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Hello folks, and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land Podcast. I'm here with Brian Bates, Dusty Slay, and filling in for Aaron. Filling in. Justin Smith. I didn't even notice. I don't think he's going to appreciate that. Right out of the gate. Aaron is like getting caught out of the country or something. He got arrested by Mexico. He's out flirting with people.

Yeah, he had to do something. I heard he would never make it back to the country. Yeah, yeah. He had passport issues. Yeah. His fair share of, you know, like cop stuff.

Getting arrested a bunch. Constantly in trouble. I can't even take the guy on the road. Yeah. Constantly in trouble. It's a lot of stuff. Yeah. America, we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. By honoring your sacred vocation of education, you impact your family, your friends, and your community at

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It feels good. I mean, he looked like he was voice acting. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if that's the voice they want reading that. It feels good. Athletic is high. Can you just imagine the ad checkers like, come on, not Dusty. Not Dusty. Not Dusty. I think sales are boosting. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I gave up four packs a day. I drink Athletics Greens now. Yeah.

And it's like just getting better. Get clean with Athletic Grains. Yeah. Yeah. That's what they should say. It is. Welcome, everybody.

Glad to have you. We had an awesome week. We got Justin Smith here. We said fill in for Aaron. Justin has a special out. Yeah. Coronation. Yeah. Out on YouTube right now. It's doing so good, too. It's awesome. Great on all the social media things. Clips are doing good. Like people are finding me. And it's like it's it's like the first week and a half we've had it out. It's been great. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah.

I watch a lot happens in this special. Oh so much. It's crazy power outages some hecklers. I mean the first the first time Like literally, I mean I'm doing this whole thing. I'm so nervous because I'm kind of doing it all by myself and You're like are you I built a set and all this stuff and the first show Like I just got off the phone literally I just got off the phone with you and you're like, hey man You're gonna crush it and I walk on stage and

and within two minutes, the lights go completely out on my thing because the light guy just hits the button, and it goes dark. And it messed with the lights so much that... Never get a good light guy out here. I mean, never. You can't do it, which is... It's just so funny. The lighting guy was...

a comic also. Oh, really? Yeah. He opens for Mark Norman. His name's Corbin LeMaster. Yeah. But he's like, he goes, dude, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. But they, when they turn the lights back on, they, they, it was like a red, like there was a red thing that like we had set the lights before and the shade was different. Yeah. And so we had to use that show.

Like there was no cutting and editing. Yeah. It was like, all right, well, cause it looks so different. Yeah. But it turned out, I thought it looks great. Yeah. That makes it fun. That's what makes it, you know, it's the only part I remember. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds like an undertaker verse cane match. I mean, it really was. Let's go out red tent. Yeah. It was, but it was so much fun. And then we had that guy. I talk about Garth Brooks, uh,

in the special and I talk about his lyrics and how people can finish his lyrics and I do a line and then I do another line and then this has never happened before but a guy when it's so quiet yells out the next lyric to the song. Yeah. Like and it was just so perfect like everything about it was like it was so it was not what you would want but it was so perfect for me. Yeah.

And that's what I think makes it feel so special. Yeah. Is that it's so like, oh, this is, this is, this is like my, this specials my whole career where it's like nothing has gone as planned, but it feels like it's perfect for me. And that's like, that's, that's how I got where I am. Yeah. And so I'm, I'm very proud of it. Yeah. That's great. And if you, you know, we're proud of it. Oh, thanks. Go to go, go check it out. It's coordination on YouTube. I've posted it. Yeah. We're in a land. We're posted. We probably, I think we did post it. We're posted again now.

so they can see it. Yeah, it's great. We grew the reason that that's the title because we were in... He doesn't know what Coronation means, so... Yeah, of course. Thank you, dude. I thought it was Corona Nation. Yeah, that's...

I don't know what it means now. Oh, so coronation is the ceremony when a prince or a princess becomes a king or queen. Oh. And so the reason I loved it, because we talked about, we were in Detroit somewhere, and I was sitting in a chair, and it was like this weird kind of like king, like chair in a green room. And Nate goes, it looks like you belong in that chair.

And I think he was just talking about how white it was, but I took it way more, way deeper. I say a lot of things. But Nate, he, he took my phone and he took a picture of it. And it just got me thinking about what, like when a, what a coronation is because it's the moment that who you were destined to become like becomes like, it's the moment that, that destiny and reality meet. Yeah. And so I was like, this is, it's kind of perfect that this special turned out the way that it did.

because the whole thing is me kind of becoming who I was supposed to be. And the special's clean. Like before this, I was not a clean comic. I wasn't doing all this. You know, I wasn't doing what I'm doing now. And this is kind of like changing my style and doing a bunch of stuff and still being me very much. And now you're the king of comedy. And now I'm the king of comedy. That's right. I just got to get that crown thing, but it's in the mail. You know how eBay is. Yeah. The chair was great. Yeah. So great. Yeah.

Yeah, it did fit. I think if we do a studio update, I think that's the next thing. Yeah, the next thing. Yeah. Sitting it. Also, I wanted to show you guys, we had Nick, Rochelle, Eli, and Zoe Cordell. They made this. Eli and Zoe, Eli...

It was the one that he could name all the episodes. You told me the episodes. They made a Nate Land podcast from A to Z. I believe they're on the Facebook group. Yeah, they are on it. Yeah, they're everywhere. But it's like, so it goes, it starts with A is for Aaron, the host of Aaron Land that airs during Nate Land. The answer to a question that's never been asked. According to this, the best place to meet your spouse in the aughts was Applebee's.

And so, like, all stuff like that. It's just so cool. And, like, I was just, like, reading through it. It just says, Jay is for Justin Smith. I made the list. Fellow comedian and guest. It's also for Jason, a candidate on the Mount Rushmore of horror villains. And last but not least, it's for jokes, of which there are plenty. It's great. Yeah, it's so cool. Like, they're... Dustin, I don't think you're in here. But it's... No. Yeah, I get skipped a lot. Dustin, you're in the...

You're in the D's. D is for Dusty. All right. The newest addition to the show and host of Dusty Town, Dad Gummit. He's a great addition to the show and is supportive of Nate's dyslexia. All right. That's so funny. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's just so clever, man. You got your hat on. Y is for you look worried, a perfect description of Bates. No worries, though a couple of yee-yees from the crowd can boost his confidence. This was a gift given to me out in Irvine, California. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, yeah? Yeah. I'll read this last one. Z is for Zanies, the home comedy club for the guys and the site of Nate's mural, version 2.0. It's one of the last places you can find a cross-section of all different types of people, backgrounds, races, religions can gather. It's America. It's very up-to-date. Very up-to-date. I mean, they got some recent jokes in there. Yeah. Yeah, it's so good. Thank you, Cordell's.

People are talented. There's nothing left. You just dump it on the floor? Yeah, that made a louder sound. It just said it next to me. I mean, you have the best fans, I think, of any group of people that I've ever seen. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, I think everybody's nice like that. I'm not on the Facebook group, but it's... Everybody's incredibly nice. Yeah, it's just awesome. It's, you know, nice little...

Nice little place where everybody can just be nice to each other and sweet. Sometimes I try to jump in and shake it up a bit. Yeah. Bring some drama. The bad boy from Dusty Town. Yeah, yeah. Come rolling up in on your horse. Yeah. I like to try to bring a little drama in there. Yeah. It's a good time. Yeah. I get it. Yeah. Yeah, I've met them before, and then it was this weekend. Cape Toronto. Cape Toronto.

We're in Huntsville, little baby baits, little pop-up appearance. Yep, yep, that was fun. I was at the Ron Braun Center in Huntsville. That was great. I mean, the shows this weekend looked amazing. It looked great. Yeah, it was awesome. I mean, they were all awesome. Little Rock, Huntsville, Little Rock, Mobile, Cape Girardeau.

That's it. Yeah. And this week I'll be in Charlotte. Charlotte and then some other places. I already forgot where I'm going. But it's... And then Midland, Texas. El Paso. Feels like your vibe. Midland, Texas. Yeah, I like it.

Yeah, the Huntsville one, the Huntsville show was great. And my wife's from there. My wife saw all these concerts there growing up. So it was cool to be back there or, you know, to be there. And like she, you know, went to all that stuff there. They have an unreal green room. Also, very nice security guy. But it's very funny. I talked to him. I'm on stage with Harper. Yeah.

uh like you know four doors or anything and me and harper just standing up there and uh talking and then the guy asked and i had this happen twice this weekend actually uh but they you know they not everybody knows i got my hat on i'm like this so guys like hey is this like a band like you know people work there i don't think they the way i can maybe not know a city they don't really know they're just going to work right so uh he's like you know if this is like got music or something i was like nah it's a comedian and he's like oh okay and then uh

And then I was like, I'm like, hopefully he's good. Or, you know, you never know, like just whatever. And then he's like, oh, you know, he's very nice. And then I just, I was like, well, it's me actually. And then he's like, oh, okay. He's like, man, it's crazy. You comedy? Like people, it's like hard to, very sweet guy. I'm not trying to say this in a mean way, but it's like, they don't, I feel like they don't know how to talk to comedians, which is fine. We're not like, I don't know. We're not like, it's, they're just bands are everywhere. Yes.

And so he's like, you're finally, he goes, ah, it's crazy. Do comedy. He goes full time. It's standing on a stage in an arena. You're like, I'm here. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, well, you know, just a part-time gig. I dabble with it a bit. Uh, very funny. The main thing is home Depot assistant manager, but I'll do the arena once in a while. And, uh, he did catch it. He goes, well, I mean, I guess you're here. So beautiful, but it is. Yeah. It was very fun. I was like, yeah, you know, it's trying to bounce around. What felt like there's a bunch of like added pressure.

Like when you meet somebody that's like a comic, there's a moment of panic. Like, I got to be funny now. It's like, no, no, no. I'm not at work. Like you can just be a normal person. We were doing so good before this. Yeah.

I, yeah, I, uh, I want them to be funny. Yeah. I'm like, tell me a joke. I'm a comedian. I need a new joke. Uh, tell it to me. Yeah. No, he was very, he was, he was great. He was cool. And then the next in, uh, Cape Girardeau too, we had some guys, uh, that were like helping, uh, and this, they were, uh, they have a good thing. It's called breaking bonds. And it's like, uh,

I think it's for people that have struggled or had trouble in the past and they get them straight. And then, so then they work and they find them jobs. So they're helping like set up the stage with our, the stage crew that we have that's our everyday one. Then they come in and help. And they were all super cool. And then I talked to one guy, his kid comes over, he was 21. And he was like,

And he's like, same kind of thing. Y'all know what's going on here. Like, whatever. And he was talking to me, Dustin Chafin, and Vecchione. And it's like, oh, we're comics. All right.

or you know whatever he said it's us and then he's like oh man it's crazy and then he tells he's like can I see some of your act he wanted me and we're like I go what and he's like just do some of you know he's like you can't do any of it right here and I go like us just standing here and I was like no that's not gonna be that's gonna be the worst dude I was like

He goes, and Dustin was laughing. He goes, I mean, that guy's giggling. We got to, you know, like he just couldn't. He's like, just get it going. And that's what I love Dustin does is like, hey, if we just start the show, then like more people will show up. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, ah, you know, it's not going to be. Yeah, I always hate that because I'm like, I'm going to do a joke for you. You're not going to laugh. And then from now on, you're going to be like, that guy's not funny. Yeah. I met that guy one time. Yeah.

Yeah. He did his act in front of me. Yeah. On the street. And it was not good. Yeah. Well, I will say you always do good. Like I love when I watch your shows from the side stage, um,

You always do well with people that work in those auditoriums that don't know you. And like, you can tell they're not, you can tell they're like, usually they're like theater people or they're like music people. And a lot of times they don't like the worlds don't vibe with comedy. Yeah. And, but I always love watching people that would not typically be a fan of yours. And I watch you win them over.

And that's like my favorite thing where I watched a dude in Memphis, like he was in a chair and you did a joke. I forget what joke it was.

But he just turned and he looked through the top of his eyebrows at the guy next to him and he goes, man, this dude's funny. And it was such a genuine moment. And I was like, to watch you win people over that wouldn't ever... The algorithm, your stuff wouldn't find them. We win the people that are forced to be there. Yeah. Like they're, you know...

It is fun to make people laugh. And it's a relief for them because they're like, I got to be here either way. Yeah, yeah. So good thing this seems fun. At least it's enjoying. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that kid was very, he's straightened his life up. And so we were told how great that was and stuff. But it was funny that he was like, yeah, just do it.

And those guys, when we left, they were like, great job. Like, they were cool. Do you think if Dusty was with you when you left, they'd be like, no, you stay here. You're with us. Well, that, yeah, they're like, yeah, when you get done, you come help change some light bulbs here. I would have introduced you to their success story. Yes. I broke some bonds. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, fun weekend. Did you all have it? Yeah, I was with you. The Ron Baran Center is so big. I drove down separately, got there, thought plenty of time, went in the back door. Tony, this guy, said, yeah, we're just coming in and couldn't find anybody. I thought, I'll just sit down on stage so they don't know. I don't stage quite a while, and then all these women keep coming in. And I finally asked, like, yeah,

what is this? And they're like, this is the sound of music. I was on the wrong stage for quite a while just loading it as they load in for the sound of music. So... Yeah. Wow. I'm glad I asked or I could have been in the production. I mean, that's...

That's Bates. Yeah. That's a Bates show right there. It's like halfway through before I realize I'm out there singing a solo. You go up. Yeah. Just standing on this stage of Sound of Music. I mean, how do you even get into it? How do you even? I didn't know they had another theater. Well, they do. They do. People are like, what are you doing here? You're like, I'm performing tonight. Yeah. And they're like, okay.

Who are you playing in Sound of Music? I don't know. One of the Von Trapp? What is it? Yeah, one of the boys. Von Trapp? Yeah. Von Trapp and the Von Braun Center. They're doing a future episode where they have the kids be adults, grandfathers. You're one of the twins, but as an old age, the other twin didn't make it. It's like, oh, we went through some tough times. Yeah.

You know what's so funny is you were talking about that and you guys kept saying this and I realized that I was confusing Fiddler on the Roof with The Sound of Music and I was like, I don't think that's how it... When did they start doing... I was lost when you guys were doing that whole thing and I was like...

I'm just... Bates walked in and he was standing on top of a roof, crooked. And he goes, well, this is not comfortable. And I don't need a fiddle out here. Yeah. His name must be doing a one-man show type of thing. You know? It's got big production. Yeah. What is this, John Crist? Yeah. He just keeps adding trailers. I mean, it's crazy. Yeah.

Look at this green room. There's so many snacks. How many people are on this show? Oh, and I was with Henry Cho Friday night in Ringgold, Georgia, and he takes questions from the audience, and someone asked, when are you going to be on Nate Land again? Yeah, that's great. Yeah. Look at that. And then he did a VIP afterwards, meet and greet, and the guy wore a Batesville t-shirt. Oh, really? With my face on it. Yeah. That's funny. Did you sign it?

but I made sure I pointed out to Henry that, yeah. Yeah. He, he, you owe me a sign and he goes, no, that's good. I was wearing ironically. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where were you at? Uh, I was here this weekend. I went and saw Marin on Saturday. Oh yeah. Um, and, and Andrew Stanley, uh, open for him. Andrew's a good comment from Atlanta, but it was like, uh,

I was so excited because Maren's getting older, so you don't know how long you're going to get to see him. He's not that old. He's 58. He's 80. Can I tell you what it is? I think it's just the fact. Rickles. I think it's just the fact that I follow him on Instagram and I watch some of the things that he posts. The way that he's posting now, you're like, this is a guy that maybe doesn't quite understand

Like the social media that he's posting. You know how it just feels older than like... I think that's why I feel like that. So I was like, I gotta get it. You want to see them when they're still like... When they're still producing. Yeah, I think he still is. Yeah, he absolutely was. He blew me away for two hours. But...

I do understand that, like posting the videos. Like you can, you got to be able to catch yourself to be an age to go like, all right, I need to probably not post because you can really show your age. Right. That is true. I'm not saying he's doing that. I think he just does it and it's him. Right. But that is very true because you can just post. I always joke about you posting your camera, but you do. But that was like a mini joke.

When I said you'd always have it too close to you. Yeah. You have it like here. And it's like you're – because if someone gets too old, it's like, yeah, you got to catch – you know, if you're like, I don't want everybody – you know, you're like, I don't want it to really look like, hey, I don't know what I'm doing. Right. Because people are posting – there's ways that they do it now. And so I'd imagine, I guess, you know, I don't know. I mean, people pick out outfits just to be on social media now. Yeah. Like it's like crazy. Yeah.

Where it's like, and I've even noticed like there are certain videos where if I wear something like, like ridiculous, it's like the video, like I can feel that people don't respond as well. Yeah. To stuff. Yeah. Always. I can see you watching, checking my, what I'm wearing now. You're like, well, that's what you chose to wear today. That's great. Uh,

I would... And all the kids listen. Remember, social media is not real. Yeah. Always just remember that. You see all these people post this stuff. These people have all these... It seems like everything... They show you... Dub Davidoff, one of the jokes is he gives like this... Social media, he said, it shows a...

a moment of time. Like it's a moment. It's not your life. It's not, it's just like a second of that day. Like, you know, and you hope kids remember that. Sometimes if I have my wife film something for me or something, we'll end up fighting about it. And then like, and then it'll go, she'll go, all right, all right, all right. Just do it. Just do it. And then it records. And I'm like, all right, we're having a good time. But like two seconds ago, we were mid fight. And now I'm like, I can't even do it now. I can't, I can't fake happiness.

I wish you would leave there. Fine, just do it. And you go, hey. That's one that I would catch is to not say, all right, go. That's a big one. I think if you film something, it's just nod, don't. Because there's a lot of like, all right, go. Hey, what's up, everybody? Like the person's...

it's like just point. Right. It like adds to it. Yeah, it's... Well, it's like in television, they don't... If they count you down, it's usually five, four, three, and then they point. They don't say two, one, so you don't get caught doing it. Yeah, yeah. Two, one. I think now... I think now the hard part is if you film anything out in public, you just have people watching you

do things like when I film stuff in my apartment, I literally have a dog park that's like next to my apartment. So literally one of the times I was doing a thing for Halloween, I was filming like a different people that pass out candy and

And each time I would open the door in like a different outfit, I just had a row of dogs just watching me do this with all the people. Like, so all these people are just trying to take their dogs out and smoking cigarettes. And they're watching me come to the door in ridiculous outfits. And I'm just like, this is so stupid. Like, why am I doing this whole thing? And then when it's all done, you're like, oh, I guess that was okay.

Whenever I'm filming myself in public doing something and then I see an older couple, I want to be like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry this is happening. I'm sorry that the world has changed in this way. I make fun of people like me too. Yeah, I always would want to. Even we walk around filming stuff on the road, I get real uncomfortable with it. Where I'm just like, I don't want a camera following. It just feels...

And you just, even though, but it is, it's like you're putting stuff out, but then you're just like, I'm so uncomfortable. The final product usually makes it worth it. Yeah. But in the moment, it's like, ah, this is ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, it's, yeah. Yeah. That's the thing. I hope, you know, like I know a lot of people,

It's like if you ever feel sad, if you're on social media, it all goes back to social media. I think it's all because you're just looking. Because it is. You look and I get annoyed. You look at it and you're just seeing these – because so many people just talk in it. It's almost like that's your friend. As you're just talking, when people talk and they're not looking at it, you're like –

man, that's a lot. Like, you know, but I guess they get into that rhythm and it works. You know, they like it if you like it, but then you also can't, you just can't look at it and then think like, man, because it looks like everybody's doing something. It looks like everything's happening for everybody. Just think about your one, even if you just thought about one thing in the morning, if I was like, just, we just posted podcast record, like, and then whatever, like anybody else that feels like they're doing nothing is like, God, I'm not doing,

I'm not doing anything today. They're doing that today. And you're like, no, no, dude, we might do this and then sleep for 20 hours. All right. Like it doesn't matter. Hashtag on the grind. On the grind. Yeah. Everything. Yeah.

Is that Bates posting? Yeah, sorry. Yeah. I was about to be like, I would like to see the video of that show the microphone being jerky. I guess when you see Bates, it's just like, gee, dude, dude. I was like, did Hawk get it? Squirrels.

Where were you at? I went out to California. I did a private gig, but I went out to the farm country. Let them know you're working. Yeah, exactly. Post a video. Yeah, I don't like people to think I'm sitting around. If there's not a date on the calendar, I'm still working. But I went out to farm country, Turlock, California, where they raise a lot of almonds. And I went to a dairy farm there.

This guy had a dairy farm where like hundreds of cows could sit on this. They walk up and then the thing moves. It's a circle and it moves and each and a cow just keeps stepping on. And then it like kind of robot connects to the udders and milks them as it goes around. And then when it's done, it just pops off and then the cow exits. And it blew my mind. I mean,

My dad grew up milking cows, but he was like milking a cow with his hands. I mean, this thing blew my mind. Is it like the New Jersey gas pumps when you don't have to pump your own gas? Yeah, I guess so. For the cow, yeah. They're like, finally. I don't know, but maybe-

I guess the cow would be the pump. The cow would be the car. Oh, yeah. That's opposite. Yeah. So they just, like, you know. But it was, I've never seen anything like that. I've seen a bunch of dairy farms, but this was pretty mind-blowing. Did they say raisin almonds? Is that how they say it? They probably say grow. Like they go through school and...

You have a family, you have parents, you have two walnuts. Yeah, they're like a family for you. That's where the Blue Diamond Almond place is at, is right there. I saw that factory, Blue Diamond Almonds. We got to go visit our walnut today. Yeah, you spend time with them. You get to know them. And then they say they take a machine and grab the tree and shake the tree, and that's all they get all the almonds out of it. I think they'd come up with a better way. You would think, but they have a machine that just shakes the tree. That's maybe the best way, yeah.

Like it vibrates and they all fall off. Maybe that is the cleanest way for it to do it. Like, you know, you're not pulling. And they grow pistachios. And it's just fun to see because we have so many things in containers that you don't even think about where that came from. Yeah. You know, you go to the gas station, buy some pistachios and you're just eating them in the car. You don't think about

them growing on a tree yeah at least i don't i was in the place where they make containers this weekend okay all right you don't think about what goes in there yeah yeah you just always see them you know you're like you don't see them with nothing on them it's like let's see from the beginning right it's nice yeah it is good i'm glad we got to see it all yeah you know all right

Start off with you guys, with your comments. World Cup comments. I think we nailed it. Also, I mean, do you have a Vandy thing? Did anybody...

Well, you know, we prerecorded, and last week you had your Vandy gear on, and I'm like, we're bowl bound, and you're like, don't jinx us, but I'm feeling good. And Tristan put the score up while we were saying all that. Oh, really? That's funny. So Tennessee winning 56 to nothing while we were like, I don't know, I'm feeling pretty good about it.

I got a helmet from Coach Clark Lee, new helmet up there. He wrote a very nice note. I've not gotten to meet him yet, but I'm a giant fan and did not go our way, but I still love where we're headed. We had a lot of fun.

World Cup comments. Jeffrey Schell quits. Amazingly, they managed to know less about the World Cup and soccer than they did about physics. I love these guys. Yeah. Well, we're physics geniuses. I don't know how that's even a shocker for us. Yeah. I've been watching the World Cup. I watched the U.S., felt like we should have won that. What is weird to look at the stats for a soccer game? Because I never watched soccer other than the World Cup.

But to watch the way they monitor possession time and stuff like that, and you're like, these are stats I didn't even know that existed. And then by the end of it, you're like, well, I feel like we should have had a better performance than that. I think we should. My brother, who does know about – but a lot of people were saying that our coaching was – that we should have had a different game plan than what we did. It just didn't look – yeah, it looked bad. Like we should have scored –

There was one up at the top. I think everybody thought we should have beat that team. And then we would have played Messi, which would have been cool. Rob Markman: Absolutely.

Seems like they played messy in the game you guys are talking about. Boom. That's solid stuff right there. That's pretty solid right there. Well, I sat next to your brother, Derek, at the Vandy game, and he was giving me such a hard time about the World Cup where I talked about the goal of the century. And I was like, yeah, he basically just went down and kicked it in the net. He's like, that's all you said about it. And then he made a valid point about we're watching football. He's like, a play lasts three to four seconds.

And then there's like a 45 second wait for the next play in football. Where in soccer, it's, there's always something happening. Yeah. That's what I like about our football is that weight you get, you get to reset, you know, there's a play happens and it's a reset with soccer. It is. It's too like hockey for me too. It's like, it's just, this go, I mean, it's going the whole time. I need breaks. Uh,

After every four seconds, you need a break. I like the idea that soccer, though, it's almost a little peaceful to watch. It's kind of always going, and then they kick it in, and it's super exciting. It's like sometimes in football, it is. You see a play, and you've been waiting. You're like, oh, what's this going to be? Then it's just like a one-yard falls right in the ground. Sometimes you feel like you've got to wait.

You know, because watching football plays not work is the worst. Oh, yeah. Just seeing just, you know, three runs and the guy gets a yard. Up the middle each time. Up the middle tackled every time. And you're like, oh, my gosh, dude. Like, this is awful. When it doesn't work, it looks like there's no plan. Yeah. Because you have 12 pieces moving.

And so if you like it, when a run up the middle can be so complex where it's like, what's supposed to be a zone read where the whole thing is supposed to flow to the left or the right. And then you have, it's, it's, you know, your safeties and all this stuff. And then the end, it just looks like a bunch of guys just kind of ran into a pile together. Yeah. And you're like, it doesn't look good. You're like, well, sometimes football doesn't look good. Yeah. But I think to me, the soccer aspect is like, I just don't like the theatrics that come with like the,

The slide tackles and all this. And you're like, and some of them are legit. Like, I mean, cause an ankle is like the hardest, like most sensitive part, like of your, like, I mean, it's crazy, but it's like, I just, I don't like the idea that it's like, Oh, I have to roll around until I see that guy reach into his pocket.

And then it's like, oh, I did my thing. Like, I don't like that part. Just like... Well, I feel like they do a pretty... Like, the only thing with the World Cup is I agree too because that's what I was talking about soccer is like, you know, they're on the ground. They're screaming. They're like, you're like, oh, man, I can't watch.

You're like, I don't know who, because they scream and you're like, all right. You try to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. Then he gets up and runs and you're like, well, why did you scream? And it's like, they're trying to draw all this stuff. But the World Cup, I felt like they, like, it feels a little more like we ain't putting up with, you know, they fall and they scream, but it's like, it feels like it kind of moves. Like, it's like, yo, yo, we're just keep going. Right. But I do agree. Soccer, I think, was known for being overly aggressive.

Derek said they can get you a card, a red card, and then kick you out or something. Like if you overdo it. Yeah. Like if someone's flopping the whole time. I mean, the NBA started doing that kind of flopping where that stuff really hurts a game. Oh, for sure. I mean, I remember watching when Russell Westbrook was in Oklahoma City. He tore his ACL, and then he played –

The second half of a game. Like, you're like, I want, like, that level of, like, toughness. Or even, like, in football, I've seen dudes, like, have ankle injuries and they just go and get re-taped and they come back into the game. And it's like, y'all just pause the game. It's like, I just want to see... Because also, there are tough dudes in soccer. Like, I remember, what was it, like, 10 years ago, there was a guy that, out of nowhere, he just head-butted a dude in the chest. And I was like, alright, like, if soccer was more like that dude...

Like I would be so into it. I think they might be, but we don't know. Yeah, let's bring more headbutts in. I'm for that. I'm just saying that. I'm for headbutts on all sports. And football players fake too. If a team's marching down the field, the defense will just collapse, just slow it down. I'll tell you what, these football players, they're getting injured. Like are concussions or, I mean, dude, it feels like it happens every game.

Like someone gets hit and it's like just brutal. And I guess that is they were saying they didn't point at him before. I don't know how to work it. I don't know why there's volume on it. Yeah, yeah. We don't have to show it. But I think we did show it. We did last week. We showed it in the World Cup thing. Oh, you talked about the headbutt thing? I don't know. I'm sorry. I don't know why. My volume's off here. I don't know why there's still volume to it. Yeah, yeah. It's all right. It's all right, buddy.

I'm new to working the computer. This is the first laptop I've ever touched. I just want you to know it was a topic that I brought up, so I appreciate you trying to do it. Nate, shut it down. I really appreciate you doing it. Do you need to put a piece of tape over there? Yeah, I mean, they're watching me. Yeah. You like to let them know every now and again where you're at? Yeah, you know, I want them to think I live here. Yeah, yeah. You know, that way they won't come. You want to say a few of that? Because you're on your grind. Right. Yeah, you want to tell them this is where I live? Yeah, I live here now in this room. Yeah. This is where I'm at most of the time. All right.

There you go. They know. My mom watches the podcast. She said this picture behind me, she said you look like the guy from The Professional. You ever see that movie with a guy? I've seen it. I've never watched it, but it's... It's a great movie. Oh, fantastic. I need to watch it because it was like...

it's him and a little girl right yeah I see it all the time yeah oh yeah Gary Oldman's in it Gary Oldman's like the best bad guy my mom would say you look like this guy in that picture alright I like that professional thank you yeah alright thank you yeah you look like the bad guy from the first Mission Impossible I think it's this one oh mhm but yeah mhm I like it

I like it. Thank you. Milton Maddy, coming from Europe, this episode was super fun to watch. The mistakes made were horrendous, don't get me wrong, but you guys either figured them out or simply moved on are exactly what we love about the podcast. On the other hand, when some of you mentioned something right, I was getting super excited and feeling happy for you. That's what you want. That's the right attitude. All right, Milton, I appreciate that. We had so many people say, I can't listen to this anymore. I'm too involved in it.

You guys are just upsetting me. But Milton took it in stride. Yeah. Yeah, you got to not take soccer so serious. Oh, they couldn't listen to the World Cup episode because they were too... They're into the World Cup. Yeah, too involved. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm involved. I've watched. Pippa Silvia. As someone who does watch the Tour de France every year, I find it very exciting to watch. I found trying to convince people to watch it is a fruitless endeavor...

I'm not saying everyone should watch every stage in its entirety, but watching the last hour or so does the job. I could see that. Yeah. I think it's if you understood it. It's like a lot of stuff. If I knew everything that was going on. But what's there to know? I think that's with soccer is like the leagues and even all that. I was talking to Chase or Merch about my son. I was talking to him about...

the leagues, I was like Messi and Ronaldo and like asking, it's, it is, it's like, there's a, like, it's hard to explain it or, you know, and, you know, like, when do they play? It's like Barcelona and Real Madrid play in this league. And I'm like, so they have a season? Are they, you know, it's like,

It just, it's, it's, I think I would love it once I understood it, but it's just, you gotta have the time. Well, the idea, the one thing that I love about that soccer does is the, the, the leagues that they're in. So if you perform poorly, they kick you out of the divisions. Hmm.

So I wish that would happen in college football where it's like, hey, if you're like – because a lot of teams are kind of just grandfathered into a place and they're like – like Kansas for the longest time in the Big 12 was just like, yeah, we're just going to do whatever. We're going to put all of our budget on basketball. And it's like, yeah, but it would be great if you could just contribute to this. Like the Big 10. So you want Kansas kicked out of the Big 12? No, no, no. What I'm saying is that it's – You can't keep up. You're out. Yeah, yeah. Well, in football I think it's a thing because in basketball they're killing it. But it's like –

There's just no incentive for them to be good because it's like when at the end of football season, they just break up the money they make equally. So there's no incentive. They just pocket all that money without putting any in. So that's like the – I like the soccer system of if you don't do well, then we demote you. And if you do well, we promote you. Yeah. It's like you're taking a shot a little more than Kansas. Yeah.

I wasn't going to say. I mean, I don't know who you could be talking about. Didn't Kansas do good this year? I mean, I'm talking about Northwestern, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Northwestern won a Rose Bowl. Bill Bridgeforth, and that was 100 years ago, but.

Bill Bridgeforth. You guys didn't even mention the best part about watching soccer. No commercials. They play an entire half without stopping. It's hard to go back to football and see the same ads every five minutes. I agree with that. I didn't realize that. That's a big encouragement for me to watch soccer. I hate commercials. It's straight up 45 minutes. So you like, I mean, well, and the added time or whatever, but it's like that's only a few minutes. But it's like just, it is nice to be like clock starts, game starts,

And you just sit there and watch it. And at halftime, you can go do whatever you want to do. And come back second half, you watch it. It is great. I love how they're like, I love seeing commercials and they have a jersey just filled with things. Oh, yeah. Their jerseys are, there's ads going around the thing. But it's like, I'd be like, I'd do that. I'll take it. I mean, the way the NFL is like doing that half and half screen now makes me furious.

because I feel like they just added more commercials. Right. And so they're like, they can get away with it more. Like, oh, this counts. We'll show you both. You're like, yeah. Yeah, and then no music at halftime anymore. I'm done with that too. No bands at halftime. Yeah. I don't know. I enjoyed the, they had like a crazy band for the Mexico City thing.

It was like a, what's the brass? Like a Marachi band? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I'm into that. It's the bigger one. Okay. But there was like 18 people on stage. Are you talking about Monday Night Football? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, this is chaos. I love it so much. I'm into that, but like the Jonas Brothers were doing one. I was watching. And I'm like, I don't, I mean, I'm not,

I'm not trashing the Jonas Brothers, but I don't care. I'm watching the football game. This should make stuff more for just you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like...

You're talking about Thanksgiving? Yeah. Yeah, I mean... It's not necessary. I don't need it. It's the Super Bowl and Thanksgiving. Yeah, they should know. Yes. Dusty doesn't know. I don't know any... I didn't see anybody going, man, I love that Jonas Brothers at halftime. But if Waylon Jenning came out... Yeah, well, that'd be different. That would be true. Well, they should do more stuff like that. I'll agree with that. I will agree with that. Royale with cheese.

Dusty's wife's story about her childhood soccer team is essentially the plot of the movie Little Giants. They might have took it from her. Yeah. I mean, Rick Moranis was in that, right? Yeah. Little Giants. He's Canadian, so he might have, for all I know, he stole that idea. That's true. You know? Get to the bottom of that. All right. Holiday shopping comments. You skipped one. Oh, one more. World Cup comments. Rena Camps. Hey, guys. I'm in America living in Qatar.

Been here since 2018. Qatar is a pretty cool place, and there's so much incorrect stuff floating around on the internet about it. Alcohol is available here. Wow. And has been for at least the last decade. It's not just sold as widely. It's just not sold as widely. Oh, it's just not sold as widely. Wildly.

Women can sunbathe at hotel beaches and even the beachfront neighborhood I live in. It's pretty amazing living here. Nice people and so safe. Nate, you could come do a show here. Yeah, look at that. I'm in. I love it. Well, she didn't mention you, but... I'm just letting you know, though. I'm in, though. You know what I mean? I'm in. It does seem like your kind of place, though. Yeah, I mean, I'll go. I mean, if you need someone.

I guess they have an emir. I said king last week, but someone said it's an emir is the ruler. There you go. This is the last we ever heard of Reina. She's like, you can do everything. She's been doing all the rule. They're like, no, no, no. We never said that. A man pulls up. His toes are in the back. Right when she hits sin on this comment, she's like, I got a knock on my door. I'll be right back, guys.

No, that's great to hear. That is crazy. The alcohol is available there. It is just like, why are people... It just feels like stuff gets spread around. Yeah. It's a great place. Well, I think it's people wanting some... I think people want the World Cup to come to their country. Yeah. So if I can make a region look bad...

then that means that, oh, we're going to be more like city focused. Yeah. And yeah, everywhere has got problems. It's nice to hear that. Holiday shopping comments. The.names.rach. I've listened to Nate Land podcast since the first episode, but I laughed so hard during the most recent holiday shopping episode that I had an asthma attack and now plan only to listen to the podcast when I'm near my inhaler.

All right. You got to be careful. You got to be careful. We're out here changing lives. Yes. Marky Quinn. I work for a Bed Bath & Beyond, and a manager would change the music the last hour we were open to polka music. He called it the polka power hour. Yes, people do shop faster when they hate the music. That's a good way to get people out of there. That's a good way to get them out. It's your Bed Bath & Beyond appreciation. Yeah.

I had no idea Polka had that power, you know? I feel like Polka's like fun. Like, I feel like I would stay longer. Cause like I grew up like in the town. I'm sure it backfires on some guys. Yeah. And then he calls his buddies, calls his buddies and all the people that like Polka that are definitely not buying anything. They're just in there like, finally, dude, get it out in the open.

Randy Siver. The nonfiction discussion hits on a sore point for me. Unsweet tea. It blows my mind that unsweet tea is a thing in our vernacular. No one took the sweet out of it, like skim milk. It's the original thing. I ordered a sweet tea for my wife and unsweet for me, and mine will be marked diet on the cup lids. As you can tell, this is a bit of a deal for me. All right. Oh, unsweet. But wouldn't it be just called tea? I think that's his point, right? Ice tea.

Yeah. But I think in the South, I mean, I don't know. I believe most people want sweet tea. So you have to say sweet or unsweet. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like unsweet. Like you're taking the sweet out of you. Like, no, no, no. They're serving you the original iced tea. I'm the original. Why should I have to have this special word? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree with this guy. But when I waited tables, it would irritate me if people would just say tea. Because I'm like, sweet or unsweet? What tea do you want here?

Yeah, you got to know it's the environment. If you're in the South, you're going to have to say unsweet or sweet. Right. And then everywhere else, you just say, I'd like an iced tea. Because we would make sweet tea and unsweet tea in the morning. And usually we would never have to make a new unsweet tea, but we would make many, many sweet teas. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. Allison Kekala says,

C. Calla. Dusty, so many times in this episode, I wanted to reach to the screen and high-five you. We got commonalities. All right. Thanks, Allison. There you go. I'll give you a high-five. Can I do one for Allison? This is Allison's. You really pulled it back on me, though. I was trying to... I was playing with the camera. Just talking to Aaron. Allison, you're going to have to see that high-five on Aaron Lane. That high-five will air on Aaron Lane.

Andrew Hall. Ooh.

Play this for a few of them, and they thought it was hilarious because it happens almost hourly. Wow. Yeah, I mean, I knew they got it. Yeah. I felt like I saw the guy heading out there right away to get it. I bet it was Andrew. To do this would be to go dig it in the hole and then take a minute. Yeah. Sit on the park bench. I mean, because that parking lot is so far. I'm like, it's not even worth it. Yeah. If I go back to the car, I won't see the museum today. Yeah. Why don't you just throw it?

I guess. I guess I just went out there and just chunked it out in the parking lot. I think you're like a field or something. Yeah. That's crazy that they found it though. Yeah. I mean, I think they just watched me the whole time. Yeah. Yeah. You come back with dirty hands. Yeah. Yeah. And they're like, weren't they already dirty? They go, they are, but there's dirty. Boy, it's fresh dirt. Yeah.

I think when we went, Ricky had some weapons on him and he just flipped something and they're like, oh, come on through. Yeah. Ricky's got a badge. Ricky's got a badge. Oh, okay. And they go, come on in. Mason Downing. I was the hay bear at Nate's mobile show. I was waiting for my wife to leave the restroom. And after making nice with security, I was offered a knife.

I can only assume it was Dusty's and I will return it if needed. Thanks again for coming our way. All right. I don't think I lost one in Mobile. So they let you in most places in Mobile. I like that. That's the difference of doing shows in Mobile where the security will give you weaponry. Right. In Mobile, they're like, do you have a knife on you? You're like, no. And they're like, all right. All right. Here you go. You may need it. We'd like everybody to have a knife. Are you armed? No. We're going to fix that. That's awesome. So this would... No, I just changed. It'd be funny not to...

I was very hot. That's not like you. No. You usually are cold. I'm usually cold. But the sweatshirt, Sage, it's a great sweatshirt, but it's a hot sweatshirt. And I had some sweatpants kind of on that can be hot. Kind of on. And I had them on the whole way. I pulled them up, actually, because I was hot. And I was just too hot. And I was like, man, I'm not going to make it. So I changed it up. All that guitar talk.

I have this MIT hat and I was given this. I forget the young lady's name, but she said she listened to a lot of shows. I think this podcast was a lot of my comedy when she was trying to and she graduated from MIT. Wow. She would listen to a lot of it. And it's very nicely helped her get through it. And that was very cool.

So I'm in. I'm MIT. All right. MIT material. I'm MIT. Did that doctor tell you you were a genius? I mean, you're racking up the brainiacs here. MIT, it's like M15. What's the thing from Impossible? Mission Impossible. Yeah. She's one of them now.

She is? No, I don't know. Isn't that called the MI5? I think, yeah. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Oh, like the British intelligence? Yeah. It starts with MIT. Yeah. You go to MIT. She goes to MIT. She made it. Got the T. One day she'll get to a five. Yeah. You go to numbers. You got to do it several times. Until she finally gets to Z. And then they go, welcome to the numbers. Yes.

MI5. And isn't that where Matt Damon's character in Good Will Hunting? Was he in a janitor at MIT? Sure. Sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just solving equations in there. Equations. Just late night solving equations. Yeah. Classic. Blue collar genius. Yeah. You think anybody will notice if I start writing on this chalkboard? You know, like... Yeah. It's a little hobby of mine, just finishing equations. This week...

We're talking about a very fun topic, World War II. Well, we're going to make it fun. All right, so today, this comes out as Pearl Harbor Day. Ooh. Okay. Pearl Harbor Day. Yeah. A few birthdays, too. Big J birthday. Oh, yeah. Okay. I want to say Patrice O'Neill's birthday was the 7th. I'm going to say Ryan, his birthday, and Wayne. I talk about them in the special, Wayne Denton. The Dentons, his birthday. A lot of December 7th birthdays. That's great. All right. Yeah.

That's about all I had. All right. Pearl Harbor Day. So I would be willing to bet that most Americans, myself included, did not know why Japan attacked us at Pearl Harbor. I think I do. Do you guys know? Nah. Did you go to Pearl Harbor when you were in Hawaii? Yeah. Okay. They were mad about us using forks?

Good guess, but no. No. I mean, I don't know. I'm sure there's a shovel. I'm sure there's a Seinfeld joke. Yeah. He goes, the Chinese, but about chopsticks, chopsticks, how they don't see goes, you know, you don't see a guy out there in the farm to pull, pull cues. Yeah. He goes, I mean, they got shovels. They don't see that. Yeah.

I've seen that. Yeah. There you go. Do you know what? I mean, I do think I know because I watched or I did or something. Was it something to with Germany or like was it trying to they were trying to they were in on it together to try to take over the world? What? Yeah.

That's what I would think most people would guess. I thought I was going to be in the other category. I'm in the most people's. Well, it doesn't have to do with oil reserves. Like we shifted our, instead of doing deals with Japan, we started sending all of our oil and stuff to fight. Like we're sending them to aid England. You're getting closer. Nerd alert, Justin. I got to have opinions that match this jacket. Yeah.

So, Japan had his own little war going on with China, which is kind of crazy now. People don't really talk about that very often. I bet they do. They were, yeah. But that was happening. Yeah. I watched a lot of Kung Fu movies. They always reference it. Do they? Yeah. Wow. You watch like just Kung, like what? Well, like Ip Man. You ever see Ip Man? No. It's I-P Man, but it's pronounced Ip, Master Ip. It's great. It's the best Kung Fu movies out there. Is it? Apparently, he trained Bruce Lee. Oh,

Wow. So it's not very old. Yeah. Well, it's not very, they've redone it. Donnie Yen is the guy and they've done like five of them. It's really great. Yeah. It's the best. If you like Kung Fu fights, a lot of times the fights will be all broken up and weird. I mean, these are straight on and it's, it's the best you can get. Yeah. Mike Tyson's in one. Oh, wow. Is it better than Ang Bak? I think so.

Because that one's crazy. That was the first time they ever did the dust kicks where they put powder on somebody's chest. And so when you make contact, it looks like the contact is a lot bigger. So it's like bananas. Yeah. I mean, Ip Man fights Mike Tyson. There was not much to that. You ruin it for us? No, I'm not going to tell you what happens in the fight, but they do fight. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was in one of them.

What is it? I haven't even heard of this. Well, not the biggest fans. Not it, man. But didn't Kareem fight Bruce Lee? Oh, I didn't know about that. I don't know about this. I think so. You know, the problem with Bruce Lee's movies is they say that he was so fast that the cameras of that time couldn't keep up with his speed. So he had to slow down to be able to be filmed. I mean, I feel like that's something he wrote. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that could be true, too. He goes, I bet you can't get me. He goes, no, we're good. We're good. Exactly.

He goes, we're good. We got all of it. He goes, I saw what you did with your toes. I saw your toes move. They're like, you keep missing. He's like, no, no, no. I did it. It was so fast. The camera's not getting it. So basically. I sign my name with my big toe. You don't get that? When I kick, I go sign it. Yeah, they miss it. You can't get it. They miss it. Yeah. You can't get it. Yeah.

Germany had its own war going on in Europe. Japan was trying to take over the South Pacific and they were fighting with China and taking over some other islands. So the only thing they felt like could really stop them was the United States' fleet of Navy ships in the South Pacific. So they're like, we go take them out. Nobody's going to get in our way.

So they did a surprise attack because they thought, we can't beat them head-to-head, but if we surprise attack, take out their fleet, then they won't be able to stop us. I did know that. I think I did. Yeah. I don't know if I could have said it. I believe you did. I couldn't have come up with the words for it. Did you go to the USS Arizona? Yeah. Yeah. That's the main one. Was it Tucson? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Yeah, but it's, I haven't been, but it sounds pretty. It's good. Pretty amazing. Well, they have like, we didn't get to go out to the thing. We went like before the show, so we went late, but we walked on the submarine and went down in that. All right. That's not it. I wouldn't think so, no. Yeah. I think the USS Arizona is. They have a memorial in the middle of the thing. We didn't get to go out there. Yeah. But we saw where it was. It's crazy. It's bananas. It's wild.

Yeah, I mean, the whole thing, it's very wild. Yeah, it's crazy. Over 2,000 men were killed that day. People killed that day. Yeah, yeah. Uplifting. All right, let's get into some fun stuff then right out of the gate. All right. Yeah. I was going to...

I thought we'd talk about Hitler a little bit. Yeah. You know, I had some family in World War II. My grandmother, my mom's mom's first husband was killed in World War II. Golly. I mean, these two together today. Were they...

Was your family, were they not in the military? They went on their own? Yeah, they just went, yeah, just went over there. Figured they did. They go, we'll handle it. Yeah, well, they were like, we can't get drafted. Let's just go help. Yeah, let's just go help. Yeah. But no, he was killed there. And then I have an uncle that's his, that was his dad. But then my grandmother remarried and then my grandfather got injured in, I think, in boot camp or in training camp for World War I.

And then my uncle, my dad's dad was born in 1900. And he had my dad when he was 47. So he had other kids. And my oldest uncle was in World War II. And he was injured. He got a purple heart. And my dad was just telling me this recently. I don't know who the enemy was in this particular fight. But apparently my uncle opened a door

And the enemy shot and killed the guy behind him. Golly. And he said he almost, he said he came home and he told his mom, he said, I almost starved to death and I'll never let that happen again. And then he got real big. Wow. He ate a lot. But then he was a chiropractor. How big would you say?

Well, I don't want to throw out numbers out here. No, but he was, you know, probably 400 pounds, you know? I don't, I mean. So like a good healthy amount. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a perfectly average amount. Yeah, I mean, yeah. He didn't talk about the, like he comes home and he goes, man, I almost starved to death. Oh, by the way, almost got shot in the face, but it got behind me. Like that was this other thing that he got brought up. My dad always would talk about the food thing. But just over Thanksgiving, he told me that about the food.

the shooting and that he had a purple heart. He had never shared that. I had a joke where I said, I never had any family in the military, but my sister did one tour with the dollar general, you know? And it's like, but,

But I... You have war heroes. Yeah, I know. Yeah, so that's my whole World War II. That's all my family. That's what they were up to. That's crazy. Yeah. Well, that's awesome. Well, after Pearl Harbor, this guy here in America came up with an idea to strap miniature bombs to bats and drop them over Japanese cities.

and it made it to the desk of Franklin Roosevelt. And he's like, you know what? This isn't a bad idea. Let's look into it. Everybody thought it was crazy, but he liked it. So he assigned the Air Force to try to make this happen. So the first job they had to do was figure out what species of bat would be best to use. Not the one that has COVID. Right, yes.

Um, so they started, they stopped everything. They were, this is the U S air force in the middle of a war, stopped everything we're doing, start traveling around the country, trying to figure out what type of bat to use, strap miniature bombs to. Um, so they visit thousands of caves and, and, and a bunch of mines. They finally settled on the Mexican free tail bat, free tail bat, Mexican free tail bat. It was the most plentiful type of bat. Um,

And they said these Japanese buildings were mostly wooden, so they have the bat land on it. Bomb goes off, causes chaos. That was their plan. So then they got to get permission from the National Park Service to, even back then, it's the U.S. government. Got to get permission from the Park Service to collect these bats. Thousands of retail bats.

So they catch them with some nets, and now they got to experiment. Nash Parks was like, yeah, that's fun. Yeah. I guess so, yeah. You got too many of those things out here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, guys, we're at war. I wonder if they really told them what for. Why? Nothing. They'll come back. Yeah, don't worry about it. Don't worry about what's happening. Shipping them to Japan. Yeah. Yeah.

So then they got to test them. So the bats can only carry roughly their own body weight, which to me is pretty impressive. They say like it's a bad thing. I mean, yeah. And they can almost, they can barely carry? They can roughly carry their own body weight is how it's worded. Man, that's a rough life. Which is every day is like, ugh. Just, I mean, like it's just a hassle. No, that means like if you carried another 165 pounds on your back,

I thought it meant just their body. No, no, no. Every morning he's like, I gotta lose weight. He just gets going slow. His wings are in his belly just on the ground just dragging. He's like, I ain't gonna get upside down. Just falls straight to the ground. So then the plan was take them up in an airplane, fly them over Japan, drop them from some type of carrier,

from a parachute. And they said keep the airplane really cold because then the bats will hibernate and they won't cause much trouble while they're flying there. Open a window on that plane. Yeah. Up that high. That's how you do it. That's what I would say that in the meeting. Yeah. Open a window. Yeah.

They're like, well, how much is refrigeration going to cost? Open a window. Yeah. 20,000 feet up in the air. Minus 50 up there. Yeah. That's where they wear those jackets. Yeah. Yeah. Then I do a fist bump with the guy next to Roosevelt.

Next problem? It'd be hard to shoot it down when they're like, well, our plan right now is to strap bombs to bats. Yeah. So let's go with the open window idea. I think you could have probably told Japan we're doing this and they would probably be like, all right. Yeah. Like no one's...

I ain't worried about it. Yeah, this is the most not top secret one you have to... You don't tell anybody, they go, we're telling... Tell everybody because no one's going to see this coming. I mean, could you imagine being a Japanese pilot and you shoot at a plane and you make holes and all of a sudden just bats just start flying out of the holes? Like it's like bleeding bats almost. Yeah.

And I'm guessing since we later drop an atomic bomb, the bats weren't successful. Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Yeah, you're getting ahead of us here, Dusty. We don't know that it wasn't a bat. I mean, we don't know that. Well, that is true. They found a bigger bat. Yeah, that is true. That is true. I think we're going to need a bigger bat. Yeah.

So they start testing it, and the plan was drop them in a carrier. After the carrier gets a certain level, the door opens. The bats, which are still asleep because they're hibernating, they fall out, and then they wake up. You got to walk back there. You got to go to the bathroom. You got to go to the bathroom. You got to go. It's minus 50. You don't want to wake them. What happens if they wake up? They have problems.

Not only is it bats. It's a bat. Already. Non-bombed. You don't want a bat flying around your head with a bomb. These guys can barely get their even body up in the air. From a marketing standpoint, bat bomb is just the part. It rolls right off the top. Yeah, it does. Probably created Batman. I wouldn't be surprised.

So the bats were supposed to wake up while they're falling, and then they were going to release them right at dawn. That's when bats roost. They would all land on these Japanese buildings, and after 30 seconds, the bomb would detonate, and it caused chaos. So they tested it out in New Mexico, and the bats kept not waking up. They would just hit the ground still asleep. Would the bomb go off? One time the bomb went off and burned an air base in New Mexico, caught it on fire. Yes.

I imagine there's one guy during this meeting that thinks it's stupid. And so as we're having a serious conversation, he's just like, why don't you call Batman and see what he thinks, idiot? And they're like, John, get out of here. We're having a serious conversation about this bat bombing, and we want to talk it through. Yeah, if you're not going to take it serious, just leave. He won't take it serious. Oh, gosh. He goes, what if Catwoman shows up? You're like, get John.

So it was called Project X-Ray, by the way. So they kept trying. They created fake Japanese cities at test sites in Utah, but it just never would. Something kept happening. The bats wouldn't cooperate. Why do they got to go to Utah and New Mexico? Like that's probably the government spending to go, well, you're already in them. Just do it all there. And they're like, let's go. Let's follow Utah. Sounds like they wanted to burn down a thing in New Mexico. Sounds like they were like, we got to figure out how to get rid of this base. Yeah.

Well, it didn't work. They never even tried it. Finally, they're like, let's just move on. This is another guy's guy. I got another idea. How about atomic bombs? So it never happened. That's where they went from bat bombs to atomic bombs? Yep. They started. They were like, these little bombs aren't going to work. Is that real? Yeah, that's real. I mean, I'm not saying it was quite like that, but they were also working on atomic bomb. These bats weren't cooperating. They kept dying when they hit the ground.

So they're finally like, let's just give it a go. They're frozen. It's not like you're blaming the bats. These bats apparently hate their country. These stupid bats. Well, maybe get American bats and not Mexican bats, and then they would have really given it a go. You know? You go, you're like, oh, we got these France bats. For some reason, they're not on our side.

Right, yeah, you're trying to get Mexico to fight for America. They're like, no, we're not doing that. No, dude, I'm not doing that. Just fall to the ground. That's what they said. Just fall to the ground. Park Service is like, hey, how are the bats doing? Yeah, they were Mexican bats, but they found them in America, so they got here somehow. You wouldn't give me a blanket and now you want me to work for you? Like, it's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, the bats knew. They were like, this is a bomb strapped to us. Yeah.

I just love the title of the name is like the X-Ray. It's like you literally have Bat Bomb would be the perfect name. It would be. And you go, no, no, no, we're going to call it X-Ray. Call it X-Ray because everybody can see through this play. Yeah. I could see the Atomic Bomb 2 making it... You get to that point of frustration that goes just...

Do the whole thing. What do you mean? Your frustration of just these months and doing this bat doesn't work. And you go, what do you want us to do? He goes, I got one that does the whole thing. No bat. Yeah. We can put a bat on it if you want.

You got to meet in the middle. He's like, I don't know. He goes, I'll put 50 bats on it. And he goes, all right. We got the bats. I don't want to return these bats. I don't want to take it all the way back. It does feel very rival scientist-y where it's like two guys are sitting there. It's like, all right, I finally got the bat thing to work. And the guy next to him was like, what if we just do the atomic bomb thing? You're like, I just got it to work. I just fixed the bat thing. I just fixed it.

Let's try ours first. Well, in Britain, they had one called Operation Mincemeat. And I learned about this from our new intern, Amelia. Amelia found this. And there's a Netflix movie about this that came out this year. So they wanted to attack Sicily, but they wanted to trick the Germans into thinking they were actually going to attack Greece. So the Germans would lower down the guard. So they found a homeless guy.

who had died from eating rat poison, and they put officer uniform on him, and then they put a bunch of stuff on him, looked like he was a real person, and then they also put some secret plans in his pocket, like, hey, we're about to attack... Wait, I've checked out, and I don't... I've not checked out. You said Amelia's the intern now. Help me. I was back to that. Wow, we really got to back up. Yeah.

Well, I got stuck at a homeless guy dying from eating rat poison. That's where I got trailed. Well, you're a little bit at it, Nate. All right, so which part do you want to cover? Say it again, just real quick. All right. Amelia's the new intern helping. Thank you, Amelia. Yes.

I don't want to mess up her, you know, this is her first thing. That's right. So they were trying, the British were trying to deceive the Germans. They wanted to attack Sicily. They wanted the Germans to think they were... Hold on, let me, because now I can't quit thinking about how funny it is that someone's listening and they're like, they got to listen to multiple times. This just happened like an episode or two ago. Yeah, I know. You got to keep turning the car around. The fact that...

God bless all y'all that listen to this podcast because part of the podcast can't be we hear. They have to say it a few times. That's the part that's hard to get through. I mean, it's like trying to find parking during the holidays. You just got to keep circling. Got to keep circling. If you can't handle this, there's a 10-second button or something, right? Yeah.

15 seconds? I think it's 30, but it's been about 30. Yeah. Yeah. At least. Yeah. Start now. So click it now. I click a couple times. We're saying Brian has 30 seconds to re-explain it. Okay. So click. Yeah. Click 30 seconds.

Ready, Brian? Go. All right. They found a homeless guy who died from eating rat poison. I'll explain that to you later, Dusty, after the 30 seconds. So they dressed him up as an officer and then they put a bunch of stuff on him to make him look like he's a legit officer. They put a theater stub for where he'd just been and a watch and stuff like that. And they also put some plans in there that said the British were going to attack Greece.

And their plan was for Germany to find it, and it would trick them into doing that. 30 seconds. All right. Welcome back. There you go. So then they couldn't make it obvious. Like, they can't just drop the guy on Germany's doorstep. So they had to take him out to the water and let him go and let him float up to Spain. Spain was neutral. They just put him in the water?

I haven't seen the movie, but I think they took him out on a boat and just let him go, and they knew he would float. Just like Moses. Yeah. Put some bats on him. Yeah. Had the bats drag him. Yeah. They put him somewhere they knew he would wash up shore in Spain, and they put all this stuff on him. I don't think you just lay him on the beach in Spain, and then they go, is that a guy? Someone walks up there and goes, is there a guy out there sleeping on the beach? Just sees him.

Because I think so. Maybe you should check it out. I don't know. Maybe he's got a notice pocket. And he just takes off running. Make sure you send the message home.

So they did this. They turned him loose in the water. It washed up on shore in Spain. Then they had a hope that Spain would do what they wanted, which was to give this stuff over to Germany and not just be like, oh, we found this guy and return him back to Britain. But Spain fell for it too. They did what they wanted and they gave the plan. Why did they turn the guy back to Britain even if they did find him? Well, I mean, because he was listed as a British citizen. So I guess they would be like, hey, we found this dead person. We don't know who he is. He's from your country.

Oh, come get him? Yeah. Well, that's also a good way to see if the... Where's he at? He's at the pier. And we have children playing, so if you don't mind, speed it up. That's probably also a good way to check and see if it worked, because if you have a general... If they want it to work, if you find the other side's plans...

Yeah. You would empty the pocket. You go like, oh, this is how we got his body. Yeah. But if the plans are still in there, then they go, oh, well, he had his plans. Surely they read these and you would change it. So it's like, I feel like it's also a way to see if the plan worked when they returned the body, if his pockets are empty. Yeah. Imagine they return the body, the plans are still in there and they're like, oh, they didn't even look at the...

They take him back. Yeah. All right, bad guy. This is strike two. Okay. You can't, you're not in charge of anything anymore. Justin. How loud was that? Was that too loud? I mean, no, he gets into it. I appreciate it. Do you have headphones on? You could maybe sit in the other room and do this podcast. That was the most. I get fired up about stuff. I mean, that was like, was it your family? Was he the guy? Yeah.

You guys get fired. Your family came up with this plan in Spain. You go, it would have worked if they would have done it. That was so fiery.

So it didn't work. It did work. Oh, it did work. We were speculating what if it didn't work. And then they're like, the plans are still there. But it worked. And Germany moved a lot of their troops to Greece because they thought that's where they were going to go. And then Britain invaded Sicily and the plan worked. Oh, wow. Yeah. Wow.

What's my favorite part about World War II? Nice and easy. I tell you guys, what are my favorite parts? You know what's funny? I look over at the guy I'm monitoring and the screen is red. I was like, that's probably me. It's peaking. What's up everybody? It's Jess Smith. The one thing I think about World War II is my favorite part is... He's got a nice easy... What is your favorite part of World War II? Oh, just how much unconvin... I would hope that we won. Yeah.

No, no, no. I love the, there was so much like unconventional warfare during World War II. Like nothing was kind of like, it was just like, I don't know, let's try this. Yeah. Like there's so many things. And it worked. Yeah. It's crazy. Well, like the rubber tank thing with Patton where they were trying to, when they were doing D-Day, they knew how much like Germany respected Patton. So they used him as a decoy and they put him somewhere else and thinking the Germans were going to move their troops to

to that area. I don't, I don't, I'm not trying to like get ahead of anything. Is it? I don't know that. That's like a, it's like, it's like a whole, it's like a whole thing. Or even like, um, there was the thing. I know we're briefs. I don't, well, do you know it? This story? Yeah. Well, they, they knew cause general Patton was like this genius and he was, uh, he was a wild man. He's like a wild man. Like he should have been like a four star general, but he was so hard to get along with that. He was only like a two star.

So imagine being like, he was like the Doug Stanhope. He was like Doug Stanhope of like... I don't even know what that means. Well, the waitresses have stars. And sometimes they're good servers, but they've got an attitude. Pull the mic back. You're getting excited. You're our General Patton. But like his whole thing was he was...

that's by the end i'm just i'm just eating and that sounded terrific i just got to get a bumper every time i it was uh yeah but he's like he's like a maniac so but he terrified everybody because he was so like i mean there's uh like footage or like stories about him you know uh

pulling into town he would have like an air raid siren to let everybody know like the enemy know that he was coming like that's how cocky he was yeah but there was a a story where there was a bunch of like uh planes like japanese or german planes were flying overhead like this area they supposedly had control over and all the soldiers were like diving for cover and Patton had these uh pearl handle pistols and he would he would shoot

There's a story of him shooting at the plane while everybody else is diving for cover. He was like a wild guy. He believed in reincarnation.

And he believed that he was in the Battle of Thermopylae, which is like the movie 300. Like, it's like, he believed that he was a Spartan. Yeah. And there was like a story where he'd never been before and he found the battle site without ever, like, he just told a driver like, hey, drive here. And he found the battle because he was like, I've been here before. Yeah. Like, it was much like, like, he's just a character. He's wild. Yeah. And so...

All the other generals were very put together, and they're very formal. Kind of think of British officers type. And then Patton was just a lunatic, so they knew the Germans were afraid of him. So they used him as a decoy, and they put him in a different part of France. I think it's France or wherever. They put him on a different coastline with a fake army. They built fake tents and all this stuff to make them think that's where the Americans were going to land.

And then so Germany moved all their defenses to where Patton was. And then that's why D-Day was, that's why we could do it because like there was all the defenses were in different places. Wow. And I wonder if, like, I wonder if he took that, did he take it well? He wasn't happy about it. Yeah. Like he was like, he was like, no, how about you just let me command them and I'll, and I'll hand like, but his whole thing was like, if, if they, it's that it's the old argument of if you let the soldiers fight,

His whole thing was like, the World War would have taken six months once we landed. If they had listened to him, but they were trying to be diplomatic and all this stuff. It's kind of like the argument of the wild man versus the, we're going to be friends with these people. Yeah, he's definitely not calling the park services about the bats. No, no. They've been great. General Patton, do you mind talking to Dennis at the park service? He's like, this is Dennis. Yeah.

Yeah, he's like, we're coming to get the bat. He goes, we're coming to get the bat. And he goes, well, sir, I don't know if, you know, the bats are hard to find and we don't want you to get them. It's like, yeah, I don't even know why I'm on the phone. Like, sir, some paperwork you're going to have to fill out. He goes, there'll be none, no paperwork. I could shoot you in the face. Yeah, exactly. You want to do that? Well, here at home, some of this stuff made me feel a little bit better because, you know, that was known as the greatest generation. Yeah.

because they went through the depression and then the war and everyone stepped up and did their part. What if they would argue otherwise? Yeah. Because they knew those people. They are the greatest generation. Like I'm saying those people, but they're like, you know, we like make it like you guys are the greatest. He's like, yeah, it was pretty brutal, man. Yeah. Uh,

Yeah. Well, I'm about to say something dusty. Well, I just wanted to, before we go too far about this homeless guy that they were like, oh, we found this homeless guy and he died of eating rat poison. Seems like they knew too well how he died.

It seemed like they found a person they deemed invaluable to society and they were like, oh yeah, yeah, we'll use this guy. That's true. That is probably true. But they're like, this guy can serve his country and do something, you know, I mean, be part of the greatest generation. Certainly wasn't paying taxes. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's for them to decide. That's not his decision. Right. That's right. Yeah. Do you want to serve your country, sir? I mean, not really. Eat this. Eat these chiclets here. Yeah. You want these chiclets and Diet Coke? Because I haven't eaten in months. I'll take it. I think they found him after he was dead. I don't think they made him eat the rat poison. But again, I haven't seen the movie.

Oh, it's a movie? There's a Netflix movie about this Operation Mincemeat. Oh. Yeah. I do feel like as far as war goes, the soundtrack for World War II was not that great. Whenever you watch any type of war movies, the soundtrack's always like... Classical music. But even if you do Revolutionary War...

It's still like a fun drum beat. And then even like World War I, it's kind of like a big band drum, kind of a fun kind of thing. And then like World War II, it's just kind of like a one nasally guy kind of singing a

like a high-pitched tenor kind of by himself. And then after that, you get into Doors music and Forrest Gump soundtrack. I've never really listened to the World War II soundtrack. But that's good. Is it Forrest Gump? No, that's what I'm saying. Oh, then it goes to all of them. All the soundtracks to all the other war... Are great. But if you watch...

like Shane Private Ryan. Rob Markman: You were looking for help on that one too. I mean, I was, I thought I was like- Rob Markman: You were looking me in the eyes with just like a man floating in the ocean. Just going, "Are you not going to grab me?"

Please grab me. You have the tenor? The tenor makes his hound noises. He goes, hee! He looks like, hee! I'd like to go to the record store and go, hey, I'm looking for the World War II soundtrack. Ooh, yeah. That's what I'm saying. It's not going to be good. When you watch World War II movies, it's all like they have to use a composer because there's no good music from that era. From that era. Oh, because they weren't making, yeah. Yeah, so it's like all- No one was being creative. It was like such a-

All the creativity was spent on that project. Well, it's like, because it was depression. That is true. Good point. Hey, look at this. Yeah, look at the thing that was working so good and then everybody else left me like a cruise passenger. No, I totally disagree with everything you said, Justin. And this is the music he grew up on. Yeah, exactly right. Big band. Come on. We had a big band going. Yeah, big band and swing. That's where it's at. Yeah. Yeah.

No, you may be right. I don't know. I just think about whenever you watch certain movies. I mean, I think of any Vietnam movie you watch, and it's just littered. CCR. I mean, that. I mean, you think of The Doors. You think of all these great music comes from...

wartime it creates great art and then that's the one where it's like all the draft dodgers back home making music yeah that helps I just love that you have the look of you could be on either side of that issue that's my favorite part you do have that very much you're like you don't know you're like he either was a draft dodger or he did some big things either way

Well, they were called the greatest generation, which I would argue they were. No, I would argue that. I was just saying it's funny to picture. It's very funny because they knew the people. They were like, no, there's some guys. I don't even mean that. I'm about to give an example. Well, it's like they're the greatest generation, but it's like we tell them that and they just had to. I'm saying it's.

It's crazy to say that and that's all they really got. They're like, oh, thanks, man. You're like, we thank very highly of you. And you're like, yeah, it was miserable, dude. And we're like, well, we'll call you the greater generation. How about that? Yeah. Well, like... I mean, you think... You said greater. Yeah. Yeah, but I say stuff wrong all the time, so you should get it. I just want to make... Yeah, I was trying to... Well, I agree that they're... If you go to Cuba...

The cars that they... That generation designed are still working in Cuba to this day. If you want to talk about how well they made everything, think about all the houses and stuff that we live in. They all built everything that's still around. In Oklahoma...

that generation's houses are the only ones that are still left. Everybody else, I mean, everything else is just... Yeah, I'm for the greatest generation. I just want to make sure the music was the only thing. What's your problem with the great generation? Yeah. They had to go through so much and it's... Well, I'm about to give an example how... Yeah, I get what you're saying. I was going to give an example how they're not as different than us as we might think because a lot of people during the pandemic would be like, you can't even wear a mask. The greatest generation stood up and did all this stuff, you know, gladly did all this stuff. Well...

When the war broke out, the government said, we need to conserve gasoline and rubber. So they lowered the speed limit. They asked voluntarily, lower the speed limit to 35 miles per hour. They called it victory speed. I'd rather wear a mask. Nobody would do it. So they finally had to make it a law. So speed limit...

during World War II for part of the time was 35 miles per hour. And they called it victory speed. And there's signs, you can Google it, there's signs that, you know, the speed limit, 35 victory speed. And it was like, you know, we're doing this to victory in the war. But what was, why did they do that? To conserve gasoline and rubber. They felt like if you went slower, it would burn less rubber. And people had to

Put stickers on their car to show what kind of job they had. If they had an essential worker that needed to drive more, you could go further miles per week than you could. You weren't supposed to be on the road just for fun to conserve gasoline. I mean, did everybody even have cars back then? They were taking off. I think I said I read 80% of people had cars by then. Oh, wow.

I'm sure then they caught all the leaders on their cars. Going really fast. Yeah, going fast. And they go, oh, yeah. It's on the news. Yeah, it's on the local news. All right. And that was D-Day. Next up, Mayor Fryanpan. I don't know. I got stuck with Fryanpan. Thank you.

They completely stopped making cars during World War II because all the automobile companies started making... Bombers. Yeah, and tanks and stuff like that. So that's the other reason. They're like, guys, we're not making new cars, so you better keep the ones you have. Yeah, so do we have a lot of stuff to make these new signs that say victory speed? Yeah, yeah. I mean, just stupid. Like, you go...

That's the reason they want to go. I feel like if you just asked everybody to do it, it would be, so they did ask everybody and nobody was doing it. Yeah, most people weren't honoring it. And then they made it a law, so then they made new signs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I like this one, though. Save your five best tires. That's like, who has five tires? You got one in the back. Yeah, I guess so. But who has more? Sell others to Uncle Sam. They just had a bunch of tires back then. Look at all these tires. I think to me, you guys got five tires. I don't even have five. I don't have a spare anymore. Well, it's the... I feel like it's always, it goes to the... You're asking... Yeah, it's like, what about the people making the cars? Yeah.

Like, that's the thing. It's like, you're always like, you're like, those people have to go like, all right, so I got to drive 35 hours. I can't have tires, blah, blah, blah. And then you're like, well, do you get a discount for like tires or do you get like just something? Because the people making it still make the money, right? Yeah. Yeah. And we made those signs. I mean, those signs, no one brought that. Those signs, you don't just...

You have to go get them. Throw them away. Yeah. I think about that because there's a lot of towns, they put the mayor of the town on the sign. In Nashville, they do that. Every time there's a new mayor, they got to...

change it. So like your first thing in office is like $500,000 just to put your name on the town. On where? Like an interstate sign? No, no, no. Like welcome to Nashville and then a lot of time it'll say mayor. But I always think it's like on a thing that hangs. But you still have to replace those if you lose. If it's costing $500,000

Yeah, we got to work on that. What town are you in charge of, Justin? You're the mayor. Half a million. I mean, you're just getting robbed left and right. $500,000 to go change. I mean, every street that leaves your town has one of those signs. So if you have a large enough town, like Oklahoma City is like a large landmass, even though it's not like a lot of people. There's a bunch of interstates and highways and roads everywhere.

So you have to change those every time a mayor... So it could easily be $500,000. There's no way. I'm telling you. I hope it is. Signs are... I knew a guy... For some reason, I'll be okay with it if it's $500,000. Hold on. I gotta... Let me... All right. Okay. So...

I knew a guy that made signs. He had a sign company. He did the Crush Glass reflective sign company. That was his whole thing. That's Crush Glass? Yeah. They make it to a fine power almost.

So when light hits it, it reflects. So that's what he made. He made signs like that and tape and all that stuff. And he goes, you would not believe how much street signs cost. Would he always just vote for the opposite person just to keep business going? I mean, that's brilliant. It would be. I mean, it's so great. Yeah.

You fund tax for it. And you're like, some reason Oklahoma, they're like, dude, they barely last out here. You're like, this guy is just putting so much money behind the opposite thing.

Well, when all the men went off to fight the war, the women went into the workforce to build a lot of this stuff. And that's how, like, Rosie the Riveter was, you know, Rosie the Riveter. It's kind of like Uncle Sam, fictitious. Oh, is it the girl with the flexing muscle? Yeah. Angela had a special where she did that. It was just kind of a symbol of women power and we can do it and stuff like that. So they went into the workforce. And then all the wives complained to their husbands.

getting shot in the shoulder. I go, you think you had a rough day? Uh, today I was at work. As the wood, like they start complaining, uh, Susie was just baby. And the husband's like, I mean, I was like almost killed by like people came out of a tunnel and it was like pretty wild. But what happened when we had an office party? I didn't remember my birthday. Yeah.

And then the movie A League of Their Own. Well, let's get to that next. So sports got really upended. I mean, it's pretty crazy that the greatest athletes of our time were fighting a war. And in baseball especially, Ted Williams actively fought. Yeah, that's crazy.

He won the Triple Crown, and then the next year he's fighting their war. That's why you almost got to be like, they're the best baseball players of all time. For him to have all the records and like, you know. Oh, my gosh. Holly just came in. She got a haircut. Christmas cut. Yeah. Yeah. And then they put stuff on her that she likes. She got a haircut before this, and the top of it was crooked.

because we went they went to like pet smarts and and uh and the top was just like so the past like two or three weeks she's just her hair has been flat and just look like a cowlick at the top just some you know whoever just a kid just was like that's good yeah you know yeah the super the super cuts of yeah yeah we took her to super cuts yeah uh she got a massage watch the game uh

I don't know what I was talking about. You were talking about Ted Williams in baseball. But isn't that, you should just go like, you're number one. Because you had to fight a war. So we're just, because you have the records. Right. He has all the records, and we just imagine you'd have even more. Oh, yeah. And you had to fight. And that's crazy. Crazy.

Joe DiMaggio went too, but they kept him from serving. Why? They thought he, I don't know what the difference between him and Ted Williams is, but what I read was he was such a national treasure. He asked to fight, but the powers that be kept him from active duty. Yeah. I mean, he was in the military, but didn't actively fight. Ted Williams are like, just. He's just like a mule they throw out there. Ted Williams, they go, get on out of there. Yeah.

So they did create this women's baseball league. League of their own is a great movie. Great movie. It is really good. I just watched it not long ago again, and it holds up. It's really great. Now there's a series I haven't seen now called League of their own. Probably not good. Yeah. What they don't say in the movie is there were some differences. The ball was the size of a softball.

So they played softball. Well, they still pitched overhand, but the ball was bigger. Yeah. And the bases weren't 90 feet apart. They were like 60. The field was a little bit smaller. Yeah. It's something that's...

A very beautiful thing, though. Like, I was making fun of the women working with that. But it is, it's very, it'd be very prideful to go, you go into places and you see women working and the women on the field. You're like, man, that's, it's like the country, like, just coming together. It's got to be pretty special. That's something you don't feel like you, it's hard to feel that now.

Yeah. So to feel that back then would be, I mean, pretty how like everyone stepped up. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. And then once the guys came home, the women went back in the kitchen. Yeah. Yeah.

There you go. So we're going to keep playing baseball? That's a joke. That's a joke. Well, that's the great thing about the movie A League of Their Own. Whether true or not, it's good in the story. It's like, you know, Geena Davis was this really great player. But when her husband came back, she's like, I want to start a family. Yeah. So she didn't want to keep playing. And some of the other women did, but she was like the best. Yeah. But she did play. No, she went back. Didn't she go back? Well, she finished the season. She finished the season. Yeah. But then she quit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

In football, college football, there was so much disruption that they had to play the Rose Bowl in North Carolina. Wow. Mainly that was because Pearl Harbor just happened. They're like, we don't need to be that close to the West Coast where somebody could attack us. So they played the... So we go cancel the game? No, no, we'll still do it. Let's go... Durham, North Carolina. Yeah, it's crazy to think they go... Like if you're that... Like, well, all right, what do you want to move it to? Arizona or something like that? They go, no, no, no, I want to...

Let's get out of here. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. So middle of the country? No, no, no. No, no, no. Well, almost to the other coast. Well, how far can we go? Yeah. I'm pretty sure Oklahoma State won a national championship about that time too. So that tracks with – there's all this chaos. And you're like, hey, how about we just sneak one – how about we sneak a championship in here real quick? I look – because I thought that might have been when Vanderbilt claimed theirs. I was hoping it would be. Yeah.

Vanderbilt's was in 1921 and 1922, which is even better because that's when the pandemic was going on, when they're probably like the only team playing. Yeah. Look at that. We did it though. Yeah. I like that. Only ones that had a cure. Yeah. Yeah. In the NFL, there were so few players that weren't in the war, they combined some teams. So the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles became the Steagals.

Okay. That's cool. That's probably a cool shirt to have. You got a Stiegel shirt. Yeah. I bet Aaron has a hat. I'm sure those fan bases really liked joining together. Yeah, yeah. Hopefully they did it for each other. They threw car batteries at each other. Oh, I forgot that Operation Midsmeet, one of the guys who came up with the idea was Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Oh, wow. And I think I mentioned in a...

previous episode the spies episode that he knew a guy that tipped the u.s off or tip us off about pearl harbor but nobody listened to him there's a conspiracy theory that they knew pearl harbor was going to happen but the u.s wanted to go to the war but people at home were like no we don't want to go to war so they let it happen to have a reason to go to war oh wow but i've heard that

Well, I mean, yeah. Have you? Because he wrote it. Yeah. No, I have heard that. But yeah, who knows? Well, I was going to we haven't we haven't talked about Hitler, but there's conspiracies about how he really died, which I'm assuming you know all about.

Well, yeah. I mean, they, they, well, some people say he went off to Argentina with his wife and then they, you know, lived out their life there. Right. A lot of the Nazi leaders, they feel like escaped to South America. Well, a lot of them came to America.

Still here. Yeah. I mean, then, and you know, like Werner Von Braun, who you're talking about being at that. I mean, I think he was a scientist in World War II from Germany. Yeah. That's how I started my set. Yeah. I mean, Von Braun, oh, the Von Braun Center. Yeah. I mean, Werner Von Braun. Yeah. He's one of the founders of NASA was from, you know, the war. Did he, was he on their side? I think so. Do they know, like, how did that even, yeah, that is, how does that even happen?

Well, I think he escaped from there, right? And then he came here and helped us develop technology. Well, I don't know. I mean, I think the idea being, well, he's a scientist and he's got a lot of information now. So why kill this guy when we could use this information? When we could name a sinner after him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's hauntsful. I mean, Volkswagen was started. That company was started by the Nazis.

And then last week, Allison Milano, she gave up her Tesla because of Elon Musk. She said, I'm going to drive a Volkswagen now. Yeah, that's crazy. Because there's a documentary or something on Netflix. I never watched it. Yeah, Wikipedia says he was a member of the Nazi party.

And a word I don't know. And yeah, and then as well as a leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and later a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States. Yeah, that's a very weird thing. Like it's...

Because it's like... So if he's the leader of the Nazi Party, that's like being... Even though it's not now we know what it is, but it would be like being a Democrat or a Republican. Like, it was like... That's what it was. It was like a party, right? Yeah. So it's... And then...

But that is, like, for what that party did, it is crazy that you're like, these dudes just don't, like, you know, it makes you think the government obviously doesn't care. If you're like, if you're going to use, I mean, we're using the guy. You're like, well, now we use him. And then you're like, but now he's named stuff after him. And then you're like. Yeah, it's wild. I think that too. I mean, because Huntsville is really a lot of stuff with his name on it. Yeah. But I guess if you're a scientist, you're not making the laws. You're not.

you know, coming up with that. You're just doing your science stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't have the answer, but I do think that's interesting. I mean, it's like, it's yeah. So with Hitler, I mean, the common accepted thing is he did commit a suicide. He and his, his new wife and they burned their bodies. And, but when they did a recent autopsy or DNA or something on part of the skull, it came back to,

be it not a him, a woman or something like that. So there's these conspiracy theories. One, that he escaped to South America, like you said, Argentina. There's another one, Dusty, that the Nazis were really into hollow earth. Oh yeah, I've heard that too. And that they all escaped to Antarctica, this hollow earth. Yeah.

I just really left that open for you to tell us about. Well, I mean, I don't, you know, I don't, I don't, I'm just, I'm just pulling. I didn't even read it. I just like dusty take over. Well, I don't know a lot about the how earth stuff, but they talk about Antarctica. They do seem to have, they do seem to do a lot of things in Antarctica. Like major political leaders are always going down to Antarctica to do things.

Like John Kerry's been down there a bunch. Like some, just a bunch of people go down there and it's like, what are you guys up to down there? And I guess some people say that in the hollow earth world, what people believe that that would be the entrance there in Antarctica. So saying the earth is hollow? Yeah. So like, like inside the earth, there's a lot of stuff going on that we don't know. Oh, like people live in there. Yeah.

Yeah. I was watching this history movie called Godzilla versus King Kong. Yeah. And that's what happened. They took King Kong down to Antarctica and I think he went into his... Yeah, there is a King Kong movie where they go into that. I think it's the one I just said. I don't know if it was King Kong versus Godzilla that they did that. They also did an Alien versus Predator. Did they? Yeah, Mr. Hip. Yeah. But the King Kong movie I saw was really great. I don't think that was King Kong versus Godzilla, but they went in the Earth and...

And it's pretty wild. But, you know, I'm not, I don't buy into the... Hollow Earth? I think the Earth could be very deep and there's some caves and cavernous that we don't know about that goes very deep. Yeah. I don't think the Earth is hollow. Yeah, it'd have to be circled. Right. Exactly.

Hey, you know, I mean, I can't argue with that. The man says something, the man says something. I don't know, you know, he goes, I'm just sitting here having a good time. Yeah, exactly. There were some rumors that the Nazis, I thought we were going to have a lot more on Hollow Earth, so. So we're kind of at the end. I don't know anything about this. So they could live there and people, what are the temperature is? In Hollow Earth? Yeah.

King Kong seemed to be fine without a sweater. I mean, if you follow the Matrix line of thought, the further down you go, the more... Oh, that's in Matrix, they're in Hollow Earth? Yeah. Well, no, they're further... They burrow down into the Earth. So the idea in the Matrix is that the Earth is molten, and so the core is so cold that they've had to drill down into...

the earth to be warm, like to stay warm. Oh. But that doesn't mean it's hollow. That's just like they drilled there and made it sit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it kind of flies in the, the Matrix universe flies in the way of Dusty's. Yeah, it would be, I would think, hmm, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's what they say, right? I mean, that's what they say is that there's lava in the center of the earth, right? Even though they've never been able to get down there. They're like, that's what's down there.

We just assume because volcanoes erupt that that's what's in there. So it would make sense if you got closer to it, it would be hot. Yeah. But if you dig into the ground, it gets colder. Yeah. I've never been like, I need to warm up. Let's dig a hole. But you're supposed to dig a hole if you get stuck out in the wilderness. Yeah.

You dig a hole and lay to the ground. No, no. They tell you. Did they tell you to lay to the ground? Or you lose your heat. No, I think you're supposed to lay on the ground. Yeah. To get warm? Yeah. No, it's actually to put something underneath you because otherwise you will lose your body temperature to the ground, which is true. Now I'm back with Dusty. Oh, boy. I may want to shut that computer. Are you talking about... Because I know when you're in the desert...

You're supposed to, you have a campfire. You're supposed to take coals from the campfire and then bury them. And then you lay on top of them. No, no. This is saying, like if you were stuck out in the, like just you get lost, stuck in the wild, you need to lay on leaves and stuff. Because otherwise all your heat will go to the ground. You'll be much more colder. So you need some kind of.

And you could get wet, I guess, too. Like just a moisture. Yeah, I could be all backwards on this. But I think that's the way it goes. Yeah, it seems like it makes sense. And then, you know, so yeah, if it would get colder, it's true. I wonder how far, but if you go way down. You should go to a rock quarry and be like, does it feel hotter? That's true. And also if you're hot, I would think if you get down in the dirt, it would cool you down. Yeah. But a cave stays the exact same temperature.

And it's never, it's not hot, but it's like 70 or something or 68. So it does not get colder if you go to a cave. Like you go to a cave, it's always the same temperature. Right. Like at night, it's not colder at night than it is in the daytime. No.

Yeah. So your definition of hot could be it's not lava. I'm so glad Warner Von Braun came over here and helped us out with some stuff. Yeah. I mean, so by that logic, that means that volcanoes are like lava pimples is what you're saying. Yeah. And not... Yeah, I mean, because the idea being that since we have volcanoes, that must mean that inside the earth is lava. But I'm saying, yeah, I mean, maybe we just have these...

you know lava pits yes i mean we're not we're not we're not all pus when you have a yeah you know we're not right we're all pimples is just a small part of a human body yeah and not always active i mean not always you know it's not you know what i mean the pimple like a volcano listen dusty i'm not converting but i'm listening yeah okay like i'm not you're making some there's some solid yeah some solid things i'm like i mean i like it

There were rumors that the Nazis had developed a death ray that could kill soldiers from a long distance, so the British offered a prize for whoever could zap a sheep from 100 paces.

Back then, that's kind of how they... Paces was a big thing. But no one could do it. But while experimenting, they invented radar, which helped them defeat the Germans. Because now they could spot... Who came up with that plan? Oh, the Nazis. There was a rumor that the Nazis had a death ray. It could kill you from far away. So then the Nazis started fighting Germany. What? You said this, so they defeated Germany? Germany?

Did we get the death ray? No, there was no death ray. Who made the radar? The British invented while trying to come up with something to zap a sheep. Yeah, I think you said the Nazis invented it, then they defeated Germany. That's what I think I got confused about.

Yeah. That didn't make sense. So there was no death ray. There was no death ray. There was no death ray, but there was a rumor. Oh, the British got a rumor that the Nazis made death ray. So then they, then the British, I didn't catch that. Okay. So the British then said, you go make, we go make our own death. That's right. So they were trying to invent it their own. But then they made radar. Yeah. Okay. They're trying to zap a sheep. Yeah. We don't know if they did make the death ray. A sheep? Yep. Yep. Yeah. From 100 paces.

Sheep don't move quick, so you can keep it there for a while. I guess so, yeah. If it's something fast, you'd be a ton of paces. Now, 200 paces, it's already gone. But a sheep, you're like, ton of paces, it'll be there for most of the day. Yeah. You said it's England that came up with the 100 paces? British. He said British. Yeah, but they're English. He said British came up with it. Sorry. Justin, people listen to this information. It just kind of makes me... I'm going to British on tour.

Which is like, the British are the reason we have the wonky foot meter or like foot yard system. So for them to be like paces on top of that too, it's like, man, use your system. Yeah. That's like crazy. Oh, that's why the British, they used. Yeah, because like the foot and yard are all like measurements that they coined. That's why we use them because we were. Yeah.

colonies. And then, oh, and everybody else said meters. Well, like the metric system. So people get mad at us and we're like, it ain't our fault, dude. Yeah, but that's why they think it's crazy because you're like, like paces. You're like, no, use your wonky, use your system. Don't start throwing another thing out there. That's why...

That's why we're all turned around. Yeah. Yeah, that is true. Yeah, we've all been doing yards out here. Now you're throwing in paces. We're trying to build a death ray. We're trying to build a... Yeah. Because what about a bat bomb? What are they... That is funny to call it a death ray. They go, what is it? It's a ray of death. Yeah.

Yeah. And he goes, yeah. What if we do some big long name? And there it goes. I don't like that name. Death Ray. Death Ray. There you go. All right. All right. Yeah. That's probably a good place to stop. Probably a good place to stop. Yeah. The old Death Ray. Yeah. Killed the podcast at the end. Yeah. All right. World War II. It was funner than I thought. So did everybody say that was in it? I don't know. Everybody's following that war. It's actually pretty good talk. Yeah.

All right. I was going to say, Justin's special. Go check it out. Coordination. It's out right now. Go to YouTube. We'll post the link. It's a great special, buddy. You've been killing it on the road, too, with me. Oh, yeah, man. So it's been, yeah, go check his special out. I will be in Charlotte this week.

and some other places. Go to my website. Everything's on there. Midland, Texas. I'll pass some Texas runs, Toronto coming for new year's Eve. And then, uh, all next, uh, year, uh, all on tour. Uh,

Where are you guys? This week, I got a couple of company Christmas parties. I'm working, Dusty. All right. Yeah. I don't know. I even put it on my website. Nobody can come to it, but I still want people to know. He goes, private event only. Can we get tickets? I don't think so. I just want people to know. But January 6th. Do you have a private event or do you have company Christmas party on it?

I don't know what I put, but I let people know I'm out there. I hope you put, yeah. I hope you put company Christmas party. And the address, but no one can come. But no one can come. If y'all want to meet and greet, maybe when I walk back to the car carrying my microphone and speaker, I'll talk to you. I'll talk to you. I could use some help.

But my January 6th show got moved to January 7th. I think they had something else going on the 6th. Yeah. I don't know. But January 7th now in Atlanta at ASW Whiskey Exchange. Please come to that, January 7th. And January 28th, I'm in Waukesha. I think I'm saying that right. Waukesha, Wisconsin at Fox River Christian Church with Johnny W and Darren Strebelow. Three of us there. So tickets don't sell for that. Yeah.

December 22nd, 23rd. I'm in Oklahoma city doing holiday shows. I'm there at Bricktown comedy club. And then, uh,

the week of new year's Eve. I'm in Omaha, Nebraska at the funny bone with Colleen and everyone, all the great people. Oh yeah. So they're the best, the best, the best. All right. This weekend I'm at the Cincinnati funny bone in Liberty township, Ohio. Great place. It's going to be great. And then hotel. It is great. Yeah. That whole little area is great. It's going to be a lot of fun. And then I'm, uh, December 13th back at Zaney's in Nashville. All right. Yeah. All right. Uh,

All right. As always, we'll welcome Aaron back next week. I was glad this worked out, though. Justin. I have to work on this chair before he gets back. I don't want to leave any evidence. A little squeaky chair. You looked the part. You look great. What if Aaron doesn't get back? That's true. Justin will be here forever. No. Yeah. Get used to it. Get stuck in Mexico. Get used to it, this camera. Ooh. Justinville. Yeah. All right, everybody. We love you. Bye. Bye.

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