129: #129 Stuff We Didn't Get To In 2022
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Hello folks and hey bear, welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slick. There it is. There it is. So this is the final episode of the year for us to be recording. We will have a best of air the last week of January.

Last week of the year. I mean, last week of the year, December. And then we'll be back January 3rd. Which is, or whatever, that Wednesday. Yeah. But first year we'll be here recording. So this is, yeah, this is it of the year for us. I'm going to miss you guys, man. Yeah. Miss you too, buddy. See you next year. Yeah. All right. Yeah, it's...

It's been a good year. Dusty, you were added this year. Yeah. Feels like too long. Yeah. And forever ago. Forever ago. Yeah. It's tough to believe it used to be just the three of us. I know. I can't. Well, the good old days. The good old days. Yeah. That's what I call them. It'll be interesting to see who we find for next year. And we tried Dusty. Yeah, you got to switch it up, you know. We had a good go. Yeah. You don't want to run something in the ground. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it's awesome. And speaking of which, talk about my special, Amazon, January 31st. It'll be on Amazon, taped at Phoenix Celebrity Theater in the round. Very excited. Very excited. Hello World is the name, which I do have. Will you get her to get my phone again?

And I will send you it because I can talk about the name, the name of the special. And, you know, I know some people asked about Amazon. Let me send you this photo. People asked about Amazon. Can I do AirDrop? You can AirDrop it to me, yeah. If you want Aaron's MacBook Pro, you can text it to me as well. Does it go to your computer? Either one is fine.

Whatever pops up. So don't put it up there yet. I'll explain the name. Or reason. So people did ask about going to Amazon versus Netflix. I'm going to get to own my special at Amazon. That was the big reason. That's great. So Amazon will have it, and then they will. And from after that, I'll...

I'll get own it. And so that was important to me with this one is I've never owned a special, you know, my album yelled out by a clown, but then past that you don't own it. So I, I wanted to own this one. So that was a, a big thing. And Amazon is getting into the standup game. They did Gaffigan's a while ago. And then I think they're trying to make a, you know, hopefully more of a push in Amazon. I'm a giant prime video fan. I watch,

probably i'm not just saying it because i truly that's what i watch now and uh and uh but i still watch netflix netflix has changed my life uh so it's it has nothing to do with that but it's it's fun for me for that reason and i'm excited for this uh yeah this special coming up uh and we did uh the name of hello world is uh i was just trying to like you know i don't ever have the specials they're they've all been kind of uh

like the Tennessee Kid or the Greatest African American. It's kind of a broad description of those. And Full Time Magic and Yellowback Clown were both from a joke, I said. But the ones that I've done since then, Tennessee Kid and the Greatest African American, were just the other names. And so this one, I liked Hello World. Just, I don't know. I think it was pleasant.

I wanted to, you know, just be like, when you look at it, it's, it's, uh, it's, it's, it's, it was nice. It's a nice greeting. So it's like, you want to be like, well, I'm hoping this special is like that for people that watch it. Like it's something that's pleasant. That's not, you know, uh, it's just, you know, dumb, funny. It's not goodbye world. It's not goodbye world. It's hello world. It's nice. And, uh, it's also a nod to Tiger Woods who, uh, uh,

He said it, and this isn't really, Hello World was, I'm hoping that all the specials have been big. I'll be, I'm interested to see what this one does. It's hopefully, you know, as we've started moving into doing Bridgestone Arena, we started doing some bigger places like this could be one that, and going to a new place and Amazon's doing this and Amazon, they did, they liked the name Hello World. It's kind of just like, all right, here's a new, like next kind of phase. Let's see where we go from this. And,

And so, but the fun add to that is Tiger Woods said that when he turned pro, when he was 18, he said, I guess, hello world. And I got to meet Tiger Woods. Whoa. I got to meet him. All right. And that was the best. That was the day. That was when I was like, well, we're definitely calling it hello world now. Yeah. I did a, and I didn't post about this, but I did a podcast.

like some private thing for the PGA something. And so Tiger and Rory were there and they did like an interview at the beginning. So they were, I didn't know they were going to be there when I first took the gig. And then they, like a week before they were like, Hey, Tiger and Rory's coming to speak. And I'm, and I was like, are you kidding me, dude? And so the lady was like, very nice. She's like, Oh yeah, we're introducing you to Tiger. And I'm like, come on. That's the, that's the guy. I don't know. I don't know if there's another person.

I mean, there's a few others I would like to meet, but it's like Tiger's the, he's number one. And so I was like, well, that's crazy. And then, so I go, uh, I do the show. Then I was waiting. I was like, you know, I was there very early and, uh,

It was at the breakers in, uh, West Palm beach. And, uh, so we do the show. I'm waiting in the green room and then she goes, all right, we have tiger for you. And I was like, Oh man. And so tiger's about to go in this room. And like, it's, it was like for something like it was, you know, I don't know, a bunch of executive something. And, uh,

So I get to go talk to him beforehand. And I told him I'm naming this special. I wasn't confirmed naming it that. But then I was like, I'm going to name it Hello World, which is a nod to him. And I'm not trying to compare myself to Tiger. I really just was trying to think of something that's nice and something that's positive and something that I wanted it to be very open and welcoming to be like,

I'm just trying to have fun. I don't take myself this serious. But he also said that, which is also what made me... I always loved that when he said, I guess, hello world. Like his first introduction...

Did he have a reaction to that? Did he know what you meant by that? Yeah, yeah. I mean, he was like, oh, that's cool. Like, you know, I mean, this guy gets told anything and everything all day long. Yeah. So it was, he was very cool about it. Was awesome. Was the, I mean, the best. Was exactly everything you wanted it to be, yeah. And I think I met him at the right time. I don't know if it would have been a while ago. You know, sometimes life has- Seems happy there.

Dude, he was, he went in this room. You maybe not. He went in this room while I was in the middle of, I don't know what I was doing. They just took that picture. And he told me about his first time he was on Fallon because I said I was a comedian. And I was like, I'm a comedian on the show. And he goes, we got to go up after you?

And I was like, no, no, I'm like, I'm on when they're cleaning up in the middle. And I was like, they, cause they went up and they talked and then they left immediately. And then I did not get to meet Rory. Rory came up at the very end next to Tiger. And I was like, Tiger was telling about found. And then I would have liked to meet Rory, but it was, uh,

Rory was just standing there. That was about when they needed them to go in. I didn't get to say anything. You're not going to cut Tiger off to say that. I'm like, I'm just happy that I'm even here. Then they go in the room and they start talking to the execs. Tiger is the most fun. He could sit at this table and we could just talk about stuff. That's what it honestly felt like.

And, uh, he, which if he comes dusty, you might be, I might get rid of him. I'll be honest. I'll get rid of it. Yeah. Tiger. Tiger Woods wants to do this podcast. I go, everybody's, everybody's gone. Uh, I get it. And, uh, I'll leave. Uh,

But he was super fun, and he just was so charming. I sat in the back of the room and watched him walk around and talk to everybody. I mean, he just gave everybody time, and it was very, very cool to see. That's awesome. And then he went up there, and they interviewed him. They were talking about just in the past, just doing a – they had a guy ask questions and stuff.

he even talked about joke about a senior tour. There's senior tour guys there that run it. And he's like, I mean, he goes, I can have a car when I go out with you guys. Right. He's like pointing at them and they were like, yeah. And like, he was, you know, like just like very fun work in the room, work in the room. And, uh,

And so it was cool. I don't know. I'm hoping he'll remember that I said that I'm naming this special. I'm like, I named it after you. It's a kind of aggressive thing. But it was unreal to get to meet him. And that's where, and so that is part of where the name came from. It's a little nod to golf. I've got a golf story in it.

And it's a pleasant name. Yeah. That's great, man. And that's why. Congrats, love. Thank you. That's exciting. That's why we're at Amazon. So some people were asking, wondering. I hope you don't mind me saying this. I got a sneak peek of Special. And I envisioned from Aaron's story about chastising a guy saying enough. Aaron was in the very back up at the top. I'm watching Special, like third row up, there's Aaron. Yeah.

You see Aaron? Am I visible? Right in the middle. I love it. You're yelling at people right in front of Nate? Aaron's first special. I love it. Welcome to Amazon. Amazon credit. I'll take it. Yeah, it shows you. I think you see it a few times. It'd be fun if people can figure out before and after the enough.

Yeah. I tried to glance at it. I think I could probably have a window of it. I could point out the guy that I did it to. Yeah, yeah. So when it comes out and then people watch it, we'll let them see. See if they can... I wonder if people can figure out the before. A, you got to pick the guy. Yeah. Because I think I did point to the guy and I was not... It wasn't the guy I thought. And so...

but you can try to find out when was the before, what joke was, would you remember? I don't remember when it was in the set, but the reason I had to do it is because we were so close. Okay. It's like, well, this is like, this is potentially a problem. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'm trying to say you're helping Nate out. He helped me out. Oh, absolutely. I thought you were just helping out the audience around you. You're helping out the main guy. It's all one in the same. We all have the same goal. Yeah. That helps Nate. If people around that guy can't pay attention, then it hurts Nate. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. That's true. That's why you want Aaron on the third row. Yeah. Yeah.

You see Aaron move. Aaron just walks on the third row. He just is the whole time. He's just circles. Yeah. And just with a shirt that says enough. And he just walks up to it at points. You see him get up and go to Cassandra stand a couple of times. Yeah. You should sell a shirt that says enough. People have asked me about that. Yeah. Yeah. You should. Do you tell them enough? Yeah. Enough. I've heard that enough. Yeah. So it's, yeah, super pumped.

Super excited. January 31st. It'll be fun. It'll be funny. You never know. You always get nervous. Because then you're like, before you, when I was doing this material, you're like, I was like, I'm very happy with this material. I really, really like it. And then you tape it and then you're like, man, I stink, dude. Like, you know, you're like, I don't, this might be the worst thing

But you always just, I mean, I think it's good to have those feelings, but I am very excited about it. So we're seeing a Met Tiger, worst case. Worst case, maybe he watches it. So great, man. If I give it just Tiger to give it a go. He goes, I've tried. He goes, I tried to make it through it. That's fair, man. Just one view, but you're like, can I see who it was? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, yeah. So there's that. And that's it, right? Yeah. This weekend I was in Florence. Had a great show with Henry Cho. Thanks for a great one.

These guys were in San Diego. Did y'all hang out? I was in San Diego. No, I didn't hang out. I went to the zoo looking for him. He invited me and then he wasn't there. He's mad I outsold him. Yeah. Sold out all my shows. Yeah, I heard about that. No, I didn't. Yeah. All right. So, yeah, we are pre-recording this one. So I like to let people keep it consistent. They always know. But, yeah, happy Merry Christmas.

Scott Russell. Hello, folks. Love the show and all the banter and epic rants. So nice to have a clean option that's funny but not cheesy. Tell Beatitude to keep up the good work for as the good book says, the meek shall inherit the earth. Keep up the good work. He called me meek. I think that's exactly what he's doing. And I imagine that's not good. I'm going to inherit the earth. Yeah.

Yeah, but it'd be a bunch of you meeks. Yeah, very meek. And then one of you are going to try to rise to the top and become a mock. Is a meek an animal too? A meek? Like M-I-N-K? Yeah. A meek is an animal. Not a meek. Yeah. Well, a meek is technically an animal. It's a bunch of animals going to take the earth. Just like the good book says. Yes, the good book says. No, that's very nice.

You are the meek. Meek does not mean weak. I learned that in Bible school. Oh, what does it mean? It rhymes. Not strong? It's close. It just means peaceful. Yeah. Submissive. Yeah. Yeah. Easily imposed on. I'll take that B.B. Yeah. They take it. Wow. The meek inherits the earth until someone comes, give me that earth, and they go, oh, yeah, you have it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Sure, dude. I don't care. Ad, ADD0128, why is Brian so condescending? The show is great. I listen every week. Everyone seems to mesh well except Brian. He's constantly undermining Dusty for no reason. Well, that's what I always say. Every time I leave the podcast, I go, Brian just kept undermining me. They say he's meek, but...

I'm not being condescending. I just have to speak slow because Dusty's so dumb. He's the meek and the bold. Yes. The meek and the bold. Now, that's a show. Well, Dusty, I apologize for that. I will work on that in 2023. Well, it's been heavy. Not today. It's been heavy on me. So thank you, ADD0128, for bringing that up. Yeah. Yeah.

And ADD, I don't know if it was he or she, still gave us five stars. Oh, thanks. We appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we mean that. I mean it. I think us three mean it. I don't know about Brian. But, yeah.

Brian answers all the emails. All this stuff he responds to, it's a giant task. Would you mind saying at the top where we get these? Because people are just emailing me directly now. Yeah. They're just calling his house phone. They have texted me. He goes, have they? Yeah. That's funny. How do they have your number? It's out there. Yeah. It's on my website. Is it? It still is?

Yeah. It's on my Facebook page. It's out there. It's hard not to. Yeah. But that's what people love. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, nateland at natebargetzi.com or just text Brian.

All right. That's what it said. I read it word for word. Well, all right. No, don't. Don't text him. It's a lot. But you've spawned all these. It's a ton. We've grown to be a lot of people who are spawned. It's a lot. And we, yeah. So you do a great job. Thank you. I think people would like it if you were more, what's the word? Less condescending? More meek. A little more meek. A little less condescending, yeah. Not undermining. In condescending.

Or in condescending could be the most... If you were descending. Pro-descending. Pro-descending. Yeah. Yeah, your condescending means up to something. What'd you say, Dusty?

Well, we said, you always do this to me though, for real, where you're like, no, you do, where you'll go. What'd you say? And then I'm like, well, it was something I was just going to let go. Well, I didn't want you to. Well, incondescending, if we learned from the last podcast, invaluable means the most valuable. So incondescending means the most condescending you can be. Like there's not even a value to the amount of condescension. Okay. Okay.

There's a ton of condescension. I don't mean you do, but you will, because you would keep me included. Yeah. But sometimes I'll be like, I'm going to go ahead and let it go. And you're like, no, no, no, no. You brought the podcast to a screeching halt. Let's dig into that real quick. It's condescension. That's when water's underneath them. Yeah. Nathan Long. As a longtime listener, I was totally against condescension.

Dusty joining the crew, right? So far, I'm in. He's going to screw it all up. How can you not believe in dinosaurs? Has the arrival of Dusty ruined one of the few great things I have going in my life? Fast forward to today, and Dusty is one of my favorite comedians.

Long live Dusty. All right. Turn around. I love that. Now if we can just get you to not believe in dinosaurs, it will be complete. You guys are going to be real close. Yeah. Dusty and Nathan can hang out and just get these dinosaurs, man.

Dusty believes in Godzilla, but not dinosaurs. Well, if dinosaurs existed, Godzilla, I believe Godzilla could have existed. I mean, he's essentially a dragon. Am I right? Mm-hmm. I don't know why we're calling it Godzilla. He's a dragon. Just because we're giving him a name for the movie. Yeah, it's for his name. Okay. Yeah. This is a movie. Godzilla sounds good. I don't know if I'd read into it.

it'd be like dragon versus King Kong would be like, I guess dragon versus giant gorilla. It's not as fun as it is. Yeah. That's like one. Yeah. That's like when you watch like a YouTube, you're watching like a bear and a rhino fight. Right. Dragon versus giant gorilla. You're like, Oh, wonder who'd win that. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know. You kind of just naturally do what you do. And so whatever's comfortable. I mean, I don't know. I'll put my hand behind my back.

I've always stood with that beat. Yeah. Just because I've just always done that. I've learned now, because I'll shuffle a little bit on, because it's, and like I'll kick the back of my heels. Like I do, I just can feel myself do like some weird stuff. And you know, sometimes you could maybe make a movement for like when there's a punchline or you do something. I don't know if it's like on, it's not, it's without realizing you're really doing it.

Somebody this weekend was like, Aaron, I noticed you put your hand behind your back. Are you doing that as an homage to Nate? Yeah. I was like, oh, my God. I did the whole next show hand in the pocket. I was just thinking about it the whole time. Now you're doing it in a shot at me. Now you're doing it in defiance. Well, I was like, I am subconsciously doing it. I didn't even realize it's just a comfortable way to stand. But it is your signature pose. But I figured it out first. It's your signature move. Yeah. It's like that's Dave Chappelle hitting the mic on his knee.

Yeah. That's you. That's you with arm behind the back. Which I've started doing that. Have you? Yeah. It's kind of my tag. Just how awkward it would be.

No one's laughing. No one's laughing. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Comes back up. I'm too scared to have it to silence. I hurt myself. Sit down on the stool. You just hear just a banging on the thing. And they go, why did he do that?

Brian smoking cigarettes during your set. I would just love that. I think he tried to put the microphone in his pocket. Did he just try to put it in his pocket? Yeah. What'd you say, Dusty? I got nothing. I got nothing. Yeah. I'm afraid to have it too far away from me.

Some guys will do that. I was taught early on, somebody said, never take it far away from your mouth. But if you watch like Jezelnik, after jokes, Jezelnik brings it down to his side. And it's really interesting. Yeah, I wish I could do, like I even, this weekend I was trying to, because it's like trying to do, or I think it was this weekend, we tried to do new and old stuff. And it's like, you have a mix. And so some, when I was doing the old stuff, I did think, I was like, let me try to,

uh, I know it seems like I go slow, but in my head I'm flying. Yeah. And I don't think I'm, I think I'm like, weirdly said, like I can be, it's like slow, fast. Like I talk slow, but like the jokes are, there's a joke. I'm trying to make you laugh almost the whole time. Or, uh,

But and then this weekend I tried to like I was like, I mean, the old jokes that I, you know, have the rhythms of and I know. And I was like, maybe I'll try to like like slow down. I'm still trying to learn, like to get more comfortable on stage. And because I mean, I get very much in the you don't you're like comfortable in your thing. And if you get out of it like Chappelle, like when you watch Chappelle, it is crazy.

he can just like walk around. Even the video of him bringing Elon on stage, which came out, if you're watching, this was like a week before. And if something happened, I, I'm just seeing parts of this video. I don't know. They could have both killed someone this weekend. And I don't want you to be like hearing this. It's been a week later. And you're like, you're talking about the guys that blew up the city of San Francisco. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, this is a week before. I don't know what they did. Uh,

But even like I was just watching that, the comfortableness of like Chappelle just stands and just can just sit and quiet. And it's it's he's talking like you would be talking here, I guess. But it's I was like, man, not saying I want to do that, but it's like I need to learn how to have some of that, I think.

And so I was trying to do it this weekend, like a little bit with some of the jokes, but it's like the rhythm is already set. So it's kind of hard to do it. And then I feel like the laughs aren't what I want them to be. Like they weren't what I thought they are if I don't do that. And, you know, when you're doing a joke, you always find the timing and the rhythm. It's all, it's, rhythm is a very, very big thing in comedy.

It's the, I mean, it's the most like it's how, I mean, the joke needs to be funny, but how the rhythm of how it's delivered is, is so important.

Yeah, when a show's crushing and you're able to just keep... I mean, it's like you can really get into a rhythm. If I'm up there and it's going okay, the rhythm is not the same as if it's just crushing. And you're just able to just roll with it. And it is a fun rhythm. You can get out of sync with it. And sometimes you got to stop and be like, all right, let me...

Let me kind of reset. I need to get like, cause you're just trying to find, cause you can get the groove and be like, and that's why when you do, you do so many shows of the same, that's how long it takes to find the rhythm. And I still don't know if I know what I'm doing, but it's, I know I don't know what I'm doing. Like it, but it's like, you know what you're doing, but it's like, you just, it's yeah. It's interesting to find you're like, golly, how do I get that comfortable and, and, and be able to just,

you know, be up there. Even if I was, if you could be up there, like, you know, people that talk to the crowd, like, even though like, I'm not a giant crowd work fan, but it is like the tool of that is not a bad thing to know how, I don't think you should do it and rely on it. And that'd be the thing, but having the tool of it's not bad to be able to just be up there and have the pressure of like, Oh, I got to think of something to say to these people. Like if you had to walk on stage and was like, well, you need to start talking about something.

Like, what would you, like, I think I would panic. I could, you know, I could kind of talk, like, I would just, I would be like, I like to know where I'm going. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, unless there's like, sometimes my show I do in Nashville, my opening set, I'll host that show. So I'll go up and sometimes I'll be like, I'm just going to mess around a little bit. And if that's going well, it's amazing. You're like, oh, this is awesome. But I have gone up and been like, I'm going to mess around a little bit and no one laughs at any of the things I'm doing. And it can be a little panic where I'm like, oh no, let's do some jokes. Let's do some jokes we know.

Yeah. Let's get this show on track here. Yeah. You don't want to lose it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I do think rhythm is a big thing. If you can figure out your rhythm and then you can, you know, and you do figure it out over time, but I don't know if you ever really just know it. It's just like being confident. Like Chappelle is just the most confident person up there. He's the most confident person in the room. And yeah,

And it's even another level of confidence. And maybe that's even like a notoriety thing or a fame. Like you're like, you know, it's like you could, like even when I go up, even though if you're there and you know everybody knows you, you always feel like, do they know me? Or like you feel like everybody, you're like, they might be here for just because they're here. I don't, you know, who am I to assume? But then if you're so famous, like maybe you do get a little, you know,

You gain that. I don't know. Or maybe it's over time. Maybe it's years. Maybe it's something like anything. You don't, it's, you gotta be old to figure stuff out. It's crazy. Experience.

Corey Crowley. My cousin visited with my aunt and uncle for Christmas and brought her dog. The dog apparently pooped behind the TV when everyone was gone. A week later, they were having problems with their cable and had to call Comcast. The cable guy got behind the TV, paused, and asked my uncle, do you have a dog? To which my uncle responded, no, we don't.

the couple got paused and then just got to work. I'm pretty sure he thought my aunt and uncle enjoyed playing a friendly game of hide the territory. Oh, geez. Yeah. That's funny. That's a weird way to ask too, though. Do you have a dog? Because your uncle's like, no, I don't have a dog. But it's like, you don't go, well, there's some

poop back here yeah Corey I couldn't put it all in there Corey pointed out how his uncle never once asked why do you ask he's just like nope and then that was it which is also very funny yeah that he didn't ask I think too is like if you're the cable guy you're just like alright they're saying no looks like dog poop maybe it's something else

If it is something else, do I want to be, how long do I want to be? I better get to work and get out of here. I can just, let me just hammer this out and get out of this house. Like, yeah. Yeah. You better hope to God it's from a dog. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That's the best case scenario. Yeah. Mike Monaco. I live in Concord, New Hampshire, where Krista McAuliffe is buried. I was at a bar. Who's that? She's the challenger, the teacher that was on the special challenge. Yes.

I was at a bar and I saw a stack of dirty pennies by the register. I asked about them and the bartender said that a homeless guy came in for a drink and left the pennies as a tip, saying he had taken them off of Krista McAuliffe's tombstone. The bartender let me take the pennies, which I put back on the tombstone on my way home. I apologized to her grave that someone would take her pennies and wish her to rest in peace. Definitely the strangest drive home of my life. Yeah, that is weird. So why are people putting pennies on her grave?

That's just something people do to honor the dead. Not even a quarter, huh? It'd be pretty funny if in some way she can't, but in some way she could see them and go, and then that homeless guy didn't take the pennies from them. She's like, why'd that guy just put all those pennies on a grave? Yeah. Yeah, a lot of that. Is that a thing to put pennies on a grave? I mean, I Googled...

Chris McCall of pennies on grave and I read what people do do that but I don't know if it's oh with her I mean I assume it's with other people as well maybe she had a penny collection back in the day although the act of placing pennies and other coins on gravestones is still relatively new humans have been leaving tributes at burial sites for millennia so yeah it's just it's a common thing apparently we have nothing of value now so we're like take a penny take a penny

They probably used to make things back in the day. It was probably a real tribute. Now we're like, take a penny, give a penny. Here's a penny, Krista. Taking up room in my pocket here. Pennies are used to simply say you visited the grave. A nickel can be used to say that you and the deceased trained at boot camp together. A dime can be used to say you served with the deceased in some capacity. A quarter is you're communicating to the family that you were with the deceased when he or she was killed.

It's like a military thing. Yeah, so that's a military tradition. By half dollar. Half dollar is like, it's you. Oh, wow. But then it's like after Memorial Day, all the coins that are left at the graves and national and state cemeteries are collected and applied towards maintaining the cemeteries and paying the burial cost of indigent veterans. That's a really cool thing. That is cool. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, yeah. Not going to get a lot done with pennies, though. No. Well, if a lot of people. It adds up. Pennies add up.

We got another, because we just talked about Space Shuttle because you'd watched that thing. Another, it was too long to put in here, but I'll just tell you. John Bricado, who watches, said that they were trying to get more kids interested in the Space Shuttle, so they were working with Sesame Street to send one of the characters into outer space, and it was going to be Big Bird. It would have been on that Space Shuttle Challenger flight, but Big Bird was too big to fit in the, not the costume, the astronaut gear, so they didn't send him. But-

Big Bird could have went down. If that would have happened, do you think they still would have brought Big Bird back on the show? I don't think so. I don't think you can. Because then it's like legendary. Yeah. I mean, imagine you didn't do that. And he has to wear the Big Bird costume and then fly? Why wouldn't they send a smaller Oscar the Groucher? Well, it's like you want to go, and then why would you not just make a smaller Big Bird thing?

and fit it in a regular like no one's gonna be like that doesn't look like the size of the big bird like it's it's all relative to but i think the kids are gonna be like wow it's really big bird i know but you just make a smaller scale if you see him on there with other astronauts you're gonna know what's up with big bird i think you bring the costume and then you put it on when you're in space you don't have to fly out of the atmosphere in the costume yeah yeah yeah

Who knows if that's even true? But you go, golly, Big Bird's sweating. He's like, what's wrong? You know, Big Bird seems crazy. And the whole flight is just, they're like all pinned back. You can't even see outer space because Big Bird's in front of you. Yeah. I mean, how tall is Big Bird? Like nine feet tall? Yeah, he's pretty tall. How tall is Big Bird? That's a great question. He is about 98 inches, which is... How would they even do that?

Just don't. Over eight feet tall. Wow, how was that? Like, what's the... It's a person in the costume, right? Yeah. No, it's real. No, no, no. Yeah, it's a bird. It's not a puppet, like a full-on animatronic puppet is what I'm... No, I think a guy is in there. So what's he on stilts? Or does his head not go all the way up to the top? I think his head is probably underneath. You know, where it's real. If you're a kid watching this, no, Dusty doesn't know what he's talking about.

I mean, Dusty would say Big Bird, you can make him be on the moon, make him on Mars. Absolutely, you can. He goes, why didn't they just do that? And go, look, there he is. He's on the moon. Right. I mean, his studio is probably right next to that studio. Why doesn't Big Bird just fly to the moon? That's right. Because he's a big bird. He's a dinosaur, too. Yeah. Is he? Birds. Oh, yeah. Evolved. Yeah. Heavily evolved, Big Bird is.

Yeah, I don't know how you'd even have the equipment. I mean, the fact that they're like, ah, we can't put the stuff on them. And it just stopped there. Yeah, I don't know how you do it either. I don't think anybody... I mean, just the nightmare of like if you're one of the astronauts and trying to float and you're like, excuse me. You know, he's just like... The big bird just stuck in the middle the whole time. He can't move and you're like, I gotta go to the bathroom. And then you get a squeeze by this eight foot...

You know, not a normal person that can shrink up. It's just a big belly. He's like our own real-life Chewbacca here. Yeah. Did they give him a spacesuit? Was he going to have his own helmet and whatnot? Yeah, I just looked. I couldn't find any. Because that might have been the problem. Any visualization. You're not going to be really able to breathe up there, Big Bird. He was on the short list for a tall guy. It didn't apply to go on the space ride.

It was Carol Spinney, the man inside the 8'2 suit. So they reached out to him. Yeah. Hey, you want to go to space? He goes, I don't know. Oh, so he didn't go because the costume's sheer bulk and out-of-control, zero-gravity environment was part of it. Yeah. I mean, who even called him then? Like, that's like an intern at NASA. It's like, wait, I can call Sesame Street? You're NASA. You can call anybody you want to call. Yeah.

Hello? Big Bird there? Trying to make a very serious trip to the moon here. Could we get a cartoon character on here with us? Yeah, it's Big Bird. What's up? Space? All right, I'll do it. It looks like they're still doing it. I mean, it says Orion test capsule. They're sending Sesame Street artifacts.

Grover's cape, the rubber ducky Ernie sings with. Imagine an alien find of that. Here is the Earth people trashing the moon again. Throwing stuff up there. They throw literally the trash can up there. And they go, look, they killed an alien. He's in the trash can. Open the trash can. See if that alien's inside there. Okay.

And he is fiery. Ended clear. I had a stunning experience when I was 12 or 13. My father had bought some property in the Sierra Foothills not far from Bass Lake and was planning to develop it. As we rounded the corner onto the property, there was what I later found out was a Bigfoot going through our garbage pile.

I am pretty skeptical and pragmatic person, so I seldom tell people about my Bigfoot adventure unless I've known them for a long time. I do not want someone looking at me like I'm crazy, like I'm a crazy flake, but I wanted to let Nate know that he is right. They do exist. See? Wow. See what I'm talking about, man? I believe it. Seems like it makes sense.

Yeah, I mean, who knows what's out there? You know, sometimes they'll be like, they act like we've discovered everything. And then they'll be like, discovered a new species. And it's like, okay, so you haven't discovered everything. Yeah, yeah. But still want to continue to live that lie. Yeah. That we know what everything is. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. It's down here, Bass Lake. I like it. There are caves around Bass Lake? Probably, probably, more than likely. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, she said she, this was like 60 years ago, she called her sister recently and said, we saw that, right? And her sister was like, oh yeah, that really happened. Yeah. Man. I wonder what, I mean, it was just digging through the trash, huh? She said it was limping. She thinks maybe he couldn't go out and kill like normal Bigfoots because it was injured. So, gotta go through some trash. So it's got to have crutches. One of those little carts that you push. Come on now, get on out here. He goes, I'm hurt. They talk, you know.

I love it. Patricia O'Toole. Hello, folks. Long-time caller, first-time listener. Canadian folk here. It seems Wendy's in Canada is doing a campaign promoting cold ketchup, saying, for those who like their ketchup cold, ask for Heinz Cold Ketchup. This just proves Nate is, in fact, correct. Restaurants serve room-temperature ketchup. I'll see you at a New Year's show in Toronto, Nate. Oh, that'd be fun.

uh yep there you go i know that you guys have already done an episode on this so i'm just gonna ask but it's like isn't the way to get cold ketchup just to put it in the refrigerator like you don't really need a special kind of cold ketchup well i think they're saying they're like you can ask and yeah i don't i there's i don't think it's different ketchup but they're just like we'll keep this one in the refrigerator okay it's the same ketchup

Oh, now colder. This is now colder. Yeah. Same ketchup, now colder. Because some people are like, oh, I like that. You might be in the mood for cold ketchup. I always like cold ketchup. Does ox mean with a U-X? With tomatoes. Is that French? It's a type of tomato, isn't it? Let's look that up. In Canada, yeah, everything has to be in English and French. Oh, so am I going with tomato? Oh, there you go. C-O-G. If you look up ox, then it says C-O-G.

Well, I don't want to look a bodge. Yeah. I wanted to stop at Ox. Internet's lagging. We'll never know. Yeah, because they're like a bilingual country, so everything has to be in English and French. You're going to do your show in both? Yep. First half French, second half English. All right.

Figured I'd open with French. Douglas Robinson. Of all the misinformation on this show, I finally reached my tipping point. The Astros never wore buzzers, according to the official MLB investigation. That was a theory floated by the Twitter username John Boy, who got duped by someone claiming to be Carlos Beltran's niece. Beltran, remember, being the guy who came from the Yankee organization, saw how little the Astros were cheating, can compare it

were cheating compared to where he had just been and showed them how to cheat. All right, Doug. Oh, wow. Well, I'm the one that made that accusation, so I'm sorry if that's not true. But I always, yeah, Jose Otuve, there's a scene where he's coming in home plate and everyone's greeting him and he covers up, almost like, don't touch it. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I remember that clip for sure. There's also video evidence of them hitting trash cans and you can hear it. Is there? Yeah.

John Boy is the guy who I love John Boy. He makes these great breakdowns of all things that happen in sports. They're unbelievable. Well, he went through and made a video compilation of Astros at bat. And you hear...

hear the trash can being hit. Yeah. I mean, it's crazy. They flat out cheated. It's okay. It's okay. Every organization has problems. Well, he's saying Carlos Beltran learned it because they weren't doing enough. The Yankees were doing even more. Well, show me the evidence that the Yankees were hitting trash cans in the dugout. I know, but if they're cheating in another way. Well, they haven't been caught. Yeah.

Actually, this big thing just came out about the – did you see the thing that came out about the different balls in the major leagues? The conspiracy theory about that? You'll like this, Dusty. I can't wait. There are two different balls in circulation, two different kinds of balls in major league baseball this year. But there was a third kind that almost exclusively was being used at Yankees games.

That allowed it to be hit farther. Wow. And this is the year Aaron Judge almost broke the home run record. Oh, man. So the allegation being the Major League Baseball had an incentive for this record to be broken. It's going to drive viewers. It's going to get headlines. So they injected these juiced balls into only Yankees games. Wow. He did break it.

He broke the American League record. He didn't hit 74. Yeah, he broke. But he broke the record that everybody's like, oh, he broke the record. But if he, well, they only started, they shifted the goalposts when they're like, he's not going to hit 74. So let's have, he'll break the American League record. And it's the clean record. Yeah, that's what I mean. It's the non-steroid. That's what I mean. Okay. Like, it's the record that people would argue that's the only record that Matt, you know. Yeah.

He still got cheated, I feel like, because when Mark McGuire did it, the whole country was watching. But he cheated. But now this time, people barely even...

knew about it. Well, don't cheat. That's what happens. I know. I just feel bad for him. Yeah, yeah. No, it would have been an enormous story. I think baseball's really fallen off since the Mark McGuire days, too. Oh, yeah. I mean, people aren't watching it like they were back then. I was excited. They would cut in, and I was like, I liked seeing it, him going for it, and it was kind of fun, but it was... You got so much going on now, but then also, they kind of messed it up. It was like when...

McGuire and Sosa was doing it. It was so crazy. And then when Bonds did it, I remember they went in, they would cut into Bonds, but then everybody's kind of like, all right. But he was going after 74. I think if Aaron Judge went after the 74, like whatever, if he was breaking Bonds, I think the whole world's tuning into that. Oh, I do too. Yeah. But it also just doesn't, they would have tuned into this, but it's like, I mean, no one, you know.

Yeah, it was actually annoying to me. I'd be watching a game, football game, and then they're like cutting to a small screen to watch the baseball thing. I'm like, well, I'm watching the thing I want to be watching. You're watching some Red Zone. Yeah, I don't need to be cut in. I like cut. I mean, it's a big thing. But it makes it fun. You're like, ooh, I don't got to do anything. It's like I just trust I'm going to see only when he bats. Yeah. But I'm sure you want to see those second and third down. Yeah.

You see two runs and a punt. You're like, oh, God, what's Aaron Jones? History's being made around Fox. Yeah, just annoyed that you're like, oh, gosh. Trying to watch Alabama Citadel right now. He goes, well, what did he do? Did he run it or did he, he ran, he's poor punting? Okay. Adria Lananides.

How did Aaron and Lucy end up together? I know he's never told that story, and I'm so curious to hear how they started dating. Was it a local club she works at, or did he meet her while on the road? She works at a local club. We met at an open mic here in Nashville, and then just started dating after that. Not really that crazy of a story. Comedy is a pretty small world, industry included, so you're around each other a lot. Sounds like you love her. And...

Now, is it true? It's the same story I was talking about when I met my mechanic. Yeah. Yeah. Mechanic down the road. First easy one to go to. Everybody went to it. Married it. Small world. Not a great story. Not a great story. Not a big deal.

I mean, how'd you want me to tell that? No, that's what you told her. Was it true, though, that you weren't interested at first and then she got a drive at Zaney's? All of a sudden you saw her qualities? No, she was working at Zaney's before I even started doing stand-up. It's beautiful. It's a fairy tale. Becca Gee.

Nate was saying for an opener not to do crowd work. Wait, Nate was saying for an opener not to do crowd work. Is there a reason not to do crowd work? Does it just get out of hand and do y'all not like it? Also, Dusty has been a great addition to the pod, even though I wasn't sure about him at first. There's a trend going on. You're converting people. Well, I'm happy they're being converted. Well, there's a lot of others the other way. I don't want to put it in because I'm too condescending. They liked him at first, but it's really gone too far. Now I don't.

No, I mean, like this weekend, Julian McCullough comes out. I mean, he always does some crowd work up top and it does good. I don't mind it completely, but it's like if you're when you're doing the whole if the whole show is like doing crowd work, it's because then you got prepared material. And sometimes it's more of a you don't always want to follow it. Like it depends, A, who's doing the crowd work. And then if you have to follow it, if the crowd doesn't know who you are.

then it's hard to sometimes, because then you get them excited, you get them like, you know, the crowd's like yelling and you get them all talking and you just kind of set the mood to be like, oh, is this what it's going to be all night? It's like, we just get to yell back and all this stuff. And then you're like, well, I'm just trying to tell jokes. And then you're like, well, I got to maybe possibly deal with a rowdy crowd because now you've kind of like, the tone has been set. Yeah.

Yeah, you don't want to get the audience used to being involved in the show if you're not going to be doing crowd work. Like I hate crowd, like if somebody does a joke or two, that's fine. But I hate if somebody does a bunch of crowd stuff because I'm like, oh, now the audience is geared up differently. I want them to just sit there, listen to my jokes and laugh along.

If they yell something once in a while, I don't care, but I don't want them to be geared up for it. If I'm opening for you, would you rather me do 20 minutes of crowd work or 20 minutes of songs on a guitar? Gosh, that's tough. We would probably only work together the one time. Yeah. So you'd say do whatever you want? Yeah. You'd never work with me again. I don't know. That's a tough call, but probably the crowd work. Crowd work while playing guitar. Some guys do that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, that's the main reason is it kind of depends on the act. And then, you know, if a headliner does crowd work, then he definitely doesn't want the person to talk to the crowd because you don't want to go up there. If you've got to do 45 minutes or an hour, you don't want to be like, so you've talked to everybody? Right. Like, they want to talk to people. We already talked about who's married and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah. So, but, yeah, I just do my act. And so, like I said, but...

It's a good tool to have to be able to know how to do that. But I think if you're a comic, I think your best bet is to, you're going to have to have an act.

Stuart Elder. My wife and I are excited that Nate will be in London. We bought tickets for the show and we'll be flying up from Glasgow, especially for this. Should we hold off from watching the special? Will it be the same show? If so, we'd rather wait to see it live for the first time. Uh, so when I come out to London, uh, that's in March, I think. So special in January. I mean, so the beef, you know, people ask a lot about this, the, the tour names and stuff like that too, like the rain check tour. So the special is, uh,

The special is going to be the rain check, what I did on the rain check tour. But, I mean, it, you know, depending on when you saw it and where you saw it, it could be some stuff not in it, some stuff that's been put in it. You know, it changes. Like, so tour name, it's like the Be Funny Tour is to be like, all right, the rain check one is over. Right now, if you see me even right now, like this way I'm doing, it's like it's a kind of a mix of,

what will be on the special and what will... and then new stuff. But in comedy, it's like when I get to the Be Funny Tour, the plan is to be... Your hope is to... I want to have... to be turned over and have completely new material and wouldn't be doing anything from that. But, you know, it could maybe when the special is... I would think...

By then, it would be, you can come to the show. You can watch the special and you can come to the show. I would tell anybody you can watch the special and you can come to the show. Right now, I already have. I can do roughly 30 minutes that's new. And then, so I'm hoping the special doesn't air for another month and a half. Yeah, like a month and a half. So once it comes out, like, you know, I mean, worst case, it's like right when it comes out, maybe I'll have to do a couple jokes from that special episode.

maybe I'll have all new. I'll have to see, but it's, it's, it's not as like, like I know music is the, it's, it's like they, what they release an album, right? And it's like, we're touring with this album. And so you're going to go watch this album. Comedy is kind of the opposite is you tour with the material, the special comes out. And then the next tour is new material. Cause we, ours is built off surprise, obviously. So, uh, it's, so you're the, the be funny tour, which starts in Jane, uh,

Starts in January and the tours just almost never feel like they start like they kind of came together but it's uh So the be funny tour is like well, I'll be I I think if you go Yeah, I mean comedy. It's just it depends on when they catch you but like if someone saw me I went to Mobile, Alabama at the beginning of the rain check tour and the end of the rain check tour And I would say they were they had to be pretty different and that was technically the same tour. Mm-hmm

uh but it's by then it would change comedy kind of changes like that now if you see me there's a long stretch where i am you're seeing some of the main jokes and some of the some stuff but there's a lot of people that come to multiple shows on a tour and like there's a little stuff that changes but when you're about to get up to the special you're kind of like yeah we're loaded and locked and loaded like but yeah i should be

I'm kind of new material now. So it's, uh, well, you can do 30 minutes of new material and then you can do four or five minutes of crowd work just to fill the, fill the time. That's true. With a guitar. Maybe a crowd with a guitar. That'd help. But yeah. And we have, and look, when it come out too, we have like the Bridgestone is going to, uh, is us three. Uh, and my dad will be on that show.

So, and then I usually have two comics on a show, uh, when I come out. And so people always, when you see, uh, see that, you know, I want you to see some of these comics. I like the idea of building this. It's the world that this Nate land world that we're building, uh, hello world. Hello world. It's kind of like, you know, it's, I don't, there's, you know, I know kids come to the show is it's, I, it's, uh,

you know, it's not like we're doing comedy for kids. It's, but it's, you know, you want to be, you'd be able to come and see some of these other comics and,

you know, with me, there'll be with me, if they're on my show or if I do this special, there'll be clean. Uh, I can't always promise it's going to be like that if they do their own, I don't know, but it's like, you know, it's like, I, you're just trying to introduce a lot of comedy to, uh, a lot of people that I think some are nervous to watch it because if they feel stuff's too dirty or if you don't watch stuff with your family, like you want to be able to,

everybody can the idea of it is everybody can do it is it going to be for everybody is everything going to work out perfectly i'd know but it's the the the idea is there hello world hello world aggressive aggressively hello newman uh so yeah there we go do you ever go to dr dusty well he's gonna cure a chicken a frog a turtle all in the same day that's right

Well, you know, I always have some digestive stuff going on, so I've been trying to get that worked out, but I feel good. I saw a holistic doctor recently, and I feel good about what we've been doing. If you've hung around me outside of this podcast, you know that I burp like a million times, and-

So I'm trying to get that fixed, and that's a real gut issue. Some people say I have leaky gut, and leaky gut is where you have like your gut lining has just developed like holes, I guess. So when you eat, it just drips right into your body. And then so if you take a food allergy test, whatever you've been eating, it's going to say you're allergic to because that's in your bloodstream. Right.

So I got to get that healed up. But I've been doing some stuff and it feels good. I'm only burping about a thousand times a day now as opposed to a million. So that's pretty good. That's pretty good. I just went for my one year stroke checkup. Oh, that was a year ago? Yeah. On my birthday. Remember it was the same time I announced having a baby. Oh, right. I didn't have a stroke, but I thought I might be. You talked to me about some stuff, but I didn't know yet. He looked like it. Yeah. He looked like he was. Yeah. Yeah.

Um, but I guess there's staffing shortages everywhere. I've been to a restaurant before where they'll call your name and then they'll go ahead and call another person's name and take you both to your tables. I was at the doctor. It was, this is at a hospital and the lady calls me. I walk up there. She comes out, date of birth. I give her my date of birth. Then she calls another name and another guy comes up. She asked him his date of birth and she's like, all right, both of y'all come on back.

So now we're walking together down this long hallway. It's very awkward. Two people in there for something. He's chatting her up. He's making her laugh. I immediately blink. Does she like him better than me? All this stuff is going through my head. Then we get to where they do the vitals. She's like, all right, which one of you wants to step up here first and weighs us together? That's crazy. I mean, isn't that crazy? Yeah. Or am I wrong about that? I mean...

It's funny that he's the charming guy, but you're just sitting there quiet. They go, what do you do, Brian? I know. I'm a comedian. I know. I know. I'm going to inherit the earth. I'm very meek. Well, that's what they do, the meek, until you get the earth. And then they go crazy? You gotta go online. No, you gotta go and get checked up with other people. Oh, yeah. Because we're so meek. Yeah. We don't speak up. Yeah. Yeah. And did y'all separate after that? Yeah, we separated after that, but it was just very weird. Yeah. Yeah. I mean...

Did you ask him what he was in for? No, but I think we're both looking at each other like, what's this guy's problem? Trying to one-up each other to get service first. That's what I would do. You start limping. You didn't go, so you had a stroke? I guess you had a stroke then, huh? Because that's what I had. But you didn't have a stroke. No. What did they say? I mean, not to just get into your personal health information. They can't find anything. That's good. Yeah. I'm a perfect specimen. That's what you want.

That's what you want. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So this is the end of the year. Last episode of the year, we decided to do a stuff we didn't get to in 2022. Oh, so as we wrap up, you know, usually Nate said, are we good? And I was like, yeah, but sometimes I got some leftovers. So it's pretty amazing. This is the stuff I did not find worthy to get to based on what we talk about. Um, so the first one I want to throw out was just from a couple of weeks ago, world war two, uh,

So World War II ended in 1945 when Japan surrendered to the United States, ending the war. There was a Japanese officer positioned in the Philippines, did not know the war ended, or he didn't believe the war ended. He stayed hidden still on his post for 29 years after World War II ended. He didn't step down until 1974. So I've been to this place. He was in...

Was it Guam? It was the Philippines. Is that the same? There might have been another guy in Guam. There's more than one guy that this happened to. Oh, maybe the one I thought... The one I thought in Guam, I think, was even...

crazier than that. So nobody even in the Philippines was like, hey, dude, the war's over. No, they tried to tell him. They would drop flyers from the sky, leaflets. He didn't believe it. He thought it was a trick. Misinformation. To try to get them to come out. Perfect. So at first, he and his other soldiers hid out in the jungle. And then after a while, those guys gave up or whatever. This guy kept going and hiding. And I think he killed some people.

Wow. Doing some guerrilla warfare. And then the story about how he's found is pretty equally crazy. There's this Japanese explorer and he said, I want to go find three things. This guy, Hiroo Inado, a panda in the wild, and a bottomable snowman.

And he said, I'm going to start with this guy. After four days of getting there, he finds this explorer. Takes pictures with him, becomes friends with him, becomes buddies. And then he goes back to Japan, shows them like, look, the guy's still there. He's really there. Because they'd heard rumors, didn't know if it was real or not. And then Japan's like, well, we got to do something. So his superior officer goes to the Philippines and finds him and tells him, you got to relieve yourself of a duty. Yeah. And he turns in a sword.

What about the murders he committed?

Well. Thinking he was still on post. Wow. It was active war, man. But it wasn't, though. Yeah, but he thought it was. Right. Right. But I mean, is there any- That's a tough one. Compensation for those people's families? That's a tough one. Second question. What about the panda or the abominable snowman? All right. So then he finds him. So then he goes, finds a panda in the wild. Then he goes to the Himalayas, says he sees a Yeti from a distance, 1975. Mm-hmm.

Couldn't get to it. He got married later that year, so his wife made him take some time off. But then he goes back, and 10 years later, he gets killed in an avalanche in the Himalayas looking for the Bonneville Snowman. So people really believe there's a Bonneville Snowman? I think it's the same as Bigfoot. Oh. He's like their version. Like the snow version, yeah. Snow version. I feel like maybe Bigfoot's got a little bit more believability even than the Bonneville Snowman. Why is that? Well, because of Rudolph.

Yeah, Abominable Snowman's in Rudolph. Yeah. It's like Bigfoot. But I would imagine it's just the same thing. Yeti's a great name, though. People believe in a Yeti more than they would if you referred to it as Abominable. What does Abominable mean? Abominable. Abominable. Inestimable. See, I believe Abominable Snowman more than Bigfoot.

Really? Because, you know, if they can survive... Unequivocally... This definition is unequivocally detestable. Lonesome. Lonesome. It just means bad. So, like, this is something they hate. Yeah. So, I think, you know, you're just up in the snowy mountains, like, especially if you have the ability to sustain really cold temperatures, then you're not going to be able to... People aren't going to be able to discover you as easy as, you know, say, Bigfoot in...

just the regular jungle. Yeah, but so you mean, but I mean, I would think, so you're saying like he would be harder to find. That's what I think. Yeah.

What I think is happening, and this is based on something I heard a long time ago and I've never looked into it, but I think that when you're really high altitude and you get oxygen deprivation, you start to hallucinate. And a lot of hikers who lose oxygen, they'll hallucinate something resembling what we think of as Yeti. I think that has to be where it comes from.

you know? Yeah. I mean, could be, I mean, that could be it too, but I just think that if, if, you know, and, and maybe Bigfoot's not real either. I don't know, but I'm just saying if, I don't know, I could believe it. Yeah. I could believe it too. Yeah. Yeah. He, Bumble, Snowman has more mountains, but Bigfoot has more trees to hide in. Yeah. Yeah. He's got a blend into this. He's got the mountains in the snow, but no one's going up there.

So that's the big thing. But think about... The bottom snowman is like, he's just, he's up there. And I mean, were there any animals that live up there? Like... After a certain point, no. We were looking, we went hiking. Like how high can a grizzly bear, we looked that up. Like a bear can go... Or rams and mountain lions, they can get way on up there, can't they? Yeah.

Yeah, I'm thinking like a man in the Himalayan mountains. When you see those things walk on the side of a mountain, you're like, be careful. Oh, yeah. Like, how could you even be a parent of a ram without just like every day being like, oh, oh. Yeah.

Is there not one of them that's not afraid of heights that's just like, I'm going to hang back, dude? What is on that side of the mountain? I don't know. I don't know what they're grabbing onto. Yeah, what is... I mean, they run, and they're just hopping around up there, and you're like, what's wrong with the ground? Why are they on the side of a mountain? I think they get up there and eat... I don't know. They just get up there and eat plants. Do they not know that there's more plants behind them on flat ground? No.

You know, even regular goats love to get up on rocks. Yeah. Like my... Is it a protection thing? My nephew has a couple of goats and they love to get up on the rocks. I think you can probably... Yeah, you can avoid predators when you're on the side of a mountain like that. I mean, it's like... This one doesn't even look real. This looks like they're laying down and the picture's inverted. That's how steep that is, this mountain that they're on. It looks like it's flat. They're just chilling. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know how they even last. How could you, you know, you would think they just would be falling every day. Every day they would be falling. Yeah, I watched a little nature documentary where they do fall sometimes. See how it says they don't fall? Because it doesn't make sense that they're just... So they have a lot of, you know, they're agile, their hooves are designed for climbing, they have slim bodies.

Oh, it says the main reason they fall is when they fight each other on the side of the mountain. They can't even not do that. You can't even get to flat ground. He goes, let's do it up there. Let's do it at the top. He goes, no, no, no, no, no. You're going to run your mouth. You're going to run your mouth where you run your mouth. And I'm going to fight you right here. He goes, it doesn't logically. This is stupid. One of us will fall.

It is not common for them to fall, but most mountain goats do survive the tumble. Very young kids might also slip and fall due to their climbing. Looking for the goats? There's a five-year-old boy up there. You're like, well, what is he doing up there? He's trying to fight. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's crazy.

All right, this is from the, since we're talking about that, Animal Attacks episode. It's a favorite. So in 1985, this is another crazy story. In Knoxville, a guy found a body in his driveway. It was strapped to a parachute. And the guy had like $15 million of cocaine on him.

a gun, all this kind of crazy stuff. The guy, he was a pilot from Lexington, Kentucky that was flying drugs for the cartel from Columbia. He was a former officer in the military, knew how to fly. He was flying back and forth. He had to dump some of his load in the woods and

And then he was going to, I guess, let his plane crash and jump out and land and get the stuff. But his parachute got tangled up. He fell to his death in Knoxville. So now they're like, well, now we've got to find the cocaine that he dropped. And they did some searching, and they found a black bear, found the cocaine, tore it to pieces, ingested the cocaine. That became Cocaine Bear. Wow. Which they're making a movie about. It comes out next month.

Oh, yeah. I thought it was already out. It comes out in February. It comes out in a couple of months. It's being talked about. It seems like a real jam. It's got quite a buzz. I can hear a lot of classic rock as the soundtrack. Eric Clapton. Yeah. Well, I thought I read this is... Yeah, the Cocaine Bear is going to be...

I don't think it was as crazy as... He's wearing sunglasses. Well, in the movie, cocaine bear goes on a killing spree. In real life, he just overdosed and they found him dead. They stuffed him. It's now... They don't know how to...

It's now on display at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington, Kentucky, which will be at February 3rd. Oh, yeah. We'll go check that out. We'll go check out the Fun Mall. Oh, y'all will be there? Yeah. Oh, so you can go see this bear. Yeah. Wow. They nicknamed him Pablo Escobar, and he's on display. There he is right there. Thank you.

And they put a little... You really need to humiliate the body after that. I can't believe they don't have sunglasses on the guy, though. Yeah. Now, he circulated for a while. After he was stuffed, he somehow made it out to Vegas. He made it to a pawn shop. Then Waylon Jennings bought him from a pawn store. All right. And just had him on display for a while. Cocaine. From what I know about Waylon Jennings, he was probably trying to cut that bear open. Yeah. Yeah.

So it's made the rounds, like Waylon Jennings owed it for a while, but eventually got back to Lexington, Kentucky, and now it's on display at this fun mall. Wow, we gotta go see that. Pablo Escobar. That's fun. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. Hey, bear. Hey, bear. Oh, this was Ray Liotta's last movie. Yeah. So that's also why it was... Good cast, too. Directed by Elizabeth Banks, so...

based on true events who's elizabeth inspired by true events you recognize her she was in a bunch of comedies mm-hmm i think it looked like early 2000 yeah that's a bad picture ever is it like a horror movie or is it says it's a black comedy i think it's like snakes on a plane it's just to be over the top yeah silly all right would you see it uh maybe yeah yeah yeah all right

All right. This is from the Aliens Part 2 episode. It's a very popular one. So there's a guy who wrote a book, Eric Von Danken. He wrote a controversial book called Chariots of the Gods, and it's about UFOs in the Bible. Now, Moses was led in the wilderness when he was wandering the wilderness. He was led by a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day. And this guy theorizes that that was actually a UFO.

And that the Ark of the Covenant was – they were communicating back and forth that way. Yeah. I don't think I'd wrap my head around it. No, I disagree. But I – well, this guy, he's saying that this is God giving Moses a light, and he's saying that that's – I guess – I mean, UFO is unidentified flying object, so anything could be that. Yeah. But if he's saying it's an alien, I got to go ahead and disagree. Well –

Except that I don't think that aliens are real, that it's probably some type of angelic form. So maybe. It says this book includes remarkable photos that document mankind's first contact with aliens at the dawn of civilization. Yeah. So, I mean, like if people read like the book of Enoch, that's, you know, it's not in the Bible, but some people say it's like, you know, written by Enoch who was in the Bible. He talks about, you know, basically...

Angels, but bad angels. Angels who have defied God, coming to Earth and corrupting mankind. And if you were living on Earth, that could seem like aliens. Mm-hmm. I get that.

Well, there was another theory. I don't know if it was in that book or not, that when Moses parted the Red Sea, it was the exhaust pipes from the spaceship that blew it open. Oh, yeah. And then they crossed, and then the spaceship took off, so the exhaust pipe, water comes back down, kills the Egyptians. I'm guessing you're not buying that either. Nah, I mean, I don't take credit away from God to give it to aliens. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm not into that. Tell you what, the Egyptians, I mean...

Why do you follow that? That's true. Like, how do you, the seas parted and you go, I think we'll be fine. Yeah, we'll make it all the way across. Yeah, I mean, it's like a wobbly bridge and you're like, well, that guy's basically at the other side of it. Yeah. So you're like, I don't know if I'm going to go. Like, you know, you kind of go, what stops here? Especially after your own country has been so devastated already. Yeah. By plagues. That so much that you were like, let these people out of here. Get them out of here.

Do you think if you were one of the Israelites, but one of the slow ones, and you're trying to cross, and the Egyptians are coming behind you, and God's like, come on, dude. Pick it up, or they're going to catch you. Go, go, go, go. I think God was like that a lot with the Israelites in the desert at that time. I mean, they were always complaining, and he was always having to do... At one point, I think he killed a bunch of them. I mean...

But in this case, you think he was like, you're too slow. I got to let this water go. Yeah. You've got 40 years to get in shape. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speed it up. Yeah. What do you think you would have ended up? I think I'd be at the bottom of the Red Sea. He goes, give me time. I'm coming. I think they would have just called me and put me back into slavery. Yeah. Just finished out with the Egyptians. Yeah.

Well, I think that's what some of them wanted. They were like, oh, you took us out of Egypt and brought us into the desert. At least we had food in Egypt. That's what a lot of them were saying. But if you're an Egyptian, too, I would have probably been like, I'm going to go. Y'all go. I'm going to be coming. And I would let them go and be like, we ain't going to make it. How far is the Red Sea? Pretty far. Yeah. I get it.

But maybe even those Egyptians were like, listen, if we don't get these guys, then we're going to be the ones making the bricks. And so let's risk it because I don't want to be making bricks. Let's carry a boat just to be safe. Just to be safe. I think some of us should carry a boat. Or somebody just go around just in case. You got one guy with scuba gear on. He goes, what are you doing? He goes, eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh

You never know. All right. This is from the Missouri episode with Greg Warren. We didn't get a lot of Missouri facts because we started talking about high school wrestling and college wrestling and stuff like that. So the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. It's the tallest man-made national monument in the U.S. 630 feet tall. How wide would you say it is? I've been in it. It's not wide. At the top? Well, at its widest point. 30 feet.

And it's wide, like from base to base? Yeah. Oh, 200 feet. Yeah, I could say 30. I'll say 47. I think we're answering two different questions. 47? Yeah. I'm talking about how wide, like this way. I'm talking about from arch to arch. Oh, okay. So more than 30 feet. Okay. Oh, yeah, because I've been in the top of that. It's not wide. Arch to arch.

I would say... 630 feet high. Yeah. So I'm saying, yeah. I'm going 100 yards. 400 feet. I'm going a little over 100 yards. A little over 100 yards. I would say more than 100 yards. And I'll say, what is 300 yards? 900 feet. 900 feet. Dusty, you have a guess? I'm saying 100 yards. It's 630 feet. It's the same. I almost said that.

God, I almost said that. It's the same as what? It's the same width as it is height. Oh, okay. It's an optical illusion that makes it look taller than it is wide, but it's the same. I almost, I was going to say it's the same. My friend that does comedy in St. Louis says every new comic always goes, when are they going to finish that McDonald's? Oh, yeah. That's pretty funny. I wish I had thought of that. I was just there.

That's pretty funny. I like that. I did a roast of St. Louis once, and I said it looks like St. Louis as a city is getting handcuffed. Oh, okay. That's not bad. I set it up with some crime statistics. You know what I mean? Really painted a picture. Crime stats to get it started. Yeah. St. Louis. Hello, St. Louis. It's from the Missouri Bureau of Investigations. What are the stats? Oh, yeah.

All right, Conspiracy Theories episode, which was our most viewed episode of 2022. Really? Oh, wow. Really? Yeah. Look at that. This isn't so much a conspiracy theory, but I had it on the list, and it's kind of funny. I thought I'd talk about it. So Terrence Howard, the actor. Yeah. He apparently has given up acting. He's come up with his own, he calls it teriology, and it's his own math equation. He says one times one is not one.

He says there's actually two. He's come up with a math equation to explain why this is. And he's come up with a lot of other equations that he's figured out, like why are bubbles always round? There are no straight lines. But he's kind of given up on acting and become this physics. Does he have a background in this stuff? He went to the Pratt College of... What is it?

New York's Pratt Institute. This is a design school, right? He had a disagreement with a professor over their complex math problem, one times one. And he was on the red carpet at one of the award shows and went off on this weird tangent that nobody understood. But he's come up with his own... He's patented some stuff, his inventions. Well, I gotta say, I like his style. I can't agree with the one times one, but I like his style. I mean...

Yeah, I think it's just this make enough money. Yeah. You just can't. You're just like on another planet. I call on all elementary schools, middle schools, high schools. I call to all the nursery school teachers and kindergarten teachers. I call upon all the schools of higher learning and all of the thinking branches of academia to do an immediate audit upon this false statement of one times one equal one.

What's an equal? Two recess? Two. They're going to just end up like that. They just go like, we don't even. We got a system in place.

We're just trying to. He also spelled higher learning, H-I-R-E-R, which is tough. H-where? That's tough when you're higher, higher learning. Is that how you don't spell it like that? H-I-G-H. Higher. Yeah. He might have his own way, though. It's tough to, yeah, dude. That doesn't help. When you're challenging one times one. Yeah, I'm more of a math guy anyway. Yeah. Not really into the arts and letters, you know? You know, you're on that TV show? He goes, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, you make money, dude. I swear. It's a spiral because you just don't. And that's what I think happens to everybody. And I truly believe they just get on another planet. Because you're not talking to anybody. You end up being so crazy. And if you can't constantly remind yourself

You just, you start floating away. And then you, and then you, and this is the extreme version, I would imagine. And look, I'm not saying he's, maybe there's something that he's right. I don't know. And then good for him. Like, I guess, I don't know. I don't know what it is, but I, my first instinct is to be like, well, you're gone. Yes.

Well, he talks about... Oh, this really shines some light on it. One times one equals one is an equation that predicts a negatively discharging universe without the ability to overcome the radiational expanse of magnetism because one would have to have a negative discharge in order for it to not bond with... I mean, it's just... It's...

Yeah, it's nonsense. But is it almost like semantic? Was that the word? I think that's exactly right. You want to go like, yeah, dude, but we're just like, you know, we got math and we got this and we're just doing this way. You could present this as like a new thing. Yeah.

And then we, then you can maybe listen to, but if you're presenting it to like change, we got to go change all these books and the system that we have, then it's because we're not really trying to make one and one bond here. We're just saying, you know, if you, if you do two times two, you know, you got two twos. And so it's four, but you got one, one, that's one. Yeah. You can say one times one is two. Good luck with your taxes this year. You're going to run into some problems. You have one, uh,

And you, you know, like if you have, I don't know, if you have two and you multiply that two times, that's four, obviously. Right. But if you have one and you multiply it one time, I don't know. I guess if you multiply one, one time, it would be two. Well, I hope he's, I hope he's right. Yeah. Wait, what did I just say?

I feel like they just worked it out. Well, if you multiply one, one time, you multiply it one time, then it would be two, wouldn't it? It has to be two. Or you wouldn't be multiplying it.

Well, that's what he's saying. I know. I mean, I'm just... One, one is one. I'm saying I'm starting to get into teriology. But then he goes, well, what about two times three? He goes, well, that's a little bit harder. He goes, that's... That's for my next paper. Yeah. All this stuff feels like it all works for one thing. And then you go, but what about the next? And he goes, well...

I'm going to say, this guy's got a lot of power. I thought Hustle & Flow would be a stupid movie. And then I watched it and I was like, oh, this is pretty good. Hustle & Flow's a great movie. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I would bet, I'd lean on the fact that it's, yeah, they're just gone. And they've talked about this forever and then people just go, yeah, yeah, yeah. And slowly, it's only the people that are willing to listen to you that are around you.

And I think when people think that someone's got money, maybe this dude's super smart. I don't know. He's probably super smart, but he's definitely God. Or he knows a lot of big words. I think there's a lot of that. I think more people know big words than they are super smart. And if you use big words, everybody just assumes you're super smart. He's not using any of these words correctly, though. But he's using them.

And so that's... On the red carpet, he started some... I mean, he was using words like... You couldn't mock him because it's like a crazy person talking. It makes no sense, a bunch of big words. He has no time to be like, well, that's not how you spell it, higher. And you go, yeah, so Meek would think you spell... Like, I'm not caught up in that world. I'm using other big words like... Yeah, he's talking about... Radiational expanse of magnetism. Yeah. Yeah.

But you can't misspell hire. Right. Yeah, it's like anything. If you're arguing on Facebook and you put the wrong your or the wrong their, I mean, yeah, your argument's dumb. It's dumb. It's dumb. Now everybody's like, well, you're so dumb, you can't even get this basic thing. So your whole thing that you wrote out for 15 minutes, we don't care now. You lost.

I did a math thing one time where I was just... This is what I was just trying to get to. Was it? You created your own math. Okay. I just figured Dusty's got something that's good. Well, I kind of did do a math thing one time, right? Where it's like, if you just add up some numbers, right? Like you add up 24 plus 24, that equals 48, right? Yes. But then you break down, like you add two plus four, that's six. Two plus four is six.

and then that equals, and then you add the two sixes, that's 12, and then you add the one and the two, and that's three. So you just add all the double numbers. Let's see. So then you add 48. Four plus eight is 12, and then you add those, and it's three. So three equals three. Every time, no matter what you do, if you have these numbers, I mean, it's- 74 plus, or do 73 plus-

73 plus 12 equals 85, right? So then you go 7 plus 3 is 10, so that's 1. And then 1 plus 2 is 3. Add those two, you get 4. So let's see, 85 is 8 and 5 is 13. And then 1 plus 3 is 4.

Oh, it always. Every time they come. And now I guess it just is equal is equal no matter what, right? But it just, no matter what numbers you do. What's the 10? 10, it'd just be one plus zero. All right, so do another one. All right. Let's say. This is blowing my mind in a hotel one day. I'm all right. I had to call several people. Let's type this out. We might have dustiology coming on here. Yeah. Let's type one out together. So give me an equation. 13. 13. Plus 98. 98. 98.

equals uh that'd be 111 yeah 111 111 so 13 is 10 plus 3 no 1 plus 3 1 oh just add the digits yeah and then they didn't you do 9 4 9 plus 8 9 plus 8 yep 9 plus 8 and then this would be 17 and then um so would you go to 1 plus 7

Yes. So then you got 1 plus 7. Yeah, so I think that would be 3. I mean, 1 plus 1 plus 1. I mean, when it gets to three digits, I don't know. 1 plus 3 equals... But I think it's... Oh, so it only works... Well, I don't know. Let's see. 1 plus 1 is 3. 1 plus 1 plus 1 is 3. Okay. Okay. So this would be 4... Okay. ...plus 17? Yeah. Equals 3. No, no. 4 plus... 1, 7 is 8. Okay.

Yeah, it's eight. Yeah, so go. So it's eight. Okay. Four plus eight is 12. And then put one plus two is three. I don't know what you're- Right. All right, so you got this, right? Yeah. So 13 plus 98. Yeah. Uh-oh. Yeah. One, one, one. So that's three. Could be falling apart. This is four. This is 17. Then you got to add those. So that's eight. So then you got eight plus four. Yeah. That's 12. One plus two is three equals- Whoa. Three. Boom. Boom.

1 plus 7, 8, 12. 1 plus 2 is 3. It was low in my mind. Have you ever seen anything...

No, I just was walking one time. I was in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I was just walking. I started doing, I just added up. I don't know. I just always do this weird numerology thing. I'm always trying to see what like numbers are and what, you know, so you'll add them together to see what it equals. And I go, oh, well, that's weird. That adds up to the same thing if you just keep adding them together. And then I got back to the hotel. I just kept writing all these problems. I was like a madman in the room and I, it never came out unequal. Yeah.

So, like, just saying, wait, are they always three, or they're always just the same number? Just the same number. It always equals each other. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, so 10 plus 10 is 20. 10 plus 10 is 20. So, yeah, so then, you know, 1 plus 0 is 1. 1 plus 0 is 1. 2 plus 0 is 2. And then you add those two up to...

I mean, every time. I mean, you know what I mean? So I'm just saying I'd like to get together with Terrence. Now let's merge that with Terryology. Now that really shakes it up. Is that Common Core math? Like Common Core math is probably something? A lot of it looks like, yeah. Yeah, Common Core is a lot of like 22, and then you go, well, let's make that 20 plus 2. Yeah. And then you can, yeah. Well, you know, what's funny is I make fun of Common Core math, but I think I add like Common Core math.

format. I do think that. Could have benefited from it maybe. I think I just that's how I that's how I would add something like it's you know like 73 plus 12 is like I'd go 83 85.

So I just go 73 to 10 is 83. Then I add the two is 85. Yeah. So like, that's just how I think. So yeah, I've made fun of Common Core and I mean, it could be the best thing I've ever been part of, but I think it's like hard to, I don't know what they're doing, but that's, that's just how I, I add. I just started adding like that on my own. They, they gave me their method. I go, come on.

Well, that's what I did too. I mean, I just, in my head to do math, I break things down in a weird way. Yeah. But it works for me. Yeah. Yeah, I do too. That's theology. We got it. Yeah. I mean, this was blowing my mind for a while. I had to, I called a couple of people that day. Yeah. I think I just stumbled on something. Yeah. Well, you called a couple more now, so you're going to find out if it's. Yeah. I mean, hopefully people can understand this, what I'm saying by listening to a podcast. I think math teachers will be like, yeah, that's math.

Well, of course it's math, right? But it's just an anomaly that I don't think anybody really notices. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think to me, it's like just equal is equal, right? With numbers. So whatever's on this side, if you add it all up, it's going to be equal to what it was equal to with, you know, adding it a different way.

Yeah. We'll post... If people watch this, we'll have you do one when we get done. And the day the thing comes out, we can post it on like a story. And so then you could explain it. So if someone's listening to this and they're...

hard to be like well what is happening they could go to oh yeah you can go and i did and but it was blowing it still blows my mind but yeah but that day i was like i gotta do a show tonight and i don't know if i can i'm gonna get it together did you talk about it no i never talked about actually i forgot about it until just now yeah but and i was like yeah i mean it's

I think I tried to talk about it, but it just doesn't make sense to talk about. Well, it's like everything kind of works perfectly. I mean, that's what's crazy is like the world is like... You know, someone believing in God is like... You're like, well, everything's too perfect. Yes. Just too... Everything's perfect. Yes. Where it's like even... It could be weird. It's something like that. That's like, yeah, just...

It all kind of makes sense. Yeah. I mean, and there's a lot of like a lot of YouTube people. I'll just call them that that I would listen to, you know, their podcast and what a lot of them are not Christians, but they still believe in a higher power because they're like, it is too perfect. Yeah. Everything does work together too perfectly. Yeah.

But there are people who worship numbers, like numerology. Yeah. That's a thing. And you can kind of see how you could get into that in a way. I mean, if aliens... Like the numbers never lie. That's right. Which is what science would... Where words, you take them different ways, different meanings, different... Numbers are numbers. Numbers are numbers. And even if aliens came here, we might call the number something different, but they still know that two things is less than three things. They could be so far ahead of us, too.

Yeah. Not even doing numbers. There we go. Dusty would show them that. Yeah, we learned that in kindergarten. Yeah. No, I think it'd blow them away. I like to think that aliens are less, if they existed, are less smarter than us and that one day they fly in and they go, having some ship trouble. Can you guys help us get back to our planet? And then they're just like real hicks. You know what I mean? The aliens are just like dipping and they're like. That's why they visit the certain people here on Earth. Yeah. They got a hammy. Yeah.

Yeah. Like my spaceship's broken. Can you help me rebuild this carburetor? This is from the dinosaurs episode. Dinosaurs episode. Another very, very popular, some people's favorite episode of the year, the dinosaurs episode. Oh, wow. Yeah. This just happened. So I didn't leave this off. This just happened. So now a lot of people are buying, private investors are buying dinosaur bones. And Christy's Auction was going to sell one, I think maybe this past weekend, a T-Rex named Shin.

S-H-E-N. And it was supposed to go for like $20 million, but they pulled it off the auction because there were some questions about its authenticity, how much of it was real and how much of it was plaster cast. So apparently with most of these dinosaurs, they do replicas of the bones that they're missing to make them full. And this one had a lot of similarities to some other ones. So they, so they took it off because there's some questions about it being a fake. Yeah.

So they would be like, would you know how much is real? How much is... I think they advertise it as 54% real. But then some other paleontologist, there was another dinosaur named Stan. And they're like, that looks a lot like Stan. And then they looked at the bones. They're like, I think those are Stan's bones. And they think they maybe made a plastic caster or whatever it is that they do to replicate it. So now they're taking it off to figure out how authentic this thing is. Jeez. And they think...

It'd go for $25 million? That's what they were thinking it was going to go for. It hit the auction block on November 30th, but they took it off because... What is the auction thing that you're saying? Christie's. Yeah, Stan sold for $31 million. What is Christie's? Am I not... Isn't that right? No, yeah, I don't know what it is. Isn't that just the famous auction company? Oh. You've got to go to this auction. I'm thinking about Sotheby's, but Christie's is another one, right?

Yeah, Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766. So you go there. In Hong Kong. If you want stuff. I guess so. But it's like they only do like big things. You really got to roll in with some money. Yeah. Yeah, you got to have a 51% accurate dinosaur. I wonder what's the cheapest thing that goes at Christie's? I don't have a list of inventory on here.

Yeah, you always allow cookies. You know, sometimes. But this browser, when I quit this browser, all those cookies are gone. Oh, really? Yeah. You clicked on Christie's Cookies? Mm-hmm. Anyone? All biscuits. All right. Not bad. It's a Nashville reference, probably. You don't have a list of what's on here. Is it on Wikipedia or something? Like Christie's? I think it's some stuff. I mean, look, like this piece of furniture sold for...

$8.4 million. So people are buying a dinosaur shin for millions of dollars? No, it's a dinosaur named Shin. It's not just an individual shin bone. S-H-E-N. So if you do an auction on it, you can do it online? You mean buying it? I don't think you and I could list something on here. No, but I mean, if someone wants that watch, can they bid for it there? I think so. These are ones that have already been completed, but let's look at...

Maybe it might not have active ones on here. This month? That said this month. Yeah. Yeah, this is just events that they have. But there's no listing as far as I can see. It says online. Look at it. Click it. Browse. Where? On the right, far right. Because if you click on Christie's, it's like if you wanted to buy this. Well, this is like a class right here. Oh, okay. Okay.

They also recently found the skeleton of a bird from the dinosaur era that's very similar to the birds we have today. So now they're saying, well, how does that fit in the whole evolution of dinosaurs to birds if this bird... I'm throwing that out there for you, Dusty. Oh, was this bird... I'm sorry, say it again. They recently found new skeletal remains of a prehistoric bird. They said it's very similar to the birds we have today as far as beaks and stuff. And they're like...

We got to figure out how this fits on the evolutionary scale since dinosaurs came from birds. Or birds came from dinosaurs, excuse me. Yeah, I mean, that's always that weird kind of, like, I don't know, it's like circular reasoning or whatever kind of thing where they're like, oh, well, this doesn't fit our thing we got going on now, so let's try to see how it fits rather than going, maybe the thing we're doing right now is wrong. They're like, well, what we're doing is right, right?

This doesn't fit, so how do we make it fit? Right. How do we make $25 million off these bones? Right. They're like, we found a bird that basically disproves our idea that dinosaurs turned into birds, but we've already invested a lot into saying that dinosaurs turned into birds, so how are we going to manipulate this? Yeah. That's what I think. Because they're like, well, it's just like a pain. It's annoying. Yes. It's a lot. It's a lot.

I would think you would be like, you'd be like, wow, that's what's awesome though. Right. Like you're just out of nowhere. You're like, man. That's what I'm saying. That's science. Yeah. The scientific discovery of being like, whoa, this blows the whole thing off. You know, it's like, let's get into this. This is science. We're finding some stuff.

But if you're like, if you question that, you're anti-science. And I'm like, wouldn't we want just all these amazing discoveries all the time and dig into new things and new theories and new ideas instead of being like, nope, this is it. Do you think if you have the T-Rex and you buy it and you put it at your house, like you think you ever have, you get so used to it that you have people over and then at the end of it, someone's like, you know, they have a T-Rex here. And he's like, oh.

All right. Yeah, I'll show it. Real fast. You forget to even really bring it up and show it because you're just like, I'm just so used to seeing it every day. It just takes up a whole room in the house. It takes it. Yeah. And you got to go in there like, dude, how do you not show everybody this? Because I've had it for five years. I don't barely come in here anymore. It's dusty. The hallway is the rib cage. Yeah. You would need to have it just be out. Yeah. So you just remember every day. Yeah. Because otherwise you would forget.

You know, you just would be like, oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, this old thing? Yeah. That's Shin. Yeah. Who's that? Stan's cousin? Yeah. We call it Shin because Shin was the bone we found, and then we created the rest of the bones and said this is what it would have looked like. Looks like Stan to me. Yeah. Stan's cousin. Dinosaurs had cousins? Yeah. Yeah. We all did. All right. This is from the maps episode.

There was a restaurant in Great Falls, Virginia named Serbian Crown. It was open for 40 years serving French and Russian cuisine. But all of a sudden they noticed on the weekends steep decline in their business. They eventually figured out that someone had hacked into Google Maps and said that they were closed on the weekends. And they think it was one of their competitors. And they could not get back in to change it. Eventually had to close their doors. That's crazy.

And they don't know who did it? They think, I don't know if they know specifically. I just read it as one of their competitors. Why could they not get back in and do it? Well, I think whoever got in there took control of it. And then they had a long time getting Google to respond back to them to fix it. By the time they did it, they said it's too late. I'll tell you who it is right away. Just reading the first paragraph. It says they proudly served lion meat at this restaurant. It's got to be one of these animal rights activist groups. They got in there and they put a stop to this.

In Virginia? Yeah. Who are they competing? I mean, is there another restaurant that serves lion meat in Virginia that's trying to get them shut down? It's an animal rights group. There's no way it's not. Yeah. They're like a competitor. Who are you competing with? You go, who is it? Is it Francisco's? They do tigers. Why does it matter? That's crazy. I had a dentist that I was going to, and they were putting some...

you know, like some crowns on some teeth. And so they ground some teeth down and put a temporary tooth on there. And then one morning I was leaving to go to my appointment and I pulled them up on Google maps and it said permanently closed. And I had a real freak out, but it was, they didn't, they had not closed. So something, and I told them when I got there, something that happened, somebody had hacked them and said they were permanently closed. Yeah.

Was it the guy that killed Cecil the Lion? I think he was a dentist. Yeah. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Wow. He was, yeah. He was a dentist. I would pay money for your reaction when he saw that. Yeah. You're like, where was I? Yeah. A lot of lion stuff going on here. Well, that's what made me think of it. Yeah. Yeah. There was a woman in LA who went for a walk and got hit by a car, and she sued Google Maps because of the direction it told her to walk, which was not safe.

Did she win? Let's see. I'm guessing Google had better lawyers than she did. Fought a lawsuit seeking more than $100,000. $100,000. That's not enough. A small time for them. What happened to her on the walk? She got hit by a car, but she said the GPS that suggested was dangerous and took her down some dangerous roads on her walk.

I mean, for years I've walked with Google Maps and sometimes they'll say, you know, be careful. Really? Yeah. I mean, I've had them say stuff like that. Like,

Watch out. Yeah. This is not a main, this is like. Keep your head on a swivel. I mean, it's not like prominent. It's not like it doesn't go bing, bing, bing. Be careful, you know, but it does in the liner notes. Yeah. Personal responsibility is basically gone now. Yeah. And then there, it's like, and that's what they probably want. I'm sure they pay this because it's, I'd rather have that customer be so dependent on me than be like too bad.

Because then you're on your own. And so like now that person is like, oh, so it's like you can just sue them if they're wrong. And I bet there's enough of those cases that it's like, I wonder if it is. It's better to be like, yeah, that means you're so dependent on me. You can't even like operate as a regular person. And so just be, you're, I'm, you, you just so rely on me. So then you're like, and now, because there's no more just like, yeah, don't do that.

you're going to get hurt. Yeah, you're an adult. Well, it's not set up and I should have thought, and you're like, no, no, no, you should have. Like that's the old, you know, it used to be like, yeah, yeah, you run into that, it's going to hurt. Yeah, you get hit by a car, of course. Yeah, look both ways. Or find your own way to get there. If you don't like the way we've sent you, well, get a map. Draw it up yourself. We're just getting you there. We didn't tell you it was going to be safe.

Yeah, just showing you where it's at. Yeah. This is from the artificial intelligence episode we did. Dustin Chafin was on that one. So scientists at Georgia Tech have come up with an artificial intelligence developed that can detect cancer, like bowel and colorectal cancer, by listening to the sounds of people's farts. And this machine hooks up to you. It's called Synthetic Human Acoustic Reproduction Testing, SHART for short. Is it? Yeah. Yeah.

And they listen to hours and hours of audio from healthy and unwell patients to determine farts sound different if you may have cancer. So they think it could save lives by AI listening to your farts and

maybe detecting it quicker. Whatever they do, they set up like a, they set your big Thanksgiving meal for the couch and the TV. Yeah. Sit on a speaker on a couch and then they go, just watch the game. Sit back and relax. Sit back and relax. And he goes, sure, is this how it goes? Yeah, yeah. Sit on a,

Whole speaker system down there. And if you're going to Brian's doctor, there's just a bunch of dudes in there. You walk in the room, boys. Just like a symphony in the room. Yeah, smoking cigars. Just men are in there hanging out. This is the best gig I've ever been a part of. Cigars, drinking. Brr.

Well, I'll stop there. But I wanted to say, I made some predictions at the end of last year about this year. Yeah. And Leigh-Anne Morgan was on our last episode of 2021, and I predicted that she would record a special in 2022. Boom. She just did it. It's going to be out on Netflix. Wow. And so I nailed that. I predicted for you, you're going to have a late night special. Didn't happen, but...

Oh, I'm sorry. What's Circle TV, dude? Boom, you're right. I got it. I got it. It airs late at night sometimes. I think next year you're going to get just a number by itself. You're going to be on TV of a number by itself. Channel 4. Channel 4 would be great. And then for you, I said you'd meet Seinfeld, get to know him, become buds with him. It happened. And I said you'd play golf at Augusta. I don't think that happened. I did not play at Augusta. I played Sage Valley, which is next to Augusta.

But, yeah. But I got some predictions for 2023. All right. Share them. Let's see it. Well, first of all, let me just say, when this year started –

You were maybe occasionally headlining clubs like a Wednesday night or occasionally. And now you're headlining every weekend clubs, right? Yeah. Yeah, man. Dusty joins our podcast. He's now selling out clubs and starting to do theaters, right? Wow. Going to 2023. Yeah, next year we will do some theaters. Yeah. And now you are starting to do arenas and doing Bridgestone Arena. Bridgestone Arena. Well, I'm very thankful for this podcast. This podcast has been a big help doing that. Yeah, don't ever forget that. Yes. I mean, it is. It is a big help. Yeah.

I'm joking. I predict you are going to put out your first one-hour special in 2023. I hope so. I probably should have done that this year, but I hope so for next year. Are you going to do it? You're going to be in Variety's 10 Comics to Watch. Oh, I like that. That'd be fun. Yeah. And you're going to win a Grammy for Hello World. All right. I like it. Yeah. What about for yourself?

Oh, I'm going to be the best of all. Yeah. Well, first of all, I became a dad in 2022. That's right. Which we could never. No, no, no. Nobody. No one saw that coming. Now we knew it coming into the year. Yeah, yeah. But it's been the best year for me of any of you. Yeah. I think it's been good for you. I think you have looked the best. I think you look better than you ever did. Yeah, I look good. You do look good. 2023, my drawbar special comes out. Athletic greens. There you go. Yeah, that's big. Yeah. I think the numbers will be big on that.

I hope so. I think so, too. That's going to be good. I think so. I think it's going to be good. And it'll be a nice, and it'll be a jump up, and then you're going to see a jump up of the road work. I hope so. And then you'll be lottery winning breakfast coming in here with a fur coat. Yeah. You know what I mean? I ain't going to be meek anymore. Yeah. You think I'm condescending now, Dusty. You wait. You wait. My head's going to be so big, I won't even get through the door. Yeah. It'll look like he has less hair. Yeah.

More area to cover. Yeah. Yeah. I would like to see, I think in like two years you're on this podcast, you have full set of hair. Yeah. Like Brian Urlacher. I just do the transplant. You just show up. Never really talk about it. Just have, I mean, just full set of hair. If, can the three of us agree, if Brian does show up one day with full head of hair, let's just never bring it up. Yeah. Let's just move on. Well, I did it as dusty. Yeah. Yeah. You mean, I mean, a real head of hair. Yeah. Yeah.

You're like flipping it. Anyway, guys. You have trouble reading because you have it in your eyes. Today we're going to talk about hairdos. Anybody want to say anything about my hair? Yeah.

Well, we predict everybody listening, you are going to have a great 2023. You know? Everybody that does listen and you come to these shows and you support all of us, none of that's lost on us. We are here because of you, and we appreciate that. And you're... Yeah, you're awesome. And the shows...

I can't tell you enough, all the people that come to shows, the comics that I bring out, and they talk about the crowd that I get to perform in every night, how great that crowd is, and how nice everybody is, and the fact that that's exactly what I wanted. You want to perform in front of just... Everybody's great, I truly believe that.

Majority, the entire, basically entire world is awesome people. And so those are the people that come and, uh, that's all created because you guys are awesome. And, uh, and so that makes it, you know, wonderful and it makes it easy to perform in front of, and it makes it, uh, it's exciting and it's fun to get to go out in front of you guys. And, uh, so none of that, it will ever be lost on me.

So we can't thank you enough for that and coming to all this stuff. So yeah, that's it. I think. Good deal. Yeah. We will have a best of next week. Truly have fun. Get with your family. Have fun with your family. And if you don't, you know, you have fun with them. Yeah. You're going to have a great time. You're going to have a great time with your family. That's what it's all about.

All right. We love you all. And Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. And we will see you the first week of January. All right. Bye. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the All Things Comedy Network. Recording and editing for the show is done by Genovations Media. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to catch us next week on the Nateland Podcast.