YouTube. It's not a public YouTube video, but it's on. Oh, my gosh. Well, he said it to me. I thought it was. No, that's all. No, no, it is okay. Yeah, yeah.

I would do, I want to buy some land. I get the idea of. We cut that tree down. Oh, wow. Thanks. Yeah. Thanks for the update. Just keep us posted. Well, it was an old oak out there. On the old town. Mowed that grass right there. That grass is mowed. Yeah. Because that electric pole we put up. Uh,

I could see... I remember reading there was a gas station. So they sell like a truck stop. They sell Prepper magazines big time there. And I got one one time. And it's interesting. I like looking at it. I could see it. I mean, it's one of those things that seems crazy. But I would one day wouldn't mind buying some land. And you just have somewhere to go. And if you...

have some stuff stocked there. I don't know. It's just the idea. Yeah. Let's just say you went to the grocery store, right? And then there was no food in there, right? Okay. So one time you're like, this is pretty scary, but then everybody, you know, is going to the grocery store and there's no food in there. How long before everyone flips out? Yeah. Not long. Not long. They did. I've done it over the toilet paper and well, baby formula right now, right now, baby formula, but it's, it's yeah. So like wouldn't take much. And

And so I get it. I get like wrapping your head around, like having something that's like you can go to and, you know, and then you go. And then like everybody's an alcoholic, right? So the liquor stores are empty. Now nobody could get, and then like pills. I mean, it's chaos out here. Yeah. You think it would just snowball? Yeah. I think people would be killing each other quick.

Yeah, it would. Yeah, it would. Yeah. Like how quick? Like Monday and then a Wednesday. Yeah, that's what. Yeah, it would. Yeah, it would get real. It is scary because it's like you're relying on so many other people. Yeah. And so if it goes down, well, you know, the people at the top are going to be fine.

Because they have somewhere to go. And then the rest, though, you're like, yeah, no one's going to be looking out for you. No, it's just a free-for-all down here. So I read where over 50% of the executives at Silicon Valley have bought, stole away, returned.

retreat if things go bad. And New Zealand is the hot place to go. So much so that New Zealand had to pass a law that you can't buy land there unless you're a native New Zealander. Oh, really? Because it was like the wink wink, hey, I'm looking for a house in New Zealand, meaning I want to get off the grid. And all these billionaires were buying up all the land there in New Zealand. They say it's a good place because it's... I mean...

It's probably safer than North America or Europe as far as being attacked. Yeah. They still speak English. It's its own island. It's beautiful there. So that's where all the rich people are escaping. They have planes. Well, what can you really grow there? Can you grow... I mean, is there enough land to grow stuff? I don't know what's going on down there. Yeah, it's a real country. And...

Yeah, it's not small. But how big? You know, I don't know what's going on down there. Size of Old Hickory Lake. It's pretty big. They don't have snakes. It's a farmland. No snakes. No snakes? Yeah. Wow. It's crazy. Yeah.

So that's kind of like the hot place to go. But I mean, do you have a way to grow food and such? Well, I'm learning to grow food. It's like I grew peppers and tomatoes and cucumbers last year, like abundance. And now I can't grow them this year. I don't know what's happening. So I'm like learning to grow things. But I went out there, I got a big dirt mound.

out on the land and i just started putting squash and watermelon in there did nothing to it and it's growing oh really whoa wow so that's good yeah but will you have electricity i will have electricity i'm not trying to live off the grid but i am trying to like prepare a spot just in case you know that's what i that's what i think i would i mean i would prepare a spot

You know, I looked up, there's off-the-grid stuff. People can build underground homes. You can have these underground things. I mean, and they get so, and they can be $10 million. And you can have it where it's like a five, six-bedroom thing.

Under, like, under. Under, like, your current house or just under somewhere? No, just under somewhere. Like, you could have it, like, if there was a nuclear attack or there was something. I mean, some of it could be, like, tornado shelters. Like, you could go down and you just... You know, some are small, and it's like you just sit around. But, I mean, it gets crazy. I mean, they can build... You could... I mean, they have, like, where you could...

You grow food in there. You have like all this kind of stuff. Somebody said Kid Rock had something like that, like a trailer and then an underground house under the trailer. Is that true? I don't know. Does anybody know that? I don't know. I don't know, but I read where underground bunkers are up 300% in sales even since the war in Ukraine happened. Yeah, I mean, it would be... I'd want to see what the sales were before. Yeah. There's one and there's all three. There's three. Yeah.

But there's enough happening that you're like, I don't think you can make fun of someone that thinks about it. You'd be like, I don't know, dude. If you entertain the thought of just being like, yeah, I might. Just when you start thinking about how much you rely on people, on other people that don't care about you. Yeah.

you get a little like, oh, that's crazy. Well, even the idea that prepper comes from being prepared. Yeah. Right. Like making fun of being prepared. Yeah. Right. It's Boy Scouts. Well, it's like if you go do all this, though, and nothing happens. But if you do something like what you're doing, like you get some land, you could do that kind of stuff where you're like, you could go out there just to get away. But then also I have that for when it goes down. Yeah.

Yeah, it's a whole... Press a button, everything locks down. We start just firing guns at people. Yeah, it's a whole retreat. Yeah, and if it goes down, we go out there. Yeah, we just start shooting for no reason. Yeah. Just to let people know what's going on. Yeah. There was that show Doomsday Preppers on National Geographic. It was the most popular show they ever had. But real preppers say it's the worst thing that could happen to them because it was just a bunch of crazy people. Yeah. And now everyone, they think crazy, but...

I had a friend on that show. Oh, really? Yeah. You met him through the show? No, he lived in Charleston. He did comedy and he was a prepper of sorts. And he wasn't a real prepper though. He was Duke, but he got on the show. Yeah. And then I introduced him onto the stage for his comedy segment of the show. Oh, really? So I'm on Doomsday Prepper a little bit for a second. I love that you're just in the world of that.

Like you just somehow get on. Well, it's like you buy one thing and then you get a targeted ad and you're like, oh, well, I do need that. Yeah. I don't want to get caught out here without a. You got a bug out bag. Axe slash shovel. Do people get ads from like stuff that we say on their phones? They say they do. Oh, really? People all the time send us stuff like, I never got this until I watched her. But now this week, everyone was like, I got this GIF recall. Like, you can't blame that on us. That's just in the news. Yeah. Yeah.

I wonder, that'd be funny. I mean, people, these are just regular people that might be like, you know, a lot of them are regular people that are like, I don't want a Prepper ad. Oh, yeah. I wonder if they're going to see the ad difference between when Dusty came on board to...

It goes from like some fun, silly stuff to just some real, just like what to do if a guy comes at you with an ax and you've got your back against the wall. And you're like, well, why am I? I don't need to know that. Dusty's, I don't know. Can I mention your other podcast? Oh, yeah, sure. I don't, I mean, yeah. Dusty's own podcast. Are you still doing it? Yeah, I still do it. It gets a little inconsistent, but I still do it.

He'll do it. But he'll have some funny stuff on there that he'll say, because it's just him, let me pull up this and tell you about it. And then he'll say, my Wi-Fi is terrible. But I'm glad it's terrible because they're listening to our thoughts. Okay, here it is right here. And then he'll just keep on going. And it's just so funny.

That's true. Well, the Wi-Fi is wild, right? If you think about this idea that you get anything you want to your screen, right? Anything you want pulls up. But where's that coming from, right? It's just floating around in the air. Is it going through our bodies? And what is that? I think they make it not go through our bodies. I mean... I think they ask the Wi-Fi and they go, don't go through anybody's body. Well, I hope so. Yeah. I was talking to a guy who knows a lot about this kind of stuff. He's a professional hack.

And he said, I'll tell you the first thing I do is I never use Wi-Fi. Oh, really? I never use it. He says, it's just not safe. Yeah. Much less a public Wi-Fi like at an airport, but even at home. Safe for hacking? It's just you're so vulnerable on a Wi-Fi network. He says, I hardwire everything. And once you see what people can do,

And you're like, he's just so nervous about it. He only hardwires everything. It was pretty alarming. And I thought about that for about a week. And then I just went back to using Wi-Fi. Hardwire is better, right? Isn't it? It is. It's more secure and it's faster. And I actually, in the middle of COVID, I bought like a 700-foot Ethernet cable.

And I taped it down with gaffer's tape on my house. And I have it running from my router downstairs into the basement. So my computer's hooked up, but we still use the Wi-Fi on our phone and everything. Everybody prepares in their own way. You're ready for Wi-Fi or whatever. I'm trying to eat. You know what I mean? I'm trying to eat too, man. Let's not get that wrong. I mean, when I check into a hotel, I mean, as soon as it pops Ramadi at click, I don't think it'd be anybody. I'm like, yep, that's it.

I don't use it. I take it off. I'd rather use my cell signal in a lot of... Just because sometimes the Wi-Fi just... I mean, it'll shut your phone down. Yeah. It attaches, and then you're like, now you can't even use your phone. It's getting onto someone's weird wife. You used to tell me about people hacking into...

like the navigation system on a car. And you know, these newer cars have automatic parallel parking and stuff, which basically means you can control how the car drives through its, like the hard drive on it or whatever. And people can hack into those and just drive cars off cliffs. Oh, really? Yeah. It's very scary when you think about it all, you know? That's why. They,

Theoretically. Yeah, theoretically. No one's done that. I think people have done it. Oh, really? There was 128 deaths in 2016 from cars off the cliff. But it is a real security concern is that if you're on board, if it can control how the wheels move and the steering wheel...

I mean, yeah, a bad actor could hop in there and just kind of wait till you're on a bridge. Yeah. Vin Diesel drive you off. Yeah. I don't get that. Like a bad actor. I don't know. I don't know what that means either. It was like too far after I said that. But I don't know what you mean by bad actor. He's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah.

I like Vin Diesel. You don't have an ally on this, Brian. This is a Vin Diesel podcast. I stole that from Mark and Unson. He has a joke about Vin Diesel being a bad character. There's a doomsday clock that the scientists have been doing since, I think, World War II, where they count down, based on what's going on in the world, how close we are to midnight, which is doomsday. We're now closer than we've ever been, I believe. Yeah.

Well, that would make sense if they started the... It's 100 seconds to midnight? Yeah. They... We're always a bit closer. Yeah. You know what I mean? Well, the clock doesn't work like a traditional clock. It can go backwards. There's been times of peace where it's actually...

Went backwards, but... What's the farthest back it's been? Let me see here. I think it went back to 14 minutes to midnight. Like, they don't start it... We've never been less than an hour. In 1991, it's 17 minutes till midnight. I think that's the furthest back. Well, I don't even... 2020, they moved it up to... I got that wrong. It's pretty alarming to pull up a website that says, at Doom's doorstep. Yeah, I know. Like, where? Well, that doesn't...

I don't believe it. 100 seconds. That makes me furious. That doesn't even make... A, you want to go like, we've never been... So you're like, we started the clock and once we invented this clock, we were at 17... It's almost midnight. It's always been almost midnight. Yeah. It's only been bad news. And it's something that's only bad news. I'm not saying we could be... Who knows what's going to happen? But it's the idea that you're...

They don't, scientists don't know. Right. That's the point of science is that you don't know and you're like, well, we're 100 seconds. You're like, stuff goes good. You're like, oh, we're back to whatever. I'm at 100 seconds? They're basing it on climate change. What is a second? Like if you can move the time back, it's like, what does any of it even mean? Is 100 seconds 100 years? We won't make it to this podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's very arbitrary, but yeah. The good news is we're central time. Yeah. Yeah.

So we have about an hour. Well, there's a bunch of different time zones. So what if these questions, you go, which time zone is this in? And they're like, oh, you know, whatever your, it doesn't matter. It's like a general thing. I go, well, we have a pretty different time zone.

Y'all may be taking it a little too literal as far as the clock, but it's supposed to show just how when things go bad, we're getting closer to the end times. Stuff like that. I mean, that's crazy. I think it's... Yeah, see, I don't like... I mean, yeah, even I don't. I never heard of the doomsday clock. Yeah. I get that it's fun.

I don't know if that's their intent. We put up this fun tool at Doom's doorstep. It's a laugh a minute. Could you look at the FAQs? Guys, we are at 100 seconds to minute, and you're like, what are you talking about? The climate change stuff is always so boring to me, too. They're like, the weather's going to get us. You know what I mean? And I'm like, all right, well, if we've destroyed the climate so much that it's about to kill us, what are we about to do now to fix it?

Well, I'll tell you what we're going to do. Okay. We've got a global seed vault in Norway where we're storing all the world seeds in this underground... I got a few of them. ...bunker vault in Norway. Okay.

It's the farthest north you can fly on a commercial airline, and they have 930,000 varieties of food crops. So if things ever go bad, we could replenish the earth with these seeds from all over the world. All right. Yeah, as long as that place is okay. Yeah. Yeah. So they found the place they thought was the safest to store it. Okay. Who gets them?

Norway. They paid for the... Oh, Norway did it? Norway paid for this seed vault and people all over the world brought them in. So who gets the seeds, though, if it all goes south? Who owns these seeds? Probably Norway, I'm guessing. It's the world government, is what it sounds like.

Oh, boy. Well, that's another topic for another episode. Yeah. Seems right on. We trust Norway. The world ends and we trust Norway to handle this. I mean, what have they done ever? Yeah.

They did a seed vault. Yeah. They're thinking ahead. Pretty good. Well, what could happen that then is like, everything's destroyed, but now we're good to plant seeds again? Well, like if a meteor hits the world or something and we've got the...

world goes cold for or pot or whatever it is for hundreds of thousands of years and they can yeah it's prepping it's no different than if you're you're prepping can go as good as it goes but if you get a meteor that hits your house and you're prepping was pointless right so it's like i think it's at least the option well okay that's not a climate change prepping though because that's my thing if the weather got so bad that you couldn't grow crops how good are the seeds gonna do you

Well, I think they're, they inside, I guess you would just have to like fake it. Get some halogen lights. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And stuff like that. They do that now. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a, some scientists proposing a sperm bank on the moon.

So it's like a Noah's Ark. I want like that job. How high do you have to get to then you can start just saying like, and look, and you got to look, you probably do really have to exhaust all this stuff. I get it. But like, what do you get to be that level that someone, they don't ask you to leave. Like they would make, you know, it'd be like, it's okay. Like there's, I watched a moonfall. It was another, it was, uh,

It's just like the moon falls on us. Who's in it? I don't know. I mean, it's a new one. Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson. Yeah, it's that Roland Emmerich. Emmerich. He's fun. And his movies are just kind of like crazy. It's a very, you know, it's just a fun, mindless movie. But like the guy that's...

doing it, he said the moon, I don't know, he figures out something, the moon's coming on us. But it's a guy that no one believes.

And it ends up being a guy that ends up being, well, he's the one that actually figured all this out. So that's the thing that's always kind of crazy to me. I don't remember what I was saying at the beginning, but it's always going to be someone outside, not inside, that thinks of it. And so it's like, when do you listen? Because if you have someone outside that said, what if we do this on the moon? And they're going to be, they put the guy in jail. Yeah.

And then you have a scientist that goes, what do you do with the moon? They go, this guy's brilliant. You're like, what's the, you know, how do you get to that job? You got to earn it, I guess. That's where you get the conspiracy. You got to have tenure. Yeah. That's where you get the conspiracy part of people. Because they're like, well, they just stay on their side doing like, we'll figure this stuff out. But a lot of the stuff sometimes ends up being like, if someone said, Dusty said we should put a sperm bank on the moon, you'd be like, well, Dusty's a lunatic. Yes. Yeah.

But you're right. If you have a degree, a few degrees, that's great. If you went to college, I'd be like, well, he's a smart guy. I still would be like, Dusty, I'd love to hear your explanation for this. Yeah, I mean, I wish I had thought of it. Yeah. Sperm bank on the moon. What for? What do they do? Well, again, if the world's destroyed. Are you really asking what for? Yeah, why the moon? Oh, if the world ends? Oh, I think, why is the sperm bank on, you know, like, I think, what do you mean what for? You know.

How far back do we need to go here, Aaron? No, I'm good. Are they putting eggs up there too or just? Yeah. You'd hope they have some fertilized eggs up there. Yep. He's got a bunch of sperm up there and then you're like, oh, we forgot the eggs. The ladies will make it. The loudest dead gummit you ever heard. Gummit. Why did I think about this? Again, if a meteor hits the earth and everything's destroyed. Yeah.

We've got to have some people living on the moon. I hope the moon doesn't fall on us with the sperm bank on it. You know what I mean? That could be part two of Moonfall. What is this? But they've got 6.7, or proposing, million different samples of creatures, including humans, that they want to put in this Noah's Ark, basically on the moon.

And this scientist said that Indonesia's Mount Toba erupted 75,000 years ago, and it caused a 100,000-year cooling period where a lot of species died. So he's like, it could happen again. Other volcanoes. Yeah. Yeah, there was a volcano. We saw Mount Rainier. I had to fly out of Seattle.

And so Mount Rainier, we saw like it's, and I know the joke about it, but like when you see it from the airport, it's so big. It's massive. It's like you see it and then there's clouds and then you see it. Yeah. And you're like, that's so crazy. And, uh, but our driver was telling us like they had a volcano exploded there in 1980 and like, not in Seattle, Mount Rainier, but in Mount St. Helens. Mount St. Helens. Yeah. And like, uh,

And that was 1980. And you're like, there's a lot of volcanoes, dude. It's crazy that none of them are, you know. Erupting? Yeah. I mean, you're hearing about them some, but you're, I mean, man, there's some that you're like, dude, if they erupt, they said they found ashes in Boston from Mount St. Helens. Wow. So it's like if one of those go, you're like. Yeah, the volcano is terrifying. Yeah.

Well, I think there's a prediction that Yellowstone one's going to erupt this year, right? Yeah. Yellowstone has a super volcano under it where it's, it's, I mean, here's a map of what would happen if it exploded the kill zone. I mean, it takes out Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, most of Utah, like right away.

That's crazy. And then it just messes up the rest of the country. And they think it would cause like a nuclear winter, right? In the way that a nuclear attack would. Or it blocks out the sun. Crops don't grow. Seems to knock out a few of the loony bins in there too. Yeah. All right, let's hear it out. Let's hear it.

It's not all bad. So if you were in the kill zone, is it just because you die immediately or you die like it's like the lava that she gets to you or you can't breathe? It's also massive earthquakes, right? It's just total chaos there. And yeah, just the lava or whatever comes out of it.

But it's like, I wonder if you're towards the end of the kill zone, do you have time to get out of it? Like if you're in secondary ash zone. If you're right on the cusp. Well, primary ash zone is like, you're probably, you're fine. You get a good view. A lot of comics moving to Tennessee. Yeah. Zany's is going to be tougher to get on those shows. Yeah, that's wild. And the scary thing about this, the Yellowstone super volcano is everything I've read about it, they're like, yeah, we're pretty due for it to...

Like, it's about time. But that, you know, it's funny that, now this is coming from my driver, but he was like, we were saying that he's like, everybody's due for everything. Everything's due. Everything's always due. Yeah. And so they've been, you know, when you hear that they've been due for it since the 80s and not saying that you're not, we're due for everything. So it's like, you got to go like, all right, well, you know, it's, I don't know. You can't just go live life scared because you're like,

They were due in the 80s. When that Mount St. Helen exploded too, the guy told a story about there's a guy that lived on the side, a cabin in the mountain.

And so they had enough warning that they told everybody, just get out. Oh, they knew it was about to erupt? Yeah. And I think, I want to say 56 people ended up dying. But it was almost like the people that died were, you had the warning. Everybody was telling you to get out. They knew every, you know. And one guy, his name was Truman. And he had a cabin on the mountain. And he goes, I'm going to stay.

And they're like, well, you got to, you're going to die. And he goes, I've been, I've been on this mountain for a long time, dude. He goes, I'm going to go down with it if it goes. Wow. And then he, and then he died. True man. Yeah. They, I like, it's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of crazy. Yeah. I don't know. I was thinking, I was like, I don't know if they would let, let you do that now.

You know, they'd haul you off, be institutionalized. Yeah. Yeah. And a hazmat suit shows up, kills your pet. 1980 to go, have a good day. Yeah. He was old. He's like old. He's like, I mean, he's like, you know. I get that when my, I have family that lives on the water of the Gulf Coast and they would get, every time a hurricane would come, they'd go, we're not leaving. Yeah. Can they make you leave now? I don't know if they can do forced evacuations. Not in that way. I mean, I mean.

Maybe they can, but they just wouldn't leave ever. They're like, we're just going to ride it out. We've been through hurricanes before. Whatever. Yeah. This is where we live. I'm not going to leave my house. I like that they're standing up to hurricanes like it's standing up to –

Like, you know, something natural. It's not like it's standing up to some mean guys or something. It's like, well, it's a hurricane. And you go, man, I'm tired of these hurricanes coming and ruining my town. I'm not going to be pushed around by these hurricanes anymore. We're all going to stand up for them, I'll tell you that. Next time one comes through, we should all go down there. You ain't welcome to your hurricane.

Have you guys seen the movie Don't Look Up? Yes. Not yet. I've seen some of it. Yeah, I saw it. Well, at the end, the super rich... Are you... I mean, are you ruining... Every movie I mention, like, don't mention... Well, that's a pretty new one that's out on Netflix. It's only been out a month or two. It's already gone through an award cycle, you know? Yeah, but I was going to watch it. All right. All right. What is it? Oh, They Look Up at the end. Yeah. I was going to...

All right, let me rephrase the question. If something terrible went down, do you think the super rich, the Illuminati, would have a way to get out of here? They're already gone. Yeah, dude, the Denver airport underneath. Oh, man. Yeah, they would have... They did in Moonfall. Wait, yeah.

Was it Moonfall? Don't look up. No. It was... Yeah, in Moonfall, they all go somewhere. They all have this... They all fly and go to this... I think it's Moonfall. It's one of his movies. And they all go to this... They receive generally negative reviews. I love it.

I mean, I thought it was super fun. What about Elysium? Or something like that with Matt Damon where he's like wearing the robot suit or whatever and the earth is destroyed and all the rich live up in a... What is it? Elysium. Oh, I never saw that. I watched that. Is it good? Yeah, it's pretty good. I mean, it probably bombed too, but it's pretty good. Yeah, it's fun. What's up with Matt Damon? All he's living somewhere where you gotta go rescue him.

Did you say Matt Damon? Yeah. The Martian and Interstellar. The Martian. You know the Martian won Best Comedy or something? It was nominated. Yeah. Golden Globe. Golden Globe's comedy slash musical. It had some funny moments in it. Yeah. So some of the suggestions they gave, like if war broke out or somebody tried to overtake us, one, LASIK eye surgery. Because when you're living off the grid, you can't be depending on people, contacts, or glasses. Interesting. I have LASIK.

Yeah. Some good one day. I'll stick with the glasses. Yeah. Why is that? You don't... I don't want people digging around in my eyes. I mean, I know that a lot of people have success with it, but I don't like it. Well, I'm saying you should do it now before it gets evil. Yeah. So you want to do it now where it's still very politely done versus you do it later when it's evilly done. Yeah. So... Dig it around. Yeah. I did it 10 years ago. It's awesome. Yeah. And...

Does it stay forever or does it go away? It's supposed to. Yeah. Oh, I thought it went away. No. You might eventually need readers or something like that. Yeah. But right now, I don't. I mean, I think I have 20, I have 2015 vision. Wow. Maybe I could, there's a couple times now I could see like stuff's a little bit harder for me to see, but I don't know. Some of it could be a mix of, you know, but I don't think I'll ever need glasses besides readers. You like don't care enough at this point. Something a little blurry, like I don't even care. No, I mean, I can see.

I mean, last time I went to the doctor, I was like 2015. And so, I mean, I probably do to go to eye doctor again. But it's, yeah, I was like, yeah, I mean, it's pretty good. And then as the age, you know, you just have trouble reading something. I don't have trouble looking at something on someone's phone. Like, I have a lot of friends that are like, you know, Lark does and

Try it. I'll hand on my phone and they're like, whoa, whoa. You're not allowed to hand it to them within a 30-feet radius because they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. They got to hold it back. You're talking about, dude, Nick Novicki on his phone. Well, Nick's the best. Nick goes. If you ever see Nick Novicki on his phone, he just goes. That's not an exaggeration. Is he legally blind?

Yeah, he had some eye stuff. Not legally, but he's close. He has some eye stuff. Yeah, I knew a guy. We used to wait tables together, and he would get so close to the screen to put in the order. Yeah. I was like, jeez, dude. I know you got a thing going on, but we're in a hurry. Yeah, we got to go. Yeah, yeah. Another thing they suggest, especially with a big city, have a motorcycle.

Because when there's gridlock and everybody's trying to get out of town, you need a motorcycle to get off the street. Have an electric bike. Yeah. Yeah, electric bike. Better have a gun, too, if you're on that motorcycle. Just to get your whole family out of town with a motorcycle. You're like, see you guys. Give them those little things on the side. That's about it. Well, you have a helicopter. I mean, Burr talked about it in his act. He's got his helicopter license. It's basically just so you can go up. Straight up and out. Straight up and out. It's got to be able to own a helicopter. Yeah.

Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, but I mean, if you look, if your priorities can be whatever your priorities are going to be. I mean, I don't know how much helicopters. I'm sure they're very expensive, but I'm sure you can find a helicopter that I don't know. You know, this was your like life. Yeah. You could find someone that's not a millionaire. That's like, well, I got a helicopter. You know, he saved up. He saved up. He figured out some way to get what he needed, what he needed to get out. If he's true, you know.

So out in New Mexico, they're building these things called earth ships and it's basically recycled material, like old tires and stuff like that. It's a hundred percent off the grid. Don't need, I think they have solar panels and you have to build a water system, but our friend, comedian friend, Chad Ryden has bought one.

Or he's bought land. He's moving to New Mexico in a couple weeks, and he's building an Earthship. Oh, really? To live off the grid. Wow. Yeah. Wasn't he just railing about all that stuff? Yeah. So this is an Earthship.

And this is the... I swore he was making fun of me about stuff like that long ago. Well, it's because you weren't going far enough. Yeah. You're staying in McMinnville. So they're selling these as... Well, you buy land and then you have to build it. Yeah. So he's looking for help now to build it. I think he's gone out there and helped others build their ship. Yeah.

Yeah. He bought land from a woman, I believe, who sold pot. Pot's illegal out there. So she made her money off selling pot. And now he's bought some land and he's going to build an earth ship. Wow. He's going to live in New Mexico in the desert. And the idea is they're fully self-sufficient out there. Yep. Solar powered, I'm guessing. Yep. Got to build some type of cistern for clean water and stuff like that. And then there's no... So your phone, that stuff is gone. I mean, I guess you could still use your phone. Yeah. Yeah.

But if everything went down, it's almost like you would just lose cell service. Yeah, and that's about it. And that's about it. You'd be able to do everything else. Yeah, the rest is self-powered. I get the appeal of it, man. Yeah. I truly get the appeal of... Would you even know, though, if it went down? If you're living out in an Earth ship and everything collapses, do you even know? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, that everything collapsed. Well, maybe when you see the people running towards your earth. Like Noah's Ark. Yeah. Hey, it was a good idea, Chad. I'm sorry I made fun of you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I like that he's doing it. Yeah. I definitely love that. And then, but it's like, that's the only thing that made me nervous is like, you're doing something that everybody knows about. So it's like, you'd be able to say, go build an earth ship, but go do it and don't tell anybody where it's at. Yeah. But,

Yeah. Yeah. I like it. I think he wants to build like a comedy commune where comedians can come hang out, do some shows. Yeah. All of it. I'll be, yeah, I'm going to Albuquerque next year. In the fall. Chad, so I'll come see your earth ship. I've driven across New Mexico and like for hours not seeing another person. Yeah. I mean, it's- It's out there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, Breaking Bad. Drew Goddard, who wrote Martians from New Mexico. Oh, really? That's probably where they film a lot of the Mars footage. Yeah. Yeah. He wrote it? Yeah. The guy wrote a book about it, then he wrote. Yeah, he directed it. I don't think he directed it. I think he... Oh, he did the screenplay. Yeah, the screenplay. Yeah. Yeah.

So the Arctic World Archives, another place where they're storing all of our information in case things go down. Also in Norway, very close to the Global Seed Vault. Putting a lot of stuff in Norway. We're really banking on Norway to keep it together, huh? I just think it's the best climate, they think. Nothing to do with it. What's their climate there? Cold. But then it's in a vault that's also...

cold. But if electricity goes out, it's not going to immediately just ruin. Right. Because it's so cold. But we trust them more than we trust Canada. I think it's a world problem. I think it's not a...

Yeah. It's not like China or Russia or something. It's Norway. They just kind of leave everybody alone, right? Norwegians are good people. I'm not saying they're not. And I think it's literally the best place to live. If a meteor hits Earth, I think everybody's wars will probably calm down. Well, you'd hope so. I think you would just be like, well, we all got to survive. You know what I mean? Then Norway's got all the power.

So if something goes down, they have all the power. But I guess we would go tackle them. Yeah, immediately. You know what? Yeah, me. But there's only one flight out there. Right, right. You better go and book that ticket. You just got to book it every day. Just be like, dang, I wish I didn't build an Earth ship. Yeah. I think they're putting this on film, like a little digital film, like paintings and plans and stuff like that. It's almost like...

If everything went bad and years from now someone came visit our planet, they could look and see what we did and could recreate it. Oh, that's nice. It's not like a literal painting of the Mona Lisa stored in there and things like that. It's a little scrapbook of our time here on Earth. Yeah. So they can do...

And we just asked, could you mind doing that? We're gone. Yeah. Recreate all this. You mind just doing exactly what we had? Cause obviously it worked out for us. Yeah. Yeah. Here's what we were doing that we thought worked. And you're like, yeah, we'll go do our own thing, man. We're a new earth now. We're just, just,

Start over. Yeah. Well, with those spaceships, the Saturn 1 and 2 we talked about, we sent out. They've got records and all kinds of stuff on them. Yeah. They've left our solar system. Do you know about them, Dusty? I don't know about them. What is it? Saturn 1 and Saturn 2, I think. Or is it Voyager 1 and 2? Voyager 1 and 2. We sent these probes out. We just kind of shot them out into the universe. All right. The thinking. Yeah.

What the thinking is, eventually, I mean, eventually, they'll run into something, right? Oh, yeah. So we loaded it up with the best of humanity. We loaded it up with a record of sounds of a baby laughing, of running water. We put some math books in there. We put, I think, a little...

Johnny B. Goode, who sings that? Chuck Berry? Chuck Berry on a record. Send it out there and the aliens are going to find it one day and discover who we are from these records. It's called the Golden Record. What do you think about that? Well, I like the record. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, I don't know. You know what I mean? They're always shooting a probe out and there's things apparently rolling around on Mars. I don't know. You know what I mean? They found a cave on Mars.

Yep. I mean, they were like trying to get gas to go down and they're like, well, we got a thing out on Mars. Yeah, that is a gas price. Gas prices are like, that's all right. We got to find a basketball hoop on Mars.

They keep bringing up dumb stuff. You're like, God, dude, I can't get any baby for me. Oh, yeah, well, Jupiter has, they do pickleball up there. It's the most popular sport. Yeah, and you're like, on Jupiter? It's enough to get you. They do pickleballs on Jupiter. That's where we got it from. Yeah, it's so bad now they're trying to be like, oh, there's aliens, guys. Apparently they did a whole thing on it and no one watched it. No one cared that there were aliens. Who put it up? I don't know, the news?

Are you talking about recently? Yeah. Like last week. Yeah. They're basically coming clean. They're just like, yeah, they're here. That was a congressional hearing. Yeah. First time in 50 years. Anything to get us to not. No, I think that's about, did it already happen or is it about to happen? It happened last week, but they said basically nothing. Yeah, that's because they don't say anything. Yeah. The good stuff was classified, they said. Yeah.

Now, of course. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So food prices, some people argue it's going up because these food storage plants are all being destroyed. Yeah. You know about this? Yeah. I think I've seen it. You know that, Dusty? Yeah. I mean, there seems to be a lot of accidents happening. Yeah.

Now, Snopes is debunked as being anything but just your average accident. But a lot of people think there's something undermining that something bad is going to go down. Snopes is a little suspect, too. The year of the accident. Yeah, it's like a lot of stuff. They've all had fires or airplanes crashed into them. It's just a bunch of weird stuff. How many of them? Two dozen, I think. Yeah. That's a lot. 24 of them. That's a trend. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, Snopes is sketchy. They're like, oh, listen, guys, that's all fake. Yeah, we looked into it. Who are you? We're a website. That guy right there, that's the hearing last week on Alien, Scott Bray, that guy right there, I'm friends with him. Really? On Facebook, he and his wife share, they're one of these that share a Facebook page, but his wife and I graduated high school together, and we were friends. Oh, wow.

Oh, wow. And now he's the deputy director of naval intelligence? Yeah, I had no idea what he did in D.C. She was always super smart, but apparently... He was the spokesperson last week for these UFOs. Well, get the scope. How's Scott doing? Yeah. Huh? Did you ask her that? How's Scott doing? Yeah. He's doing all right. Yeah. Yeah. Get him on the pod about aliens. Yeah. He knows about aliens. That or the guy that got his legs bitten off by a shark.

Well, I feel like it was episode two of this pod. We talked about that documentary about Unsolved Mysteries. Do you always say pod? I do when I'm using it, in the context in which I was using it earlier. You don't like that either. I don't like that. Do we call it the cast? Okay, that's okay. No. Maybe the podcast. How do you feel about sewed instead of episode? That's crazy. That was a good sewed. That's crazy. You don't like that? The epi?

How busy is your schedule that you can't? What do you have going on? It's not a question of time. It kind of is. It's a colloquialism. It sounds nice. It was fun. It was a great Sode. It was a great Sode. People say app a lot. I don't care for that as much.

so is fun to me. It's, but it, but it's also like, why are, why is it like changing? Why is everything changing to be, uh, just quicker? Like it, you know, it's, I don't know. It's just being different to be different is what I, how I look at it. That thing that that's what I have a problem with it. So if it's like, uh, it pod, I could kind of, I get, you know,

It's, I was just feeling, you say what it is. If, if I feel like I'm trying something, that's what I have a problem with. So if I think, if I said you watch that ep, like I think you would know that I am. You dropped off so quick. Watch that ep. Yep. Yeah. About four eps in. Like, I don't believe the person saying that is doing it authentically. I think it's like, you're doing it.

It's just not. I almost understand kids doing it because there's almost this kind of authenticity because they're all learning how to. Like children. Okay. They're learning how to talk. So it's like when I see an adult do it, you go, that's not, you weren't a kid when that happened.

Okay. So don't, you can't just go back and make up. Like, like what if your dad calls you and goes, I'm watching this new Netflix show. How many soads are you in? That would be weird. I would call the hospital. Yeah.

But it's all about context. Sometimes you're just having a conversation with a friend. You're just being a little silly, being a little goofy, having a little fun. You go, ah, it's a great Sode. Well, when you're hanging out with your other 28-year-olds, 30-year-olds, then yeah, you guys, y'all are probably all doing that kind of stuff. Okay. What should I call it? Stories or programs? Yeah. I would like to be old cats. Yeah. I would like to be old cats. We watch our stories. Yeah. Yeah.

There's been a few end of the world predictions that, surprise, did not work out. The 2012 Mayan calendar, a lot of people thought that that was going to be the end of the world. I like that one. Some people think that they have some theories that they think the world did end. Yeah. That's why we wrote you on this podcast. We're just living in the aftermath now. Oh, really? And things have changed. I quit drinking in 2012. That's it. You know what I mean? It's the end of the world.

It ended for me. And now it's something I've heard people say that. And some people say that there is a shift, like something's wrong with our calendar and that we're like eight years off. So that actually 2020 was the Mayan calendar 2012. Yeah. And that it ended then.

And so it ended. So right now, nothing matters. Well, it's like at least the way we knew it, it ended. I mean, like 2020 was a wild time. I'm not saying it's real, but some people say that. Like it's just a different, like we're just at a different thing. It is crazy how different like 80s and 90s and even 2000s. Like if you think back, you're like, it was so much easier. Yeah.

But stuff is easy now. I mean, look, you got a podcast. Bates is basically famous. Never could have happened in the 90s. I mean, if it wasn't for this. And he worked for a TV station in the 90s. It was still never. 20 years, no one knew. Never on the table. Technology alone, he's out here. He does cameo. Yeah.

I did. I had a, it's in a couple of months ago where my flight was so delayed getting out because of snow. I got stuck in Atlanta and I had to stay, spend the night in Atlanta airport. So I just found a, one of the gates that was just empty and just went and slept on the floor there. And it was a Southwest terminal and I was sleeping pretty good.

And I just finally wake up and I kind of hear some stuff. And they had lined up Southwest for the flight. Oh, man. And they were above me. Oh, no. B31 through 60 was right over top of me. And I just got my coat over me like a... And I just had to get up. Excuse me. Excuse me. Compose myself and move to another gate that was empty because... You just went back to sleep? I found another empty gate. Yeah. Yeah.

What time was that? That was like the earliest. That was like 6 a.m., but I'd been up all night, so I was just trying to lay back down. I memorized the greeting from the Atlanta mayor because I heard it so many times that night that I had it down in memory. But I say that to say... What is it? Well, I don't know now, but he's like, welcome to Atlanta, whether you're a native...

uh atlantean or visiting whatever come see you know i don't know i can't remember the rest of it but at the time i had it but ruth at the time ruth said i knew a lot of stuff at the time well yeah that's my point ruth said uh if you want a cameo from brian you can pay money and go do it or just go to the atlanta airport and find a homeless guy laying on the ground and go up to him

So when you lay down at the gate, I mean, you lay next to the...

You didn't look at the surroundings? I got up as close to the glass, the window. I know, but where they line up is as close to the glass and the window. So you didn't see the number thing that was all there? Well, I thought I was pretty far down, but that line was pretty long. Yeah. There was a couple other people that were sleeping. They already had their corners, so I just had to grab a spot. Were you staying in your exact spot?

No. You were at a different gate. Yeah. I found an empty one at the time. But people were already in the quarters. It would be something if that were your spot, though. You just woke up and stood up and like, all right, I'm in line. Walked right on the plane. If I'd have found like B-32 and just laid right there, got my spot. Yeah.

Yeah, I got to my hotel that night and it got there so late they'd given away my room and it was completely full. And I was walking in the middle of the night with my bags in a bad part of Atlanta walking

hotel to hotel and they were all full and it was pouring down on your phone you went you just knocked on all the hotel doors excuse me you have vacancy good sir good sir any room in the end for a weary traveler did that's brutal so wait you checked in so late

Why did you, because your flight was... It took my flight so long to get out of Nashville because of snow. Yeah. That when we finally got there, it was after midnight and they had... So you're walking around Atlanta. Yeah, then were you on a layover? It was, yes. I was just going to, I thought if I, there was snow in Nashville, if I could get to my first leg, Atlanta, then I could get out the next morning because I had an early flight. So...

So I went ahead and went to Atlanta. So you booked a hotel in Atlanta. Last minute, when I finally realized our flight was getting out of Nashville, I just went on and grabbed a cheap hotel near the airport. And then when I got there, we got there so late that they had given away. And then they're like, we're completely full. And then that was like a remod. And then there's a Red Roof Inn next door. I walked over there. They're full.

There's a- You're lucky to be alive. Microtel. I know. Then I thought, I'm just going to go to that wall. It's raining now. It's snowing in Nashville, but it's just raining in Atlanta. And I'm just out there at 4 a.m. With suitcases. Yeah, with suitcases. I thought, I'm just going to go to that Waffle House, dry off, and try to figure something out. I go over there. Because of COVID, they won't let you in. You just got to order at the window. So I'm just stuck. So I finally just called an Uber and said, take me back to Atlanta Airport.

Rejected by the Waffle House. Called an Uber and said, do you mind just driving around for about five, six hours? And they just crashed in the back. So I could sleep in the back seat. But yeah, but I am on Cameo. So another end of the war prediction. I vaguely remember this. Harold Camping was this Christian radio broadcaster. You guys know him? Harold Camping? Had all these stations. And he said the world was going to end May 2011.

And he said that five months... So it's gonna be like the rapture. All the good people leave, and then the bad people stay. And then five months later in, what would that be, December, October, then there's the second coming where Christ just does it all. Okay. So May 2011 rolls around and nothing happened. He had the exact date and nothing happened. So then he's like, oh, you know what? I miscalculated. Yeah.

It's just all going to happen in October, the whole thing. Oh, wow. Just one big shebang. One fell swoop. So he doubled down. He doubled down. And then October 2011 happened. And people quit their jobs because they're like, what's the point? Some people committed suicide.

Which I'm not sure why. That doesn't make a lot of sense. How many people did that? Committed suicide? Not a lot. One lady tried to... You can't even blame Harold for that one. The guy jumped out of a window and killed himself. And so the lady cut her wrist and cut her kids. They all survived. Yeah, I mean, people are crazy. And you can't...

Yeah, that's, you know, I mean, that doomsday clock can make someone do something like anything can make anybody do anything. If that's true, there's no way this could be that. How many people like quit their jobs? It's like, there can't be a lot. I'm not saying it's a lot, but quitting the job I get, but can you imagine going back to work on Monday? Yeah. You told your boss off on Friday. Cause you think the world's ending Saturday. Yeah.

Yeah, just ask off. Like, I'm going to be off. Yeah. Well, it's like, they wanted to, why did they quit the job? Did they quit before? Because they're like, well, I'm going to go try to live a life before, I guess. Maybe. I even envision he just wanted to tell his boss off and he thought he won't be back. But maybe he just wanted to quit. I'd want to know how many people quit.

I don't think it was a ton. I know, but I... Could you look that up? Yeah, how many people? I don't know if you can, but I mean, that's a lot of stories that get crazy because everybody's like, this guy was doing it and you're like, it's eight people. Right. And you're like, well, those eight people were... It was his cousins. Another planet. Yeah. Like they, yeah, anything would have... Especially suicide. I mean, really, like that doesn't even make sense. Yeah. The world's ending in May and you're like, well, let me just do it now. Yeah, yeah. I don't have till May to wait. Yeah, I agree. We got an elderly man in Taiwan did it.

On May 5th, which is a few months before, and then there were other unconfirmed reports of it. So no real hard numbers. It led to nearly 40 deaths. They're right below it. What does that say? Prompted in part by scripture rumors and late-night radio talk shows, the group's fanaticism led to nearly 40 deaths. So there's an exact hard number. Yeah.

I mean, that's what we're looking for. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right. Is that you go, there's one guy, this article, there's not much else. I go, well, there's a thing that says it led to nearly 40. There's an exact thing. Yeah, nearly is not an exact. I don't know how. You're right. We should not even talk about it. All right. One guy. One guy. The one guy that got specific about his article. But I mean, look, you feel bad for these people. That guy shouldn't have done that. Yeah. It's like 40. It's like.

It doesn't, you know, everybody's like trim. Majority of people are normal. I just don't know how that prediction leads to death.

That guy was 89. Yeah. And he died three years later. Oh. But yeah, he admitted after the second- Yeah, I mean- He predicted it a few times. That one got the most traction. After that one, he said, I'm not going to do anymore. It's sinful for me to even be predicting. Oh, that's good. Because- I could see it leading to his death. Yeah. But not anybody else's.

Yeah, the deaths don't really make... No. Because it would be... If you're listening to him, I would imagine... I mean, because you won't go to heaven if you kill yourself. So why would you... Unless someone's like, well, I don't want to... It's like, gee, he's about to come. I don't want to go live with him forever. What am I supposed to do? Maybe they thought it would be... You're never going to see him. That's a good point. Maybe they thought that would be more torturous on earth so they'd kill themselves. But the point of it being...

he studied the Bible. That's what's crazy. Yeah. The point of it being is like that, if you're studying the Bible and this, I would just think that that's opposite of what you're supposed to do. I agree. It seemed like you'd just get your life together if you're concerned before May 21st. But quitting the job, I've made people, I got someone to quit their job one time to go to the beach. You know what I mean? It's like, people are ready to quit their jobs. People are ready to quit their jobs. Yeah. Yeah.

This one said Harold Camping's wife described him as, quote, flabbergasted that the apocalypse didn't start over the weekend. I just can't. Can you imagine looking out the window? Yeah. My God. Yeah. He goes, I can't.

Can't wrap my head around it. Yeah. Looks fine out there. See, this is a horn honk. There it is. There it is. And then they go, no, that was just light screen. He goes, oh. I mean, this probably, that whole month was just brutal for him and his wife. Just like every, you know, did you hear that? Here's the wind now. We got wind chimes. Yeah.

And he goes, and it's not like he thinks it's a ghost. He thinks the world is. It's starting. It's starting. It's starting. Buckle up. Let it happen. The food's here. He goes, we did Uber Eats. They're ringing the doorbell. It's a guy. A couple more. There was a hen that was laying eggs that said a message, Christ is coming. And people thought that was a sign, but it turns out the owner, it was just a trick. She was pushing the eggs back up in the hen.

So the egg spelled out, Christ is coming? Yeah. But she was really just painting them, painting it on the eggs and then putting it back in the chicken. Jeez, that poor hen. I know. She put it back in the chicken. Oop! That hen. This is every time. Yeah.

He's like, smoking a cigarette. He goes, yeah. He doesn't know what's happening. That's about it.

All right. Well, fun episode. No doomsday. We did one on the best time to be alive, and now we've countered. How many deaths did that lead to? The hen one? Yeah. Inconclusive. The hen killed itself. It just goes, I can't. I keep having the same baby. I'm not supposed to be here. If you're that woman, why are you doing that?

I think she was making money off of it. People were coming to see it. They're coming to watch the chicken laying egg? Yeah. This is in 1806. Oh, they had nothing to do with it. A little context would help. I thought this was like last year. Yeah, I thought it was 92. Well, if it wasn't for Dusty, I'd have gotten away with it. Somebody calling me out now. 1806. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah.

All right. So that's it. Off the grid. We're just talking. We can do that. That was kind of it. That was off the grid. That had nothing to do with off the grid.

Well, we talked about like if you... Oh, the earth. Yeah. Okay. You're pretty off the grid, I guess, if you're shoving eggs back in chickens. Yeah. You ain't got a lot going on. Oh, in 1806. Yeah, you're all off the grid. They were having a grid, really. There wasn't, yeah. All right. It's a little grid to be on. All right, everybody. Thank you. Can we promote a show? Yeah. Aaron and I, Woodstock, Georgia, this Thursday.

Oh, this Thursday. This Thursday. Tomorrow night at Mad Life. And then I'm at the Comedy Catch in Chattanooga all weekend. I'm with Henry Cho and Marian Illinois on Friday. All right, Dusty. I'm off this weekend. Oh. Yeah. I'm off this weekend, too. Yeah. I'm going to Dolphin Island, Alabama. Oh, that's fun. I'm going to hang out on the beach. They have dolphins? Well, it's spelled D-A-U. Dolphin. Oh.

But I would say it the same way, I guess. Dolphin, dolphin. Yeah. Maybe get a shark attack. Yeah. Have something to report. Yeah, that's something. Yeah. Can't hide money. And I don't know what that's... Is it nice? It's funny. It's pretty good. It's pretty cool. Yeah, no, I bet it's great. Well, I want to go somewhere that's more less people. You know what I mean? That's a good spot. I'm not trying to go to Panama City Beach. Yeah, no. I guess that's nice to me. I don't know what's happening. Yeah.

Yeah, that's the night. Yeah, well, save it. Killer bees. Very funny. Yeah, it's the best. All right. I get that. I just announced all my fall dates. I have some Beacon, New York's coming up. I'm off this week, then next week. Atlantic City, Beacon, New York, Northampton, Massachusetts, and my fall dates are all just been announced.

And we've been having fun. So come on, I'm done with my COVID shows.

I saw that. Done with all the makeups? All the makeup COVID shows in Bellingham. This weekend was like the last run of them. And so like all those people that held on those tickets. I mean, they were 2019. That's so crazy. November 2019. So the fact that they hung on to them and they were in the crowds was so awesome, dude. It's almost like two different hours that you've had since then, right? It's completely. Yeah. It's a completely different, you know, because now it's new. So the Raincheck Tour will continue.

And so we're hitting all the, all the spots. So, uh, go check it out. And if you, if you, and when people ask me, they go, why are you know this or that? I get asked about Phoenix a lot. I will be at Phoenix. Okay. It's, uh, which that's fair to ask. Cause I, that's not announced. It's not announced yet. I'm coming to Phoenix. I will be there. Uh,

And then, but the other ones are like, I get Nashville a lot too. No Nashville? You're like, I did the most shows you can do. So yeah, just maybe look and go, well, was he here? Yeah. And then I bet I was there. Yeah. All right. We love you always. Dusty, welcome to the show. Thank you. Pumped. 100th episode. We did it. 101. Coming up. See y'all.

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