#125 The World Cup
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Hello folks, and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and Dusty Slay. All right. Welcome everybody. Thanks for coming. I don't know. I'm glad you're here. I was going to show you this one book, Somebody Feed Phil the Book.

So if you watch any, uh, uh, somebody feed filled the Netflix series, uh, it's out now. Uh, Phil Rosenthal, uh, just a wonderful dude and loves food, loves it. Uh,

We went to, what was the place in? Maiz de la Vida. I don't know how to say the first word. M-A-I-Z. It was awesome. So if you watch this season, I am on the episode when they come to Nashville. And we go eat at this place. And it was really cool. It's in East Nashville and they have...

Like a taco bar, like I mean a taco truck out front and then you just go eat inside. It's like a bar, which is I thought was a very smart idea for for those two things to combine, like to be like, all right, we just serve drinks here. You want food? You go out there. And I mean, the truck was.

it was unbelievable. I was watching this show with my wife. I didn't know you were on it. Yeah. And all of a sudden he's just eating with you. It's like, my God. It's crazy. Yeah. It was, uh, it was super fun and, uh, they were awesome. And, uh, I got no tomatoes, no onions, but it was, uh, it was the best. Phil's the best. Uh, he does. I mean, he loves food, man. It's like the real deal. Like he's,

It's crazy. I'll text him if you go somewhere. He'll just be like, where are you at on the road? You tell him. He's like, all right, go to this. He knows everywhere. It's awesome. This show is obviously a big hit. It's a cool show. It was exciting. He asked me to be on it. Go check that show out. Check out his book. Somebody feed Phil the book.

Phil is a good name for a guy that likes to eat, right? Because you're like, you fill your belly. Yeah. You know? Yeah. That really worked out. Yeah. Yeah. Phil likes food. Full would be a better name. Full, yeah. You don't hear it full, though. You don't hear that a lot out here.

Is anybody named Full? I don't know, but imagine your kid was named Full. Yeah. And they'd be like, I bet he is. Full. He's Full. He could not be fat if your name is Full. You'd have to really stay in shape. You also couldn't be too skinny because you'd be like, I'm Full. And they'd be like, no, you're not. No, you're not. It'd be a lot of, I think you're, it's going to be tough for you to not have jokes. You would have to be a specimen. Right.

Right. I mean, you'd have to be, you know, like a UFC fighter type specimen for people not to make fun of you. I've gotten that a lot. You know, waiting tables, I go, hey, I'm Dusty. I'll be taking care of you. I've had people like brush me and be like, no, you're not. Oh my gosh. And then you laugh because you want the tip. Right. I haven't heard that before. Yeah.

They do it that quick? That's pretty, I mean, it's kind of. Yeah, I've had it. You got some people that are just like on top of it. Yeah. Been waiting for that. And they could have caught me on a dandruff day to where I'm like, well, I don't know. Is dandruff dust? I don't know. Dust for the hair. Yeah, a bit of a dusting on the shoulders. Isn't that all dust is, is dead skin cells? That's what I always heard. Oh, I don't know. But then if you leave a house that hasn't been there for a month, nobody's been there for a month, you come, it's dusty.

Yeah, that's what I've always heard. I think you've been talking about it. That's what I've always heard. Whenever dust comes up. When dust comes up, yeah. I've read a thing or two. So we're back. We were here last week, a week off, which is nice. Thanksgiving this week, it's exciting. What's your plans? You know, Laura knows the plans. I think we're here, though. I think it's her family.

And so I think, yeah, I think we're kind of here, which is nice.

Not working this weekend. I'm going to the, no, I'm not going to be at the Tennessee Vandy game, which I'm, Oh, you're going to be with me. Yep. Uh, super excited. Yeah. It's going to be, I'll tell you what. Well, after that South Carolina game, don't get me going after that South Carolina game too. I mean, it looks good for, uh, you know, I mean, we beat Florida. Oh, I did not even see that. Wow. That's awesome. Florida at home. And they rushed the field, uh,

Very politely. The way they rushed the field was so funny. There was a lot of steps there. They were being so polite about it. We're not, you know, we're not a problem. We're not animals. We're not animals. You don't hear about Vanderbilt being a rowdy place. That's not something you hear.

No, it's not. I mean, look, we want to get it routier, but it's, yeah, they went down the stairs and they ran the field and it was fine. They fined them $250,000, which is insane. It's crazy. It's insane. Like you want to, like, it's just infuriating to be like, we're never rushing the field. We do it in like almost the way it looks like that's how you have to exit.

And then you're going to charge us like the same you charge Tennessee or any of these other teams that just like just swarm the field. People get in fights and people might get hurt. Yeah.

Was it the same amount? It said $250,000. I don't know if it was the same amount. I know we got charged. Yeah. It's hard to even call it rushing the field if it's orderly. And I feel like they just came out, they were like $250,000. They gave it to us like that. And everybody else, they're like, well, I don't know. Okay, I guess we got to do it. I agree. Didn't even tear the goalposts down. It's just the easiest way to exit the stadium. Pick up trash. Yeah. I mean, it's, oh, it makes me so mad. It's so insane.

To be like, just let, you know, you're just charging everybody. Like, who are you paying that to? The NCAA? Is that who? You write a check to the, you write. Oh, it's the SEC. Oh, you go, here, SEC. I think so.

Deere, you write that on the thing? Do you write SEC or do you spell it out? Southeastern. I write SEC. Write SEC, then they go, thanks for the $250,000. And what do they do with that? They're really struggling. Yeah. The SEC is. And the memo you put, orderly walked on the field. Yeah. It's been a tough go for the SEC. Where is that money going? Does it go to something?

I hope it goes to something that's good. Just back to SEC. Yeah, just, yeah. It'd be nice if it went to the janitors that cleaned up the field. You know? If they got a nice bonus. I would be on board with that. Yeah. All the money should go to the workers that have to literally work that day. Yeah. They get something. They're rooting for it. I don't think there was a lot of work cleaning up your field afterwards, though.

No, but I mean, you got to go through the stands and get all, like those people. I'm saying it should go to regular people. It's like, I mean, these fines are just all, it's just like everybody's rich and they're just fining each other. So you're at everybody that's just theirs. Like, well, they learned their lesson. And you're like, no, they just hold on that money until it goes back to that, until it comes back. Like it's all just, you know, whatever. Yeah.

It's insane. We won them. The last time we beat Florida at home, 1988. Oh, maybe it wasn't 250. Was it 250? It was $250,000, yeah. Well, I only watched the highlights of the Tennessee-South Carolina game, and my goodness, I don't even think about it. I've been to some South Carolina games, but I don't even think about that team. And they came out hot. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm excited. Look, I mean, you know, we'll see what happens next week. Uh, I,

I think we have everything on our side. Like it's, I, it's a successful season in my eyes for Vanderbilt. We've scored a lot of points. We haven't won all the games, but we've won. We're on a win streak and sec win streak. We haven't been on that a long time. Uh, I'm loving Parkley. It's haven't won an sec game in years. Right. Until this year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm just saying that's how, well, that's how good it is. Yeah. That's how good this year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, in Tennessee's down and, uh,

I don't know. It's fun. It'll be fun. I mean, you know, it's... I'd be so happy. I mean, two weeks ago, I'm like, Tennessee will beat us by 50. And now you're like, I don't know. We score points. Things can happen. Obviously, Tennessee's great. They are. But...

Quarterback just got hurt, which, you know, that stinks for that guy. Yeah, it's a bummer. It is. But, yeah, we'll see how it goes. You know, I saw – I was at Penn State and I saw Coach Franklin. Really? Yeah. Went by Penn State, saw their facilities, and got to say hi to him and stuff. And he's very nice. He's like a grads fan. Does he know you from Vanderbilt days? Yeah. Yeah, I did shows for him. My dad did shows. I mean, he is just an extremely charming person, a very –

Is that like, you get it, like how this dude could walk into your living room and you're like, oh yeah. Like he, the way that all the crew I'm with, you know, like he just, you know, how you doing? I'm James Frank. He would go up to him and talk to him all. And, you know, the fact that he's like, congrats on your career. You know, it's like you could, yeah, there's part of you like, is he, how do you want to be like, hey, I don't know if you remember me or not.

He's like, oh, when your dad did you? He was just awesome. And I got to see him real fast. And then they gave us a tour of the facilities. And it was great. That's cool. It was great. Yeah.

I remember when we were at the Vandy-Tennessee game when Vandy beat Tennessee and you went on the field and told Derek Mason you loved him. Yeah, said I love you. Got a little awkward. Still do love him. I love them all. Yeah. You know, everybody's good guys. It's like you just meet people and you're like, yeah, we're all just good guys. I met Wizenhunt. He's at Penn State. Really? Yeah. And it kind of was like off guard when I met him. I was like, because he coached at Vandy, I think, too.

Like years ago? Maybe. I think I said Vandy – I was not thinking the Titans head coach. Yeah. Because it just – I was just kind of like kind of caught off guard. Yeah. I was like, oh, and then, yeah. Yeah. I mean, he was cool. I just talked to him real fast. But, yeah, it was – yeah, it was fun. I'd forgotten –

And this is back in my heyday. So I worked this weekend with Marty Simpson, who was the kicker at South Carolina. He was an all-American high school kicker. Maybe the number one kicker in the country in high school. He kicked a 61-yard field goal in high school. Wow. And stayed at home, went to South Carolina. And he said his freshman year in college was when they changed the rules where kickers can't kick off tees.

And I forgot that, but they used to have, even on field goals or extra points, they had a little block out there where they would kick off. And then the NCAA said, kickers are getting too good, so let's make them kick off the ground. And he said he was never quite the same. He was very average in college by his words. Yeah.

But I'd forgotten that. They used to have a block out there. Yeah. That's too bad to change it for the first year. For the kickoff or the field goals, too? Field goals. They still have it, obviously, for kickoffs. But field goals, the snapper would put it on a tee. Yeah. When was this? 1990, I think they changed it. His freshman year, right when he started college. That's a tough year to change that. Yeah. Yeah.

But at least everybody will be struggling at the same time. Yeah. He struggled more than others. Yeah. That's too bad. Well, it's crazy to go. I mean, he probably would have been in the NFL. Where did he kick? He kicked for South Carolina? Yeah. I mean, so he could have probably kicked in the NFL. It's just like tough to switch. That's a big switch. It is.

If you go, you know. Four years is probably enough time to figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that is true, too, though. Maybe that'll give him enough time. Yeah. He said he hit a trombone player one time. Really? He hooked it so far left that it nailed a trombone player.

He really let it go to his head, I think. Yeah, I think it got to him. It's like the yips. You can get it where you just probably think you're just so used to one thing. When you see them hook like that, didn't we, Florida missed a kick this weekend, I think.

An extra point. An extra point, and it hooked. Oh, yeah. I mean, it was... I thought someone touched it. I know. That thing was just like a... And I think they said that was the first one he'd missed all year. It was... Yeah, the hooks, like some of them, they just go... I mean, you got to think... I mean, I know it's like...

a 20-yard kick or 15, whatever it is. But to hook so that quick, just to start and just – I mean, it just was like whoop. Hard left. We benefited from it. Yeah. Yeah, fun weekend for Vanderbilt. Me and Bates, Ryan Malone, my brother Derek, we'll all be at the game Saturday.

All right. I'll be pulling for y'all. Thanks, man. Who's Notre Dame play? Notre Dame's got USC. Oh, yeah. In a huge game. Huge game. With playoff implications for USC. Yeah. I was like, finish that sentence. For the other team. Yeah. I was waiting. I mean, the way you started, I go. Yeah, we have no chance. Well, you could end possibly that kid's Heisman run. I mean, if the quarterback for USC has a – because I watched that game, USC-UCLA. It's a great game. And then –

The USC quarterback has a big game against y'all. It's down to him and the Ohio State guy because the other two guys are hurt. Can I be honest with you? It's been kind of fun. It's been kind of fun. A three-loss team. We're out of the playoff hunt. Is this what it feels like being a Vanderbilt fan all the time where it's like, let's just ruin other people's seasons? That's the best we can hope for. It's kind of fun. I don't know if we've ever been a three-loss team. Yeah. So...

I also don't know that Vanderbilt's ruining a lot of seasons. But I mean, that's what you're playing for. Let's go out there. Let's ruin somebody else's season. That's almost as fun. If Tennessee would have beaten South Carolina this week, and then, I mean, you ruin them hard. Yeah. But now... But we have a bowl eligibility to play for. All right. That's a good thing to play for. We're a lot of that. And look, it's nice to beat. Yeah, it is nice to...

to ruin, you know, people's dreams. Yeah. Cause in college, when you're watching a team and they, and they're like, and they, and they lose, you're like, Oh, now we're out of everything. Right. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

Yeah, Tennessee, I feel like that's the thing. I don't know how much they're – because it's like whatever bowl game they're going to get to, it's like who really cares. Right. Once you're like – I think if they weren't going to think they were going to get in the playoff, then they would have been playing for like, yeah, let's get to the top. Because I don't know if anybody expected them – I mean, I think they expected them to be better, but I don't know if they expected them to be – No, absolutely. Where they were at. And so –

Or they might have. The fans might have. I'm sure. But I think if they would have won, it would have been. Now that they lost, it's like now they're going to go instead of going to whatever Rose Bowl. Not Rose Bowl, but they'll go to whatever the Sunday game. I guess you could make it go down more. But I feel like even if they lost, they would just be like,

They're just... Everybody's tired. Like, it was, like, too much. And then it was, like, last week was just like, oh. And then the guy gets hurt. And you're like, you know. But I'm sure...

I mean, they don't want to lose to Vanderbilt. And their big thing they've been saying all year is they're going to do the checkerboard in a visiting stadium, Vanderbilt Stadium. Like, you know how the fans? Yeah. And they were going to do that. Had you heard that? Yeah. And, I mean, I guess they'll still try, but I think some of their wins out of their sale. How great would it be, though, to be – because, I mean, I was even saying, like, Tennessee is back. So how great would it be for them to be like, Tennessee's back and then lose to Vanderbilt?

I mean, that would be amazing. It'd be amazing. A dream come true. It'd be great. It'd be great. I'd love it. Uh, so yeah, I was, I was at, we had great shows this weekend. Uh, it was all fun. Uh,

Everything was great. Figuring out some new material. Where were y'all at? I was with Leanne Morgan in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The night before the game, we were there in Columbia and then Chattanooga. Great, great shows. Yeah. I was in Minneapolis. Sold out two shows. Oh, nice. At St. Paul, actually. Laugh Camp Comedy Club. We got a little overzealous, added another show. Did not sell out.

But how many shows did you do? Three. Yeah. Three shows total. Oh, that's still good. No, it was awesome. But I wanted to ask you guys, I have a question about airplane etiquette. Yeah. For the three of you guys. Okay. So I'm, I'm flying up there to Minneapolis and it's me and Joe Kelly who's doing the shows with me. Nobody in the middle seat, Southwest. Yeah. We're flying and we're, and it's the only empty seat on the plane. So I'm thinking we lucked out, you know?

And then last second, this squirrely dude runs onto the plane and sits right between us. Yeah. Okay. He's twitchy and he's weird. And you're like, whatever, we'll just deal with it. And immediately, dude, I just start to, I mean, horrible smell. Yeah. So bad that I made an audible noise. I was like, ugh. I couldn't help myself. Yeah, enough. Like an enough kind of. Yeah. But I look down.

He's got his shoes off, no socks, and the shoes he's wearing are like First Communion shoes. I don't know a better way to describe it. They're like black, like church kind of shoes with no socks. It has got his feet off, and it smells horrible, dude. The whole side of the plane can smell him. I just wonder what y'all think about that. I feel like socks on is one thing.

but bare feet smelling horrible he probably just sprinted to the plane his feet are sweaty oh yeah smelled that the whole flight yeah it's not against it yeah i'm against ever taking off your shoes on a plane yeah i mean if they don't smell great but i'm still kind of against it i don't if you take them off and your feet are underneath the seat they don't smell you know if you're like i don't smell like i can understand that like when people start putting them up in places like

Put them up between the seats in front of you. Yeah, yeah. That kind of stuff's weird. It's like the goal is to try to not be a bother. I mean, I'm against people boarding the plane that late. Don't give me false hope that I'm about to get an empty seat here. It is. That's a matter of Southwest where you pick that seat. So sometimes, because I always think the strategy of it is do you want to be more kind of...

Maybe like around exit rowish or a little bit in front of it if you got an extra seat because a lot of times those people would just immediately go to the back because they just assume I'm late. Yeah. But because it's like you would get people in the back.

That will pass you, and then they have to find a seat. There's only middle seats left, and usually those people, they're already past you. But then you always leave it open for a last second. Yeah. Because the last second one comes on, it's like he's just going to. You definitely don't go exit row because those will be the first middle seats taken. I mean, I go exit row. I'm talking about if the goal is to leave the middle seat open, is to have that middle seat open next to you, you can't go exit row.

Because people will sit there. Sometimes you can't because that's where the flight attendant will stand. So if you have the flight... If you can finagle that, that's... It happens a lot. Like the flight attendant, that's where they have to kind of stand. And sometimes they will stand there. And I've seen someone and they're like, oh, I mean, not always happen, but they're like, I will stand in the middle of you two. And then they stand in the middle and like no one really knows to go to it. And I figure you're sacrificing like...

All right. Like if there's gonna be a lot of open middle row seats, then maybe not. But if you know, there's only gonna be a few, it's like, well, I'd rather just be my odds or at least I'm in an exit row. So like, I'm at least giving myself that versus, uh,

I think my concern has always been about horizontal room, less so about leg room. I can do fine with regular leg room, but I'd like to be able to put that armrest up, nobody there in the middle. That's ideal. When did you board? I'm early, so I boarded quickly. You don't go after the exit row? No.

No, because I always think somebody's going to get that middle seat. And I've had pretty good success going right behind the exit row, kind of towards the back. Do you try to dress like you don't want people to sit next to you? I don't dress that way, but I behave that way. What if you wore a shirt with a stain on it?

That would be, I would think that would be the way to go. Like a homemade V-neck, but you got a little oil stain right on there. A homemade V-neck, you mean the- That you cut? The collars just drooped. Oh yeah, maybe real wore out or cut. You basically look like the guy that sat next to you.

Well, this guy was real thin and twitchy and weird. Yeah, it sounds like something was wrong with him. Yeah, but I mean, do you say something to him at some point? Put your shoes back on? You were going to have to have... A comic could say it.

A comic could have that conversation. I'm out of luck. A comedian could have handled it a little better. I think it's tough, but I'm not saying you, but I'm saying in general, I think the only person that could have that conversation is a comedian. A comedian could...

Our job is to talk and try to deliver something that's not fortunate, but in a nice way. This is why you've always said comedians should break the news at doctor's offices and stuff, because they could find a way to do it. You could find a way to do this. It wouldn't hurt their feelings that bad. Yeah. You could just be like, what happened? At a certain point, the breaths were tough because of how... I mean, it was a thick, thick smell coming off his feet.

No one said, how long was the flight? Hour and a half. Yeah. If it were a four-hour flight at a certain point, I would have tapped them. I sometimes carry extra socks. Maybe I would have just been like, hey, why don't you go ahead and throw these on here, bud? You know what I mean? Little socks out of your backpack. Yeah, go ahead and throw these on. Give us a break here. I flew from Chattanooga to Atlanta and then back on the way back from Atlanta to Chattanooga. 20-minute flight. That's about as short as you get. Why were you flying, though?

As opposed to driving it? Yeah, it's like a 45-minute drive. Well, because I was with Leanne, and Atlanta was the connection. Okay. Yeah, it wasn't our destination. Okay.

Okay. But still, it's just, it's amazing that quick of a flight. Like the plane just doesn't even get up in the air and it's just immediately. You had no drinks. No snacks, not even a real bathroom break there. Yeah, it's nice. By the time you get started on your movie, you got to shut the laptop down. Yeah, you watch movies on a laptop? Yeah, on the plane? Yeah, all the time. No iPad or anything? Oh no, I don't even have an iPad. I had some kind of Galaxy Tab A thing and I hated it.

I am not a fan. Why? I don't know. It just felt like, I don't know. I never could get it to work properly. And I don't even own an iPad. I think I'm going to get one. I'm going to fly with my baby soon. So I'm going to have to get her something.

to get her a brand new watch some cocoa well get me one that she'll be looking at yeah and then next time I'm on the podcast I'll be like let me tell you how great the iPad is I got excited I'm sorry I almost fell out of a seat but what you're saying made me think this same flight dude the flight attendant comes on and goes we've got a mother and her son who's about six or seven and they're really looking to sit together

So if anybody could volunteer to move so that these two could sit together and he kind of looks around and one guy is just like, I'll do it, man. And he goes, so he moves. And then the fight's in and goes, I just want to say one thing.

We all love Southwest here. And I'm told I'm the face of the company, but the real face of the company is you, sir. It's customers like you. Everybody give him a round of applause. You're making a bit too much. I mean, this guy was just trying to get the flight taken off. You're heralding him as if he's this hero on the fly. I was in the back stewing next to that. Well, it would be – if you're that guy, you're like, I don't even want to –

Be noticed. Yeah, he was like, he looked around and he goes, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, he goes, and that's funny to have to... Face of the company. He's got to go. All right. Got to get back up. And he's like... There's a curtain call. He goes, hey, thank you. He goes, I'll make sure everybody saw it. And they go, that's just powerful stuff right there. I was on a flight with Leanne this weekend and the woman, a big fan comes up to her. She's so excited to see her before we take off. And she's just going nuts. And then...

What's the first... Besides military, I guess first class, first thing they call. And Leanne, she's in first class, so she boards. So now the lady stuck with me. And she's like, I'm sorry. That was a famous comedian right there that we were talking to. And I was like, yeah, I'm actually a comedian too. She's like, oh, okay. All right. So then they start calling, I don't know what, priority, whatever. They go through so many... There's like 10 levels. Main cabin one. And finally...

She has to go. It's just so funny. She's like, yeah, it was nice talking to you. And then I get on the plane and I see her again. I have to pass her as I head to the back in main group 12 or whatever. Yeah.

Leanne's asleep because she's been on for an hour. Is that Delta? That's what Delta makes you feel like. You'll have like your boarding pass will be like, you know, you'll be like group A and you'll be like, all right, that seems good. But then they go through so many before they get to that, to where you just keep moving down and down and down.

I think Key and Peele has a very funny sketch about that. Oh, okay. He's group one. Okay. And then they just announce everything. Just weird stuff. Yeah. Well, I was in Houston at the improv, and Raymond says hey to you and also wanted me to make some jokes about your golf swing, but I didn't even understand. Yeah, yeah.

golf well enough to get his jokes to be able to come and tell them to you. I beat Raymond, but he was, okay, but he was very nice and he really took care of me. He was really great.

But I was in the Houston airport and I'm like getting mad about all these trivial things. I mean, I'm in the priority line to get my bags checked in and there's just a long delay. And then I end up doing it myself. And then I have to go, I have clear to where I can get in all fast, but it's not, it's not being fast. And then I have to go through TSA and I go through the thing and they're like, is your belt on? And I'm like, yeah, my belt's always on. They're like, you got to take your belt off.

So I'm all mad. I've had to do all these things, all very small things, but they just one right after another. And then,

As soon as I get through them all mad, this guy goes, hey, are you Dusty Slay? And I was like, yeah. And I'm very irritated. And then so I was like, this airport sucks. And this guy goes, yeah, it does. It's the worst airport. And I complained to him about all the things and everything he's like validating. He's like, yeah, man, that's the whole point. Why are we even having to do this? By the time I was done talking to this guy, I was so happy. This guy changed my whole mood. I wanted to give him a shout out. This guy is...

I don't even know if he listens, but this guy is Alex from Salt Lake City. And he really cheered me up in this airport. And I was like, because I thought, oh, this is going to be awkward because this guy is a fan. And now I'm all mad. And he just kept validating. He's like, yeah, this is the worst airport in the country, man. I was like, yeah, it is. And I was like, I had to take off my belt. And he's like, yeah, this is the whole point of TSA PreCheck.

And I was like, and I'm in the priority line. He's like, yeah, why does it take so long? And I was like, who is this guy? And I need him around all the time. Yeah. That's good to know when your fans meet you, they get the brunt of your problem thrown on them. The guy known for we're having a good time. Yeah. I just wanted him to know I'm so irritated right now. Downloaded your whole day on this guy. And this guy just. Yeah, man. It's crazy. But I told him, I said, wow, you really cheered me up. I said, I really appreciate it. I said, we're having a good time now. Yeah. Yeah.

It's funny that you do clear in TSA. I mean, I'm trying to get through. Well, clear, I got kind of talked into one time. I know, but the stuff that you don't want. Yeah. The stuff you don't want to have, but now they have everything. I know. Clear eye sketches me out. I think you might as well get a microwave now. Yeah. Well, it's true. But I was in San Francisco, and I felt like I was about to miss my flight. The line was so long, and the guy came up to me, and he goes, if you sign up for clear-

You can skip this whole line. And I hated it so much. They took my fingerprints, my eye. And I was like, I don't want to get stuck here. I do not want to miss. And then I ended up having plenty of time. But so it was really, but now I have it and I just do it.

You were, you're like Eve and you took that apple and you're like, you can skip this guy in front of you. And you go, I'll do whatever it takes. Yeah. I mean, I, yeah, I see why Eve ate the apple. Yeah. I mean, I know why she ate it. I mean, she was like, you won't, the serpent was like, you won't die. And I was like, oh, okay. I thought I would die. Yeah. Yeah. I'll give it a try. They're going to round you. I think in the, in the circle of, uh,

Off the gridness. I don't know if you'd get in the meeting now. I feel like it's the first thing they're going to say. You sold out. They're going to say, who has clear or pre-check? And I'll be like, oh, me? Yeah. They're going to be like, beat it. Scab. Yeah. You're one of them. Yeah. You're one of them. You're the informant. Well, pre-check doesn't seem so sketchy, but clear for sure does. They do an FBI background check on you. Well, I'm clean. I'm not doing this. It's not about being clean. It's the idea that...

They got your info. They got your info. Yeah, but I don't want to take my laptop out of the bag. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As you take your, you're like, I'm not going to take the laptop. And so you have your piece of tape over the thing. Yeah.

As they have all your information on the camera. Well, don't be watching me at all times. Yeah. They scan your eyes and know who you are? Yeah, well, they probably scanned all our eyes because of our phones anyway. I mean, I don't buy into that, that because this is done, we might as well just give it all up. But I don't know. You get some of it up. I fly so much that I'm like, when I go to an airport and it's really busy and I can just zoom past everyone, I'm like, this is amazing. Mm-hmm.

I was in TSA pre-check line of the day and a guy comes through, we're standing there. The guy comes through, just has a badge of some sort and just kind of shows it to the T and I mean, they immediately be like, Oh yeah, come on through. And I'm thinking this guy must be somebody very important. And then I get up there to where the, where you put your luggage in and they're patting him down.

And he goes through and it beeps and they're like, come back through. We got to do it again. So it's very strange. Like they act like he ran the airport and then I ended up passing him because they're doing multiple pat. He just worked at like the burger King there or something. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Let's start with you guys' comments. Nick S. This year, I'm celebrating Turkey Day by giving thanks for Nate Land. My work often involves difficult conversations and heavy situations, but you four get me laughing every single week, and it truly lightens the load. When your life gets heavy, what lightens the load? I'm guessing you don't start telling yourself jokes or – oh, he's asking. Yeah. Oh, man. He was asking us a question. Yeah. I was sort of reading it like an ad. When your life gets heavy –

what lightens the load better help uh i'm guessing you don't start telling yourself jokes or deciding your routine in the mirror like what do we do what do we do if your life gets heavy well my daughter always uh helps bring things back to reality yeah yeah does that it's a good one i like to take my shoes off go walk around in the grass you know do a little grounding yeah do a little grounding touch on the trees reconnect with the earth yeah yeah

What about on a plane? Do you take perimeter check? I like to find a fan and complain to them as much as I can about my life, about being in pre-check and clear and the priority line and help them sympathize with me. Yeah. You do some? I never get sad. Yeah. I could see that.

I don't feel like you ever needed to feel like you got to lighten your load. And I didn't mean it as it sounded, but as I was saying it, I was like, this is going to be kind of a double joke. But I did not mean it. But it works on two worlds. Aaron, when your life gets heavy...

Aaron does. Problems weighing you down. Problems weighing you down. He is, does seem like the most grounded person. Like Aaron always seems like it's all going fine. I feel like he can fly off that handle a little bit. Oh, I can for sure. Yeah. Enough. Enough. But it just seems like the most grounded person. That's very nice of you to say, Dustin. Yeah. Yeah.

I think he's extreme. Yeah. I do think you're very aware, which I'm a big on awareness, super aware. Thanks, man. But then you got to have someone with you that's aware because they're aware that you might, you're ready to go. Yeah. I mean, you're going to be like any little hiccup. You're going to be like, I'm about to get after this. Imagine you're going to get, how do you think you're like, you get super famous. Everybody knows you when you walk around everywhere you go. You think you have to rail it back in? Or you go just...

You think the enough could still happen? Oh, it could still happen for sure. I think people want it. It'll be there. They will want it. It's like if you run into, not that this is like me at all, but I was just thinking if I run into, if I see Larry David in the wild, I want to see him. In the wild. I want to see him being Larry David in the wild. I want to see him snapping at somebody, calling somebody out for something. That's what I would want to see. For me, I do...

like if it's out on the road uh you know not to get but it's a constant reminder that it's not about you it's not about me it's not about you know don't put yourself first that's a big one that i've worked on uh and then but like just to take your brain i watch uh i'll try to watch a movie i watch like either that's what i've been like scary movies or something that's like uh kind of a thrill or something that can kind of keep my attention and uh

So it's like I'm kind of invested and I try to find that's why I watch a lot of those movies that people are like dumb, you know, or like whatever. But I want it to be kind of like brain escapist. Yeah. Yeah. And I just want to something, you know, you kind of come for you like, all right, I'll watch this. And, you know, that's what I think that's what I do.

But yeah, your family. Also, when you see them, that helps. Andrew Khan. I'm pretty new to this podcast and I am in grad school. I'm always looking for things that don't stretch my brain too much because I'm overwhelmed with new knowledge. All right.

This week, Nate said deers four or five times as the plural of deer. I love this podcast, and it's the highlight of my week. Keep it up. There's a bunch of deers over there. You don't say deers? It's deer, yeah. There's a lot of deer over there? It's like fish. Oh. Yeah. Oh. So there's one deer? Saw three deer this weekend. Mm-hmm.

But loaves and fishes. Sometimes if it's a lot of deer, it feels like you want to throw an ass on there. Just to emphasize that, yeah, I mean, there's multiple, but there was multiple, multiple deers. Yeah, what if you just want to go, but you should have been there. Like, I think if you're like, there's a lot of deers over there, and someone's like, you don't say the ass. I go, have you ever seen this? Yeah, you don't know how many. You don't know the amount of deers I was talking about. It's enough that we needed deers. Yeah.

Jeremiah Reed, hearing Nate, Dusty, and Broham repeatedly say mischievous incorrectly gives me flashbacks to my childhood. The word is pronounced mischievous. Mischievous. Mischievous. Oh, it's not mischievous? I have no idea. Mischievous? Mischievous. Mischievous. We'll see what Google says. Mischievous. Mischievous.

Mischievous. Yeah. That feels weird. I spent many years correcting others about it and don't usually do it anymore, but that was about seven mischievous too many. Mischievous. That's the southern way of saying it. Mischievous. Yeah, we like to add a syllable in words sometimes. Oh, mischievous. Mischievous. You can't say it slow. You got to say it fast. Mischievous. Mischievous. Mischievous.

Cell Party. Dusty should make them all watch Idiocracy. It's a shame that reference just went on by without hearing all Dusty's thoughts on the movie. Everyone watch and report back. I agree. I mean, the first time I saw that movie, I didn't really get it. But as the years go by, the world is more like that movie all the time. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

I've never seen it. What is it about? Can you give a 10-second summary? Well, yeah. I mean, Luke Wilson is a pretty average guy, and he gets frozen. And that's time. And he gets frozen and goes way forward in time. And then when he becomes unfrozen, the world has gotten so dumb that he's now the smartest man in the world. Oh, okay. That's a fun premise. And he has very basic knowledge, but everybody is just marveled by his knowledge. It's so great. Yeah.

All right. Well, we'll check it out. I guess it's streaming everywhere. I mean, it's a pretty filthy movie, but it is. No, thank you. Tony Richardson, baking soda was the only honest one at the table when he said he'd be jealous if a co-worker won the lottery. It's human nature to be envious, envious.

If someone falls into money they didn't earn, Nate would have a harder time than any of you if Butterbean suddenly had more money than him. Thank you, Tony. I disagree with that, though. I do disagree with that. I get what he's saying, but it's... I wouldn't. I've never... I've had...

I've had a lot of friends go make more money than me. Like when you're first starting out and you're like out there bussing around and then you got your peers are with you, then they are making money and they're doing, I'm in a, I'm in a career that is just basically you're watching people win the lottery every day. So you're like, we're doing the same amount of work. And then this person jumps and,

And that's, I mean, that's, and they literally go to make millions of dollars. Like you, so you're here and then they win the lottery. And then in two months they're here. And so I'm watching that a lot. I would not be, I'm, I'm, I'm happy with what I'm doing. So like, I think I can do that. That's, this is the only thing that I would say about that.

I'm not worried about what other people would make because I think I can go get... I've always just like, I'll go get my own. I'll figure my own thing out. So I'll... Like, I don't... It's... I don't think I would be... Well,

Well, I think that is the nice thing about what we do, right? You're almost kind of in charge of what you can make. If you sell the tickets, you can make more money. And so you're kind of in charge in a way, but it's like if you're working a regular job and then a coworker that maybe you don't like very much suddenly wins the lottery, it's like, oh, that could really eat you up. Yeah, yeah. I can understand that. That's what I always liked about comedy is there's no cap.

Like that's what's kind of, that's the, uh, I think, and if you do anything that's, uh, like not a normal kind of thing, it's like, I like the idea that you're like, you're in a world that's like, yeah, there is no, I mean, you know, maybe Seinfeld has a billion dollars. Like, it's like, there's no cap to it. Like you're, it's not a zero sum game. Yeah. And that's what makes it. And that's what I, that's what's fun about it. Cause it can also, you can also make zero dollars.

And so it's like, it's just a complete like, all right, I got to, I have to work every day. So this is a zero sum game. It could be. Oh, it could be. What do you mean? Well, you just said you could make zero dollars. It could be zero. But this all being said, I think if Brian did win the lottery and had a bunch more money than you, all of a sudden he would not handle it with a lot of grace. No, I would not. I admit that.

Yeah. I don't know what that means, but yeah. That would be great. I mean, I would love it. Honestly, I would love it. I would tell you what, I think I would help you. I would tell you like, dude, you should be just doing this now. Like, don't go, you know, it's like, if you win the lottery. I'm not going to listen to you. I'm a billionaire. Yeah. Come in with a big fur coat on. Yeah. Yeah.

who's breakfast now full head of hair yeah you walk into union planners with a top hat on in a monocle yeah i don't know that's a bank anymore i don't think so but it was back in our day it was back in the day uh so yeah tony i think i'd be all right it is true though we are in a business where people win the lottery i mean not yes not a billion dollars but it's

You see people win. Well, yeah, they win the lottery on, uh, you see it with like even followers on the internet too. It's like, you know, someone will be opening for me. And then the next, like I had a guy working with me this weekend, Ralph Barbosa, very funny out of Texas. And he, um,

He was featuring for me, and he has like 60,000 more followers than me on Instagram. He just blew up all of a sudden. And I'm like, this is great because he's very funny and I like him. But it's like, yeah, he won the lottery in a sense. Yeah. But he didn't just buy a ticket. He wrote good jokes. Right. I want to just say so everybody knows.

This is not Fiji water because my wife is cheap. And so this is just one bottle we've had and she just keeps refilling it and makes me think it's Fiji water. It's tap water. Can you tell the difference? I don't know. But I don't think I thought about it. So she's kind of right in that sense. But if she won a billion dollars, she would do this. And this is the life I would live is just constantly...

Being like, well, what ketchup is that? It says Heinz on it. You know, it's like, well, it's Sam's. She's got McDonald's package. Just squeezing them in there. That's the real Alabama. I love it. Can't take it out. Yeah, I love it. Dan Ludwig. I take my class. I feel like I know that. Was there a Ludwig coached at Vandy?

Oh, really? A Ludwig. I think something like that. I take my class out to the football field, give the students some tools, and then ask them to estimate the number of blades of grass on the field. If they do a good job, their answers should be between 200 million and 500 million. The next day, we calculate the odds of winning the Powerball off a single ticket. It's about 1 in 300 million. So when we go back out to the field and acknowledge –

go back to the field and acknowledge that having any sort of confidence in winning the Powerball would be a similar experience to thinking you could choose the winning blade of grass out of the entire field. That does put it in a good perspective. A good perspective. It could be like he needs to pick a blade of grass, though. So you'd be like, you'd go back out and be like, if he could somehow be like, all right, I've – maybe he –

I don't know how, but actually pick a blade of grass, which I know seems crazy. Put your initials on it? You'd have to have some way to know exactly where to go. Coordinates. Pick coordinates. Do the coordinates on it and go, I have one set of coordinates. If any of you can get within this square of where this coordinate is, and then someone's like, this one, he goes, go.

And he goes and buys... And Love is like, I'll buy everybody Powerball tickets. I mean, you know. I think he'd be a fun teacher because he's like, if you do a good job, your answer's between $200 million and $500 million. Somebody says, how much? $200 million. Next guy goes, $500 million. Both good answers. Solid answer. It's a big range of acceptable answers. And also...

Future people that take his class now are just like, he's like, go figure this out. He goes, I listened to a podcast. Just say, say 350 million. Yeah. You'll be right. He's going to be like, now I bawled it. I bawled it. Yeah. Uh, I do. I wish I would take him his class. Uh, William Galeno, Galen, Neo, Galeano, uh,

Galliano? Galliano. William Galliano. You guys talking about how to go about after winning the lotto reminded me of about a recent news story about a Chinese lotto winner that kept his 30 million jackpots secret from his family because he didn't want them to become lazy. He accepted the money in a costume. Oh, wow.

Not any costume. I don't know what that is a costume of, but he committed to it, man. You know, that seems admirable that he's like, I don't want my family to become lazy, but it's also like, seems selfish. He didn't want to share the money? Yeah. Yeah. He's like, he goes to the gas station and drinks a Coke and doesn't take it to his family because he doesn't want them to get diabetes. You know what I mean?

Yeah, I wonder if they do anything. Yeah, he probably went and got himself a couple nice things. Maybe he bought some nice things, but then... He had to buy that costume. Yeah. Yeah.

I read the article. It seemed like it was very admirable. He wants his kids to grow up. Is he going to give it to him eventually? Like in his will or in a trust or something? No, he's keeping it. I don't know. But I mean, it seemed like he had good intentions for sure. Well, secret's out now, huh? Yeah. Well, we still don't know what he looks like. Well, you don't know what he looks like. You don't have to publicly disclose your name in China. It's actually another lottery for the kids because you're like, so someone's dad...

So everybody's looking at their dad like if they're acting any different. Hopefully that costume's not in the garage somewhere. Yeah. The odds of picking a dad in China, you'd be a better chance with the football field to get the right guy. Why is that? Because there's a lot of people. Oh.

Kevin Robleski. Robleski. That's a fun name. Yeah. Did he write him for? Maybe. Hey, Bear. The college scandal that was happening for years and a couple of folks got pinned for it is exactly what happened to the Astros.

Cheating in baseball has happened forever and still is. It sounds like an asterisk. Yeah, I disagree. We were all doing it. We were all banging trash cans. We were all wearing devices under our uniform that tipped us off to the pitches. Yeah, I could see. I think a better analogy is the sticky substances, the pictures. Everybody was using that. Not everyone was using cameras to...

And it costs money to go to college. So if you're just paying extra, I mean, you know, it's not, I mean, I guess it's cheating, but it's not exactly the same. I guess the logic I could see is if you get caught, then you deserve what happens. Like I could understand that logic. Like almost like you're like, well, they're all cheating. You're the one that got caught. So then you get, you didn't do a good enough job at it. But then it's like a game. But then you're accepting cheating.

So then you got to just be like, all right, everybody's cheating. Don't get caught. Yeah. So you hope they don't cheat, but it's, I mean, it's probably all. I don't think, I mean, I'm sure there's some degree of, you know, somebody that maybe puts in a good word and so, you know, but I don't know that everyone's doing what those people did. And that,

That was pretty severe stuff they were doing. Right. Those guys were going to extreme lengths. Yeah, yeah. For sure. But that's like where the World Cup is happening, right? Yeah. And we were talking about like FIFA and how it's like corrupt and like people getting these things. You know, it's like, yeah, it's like everything you watch is just because there's so much money involved. Yeah. Everything's rigged. Everything's rigged. Yeah. 100%. Just give up. Give up. There's no hope. There's no hope.

Just be nice. That's all you can do. I love how we just got through saying, just go out and find your own way and we'll make it zero-sum game. It's all rigged. We're hopeless. You find out your way. Being nice is the ultimate thing. Just be nice. That's free and it's nice. I agree with that. FP Thrasher. There's nearly 200 comments under this YouTube video right now. There's no way they actually read all of these before picking which ones to address in the next episode.

They're either just picking the comments with the most interactions or arbitrarily selecting comments.

Well, FP, you would be wrong because I read every comment and go through and select them out. Now, you did a good job of tricking me into getting your comment read, but I wanted to make the point that, no, I read them all. Make the point and keeps everybody on their toes a little bit. Brian reads every comment and is taking a tremendous toll on his mental health, as I think you can tell. So if you don't believe he reads all these, just look at them. Yeah.

He sees it all. Well, the funny thing is most people know now that I read the emails because we've read that, said that more than once. But some people still don't know. So they're like, Nate, you're my favorite comedian. I saw you, blah, blah, blah, blah. I just think, you know, and I'll just reply.

Thank you very much. And then they'll reply back, oh my God, I can't believe you replied to me. I got to say though, you're a little hard on bread basket. I just say, lighten up on it, whatever. But now I don't want them to know. So I'm like, well, you don't know how he is. He's pretty difficult. So I have to like blast myself just to keep this facade going.

I also love that they're like, you're hard on him, but still giving you a nickname. I know. They always do that. They always still take a shot at me. They're like, yeah, we're all doing it, but be easier about it. Be a little kinder to Bozo. Jake Bennett, I'm halfway through book seven of Harry Potter. Up until this point, I have avoided all spoilers. That...

I've avoided all spoilers. Spoilers. That is until Aaron had absolutely no regard for those who might be a bit behind on one of the most famous book series of all time and basically blew the whole thing. Maybe next time just say spoiler alert so I can close my ears. Hmm.

That's so funny. If I did truly spoil the book for him, I do feel bad because that was a big thing that I spoiled. But yeah. But if you didn't, oh, that book came out 2007. Yeah. Yeah. These little children are grown men now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so they wouldn't have been able to read it. Uh,

Do you think this is a child? I don't know. I'm saying the kids that were in the movies are now like grown people. It could have been an adult trying to like have some escapism from his life. Right. I get that. I do feel bad if I did that. But there's other stuff that I didn't spoil that will still surprise you at the end. I think he said his wife turned him on to the books. He's recently married. His wife was into him and she turned him on to them. You should put those books away anyway.

Yeah. Not read that stuff. Those are the best books. Don't bring that into your life. It's the best book series ever. Give the government a map of your eyes, but don't read Harry Potter. Well, don't bring the witchcraft in. I mean, it's about good and evil, dude.

I don't know. Dude talks to snacks. The only thing I would say, if we were talking about Harry Potter before you, how quick did you give away something? I think pretty quickly, if I remember correctly. So he didn't have a shot. No, he didn't even have a shot to pause it. You guys don't have clear?

Yeah, I do. Okay. I don't. I would never sell my soul like that to the government. But I also have six microwaves. Oh, yeah. Well, I got a couple. I don't use them, but I have them. It's a bookshelf. They came with the house. Yeah. Yeah, my wife will sneak stuff in there once in a while. Oh, yeah. You leave them. I was going to say, are they unplugged? Yeah, converted them to a safe. Yeah. Yeah. Just use it for the clock. Witchy Trista.

Not all witches are bad, and not all magic is dark. A weird transition. In fact, I've never done dark magic. She spelled it with the M-A-G-I-C-K.

Yeah, it was a longer post, but she explained the difference. Like your dad does magic with a C. Oh. Yeah. Okay. I like to say that magic is just like prayer with props. It's basically asking the universe for an outcome and using tools to direct the flow of energy. Being a witch just means I find God in nature instead of in a church. I believe in spreading love and healing. All right. Sounds good. I think you just need a better name then. Than magic? Witch. Oh. Okay.

She's saying being a witch just means I find God in nature instead of in a church. So she's saying being a witchy. But I mean... Yeah, you don't have to find God in a church. No, no, no. And you don't have to be a witch to find God in nature. I'm just saying off the top, it's like witch is just not a favorable... Glenda was a good witch. Right.

That's true. I've read so much Harry Potter that the witch does not have a negative connotation to me at all. There are plenty of noble witches and wizards in Harry Potter. So there you go. That's what the amazing book series has done, though. It's warped your point of view on witches. I don't know if it warped it. It did make me appreciate the battle of good and evil and things like that. But I'm saying, though, now you're like... The importance of friendship and love and stuff like that. But now you're like, witches are good.

I'm like, some can be good. Some can be bad. Just like every, just like everybody. Like a wizard of Oz. See, I, you know, I don't know if you've seen the, uh, wicked, the, uh, Broadway play, but I mean, they really kind of break that down in a way that Glenda doesn't seem so good. And, uh,

I guess they make the bad witch look good. Well, don't spoil the play. You might have somebody just about to watch it. I've never seen it. Oh, it's really great. I mean, I actually, I've only seen one Broadway play in New York City and that was it. And it was amazing. And you went to one about witches? Yeah. This was years ago. I was still drinking back then. My whole mind was cloudy. Yeah. But you still like it. I was lost. It was a good play. The music was good. It was really great. Yeah. Leon Wisewood. Yeah.

While you guys were reading comments on the latest podcast, I heard Baby Teeth say one of the comments was from an Aussie. And Nate saying what sounds like, oh, maybe I'll see him. I did a U-turn and rewound it about five times to see if I was hearing correctly. Was I hearing correctly? Is Nate touring down under? I don't know. Nothing's announced yet, but...

It's not announced yet. Now that you turned to rewind. Well, he's joking, I think, from last week's. I did say that. You know what's funny is I caught myself wrong. I noticed I said it, and then I was like, oh, yeah. It's not announced yet, but Australia's stuff could be coming. Could be. Should be. It will be coming. I don't know. We haven't announced it yet. So nothing's on sale. I don't remember exactly where I'm going.

But I will be over there. And I forget even when it is. I will be over there. But it's up in the air whether I'll be doing comedy or not. No, no. I'm going to do comedy over there. I'll be over there. I think it's towards the end of – I want to say it's right close to when Harper goes back to school, when kids go back to school, like August, like whatever, whenever they start school. And then so I want to say it's the end of – so end of July, August, I think is about –

I think we'll be announcing it soon. You know here now. Nice, man. That's exciting. I will be down there. Is it your first international stuff? Besides, I've done Dublin, which I'm going back to. I'm doing Europe. I'll be in Europe in March.

London, like making a big run of that. Super excited about that. I've done Dublin before and then, you know, besides the USO stuff, our troop stuff. But then, yeah, it'll be referred. But Australia, I've never been to Australia and I've always wanted to go. That's awesome. I'm excited. All right. This week. Feels good. Talking about the World Cup. Oh, I didn't realize we were talking about that. You didn't? No. No.

I brought up the World Cup. I didn't realize it was a topic, the topic. I was about to say, why don't you just wait to get into it when we talked about it? Because I didn't realize the topic was World Cup. I don't know. I mean, I don't always know. It's never too late to change topics. You know what I mean? We can pivot. Really an episode about spoilers. We're spoiling, you know, just a lot of spoilers going on. Well, I just didn't know what the topic was. But when we were downstairs watching the World Cup. Well, I just said, let's go mention it up there just to have conversation. Okay. But I didn't know, you know. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, we're talking about the World Cup today. I mean, if the topic was that and everybody knew it, y'all should have said. Well, I kept saying, let's talk about it. I thought I said that. Let's talk about it upstairs. Well, the topic's the World Cup. Spoiler alert. I'm going to frustrate a lot of people today because I don't know that much about soccer. So the people who are really into it are going to get really frustrated with me. My brother. Your brother's really into it? Is anyone else at this table?

I went to Nashville game is awesome. I'm starting to get into it. I think it's like, I don't understand all the leagues. I don't, but I do enjoy watching. You can talk about winding down or finding something to watch.

Soccer is pretty pleasant to watch because it's just not – On TV, you mean? Yeah, on TV or at the game. It's just – it's kind of – it's not slow-paced. It can feel like that because your score is not going to be crazy. But when it's a shot to the goal, it's super – to the goal, it's the goal. It's super exciting. But it's just like kind of like – you're like, man, this is just pleasant to watch. I'd imagine people – I could see tennis –

You just enjoy it. It doesn't need to be so everything's fast and bang. It's just kind of like, oh, yeah. They're waiting until they get their shots in. It's a guy kicking a ball around a field. It's very pleasant. Just passing it a lot. Very pleasant and then the most exciting thing ever when someone gets a goal and stuff. I've come around to it and I've really enjoyed it.

watching some of the games. And I mean, we, the World Cup's going on right now with American playing, America playing. Usually the announcers have like a British accent. It's very soothing. Don't, oh, I paused it. Oh, I'm sorry. Spoiled it again. Spoiled it again. Golly. Golly.

I mean, you can't even stop yourself. What was that video game you spoiled? The Western thing? Yeah. Red Dead Redemption? Yeah, spoiled that. I spoil stuff that's been out for a while. This game is on right now. I understand that. And I paused it. So I was like, oh, yeah, you know what? I'll check it out. That's so funny, dude. You can't even help yourself. I didn't know. I'm sorry. Did you guys play soccer growing up? I played soccer as a kid. I thought I was very good. My dad told me I wasn't and to stop playing it.

I didn't even look at you when I asked. I just, I mean, these guys. Well, I played, I played several years and I really liked it. What positions you play? I don't know. I like to, you know, slide tackle. I really like that. I like to take the ball from people by tripping them up. I got a lot of yellow cards. I really enjoyed it. And did he make you not play? Well, he didn't make me not play, but he didn't encourage it. Yeah.

I'd say in Alabama back then, especially, you probably wouldn't have a hot sport. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. But, yeah, my dad wasn't into it. He would come to the games, but I don't think he was into it. Yeah.

I, yeah, I don't, uh, I think I tried out in high school and I didn't make team. We had a really good high school soccer team. I'm, I get cut everywhere in high school, but it was, we had a really good, uh, high school soccer team. Uh, but I don't remember if I like, uh, I think I played, I guess when I was little, I did like rec league. That's what we call it, you know?

Yeah. We didn't even have it in Lebanon. Really? You didn't have soccer leagues? Nope. There wasn't soccer leagues. It wasn't in our high school. It was just baseball and football, pretty much? Basketball. Basketball and some other stuff, but not soccer. That's so funny. I think not too long after I graduated, it became, and now it's huge, but. Soccer wasn't even invented, though, at the time.

Well, did y'all have, did you know about it? Yeah, we knew about it. And I asked my buddy recently, who's so into soccer and still plays in a men's league. I was like, what'd you do when we were growing up? He said, I'd go to Nashville and play in Hermitage. Yeah. In leagues there, but we didn't. Brian's like, you could leave Lebanon? Yeah. I didn't think. They have, they fly over to Hermitage?

I went to Hickory Hall Mall once a year at Christmas and yeah I was getting out of Lebanon I was going to town wouldn't even go downtown no yeah uh

But it is the most popular sport in the world. Like by far, right? Probably. 250 million people play it. My wife's Canadian, and when she was growing up, her dad loved soccer, right? So she tried out for a team. She was pretty good, but she tried out for soccer and I guess didn't make the team. And her dad got so mad that he formed a different team –

in that city with all the people that didn't make the team. Oh, wow. And was like this really hard coach. It's a movie. And was like forcing them to – she was forcing – he was forcing my wife to be very aggressive. And she is like, I don't even want to be out here. And now all the other teams hate her because she's pushing girls down and elbowing them. Yeah.

Were they good? Were they good? I think they were pretty good, but I mean, but she was like, yeah, he formed the team with the people that didn't make the cut. So we were pretty good, but you know, every plot to a movie. Yeah, it is. Yeah. And then they go win. Yeah. I mean, if they would have won, yeah, that would have been a really, but I think that, yeah, I mean, it just caused a riff in kind of the local because there was always just one team that went out for that city and now there's two.

kind of the bad boys of soccer or bad girls of soccer. Yeah. You guys watch Ted Lasso? We've talked about that. I've seen the first season. I watched the first season. I actually did not watch the second season. I didn't see the second season either. I was trying to think of my favorite soccer movie. Not as many as other sports. Been It Like Beckham. Did you ever see that? No. That's a good movie. Why are you laughing?

Because it's a girl's? No, not because it's a girl's. I just haven't seen it. I've heard the name. Ladybugs with Rodney Dangerfield. That was a fun one. I think there was one where Will Ferrell was a coach. Oh, yeah. Kicking and screaming. Yeah. Yeah, that was a good one. His coffee scene in there was a lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah. Here's a fun quote from Pope John Paul II. Oh.

He says, of all, of course they call it football, of all the unimportant things, football is the most important. Oh, God. Spoken like a European. All the most important things. He's basically saying, look, I know it's not important, but of all the unimportant things, it's the most important. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. That's a fun quote. Yeah. Yeah, it's a- Be cool applied to something else. I would say that about football or something. Here. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

He's talking about soccer. Yeah. We both would say football. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. So it originated from a Chinese sport called Kuju. C-U-J-U. Similar, kicking a ball. It had to go through a net, but there was no goalkeeper. You just had to get it through the hole in the net. And it kind of... I mean, that was around...

Second, third century BC. So even during Jesus' time, there was some soccer going on. Looks a little bit like basketball, the way the net is there. Yeah. It's like you got to kick it, yeah, to square. Yeah. And you got to just kick the ball through the square. Got to kick it pretty high too. Yeah. So you have to get through the top thing? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Through that hole right up there. I wonder what the ball was like. That'd be pretty fun to watch. Like, I mean, you would see some, you have to be really good.

Yeah, you got to be able to kick it high. Got to do a lot of bicycle kicks. Yeah. Headbutts even. Yeah. I don't know if you could hit it with your head back then. That ball party is so heavy. Yeah. It's the rock. Yeah. Modern soccer came about in 1863. That's when the Football Association was formed in Europe. And the reason it's called soccer and not football

Everybody thinks that's an American word. It was actually, it's not. It was a British word. So it was invented by Oxford students. They called soccer associated football. It's still called associated football. But then there was rugby football. So people were getting confused which football they're talking about. So they shortened rugby to rugger, and they shorted association to rugby.

A soccer. Okay. Which I know is a little bit of stretch, and then they shortened it to just soccer. Interesting. But it never even took off there because it became so popular that if you called it football, everybody knew you were just talking about what you were talking about. It never really competed enough with rugby to- To stick, but somehow it stuck here. And it really makes more sense than what we call football since we barely touch it with our feet. Yeah. Yeah.

That's a pretty big part of the game, I'd say. I mean, they do do it a lot, but I mean, it's like... Is it? You kick off and then you kick field goals. Well, you're also running around a bunch. That's your feat. Yeah, but all right. Yeah. You're really running all the sports. Yeah. That's true. Why did we call football football in that...

I don't know. Maybe it came... That's a good question. Yeah, I mean, I would think that it stemmed from a rugby type thing. Yeah, I could see that. Yeah. Like, they called it rugby football, right? So it probably stemmed from that here. So that's where the soccer came from? But then, why do we call it soccer then? Somehow it's stuck here, but not... And we're not the only country that calls it soccer. I thought we were the only country. I think Australia calls it soccer.

I think there's two or three other English-speaking countries that call it soccer. Yeah. Soccer is a good name. Yeah. Yeah. It's a fun word. Yeah. Yeah. You sock it. Soccer. Soccer, like you're hitting a lady. Yeah.

That is, you know, soccer. I don't like it. Yeah. Yeah. That's how you describe the word. Okay. Yeah. Some guys not getting it. Yeah. You know how you hit women all the time? What do you do to her? He goes, a sockter? And he goes, soccer? All right. It's such a popular sport worldwide. A war broke out because of a soccer match.

100-hour war, or the football wars it's called, between El Salvador and Honduras. And there were some questionable calls in this World Cup qualifying match that people got so upset that they started rioting and fighting. And then international relations between these two countries just got so out of hand that a war broke out.

And after a little bit over three days, they worked out a peace agreement and got things straightened out. But people died from it. That's crazy. I like that. I mean, it's like stop making bad calls. You know what I mean? I mean, I wish that would happen a little more these days. We get a lot of bad calls out here, and then we just sweep it under the rug. But it's – I mean, how do you ever even get a ref –

Like, it's, how could you ever possibly get, or are they called umpire in soccer? I don't even know. But how could you ever get someone to do that, ever again? If you're, you know, did they kill someone and all that stuff? Oh, yeah. There was one riot. There's been a few where people have died. The worst, 300 fans died, 500 injured between Peru and Argentina. Yeah.

Crazy. When I was a kid, we had encyclopedias. And then because we bought this set, every year we would get a yearbook. So it would be everything that kind of big events that went on in the year. Because there was no internet. So you would get these updated things. And I remember looking through one year, and it showed a picture, and it was talking about a soccer game, where it got so many people showed up to this game that the seats got really crowded, and people got smushed up against the fence. Yeah.

And it had a picture and people died. They suffocated. And the picture was people smushed up against, and it haunted me for years. Well, it still does. It sounds good. Yeah. That's terrible. Yeah, that would do, I mean, that's...

I mean, it's just right there in the yearbook. Yeah. Where did that game take place? I don't remember. Okay. I just remember. What yearbook was this? You know, it's like you get like the set of encyclopedias and then each year you would get a new, so it's probably in the nineties sometime, early nineties. Man. I mean, it was just, the picture was just right there. People trying to climb over the fence and.

Yeah. That's us every year on Black Friday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's next week's episode. But yeah, that just happened in South Korea. Like a few weeks ago, there was some type of big festival and people got out of hand and people die.

You'll like this one, Dusty. So there's a soccer match in Congo between these two teams, and a thunderbolt struck the field, killed all 11 players on one team. Other team, nobody got hurt. And the rumor is a voodoo doctor did some black magic on the visiting team. Wow. With a K? I don't know if – this is just – no, this is magic. Like magic, magic. So it's not with a K. Okay.

and did a voodoo curse on the other team. Wow. This sounds like a government hit, and they're covering it up. But how do they... But I mean, it's lightning striking a thing. I was going to say, that's more your angle. Would you say? Were they filming? When was this? This was 1998. 98? Yeah. So do they have footage of this? It's in the Congo. I bet they don't. I don't think this was like a big...

Like Aaron said, it sounds like a government hit. Well, this is one government, you know, one, they killed an entire team. Like, oh, it was a big bolt of lightning. And everyone goes, okay, I guess there's no video evidence. I mean, I guess if it... 30 other people got burned. If it struck the other, just like one side of the field. Wow. That's crazy. Golly. That's how many games are happening though of soccer is that you'd probably hear about this stuff

more in our crazy stuff like this happening like football or something like that but you're not playing them out of these guys it's all over the world and there's just 250 million people playing it I mean that's

That is, how many people? There's 8 billion people. I mean, it's got to be the most. We just hit 8 billion, right? Yeah. In 98, it's voodoo. Now it's climate change, right? It would be like, people would be like, the weather's out of control. Jesse's like, nah, it's just some old voodoo. Because this has been happening for years. Hey, nothing but some voodoo. So now the World Cup started. It's in Qatar this year.

Cutter. Cutter. Oh, I thought it was Qatar. I don't know. I just said what he said. I thought Qatar, and then everybody started calling it Cutter, and then I'm like, I'm not really sure. On the news, they were calling it Qatar. Okay. But, you know, that's the media. Which news are we talking about? Yeah, exactly. Is it Lebanon news? They're down there in Qatar this weekend. We're all – I don't know if you guys have been watching that soccer match over in Qatar, but –

We don't like any word with a Q that doesn't have a U next to it. It is unsettling. It's hot there, from what I hear. It's the weather report. And no women. That's all the guy knows. Who won the match? He goes, I don't know. It's hot and no women. Well, it is so hot there that it's the first World Cup held in the wintertime because it's so hot.

In the summer. You couldn't do it. Yeah, it's still so hot there, even now, that all the stadiums have air conditioning piped in to cool the field and the fans. It's the equivalent to 45,000 air conditioners going.

Oh, it's 73 degrees right now. It's lovely. But during the day, it's probably... Yeah, it's nighttime there. I think even during the day, it's getting pretty warm. They said the winter's the most humid time of year there. Oh, so dry. It's a wet heat. Yeah, so it'd be 82, 83. It's the 80s, yeah. But in the summertime, it's like 120. Yeah. World Cup's the most viewed sporting event in the world. Although I kept...

It's amazing how you Google something, you get so many different answers. It seemed like that would be pretty cut and dry. More things I read said the World Cup, but some things said the Olympics. A few things said Tour de France.

Who's watching Tour de France? Three and a half billion people, according to this article. I just refuse to believe that. I don't know if I believe that. I think you're flipping by and you look at it for a minute. Yeah, I watched it. Yeah, do you watch the World Cup or do you watch the Tour de...

Lebanon, the one that's got named after one place. Like no one's, you know what I mean? Like the ones like the World Cup, the Olympics are like, it's not about, you know, and they're like, no, a lot of people watching the...

tour de france what is like the world cup of cycling but it's like who cares i mean it's yeah i understand but still it's like it's just done in one place the world cup moves around like there's there's way more things to be intriguing and more want to watch more because tour de france is just it's in france i'd imagine by the way is it in france the tour of france yeah okay

I was like, in my head, I'm like, unless they're... I'm just going to get there. They're like, dude, he doesn't know that France means bicycle pedal. Yeah. And I'm like, well, I didn't know that. Tour de bicycle pedal. It doesn't dip into Spain or anything at one point. Well, I don't know that. But I might...

It's just around France. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, guy. I'm just telling you there's articles out there that say it's the most viewed. It doesn't seem fun to watch, I will say that. Tour de France? Yeah, watching people ride bikes. I mean, maybe the last little bit. I think if you knew what was happening, like anything, it would be pretty... I guess so. I mean, I know it's tough to ride a bike. I mean, I biked for a couple of years. I mean, it's tough to do. Yeah. Yeah.

You were like that bicyclist? Well, not like that. I mean, I sold my car for two years and rode a bike everywhere. Yeah.

Did you ever wear the suit? No, I did wear the helmet. I never had a body for the suit. How long does the Tour de France go? Too long. Oh, yeah. Look at how long it is. Because maybe if it's really lengthy, that's how they add up so many people. Oh, yeah. Like the Olympics. To a degree, or the World Cup to a degree. Consists of 21 stages over the course of 23 days. Wow. That's not even as long as the World Cup. So each day is like a...

No, I mean, it's, yeah, it's gigantic. I mean, look, it's the only bike event we know. So I understand that. But it just, yeah, I can't imagine it's bigger than the World Cup. I mean, that's. So it goes all around France. Probably pretty fun to do.

Probably not. I mean, when I biked, it's like, that's what I found amazing about biking. It's like you roll through a city on a bike and you really see things that you don't normally see. Well, that's me with a bird scooter. Yeah. That's me with walking. You really see it when you walk. Well, I get the speed of a bike and the immersion of walking. Walking is slow. You don't get to see as much. Not when I'm on a bird scooter.

Tour de France, I always thought it was funny. I tried to do a joke on this once, but it's like the only sport where it's like, it would be like you're watching the Super Bowl and they just let a Honda Accord drive around the field.

Yeah. I mean, it's that important of a thing. And then there's just cars. Just active streets. Active streets. And I know the cars are like doing something, but I mean, they're just in the thick of it. And then the fans, because those, they walk into it. I mean, there's no boundaries and they just can. And you're like, this is the biggest thing of my life.

And then you just, you know. Just civilians. Yeah. Right on the side of the road. Yeah. And then some of them, that one, I mean, there was a video of one walked out and just got drilled. And you like injure the person, the guy's bike breaks, he's done. And you're like. It's like dominoes once it starts. Because then they just all fall off. Bike wipeouts are crazy. Mm-hmm.

Well, there was, you asked once on this podcast, I think, because we were looking at the most viewed, because it was like three and a half billion people that watched the last World Cup. And you said, is that one event? Is that over all those weeks? And I don't think we ever got the answer. That's over like three weeks. Is anybody glued to their TV watching 23 days of the Tour de France?

Oh, there has to be. Well, a few, but yeah. I mean, I know some people are, but I... There probably has to be a bit. I mean, yeah, it can't be... I would be shocked for it to be that much. But it's... Again, if you understand it, I think it's probably very great. You're probably right. But you gotta... You're probably right. But I don't think most people know it's... What's it look like to watch it, though? What's the visual? Like, what kind of thing do you get? I mean, because look at the mountains in the background of this picture. I mean... Yeah, it looks nice. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, you get Lance Armstrong. One time he cut across a path, and it was kind of crazy. Something happened. He got ran off the road. And, I mean, those are bikes that can't go like that.

off the road. They're not all terrain. Like they're made, like, yeah, it's, and so he just rides through like the grass and then has to jump and like go over this, because he got, at the winter, it was like two curves and he got pushed into, so instead of like stop, he was like, I'm gonna just go and the, the idea that his bike didn't break is crazy and then he jumped up, grabbed it, set it back on his bike and then caught back up and, you know, so you're seeing, I think, some stuff like that. Yeah. Where it's like, oh, wow, like it's,

You know, it's a free-for-all. Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, I'll give it a shot. And these guys are like... I think the athleticism that they have...

to just it's just how in shape they are how in shape how close they are to each other and you know it's like you look at like nascar like it's just about asking you want 200 miles an hour and you're touching them you're that close but you're in a car at least and these guys are i don't know how fast they go i mean almost 200 miles an hour yeah almost 200 but they go very fast and they are just next i mean they're you see them go through stuff and there's

There's just no room. You could feel claustrophobic. I mean, hearing you describe it is actually made it more interesting. As we're talking about, I can't believe who's watching this. And then you go through and it's like, oh, it seems pretty fun too. Yeah, I think so. I think so. But it's... Yeah, how's it not the most viewed? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've turned. Yeah. It's just, they do it every year, right? And then... I think so. So it's, yeah, I don't know. But I would think the World Cup is...

Well, I would say out of five articles, three said the World Cup, one said Olympics. How many said MASH finale? I would say Olympics are going down. Yeah. Because it's like they're having all these other sports, and you're just kind of like, you know, I think you get Olympics, you get swimming's great. And then America just takes the best people from every other country, and then we just dominate everything. Yeah, I mean, I think swimming is probably the...

Track and field and swimming are just kind of like the only ones that you're, you know, basketball. I don't know how much we care anymore. Like when you're watching it, like I just watched the 30, 30 on the redeem team. I just watched that too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, when was that? 2008. Yeah. Because they lost. They lost in 2004. Yeah. In 2004, it was LeBron and Carmelo Anthony when they were all young guys. And Dwayne Wade. And Dwayne Wade when they were young, new players. 2008, they were all veterans, and they brought Kobe in. Brought in Kobe. Yeah, it's really cool. It was pretty cool when they brought in Kobe. So they lost in 2004? Yeah. To who? To who?

Was it Argentina or Spain? Or Spain? Was it Spain? Uh-huh. Okay. I think so. Basketball is a chance to maybe get pretty interesting because there's so many –

these players from other countries that basketball in the olympics actually probably could start getting back to like i mean it might be now or close because it's like i think there's a lot of teams that are a lot better but where you're going to be like oh if if the other countries start like really compete you know before it's like fun you go blow them out whatever and then yeah i mean that's what i assumed i had no idea i just assumed we dominated basketball every time

That's because we did for so long. Yeah. And then this happened. I don't think it was Bain that lost it. But anyway. Yeah, then we picked it back up. I think it was Greece or somebody. 2008 just dominated. And have we lost? We haven't lost since then? No. We won in 2012, 2016.

But that championship game wasn't – I mean, Spain was tough. But there's one story about Kobe that I love. They said that they went out partying one night, and everybody had a great time, so much fun. They came in like it was 4 or 5 in the morning. They were in Vegas training. Yeah, Vegas training. They go out and party, have a wonderful time. Dwayne Wade, I think, is telling this story.

And then they come back into their hotel like four or five in the morning and Kobe's in the lobby lacing up his sneakers and he's got like on weighted vest. Weightlifting gloves. Yeah, weightlifting gloves. And they're like, what are you doing? And he's leaving to go work out.

He was the only one that didn't go out and party with them. And they said that kind of changed their mindset because he was taking it so serious. And then pretty soon they all started getting up and working out. And by the end of the week or something, they were all doing it. They got on the elevator like, was he serious? Yeah. Was he going to work out right now? I love that. Yeah. Carmelo said, I never got up that early, but I did start getting up. Yeah.

But anyway, the World Cup, the last World Cup in 2018, three and a half billion people watched it. The final match between France and Croatia, 1.12 billion people watched that match. Wow. That's like Taylor Swift numbers. Damn. Only eight countries have won the World Cup. That was kind of surprising to me. Only two continents. That's crazy.

How many World Cups have been played? Started in 1930, so it hadn't been around forever. But however, every four years since 1930. So it's what, Europe and South America? Yeah. Interesting. I mean, I would have guessed those two if you said there's only two, but it's amazing. Like Asia, nobody in Asia has won a World Cup. Only eight countries. Brazil's won five times. Germany and Italy have won four. Argentina, Uruguay, and France twice. And Spain and England once.

In the United States this year. Yep. Yep. So this year, the format, there's 32 teams. Oh, that's it? That's a rallying cry for. Yeah, you have to qualify. Oh, yeah. So there's 32 teams and they're, I barely understand this, but there's four teams in eight different groups. And the two top teams from each one of those advance to the 16. And then once you get to 16, it's single elimination.

So it's like the AFC South. Yeah, kind of like that. And so how many games do you play? You play each team once, I believe, and you get three points for a win, two for a tie, and one for a loss. And then the two top teams with the most points advance. Yeah, and if there's a tie, they have to play again or something. Why not do two points for a win, one point for a tie, and zero points for a loss? I don't know. And I may be wrong. I'm making all this stuff up. But I think that's what I read.

Could you look that up to see? But I don't know if they, like, if there's, yeah, if there's two teams that have the same amount of points, I don't know what they do. Well, I'm sure maybe it doesn't work out like that. But, yeah. Yeah, maybe, I don't know. Yeah, for every win, a team earns three points and a tie earns one point. Teams do not get a point for a loss. Okay. All right, so it was kind of, we were both right. Yeah, only rather than the group stage. Yep. So, teams are tied after three matches.

Tie breakers are determined by a goal difference, then goals scored, and finally the head-to-head matchup. Okay. So there's a whole system in place. So this year is by far the costliest World Cup in history. $220 billion. They built seven new stadiums in Qatar. Seven brand new stadiums for this event in Qatar.

Well, it seems like everything's going great. World's got no problems. You know what I mean? We're just getting it done out here. So the big – so there's no alcohol in Qatar, and they made a deal with FIFA that you couldn't sell it – well, maybe you could sell it in the stadium.

I thought there were certain stations, I guess, set up that you could still buy beer. Budweiser is the sponsor. And then last minute, I guess King or whatever it is of Qatar said, no alcohol, period. Oh, wow. And this was just a day or two ago they made this surprise announcement. So now Budweiser has like 20 million cases of beer. And they said they're going to donate it to the winning team. Oh, really? It's like sitting there in a warehouse.

I love the King there. I don't know what he does, but that move seems fun. It's like a bold move there at the end being like, nah, I know you want to do it, but I'm not going to let you. Yeah.

I don't know anything about the king there, but I like that move. He said he watched the podcast and you talked about how much it's changed your life. And he's like, no. Well, didn't there was something like with a cruise ship or something? So the England, I think that's what you're about to talk about. England's wags, wives and girlfriends, are all on a billion dollar cruise ship called the Party Palace. And because it's in international waters-

Qatar can't do anything about it. So they're just living it up on this ship the whole time they're there. And they can do whatever they want because women can't sunbathe in Qatar and there's a lot you can't do. But as long as they're on this ship, they can do whatever they want. So when they go to the game, they got to...

Go to the game, it got straightened up. Once they get on the ship, things get crazy. Imagine you go plan this trip. You're going to drink the whole time. And that's what you do. You drink and watch soccer. And you love soccer. But then you're in Qatar watching this sober, and you realize you don't really like soccer.

You're like, I love it when I'm drinking. But you're like there sober going, what do I like about this? Yeah. I'd imagine there's going to be some people have some real conversations with themselves. Yeah. You know, it was really about the hang. Yeah. Well, I mean, you would think people wouldn't go to it. I mean, there's going to be enough people that are going to want to go to it. Especially that live there. They didn't make this announcement until people already got there. Yeah.

A lot of people arrived and they found out when they got there. Like, oh boy. I wonder if you could, yeah. And it's like, you can't get your, you got to just be willing to, I guess, go like, look, we don't, they're their own thing. That's what's crazy is that like, it's funny to think about like in America and you want to go, yeah, this is welcome to the world. Like where they're just, he, the guy's like, no, done. Yeah.

It's crazy. Do they sell beer at Vanderbilt games? No. Yeah. We had a king and he said no.

Do they at Notre Dame? No, because it's on campus. I think if it's off campus. Ours is on campus, too. I didn't think you could drink at college games at all for a long time. We would have to sneak stuff in when we wanted to drink. We would do that, too. I think you can now. Okay. I think at University of Tennessee you can, Kitch. Yeah, I think they passed it where you could. I mean, they should. I remember being at a game. It's always crazy how some of them hold on to some of this stuff, but then they all –

Which I understand, maybe a tradition or something you don't want, but then they start making the money from it. Are they stopping this money source of just being like, well, you could... I had a pair of binoculars that were fake. Oh, yeah. Fill up with liquor, bring that into the game. And there were spotters that their whole job was just to catch kids doing exactly that. They would just sit there in the crowd and look, and then they'd rat on you. Yeah.

So you'd be right down front with your beer goggle binoculars? Yeah, which is so funny. Who brings actual binoculars to a college football game? I don't think anybody does. I think we would do that. Did they work? Because you'd be in the upper deck. No, it was just plastic. It was funny. You go through it, and it's like, you just see the side of a cruise ship window. You just see a little. And he's like, that's crazy. He goes, oh, the stuff inside that makes it zoom might have broken something.

Yeah, it's Liquid Zoom. It's Liquid Zoom, just kind of probably smashed. I saw a Gamecocks game one time. We snuck in some mini bottles, and me and a buddy of mine, we had one big cup. We bought one big cup and shared a bourbon and Coke. We didn't even want to spend money on Cokes. Just in there, two dudes, one cup, just drinking it up. Two dudes, one cup, yeah. It was great. We had a great time. We had a very fun time.

I think yesterday's opening match was Mexico or someone. They started chanting from the stands, we want beer in Spanish, whatever, however that translates. Oh, yeah. It's a big deal over there. Are they in jail now? I don't know, but the- Lightning struck it. Yeah. Lightning struck specifically one seat. Surprisingly, that guy was starting a, he stunk beer in. Man, that's crazy. What are the odds of that? Yeah.

They have a lightning. They just have a thing that shoots lightning out of the angle. Voodoo. Yeah. Cuernos Cerveza. Cuernos Cerveza. We want beer. I mean, I wonder if there has to be a way. The chants and the songs, that is one part I really like about soccer culture. Yeah. Singing a song in a crowd. I love that. There needs to be more of that. Yeah.

And a football game. You know, a lot going on, so you have time to gather everybody together and just start singing. You go, why are y'all singing? You're like, I mean, they're just, no one's shot a goal in 45 minutes. Let's get some songs going. I just went around and I taught everybody the lyrics. Taught everybody the lyrics. We all started doing it, and here we are. The home country automatically gets to go, and they start the opening match. And I think I heard Qatar was the first home country to ever lose. Yeah.

In the opening match. Oh, really? Who did they play? They played Ecuador. That's the game right there. Oh, and everybody probably loved that. Probably. It is crazy. You're like, why would they go do it? I mean, you know, good for them to do it like that, but it's like, it is insane that you're like, I imagine alcohol sales are your most gigantic thing, and you just go to a place that says no. But they're like, in Qatar, though, they're like all so rich anyway, right? It's like, they don't need the money.

Yeah, I mean, like $220 billion. It's unreal, dude. That's so much. I mean, it's... I know. The same for most of these college campuses, right? They all have the money. But like the Titans are fighting to get a $2 billion stadium, and that's $220 billion for the World Cup. And they're probably going to sell alcohol at the new Titans stadium, right? If I had to guess. I hope not. Who's paying for it? Taxes?

Titan Stadium? Yeah. I mean, some, the Titans said they'll chip in some. The state of Tennessee said they'll put in $500 million if it's a dome stadium. Yeah, I like being a dome. It is funny, though, that it's like – and I'm thrilled that they're doing the stadium. But it is funny that they're like –

Times like, I mean, we're chipping some. You're like, who's it for? Right, right. But I guess they look at it as like, well, you're going to do concerts and stuff there. But you want to be like, yeah, who, but who? Yeah, we'll chip in. Yeah. I like the term chip in. We're going to be a major part of it. I'm going to build a new house and then go, you'll pay for it? I'm not chipping. Yeah, yeah. Who's going to live in it? I will live in it. And you will not be allowed in it. There's like a 1% hotel motel tax.

that the hotels have to pay but they're like the argument is well so many people are going to be coming in for events that you're going to you should pay more does that make sense so that's how they're but I mean so do we pay the taxes or I think some of it's still us yeah the

The hotel motel tax is... And then we gotta buy a ticket. If we pay taxes, we should get free tickets. It's a 1% increase on the hotel motel tax. One free ticket a year. One free ticket a year. That's nice. Yeah. Right in front of Brian's season tickets. Yeah. One row ahead of him. Where I don't take binoculars, I take a telescope. Yeah. He has to call down and go, what's the score? Yeah. Can't see the jumbo. Yeah.

So the favorite this year to win is Brazil. And then followed by Argentina and France. Who is Messi, believe...

He's Italy, right? No. If you're a soccer fan, that's probably the same thing. What makes Brazil so good? What does LeBron play? Well, the reason I can't keep up is because they're from a country and then they play for another country. Yeah, that's the hard part with soccer. My brother listened to this and he's going to be like, are you kidding me? I know. I asked Derek a lot of stuff. Derek knows everything about it. He's the captain of Argentina. Yeah. And then, all right, I don't know. But yeah, I get very confused on the leagues. That's...

That's, you know, it's like there's like the Premier League and Derek has told me this but I just always kind of, you know, it's like forget it. Well, yeah, they play like a lot. They play over in Europe but then there's guys from South America that play over there so it's, yeah, it gets confusing. It seems like a lot for us is what it, you know. Yeah.

But we know every football player, where they went to college, where they're playing pro, and where they played in high school. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's just here. But I do get, you know, like I always like, because I asked Derek about that, like Messi, like Messi's like, they consider him like the best ever, like the way he got

I think they signed him on a – do you have the thing where they – did we talk about that? We've talked about it. Signed him on a napkin or something? On a napkin. And, like, so it's – when he was, like, 14. So I looked up greatest soccer player of all time. Again, there's some different answers, but the majority of – like, Pol Zasal said Pele is the greatest soccer player of all time. He was the most famous person in the world in the 60s. He was – More than the Beatles, dude? Yeah.

You think? Well, that's a group. Maybe he's... More than Paul McCartney, dude? I don't know. I just read that. I bet he could be. I mean, soccer, dude. Those guys, the Beatles watched him. Maybe this is before the Beatles blew up. I just said there was a period of time in the 60s. No, I believe it, but I'm saying that I cannot tell you what Pele looks like now.

But I know what the Beatles look like. Well, he's still around. What do you think makes Brazil, like they've won the most, right? That's what you said. And then they're favored to win again. What makes them the best? Why are they so good? It's just their culture. I mean, I think they just- They don't have TVs. But I mean, some of these other places, their culture would have to be around soccer too, right? Well, there are. They don't win every year, but-

somebody's always going to have one the most. It's not like they've just dominated, but they have one the most. And they've produced the best soccer players, I guess. Like, you know, football, you can have a lot of players come out of Florida or, you know, big men come out of

I did point at you. I thought you were about to say, where are you from? But it's like Iowa is like Nebraska. Nebraska is like, that's the offensive line that come out of there. They always say corn fed, but I'm like, we're all eating corn out here. Yeah. But I would say Alabama is...

so dominant football because in Alabama, there ain't a lot else going on. So they care so much about it that they will always find a way to take it really, really serious. There's more of a cultural appetite for it than people are going to be more willing to sink resources into it. And people are going to, it's so important to them. It's going to be ingrained in people young.

Also, the argument always is, and you can, I'm sure people disagree with this, but people always say, I always heard this growing up, that America's best athletes don't play soccer. They play other sports. Giannis has a joke about that. Yeah. What is it? Giannis Pogos. He talked about like if, you just, you better not be. Yeah, LeBron. Yeah. LeBron was a goalie or something.

He's like, everyone makes fun of us. You're lucky that we don't have our best guys go, like LeBron. We dominate that too. Which I don't know if that's true, but the USA, you would think, we're never close to the best in soccer. It's because we don't care as much. Right. But I bet we start...

I bet it could start going that way. And you're going to see a shift with just the fact of football. Like people don't, the kid, they don't want the kids playing football to get hurt and all this and how crazy it is that you could see with soccer that you're like, all right, this sport is, you know, football is so fast. So it's great, but it's like, people are like, you know, people get really hurt. It's like scary injuries and all this kind of stuff. And soccer, like it's, it's not, these guys play and they're not usually injured. I don't think crazy. And,

And they're the most famous people on the planet. You don't hear a lot of concussions with soccer, I imagine. Yeah, if you ask. You hear some, though. But not like the NFL. They're hitting a ball against their head. Yeah. Yeah. You get kicked to the head sometimes. Or headbutted each other. But I'm just saying, like, in comparison, it's probably not nearly as many. Yeah. So the top player FIFA awards, like the MVP, it's called the Ballon d'Or winner. Messi is one of the most. Balloon. Balloon.

I think it's Ballon d'Or. Wait, what is it? Maybe I know it. Ballon d'Or? Let me look at it. Ballon d'Or. Is that right? Ballon d'Or. Ballon d'Or? Ballon. Oh, way off. Jimmy Ballon. Ballon. Okay. Well, the guy who's won the most, Messi, he's won seven. Wow. Cristiano Ronaldo's won five. What's this award? It's the best player. Okay. MVP. MVP.

Messi's won seven. He's won the most. Ronaldo's won five. But the award was only given to European football players up until 1995. So Pele never had a chance to win it. They went back and looked and said if he were in the running, he would have won seven also. So, yeah, that's the conversation, those three guys. Well, Messi's just going to be – Messi's playing now. I mean, like Pele, most people are not going to remember. I mean, he's from the 60s. So –

I don't know who Pele is. I mean, I know who Pele is because he's Pele, but that's what's crazy. Everybody probably knows who Pele is just because of the name Pele. In Brazil, they said they're so famous, they just go by one name. Yeah, okay. Makes sense. There was a Ronaldo before this Ronaldo. So is there lots of teams in Brazil, and then they all come together to play in the World Cup? Yeah. Okay. I don't really know how big Brazil is.

It's pretty big. Yeah, it's pretty big. Yeah. So like in the US, we have... Is it like Rhode Island? It's massive. Oh, okay. The most famous American player? Because no.

Mia Hamm. David Beckham. I would say Mia Hamm. David Beckham is un-American. That's the only soccer player I know. I could see Mia Hamm, but you're talking about men. I'm shocked to find out he's not American. I've been believing that this whole time. He played in America towards the end of his career. Okay. He got brought over and played in the MLF. There's that redhead dude.

So to answer your question, David Beckham. Probably not him. David Beckham is by far, they said the most famous major league soccer player we ever had. Cause like you said, he came over at the end of his career and played for LA galaxy and. Oh,

Okay, so a trick question. Landon Donovan. Oh, yeah. There you go. Landon Donovan's the most accomplished Major League Soccer player of all time. The MVP award's called the Landon Donovan MVP award. For the Major League Soccer. For Major League Soccer. Now, there's a guy, maybe you're talking about Christian Pulisic? No, no, no. The redhead guy. Who's now a commentator? Yeah, yeah. That guy was –

But no, Christian Pulisic, yes, that's who I've heard about. He's the most famous now. And he'll be the best ever, right?

It's been a real geography lesson. But he's 24 years old. It's almost like when Tiger was 24, Jack Nicklaus was probably still considered the greatest golfer, but Tiger was so dominant. They're like, well, this guy's crazy. Yeah, Kristen's probably going to do that. But he's still not even the best player in the world, though. Not even close. That's what's crazy. He's in the conversation of best in the world? Yeah.

Oh, we got a good little guy. Yeah. So he's playing for the U.S. World Cup team. There's two guys from Nashville SC on the World Cup team. That's cool. There you go. I love that we're discussing soccer and there's people off camera that know more about what we're talking about. Well, that's true every week. It must be. This has been infuriating for him. Yeah.

You're hearing, what team does Messi play for? He woke up just like, no. I think he's American. David Beckham's American. I'm just learning Brazil is a big country. I know. There's a lot I don't know. I know. All right. So greatest moments in soccer history. Two I found were in the same game, four minutes apart. So Diego Maradona of Argentina. It's called the Hand of God.

In the 86 World Cup, he knocked the ball into the goal using a little bit of his hand. And the referees didn't see it. And it counted. And later on when they asked him about it, I guess that's it right there. Brian's trying to drag this out because there's about 50 seconds of context for this. Yeah. So that was the play right there.

They asked him about it later, and he's like, well, there's a little bit of my head and a little bit of the hand of God. Oh, that's funny. So it was famous because it shouldn't have counted, and they went on to win. Is this the one that England won? What'd you say? This is the one that England won? This is the one that Argentina, no, no, no, no. Argentina won this game against England partially because of that.

And it's called the hand of God's most, maybe the most famous moment in soccer history. The Jersey worn by him in that game sold for $9.3 million at auction earlier this year. The comments of this video are very funny. Maradona is the only sportsman who dominated in two sports, football and volleyball.

The ball from that goal, the ref somehow kept it, even though he's the one that messed it up. He sold it at auction for $2.4 million. He said he'd hoped that the buyer will put it on public display. So he didn't put it on public display. He sold it for $2 million, and then he hopes whoever bought it will do that. He had to get his life back after making that call. It looks like he put his hand above his head, and then he just kind of pops it through. He barely touches it, but it was enough to...

To me, that's pretty clear. His hand touched it, right? Yeah, but it was God, huh? Now, four minutes later, in the same match, the same guy had the goal of the century. The same guy? Same guy, four minutes later, and he marches the ball all the way down and just runs through everybody and then...

Kick-sick scores. Goes nuts. He's like, yeah, I can do it without my hands too, guys. Yeah. We don't have video of that. Wow. So Forbes did their highest paid athletes. You know, I remember the one I remember is the guy that head-butted the guy. Zidane? In the chest? Zidane, yeah. Yep. I remember watching that. And that was – I watched that whole thing. It gets super exciting, dude. Like when you –

Watching the World Cup is super fun. I mean, it's – and especially when it gets like down to the final teams and it's just such a big thing that you're like, yeah, I'll watch it. And that dude headbutted that guy. I remember watching this live. Was this a consequential game? Yeah. It might have been in the – Wow.

Yeah, it might have been the... I want to say it was almost the final game. Yeah, I want to say it was the championship game. I don't think it was the championship. This guy get kicked out of the game? Yeah. Look and see what game it was. Red card. Apparently the guy said something about his sister. Oh, okay. It was...

Yeah, it's like you want to go like after this happens, someone does that, then it's like, then they do a story. Like, well, apparently he said something about it. It's just like, who knows? You got to hold it together. Yeah, yeah. But it was, yeah, see if it was the last game. It was the FIFA World Cup Final 2006. Yeah, I was watching it. Yeah, I wouldn't have been watching like the third. They tied? It ended in a tie? Italy won 5-3 on penalties.

So France, he was on, he was on France. He was awesome. And I remember watching it live and, and I remember like when he did that and they, cause they had it on TV and you're like, can you, and you don't know. And you're like, can you do that? Are you allowed to just do that? Like hit them like that. And you're like, you just know something's wrong. And then it was like, yeah, he, uh, yeah, it was, I remember that crazy.

So Forbes does their highest paid athletes every year for 2022. Three of the top five are soccer players. Wow. Messi's number one. He's worth $130 million. So this is net worth? Or what they get paid this year? Probably annual earnings. Annual earnings. They get more in endorsements than they even do in salary. He's number one. And Ronaldo's number two, $150 million. Ronaldo is like...

A freak. I mean, it looks like if you designed a man. I mean, he's like a doll. I mean, it's absolutely insane, dude. He has like 500 million Instagram followers. It's nuts. It's truly like he looks like a doll. He looks like if you... He is Ken. He's better than Ken, actually. Yeah.

Ken is, Ken wasn't the best athlete ever. Yeah. Ken's body was not as good as Renard. I mean, Ken would be, yeah. I mean, it's, it's absolutely insane how like, and I think he's, I don't know any much about him. It seems, I've watched a couple of things on him and he seems like a great guy. Uh,

and that's based on, do you know that or if he's a good dude? But like, I think he does a lot of stuff with kids. He's had a lot of plastic surgery. Oh, he's had a lot of plastic surgery? I don't know. Ken is 100% plastic. Yeah, well, I don't know that, but he still looks, so that helps then. But he keeps in the most amazing shape

It's always fun. It's all fake. You're like, oh, he's only like 5'8". You're like, is he? He has legs. He got other people's legs. Those are ab implants. He puts children's legs on him. You're like, on his own body? You're like, he's a real bad guy now. He got them.

You got a neck. But I've seen videos of him with kids, and he'll run back to them and stuff. And you got to know the impact he's having on that kid because there's no one more famous. But it's crazy to be that famous. Like Messi, he's probably more famous than Messi. It's close, right? You don't think so? I don't know. Because you got to count everybody in soccer that knows Messi knows him.

Now you've got to talk about the outside of soccer. I don't think people really know who Messi is. But Chris Renato has been on commercials, and you just hear his name. Did you switch seats with him? Yeah. Could you sit here and dust it over there? Yeah, I'll run a camera. I don't...

Yeah, I mean, I don't know either of these names. So if you're looking at someone who doesn't know anything about soccer, but I mean, to me, I've never heard either of these names. Honestly, maybe I've heard Messi, but maybe. You've heard the word Messi. Yeah, people say that about me a lot. Yeah. Messi, Slay. What's the rest of the list? I think LeBron was number two. Renato.

Ronaldo is three. Neymar is fourth. I just want to see some comparison, like how much money they're making as opposed to athletes I know. LeBron, obviously, is way up there. Well, Neymar, we didn't even mention, but he makes $95 million a year. Who's another athlete that I would know that's close? There's a lot of basketball players. Roger Federer, tennis player, was up there. Giannis was up there.

Just for some comparison, so we just said that Ronaldo has 500 million followers on Instagram. LeBron has 137 million. Wow. Instagram's the only thing that matters. Well, that's a big deal, though. I mean, yeah. I know it is. 470 million more? Yeah. 370. Yeah. All right, guys.

So there's a documentary, and I think it may be a 30-30, called The Two Escobars. And it's about Colombia and how Pablo Escobar was bringing fear on the country and everyone was scared to death of him. But then on the Colombia national team, there was Andreas Escobar, and he was bringing hope and joy, and they were getting excited and some national pride. And then in the 1994 World Cup –

He accidentally knocked the ball into his, deflected into his own goal and they lost the match. And then two weeks later when he came home to Columbia, some drug cartel people shot him in his car and they said goal every time they fired a shot. So the goalie, no, he wasn't the goalie. I checked out the whole time you read all that.

I was not even... See, I thought you'd be into it because you like pop rock. I was into it. I was thinking of something else and my brain was gone. So this guy's last name is Escobar. Yeah. He was on the Columbia soccer team. You're making so many people re-listen to this. It's so funny. Like everybody's just...

They're like, yeah, dude, we did all not hear that. He accidentally deflected the ball into his own goal. It caused them to lose. Two weeks later, when he's back home in Columbia, he gets murdered. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know that.

I knew it the whole time. I knew it the whole time. I said it very early. I go, did someone get killed? I guess not quite as bad as two countries going to war over a soccer game. Like more people were killed, but that's obviously intense. Did they do a 30 for 30 about that? About that war? Yeah. I don't know. There's a couple of famous fog matches. Yeah.

There was one where the goalie stood in the goal for 15 minutes after the game had been canceled because it was so foggy. He didn't know. Wow.

Finally, a police officer came 15 minutes later up to him and said, why are you still here? And then he said he went in the locker room and everyone had already showered. And they started laughing. Like, where you been, dude? He's like, I didn't know. It was so foggy. They made sure to get a picture of him before they told him. That's so funny. Snopes looked into it. That's not the actual guy. But they said it really did happen. It really did happen. That's just not the actual photo of him.

And then there was another one many years later. This was after World War II when they were back to doing friendly matches. It was Russia and England. It was 50,000 people in the stands, and it got so foggy that Russia started sending extra players out on the field, and nobody could tell because it was so foggy. Oh, that's awesome. I think both teams maybe, they said, did it. It's classic Russia. There's some video of it. I think I maybe sent you. It's friendly –

Like it doesn't count. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just exhibition, I guess. Which one was that? Maybe I didn't say too. I thought I sent you a video of the fog match or whatever. I don't have that one. Okay, my bad. All good. So the 2026 World Cup is in North America.

And it's going to be in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Oh. So we're all shooting. Where in the U.S.? I think there's a few locations. I think Atlanta is hosting it. Oh. Nashville bid on it. Yeah. And didn't make the final cut. Yeah. But I think the closest place to here is Atlanta. Don't they send sometimes celebrities from those cities to go pitch their country? I like what you're thinking, Aaron. Yeah, yeah. I'm saying, okay, yeah. So are you going to ask Nate to make a pitch for Nashville?

Well, 2026 is out, but maybe a future... 2030? You know, if they come back that quick, I mean, we're in trouble. If you pitch well enough... It's already a bad start to this pitch. Yeah. What I'm saying, let's say you were sent to represent Nashville. Well, I think when we go to... All of us. Yeah. We should all go. When we go... I think...

By the time 2026 comes around, it's going to look like we should have it in Nashville. Yeah. And that's what I would pitch it on this, is you cannot pick us right now, and then in 2026, it's going to look like you should have. Yeah. And if you don't do this then, you do 2030. We'll turn you down by then. 2030, I don't know. Yeah, we'll have our own World Cup. Yeah, we're out. Yeah. We are the World Cup. Yeah. And we need you. So we can either...

You can either help us get to the level that we know we can get to, or you can don't let us figure it out on our own, or we will compete with you. I'm Nate Bargetzi. And this is my World Cup. This has been a warning. Michael Scott. Michael Scott. What is it he says? You have 24 hours. And you have 20, yeah. Or something like that.

She's like, what does that mean? He's like, I don't know. They always say that. We were burned quite hard to the ground. Give us the World Cup in 2030 or you will be embarrassed. You have 24 hours. Nashville, a place you can drink. Yeah. Have you seen Broadway? Give us the World Cup. We won it on an off year. You've been warned. 24 hours. I'll give you 48 hours to respond. You have until sundown. You have until sundown.

I need an answer now or we're going to move on and we're going to get the Tour de France. We'll get the Tour de France. I'm going to go to the Tour de France and go, hi, I'm neighbor against you. Y'all running this bike race in France. No one cares. Come do it in America, Nashville. You can either be with us or you can compete with us.

You have 24 hours. And I'll go to every big sporting event. Just keep threatening them. You just keep threatening every one of them. You know, I don't know what other, yeah. I don't know what other sports are. But pickleball. Pickleball championship. I'm Nate Bergen. Bring it here or die. Yeah. We like pickleball, kind of. But I feel like we're going to love it. So either be here now and grow it with us. Yep.

Our BR competition. Well, there is 24. It's going to be a big day tomorrow. A lot of phone calls. I'm making everybody crack your knuckles. We're going to be at some respondents, some emails. I was going to say the 2026 when they're expanding to 48 teams. So in the host country, they, you know, gets to do it, but there's three host countries. So I guess Mexico, us and Canada, if your dad or your father-in-law still wants to coach.

Yeah. They'll have a team in there. Oh, yeah. I'm sure he does. Get the girls back together. Yeah. Get the girls back together. I'm sure we've infuriated a lot of soccer fans today. What did we get anything wrong? Like how much stuff did we get? He goes. I'm out. Where do I start? Yeah. It's going to be another two hours correcting all the stuff we just did. Yeah. All right.

But we're having fun. We're learning. I feel like I learned a lot. I knew nothing about soccer. And I learned a lot. I learned about Brazil, and I learned about the Tour de France, and I learned a lot. Did we get anything right? Okay. All right. We'll figure it out.

Honestly, I want to watch soccer a little bit now. I never do. And I'll phase out of it quick. But I want to watch it a little bit. Did you say you don't? Yeah, I don't care. I think I enjoy it. I need to wrap my head around the schedule and stuff more. My brother will text me stuff. I started following some of it because Derek was so into it that I was like, all right, let me try to get

get into it. And I like start following like some alerts on some guys and like messy and like, you know, it's like, all right, these guys are wrapping their careers up. Maybe I do want to, I do want to see them play and that kind of thing.

I think I'd do it like that. It was like that with hockey at the beginning. I remember being like, all right, I watched Gretzky's last game because it was like, I should be watching this. I just don't think you or anybody has the bandwidth to follow multiple sports as closely as you would like college football. Can you really bring –

professional soccer into your life and i'll have to follow that now it's like a whole different like it's all yeah it's a whole different thing to keep up with it's uh yeah i get the nashville soccer alerts on my phone i get i mean it's i don't keep up with anything like i did like there's i mean it's you're uh you gotta it's very funny you've probably noticed this with sports since you've had a kid

It's changed. This is the first year since the Titans have been here. I don't have season tickets. Yeah. Wow. And I feel like you before would be like, why are we not watching the game? You would tell me this. And I was like, I don't, like, because you just lose interest. You were mean to me. I have interest. The interest is the same. It's just that you just got to, you know. It's not that you're interested. You're not interested, but you're like, I'm not going to.

Your priorities change. If I miss, you know, I try to watch all the games. If I miss a game, I'm not mad. If they lose, I'm not, you know, I get, I'm like, golly, man, I wish, you're like frustrated like that, but you're just, you're busy. It is hard with a baby too. Like yesterday I was watching some NFL Red Zone, which I know people were shocked that I watched, but I was, and my daughter brought me a book to read her and I can't be like, get out of here. You know what I mean? I got to read the book. What was the book? Harry Potter?

No, no, no. Those will never come in. But I don't know. I don't remember the book, but it was like, you know, I got to read this to you. Did you read it fast like the Red Zone guy? Yeah. I mean, I zoomed through it. Is it Goodnight Moon? No, I don't think so. We don't speak to the moon. Play a little game of fetch. Yeah. Yeah.

Goodbye, mean. I said goodbye to it a long time ago. All right. All right. Is that it? That's it. All right. I think we covered soccer. World Cup. Check it out on... No, no. Yeah. Well, everybody, here's on, you know, times of the... Whatever times. Tune in. Yeah. To cater. Mm-hmm. Qatar.

Gator. Or in Lebanon, quatter. All right, we love you. Oh, are y'all going? Can we plug some jokes? I'm home this week. I'm going to the Vanderbilt-Tennessee game. Vanderbilt-Tennessee game. We'll be there. Come say hi. January 6th. I'm going to be in Washington, D.C. Me and Dusty are going to finish the job.

We're going to finish what we started. No. Count me out. I just want that to be on record. I will not be there. Now, January 6th, I'm going to be in Atlanta.

ASW Whiskey Exchange. One night there. Come. Tickets on my website. Come see me. Say hello. Awesome. This weekend, Cap City Comedy Club in Austin, Texas. I'm doing the cabaret room there. Come and check it out. Then I got a bunch of shows coming up. Wichita, Indianapolis, Huntsville, Birmingham. And that's the end of the year. San Diego, too. So come see me.

I got nothing this weekend, but December 13th, I got a show at Zany's and then all my dates for the rest of the year on my website, dusty site.com. Check it out. It's going to be great. Yeah. All right. My stuff's all out. I'll show you, keep an eye out. And, uh, yeah, being Huntsville next week at a, uh, arena, like a hockey arena. That's cool. I think it's the Bron Bron center. Yeah.

Laura went to watch a lot of concerts there and stuff. I just read that the new Indiana Jones movie that comes out next summer is going to be based on him to some degree. Oh, really? Yeah. Nate? No, Ron Braun. He was a... I thought they would have called me.

Tennessee Jones. I believe he was a German scientist, rocket scientist that came to the US. Yeah. Very famous. Dusty knows some stuff that I don't know what I'm going to get into. But anyway. Hi. If you don't do any of the Jones about me, Neymar gets it. You can either be with me or against me. You have 24 hours. Yeah. All right. We love you. Bye. Bye.

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