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Hello, folks. Hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nate Land pod. You all all right? Welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate, sitting here with Brian Bates here in Weber. Dusty Slick.

That was the new hello, folks, and y'all say hey, bear. I was into it. We didn't say it at the same time, but it'll get better. I think it's got to be the response. Right, right. Where does let's go, folks, stand now? I don't know. It's been gone, man. It's out? No, I still think let's go, folks, still. People still say it. I think it's still a fun one to say. Hey, bear is just... It is the...

You say hello, folks. Someone says, hey, bear back. That's so obvious. A guy got mad at me this weekend. He did, hey, bear, middle of a joke. And then I said, hey, bear back to him. And then the whole audience was quiet. And I go, wow, you really killed the energy of the show. I was like, you ruined the whole show. And I was being funny with it.

Because I always say the show's ruined or things are going wrong. I mean, half my act is saying it's not going well. And then he sat there for a long time and then he left. I mean, he left on the last 15 minutes. And then I made jokes about him leaving. And then he came up to me in the merch line and he said he got so upset with me. And we talked. We talked it out and it was fine. Yeah.

You know, he was so mad. I don't know what happened. Did you say, hey, bear, when he left? As he walks off, he goes, hey, bear. That's enough, Dusty. Clearly, he had never been to one of my shows before where I'm just talking about, hey, well, all right, the show's tanked. I mean, I say that sort of stuff all the time. Yeah. But, I mean, we made up, but it took a minute. That's good.

I had somebody yell, let's go, folks, this weekend. I replied, hey, bear. And it was clear they haven't listened to me the last 10 episodes or so because they just stared at me like, what? Yeah. So you can tell the people who aren't quite up to date when they have no idea what hey, bear means. Yeah. Hey, well, they'll get on board once they get there. Let's go, folks. Still good, though. People say, like, when I walk out, that's what they're usually the appropriate time to yell. Yeah. People do. You just kind of.

Yell it when you walk out. Let's go, folks. Hey, bear. Hello, folks. You know, identify as whatever, whichever slogan you want. We have a hey, bear shirt. Kevin Best made it for us. I got a real list of things now. I go out. All right. We're having a good time. Hey, bear. Hello, folks. Let's go, folks. Yeah, you got to. Yeah.

People would show up late, like, what did you miss? Just his introduction. I'm 20 minutes late. He goes, yeah, he's got a laundry list. He sits up there. Pesticide. I had a guy in Tulsa, Oklahoma a couple weekends ago who came up to me after the show. He said, you said you're from Nashville? I said, yeah. He goes, you ever meet Nate Bargetze?

I said, I've run into him. Yeah. He goes, you ever try to get on his podcast? Oh, wow. I was like, nah. He's like, I listen all the time, dude. That's what he told me. Really? Yeah. I guess he'd never watched it. Oh. And he just listened to it. He's like, you could be on there, dude. Yeah. I was like, thanks, man. You sound like a guy on there. I'll look into it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think you should be on it. But...

Somebody told me I should start a podcast. I didn't want to tell them that I have two going right now because I'm like, if you don't know that that's happening. What's your other one? Well, I have a We're Having a Good Time podcast. Oh, yeah. You know, where I just talk. Yeah. But they were like, you should do a podcast. And it's like, they were such fans. But I'm like, you know, maybe clicked on the link in my bio and see that I have two going. Yeah. Yeah.

It's hard. You realize... I always try to think of when someone doesn't know, they'll be like, when are you coming to this town? And then you're like, I'm here now, which happens a lot. Or they don't know that you're on a pod. They don't know what show. And then I think about... I'll try to be like, all right, well, I'll think of a music person. I'm like, yeah, I don't know. Exactly. I could walk up to Stevie Wonder and be like, why don't you go on...

And he's like, what? He's like, I was on Johnny Carson's first show. And you're like, oh. Well, I didn't see it. So, you know. And then I'm like, I would do the same thing. Yeah, totally. Yeah. All right. That's it. I don't know. We'll start off with you guys' comments. Again, they're all Twitter, Instagram, YouTube reviews. Facebook, right? Yeah, we'll get some Facebook. We'll get some Facebook. We'll get some Facebook.

Peggy Karp, this is a terrific episode. The discussion on the Taylor Swift class widened to a great discussion on genuine creativity versus imitations. Nate's comments were, as usual, right on, as were Dusty's. You guys are a breath of fresh air. Thanks to all of you for brightening my week. You are good company. Oh, man. Very nice. I guess me and Brian dropped the ball, huh?

Nate and Dusty hit the nail on the head. She might not know y'all are even on the podcast. She lives in Tulsa. Yeah. Thomas Gray, I think I laughed harder than any other moment in this show hearing about bromine being worried about getting surprise branded in the Q-Dogs. I almost crashed my lawnmower. Thanks for the great show. Keep up the good works.

Good work, boys. Keep up the good work, boys. How did I just forget boys? You got tired. I got tired. Keep up the good works. You guys get it. He was saying boys also. Maverick Pitchford. I have waited for this day for so long, I thought when my comment was finally read on the podcast it would be a joyous occasion, but boy, was I wrong. My last name is Pitchford, not Pitchfork. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Don't worry, Nate. I don't blame you. I blame Brittle Bates. Yeah, sorry about that, Maverick. You put the Pitchfork in there. I think with a name like Maverick, I just assumed it was Pitchfork. Pitchford is a tough name. Yeah, Maverick Pitchford. I bet it's Pitchford. Pitchford. Maverick Pitchford. No, it's Pitchford. It's Pitchford. Pitchford. Maverick Pitchford. Yeah, you're probably right. Pitchford. Yeah, that's good. Call him Mav.

I guess if they talked about the words, I'd be in trouble. Yeah, I don't... Yeah. I think, I mean, a song does not even remotely... Abigail was telling me about...

Lumineers, their albums, and I like the Lumineers. The whole album's like a story, and I'm like, I don't even know what that means. I've never listened to a song and really was like, this song's about... Kenny Chesney's, back where I come from.

Yeah, but just because he says, I come from Tennessee, that's the only part that I'm like, I'm just an old Tennessean, and I go, I am too. You just pick out the word Tennessee. Yeah. I wouldn't know what it's...

all about. But you've talked about what it meant to you. It meant to me because I would listen to it. That song meant something to me because I would listen to it as I handed out flyers because they reminded me of Tennessee. But I don't know. I just don't digest music, I guess, the way people do. Me and my buddies used to listen to Pink Floyd. We would break it down like it was our life. We got too into it.

Yeah, I don't even think I would even leave, probably. Yeah, we got deep into it. We're sitting in a trailer getting deep into it. Yeah, I understand that. Y'all have a good night. Yeah, I would be like, what are we doing? The first time I was in New York City, I remember I texted Dusty. I was like, I'm just not comfortable here. And he sent me this song, Hank Williams Jr. song. What's the song? Dixie on My Mind, I think. Yeah, Dixie on My Mind. Where it talks about that exact...

Yeah. Of being in New York City from the south and not being comfortable there. Oh. And I still vibe to that every now and then. Yeah, I love it.

I like New York City. You were just there visiting? Yeah, I was there. Had to text a friend? You go, I don't feel safe. You're like, golly, I got a layover in New York and I just don't feel comfortable. And he goes, all right, man. He knew who to contact. He goes, well, I'll tell you what to do. Download. He knew who to contact. Yeah. He goes, yeah, I'll help you get through that. He goes, what do you got, an hour and a half layover or something? He goes, yeah, yeah. And I just feel like, ugh. No. I wasn't like, ugh.

I was on the corner first and first. I was just like, man, this is a different thing. Yeah. It's a whole different thing. It's a whole different thing. I think Hank Williams Jr. played that song once in New York City. Oh, how'd they take it? I think the host was like, something like, all right, you're playing that here in New York City. Yeah. Yeah. That was great, though. Yeah. The host of the show? Yeah. Yeah.

I'm like you about most songs. I was just thinking about Hotel California. I have no idea what that song means. It's about hell, isn't it? I have no idea. I thought it'd be about a hotel. It has nothing to do with a hotel. I think it's a metaphor for hell. You check in here, you can never leave. Yeah, I mean, I would never... I mean, I feel bad because I think these songwriters are...

Like, there's a story. There's, like, something there. They're putting their soul into it. They're putting their soul into it. And I'm just, you know, like, beep, bop, beep, bop, bop, bop. You know, I just, like... And none of it means anything. Shake it off. And I'll even listen to... Shake it off. Like, I'll listen to Led Zeppelin. Like, I started listening to, like, some... And I like that stuff. But it's still, like, I'm not doing it for the right reasons. It's not like...

Don't fear the Reaper. Yeah. You know, I don't, you know, listen to that on my birthday. This is a hotel, California there. She stood in the doorway. I heard the mission bell and I was thinking to myself, this could be heaven or this could be hell. Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way there were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, I mean, I know all the lyrics, but I've never really thought about what it means. Yeah. I mean, I could be completely wrong.

Yeah, I mean, it could just be about California and fame. But when you hear a song, do you listen to it like a story? Depends on what it is. Yeah. Sometimes you can tell, oh, he's trying to, let's rewind it. Yeah, he's trying to tell us something. Let's sink in. Let's listen to this. Let's see what's going on. Yeah, I mean, I've gotten way too into song lyrics before. And then I started to meet and get to know musicians. And I'm like, yeah, this maybe doesn't mean anything. Yeah. Like that John Connelly song I asked you about?

oh well um that one means she yeah yeah it does you asked him about it right but yeah she can't say that anymore as a song it's like a cheating song but brian thought that at the end that uh the guy kills the woman and i asked john connelly and he laughed he said no i don't think i don't think anybody's killing anybody a 50 year old song no one's ever asked me that yeah he said no one's ever asked me that before yeah

Well, there's a guy named Brian Bates who... You're like, John, do you have someone get murdered in your family? Yeah. From that song? All right. Tanner Bald... No, just did that. Brianna Shock.

But Brianna was shocked I didn't mess up that first thing. To be fair to Pastor Dusty, slew is used as the past tense of slay in the King James Version of the Bible. Oh, well, there you go. That's where I got it. That's where you got it. That's what you're thinking of? You're thinking of Genesis 4-8? Yeah. That's where he lives in the King James Version. Exactly. Alexandra Schnitiger says,

I actually took an Adam Sandler class in college like a regular college. Kent State in a regular major. Oh, wait. I actually took an Adam Sandler class in college like at a regular college. She went to Kent State. In a regular major, communication, and it counted towards my degree. Every day we watched an Adam Sandler video and learned about his comedic techniques.

Best part of the class is Adam Sandler sent in a video to our class just for us. He said, hope this class is an easy A. I got a B, but it was a cool experience. There you go. That's awesome. That's fun. Yeah, all Adam Sandler's movies are like the hero's journey. Yeah. I mean, it's like that same formula. Everyone is like, you know, guy not doing well, accomplishes something, then has a big failure, and then wins in the end. Yeah.

See, I have no depth. Not some of his recent stuff. I have no depth to anything, even movies. Like, there's no – I even try to go, like, all right, Nate, think about, like, what is this person – you know, and I have – there's no – it's like I just – like, I laugh at the parts that I laugh at. I enjoy watching it. What did I – you know, and then other than that, you're like, I can't.

I don't follow along. I think you're selling yourself short, though. I mean, you tell stories in your act. You know what makes a good story. You know how to structure ideas. Yeah. And I bet you appreciate those things in movies, even when you don't realize it. Or sitcoms. None of those. Why is, like, Business School your favorite episode of The Office? Yeah, because it had heart to it. Sweet. Sweet.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I guess so. What about this with Adam Sandler movies? You ever notice this, though? In several of the movies, like the first one, Billy Madison, he has Veronica Vaughn is the love interest. Two Vs. Happy Gilmore, it's Victoria Bennett. Two Vs. Little Nicky, I forget the name, but it's two Vs. And then Waterboy, it's Vicki Valancourt. Two Vs. And I think there's some others.

So what's going on with that? Yeah. You know what I mean? What does that mean? What is the two Vs all about? What are the two Vs about? Yeah. Why does he keep doing that? Yeah. When you find out, maybe he'll write in. I'm hoping so. Let's get an easy A. Send a video to this class to be like, yeah, that means it just worked out that way. That's what I'm saying. No, I never see anybody talk about the two Vs. You just figured that out yourself? Yeah. What was happening in that moment?

Well, I just think that I just kept, you know, you think about that because he's like in Waterboy, he says Vicki Valancourt a lot. And then in Billy Madison, they say Veronica Vaughn a lot. That Veronica Vaughn. Yeah. You know, so you just hear it a bunch.

But do you remember the moment you thought of this? I don't know if I remember the moment. I've been talking about it for a while. No one seems to know. Or it never really goes past this kind of conversation. Where people go, well, that is interesting. I think it's interesting. I like the idea of when you learn it, you go, huh, you're watching Waterboy?

You're like, huh, wait a second. Wait a second. We were watching Everybody Loves Raymond and noticed how much purple was on the set. And I'm like, it must have been his favorite color. And it was just everywhere. And I Googled Everybody Loves Raymond, purple, couldn't find anything, just kept. I was like, I can't believe anyone's never talked about this.

Turns out our TV's color just wasn't corrected. Every show started having purple. I was like, it must be a sitcom thing. Like, it's pleasant to the eye. Oh, man, I wish you had done, like, TikTok conspiracy.

I mean, I would have almost, if you wouldn't have looked it up, I could almost been, we could have got to the bottom of it. I was ready. I could have reached out to him and then been like, you know how stupid I was. Hey, why is the, I mean, I know Phil, I know Ray and Phil, but like, and Patricia. So like, I mean, I could have got you all the, I would have texted them all together and

Hey, guys, what was the deal with the purple? Because I would have probably, if you didn't figure it out, I would have just been like, I don't know. Let's find out. Yeah. And then it would have just been, he'd be like, what are you talking about? I'd go, I don't know. Ben Hobbratch. Hobbratch. The government can cancel debt because they own the debt.

The debt is federal student loans. Medical debt is not. There are no federal medical loans. The credit card companies would have to cancel those debts. Okay. Makes sense. Makes sense. Apt analysis. Yeah, yeah. It makes sense. Susan Johnson, I've worked in financial aid for over 20 years. The college is a choice argument gets real tough when you look at the amount of jobs requiring degrees. Instead of going into those arguments, I'll share a fun fact.

There was a Mr. Pell, Senator Pell from Rhode Island. Since he died in 2009, I wouldn't recommend calling him for the grant. Oh. Well, there might be a Senator Pell Jr. Yeah. Yeah. Get him on the board. I'm hoping the Pell family's keeping it going. Yeah. I would hope so. I got a Pell Jr. grant. Yeah. Yeah. It's a smaller grant. Maybe less money. Yeah. By the way, that's my favorite way to correct us on anything. Look, there's a lot of stuff I could say. Yeah. But I'll say something else. Yeah. Yeah. I'll share a fun fact. I'm not here for this stuff.

For the, yeah, it makes sense. The jobs. So we're blaming, I would blame the jobs. I mean. Yeah, if everyone stopped going to college, those jobs would be like, all right, all right, all right. All right, all right. We have to. Yeah, yeah. All right. We just want, can you drive a stick shift? Yeah. All right, all right. You go, all right, I got a job at Dell. But we want our doctors, I think, to go to college, right? Huh? I don't care. You got to drive a stick shift. Yeah. Yeah.

Can you get to work? He knows how to move some stuff. He knows how to, yeah. He goes, I'd like to see you move this bed upstairs. All right, I'll let you have surgery on me. He goes, that was good. Wood cabinet, no dents. A couple of doctors have to tear a wood cabinet up and you go. Yeah. All right. Yeah, let me see you do a crochet pattern. Yeah. And then you can do surgery on me. Yeah. All right, let's get after it. Yeah.

David Brothers. I went from having no high school degree in my early 30s to two master's degrees at the age of 40. I can say the degrees paid off big time in both my personal and professional life. Everyone has their own experience, but I can say it was totally worth it for me. Very true. Yeah, don't... Yeah, go do your thing. Yeah, good job. Yeah, don't listen to this. If anybody's young, probably go to college. Do whatever. Yeah, I mean, if you're like... This case is even older. You're sitting around trying to make a choice. If you're old like David...

And you make a choice based off a podcast. You got to get it together. David's younger than me. If you're an old man like David Brothers, Bates used to drop off at school. The Brothers family.

Renee Mathis, Dusty's right. School kids take the SAT, but it's not the College of Mission Scholastic Aptitude Test. It's the Stanford Achievement Test. Yeah, you can see how that could be confusing. Maybe let's give it another name. There's a lot of letters. A lot of letters. That's why they go SAT.

I'm going to take the SAT. And if you say, I'm going to, I got to go take the SAT, they go, how about you not worry about it? Right. Yeah, because I'm like... We've got our answer. That even took me a second to get. Scholistic, scholistic.

Well, how do you say it? Scholastic. Scholastic. Yeah, you got to do the whole thing. I wouldn't be laughing. That's how you really get up. Scholastic aptitude. If they just said, what does aptitude mean? I'd go, I don't know. And they'd be like, all right, next. You remember the Scholastic Book Fair? Any of y'all have that going on? Yeah, I loved the Book Fair. The Book Fair was fun, dude. The Book Fair was super fun. I'd buy some erasers. I went to Harper's Book Fair once.

They're still going? Yeah, they're still doing them. I want to say kindergarten, and I went in and I was like, I love the book fair.

Book fair is fun. Book fair is fun. And so I went in there and did it with her. And I was like, I get to get, you know, I wanted to get everything. I get a book and a racer and then like a poster of a car. Yeah. That's the best. Everything you need. My poor mom had no money and knew I wouldn't go read those books, but would buy them for me anyway. Berenstain Bears. Yeah. She's like buying me books that maybe she'll read so that at least get some use out of it. She's got to read My Teacher is an Alien because I won't read it. Yeah.

That was a book you read? Well, I did end up reading it. That led down the road to where we're at right now? It could have been. That could have been. There was several. I read my teacher as an alien. You took the book the wrong way? Yeah. You walked in and you're like, huh. Yeah. How come you can always see me when your head's not looking at me? Really opened up some... Teachers as an alien. Yeah. Yeah. What is that book about?

Well, I think the teacher, I don't remember altogether, but I think the teacher had come to Earth and was like, I'm going to get in here and manipulate these kids. That's where they sold that new book. I don't think that's what it was about. That's what they had at your book fair? Yeah, I think so. That's what Dusty thought it was about. He never read it. They were opening up our minds. Yeah, yeah. A lot of JFK stuff. Yeah.

Oh, there it is. Yeah, My Teacher's in Avon. Oh, yeah, My Teacher Glows in the Dark. I also read The Magic Bullet. Yeah. How'd that thing turn around in midair? What's it about? My Teacher Fried My Brains. I had that one. Yeah, My Teacher Fried My Brains. I don't think I'm over it. William underscore A underscore Galeino. Galeino. Underscore has become a big thing. Kids like underscore.

When they create their... You think more now than before? I feel like it's been around for... It has been on keyboards for years. I know, but kids want to be... Their thing wants to be... They want underscore in their new handles. I think younger kids like it. Okay. They're like, no, we need underscore. It's cool to have underscore. Okay. Where it would be a nightmare for... I just thought all the handles have been taken now, so you have to... That's probably it, but they've made it...

I think kids like it. It's like, no, no, I want... Harper had something where she was like, underscore's got to be in it. And I was like, I don't even know where that's at. I was always blank for me. You know what I mean? That's not what we called it. Called it blank. You didn't call it underscore. When the line's down on the bottom like that. You know what I mean? That's blank. Like fill in the blank. Oh, fill in, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, like hangman, you would be like, it's F-L blank blank. Right. Because you would say blank like that. Blank, not underscore. Yeah. Yeah. But it would be blank if you're writing it, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Y'all don't keep score? I guess. I don't know. Marquis William A. I heard a rumor. This is William A. Gallolino. Yeah.

I heard a rumor in high school that if you rubbed chapstick on a Scantron sheet, it would mess up the machine they put it in, and it would give you a good grade. Am I the only one that heard this? I remember hearing that. Dusty? You know, I never was a cheater. I would just fail the test, you know? Y'all didn't like machines in your schools? Well, I think we—I mean, I didn't like them, but I think we had them. Yeah, yeah, what's that printer up to?

According to Snopes, this is false. This does not... Oh, good old Snopes. Snopes has never been wrong about anything, right? Yeah, they're just... All right. So it's a real rumor about Snopes. I heard that Snopes was just two people looking up stuff. I don't know if that's true, but I'm like, I trusted... Go look up Snopes to say, who's looking this stuff up at Snopes? And they go, don't worry about who's looking this stuff up. It's Snopes. It's Snopes fake. Yeah.

Of course, Snopes is going to censor those results. Yeah, Snopes is going to let that happen. Daniel Kentrell, Yale accepts 6.5% of applicants, but MTSU rejects 6% of applicants. Some might say that it's even harder to get rejected from MTSU than it is to get accepted to Yale. This means that Nate is part of a group that is just as exclusive as going to Yale. Bravo, Nate. Thank you. Way to go. That is impressive. That is. It's hard work.

Hard work's hard work. Marquis Quinn. I took the ACT. I took the ACT.

I took the ACT my senior year. In the morning I took it, I woke up with a nasty cold. I took what I thought was some Dayquil. I remember starting the test but was then woken up by the teacher to find an empty classroom. So I filled in as many blanks as I could and turned it in. I wasn't interested in any college, but I took the test again a few weeks later because our school counselor recommended it. I was able to stay awake the second time. I scored a 16 that time trying.

I scored a 17 on the first test guessing. Wow. Me and Marquis are right at it. Well, I like how Marquis is like, I wasn't interested in college, and then he took it twice. I wasn't interested in college either, and I didn't take it. But I'm sure someone, they tell you, you fell asleep, you go take it, and I'm sure you're wondering, well, what am I going to, maybe I'll get a 40. Oh, yeah. Above the, you know.

You just got to make sure, and then you're like, and it goes worse than when you guessed. You're like, yeah, yeah. Reiterated? Yeah, he was like, dude, I'm not going to. Yeah, he wanted it to be confirmed. He wanted it to be. Yeah, we had, with the college one, we had, I'm going off of being opinionated. Yeah. I thought of it this weekend. Like, I don't.

I saw this Elvis clip, so let's play this Elvis clip. It's back to what I wanted to do. Mr. Presley, on the subject of the service, what is your opinion of war protesters and would you today refuse to be drafted? I just seem to keep my own personal views about that to myself. I'm just an entertainer and I would not say it. Do you think other entertainers should keep their views to themselves too? I can't even say that.

Yeah, I love that. He then gives his opinion on something. What about this jacket? He goes, that's stupid. They go, alright, Elvis. But I saw that this weekend and I was like, I gotta get back to that.

And it's not that I don't think I'm going too crazy, but it's like with the cut, it's like, you know, what does it matter? Like, that's not why you're here. That's not what my job should be. I'm an entertainer. Maybe my job, maybe I'll want to do that one day. You get older, I think. And that's why it gets hard. Especially like it's easy in my act because my act is you're writing it and I'm creating. Like, so here it's a little more free flowing. So it's like you can end up like,

you know, being like, well, college, like all this kind of stuff. And you're like, I don't know. It's every, something's going to work for everybody. You're going to go to college. You're going to love it. Or you, or you're not going to go to college and you're going to love it. Or you, you know, it, it does, it doesn't matter. I didn't go to college. That's not why we're here. And that, and then I, and like, I got sent that to me and by someone like not even attached to this

It was someone else. And I was like, because I always talk about that because I try to do that. But then it was like this podcast. I was like this after the college stuff. I was like, God, I'm too. It's like a little too high on your horse. And it was like you can feel it where you're like, all right, dude, you got to calm down. You don't I don't know anything. So it's like you're minding yourself. So I'm hoping to be look, I can't promise that I'm not going to say anything ever again. I hope not to. But I'm trying to get I am working on it to be just back to being fun.

Because it's like, it doesn't even matter what they agree or disagree. Because it's like, it just shouldn't be, that's not why you're here. You know, does that make sense? Totally. It's so hard though. Like I put out a joke about five o'clock somewhere and I just have a joke about, say, it's only half past 12, but I don't care. It's five o'clock somewhere. And I'm like, but that's not true. You know, it may be 5.30 somewhere.

But we don't lose a half hour just because you change time zones. And man, did the, what do you call it? Time zone police come out from everywhere. They're like, oh, there's half hour time zones all around the world. And I tried to make a funny joke about it. And they're like, well, a lot of your friends served in Afghanistan. And I was like, okay, now we're, it seemed like I'm talking about the military. And I'm like, it's just a joke. I'm sorry. I didn't realize that there were so many half hour time zones. Yeah.

Yeah, that's all like internet. Like that's, and I mean, look, I don't think we really, I think these comments are always great. And people, I think we do. It's, uh, I think this is all real people. Like some of that, you can see something. If you get something that kind of gets a little into the,

mainstream like it's kind of out of your people that are aware of you and then that that kind of stuff starts happening but that's the stuff that's like you just it's like who cares like that's that's just like there's people that are they just this is what they do they want to argue or they want to do this and that's their thing and they want to do that and that's fine and it's like it's almost like you gotta quit it not like it's like all right well then you realize like all right they're there and it's hard not to but then you go

Who cares? Like, it's... That's going to happen. And they're trying to get either you riled up or get into some argument or... Even if it is like they're taking it like that with the troops and they could even be on your side of whatever and you're still like, all right, dude. It's like, what are you...

Like, you can't, no one's posting a video with just going like, no, no, I wanted to make a big point. Yes. That I don't believe in Afghanistan. And you're like, well, he did it, boy. He did it with a Jimmy Buffett reference. Nobody, 99% do not think that. Yes. But the people that type it, you know, it's like, because they're just, you know, whatever. Like, it's.

Thankfully, their arguments, though, bumps it up in the algorithm and it gets more views because they're arguing about it. That is good. Yeah. That is good. So it really worked out. Yeah, yeah. But that's where I thought of it. I thought of it before I saw this clip. And I was like, I just don't... It was like, I'm getting too... I was worried about it. We have a physics episode coming out, too. This was before I've claimed this. So just so people... I don't think I did anything in physics, but...

I might have. I don't believe in, you know, being like I don't believe in physics or something. But I don't know if I did anything in physics. But I was worried about physics. But that one's coming out. So that one. That was a fun one if I remember correctly. I hope so. And it's all very benign. It's all very benign.

It's all very, yeah. I don't think anything's super serious. I don't think I'm getting crazy. But it just was like, all right, I could feel it leaking towards that way. And I'm like, I need to back it back down. Right. Because my act is not doing that. And it's like, that's what I don't want to do. I want to be. And then getting that clip was like even more of it.

was like, oh, this is, yeah, it's like that. That's what I want. That's what this podcast started. That's what it was. But it's hard not to think your opinion. You know, you think, well, let me get my opinion out. You're going to start calling interviewers honey when you answer a question. Yeah, they should know. Yeah, you can get canceled. I go, white hips, go ahead. She goes, excuse me? I go, what's that?

Do you think entertainers should be typical question from a white hip? Just go more, just make it worse and worse. Just the opposite. So then I have to then get, I'm a guy that has to give his opinion.

Maybe, look, and maybe one day I will. I feel like if you ever one day, like, you know, you get older. Say I'm in 15 years, I'm like, you know what, I want to stand up for something, blah, blah. Maybe I will do that. I have no idea. Right now, I know that's not my thing. So I got to calm it down. So today's topic is Nate and I traveling together. Well, I'll still do. I'll still have big problems with that. You don't know how to sit down on a plane. Yeah.

I don't know. This is not a man that can, you know. I will not have opinions about you. Yeah. There'd be, or I would like dumb stuff. Look, don't just go through everything. You can't go and pick and be like, well, you did it. Like, I can't promise I'm not perfect as no one is except Bates. I'm sorry, I'm not what? I said you're the only perfect one. Oh, perfect. Yeah. That's true. Yeah.

Him and Jesus. He goes, when you get to heaven, Jesus is going to go, what's up, man? What's up? A little fist bump? Yeah, he goes, we did it right, didn't we? We did it. I've been waiting on you, brother. And then Bates asks him, he goes, where's the, he has a lot of questions, where's the bathroom and stuff like that? Like, where am I staying? And he goes, and he's like, gosh. And then Jesus breaks out cigars and you go, you know I can't

He goes, are you kidding me right now? It was hard when I did it down there. Yeah. So I might not be perfect on it, and I might still. I'll keep an eye on it. So bear with me, but I, you know, just to let you know. I'm not going to talk about this. You should read some of these ads. You should do, like instead of where your microwave goes, you should just put bricks on it.

Oh, yeah. Just brick it up. That'd be pretty fun. Just brick it up. That would be, I think it sets a tone for when people walk in the house. Yeah. And they go, is that brick? And you go, well, in theory. You go, microwave. Yeah. Taking a hard stance against it. Hard stance against it. Yeah. We're just getting started. Yeah. He goes, we're just getting started. He goes, yeah. Yeah, I like that. Just pick up a brick and touch it. And they go, what's that? I go, it's my phone. Yeah. I don't believe in anything. I was like,

I was at my mom's house yesterday. She has a microwave from the 80s, and she had duct tape on it to keep the heat from getting out. All right. I was like, why do you have duct tape? She's like, ah, some of it was leaking, so. Leaking heat. Why don't you buy her a new microwave for Christmas? I know. I was thinking about that story, and I was like, you'll suggest that. And you're right. She doesn't want anything new. I showed her how to forward an email yesterday, so that's pretty exciting. All right. That's nice. Yeah. She had to chain the email to forward.

She had to forward it to 10 people in under an hour. Yeah. Yeah. She does a lot of work, uh, but I don't want to die. And I went to Nashville, so I got a Nashville soccer jersey on, uh, and a hat. It was the Nashville soccer game, uh, with, uh, uh, my brother and, uh, all this, we said, and they're sweet. They, they, they're, they're company, it's company, G-O-D. Like they have, uh, they actually had, they got a place and it was awesome. And, uh,

That stadium's awesome. Was that your first time going to a game? Yeah. And that stadium was very cool. I saw your video. That stadium was awesome. The intro is crazy. I mean, the field looks different every time the lights go off and on. I've never seen that before, and I was like, that's such a cool... I thought that was edited video. No, no. It's just how the lights would make it go off.

Yeah, Vandy was supposed to, I think, play there. That would have been awesome if Vandy played there. Yeah, they were talking about it. Yeah, that would have been. It would be such a different football stadium. Like it would be, you know, it's just a different kind of thing. But that place was super cool. And they won, beat Austin, who apparently is number two, is a big win for Nashville soccer. Nice. So, yeah, I think I can get into soccer.

I'm going to try. I don't know how the sport works, so I'd have to learn it. Feet only? I got a basic idea of it. You can use your hands if you're out of bounds and you got to throw it back in. And if you're the keeper. If you're the keeper, but only if you have gloves on. Right, you have to wear gloves. I don't know. But you have a different shirt. A little padding. That's what they would tell you. Aaron, can I touch you with my hand? You're like, Aaron...

do you look like you're the only one wearing that or do you see other people wearing that? And you're like, well, a lot of us have the same shirt on because then you can't touch it with your hands. Right. The keeper. You talking about the goalie? Yeah. Okay. Is that what it's called? The keeper? I think real soccer people will call it a keeper. But back in the day, we called it a goalie. Yeah. Oh,

The goalkeeper is what... And it was always the big kid. They always wanted it to be the big kid when I was playing. And it's like, does that make him better at keeping the... Well, it's... If he's bigger, he can...

it's harder to it's a bigger body in the net yeah i think there's less space to score yeah but a big fat guy they weren't that big like if they go i mean you got to use a door and you wouldn't be like we'll just use the doggy door and you're like well let's use a regular door like that's a at least a better chance yeah it's like that yeah soccer's a game of inches man i think you take anything any kind of advantage you can get is that what they say about soccer i

They say it about football. I don't think it's soccer. It's a long field. Game of yards. Yeah, it's a game of running. But it's kind of like...

I kind of enjoy watching it. We won 3-0, but you get over the scoring because you just kind of like the... It's kind of a nice... It feels like it's kind of calm. It's like back and forth. And then once they get down there, it's just like rapid. It can become rapid fire of them trying to score. You're like, ah! It's pleasant. I watched one on TV recently, too, and I just caught myself just really...

Almost like not having the fast pace was nice. It was slowed down. Base puzzle like that.

Yeah, yeah. Really slowing it down. Really slowing it down. Really slowing it down. I always felt like the people that I knew that liked soccer were people that used to follow the band Fish. And I just felt like they transferred that energy into soccer. They go, you should get into sports. And you go, all right. And they're like, not that. You chose the wrong one. Yeah, yeah. And they go, you let me choose anything. Right. Yeah, yeah, that could be it. Yeah. It was fun.

I enjoyed it. Vanderbilt's 2-0. Vanderbilt's 2-0. I mean, we're rolling.

Got a good matchup this week against Wake Forest. We're going to really see it. We've got to work on getting College Game Day to come back to Nashville and have you be the guest picker. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. That'd be great. Yeah. I love it. What's a bigger game this weekend than Vanderbilt-Wake Forest? I don't know. I don't know. No, that's the only one I'm interested in. That's a huge career milestone. Would it be? Oh, yeah. To be the guest picker on College Game Day? Yeah, yeah. That would be awesome. You've got to be pretty famous, though. I mean, it's like they...

Sometimes they have some. Yeah, but I mean Nashville is going to have a lot of country. Didn't Variety Magazine call you America's favorite comedian? That is true. I mean, how famous does it get? It gets a little more. The people they usually get, they're pretty big. Brad Paisley or somebody like that. Does the SEC Network, do they have a guest picker? I don't know. I don't know how that works.

I did Paul Feinbaum's show once. Oh, that's big. You call in and yell at Alabama? No, it was here. It was at Vanderbilt. They were doing it, and I went down there and did it. Listen to Feinbaum a lot in Alabama. I love Feinbaum. Feinbaum was always on, just people embarrassing our state, but I was so into it. Yeah. Screaming. I took a lot of pride in those people.

Yell and scream. I'm into it. I was like, that's my mom. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It seems like you got to be like, if your emotions are really getting going over something, you got to go like, all right, let me think about something. How am I so mad? Let me sleep on it. Yeah. That's what you should do. Especially when you're, the older you get, you got to just go like, all right, dude. I mean, these could be my children. Yeah. I need to reel it in a little bit.

You know? Yeah, yeah. I mean, but, you know, I'm not trying to give an opinion. Do whatever you want to do. I saw, I was listening to Feinbaum one time and they had a guest host, I guess, the week before. And that guest host was still in with Feinbaum. And people would just call in and just trash that guy. And I'm like, he's still in the room here. They don't care. Yeah. I was like, take it either. They were like, he was talking about music. We want to talk about football. And it's like...

The guy was, you know, he's talking about what he knows, I guess. What's funny is, like, the radio callers are almost like the first internet commenters. Yes, yeah. And he, like, no one takes the radio callers, like, that serious. Like, no one outside of, you know, I mean, those guys do, but it's like, yeah, they're able to, like, kind of brush it off, but we take the comments. Because they stay. Yeah.

I don't think it's a say because I don't think a regular person's ever dealt with that. A radio personality is like, yeah, dude, people call and hope I die every day. Yeah. And they say the craziest stuff and they're mad we don't do exactly what they want us to do. They're probably pretty used to it. Yeah. But then now video comments, or it's a person that's not used to it, is you can just have a video go viral and you're like a guy that works at...

FedEx and then you're like the country wants you to die and you're like this is crazy now everybody gets a piece of that action where it used to be just I guess I was thinking about if you call in and just trash a player unless that player is listening on the radio at that moment

Or in the studio, he ain't going to react. But if you tweet about him, he can go home that night and then reply whenever. Yeah, now they capture it on the radio, though, and put it on Twitter. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, so you're going to hear it. Yeah. And they're not a fan, you know. We were listening one time when two sports guys on 104.5 got in an argument with each other. Oh, yeah. It was a great one. That was fun. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, look, sports talk's great. But I don't listen to music. I used to love it. It's pretty lame now, though, yeah. Sports talk? I don't even listen to the words of sports talk. I listen to the vibe of it. I'm just like, what are they talking about? I just feel the energy, dude. I go, I don't know. They're not happy. I know that. Yeah, someone's mad about something. Speaking of Vanderbilt...

Stop me if I'm jumping the gun here, but I want to talk through this parlay, this bet I made. Well, I would imagine you're jumping the gun. If you want to say what we're going to talk about. We're talking about gambling. Yeah.

I mean, I want people to realize that you're like, am I jumping the gun here? And you go, what do you want to talk about? I like to talk about gambling a little bit. And today's topic is gambling. I mean, I didn't know if this would be a way to ease into it. I think it would be. You're right. I don't think you would ask, tell me if I'm jumping the gun. You would just go...

Hey, I know our topic today. I have something that goes along with it. Well, you are jumping the gun. I'm excited. I'm sorry. I wanted to mention that we had our fantasy football draft this weekend. Let him get it out. It's a bunch of...

seven-year-old doing fantasy football. Go ahead, Brian. Yeah. It's our 27th year doing it. Wow. That's how I was going to say it. Two years longer than fantasy football has been going. I did look up. I thought, we might have one of the oldest leagues there is. And fantasy football, it started back in the 60s. Really? Oh, wow. Some guy invented it back in the 60s and really took off in the 80s with rotisserie baseball. You guys remember that? Yeah. Wow. Wow.

That's just another word for fantasy baseball, right? It is, but it's called rotisserie league. Oh, I feel like I've seen that. Yeah. Yeah. But are you one of the old, I mean, what's the oldest fantasy league? Well, so some guy who was part owner of the Raiders started it in 1962. They were on a cross country trip and they're like, you know, it'd be fun if we just picked our own players. And they started a league in Oakland in the 60s. And then the 80s.

Some guy started one on the East Coast. It just gradually... It took off. It blew up in the 90s once the internet started. But it's been around in some fashion since.

For a long time. So, no, we're not one of the... We're the oldest one of anyone I know that... There's a Nate Land Fantasy Football League now. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, we all got our own league. Oh, yeah? All right. Yeah. Do I have one? Yeah. Well, there's Aaron Land right there. Here's the Aaron Land League. Oh, I hate fantasy football. Some of these names are very funny. Oh, there's people in it. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. McCole's Butcher. We got Steamin' Hot, the Unbelievable Penguins.

How about it? The Tearshares. I don't understand what's going on. Arizona Triangles. These are references to previous episodes. These are things that they've named their teams. We do a podcast. I like the Arizona Triangles. I like that too. Here's Nateland. Cutlery. Civilian Stations. The Wilson County Fairs. Team Vandy. I like that. Wilson County Fairs. That's super fun. Here's Dusty Town.

We got Bible Talk. Okay. Area 51 Conspiracy. All right. Yee-yee. Okay. Yee. All right. Hines Heroes. HOA Trash Skippers. This is a good fantasy. These are so great. Well, this is actually getting me into it now. I've always hated it. Yee-yee. Frozen Candy Bar Concussion. My sister will love that.

Team Bayside of those? Yeah. All right. Okay, now we're talking. And then we got Batesville.

Not enough players? Nosebleed seats. Bob Ripple pants, according to this. Not Bob Ripple pants. The Lebanon Squirrels. Spring Break Warriors. Spring Break Warriors, that's a great one. Oh, that's really good. According to this. That's a good one. I like the Wilson County CPAPs. They're all great. I'm rooting for you. This is fun. Thank you all for doing this. I'm into this.

Yeah, we're keeping an eye on them. We're seeing how they're doing. Yeah, that was created on the Facebook fan page. Oh. Yeah, we're doing, yeah. All right, that's fun. And Nate Landman made the 53-man roster. All right. Yeah. So he's on the team. He's on the team. So we'll keep up with him. That's amazing. Yeah. Nate Landman. We built him in our lab. Apparently there's a UFC fighter people have told me about. It's called Nate Landman.

What was his last name? It's Nate Land something. I can't remember, but it's very similar. And he's from Clarksville. Landwear? No, Nate Landwear. Oh, wow. He's from Clarksville? I believe so, yeah. That's eight wins. That could be the clothing line. What's his record? Nate Landwear. His record is 16 and four. Wow, he's in the UFC? Eight wins by knockout. When does he fight? His nickname's The Train. Oh, last fight? He just had his last fight. Yeah. Yeah.

And I have that same tattoo on my shoulder. The train. I've got the one at the bottom. What does that say? I don't even know. I don't know. It just says Bates. Bates. That looks like Bates. Yeah. It would be if it's Bates' brother, you know. Or it looks like Bates' son. Went from my brother to my son real quick. Well, I was like, brother. I'm not being that nice. Yeah, it's his son. That's fun. The train.

They call him the train. I'm rooting for him. Sponsor him. Root for the train. Yeah, so go ahead. I don't want to jump the gun here, but I made this bet this morning. So here's the, it's a three-leg parlay. Let's start with you have a gambling problem. Oh, huge problem. Yeah. All right. This is Vanderbilt to win the national championship and the Braves win the World Series and the Titans win the Super Bowl. I bet $2.

Okay? Now, if all those three things happen, I will win $792,000. That's crazy. Wow. That's worth it for two bucks. For two bucks, that is worth it. We'll see what happens. That is worth it. I'm against gambling, but that's worth it. Well, those parlays is how they get you. Exactly. They want you to do the parlays.

They make the odds so incredible, you're like, oh, that's worth it. And it is if it pays off. The payout's insane. But they know you're not going to – one of them's going to be wrong. I mean, no offense, but I think Vanderbilt's really bringing that down. Yeah, those are 100,000 – plus 100,000 odds. I don't see that.

That's what's really making it. I mean, I'm a big fan of Vanderbilt. I love them, but I think that's – they've got a tough schedule. Yeah. Yeah, they've got a tough road ahead. They have a tough schedule, but we'll be all right. Well, I was going to jump ahead here. Somebody bet last year on FanDuel, AFC and NFC championship game, they guessed the score exactly right on both. And it paid $290,000 to one, Huds.

So they bet $20 and won $580,000. Wow. All right. Big payout for the government, too, on that one. Yeah. The government goes, yes. Phil Mickelson bet in 2001. He bet the Giants to win the Super Bowl. No, the Ravens to win the Super Bowl and the Diamondbacks to win the World Series, and they both won. Wow. And he won like $80,000 or something. Wow.

It's a lot of work that you have to go to, like the ones that do get this correct. I'd imagine it's got to take over your life, which would be where the addiction probably comes in. Right. And you have to be just obsessed with it. Yeah, imagine if you put that effort into just a career. Yeah. What might happen? Well, Phil's doing all right. Well, Phil, yes, yes. But at least in these type, I think these you just sit back and you're really just waiting until the championship to even know.

you know, if you're win or lose where some of these like baseball fantasy league, you're keeping up every day. Yeah. That's a full-time job. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not in a fantasy football league. I haven't been for the past few years. Jicks. It's like, I get, it just, it's a whole thing. And you're like, I don't even, I forget about it. I'm just taking a spot from someone that would want to play. Yeah.

And I do want – the idea of it, you do – you kind of want to play. Like, I was – you know, you think, like, I'd like to – it'd be fun to do it. You know, like, you get some friends and you're – but then it's just like, am I – I'm going to just be annoyed. The draft, too, is like – that's a whole – when that happens –

Takes your whole night up. But I mean, people that love it, like you have your group, like I do it. I do love that. It's like we get together once a year and it's like a catch up also. So it's fun. Right. Yeah. Yeah. What'd you do when you were like, you got fired from the, or not when you quit, you're just fired. Your catch up was, uh, you got canceled. You were one of the first ones that ever got canceled. Yeah. Um,

No, you quit your day job. But that was a catch-up. You go back in, and you're like, huh? Yeah. Yeah, those guys see each other every day because it's guys I used to work with. Yeah. Oh, okay. And... Lori Hinkle. Well, yeah, she's not in our fantasy league, but Lori Hinkle did used to work there, and she grew up with the Dusty.

Yeah, work at Channel 5. She's the first person to tell me about Dusty. And to her credit, she's the only one that's ever told me anyone I care about. Because everyone else is like, hey, I know a guy who does comedy. You know what I'm talking about. And it always ends up just being somebody who did an open mic one time. Right. Oh, yeah. At a sports bar. They've never tried it again. And I remember telling her, she's like, I got a friend named Dusty Slay who does comedy. And he's in Charleston now. And I'm like, I don't care. I guarantee you he's nothing. I guarantee you this dude stinks. Yeah.

And I was right, but I got better. I worked it. I worked on it. Yeah. I watched him more like Rusty Slay. I had a guy after a show once, he goes, man, my uncle's a funny man too.

I go, does he do comedy? What's his name? He's like, ah, no, he's just funny. Yeah. That's pretty awesome, dude. Yeah. Hopefully we'll bump into each other at some point. Yeah, just a couple of fun, funny minds. Just got some good stories, dude. What's the one profession, like if your dad, what he does, nobody goes up to him afterwards and is like, oh, I could do all that.

Because nobody knows how he does it. I think they would go up to him, though, and be like, they're trying to figure it out. Yeah. Like, it's this... You know, someone's like, nah, I saw what he was doing. Like, it's like they're trying to... It's a lot of that. I could see that. Or if someone plays an instrument or something, either you know how to do it or you don't. But we've all made our friends laugh. Right. So I think everybody kind of thinks they could do it. Well, everybody is funny. I mean, everybody can be funny. Everybody tries to be funny. But you see it. You see it. When you... The difference of a professional comic and...

not is it's a pretty big difference if you really look at it you can see you know it's like I think as a comic you can see people laugh at jokes that you're like they're just doing an easy kind of joke like they're being funny it's an easy way that they're being funny or they're making a very obvious joke

And you're like, I don't know. Like you see a lot of, cause I think people like try to sell comedy now. Like, so a lot of people that are not in comedy, but they, you know, it could be like a writer or something like tries to be, you know, I'm the funny writer. And you're like, well, it's a different thing. I think that guy though thinks his uncle's funnier than Aaron. Probably the maddest I ever got. I was at an open mic in Nashville, Belcourt taps. And there's, it used to always do a mic after the writers round where these musicians were

would play songs and then they'd sit in the back after and watch the open mic some of them and a friend of mine was just bombing on stage and it was like the room wasn't paying attention he's just bombing and i'm listening to these musicians just talk and they're like and one guy goes i feel like i could do better just off the dome up there and i was just

steaming, furious at these guys. Steaming hot. Being steaming hot. Yeah, I was like, no, you couldn't. You couldn't do better off the dome. Yeah. You musician. Furious, dude. I drove home 100 miles an hour. I was so mad at these guys. Wow. I couldn't say anything about it. I'm like, you guys are such idiots.

You don't know what you're talking about. Well, that's the thing. When you're a musician, you play a song, everybody claps for you, and then in between songs, you'll drop a little joke, and everybody laughs, and now you think that you're hilarious because the pressure's off. You're not up there to be funny. Right. Everyone would applaud if I told a joke and then hit some great guitar chords. They'd be like, whoa, guitar too? Yeah.

But a musician would be like, that's easy. Exactly. You do Stairway to Heaven. It's like a nine-minute song. Between jokes. What's the raisin song? Heard it to the grapevine? Yeah. Yeah.

That was the California Raisin Song. Yeah, California Raisin Song. Oh, okay. What made you think of that one? Because it's super long. And so we've done it like playing cards on the road. And I've had... It's a super long song. And so I've had it... It's playing like on the speaker. Yeah. And then...

When I'll kind of be keeping an eye on everybody, I know everybody's kind of talking, not paying attention. I'll just start it again. And so I started it one time. It was kind of like Mulaney's joke, like replaying it. But I did it where it was maybe 27 minutes. And no one's saying... Because it gets where they stop talking and they just start playing the music. And so you can kind of just restart it. And you have no idea. And I just watch them and they're like...

Finally, someone's like, how is this song? It was like 27 minutes or something that song played. And I just kept quietly. I just would wait till everybody kind of got like, oh, they got talking. You're like, are you kidding me? Just hit it then and then. And then it just, it's back in it. You know, no idea. It's a jam too. I mean, it is. It's a fun one to try to do. Yeah. Like to see how long, you know. I mean, it's Mulaney's joke where you talk about playing that song.

I did that at, I don't know, Malaysia. I did that at Donaldson Bowl once on the jukebox. I put in Barracuda like 10 straight times. Yeah. And about after the fifth or sixth time, just people look around like, this song again? That's, yeah, his joke is, you never heard that Malini joke? It's a really great joke. It's a great joke. He plays...

What's up, Pussycat? I think that's the song. By Neil Diamond or something. Yeah, and just keeps doing it and then goes through watching everybody. They just did it a bunch. Yeah. And then after like four or five times, he slipped in another song. Yeah. Just so they would all go, ah. Yeah. And then after that, he played it again. And where are they at? Just some diner. Oh, a diner. Yeah. It's crazy that bars, I've always thought it was crazy that bars let the patrons control the song.

It's crazy to me that they let you do that because it's so important to the vibe of the bar, the tone. We've talked before on this podcast about how it influences behavior in the bar. And we just let...

patrons control it. It's a gamble. It's crazy to me. It is a gamble. I think that a jukebox is what drives some people to, they will go because of jukebox. Cause it's like, I got to pick some songs. So you go up there and you pick some songs and then you pick some songs and you like, it makes it fun. And, uh, it does make it fun, but it can also do like what we're describing. Somebody can, yeah, yeah.

Somebody can ruin the night for everybody. That's the game you're playing. I stopped at a Waffle House recently, and I was the only one in there, and I sat at the bar. And because I was the only one in there, the staff, there was like five of them. They had nothing to do once they brought me my food. So they just stood there and just kind of stared out.

Because where else are you going to stare? But I'm just eating, and there's just five people just kind of looking my exact direction. You're sitting at the bar? Yeah. I'm sitting at the bar, and they're just kind of looking. It was just so awkward. I love that you go in there, and it's empty, and you take the bar seat. I would for sure get in both. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

Did you play a jukebox? We're just not talking about jukebox anymore. Well, they always have a jukebox in my whole house. At that moment, I'm like, I wish I had a quarter to go play. I'm surprised you didn't have a quarter. I usually do. Some hard candy. Rattle some... You guys break a quarter? Two dimes and a nickel, please. Break a quarter.

Can y'all break a half dollar? You got two quarters up there? And they go, what? You have a half dollar? He goes, I only got silver dollars, half dollars. Also, I think it's been a while since you played the jukebox. I don't think we're getting quarter songs anymore with the jukebox. They're expensive now. Bars, everyone has the app on their phone, you know? It can be like a dollar. Oh, because you can pay with credit cards too on your phone? Oh, yeah. Well, they do it. Yeah, that could get, you know...

I had to get air in my tire this weekend, and so they have it where you can just do your phone. And you can do like Apple Pay, or you can put a credit card in or whatever. But I went to get air. I'm talking about something not jukebox related now. But there was a jukebox there. But I go to get air. You know, when you go get air, the odds of someone getting air are basically zero. Yeah.

It's just zero. The air is always open. No one's ever there. And I tried to get air three times and had to go to a different place.

I go to this one, this lady's getting air. I kind of brush that one off. I'm like, all right, whatever. And we drive all the way over to this other one, and the air is empty. I start pulling up, and a guy backs a lawnmower. And then we're like, is he just going to block it? He gets out. He needs air. I go to another one. There's a guy there. I mean, I'm pulling up. It was like a time that a sound went off. It was like, everybody go get air now.

And you're like, after three times, you're like, well, what do you want me to, like, how are this many people getting air? I had to get air this morning. Oh, yeah. And I really did think it was going to be like a quarter. Yeah. Last time I got air, it was $1.50. Yeah. For what? Like 90 seconds, probably? Yeah. Like not even that. I had a tire. It's a long. It feels like it's long. Okay. I got around to all tires. Yeah, it's not like the vacuum. Yeah.

I think you've got to be ready, though. It's like, go take this stuff. I did it with, I showed Harper, I go, Harper, get out. I'm going to show you how to put air in a tire. Yeah, you've got to have all the things screwed off before you're ready. I was like, you've got to be ready. I go, this can't be a don't get out, put it in, and then think about what you're going to do. You just wasted time.

A good minute of your air. That's a nickels worth of air. Now you have 96. It's not the time for an Instagram story. No. You got to. Don't Instagram story putting the change in. Do you know how lazy I am? I had a tire losing air. And for probably two months, I filled it up every day at the gas station. Because it would lose air constantly.

instead of getting it changed i drive i hear the podcast i fill up at that gas station yeah close to your house and then i fill it up there again on the way out because it lost so much air and then i filled it up before i got home yeah i just did all that rather than just get it see that's actually not lazy i mean that's the that's more work than i thought you were gonna go you know lazy it was you just pulled into a tire discount

And then they go, do you want to get out? And you go, no. And then you sit there and you just talk to them from the car and said, my tire's flat. It's that front one. They're trying to jack it up with you in it. And they're like, golly, they had two jacks out there. One jack's for your side. But I think it's a laziness of like, I know where the air is. Yeah.

But like getting a new tire, that's a whole thing. It's the laziness of you like you got to go talk. You don't have to talk to anybody to keep redoing this. Right, right. And the laziness of that, I got to go be involved. Yeah, I understand that. I mean, you're like, I'd rather just, yeah, I got to drive there. What are you going to keep my car? You're going to blah, blah. You're like, I'd rather just have a wreck on the road, tire flies off, and then I got to walk to the next exit. Right.

Yeah. And you would rather risk that. Yeah, that's the gamble. And then you'd be okay with it. If it happened, you'd be like, yeah, it was worth it. Made my own bet. That's what gambling's all about. Yeah. That is the gamble. All right. Good segue, Dusty. So this weekend kicks off the biggest time of year for sports betting. First weekend of NFL football season. It is blown up in the last few years because in 2018, the Supreme Court announced

ruled that states... This is Supreme Court. We've done this episode on Supreme Court. Go watch that one. Supreme Court ruled that states, individual states, could do online sports gambling in 2018. Before then, I think it was just Nevada that could do it. But New Jersey followed a lawsuit and when all these Supreme Courts, Supreme Court ruled. So now 30 states can do online sports gambling.

And so now it's just blown up where all these online apps, FanDuel, DraftKings, all that. You see commercials for it. The NFL now promotes it. You see point spreads mentioned in telecast and stuff like that. They were all against it, but now they're all for it because they see the money that's going to be made in it.

And then fantasy sports is blowing up too. There was two major league baseball players that got in a fight earlier this year. Yeah, that was awesome. Over fantasy football. Yeah, that's crazy. One guy slapped another guy because the guy cheated or something in fantasy football, right? Yeah, wasn't Mike Trout the commissioner of that fantasy league or something? I think so. How do you cheat in fantasy football? I guess if Mike Trout wasn't keeping the rules straight. Oh, it was like a trade or something, right? I think so. Yeah, Tommy Pham slapped Jock Peterson during batting practice.

Over that. Yeah, it was pretty fun. Yeah. All right. So now over 46 million people play fantasy sports in America. Wow. That's a lot. That's a lot. I bet all the money's going to go to good stuff. Where does the money go? Oh, to the company if they don't. Yeah, and then I guess the states get the sales tax on it. Yeah. And I don't know how they, I guess they can just track where you're doing it at because you have to play it in your state.

Like in Tennessee, if you're a resident of Tennessee, you can't go to another state and play, they said. And do what? Do online gambling. Like you need to be in your state. I think you can. You've got to be in a state that allows it. Yeah. If you're not in a state that allows it, it won't let you do it. Or you use a VPN, you know? What is that? Is that what you do? What is that? You can use a VPN to assume an IP address from a different part of the world. Oh, okay.

But if you go to Kentucky... Oh, that's what people have been doing. That's how they were doing online gambling when it was all illegal. Maybe. Yeah, maybe. I don't want to give people instructions. I'm sure you're the only one that's figured this out. No, no, no. I don't know. I don't know. That's why I said maybe. I don't want to jump the gun, dude. Yeah, yeah. If you go to Kentucky and did online gambling there, would you have to pay sales tax in Kentucky if you won? I don't know. I bet so.

Yeah. I don't know. Why would you go somewhere else to play online? I just mean if you're on the road. Say you're on the road and you're at Comedy Off-Broadway and you're in your hotel room bored. Yeah. And you want to gamble. Oh, I think you would be registered, though. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I... I don't know. I don't know how fun this is to talk about. So...

I just pictured you driving across the border to gamble for no reason. Yeah. You got to buy a lottery ticket and you got to drive over. Well, that's what I used to do growing up. You know, in Alabama, you had to be 19 to buy cigarettes and we didn't have lottery in Alabama. So when we were 18, we would drive to Georgia and buy lottery tickets and cigarettes. Oh, okay.

You'd go back to the trailer and scratch them off. Yeah. You know, you could smoke cigarettes at 18, but you couldn't buy them till you were 19. We could smoke them at any age. Just if anybody's listening. Yeah. I mean, you know, don't do it, but, um, but we were doing it. Yeah. And, um, yeah, I mean, you had, yeah, you legally, you couldn't buy them in Alabama until 19. Yeah.

But every other state, because people, I met people. Funny enough, it feels like Alabama is the place where most kids smoke. Yeah. Yeah. That's probably why they made it 19, because they were like, we got a giant problem. We got to turn it off this time. Because we got too many kids. But gambling is illegal in Alabama. No lottery, but they have the dog track there. I've already talked about this. The guy named Butch that was there helping people pick numbers. That's the kind of guy I'm talking about that, like, if he put that...

effort into like a career, he would have probably done something great. Yeah. He was probably 15 teeth away from that. You know what I mean? He needed. Like this is the only job he could have. Yeah. Right. Well, it's, it's, you know, I think I've talked about that girl, that girl that was like a, could have been an Olympic star. Then she became a big drug Lord. Like, it's like someone that's like got greatness in them. It's just a matter of where they're going to use it.

And if they, you know, they, and I would think greatness is about obsession. And so obsession is like, you got to obsess and you got to be kind of like obsessed enough that you never get tired of obsessing over it. And then that's where you then, because that's where it's the 10,000 hour, that kind of idea. You got to do something that you would be like willing to do. So, I mean, they, they, they probably have the mentality or they have the drive to go do that. But like this dude just into like,

You know, he can't let other vices get out. Other stuff gets in the way or whatever it is. And then he becomes just obsessed with the dog truck. Thinks about it probably all day. You think you need to be competitive too? You think that plays a role in it? I mean, you do, but it's like, it's like different. Like in comedy, we could be, we'd be, we're competitive. I've been very competitive and you do it. I think you do it kind of quietly. You do it in your own head, but,

And you're like, well, even though it's like a subjective, there's no really rhyme or reason to it, but you just see someone get something and you think, I should be getting that. But I would take it as like, well, I got to work harder to make sure that I cannot be denied that because I've built my status up so much. At the beginning, it was like, that's what I would do. And so it's not like, you know, it's a good... My buddy Doug said what's...

which is a great thing. You don't need someone to lose for you to win. So it's like competitiveness is... I know in sports you do, but in general, to get where you need to go, you don't need that person to go down for you to go up. It's not a zero-sum game. Yeah. It's like... I don't know. Is that what that means? It's like... Yeah. So you just... That's how you got to think of it. You got to think...

I don't, I like, gosh, I wish that person didn't get that. And so like, I wish something would happen to them so they don't get it. That's a horrible way to think. Cause now you're even rooting for someone else. Well, the only thing you can control is you. So you need to go, well, I need to get,

up. So then they can't even like deny me. Like I can go stand there eye to eye with them and they go like, yeah, you're supposed to be here too. Cause you've done, maybe I had to do more work than that person did. That's just what happens. And that extra work pays off. Like even featuring in clubs. I remember featuring and people would come up to me sometimes and they would go, oh man, you should have been the headliner. And it's like, well, the headliner is not

It's not like they were like, oh, it's either that guy or this guy. And, you know, it's like, you know, they put in the work. They're there. I'm happy to be where I'm at. But it's like they would go, oh, and they act like they're keeping me from doing it. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like people are trying to be nice, trying to say something like it's like, but yeah, the headline is do an hour. Like, yeah, there's a lot of different options. The middle spot is usually the best spot because it's like there's nothing to do with sweet spots. Yeah.

it's a kind of a perfect kind of thing. Uh,

Yeah, but it's like, yeah, someone doesn't have to go down. I mean, I took that to heart. And then you hear him go to the host and be like, hey, you should be the feature. And you go, golly, dude. And the headliner, what does the headliner do? He goes, you should be in theaters. He goes, I mean. This guy's just building people up. He's tearing people down. You're like, this guy's awesome. Yeah, yeah. What about people in the audience? Oh, they should have been the host. Yeah, yeah. He goes, everybody did great. Yeah.

I was going to say, you do a great job of striving for greatness. You are a great comedian and a great golfer because you really put in the work into it. You're below average in a lot of things, but the things you really focus on, you're really... Well, you have drive. Yeah. Drive is... But it's also a mentality, too. I mean...

I strive for average. That's my problem. When I'm on a showcase show, I'm not thinking I want to be the best. I'm usually thinking I just don't want to be the worst guy on this show. Everything in my life is just – I went to Middle Tennessee State. It has it in the name. I'm not a college dropout. I didn't go to Notre Dame. Everything's just average. But it's a mentality that you do strive for greatness. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's – yeah, you got to –

You got to have like, you want all of these things. And then, so you got to be like, well, how do I get them? I don't know. It makes it easier. Like almost to be like, this is how, and like, it's like things that are, you know, like, I mean, they're kind of whatever, like, it's like, it could be some kind of like materialistic kind of things that you're like, I want this, or maybe it's a status you want, or it's, uh, you know, I want to be like,

I remember just wanting to be able to not have to take an Uber at the airport. I wanted to be able to somehow get to a place where if I get off the plane, they have my name on it. And it was like, just because it was like, you know. That's a lot better when that happens. Yeah, it's like when you do years and years of like, where's the, you know, I'm either taking a cab or you got to find the Uber thing and there's everybody up there and like all this and you're doing it every single week. Like you just little things that you're like, God, if I can get just a guy that's like, all that stuff's done.

And then I just go to him and then I get in the car. And so like, that would be, that's like one of the things. And so you're striving for like, well, I have to get to a level to do that. And now I could, it's like, you can go broke and lie to yourself that you can afford it. Or you got to get to a level where either someone's providing that for you or, or you can afford to go do it. And you just do little stuff like that. You're like, all right, now I'm there. And you know, if I get to that,

then that answers a lot of questions on the other side too. So if I'm at that level, that means I'm higher up as a comic. So all the people I'm, were competed with, maybe I'm past a few of them now, or I'm at least with the ones that were dry, you know, that you're like, we're like, God, how to get there. And you put the goal, maybe not on the, it's, it's, it's like, it doesn't, and I still have a hard time. That's why I was talking to Doug, but I still have a hard time. I don't need to be putting stuff on.

It's not about that other person. It's not about, you know, it's not about, you know, like somebody the same, like not talking about all. Like, I mean, I don't think this council is talking as. No. No. But it's like. Well, I don't know what you're about to say. Yeah. I go, all right. Well, I don't think women should vote. So. Yeah.

Is that too much? No, I think only women should vote. I don't know. I'll do whatever you want. Let's have dogs vote. We have two doors. They walk in one, and whatever dog walks in the most gets in. What was I saying? You were about to tell us something. The secret to comedy? What was I about to say? I don't know. You were talking about...

I really, I could say about, about people. You don't, I don't necessarily need people to come down and see me go up, but I know that you talked about this a bit, but it's like seeing people that are above you and then just on your own, suddenly you're like past them for whatever reason is very satisfying. Now it's not satisfying because they're not where you're at, but just to see your own progress.

To be like, oh, I remember looking up to that person. And now I feel like my career is better than that. It's very satisfying. It feels good. It feels good. And it's not about them at all. But it's just a... And I think you should go tell them. Yeah, yeah. And go, dude, I used to be so jealous of you. And now when I look at you and I know you could never even dream to be where I'm at. Yeah.

That feels great. I mean, you know, name some names. And you give them $5 and you go, you probably need it. I need it. And then you leave. Well, you know, it's like, that's the thing. It's like, you can have those thoughts, but also feel sorry for that person. Also be like, Oh, I always thought they were so funny. I wish that their career was going better. It's, but it's all boils down to that person. And so it's like their career, your career is, even if you're in a subjective field, like we are, where it's, it's, you got to get an audience and it's,

There's no like, well, this guy is the best or this guy. It's not a sport where it's like he wins, they lose. It's up to that person. That person has to go do it. And I think we're both in the scenario, or like everybody, you don't grow up with anything that's crazy that's going to

send you forward you got to really go earn everything and right you got to go get it all and that helped me seeing my parent my parents went and earned everything they went and got everything and they and then you just see that aspect and you got to go get it and then that's all that matters and when you realize too when you do pass people and then you realize like I don't really have a

It's not that I feel sad for them, but you don't have any emotion towards it. It's not like you're there like, I want them to know I passed. You realize how stupid it was that I made that whatever in my head. Because I'm like, well, I don't care about it now. Why do I not care about it? Is it because I'm doing better? And it's like, well, I don't have any emotion towards it. And so you're like, all right. But I mean, I say all this saying you do need this stuff.

to that stuff is stuff that you can make up in your head that like keeps you like you have your weird thing. I want my name on that when I get picked up. How do I make that happen? And I don't want to do it too soon. I don't want to do it too late. I want to do it when like and that's a good way to do something that's not as like on someone. But I have a very hard time with doing that.

The other side. There also is scenarios where for me, like back in Charleston, I used to try to help people. Like they would ask me to help them write or whatever. I remember one guy in particular asked me to meet up with him and help him write. So I was working with him and I was just trying to get him to clean it up a little bit.

So he tried it clean a couple of times. And then one set he was like on stage and they just like, he was like, Oh, people always try to tell me to be clean all the time. I was, you know, he's like, Oh, but they don't have a late night. They're not on the tonight show. And I think about that guy sometimes. And I think, Hmm, I wonder if he has seen what I'm up to lately.

And that makes me feel good. Yeah. Yeah. That, I mean, I'm sure he has seen what you're up to. And it's going to make you feel good. That's it. There's nothing wrong with it. I would, you know, you're, you got a little satisfaction of like, you know, that, but that guy would have driven, that would have driven you.

Yeah.

do you want that guy to be down no but you're like i get excited that i did show you know yeah yeah because you're because none of us are perfect so you're going to have these kind of things and you got to be like all right they're there and you know that they're there yeah but i had to where i need to be like if i want to go up it's like you can't you can't hope someone goes down and i can think of it it's not even i can think of with other comedians it's not even comedians it could

be another person or another this or someone you know and this and blah, blah, whatever. And then you're putting all this stuff out, you know, being like, well, there are people I have it in regular life with social media. If you see people on Instagram and they post stuff and you see them post like, oh, they look like they're having this life.

that's like, man, they're like, family's awesome and all this kind of stuff. And then a lot of that's not real. Like they're going to, like they're in fights, they're in whatever reason. And, and it's like, well, is it going to make you happy if you, you know, are you see that they get divorced later? And then you're like, you, if you can find yourself like, you feel not like you feel good about yourself and you're like, well, that shouldn't be the case. And then you, but then you have to realize you got to realize that, yeah, this stuff's not real. Like they're,

They're posting you the highlights. And that's coming from a place of insecurity on your own part, too, probably, if you're looking at that other person going, I hope it falls down. Yeah, it shouldn't be our. But, of course, you do. I want to find a weakness. I would always have that. I'd always have it with comedy. If there was other clean comics starred, and if they cursed on stage or were dirty, I would feel satisfaction.

Because then I would know, like, I'm not competing with them anymore. And, like, so then I would be able to, and I, you know, I don't know if I should have done that, but I, like, I shouldn't have done it. But it's like I did.

I thought that all the time. Like, I would just catch someone that was clean, and I'd be like, golly, I feel like I'm not, you know, I'm competing with this person. I'm not going to physically do something to them. I'm not going to try to mess with their career. But the second I saw them show the weakness of this, I just was like, all right. Yeah, I would say that. I would pound on it and make them, no.

I would see that in competitions. Like if I were in a standup competition and then I w I would watch someone on stage and I'd be like, Oh man, I feel like it's me or that person. And then they would like do some weird religious joke or, or political joke. And I would be like, all right, I won. I just won because they just divided the audience with their, and I'd be like, all right, they had them. And then, and then I would win. Yeah. And, uh, and that felt good. Yeah.

And then you go talk to the judges about the moon landing. And then they're like, God, we should have voted for that other guy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I keep it all off stage. I don't put it out up there. Yeah, I keep it on podcast, guys. They polled Americans the biggest gambles in your life. And the three biggest were changing careers, getting married, moving to a new city. And, I mean, would you say those are...

probably marriage wasn't the biggest gamble, but yeah. Uh, no, I mean, you know, Laura made me do it. I didn't have a choice. Yeah. And no, no choice. No, Laura was, yeah. Laura's not a gamble, but you've talked about how you moved to LA. Well, you know what? Yeah. LA to here was the bigger gamble. Cause at first you didn't even want people to know it. Yeah. Yeah. That was probably the biggest one. Uh, moving to Chicago, New York. I mean, you're young and like, it's like you say, you kind of like you're dumb. I don't have a, I don't have a career.

But yeah, moving from LA to Nashville was. But that was a big motivation. Anytime you start feeling uncomfortable, it's time to make a change. You should always feel a little uncomfortable.

Once you start feeling too comfortable, it's like you're just sitting in comfortableness and it's nice. And it will, the world is passing, every second you're comfortable, the world is passing you by. Someone's learning something that you're not learning. Someone's out doing something you're not doing. And I mean, there's going to be, I'm not saying everybody has to live in this state. If you're trying to get to some kind of thing, that's a big thing to think of. Like you just can't be, anytime you start going like,

I don't have to really do anything right now. You know, when I moved New York to LA, that was, that was one too though. Cause it was like moving out there. Cause then I started doing, I wasn't doing shows every night. And I, first I was like, ah, it's nice not to have to go up every night. You know, I went eight years of going on stage every night. And then it just felt, then I felt a panic of like, yeah, I'm just sitting, I'm like getting backwards. Like I'm not, I'm getting less funny. I'm getting like, you know, I'm not in the rhythm of it all. I need to be, you need to be in it. So I think about when you,

falling on the ground. If I got pushed to the ground right now, it's going to hurt. But if I wrestled every day, I could still at 43 fall on the ground every day and feel okay. Because I would be hitting the ground every day.

But when you don't hit the ground every day and you're like, I don't want to fall because you're like, it's going to hurt. And so it's like that. You've got to be in it and just like, baby, and just getting beat up every day and around it. And if you're not doing it, other people are, and they will pass you, and they will pass you by. And you'll get so defeated that you're never going to get to go catch them because you're just going to be like, why did they get? Because they kept going. All you've got to do is keep going.

Yeah, you have to. I mean, that was the hardest thing about COVID was like for in that matter of like, we there's nowhere to perform. And it was like, Oh, man, I mean, I guess the other thing was that everybody had to stop. But it's also like you don't get better at comedy not doing it.

What's the biggest gamble you've made? Well, I think, you know, I'm not believing in COVID. But I, uh, that's true. But, uh, I, uh, you know, I moved from my hometown to Charleston, South Carolina when I was like 21, uh, for no reason, really. I just wanted to move. And lots of people that I grew up around were like, don't do that, man. What are you doing?

But I just was like, needed a change. So I made that move and then quitting my job that was a full-time job with benefits and all of these things and then selling my car. Also, I didn't really know why I was doing that. And then moving from Charleston to Nashville to pursue comedy, which seemed to make sense to no one. Yeah.

all gambles. And then, you know, I got married too, which I do think getting married is a gamble to a degree because you're like, uh, agreeing to, to be intertwined with this person, hoping that they're just going to keep going along with the stuff you believe. And for my wife, that's difficult. You know what I mean? I got, I throw some crazy stuff on her. Yeah. I got to go along with this now. Yeah. Yeah. That's probably the hardest thing for, uh, uh,

Specifically, probably our two wives. Yeah. It's the... Yeah, I mean, 11 o'clock, I can just be like, here's all... I mean, last night, I was like... I looked up dogs because I was like... I thought...

I kind of wanted, I was like, you know, I wouldn't mind taking, I, I've made fun of people taking dogs on the road. Like you think it's ridiculous, but then you, you know, then I find my way where I think, well, it's okay if I do it. Cause I'm an idiot and I lie. Like, I don't, you know, it's like, cause you just, what are you doing? Taking this? You can't be taking that. I'll just end up doing the thing. Well, I wish I could do that. And then I find a way to make it okay in my head. But, uh,

So, I'm sorry for everybody that's had a dog, and I've quietly, I've never said anything to anybody, but I've, in my head, I was mad that you had a dog. Ow. Thank you.

And I don't even have a dog yet. But, so let me see. Let me get one, then I'll say I apologize. Right now, I'm still mad. Yeah. I'll still be mad. I can still, because I'm not. You think about getting a little, like, purse dog to take on the road? No, no, no. I just thought about getting, like, a dog for the, like, to have with us on the bus. You know, it's like we're taking the bus everywhere. And, like, I was like, I just want, like, a little buddy that walks next to me. We got Holly. Holly's kind of,

Holly's here with everybody. And then I was like, just a little buddy that's just kind of with me. And I was looking at like Basset hounds. Like those are, you know, fun. And I can't get too big. Like Nick has like, the dog's too big. It's a lot for Nick. Oh yeah. So then it's like, I'm trying to get a balance of like,

You know, it could be a bulldog or something. I don't know. I just look at adoption, like all this stuff. Bastard hounds are super fun. And that little thing just jumping in bed and bunk with me. You're like, it's kind of that. You got your little buddy. And so I was like, I went down a whole thing

And what I did before that was looked into if I should start learning how to do MMA. Those were my two searches last night. And I get down a hole. I'm watching videos. I mean, I finally get off the dogs to go like, you got to wrap it up. You know, I'm just trying to watch a movie or something. And then I start watching YouTube videos on which MMA I should do for self-defense. Yeah.

and I'm like down this thing of like, do I want to go learn jujitsu? Like in theory, I want to learn it. Then I'm like, do it. And I woke up today like, do I want to learn jujitsu? Like there's so much stuff I want to, like I do want to, it's like I want to go hunting. I want to learn how to hunt. I want to learn how to, you know, shoot a gun more. Like it's like, I've never done like a ton of like proper, like or whatever, you know, go learn stuff. And then it's like,

I don't know. It fades away after a while. Yeah, so what I did is I got a dog that knows a little jujitsu and has two guns. Yeah. That's the way to go. Yeah. Well, the way to go is you get a German Shepherd. That's the way you go. Because that's the other one I thought. I was like, if I get a German Shepherd and you get them trained, I mean, that's better than a gun. You would have the protection to be a German Shepherd. I mean, they're so obedient.

Our dome and pitcher looked at them. They're supposed to be great dogs. Yeah, you get a German Shepherd and a gun. That way you can shoot the person while the dog's attacking them. Yeah. It's like your tiger trip. It's like the tiger trip. Yeah. You can hunt with them too? I don't know. If they want to go, I don't know how they, you got to ask them. That's how smart they are. You feeling it today? He goes, I don't know. He goes, I'm all right.

Do you need me? I go, yeah, doing some quail hunting. I don't even know. No, I'm just doing fishing, hunting. I think what you're talking about, though, with these gambles and moving to states, what happens is you move and you've, you know, you still have friends that you stay in contact with, but everyday people, you've lost them all.

And so now, and that's even quitting drinking for me. It was like, you basically lose all your friends. There's some that are still around, but it's like, so now your horizons are broadened because you're like, you have to find new friends. You have to find new things. You got to find people that, that want to hang out during the day and not go to a bed at four. People who actually want to remember the conversation you're having with them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're younger, but it was probably a gamble to give up a Notre Dame degree to do full-time comedy. I didn't give up. I mean, I still have the degree. Yeah, yeah, you're right. I know what you mean. Yeah, it was September of 2019. I saved up. I had just signed a contract to do some dates with Chris. John Chris. And then, you know, a couple months later, that went away. And then COVID came a couple months later. Why did that go away? Yeah, what happened? I can't.

So, yeah, I was like five months into being a full-time comic, and I felt like it was a huge mistake. Yeah. Because nobody was doing comedy anywhere. Thankfully, in the South, we were back doing it pretty quick. But, yeah, I definitely went through a period there where I was like, this was a gamble that did not pay off. But, yeah.

That was two years ago. I remember seeing you at Bobby's Idol Hour the first time. Open mic. Being like, dang, this guy's good. Hey, thank you. I mean. You should have told him that night. That'd been nice. Yeah. I think I did. I think he did. He sent me a Facebook message. Yeah. It meant a lot at the time. He said, I would never say this to his face, but that kid's got some. Bates' years was probably when you quit your job. Yeah, I mean, I had a

full-time job for 20 years almost. I was a manager and quit at 43 to do stand-up comedy. Well, I think an even bigger gamble, I mean, you had a baby at 50 years old. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I mean, that's... Well, that just happened, so now I'm getting nervous. Right, so we don't know how that's going to pan out. He did more of a parlay. Yeah. Job, marriage, three-team parlay. Three-team parlay. Yeah.

And they go, all right, I think that's common. You go, here's a catch. Deep in my 40s. That would be the part. That's your odds of the parlay. So you did. You made it. That would be the bet. That would be the odds. Because if you're like, all right, if you're 20 and you're like, I'm going to have a full-time job, married and a kid, you ain't going to win any money if you're going to bet on that now.

Quit my job at 43. Get married at 57. Have a baby at 70. Come on. The odds are through the roof. You bet a dollar, they're going to give you $70 million. That's right. That's right. It's the biggest gamble. There you go. I remember I used to be obsessed with this video of Bill Burr talking on his podcast. And somebody writes in and is like, I'm thinking of...

quitting my job teaching and being a full-time writer. And he just goes on this rant. And what he said was, even if you follow a dream or whatever, even if you don't achieve that dream directly, you always end up somewhere better than you were before. Yeah. So I stuck to that. I listened to that all the time when I was...

struggling, you know, and then... Well, yeah, it's like, even like... A couple years, how long you done comedy? Five years? I mean, not long enough to reflect on it in this way. But even... Hey, man, I remember way back. It goes way back when I was just moving. Yeah, there's still time. But it's like, even when I left my hometown, it's like, if...

I was like, if this doesn't work out, I just can go back. It's not like the door's closed. Yeah. That's what I mean. I never had... Yeah, all the jobs I had, I could go back to. Yeah, right. That's why his is pretty big. Yes, absolutely. Because he was old, not promising. Yeah.

It was a career you'd advanced in, right? Yeah. You'd worked your way up. Yeah, from right out of college till 43. How long were you there? Almost 20 years. Wow. Yeah, and he went in there and goes, I think I want to be in front of the camera, and they go, ooh. And now he's back to radio. Yeah. Yeah.

That's true. Some examples of guys who did bet on themselves and their company, Chick-fil-A, when Truett Cathy decided they're not going to be open on Sundays, everybody said that's ridiculous. That's one-seventh ridiculous.

of your business profit that you're not going to be having. But what it did is kind of the opposite effect. It gave people this certain sense of urgency that, ah, they're close. We got to go get our Chick-fil-A. It kind of created an opposite appeal to people to go do it. And it also conveyed a sense of caring community people, whether they realize it or not, do like the fact they said that people have some morals. Yeah. And also every employee is guaranteed one day off a week. Right. Yeah.

And they know what day it is. So if you're friends with people that you work with, you can get together on Sunday. People like that they're not open on Sunday, but do you think...

The amount of money they'd make if they were open on Sunday would offset the amount of people that would be upset that they opened on Sunday. I agree. I think it makes you stand out. Yeah. You're your own thing, and you're always reminded. Because you know when people go, I'm going to go to Chick-fil-A, and then you're like, God, Sunday. And you forget. I mean, I've had that a million times. Everybody's had it a million times. So it's like, I think you're not even... You don't even count Chick-fil-A as in with McDonald's or...

these other ones like you count it's its own separate kind of thing you don't say if you don't want to go get fast food you wouldn't say i'm gonna get fast food you and i feel like you're like i'm gonna go get chick-fil-a you say where you're going yeah versus i mean you can say running mcdonald's but it's like i feel like chick-fil-a is like look yeah it's its own category it's looked gracefully at like it's like you go bring chick-fil-a and

And you're working in an office. People are like, oh, I should have got Chick-fil-A. You bring in McDonald's. I mean, they're like... You show up with Hardee's biscuits. They're like, my God. You got your truck breakdown. Yeah. I don't know. What are you doing? You doing some construction? We doing construction today? I've never gotten Chick-fil-A and been like, oh, it's not that good today. Yeah. But I have gotten Hardee's the other day and been like, what's going on here? There was a Hardee's by my trailer park growing up. And I used to eat... We used to eat there like, I don't know, four times a week. Yeah.

I had Hardee's the other day. I was like, oh, man. I was like, this is disgusting, and I still kept eating it. Well, Hardee's, Carl's Jr., Hardee's. But the Hardee's is...

I think they had their heyday. They got a hot breakfast. They got a good breakfast. They got a good breakfast. Yeah, go to their breakfast after that. I think the Thick Burgers are still doing well, man. You remember when they came out? Yeah, it was a big deal. It was a cultural phenomenon. Yeah, yeah. For sure. In the Weber household, at least. No, it was a big deal here. I used to get a Monster Burger down at the Hardee's. Oh, yeah. The Hardee's did chicken for a while. Mm-hmm.

That was a good run. You remember that? They had a low-carb version of every burger you could get. Yeah, that was the low-carb thing they came out with. Just the lettuce. The lettuce, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they still probably have that. I think so. Yeah, that's a good idea. Elon Musk, when he started Tesla, it was the first...

First real American new car company in 50 years. And in 2008, when the U.S. economy tanked, he was basically out of money, which is hard to think about now. But he had $35 million left in cash, which I know that seems weird to say out of money. Must have been tough for him. Was he on the street? He invested it all in his own company, in Tesla, just to keep him afloat. And now that company is worth a trillion dollars. That's crazy. That's crazy.

It is. That's a giant gamble, too, because you think you only have $35 million, so it's easy to be like, well, I'm going to keep it. And then he's like, no, no, I'll keep playing. Maybe invest $34 and keep them, though. Yeah, you would think, yeah. Just be like, you know, just go to Hardee's. Yeah, yeah. You don't want to be able to get a low-carb burger once in a while. Fred Smith, founder of FedEx, he went to Yale and wrote a business proposal

a paper on better ways to move packages. And they said, there's no way this will work. They gave him a C in the class for it, but he went ahead and started his own business anyway.

And they were down to $5,000 in the company. This is 1971. He went to Vegas, gambled it, and made $27,000. So he came home with $32,000. It was just enough to keep the company afloat. Oh, wow. And now, of course, they're a multi-million dollar company. Yeah.

It was like, I would say, well, if they didn't think it'd work, you must've done something better than that. Anybody that's like, wants to have some idea or something, or someone's going to tell you like, I don't know if that's going to work. That idea is going to, when someone's just says, I don't know if it's going to work, just go, you got to just try it. Like you got to just see, unless it's, unless it's shown to your face that it's not going to work. Cause it's, that's a, we were talking about like, even like,

and stuff like that. You know, there's always like, you're like, well, I'm thinking about doing this. You're like, yeah, but you don't want to... If you go do that, then it's going to... There's always going to be a that. Go just do it, dude. Like, go... You know, if you were like, I want to lose weight eating...

Oreo cookies, which you could. You could eat Oreo cookies only. Huh? It's vegan. It's vegan. So you could eat Oreo. It's your only meal. And you did a calorie count. You're like, I only eat this many Oreo cookies. You could lose your weight. You'd feel terrible, blah, blah, whatever.

But that works. You can do it. Not saying it's the best way, but if you told someone I'm going to do that, they would tell you why you can't. And you just got to be like, just do it. And then you will learn why you can't. And then once you learn why you can't, you will then go, I know for me, I felt terrible eating Oreos.

But I lost 15 pounds. So then I just put it together and was like, all right, well, don't eat Oreos now. Make it real food. And then blah, blah, whatever. But everybody starts with it. Everybody wants to give a... Everyone wants to say, no, no, no, you can't do that. That's going to be... Yeah, people love to be like, don't do the out of the main... Yeah. Out of the lines. Don't. Yeah, that Fred Smith one is exactly that. Yeah. They go, it's a C. Because you're like, that's ridiculous. You're like, well, that guy just doesn't want to think about it.

Because it's clearly not. But if the professor wanted to have the conversation and talk about it, he probably could have been talked into it. What if just the grammar was terrible and everything was misspelled? That's why you got to see. He writes with his fist. It's actually a great idea, but I can't read anything he wrote. I would call it FedEx.

He X and he goes, why would you put, just put X guys? I had a boss. He used to go, keep doing what you're doing. Keep getting what you're getting. Right. And, and so I always thought about that. And it's like, if you don't like what you're getting,

You got to switch it up. Right? So when I wanted to quit the pesticide job, people were like, don't do it. I would not do it in this economy. That's what everybody always says. And I'm like, yeah, but I'm terribly unhappy. Yeah. But they wanted me to keep it because it was... Safe. There was money in it. But I'm like, I hate this. It's the same story as Elon, just a little different setting. I mean, I had, you know, maybe $35. Yeah. Yeah.

I just love that there's people that are, I'm going to quit pesticide. Come on, man. You can't. Don't throw your life away like that. Right. But I had health insurance, a car allowance, a salary, and it was like, but I hate it. Yeah, yeah. In Hollywood, the most famous story is Sylvester Stallone. When he wrote Rocky, he had $106 left to his name, and he optioned it to the studio, but he insisted he had to play Rocky.

And they were like, no, we don't want it. They were going to give him all this money. But he held his ground. And he had to sell his dog. That's how much. Oh, my God. His dog, Butkus, he had to sell for $40 just to have food to eat. I would have bought it for the bus. I would have sold the dog first. You could have...

You hate dogs. That's the first thing I had to do. Well, anyway. So he turned down a lot of money to get to play the role, but he said, you know what? I've got this poverty thing down. I really don't need much to live on. I've sort of figured it out. So if I sell this script and it goes great, I'll never forgive myself. So he stuck to his guns, and he took less money, but he had enough to buy his dog back. The guy charged him $15,000 to get his dog back. No way. Because he knew how many wanted it.

But he did it. And of course, should definitely bought that dog. But I mean, look at what it did for him. Rocky changed his life. Now he kind of stole that story. I mean, it's steal it, but he got the idea from a professional boxer who went 15 rounds with, I guess, Muhammad Ali. He was a nobody, not Muhammad Ali down, just like the setting for the first Rocky. Yeah. Went the distance and came home, wrote the screenplay in like three days and

That's crazy. And optioned it. Yeah. Swingers, the same thing. Jon Favreau wanted to put his buddies in Swingers. Jon Favreau was an out-of-work actor in Hollywood, and they're like, we want Johnny Depp, we want Chris O'Donnell to play these characters, and they're going to give him like $8 million to do it. Yeah. And he's like, I want my buddies Vince and...

and Ron Livingston. And so they turned down like $8 million. They finally got $280,000 to make the movie. Wow. And, of course, that was a huge cult favorite. That was such a great movie with Johnny Depp. Phil... That would have been awesome with him. Phil... I mean, Phil Rosenthal, when they did Raymond, they didn't want him to be showrunner. And he was like, well, I'll just quit the show. Wow. And then he held his ground. Everybody loves Raymond. And they put all that purple in it.

Shawshank Redemption. Frank Darabont. I thought you were saying Rain Man, but you said it real fast. Rain Man. A few more of these. A couple more here. Matthew McConaughey. It's hard to remember. He used to just be a romantic comedy guy. He did all these romantic comedies. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Fool's Gold, Wedding Planner. He didn't want to be just a comedic actor. That was when he was my favorite. I really did like him a lot as a rom-com guy.

He turned down $14.5 million to do another rom-com because he wanted to be a serious actor. And then he took 20 minutes off, 20 minutes, 20 months off from doing movies. And then when he came back, everybody's like, oh, where's Matthew McConaughey been? He's up to something. And all of a sudden he had this new kind of like mystique, like what's he been up to? And then he got in Lincoln Lawyer. Lincoln Lawyer was great. The McConaussence. Wasn't that what it was called?

Yeah, it was. I never heard that, but they said it was the reconnaissance. I never heard that term. You ever see the paper boy with him? He really gambled on himself. Yes, he did. He turned down. He goes, I'm not going to take this $14 million. He was like... I mean, he did get it, but it's funny to me that's the gamble. Because he's already super rich? He's super rich and famous, and he's like, you know what? I'm going to take a gamble on myself. I'm going to take 20 months off. I may only have $20 million, but I'll take...

I'll take a month off for every million I own. And then we'll give you $14 million. I'm going to go live like royalty for two years. Yeah. At a resort. Well, you'll love this one then. Tom Cruise. I love Tom Cruise. I like Matthew P. Connery too. I'm a big fan of both. In Mission Impossible, Ghost Protocol, they did not want him to do his own stunt where he scaled the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.

But he insisted doing his own stunt because he would say that it would make the movie better. And the film's insurance company would not insurance. I mean, give him a policy, I guess. What's the word? Insure. Insure. There we go. Sorry. But he did anyway. That was the gamble. If he fell, that movie would have been delayed. Yeah, and he would have died. The Burj Khalifa is too tall.

I don't like looking at it. It makes me uncomfortable. It's so much taller than the next building. One of these buildings is the Empire State Building. Is that right? No. It might be the Batman Tower in Nashville. That's true. It dwarfs our tallest building. I don't know. The little one might be that height. That's what I'm saying. I bet the Empire State Building... Yeah, you can put it right next to each other. People live up there?

Yeah, okay, so I mean it's about twice as twice as tall It's still very big it starts getting like they start I feel like some of these tall building when they start doing this They're like put a pencil on the top of you like alright. Yeah, like is this even what are we doing? You know they get so like pointy and they're like yeah We got like five points on top of each other and you're like I guess it's the time you get tell people and

They go, what? I live in the tallest building in the world. Wow, what floor are you on? Third. Right, right. But it got points, so it's the tallest. I'll give a couple more. Just a couple golf ones. Let's do some big ones, yeah. Let's talk about the more gambles of just highly successful people. Like, that's just...

When Roy McIlroy was just 15 years old, his father bet 400 pounds, which I looked up, about $450, on 501 odds that Roy would win the Open Championship by the age of 26. And when he did it, he made $341,000. That's pretty cool. That's good. Betting on your son. Yeah, that's fun. I'd like to hear about some that didn't work out.

Yeah, those were harder to find. Like if they were like, Jim from accounting quit his job to pursue acting and now he's the janitor. Oh, there's got to be a million of those. There's some at this table. I'll end on this one and ask you, Nate, if you think you could do this. So this guy, he's a professional poker player, but he just loves to gamble and he loves to play golf. So what do you shoot in golf in general?

It depends on the course. I'm stuck in like 81, 83. This guy shoots an average between 82 to 84. He's exactly me. All right. He's exactly you. So he bet his buddies $340,000 that he could play four rounds of golf in one day in 100-plus degree Las Vegas heat, carrying his own clubs, playing from the tips, and he had to break 100 each time. You think you could do that?

Comes out to walking over 20 miles. Yeah, I think I could. I think I could. I think I could do it. I mean, I've played in the heat before. I honestly think I could do that. I mean, it would be a matter of just all I'd be worried about is the time. But if you – I mean, I'm not going to run. But if you go play and you're – you don't have to wait on anybody and, like, you have to – Yeah, I don't think time was a factor in it. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, you gotta do it in one day. Well, I guess that's true. Yeah. Three hours. So it's like, you know, it's six, it's 12 hours. So you gotta have a, you know, you gotta do this at a time where it's going to be, you'd have to start like right when sunrise. How much could he make?

Well, he bet $340,000. So that's what he makes? With his buddies. Okay. Well, so you got four, yeah, so if you say each round takes you four hours, you know, that's 16, right? 16 hours? So, I mean, you'd have to be, you'd have to tee off at 6 a.m. and the sun sets at,

If it's a late day, 8 p.m., then I guess you're not really worried about the time. Yeah, they didn't mention the time. They just mentioned the extreme heat and carrying his own clubs and walking that and playing well. I say throw in. He's not allowed water. I'll take the bat. Yeah.

Yeah, I think I could do it. He did it. He got the first two rounds he did pretty quickly. Third, he started slowing down. The fourth one, it was getting risky. But when there was five or six holes left, he let some of his buddies buy their way out. That's what they do. If they know you're going to win, they'll let you buy your way out. But then one guy had to cover the rest of it that was left. But he did it. He made it.

$340,000. Yeah. I think I could do it. That's the next challenge. The next challenge. I could go up to... I could go try it. I'd like to try it. I've played 36 and...

I know it's four and it's 100 degrees, but I played in 100 degrees. I hit a lot of golf balls. I can play. You hit better in the heat, right? Doesn't the ball travel better? It usually travels farther. Look, you definitely are super tired. I've been walking a lot now carrying my gloves. I won't be able to cover 340 grand probably, but I'll throw in a little bit. Yeah. 20 bucks. Okay. Something like that. Okay. We're starting off to something. Do a GoFundMe with...

And then I'll be in the gambling stories. And he took a big risk on himself. He raised the money. He raised the money. He goes, all right, is that it? Yeah, it seemed like a good place to stop. I thought that might have a little bit more heat to that story. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty hot. It's pretty, yeah, it's 100 degrees. 100 degree weather, yeah. Yeah, I think it was hot. I don't know if you think we'll spire off into another part two podcast. No, I mean, I got a lot more, but I feel like we should probably stop. Ben Affleck, big gambler, got caught card counting.

Well, dude, those stories are fun. These are like, they got caught. Did he go to jail? Well, I'm sorry that these other stories were not fun, but he got caught card counting. The Hard Rock made him leave. He won $800,000. Yeah, but I stood on it and said, how can it be illegal to be... It's not illegal, but...

He just said they don't like it when you start winning that way. It just seems crazy to me. That seems like... Well, it's rigged against you, you know, so when you start winning, they want to get you out of there. Yeah, but it's... I guess... Yeah, I don't know. It does seem like if you're that good... It seems unfair.

And I read kind of how he did it. It's because I didn't know how card counting worked. But basically, you assess a number, either a plus one or a minus one. You know how that? Yeah. To the good cards back. And you just keep up with it in your head. And then once you feel like it's in your advantage, you start betting more money. And then there's some that are teams where you have people standing around that kind of keep up with you and they signal. I could see that. Being a little bit more illegal. Yeah. Yes. Totally. Yeah. Yeah.

There's a guy named Phil Ivey. He's known as the best poker player in the world. He's won 10 World Series of Poker Bracelets and over $100 million. And he did a technique called edge sorting.

And that's basically where you can look at the back of the cards and see if they're cut slightly different, the shapes of them. And he would ask, you know, he would get a good look at them. And then when they flipped them over, he would remember which ones had a certain edge, certain way. And then he could remember it. And he started winning money that way. And he got sued. They took him to court about it because they said it was illegal.

And then he won all of poker because of that? I don't know if he did it in the World Series of Poker, but he's played professionally where he does edge sorting, where they can look at a face-down card and tell if it's a good card or a bad card because they look at the differences in the back of the card. I love that it's illegal to have a good memory. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a... It's like...

This is the part with cards I think people get frustrated. You do that with poker. If someone says, well, you're not playing the way... They want to play it some way. They lose. And then they're mad that... It's like, well, you're not playing it the way I think you should play it. And you're like, well, what are we doing then? If I got to play it like how... You're like...

When we play poker on the bus, it's like, yeah, it's a zoo. I mean, there's a lot of all-ins. It's kind of chaotic, and that's the game that's being played. Not everybody, you know, we've gotten better at it, but it's like it doesn't go the way you want it to go. And so if you're a good poker player, you'd probably be pretty frustrated. But then you'd be like, then why are you, then go, then get out of our circle. It's like you can't be mad at, like, because someone's not doing something the way you want them to do it.

But the same with casinos. You can't get mad if a guy can remember the back of the cards. Yeah, that's impressive. And then remember what it is. You're like, he's not using any, you know, he's not writing anything down. It's like his memory. It's like, how could you even prove it, you know? Yeah, he would ask the dealer to kind of rotate it around so he could see it better, tell him.

Like, he's superstitious. And most dealers, when I read, will basically go along with whatever you ask to try to help you out. So the dealers would do it. He's just getting a better look at the back of the car. Can you flip it over for me? Yeah. Just real quick. Superstitious, yeah. Just real quick. Flip it over. So, yeah. I mean, I agree. It seems if you're that good, you deserve it. But he's doing pretty well. He's doing good. He's doing all right. Yeah. Phil Hyman. All right. Glad we got back into it. And...

Calvin Ridley was suspended by the NFL for betting on football, including his own team. That was this year. All right. That's it. Pete Rose. Pete Rose. Pete Rose. All right.

Feel good? You feel good? I feel great. Where are you at this week? Yeah. This week I am Vegas. Las Vegas. Speaking of gambling, wow. Yeah, how about that? How about that? I'll be in Las Vegas. Going to do a little edge sorting. A little edge sorting. Going to count cards. Playing a lot of that stuff this week. I don't know how to do it, but I'll read a YouTube video. On the way out. I'll just be sitting there at the deck going, one.

Counting out loud. Plus two, plus three, zero. Four. Everybody be quiet. Let me see that card. I look at it and go, that's stupid. Queen of Diamonds always. I got to remember, half of it's cut off. I would forget that much. God, which one was half cut off? It had the hole in it. Yeah.

He goes, all right, AC Diamond has a hole in it. They put a hole in them. Yeah. Yeah, all right. That's where I'll be. There and then Phoenix. Yeah, I got there. Then California run, Thousand Oaks, Long Beach, San Francisco. Then Phoenix for the special. Be out there. We're doing – and New Mexico running up to that.

Two shows on Friday. There's tickets for the late show on that Friday night. Uh, two warmup shows. And then I will be taping the two Saturday shows. Uh, so come out that, that next week, Lexington, uh, Greg Ward, um, directing, producing Greg Warren special at the comedy off Broadway. Uh,

October 1st is the night we are taping. Saturday, I think he's there that whole weekend. But come out to that. It'd be great. We'd love to have you. If you can come support us doing that, we'd be appreciative. I'm in Portland, Oregon this Friday doing a private show for some folks. Hope it's comedy, but who knows? We'll see. It is Portland. Date night.

No, it's not date night this time. It could be. Who knows? But that's Friday. And then Sunday, I'm in Paducah, Kentucky with Leanne Morgan. Oh, that'll be fun. Big week for me. Sunday night, Zany's Comedy Club. I'm headlining there. That's exciting. And then Tuesday, Wednesday, I'm in Naples, Florida, where I've never been. Off the Hook Comedy Club. And then Thursday night, Tampa, Sidesplitters Comedy Club. Come on out. All right.

All right. I'll be, as this podcast is coming out, I'll be tonight at Zaney's in Nashville. This weekend, Jacksonville Comedy Zone. All going to be great. I want to say I had a great weekend in Greensboro, North Carolina. I had gone there in 2016 and I had

not have a good time and I've been talking trash about the club since then but I want to say it was a complete turnaround love the club and thanks to everyone that watched and shared my five o'clock somewhere video I appreciate that yeah I got a lot of yeah did really well Jimmy Buffett Jimmy Buffett Alan Jackson um Trace Adkins Jeff Foxworthy Larry the Cable Guy lots of John Chris Lee Ann Morgan they all shared it for me very nice there are lots of people I forgot but yeah I shared it Aaron shared it

I did not share it. I didn't either. So, it's still time. After Labor Day. I don't know how much time we have left. That's the rule. Don't share Dusty after Labor Day. Yeah, don't share Dusty after Labor Day. That is what they say. Yeah. All right, well, go check that out. Thank you all, as always. We love you, and we'll see you next week. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the All Things Comedy Network.

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