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Don't miss this exclusive offer. Visit your nearest NWFCU branch or apply online at nwfcu.org. Northwest Federal Credit Union, official credit union of the Washington Commanders. Terms and conditions apply. Here we are. We're back. Voices. I think it's all right. Feels strong. Feels, yeah. It's been great up until 10 seconds ago. Yeah, yeah. Then it got weird. Nothing wrong with a little rasp in a voice. I like that.

I think I always have that. Strong radio tone. It's always just a little, you know, talk a lot. We did nine shows this week, so we were everywhere. They were all great. All super fun. Nine shows? Nine shows. Wednesday through Sunday? Tuesday. We did Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. We're three. We went Dayton Tuesday.

Then Springfield Wednesday and Thursday. And then it was 2-2-2. Then it was back to Dayton. And then it was Evansville. And then Bowling Green. Do you have bad shows anymore? When was the last time you had a really bad show where you were like, ugh? Probably, I don't know. You don't have to call it out. How long have you been doing comedy? How long have I been doing comedy? Yeah. Eight years. It's probably seven years in. Hmm.

I don't even know what that is. No, you know what? Like, you know, I remember like I read, watched an interview, something Lucy Kay said that way. Like, you just don't bomb anymore. Like, it's like, you know, I mean, I've had like, whenever we went to Houston, were you with me in Houston when we went to that open mic or something? I did it with Steve Byrne once in Philadelphia. I was doing the club in Philadelphia. So it was a few years ago. Then we went to a show afterwards. Yeah.

like a local show. And I've had a couple of those not be great, but it's more the situation you're in. I don't think it's you, because I've done comedy too long. I just have too much of an act that I can just pull from. I mean, you have shows that, you know, it's like you can feel the energy might be different in a show, but overall, no. They're not really...

It's not going to be bad. I mean, everybody's so excited to be there now. I mean, it would be like I'd have to pop in at Zane's or something, but it's usually going to be... But for one of your shows, it's been a... One of my shows, it's been... I couldn't even tell you. It'd be hard to do, I think. Yeah. It'd be hard to bomb one of your own shows at this point. Yeah. I could do it. I could do it.

Yeah. I could find a way. Well, I can feel. I switched my order around a few shows. This week, I was kind of switched around. The nine shows, I opened with different stuff and was just playing with the order a lot. And I definitely felt parts of my act where I was like, how much work? I realized this week, I have...

I mean, I feel really good with my act, but it's like doing a new hour and all that. But it's like you can definitely feel where you're like, I'm like, all right, let me get like I got to get some stuff's got to get tighter. I think I just found a way to introduce a joke. I thought of it last night. I haven't done it yet, but I thought of it on the way home, a way to get into this idea that I'm trying to do. That's been the hardest part.

It's just a different thing. We were talking about it this weekend. Where I'm at now, it's like, I love comedy. I love it so much. And I love how it changes. It changes. It's so insane, dude. Where you're at, eight years, right? Yeah. And it's wild when you're going to be at 20. Wild. And you're going to be like, I don't know what I'm doing. Wow.

That's what's crazy, dude. And it's so great because of that. It's so fun. And I could feel it this weekend because I stumbled into how I was saying something. And one night just went like – one night was just – and they're all going great. I'm saying like the flow of – it's my own stuff that I couldn't even really – you wouldn't understand. Like an audience –

It would be like you couldn't explain it because it's more of a feeling, really. It's like a golf thing where it's a feel. And so it's like I kind of – there's a feel that I can feel when I'm like, oh, I got into that really nice. And it just kind of led it into that way I'm talking about it. It didn't feel clunky. And clunky to me. I don't think it feels clunky to the audience. I think I can just – you know, you're trying to perfect it. Yeah. But it was like – this weekend I was – you know, you're just like, dude, I stink. Yeah.

Like, I mean, there's like, there's, there'd be a show where you're like, I'm the, like, maybe the worst comic ever. And there's a standing, I guess, standing ovation. In your head, you're like, dude, I stink, dude. And because you just know, you know, you just get all, and then there's another show where you're like, oh, all right, now I've got to, like, being 20 years in, I've realized, you know, when I've, all the jokes, like, iced coffee with cream, like, people, like, say that to me a lot, or the dead horse. Yeah.

But there's, say, like, stuff like that. And then, like, my hour now, or the, like, Hello World hour, is, like, I don't have a ton of people, like, saying a catch phrase to me. Not a catch phrase, but, like, you know, something where it's, like, ice coffee with cream. Like, say something like that. I don't have a ton of that now where someone says that. But I would think my Hello World special, for me, is just so different than the Tennessee Kid because the Tennessee Kid was jokes.

It's like, it's kind of, it's stories, but it's jokes. And then Hello World is like, it's me. I'm just talking, it's me up there and saying this stuff that's funny. It's like you go from telling funny jokes to just being funny. And then everything you talk about and how to learn how to do that. I mean, I'm still learning. And I mean, if you don't, I mean, that's what I would tell young comics. If you don't, if you, if you ever feel like you're not learning, then it's, it's, uh, you're, I think you're in trouble.

You should be learning and should always feel like you never know what you're doing. Well, people know you so well now. You don't have to set up backstories.

Yeah, but you don't – but you want to be aware of that. Yeah. And like so it's like you got to be super hyper like on top of you to not – because I can see the easy – I can see an easy path. I can see the path of going they're here to see me. They're excited. There's some nights, I mean, you can tell they're very excited to be – they're just excited to be here and we're excited to be in the room and excited to be laughing and having fun where it's, you know, it's – you could go, oh, I could –

I could probably do a lot and figure out. I could very easily become a worse comic than I am and just kind of ride that. So you got to be super aware of that. If you're, you know, where I think, where I want to try to go to as a comic. I find it's best to believe it's not going to go well. Yeah, I do that too. That's what I like to do. Every time I go out, any time I go, this is going to crush, I feel like I bombed.

But if I'm like, this is not going to go well, and I'm like, wow, this is amazing. Yeah. I like to, right before I go up, just talk to someone that's not part of our group on a show. If it's a stage person, security guy standing there, I'm like, I don't think I can do this. Yeah. And then you just walk out on stage. It's very funny. I don't think I can do this, man. They did. I like to do that. I like to go, hey, I'm about to take off. Yeah. I'm about to go.

Let me ask you this. When the opener gets off and you ask them, how are they? What do you want to hear? I don't want to hear. I always just say they're great. Yeah. It's just slippery. That's a, that's a move. The opener has got to figure out. I don't want the hard truth.

I like to hear there's some idiot up front towards the right. Yeah, certainly. I like to hear that. That way I can go in ready for it. And then if they never say anything, I'm like, good. But I'm aware of it. Yeah, I don't. Everybody's pretty good when, like, I ask every show, how are they? You ask the two openers, how are they? And, you know, like, I'll get bonded. There'll be like, you know, this weekend there's like somebody like, they're unreal, dude. Like, you're going to, they're unreal.

And then there's other shows where they're like, you know, they kind of say that. They go, and they're great. And that's the thing. They're looking forward to seeing you. They're real. They're real. They're excited to see you. And you can feel that. And then you can also feel in a crowd. And I'm telling you, whatever show you're at, I don't think you could ever know if you're a good or bad crowd. These are all great crowds.

It's little kind of things that we do it so much that the energy can just feel like some crowds can, they laugh quicker and then they, you know, they don't laugh long. And some crowds are laughing so long and you just are kind of like, oh, I like rift on this thing because this crowd was just, oh, they just, I don't know. I don't know what it is.

so you don't those crowds are great but they make you sometimes think a joke is better than it is oh yeah you'll do a long riff because they're laughing and you're like wow i just wrote five minutes and then next show no one laughs oh yeah i'll take something from one town to another town and then you're like yeah and i mean i kind of did it this weekend i was like riffing about abraham lincoln in springfield and it was destroying uh

And then I go to – and then I've done it. I think I got it, but it's like, dude, it was – I thought I had – I was like, I might have an Abraham Lincoln chunk. And then I go to Dayton. I might do a whole special on presidents. I was like, I mean, we're talking about it. I go, most Mac is Abraham – that's what I'm going to be known as, Abraham Lincoln guy.

And then I go to Dayton and then by the time it's a Bowling Green, I'm still doing the Lincoln joke, but it's just down to like, it's a tiny joke. And you're like, it just got whittled down to like, no one cares. It was like, it really worked in that town.

But the negativity comedy is about, weirdly, it's like you don't go, I'm going to kill it out there. You go like, this might not be good. Yeah, you need to be beat down a little bit to keep it funny, I think. We have a fun, I mean, I think I've said it. I don't know if I said it on here. We always say before we go on stage, I tell everybody, like we're trying to start a thing. Before we go on stage, I look at everybody and go, always remember, everybody, I can do this without any of you.

And then I walk away. It's very, but it's very fun. And true. No, it's, I don't mean, I don't even mean it even sort of true. I know. I just, it's a, it's a very mean thing to say, but it's a very like comedian thing to say to each other. Of course. Where you just like, always remember, all I need is Ricky, the bus driver. I can do without any of you.

And then you just walk away. I wouldn't find it. They say it to me. They've said it to me. It's very, it's just stupid and funny. And you just start like, it's, it makes it not as much, you know, serious or pressure. Like let's have fun. Like let's go do what we're supposed to do. Yeah. Sometimes it can get so serious with certain people to where it's like, let's lighten up. This is jokes. Yeah. I want, you feel, you feel stupid. I walk like, I like walking around like before a show, um,

I want just the crew, whoever's with the tour, like that's all I really want around. You don't want anybody that's like outside because you want to have normal conversation. So like if we were talking about, if I'm about to go on stage and you're like, I want to A, be able to walk away from you at any point because every comic, and every comic feels that where you're like, we're talking like,

I want to be like, I could walk away and your feelings are not going to get hurt. Or I have to go like, I'm sorry, I'm walking. Like, everybody just understands, like, when we're out there working, at any point, anybody, even, you know, Chase...

the assistant or Eric, the barber, like they, everybody could have to go do something and then they just got to take off running. And so you need to divide needs to be, everybody's like, okay with that. We don't have to be like, I'm sorry, I got to go run. You know? That's why I never like family members backstage because it's like, yeah, it's like, you know, it's like, I don't know. Like, you know, you don't want to like when I was taping my special, like my sister came and I don't want,

I don't want to be having to give a tour of this is what's going on back here. I just need to be able to focus on I'm about to do comedy. Yeah, it's a lot. When you have to be like, hey, what are you doing? What's going on? Right. It's...

You have to be outward and you kind of want to be inward because you're about to go talk inward. And so, yeah, you want to just hang out with the crew that's like... I think that's a great point, though. Just people that you can walk away from at any time and they know what's going on. They're not like, well, what's going on? Why are you disappearing like that? They know what's happening. Yeah. They know that you're just...

you're thinking about your act and you're just kind of go like, I'm not listening. And you need to go... And you need to be like brutal. Like you can get funny. Like someone says something to you and you go, I'm not listening to you at all. And then you walk away. And like they just laugh and they go... And then they say that to you later. Like it's like you just need that kind of...

Yeah, you don't need people that are like, why are you standing out in the hallway by yourself out here? Yeah. It's like, well, you know why I'm out here. Yeah, what are you doing out here? You're like, yeah, I needed to walk away. Yeah. I need to walk, because you'll be standing there, then you're like, I want to go walk away. I like to pace before the show. I'll kind of pace backstage behind the curtain. Yeah.

where I can hear the crowd and you can do that and just kind of walk back forth. I like to walk in the hallway. I like to walk in my dressing room for a second. Then I come back and you're just like floating around. Like, and you just kind of want to be like, you know. Yeah. Especially if you're taping something. Sometimes there'll be some last minute jokes that I'm like, I just want to make sure I got this wording down. So I like to say it to myself out loud a little bit, you know. In Bowling Green last night, if you were at the late show,

The crowd was great, but you wouldn't know this. But so there was above the stage, they had a big thing of balloons that they were supposed to do for, they were going to drop them for like a show there the night before we got there and it didn't work. So then I didn't know they were going, I saw the balloons earlier. The crowd couldn't see the balloons, they were up in the thing. So I saw the balloons earlier.

And then I was like, what is that? And then I thought, oh, I guess that's just something that they do for some other show. And then I'm about to go up for the second show. And then Travis was like, just so you know,

Something might happen. And I'm kind of like, is it the balloon? And he's like, ugh. He was trying to make it not tell me. And I'm like, well, I mean, everybody saw the balloons. And then so I'm like, all right. And I think, all right, they're going to drop these balloons when I get done. And so right before I go out, then Travis is like, hey, the balloon's not happening. Well, I'm thinking he's – so now I'm thinking, well, he's just trying to get me to –

forget about it. I know they're dropping balloons. So I do my act and when I get done, I'm like, let me just stay in here a little longer and let them drop these balloons. And so I'm like, all right. I'm like, good night, everybody. I'm just waving. And I mean, I'm just, I'm like, well, I don't hear anything, but they're balloons. I don't know if I would hear anything. And so I have to just kind of like glance over my shoulder. I was like, they haven't fell yet. And I stand up there a little longer. I mean, in my head, I'm like,

I'm like going to be my hands are open. I'm just like surrounded by balloons going, you're welcome, Bowling Green. Like I'm thinking these balloons are dropping. Travis was for real saying they couldn't drop the balloons. And then I kind of walked back and I'm like, I mean, the whole time until I get off the curtain, I'm like, I guess these balloons are going to just fall and I'm now going to be off the stage. And then that's when I got it. He goes, no, no, I was serious. They're not going to go. But in my head, I was like, here we go.

Here comes the balloon. So these balloons are just up there now. They're never going to get them down, huh? So they said there's a safety thing they have to cut.

to make them do it. And they didn't even do it for the people that had the balloons to be dropped. They forgot to cut the safety thing. So then they were like, we couldn't drop the balloons. So they had them and they're like, they're up there. They're like, oh, well, yeah, we're doing them for Nate's show because it's like there's no point for them being up there. And then they forgot to do the cut thing again. And so they still, those balloons. The safety cut guy needs to maybe get a new job.

Well, someone's going to get those balloons. If you go to that bowling and theater, just someone's going to get the balloons and they're not supposed to have balloons. But you're going to see balloons fall on some act and be like, oh, wow. Hopefully one that doesn't really go that well.

And then the balloons fall to where people are like, that seems unnecessary. Yeah. It would have been very funny for balloons to fall and, you know, good night, everybody. Wish the audience a happy birthday. Yeah. And you're just like, all go. It would have been very funny. Well, for safety, if you want to make some cuts, I would recommend Rocket Money. What? I mean, that borderline makes me think you don't know what Rocket Money is at all. So when you cut...

stuff that you subscribe for? Yeah. Yeah. Cut costs. Cut costs.

Isn't that what I said? You said for safety. For safety. If your bank account's getting low. That's what I meant. Okay. For safety. Are rising prices or your co-host stressing you out? If you're looking for ways to cut, sorry. If you're looking for ways to cut costs, you need rocket money. You could be wasting money and not even realizing it. I've told y'all a million times. I'm subscribed to a hundred different things. I got to... Get your hat. I mean, you don't have it on, but I'm wearing it. Yeah. It's the... What do we say? The lucky horseshoes. The lucky horseshoes. That's what they are?

That's the team name, but a lot of these teams will do alternate jerseys and stuff. And this is that sandwich. The open-faced sandwich. So this is Springfield's minor league baseball team? Yeah. This is the horseshoe sandwich. Yeah. Okay. Lucky horses. There you go. And then if you see in the back, this is Nate Lane Entertainment, which is pretty cool. I got – and they also made this, which is very cool. It's a van. That's awesome. Made out of baseball bats. Nate Lane Entertainment. And Jeff Holtk.

It's BJD Bat and Flag. I got another bat too. So a couple of things that they were very cool and show you. And then one little...

Plus, Tom Papa, my friend, our friend Tom Papa, he's got a book. He's got a book out. Tom's great. I know a lot of people that would listen that are fans of me are fans of Tom for the exact same reason. Tom Papa's great. Tom Papa's an amazing comic. He's got a new book out. We're all in this together. So make sure you go buy this. Check this out.

More expensive than Canada. Why is it more expensive than Canada again? I think their money's less. Their money's different. Their money's different. They have a different currency. Yeah, well, go buy it. We're out of loonies and toonies to get that thing. We're all in this together. Tom Papa is great, though. I worked with him one time doing a corporate event. I've done his Netflix podcast or whatever a couple of times, but...

I did a corporate event with him. Very funny. I had not worked with him up until that point. It was great. Yeah, him and Fortune. Fortune's in the big movie. And then with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah. Is that a movie? It's a show, right? It's a movie on Netflix. Oh, yeah. I thought it was a show. I thought it was a show. And then it's... Yeah, it's crazy. And then...

I've got a good thing going with comics. Yeah. Machine. Yeah. I wouldn't watch the Machine. Machine is obviously, you know, a lot dirty, you know, but it's a good thing. You know, like, Bert did really great and it's a very fun movie and it's, it's, I, you know, I'm a big Bert fan. That guy gives it his all and he does everything for the fans and,

And I do believe it's a great thing for comedy. I've heard great things about that movie. I'm not going to see it, but I heard great things. Yeah, super fun. And it's a good thing for comedy, like for comedians, to have a guy be making a movie like that. I mean, I think it just shines a light on us to be like, we're looked at as like, hey, these guys have an audience and they...

you know, can get some chances. So I think it's a, uh, Sebastian, he's got a movie. He's got a movie out now too. Robert De Niro. Yeah. Uh, and Nick, our boy, Nick Novicki is in spider verse. He's the Lego, Lego Spider-Man. He's the voice of Lego Spider-Man. Yeah. I think we're going to go see it today. Uh, so make sure you check that out too. I mean, that's, it's crazy. That's awesome. That's big time, dude. Getting famous, dude. Nick's going to get too big. Uh,

Do y'all have any, you know? I was in Salt Lake City at Wise Guys Comedy Club. And last night I was in Louisville at the Louisville Comedy Club.

Had a little incident at the airport. Don't you want to hear about it? Oh, yeah. You flew to Louisville? What now? I had a layover. Bowling Green. It's like a show. No, in Salt Lake City. Okay. So on the way home, my flight was at 526 AM. Yeah, beautiful. Very, very early flight. The day before check-in, check-in for your flight, I was in United, said...

Do you have any bags check? I didn't. I just had a carry-on. He said, you can't check in online if you don't have bags, which I thought was very weird. Never heard that. So I thought, well, maybe it's just they don't want you sneaking, you know, taking your bag that should be checked down to the gate and then, oh, I didn't know this was too big. And then they check it and you get it for free. So I get there at the airport. I'm mad already for you. Yeah.

And first I tried to shake in the key. I still won't let you. Got to go up, stand in line, get up to the thing. And this is like 4.30 in the morning. Yeah.

And I finally get up there and the woman, she's trying to figure out why won't let me check in. And she said, did you buy this through a third party vendor? And I'm like, I don't know, maybe Priceline. She's like, yeah. She's like, you know, all that stuff you're supposed to read that nobody reads and you disagree to. She said, you didn't pay for overhead space. This is a discounted ticket. You have to pay for overhead space. So she said, you're going to have to check this bag.

It's $35. All right, fine. I mean, so I check it. And then she said, oh, wait a second. She said...

At 45 minutes or less, or less than 45 minutes before you can't check a bag. It's too late. United just won't let us do it. I was like, it is. And it was 4.42 a.m., so it was 44 minutes before my flight. She said, you can't check this bag. Okay, fine. I'll just carry it on. She said, you can't carry it on. So I'm like, what am I supposed to do? She said, you're going to have to take a later flight. That's crazy. So I had to take a later flight home because of this weird thing.

thing in the system where they wouldn't let me check my bag or carry it on. That's crazy. Well, how late was the fight?

I got home two hours later. Oh, that's insane. That is insane. Was it a better flight at all? I mean, it took me about an hour later to party. So, I mean, I'm there at 4.30 in the morning just waiting now. And then it was an hour longer layover in Denver. That's why I don't like those third-party things. Yeah, I don't do them either. I don't like to do it. Yeah, third-party. I look at third-party. I look at kayak to get a lay of the land.

of what's happening, what the flight options are, kind of the prices. And then you just, from there you go to even hotels, you go straight to the app because it's that, that's, yeah, that's insane. What do you, I mean, it should be so obvious, right?

Paying for the overhead space, I've never heard of. What, for United? Yeah. Yeah, like I don't think, I thought you're allowed to, it's their... Yeah, it's probably how the third party gets you a cheaper ticket. I think that's, they trick you into saying, hey, we got you this cheaper ticket, but then in the fine print, it's like, well, you got to check it back. Yeah, hopefully not bringing anything. It's the same price. Yeah. That's how they get you. Yeah. Can you still bid on a price line? I don't know. I've never seen that, no. You used to be able to bid on...

hotels and like if you stayed at a hotel you could be like all right what do you want to bid you're like i'll do maybe it's hotels.com or something i don't know it was something and you could like be like i'll give you the price line negotiator yeah yeah yeah i remember those commercials oh yeah william shatner yeah yeah yeah they they still do and you could you would like be like all right i'll pay because sometimes you would go i remember man i did all this like you would go uh

You just put in like, you know, find a nice hotel and just be like, it's $400 a night. And you're like, I'll give you $150 a night. And a lot of times they're like, no. But then occasionally you'd go something crazy. Then you just would know like, all right, you could usually go like 50 bucks off. And be like, what if I did, you know, 50 bucks a night if it's 100 bucks a night. And if you do it close enough, then they're like, all right. I used to, my price line was awesome at the beginning. But I think now it's like,

Again, they're all just, everything's good at the beginning and now they do stuff like this. Oh, yeah. Where you want to go like, well, who's flying and just walking on the plane? I do remember doing that once. You taped a special in New York. Maybe it was your Comedy Central special was that New York? Yeah. And I thought maybe I'll go up there and just, and I'd never done that before the bidding. And I really couldn't do it. I couldn't get off work. But I just want to play around with this. I put in a really low number.

But there is no, they don't ask you a second time. And they said accepted. And I bought a ticket. Like I didn't have it. I was like, oh, I was just playing around. I bought like a $75 plane ticket to New York or something like that. And just had to eat it. You didn't just go? No, I couldn't get off work. I was just really just, I don't know. I was just dating her. Did you get into it with a woman at the airport? Did you ever get confrontational with an employee like that? You didn't?

When you use the third party thing and then you know you've not read the fine print, it's no way to get confrontational. Because that's what I thought too. I'd love to yell at that lady. I mean, the only thing I have to question, she says United won't let me. Because Southwest, if it's less than 45 minutes, it'll give you a warning. Like, hey, your bag may not make it. Well, that would make me mad too because you should be able to go through with the bag and then check it when you get to the counter.

Yeah, because other people can't. I think they're trying to stop that too now. Are they? They just did something that – because it was like I think people just figured out you could – you're like, all you got to do is get the back to security, and then they're going to check it for free at the gate. Yeah. And I think they're putting a stop to that. Okay. I mean, what are they charging, dude? What are you charging as an airline? Just – I said just make the price more expensive and have all the stuff –

And no one, I don't think anybody would say a thing. Yeah, they should all give you one free check back. That's what I think. Yeah, and then just raise the price of the ticket. And just put it in and roll it in instead of like...

When you feel like you're getting nickel and dimed and taken advantage of, that's where it gets frustrating. And it's just insane, dude. It's insane. Sometimes you go out to... If you're in that situation, go out to the bag guys that check your bag out on the thing. Those guys can sometimes get stuff through. And you... I mean, just go throw them 20 bucks and be like, hey, could you get this bag? And then...

Just throw it on there. Just they can. Yeah. I said, you, sometimes you can do that. Like those guys are a little bit, you know? Yeah. The American airlines guy, uh, bowed at, uh, the national airport. He hooks it up. He's the guy bowed, bowed. Yeah.

He's the guy. Yeah. Not anymore. Well, I'm not saying he does anything free, but he'll help you out. He hooks you up in that way. I'm just saying he's a little corrupt. I'm not saying he is. No, he goes above and beyond to take care of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes you've got to, like, if you get yourself in a sticky situation, $20 goes a long way, but you've got to go outside. You can't go. You've got to go outside to the guys outside.

And on top of it... Those guys, they don't let inside. Yeah. Those guys got to work around. Yeah. They go, you guys go inside? They go, we ain't never seen inside. Yeah.

Do you work for United? They're like, barely. Yeah. Do you want this bag to get there and not get there? That's true. On top of it, she's like, I can't guarantee your seat anymore because you're on this new flight. She's like, you got to go down the gate and they'll assign you your seat. Now, thankfully, that all worked out. But I have to go to the gate, wait for that person, and she has to check me in there. And then...

Get back to Nashville finally. I have to wait for my little bitty carry-on bag in a carousel, which took forever. You couldn't even carry that on the second time? Well, it was... The new flight? No. So you still had to pay $35? Yeah. That's insane. Wow. That's insane. Yeah. You're like, what if I buy the overhead space right now? Yeah, I guess because I'm with the third... I don't know.

How much cheaper? Did it even back out? I don't know. Honestly, I would tell people, just someone that travels and I love looking at this stuff, I would try to, if you can, just try to book it through the main website. I don't think the prices are that crazy, and I remember them not being... I mean, I went and did this for a very long time. I booked my own flights. Now, I...

Now, because we're touring, I've helped booking this stuff. But from experience, I think I'm very good at booking. Because I booked up until maybe four years ago. I booked my own stuff. And I would always do it through the regular website. And I always tell people to look at first class sometimes.

Just glance at it sometimes. Sometimes. I remember one time from Seattle to Los Angeles, a first class ticket, if I had a bag, it was like $40 more for first class. So you get the bag free and you got a little lunch.

So like it's, there's just, it does not always work out. Yeah. But sometimes you can look and just go just, and just weigh the really like, what is it really going to be? If you have a long flight, maybe it can be worth it. If you don't, maybe it's saying it's not worth it. It's like,

I know if you're flying... I'm talking about really like if you're flying alone. I know when you have your family, it's a much different thing. I thought you were saying just keep an eye on it just for aspirational purposes. Just in case you ever make it. Just in case you ever succeed. Just circle it. Underline it. No, I'm serious. It used to... I would always check it and be... I would do that rental cars. Rental cars, there's a... I could always find... I would see comics with rental cars and they'd have the worst car and I could find... There's one called Sixt, S-I-X-T. Mm-hmm.

And I remember when they came, they were in Europe and then they came over. And I mean, dude, I could get, you could rent a Mercedes cheaper than you could rent a Camry from Hertz.

And it was just like a better – like you can just – there's other things you can look at. If you really just go look, you can find stuff. But I tried to go – I don't try – now, the third-party stuff used to work. And I think now it's just too big of a thing that I don't think it works. I think the companies got tired of it. Yeah. Because everybody else was getting all these discounts, and it was hurting them. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I book all my own stuff, and it's like when you use the apps, then you build up the points, and I get upgraded all the time. And it's like I'm a real pro with it. Like I see flights get canceled, and people line up for miles at the desk, and I just go on the app, change my flight. Yeah. And I'm like, what are you guys doing? Yeah. What are you doing? I can book a flight.

in under a minute yeah like i i mean yeah 45 seconds i can i can it's just whatever however slow the internet might be but i can go like delta app and just be yeah got it we're good like you know and i mean i can even i could even look at some prices so i'm not saying like i'm just blunt like you know just being like price doesn't matter i can glance at

I can look and get a little bit lay of the land. It's just a matter of how much you fly. If you fly a lot, then it's different. You don't really care as much. I mean, if you fly a lot, you care a lot. I'm saying if you don't fly a lot, you don't care as much. And so you're willing to like maybe deal with the situation a little bit more because you're like, we do this twice a year, once a year. And if you fly a lot, you're just like, this is your life is like trying to get, you know. Yeah. The right upgrades. It's fun. I enjoy it. It's a great time. So, um.

It was brought to my attention in an article questioning, is Nate Bargatze sick? Yeah. One of our folks, Josiah Biles, sent this to me. And he said, you read this? And he's like, I'll tell you what part after you go through it that finally made him think, this may be done by AI. So it's all pretty funny. But I guess line two there, fans immediately began to speculate something was wrong after his weight loss.

There have been rumors swirling around the internet that Bargetze is battling an illness. Nothing says sick like looking better. Yeah. Oh, he canceled a show in Nashville August 2020. I missed that. Did you cancel a show in Nashville in 2020? No. None of this is accurate. No. In addition to a stand-up career, Bargetze has a successful acting career. Thank you. He's appeared in several television shows, including stand-ups, Orange is the New Black. I was great in that. Were you in Orange is the New Black? Yeah. Yeah.

That was a big part of it. I played a lesbian. He's one of the inmates. Is that a... That's what the show is. Is that what the show is? I don't know. It's a female prison. While he has not gone into specifics. This is when I was fatter and I really looked the role. My hair was longer than they go. Borderline, basically. Yeah. Yeah.

It appears he is on the mend and continuing to make progress. Fans can take comfort in knowing he's still performing and taking care of himself. I'm still not convinced, though, that you're not sick. I got to tell you, this is the dream, to lose so much weight people think you're ill. It goes on to talk about how they've got their own ways of how you've lost weight. Then it gets into your...

I mean, it talks about how you... That's your whole workout routine here. He began by taking walks around his neighborhood, gradually increasing the intensity and duration of the workouts. He then moved on to resistance training. I don't know how accurate this is.

Yeah, well, it's funny. It goes to he's sick to like, then like, well, he just worked out. Yeah, it makes no sense. And then it gets, if you keep going, it gets... A sick workout routine. Yeah. I love this. It's Nate Bargatia Christian. It says you often quote Bible verses and other spiritual messages on your Instagram and Twitter accounts. Yeah. You're a member of the First Baptist Church Madison, where you're a regular attendee and volunteer at the church and serve in the children's ministry. I have all the time. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, this is great.

You recently co-wrote a book with Pastor Louis Giglio titled Marriage in Light of Eternity. Yeah, you and me forever. Marriage in Light of Eternity, yeah. I wrote it for Laura. You didn't tell us about that. Well, I didn't, you know, y'all don't need to know everything. The book is based on a series of sermons that you and Giglio did. We give at the church together. We go up and do a two-man type thing. Yeah. And it's tough, you know, I had to bring him along. I think he...

He's got steps on my toes a lot. I didn't care for that. I'm thinking about leaving, going to a different church. Gets in your family. Derek's got some weird kids. Yeah. Derek is also a successful actor. He is. And comedian. Trevor was born in 1974. Oh, that's your brother. Your brother Trevor? Two years younger than Nate. Okay.

But it says my Nate Bargetze brother's name is Derek Bargetze. Derek Bargetze is also a successful actor and comedian. Trevor was born in 1974, making him two years younger than Nate. While Nate was growing up in Tennessee, Derek was growing up in Wisconsin. So just out of nowhere. Yeah.

They just changed his name to Trevor in the middle. Yeah, and then it goes back to Derek and then back to Trevor. Trevor's success in the entertainment industry has been a source of pride for the entire Bargetts family. Yeah, he's done so good. Derek has made numerous appearances on his brother Nate's podcast, The Bargettsy Family Hour. That's been ongoing. That's actually what got this started. I like that name. Let's switch to that name. I got Ben and Luke are my other brothers. Luke's an IT manager.

and Ben's a musician. And in the last part there, your height. I'll tell you what it says about Trevor may not be as well known as his brother, Nate. Trevor is doing so much better. Like he's in a ton of shows. Modern Family, V, Glee, CSI, Grey's Anatomy, and featured in the movie, The Campaign, and Accidentally on Purpose. Like how am I, and it's like Trevor needs to get it together. Yeah. How am I more known?

5'8", I'm 5'11". He's a tall comedian, which is one of the reasons why he's such a hit on stage. He also has an athletic build, which gives him a commanding performance when performing. So that's what Josiah said tipped him off. When he said he was 5'8", had an athletic build, he's like, wait a second. That's the first time. I don't know if this is accurate. Yeah. This is fun. Yeah, I mean, I don't even know what the point of this is. I don't either.

Abigail is a successful business warmer and entrepreneur. Bethany has been in the business world since she was a teenager. You have a lot of sisters and brothers. Yeah. But they just change their names back and forth. This is all just throwing keywords out there so people click on it. Yeah. But what are they clicking on this for?

What does this do? I'm not saying with me. When they do this with anybody, what is this website? What's the point of this website? There's an author there at the very top. Yeah, it's such a weird name. I feel like that's just... Rahala makes sahoo. If they get clicks, then they can sell ads? Is that what you think? Yeah, all of these. So these things all throughout the article, these are all based on impressions.

How they get paid. So you think that's why they do it? Yeah, that's all this is. Clickbait? That's all this is. Yeah, so it's like just having a crazy title and it makes you click it. And then once you click it, the ads have to pay. Yeah. And the ads are going nowhere. I mean, ads are sketchy ads. Well, this is some third party. Usually how this works is there's third party companies that will populate these with ads.

clickbait links and click them. And then, yeah, you get a little money. I am interested in the illness filter, TikTok, how to get the illness filters on TikTok. I'd like an illness filter. We'll dig into that next episode. We'll get into it. If we did, Eric posted something real on his, my, like I'm, I will, like we're working on losing weight again. Uh,

But it's pretty crazy. I was much bigger than I thought I was. I saw another picture this weekend. You mean before, like in the past? Yeah. Yeah. There's another picture that's like, it's insane, dude. What was the most you weighed? Do you remember? Like that reel right there? Yeah, that was from your, that first picture's from your Orange is the New Black. Yeah, that is my Orange is the New Black, yeah.

I mean, that's just a little taste. Even your head looks bigger in that. Yeah. It's crazy, dude. And then, I mean, I thought, in my head, I was like, I've never weighed more than 195. I've never weighed 200. And there's a picture we found. I might have weighed 215. I mean, there's a picture of my buddy Ryan's wedding, and I look enormous. And you're like, dude, I was much bigger than I thought I was.

And it's wild. And we're trying to go, we're going to, when I can get to it, we'll have a big, I'll post, we'll actually show. Because it's pretty crazy. Yeah, I got up to about 220 one time. And it's like, I looked sick then. But when I lost weight, nobody was like, are you sick? They were like, good for you, bud. Even if you are sick, it's doing wonders for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Your sickness is admirable. We did this. So we posted to Seinfeld. So we went to the sitcom suites too. I believe it's like in Cincinnati. And it's the thing I airdropped you. So, I mean, I've showed this already. We won't show this whole thing because it's doing – this is the apartments. You can – they have a Seinfeld apartment, a Friends apartment, a

Golden Girls in a Schitt's Creek apartment. It's Airbnb, right? Airbnb. And so look at this. When you walk in, Keith Hernandez. I mean, it's...

So crazy, dude. The Seinfeld one is, for me, was insane. And like, they just have, look at this apartment. And like, you could stay in it. Got all the cereal boxes there in the kitchen. They just have Seinfeld playing. Oh. That's interesting. I never thought about what the other side of the apartment looked like. Yeah. But look, the human fun, the specific kind of ways that they do it. Astonishing Tales of the Sea book.

This is the movie, Rochelle Rochelle, Sack Lunch. And it had like the credits. It had reviews from like funny stuff. Then you had that door and then Kramer's behind it. They have the cereal box. It's just... That's awesome. Yeah, like the buzzer, you can buzz it. And I mean, just such a cool kind of thing. And then you can fast forward a little bit.

Go a little bit. Yeah. Nothing finer than being in your diner, autograph, all that stuff. Keep going. And then keep going around. The bathroom. Yeah, the bathroom's a lobster. And this was the bedroom.

I was just supposed to be like... Kenny Rogers. Yeah. Roasters. So show the other one I airdropped you. We shot some... We did some Kramer interests. And this is with Graham. Can you... You can probably play the volume. Yeah. Just start it back at the beginning. Yeah, one second. Yeah. And then... So this is me and Graham. And then we shot this. So you can... Mr. Marbles? Mr. Marbles?

Kenny? Kenny? If you're listening, they're reenacting the Kenny Rogers Roasters episode. Yeah. We're going to post that one too. It was, yeah, we were very, we got another one of my dad that's very funny. Uh,

And it's – the whole thing is – it was crazy. I mean, such a cool – That's such a cool idea. What's it cost to stay there? I don't know. Did it cost just to go walk in and see it? No, no. We had it rented. I didn't – Travis booked it. Oh. So I don't know what it costs. But I don't think it's insane. You're just in an Airbnb. It's not this crazy kind of thing. I don't think it's that – whatever the cost is, I don't know.

That's really cool. But it was like outside Cincinnati. We booked a two-stay there, and then we realized we were two when we were in –

Dayton, I guess, or somewhere. I forget. Maybe it was Dayton. We thought it was closer, and we were a little bit farther away from it, so we didn't really get to go there. And so we just, after the Dayton show, we just drove to it and then got out. And we thought, all right, let's just go look at it real fast, you know, and then we don't really have time to stay. And then we went in, and we were there for two hours. Oh, yeah. Just like, you know, just looking at it. We were really in the Seinfeld room. Oh, it's awesome. It's awesome. Yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, they're on Instagram. I mean, yeah, sitcom suites. We tagged them. Very cool. Should I read some comments? Let's do it. Sure. Yeah. Alan Cup, when Ted Nugent was playing Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, claims they received noise complaints from farmers 18 miles away. Secondly, I live in Cincinnati, where in 1979, we had 11 people trampled to death at a Who concert.

It was a general admission seating, and when they opened the doors and let people in, there was a rush of folks to get in to get good seats. For a long time after, they did not allow any general admission seating at concerts. Wow. Yeah, that sounds awful. That sounds like boarding a Southwest flight. You see Hideki Matsui. I can't remember his last name. Matsui? Matsui. Hideki Matsui. Yeah.

In golf this weekend, he finished tied 17. Then there's a picture of him standing in Spirit line. Really? For a Spirit flight. Wow. I mean, he probably won a few hundred grand. Uh-huh. And he just went straight to the airport in his flying Spirit. Yeah. Man of the people, dude. You're a man of the...

More than just people. There's a lot of good, regular, blue-collar people that ain't flying. That's true. Maybe he's just unfamiliar with boarding. He didn't know what to do. He's not good at booking flights. Yeah. Santosh Ninan. Santosh Ninan from Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan.

Graham, are you still here? Saskatchewan. No, I was thinking Saskatoon. Saskatoon. Saskatoon. Saskatoon.

Santosh Nenon from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan. That's a lot. Yeah, that is a lot. My head about exploded when the crew was discussing U2 under a blood red sky at Red Rock. First Nate said it was like a blood red moon. I was driving and started convulsing laughter. And then I know where Aaron says Sunday, bloody Sunday, dude. That's what it's about.

Under a blood red sky is a lyric from the song New Year's Day, not Sunday, bloody Sunday. I don't even know if I understand this entire comment. Yeah, I made a joke that didn't work. I know that's not from that song. I thought it was a good joke. I think this guy is getting a little too into U2. I don't think any of us listen to U2 that much.

Yeah, this guy's passionate. He's a passionate U2 fan. I couldn't be wrong. I'm not even sure he's a guy. I know about two U2 songs, and one is It's a Beautiful Day. That's a great song. Oh, that's late in the game, too. Yeah, yeah. That's like 40 years into their career. I'll be on Santosh's side then. Okay. If y'all are on the opposite.

I don't know what's happening with any of it. How was Red Rocks, by the way? Oh, did we not talk about that? No, I haven't seen this since then. Oh, Red Rocks was wild. Did it rain? It did rain. Yeah. Red Rocks was crazy. During your set, it was raining? It rained probably the back half of my dad's set, and I would say just 10 minutes of my set. But it's...

I mean, it's very overwhelming. I mean, it was like, you know, it was a little chilly, but everybody was like there. It's so many people, dude. Yeah. We posted the – Justin Schubert got a great footage. I mean, it's just – it's a lot of people, man. And it's like pretty overwhelming. They put my face on the wall. I didn't know they were doing that. And they put that up there. And, yeah, it's a great video that captures – when Grams are out, you can see all the people. When I went out, it's really tough to see.

But it's the crowd. I mean, it's just, it goes straight up. It's a very unique experience. Very, you know, such a cool spot. It just looked amazing, man. Yeah. We were there kind of all day, and it was just a wild, I mean, it's, you know, an overwhelming time. And then, you know. There was disco balls going off before. Man, that looks crazy. Yeah, it looks awesome. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it looks awesome. And there was a raccoon, apparently. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, I didn't know. They said he was climbing on the rock behind me during the show. I had no idea. But I think people were watching that. Yeah, it was, yeah. I mean, it'd be awesome to go back there and go to a show, too. Like, I would love to go see a show there, too. But it was, yeah. I mean, just, you know.

Awesome. All the people that came out and people traveled for that. I mean, that meant a lot, and that made it a very special thing. Just like Sunday Bloody Sunday. Sunday Bloody Sunday. It's a beautiful day. Chelsea Arrington, Nate at minute 30. It could be true that I rant when I get tired. Nate at minute 120. Let me tell you something. There's so many famous people, and they're all alive. So true. Yeah.

I got my energy back. Michael Hayes, congratulations on your 150 episode after Nate's tour rant. I find it fitting that the episode was released on Bob Dylan's 82nd birthday because Bob Dylan has been on his appropriated...

appropriately named Never Ending Tour since June 7th, 1988. May Nate Land last as long. That's insane. Yeah. Oh, Never Ending Tour. So his tour is just called the Never Ending Tour? I guess. I guess he's not even claiming that he's ending. Yeah.

Yeah, that's good. I guess just do that. Just keep singing until nobody can understand anything you're saying. Well, he's been there for a while. My buddy worked his show, and he's convinced that it's not actually Bob Dylan performing these shows.

That it's a guy dressed up as Bob Dylan. Oh, really? Yeah. He worked it. He was like, he showed up, had a hoodie on, would never interact with anybody, didn't want anyone to see his face. And then on stage, he stands back really far, and he doesn't want the camera zoomed in too much on his face. He's convinced it's...

It's an imposter. People are just milking Bob Dylan money. I relayed that to somebody in the industry involved with concerts, and I've never looked dumber in it. I heard it's not actually Bob Dylan. The guy's like, yeah, you're an idiot. 100% it is. I was like, all right. Well, people, they don't want to get into that. But it's possible. I mean, I don't even know who's going to a Bob Dylan show anymore, but it's possible. It was the roughest concert I've ever been to. I wish I hadn't have gone.

Because it tainted my memory of him. Bob Dylan's been putting out albums like every year forever. And it's like, I haven't liked an album he put out since, you know, before I was born. He didn't play a song written before 2010 when I saw him. He was playing the new stuff. Nobody knows it. Yeah. Just tough to listen to. We just want to see Blowing in the Wind out here. He didn't play any old stuff? No.

Like whatever that song, I don't know. Dude, we were sitting around waiting for a song that people recognized and he would just refuse to play it. The Times They Are a-Changin'. None of that. The Hurricane. None of the hits, dude. All new stuff. That's kind of crazy. Yeah. Tangled Up in Blue. I mean, come on. 2010, that was 13 years ago, so he was...

75 or something? Or no, or 60, or 72, 69, 68. Old. Yeah. You know, Hootie and the Blowfish, that song, I Only Want to Be With You, they got a whole like verse that's like straight from a Bob Dylan song. Like the whole verse. It's just wild. It's just like he just...

inserted a whole Bob Dylan verse right in the middle of the song. Is it like an honor thing? Maybe. Paying homage? Yeah, yeah. That's the frustrating thing with music. That's why when you always talk about music, it's like they get away with so much. As a comic, you're just like...

You even have the same premise. They're like, you stole that from 40 different comics. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's just the same. Like, I think if I even understood music more, I would get even more frustrated. Like, if you could just hear, like, you know, when you see like a little video that's like, this chord is this, whatever, they're just taking this thing from this thing. And you're like,

And then it's like the people writing the songs and you're like, these dudes are not even writing songs. Like all they have to do is go sing these songs. Yeah. I think Ed Sheeran just won a lawsuit, right? Yeah. Where he was sued. That was big. It was Marvin Gaye. Marvin Gaye's estate.

They try to say he copied? Yeah. Did he or? He, on court, apparently, he brought out a guitar in the court. And he was like, I want to show you how common this particular chord progression is. Yeah. And just played through like a bunch of songs in it and won the case. Wow. There's a guy that does that. A video. There's an act.

You ever seen that video of an axe? The four chords? Yeah. The axis of awesome or something? Yeah, yeah, I've seen them. A lot of people do that because it's just, there's only so many chords that sound good together. That's got to be the worst when you're like, you stole this from me, and then you're like, actually, here's how common that is. Yeah, yeah. Was Marvin Gaye the first one, or...?

I don't know. But it's like just thinking you have this truly unique thing that everybody's been doing. Well, Marvin Gaye might have been. I mean, he's so old that you're like, maybe, maybe. Maybe. But he was on the front of it. It's like when you see comics sometimes and they have some subject matter that's just been talked about. They're not stealing it, but it's like some older comics and you're like,

I don't know, man. They probably came up with it. Like they were, they've been doing comedy for 50 years. Like, so there's a Steve Martin album. I like where he's tapping on the mic going, is this thing on, is this thing on? And it sounds so hacky, but you're like, he might've been the first one to do that. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Michael Hayes, congratulations on your 150 episodes. We had a hundred. Oh yeah.

Oh, I already did that one? Yeah. Okay. Matthew Parrish. I was at the Garth Brooks concert at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge last year. And when you played Colin Baton Rouge, it registered as an earthquake at the LSU seismograph. Ooh, I got that one. That's impressive. I don't know. I mean... That I got the word? Yeah. Oh, everything. Yeah. Thank you. Here's the thing. I've always heard about LSU home football games.

being so loud that it's registered as an earthquake. I think their seismograph is just really sensitive. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of earthquakes going on at LSU. Yeah. It's loud. Well, that would be, if you could pick a time to be at the stadium,

Would you rather be at that time or say the LSU beats Alabama? What's a big game? I'd rather be at a football game. I don't know. I wouldn't want to be at the one where they beat Alabama. I would like to be at Garth Brooks, I think. Well, I'm just saying for a moment. What's an LSU moment? They both would be pretty great for an LSU moment. I don't know, man. There's part of me that Colton Baton Rouge –

in with all those people and then he starts playing it, that would be insane. Yeah. And everybody's on the same page. So you got a stadium of everybody's on the same page where if you have a football game, there's still a lot of people that are not happy even though you're watching this great thing. Now, I'm picking a team too that we're not fans. Like there's no reason for us to be. It's not taking all our fandom out of it.

And just being like, would you rather be there for that? Garth Brooks was my – and we're huge sports fans. Or if I could think of – I'm thinking like the Auburn-Alabama where he ran it back or something like that. Yeah. Like where you're seeing some – That one would be pretty awesome. Yeah. The kickoff. But still, I don't know if you could top –

That. It's like what? Call in Baton Rouge. In Baton Rouge. What's registering on the seismograph? The noise or were they stomping their feet? I mean, what was happening? I think everything. Yeah, all of it. The vibrations simulated an earthquake. I'm not buying it though. Seems like they make the stadium collapse. No. No, it can hold an earthquake. Can it? Yeah. It probably registers as a small earthquake and they just say it registers as an earthquake. Yeah. Like a real tiny one.

Like a trimmer. I don't think people didn't die. Yeah, like aftershock. No. Wow. Tom Robinson. Totally disagree with Dusty on the butcher shop, not knowing how to cook meat. That question should be for a chef. The butcher can tell you all about the cut of the meat, but cooking questions should be reserved for a chef or a cooking expert.

Yeah, sure. Sure. I mean, if you, you know, you're looking for the best way to cook it, but I just think if you're, if you're a, maybe have a general knowledge of what to do with it, because if people are coming in there to buy meat from you and you're like, I don't know, do whatever you want. And then you take it out of there. You don't cook it well. It's not good. You don't go back to the butcher shop because you're like that meat wasn't good.

I agree with Tom Robinson. So have a general... Well, that's... But you guys don't run a butcher shop, so you're like not trying to get repeat customers. Yeah, but the butcher's like, I'll tell you the kind of meat to cook, and then it's... If he knows about the cut of the meat, like when you... The cooking, like even if you go to a restaurant and they come tell you the cut of the meat, like they're... I don't know, they can go tell you like this is this part of the... Like you want to know all that stuff. Cooking it is like...

I don't know, dude. If you want it well done, like my mom likes it burnt. I just think some general suggestions, maybe you even sell some cookbooks inside the butcher shop. Look for some opportunities to make a little extra money. You can talk me into that. Yeah. Actually, we have a lamb book over here for sale. It tells you all how to cook lamb. You make a little extra money for yourself. I think this butcher shop is missing an opportunity. As I imagine, Tom Robinson is missing some opportunities. Yeah.

You think they'll sell bottled water in Opelika? I do think so. Yeah, I went to, I was in my hometown, and I've never heard of this, but I went to a restaurant, and I go in, it's noon, there's nobody in there, which is a red flag, and on a Saturday, and then I order all my food, and then I go, and I'll take a water, and the lady goes, there's algae in the water, so it tastes a little funny. I go, all right, I'll have a bottled water. She goes, we don't have bottled water.

And it just, I left. I left the restaurant. It made me question everything that was going on in there. You know there's algae in the water. A lady behind me, like the owner, was like, oh, it's Opelika. There's been algae in the water for 10 years. I grew up here. My family lives here. Never heard of the algae in the water. And it's like, so for 10 years this has been going on, and you've not thought to run down to the grocery store and pick up a case of water. You could have sold me that water for $3 a bottle, and I would have bought it.

They're also doing everything else with water, too. They're washing the dishes with it. They're cooking with it. You're washing these dishes with this algae water back here? Well, Diet Coke, too, if you've got soda, it might be. Oh, sure. Yeah, it'd be a little weird. There's algae in everything. Yeah, so I'm like, you know, get yourself some bottled water in here. Yeah. Make a little extra money. Instead, they lost the wholesale when they could have added on. Yeah. You know, I'm out here hustling.

another game pad bad publicity yeah i won't tell them the and this kind of it's not really in the opa like i grew up in it's closer to the auburn side so i'm not gonna you know i'm not gonna blame opa like it for this yeah it's a little bit on that fringe yeah yeah it's kind of like like a no man's land this part of the city didn't even exist when i lived there it was all woods yeah so um you mean

You're narrowing it down. Maybe the animals are fighting back, you know? They go, yeah. There's one town in Alabama that's got a big algae problem. They have one restaurant. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I'm blaming the restaurant. But I will say- Didn't you go to multiple restaurants? I went to the next restaurant over and I go, let me get a bottled water. They go, we don't have bottled water. And I'm like, why does no one have bottled water in this town? I would think you'd have bottled water if you go, like, they felt like they had to tell you the water tastes different. That was the only restaurant that was doing it. Oh.

The others were like, no, we have a filter on it. I mean, it's fine. The water's fine here. Yeah. This restaurant was dropping the ball. Illinois comments. Zach Farber, it is killing me that none of you are calling out Illinois as one of the most recognizable states on the map in the Illinois episode. You put that sucker on a piece of paper all on its lonesome and no way you aren't calling that out by name. Not even top 25? Come on.

Love you guys. Thanks for the laughs every week. I disagree. I disagree completely. People got really fired up about the state shapes, and it seems like the general consensus is everyone thinks their state is very recognizable. Right. Everyone thinks we're ridiculous for thinking Tennessee would be top 10. Yeah.

But I mean, even on this- I'm doing you a favor. I think it's number one. Yeah. Even on this podcast, they both said Alabama looks more- I think Texas is the most recognizable. Yeah. But I think we all agreed on Texas. We did, but everyone seems to think their state is the most recommended. Like to me, that-

Here's what I, the way I was thinking about it later is that if you, you know, sometimes if you pull a chip out of a bag and it's shaped like something, you would all be like, wow, that, if a Texas shaped chip, you'd be like, there's probably a million chips that look like Illinois. You don't even notice. Well, if you're doing that case, I would almost change it to Florida.

If a chip looks like Florida? Texas would be a tough chip. That's what I'm saying. It would be amazing because you're like, wow. Well, if it's that way, which is a good way, I would say Florida because Florida is so obvious. Florida is very recognizable. Florida is so obvious. So if you had a chip that was like Florida, Texas is like...

It'd be hard with a chip. It would have to be just cut perfectly. But Florida would be just like an L. Yeah, if you showed me this state, I would go, oh, that's one of the great lakes. Well, Michigan people were very fired up. They're like, our state looks like a mitt. But if you called it up like that with the Upper Peninsula. I agree about Michigan, though. I do agree about Michigan. Michigan is true. It's a mitt.

But with the UP, I mean, if it was just out of context, what is this? People always do that, though, with the hand. They'll tell you where they're from in Michigan based on the hand. I mean, that UP, I'll be honest with you, I think I learned about that on this podcast. Yeah. I did not know about that. That there was another part to it. I had no idea. Yeah.

And I've been to Michigan a ton. The UP looks like a big whale up there. I mean, I want to go to the UP so bad now. But it's beautiful up there. It is great. What town is up there?

Sioux St. Marie's right at the border. Yeah, we did a casino up there, Sioux St. Marie. And there's also Harris, Michigan. There's another casino we did. Was Mackinac Island, was that up there? Mackinac, Mackinac. Yeah, that's on the way. It's the last thing, I think, on the lower peninsula before you go over. Yeah, I'd never, that's, yeah, I'm very excited. I want to go there. I also learned about, people pointed out the Baker Man states. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. You know this? Where it's like Tennessee is the frying pan and Kentucky is the chicken. Yeah. You know this? Yeah. Yeah. So think of Iowa as a head. Yeah. Minnesota is like a little chef's hat, and then this is a guy right here. And then Louisiana is the boot. Louisiana is his feet, and he's hold Tennessee as a frying pan, Kentucky as a piece of chicken or something on top of the pan. Yeah. It's got to be chicken because KFC. Yeah.

Indiana's the smoke. All right. I mean, there's images that show it. It's more obvious than that. But yeah, I never heard that. Yeah, when you draw a guy on the States and you're like, oh, I see it now because it's an actual drawing of a man holding a frying pan. I bet you could even Google it. I know. Well, I was just trying to move it along. Trying to imagine it for everybody. Cody Hofstädler. I am a palliative...

Palliative. A palliative care chaplain at a hospital in Denver.

Well, that's wonderful. That's great. Unless you're having surgery that day.

And he goes, beep, beep. Doc, if you prep it up. You wake up out of it a little bit and they're going like, shooting with their fingers. Novocaine and sedatives. Allison Popolo. Popolo. That's a good last name.

Popolo. That's very fun. The Popolo family. You'd be happy if they were coming over. Yeah. You know? Who's coming over? The Popolos. Oh, I love the Popolos. Nate is right. The Cheese City Factory does have breakfast, and the one I go to has brunch on Saturday and Sunday. Case closed. I don't know if the case is closed. I mean, that's one more part of it, but it was a pretty big debate. Well, and she said it singular. Like, maybe it's just this coming Saturday and Sunday. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. I don't know. That's on...

I would take that as all. Oh, I'm joking. It's just funny she didn't say Saturdays and Sundays. Oh, do you have to say Saturdays and Sundays? I think that would mean all Saturdays and Sundays. You wouldn't just say the cheese factory doesn't have breakfast and the one I go to has brunch on Saturday and Sunday. A bad faith reading of this, you could interpret it to mean this upcoming Saturday and Sunday.

But you're having to, yeah. But grammatically, wouldn't it be Saturdays and Sundays? You could, yeah. That would just be more clear that this is. But if you don't put the S's, is it fine too? I think it works either way. It just depends on how you read it. I knew what she meant. But if you said, you're like, I'm having brunch on Saturday and Sunday, and then I came next week, and you were like, no, I said last week. Yeah, but if you said it like that, but she's saying, gee, if it doesn't have breakfast, then the one I go to has brunch on Saturday and Sunday.

So I think you would say, yeah. Okay.

Katie Tyler, I'm the corporate dietitian at Panera Bread. Oh, look at this. Big time. I manage the nutrition, ingredient, allergen, and food policy information that you see on our menus. Aaron, thank you for being a Panera fan. All right. I have heard you mention Panera a few times, Nate. I hope you give us another try. Thanks for the continued laughs, gentlemen. See you in St. Louis in October. Nate. All right. I love Panera. I love Panera.

I don't like ever talking about it. I go to Panera. And I was never trash in Cheesecake Factory. Yeah. There was more to it. She mentioned they've cut back her hours because Panera is after your slamming. Oh, yeah. She's working 20 hours a week now, but she's still going to try to come to your show. Oh, I love Panera. We can talk to her about what I can eat. We eat Panera a lot because it's when I'm counting calories. Yeah, we went to Panera this week.

We go to Panera. I went to a Panera the other day. The person gave me a free tea. Oh, look at that. I thought it was a rare argument where you both made really strong points. Thank you.

I think Katie would even say one restaurant the rest of your life, Cheesecake Factory. It's just too... But I think the debate was all your meals have to come from this. Yeah, yeah. Just clarifying a few things. Because a lot of the pushback, I would say, from people, they thought we were just arguing which restaurant was better, which was not what we were doing. No, no, no.

You're right. It's all your meals have to come to A&E. I'd want to throw some other restaurants up into the debate. Well, of course, but if it was just between those two. Yeah. Go ahead, Dusty, throw them in there. Well, I mean, I'm just saying if we were to reopen the debate, I'm not saying I'm prepared to reopen it. Yeah. I mean, I might go. I don't know. Does Cheesecake Factory have steaks? Yeah.

Selena and have a Cheesecake Factory. I mean, that's the thing. Cheesecake Factory just has everything. So if you've got to go to one restaurant the rest of your life, it's like going to 15. You basically go to one restaurant that has 15 restaurants. It's like go to a food court. You're like going to a food court. Yeah. And you can just do anything. So you're eating it for the rest of your life. That's what it is. I mean, it's a restaurant that I never, ever go to. But yeah, I mean, they have steaks. Yeah, I don't go to it. I go to Panera way more than I go to Cheesecake Factory.

There's 308 cheesecake factories in the country. That's what someone said. It's interesting. If you had to go on where they're at now, they all have to stay where they stay. People would live next to the restaurants. Yeah. And there are 2,100 Panera breads. Yeah. So look, we work on the road.

You know, that's a big part of it, I think, is just ease of access. Good thing a lot of these clubs are located right next to the same shopping center as a Cheesecake Factory. That is true. All the funny boons have a Cheesecake Factory downstairs. Will Hall, for the snail dilemma, you have $10 million. Use that money to develop a way to trap the snail for good, and then you don't have to live in fear.

Oh, can you trap them? I thought that was part of the... Yeah. I thought you just couldn't kill it. Right. Yeah. Somebody mentioned... You can just put a box over it. Somebody mentioned just keep it in a jar. Yeah, a lot of people said just trap it and problem solved. That's why I don't have $10 million. That guy goes, take it, come at me. Yeah. All right, and he changes it. Nick Greenfield.

The Great Chicago Fire jumped the river because the river was incredibly polluted. The river actually burned as well due to the pollutants in it. Also, with Chicago being very windy, it is easy for fire to spread and hard to contain it. That's how it jumped it. Windy city. Windy city. Not the windiest city in the country. I've heard that. Yeah. It's called Windy City for the politics.

Oh, because of them talking. That's right. Oh, wow. I learned that when I lived there. All the hot air being blown around. What would be the windiest city, though? I think I know the answer. D.C.? No. Oh. Oh, that's a joke. Oh, yeah. Sorry I stepped on that so quick. That was good. It was a lot more entertaining than the real answer. Midland, Texas. Cheyenne, Wyoming. Is it? I think so. Yeah. I'll tell you, Texas has got some wind. Midlands, it's windy. Yeah. Yeah.

I bet Midland's a Buffalo. No, look, this is, this list is not that late. Yeah. Is there, I would think Kansas would be in the running just being so flat that it's saying Boston. Well, this is, it depends on how you want to determine what's the windiest. This is average annual wind speed of the, of the, well, it might be, it's a pretty good way. Okay. So yeah, I've been there. It's pretty dang windy. I don't agree with this.

Yeah. I'm going to find one that has Cheyenne as number one, and I'll agree with that. Yeah, I don't. I mean, are we looking at just rogue wind, Gus? I just mean, like, what's the, did you just type in what's the windiest city in America? Well, I'm saying there's a lot of different ways to answer that. Yeah. Fargo, North Dakota. Yeah. Wichita, Kansas. No less really has Cheyenne on it. Corpus Christi and Lubbock are on there. Maybe How Windy is Cheyenne?

Yeah. I mean, if you need to try to find some list. It was George Streisand. You need to go to Cheyenne's website, Cheyenne.com. It's pretty windy right now, 19 miles per hour. Wow. That's a lot of wind. That's good. That helped. Yeah. That helped your case. Last one, Kevin Robleski.

Previously, Phoenix, Arizona had the first McDonald's franchise in drive-thru, according to the Nate Land Arizona episode. Now it's Illinois. That's why I love this podcast. Goodbye, folks. Well, he's right. I said on the Arizona episode that they had the first franchise, and they did by one year. So I was wrong about Illinois. Ray Kroc opened his first franchise there.

in the eastern United States a year later in Illinois. Okay. Technically, I think Phoenix beat it by a year. Wow. So I'll just start saying every state. Yeah. Yeah, why not? They just all deserve a little credit. Did you guys see the Nashville man who ate McDonald's every meal for 100 straight days and lost 58 pounds? I think I heard about it. He's sick, I think. He is? No, I mean, I think, you remember the thing we did at the beginning of the episode where

Why Nate lost so much weight? Because he was so sick. I was like, I didn't read the article. Yeah, it's a Nashville guy. And he said his, I guess his strategy was just don't eat the whole meal. He just eats part of it. Yeah, I think I did see this. Yeah, pretty crazy. He would eat one burrito and half of a hash brown and half of a muffin for breakfast. And then he'd eat the other halves for lunch. So this is what we do with Eric.

with Eric on the road when he helps me with mine, it's, it's, it's, it's as simple as can, I can't count calories and that's all it is. It's the calories are a very simplistic way of it is no matter what you're eating, like you go eat McDonald's, you get your Oreo cookies.

If I'm under, you know, I try to eat 1,800 calories. So if I'm under my, if 2,400 or 2,200 is my maintenance, if I'm under that, I will lose weight. So if I'm at 1,800, I will lose, you know, we're trying to do like a pound a week or something. And so I could eat Oreo cookies. Now, how you're going to feel is a different thing. So you could lose weight eating Oreo.

Ice cream, anything. But you just keep it under the thing. That's what Weight Watchers is, I think, to a degree. Yeah. And then you do notice when you only have 1,800 calories, you really do think about like, all right, well, is this going to fill me up? Like if you eat something that you know you're going to be hungry and then you're like – usually a lot of stuff is a lot of calories and then it's just not that filling. And you're like, I wish I would have. We went to Double Dog –

Bowling Green. Yeah. And I had their chili hot dog and it said on the thing is 500 calories on my fitness spell. And it was like, I was like, that's like a fun one. Yeah. That's kind of like pretty crazy that you're like, oh, 500 calories. Less than I thought it would be. Way less than I thought it would be. I mean, it's not a huge hot dog. It's one hot dog. But I mean, the chili dog, yeah, 500 calories. I was like, that was, it was a solid. I did that and I got their green beans and

That's what I had there. The guy was there very nice. That would be the healthiest thing at Cheesecake Factory. I know that. Does Cheesecake put their calories on their menu? Oh, yeah. They do? Yeah, a lot of four and five digit items on there, let me tell you. Wow. I don't know about five digits. That's a lot. 11,000 calorie meal would be pretty crazy. They'll let you do five pound Hershey bar. Is how much again? I think it was 11,000. Yeah. Wow. Yeah.

Well, you eat that, you're going to need a doctor. That's why ZocDoc can help you find and book in-person or telemedicine appointments for medical or dental care. That is helpful. Thank you, Aaron. For people that are on the go or work different hours like we do. When someone is just really good at what they do, it could be a waiter, a chef.

We're a doctor, maybe a comedian. You know you're in good hands. When you find the right doctor, you can feel it. ZocDoc is the only free app that lets you find and book doctors who are patient-reviewed. Well, maybe you do as... Yeah. The first question in particular that was on the test that I saw, I really wanted to do man on the street with people just to ask them this question because I got it wrong and everybody I've asked it to got it wrong. Let me see. Mm-hmm.

You can't look at it because they have the answers there. Read me the question. I have not looked. Is this the question you're talking about? Yeah. What is the supreme law of the land? Supreme law of the land. Freedom.

That's exactly what I said. That's exactly the answer I said. But it's going to be shocking to you. Oh, it's not freedom. No. It's weirded. No murder. That is weirded in a way that I understand why you could get that. I would have got it. Did I say weirded in a way? I think you did. Supreme law of the land is, of our land, the number one law is...

Be nice. Or what is the main, I would word it like, what's the main authority for law and order? Oh, the government. You're getting closer. FBI. The Constitution. The Constitution. The Constitution. The moment you hear it, you're like, oh yeah, that makes total sense. Yeah. But I said freedom. That's what I said. Yeah. Yeah. Can you name the three things the Constitution does? It tells us what to do. Kinda. And...

It has all the laws written on it. You ain't getting in. You're done, dude. What does it do? Sets up the government. Yeah. Defines the government. Said that. Exactly. And protects basic rights of America. Exactly. And see, with this test, they're looking for one of these answers, right? So you would say sets up government. There you go. All right. What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?

What is one right of freedom? Right or freedom from the First Amendment. Bear arms is the Second Amendment. Freedom of speech. There you go. Freedom of speech. What do you call the first... And I should be allowed to say the wrong answer. Yes, exactly. There you go. You really spin this thing on its head. Yeah, yeah. What do you call the first 10 amendments of the Constitution?

The first 10 amendments. Yeah, they're commonly referred to as this. Oh, top 10. You know, like the referred to as, you know, the best, the most important, the VIP. The Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights. You heard that? Yeah. I have heard of that. I have heard of that. Why would they separate them? I know. I've been going over this test for a while. Yeah. Okay, what was the war...

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South. Silver War. I'll take it. What did Susan B. Anthony do? We're jumping around here. This is potpourri. She wrote the Star-Spangled Banner.

That's a good guess. I mean, it's way wrong, but it's... Oh, she did the flag. That was Betsy Ross. Yeah. She actually didn't do anything that specific. Yeah. Yeah, she just fought for women's rights, fought for civil rights. What? Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s. Let's ease into it. You just need one. One war, Iraq. Iraq.

Yeah. The Gulf War. The Gulf War. I mean, yeah, you barely got that. World War I or World War II. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, I'm more current. Yeah, you go with the war of your childhood. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, now we're in like World War II stuff. What was the main concern of the U.S. during the Cold War? Temperature. Just...

Same concerns we're dealing with now, really. Yeah. It's just cold. You got to go, what is it, Russia? It's cold. You want to be Russia? It's cold. Yeah. It's cold up there. Communism. Why would they call it the Cold War? Because it wasn't a hot war. Because it was cold? They weren't actively fighting. Because there wasn't an actual, bullets weren't fired. More like a buildup of tension. I'm watching the Americans. That's what that's about. A lot of arguments. Yeah.

Yeah, a lot of more like, well, the Americans is the cold wars. I'll do it. It's just like, it's all behind the scenes stuff. So that's what they say, or they just made that up for the, is there a lot of cold wars? But that's, you could call a war, you could call, you call something cold. I've never heard hot war.

Have we ever said a hot war? No, it's not a commonly used expression, but that's just... Depending on how attractive it is. Yeah. That's a hot war. Cold War is only used once for this. That's what we call the struggle between... Yeah, like North Korea, South Korea, do they use that term? No, I mean, they have legit landmines and stuff over there, I think. I was trying to think of one who actually don't fight, but are always looking at each other. You gave them some hard ones. There's some easier ones on there. Name one U.S. territory.

You can stick with the tough ones. Yeah. You think that's a tough one? I mean, I know it, but some of those are so easy. The Louisiana Purchase. I'll allow it. See, I would take all these answers if I were administering the test, but that's pretty clever. Yeah, Louisiana Purchase comes up later on the test. Does it really? Yeah. What's the territory? The

Puerto Rico is the one. Guam, Puerto Rico. I've been there. Yeah. Yeah. Virgin Islands. Why does the flag have 13 stripes? 13 colonies. Yeah. All right. Boom. Why does it have 50 stars? 50 states. Yep. There you go. When do we celebrate Independence Day? July 4th. Now, name two national U.S. holidays. This one's a little tough. Martin Luther King Day. There you go. And Groundhog Day.

You were doing so well. Martin Luther King Day. That should be one. And a national holiday. Yeah. Okay, Presidents Day. There you go. Got it. The easy ones are Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Those are the easy ones. As I'm going through these, that's how I'm telling Hannah. I go, these are the easy ones. Just remember this, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Why would I? Yeah. They would probably flag me. I could get every answer right. And they go, well, we don't like that you said MLK Day and President's Day as your national holidays. Well, Hannah said there was a writing test too that I guess is not on there where they ask you a question. You have to write it back in English. I think you would have maybe a hard time with that one. And then you had to prove that you're married.

to someone that's not a sham. Yeah. Married. How is that? Well, we already went through that process. It was actually pretty easy because we got into it. You know, we're both creatives. So we put together this binder. I went through like, thanks to like, you know, thanks to all the spy technology that I hate, I was able to go through like my phone where I've taken pictures and it tells me what date, where we were at. We put together this big binder of our whole experience.

dating thing. The timeline of your relationship. Yeah, just to prove. Like, hey, and then I went in talking to the lady. It's like an older Southern lady. And I give her the binder. She's like, whoa, I need like this picture, this picture. I just think that she could tell we were a real couple and we didn't need all this. But I think sometimes it's like, I don't know, this is my feeling. Like if you're like a...

you know, like a Russian dude and you're, and you're marrying a girl here. And it's like, they're like, well, what's going on here. But I think Canada and I think Canada, Mexico, the United States, I think that's all feasible that you would be getting married. Right. But didn't she almost get your birthday wrong? Maybe, but I really don't think that, I mean, that's not an issue. Yeah.

Will there be a swearing in ceremony? I think there will be a ceremony, yeah. Is it on TV? I doubt it. Should be. I'll tell them I'm attending, see if that can bump up the ratings. Maybe I can throw out the first pitch. You did pretty good. That was pretty solid. I mean, there were easier ones on there. I think you're a citizen.

Thank you. But the first question is the one that I really like because it's like, it's so obvious when you hear the answer, but the way the question is worded, I mean, that's what I said too. I said freedom. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, so animal fights. Let's see if we can. We're in the Sweet 16. We're finishing it. All right. We're finishing animal fights today. All right. We're down to Sweet 16. I'm excited. Yeah. I'm excited, too. They've had a few weeks to rest up. Everybody should be fresh. Everybody's fresh. Briefed on the rules. No guns. Well, we'll see. No guns. We'll see. But we're going all the way. We're finishing it. It's going to be over.

Everybody can move on with their lives. You guys went ahead and skipped the bear past the piranha? I think we did a few episodes where we're like, we know that one's going to be. Yeah, and we might have a few kind of layups here. Bear might have had a tougher time with the puffer fish. Do some layups. What's a layup? I think we already covered the layups. The only other one that already advanced to the Elite Eight was the hippopotamus over the spider. Yeah. Tarantula. I hope that, yeah, if it were a black widow, that might be a bit more of a debate. In the cassowary over the well.

No, we haven't done that one yet. I think the cassowary. Cassowary is my, I think it's a big problem. It's your sleeper pick for the. Yeah, it's just a, I mean, the well's enormous, but I think over time. Where's the fight taking place? Is it in the water or is it on the land? Land.

Remember, the Roman Coliseum has all types of terrains in the middle. So there's enough space for a whale to kind of swim around. But how is he getting to the cassowary? I don't know. I think that's part of it. I don't think he can. He can't get to them. Yeah, he can't get to them. He's got to come up for air. Cassowary's just kind of nicking him when he comes up for air, just kind of hitting him. Yeah, this battle takes a long time. How does a cassowary get to the whale? Battle of a thousand cuts or something. Well, he's got to come up for air. What did they say? And then he nicks him. Yep, and he floats around like a duck, something you didn't know they could do.

And then he just flies away. Yeah. Like he just gets away. They're flightless, right? Yeah, I wouldn't think they could fly. I don't mind the cassowary taking the whale, but against the hippo, I'm going to have a bit of a problem. Okay, well, we'll worry about that next round. Should we go ahead? I mean, I think we agreed. I don't know what the whale's going to do. I don't know how they even fight each other. He's got to come up for air, and then he's going to go right after that whale. Well, I mean, a whale just beat another whale.

But they were both in the water. Yeah, but they were both underwater. That's an underwater fight. That was a real fight. I mean, this one is when the whale comes up for air and that cassowary is just always going to be, it's like the pop game. Whack-a-mole. Whack-a-mole. All right. Maybe he throws something out and gets stuck in the whale's hole. I think that's what the cassowary does. He comes up and he...

He grabs. Yeah. Yeah. And then he comes in and the well's trying to shake it out. He can't shake it out. Is anyone a marine biologist? Yeah. Yeah. Golf ball. Yeah. It's a golf ball. It's like crane. Yeah. It's crane. We're here to golf. Hey, one good shot. Yeah. Yeah. That's a, yeah. That's where he's,

Yeah. Actually, this fight might be, it was quick. He was ready for it. It turns out this fight was quick. And he was just, he was like next. Cassowary may have even threw some remains for this last fight. Cassowary wouldn't even take questions about the well fight. He only wanted to talk about the hippo fight. That's how confident he was. And we go, but you got a well. I don't think you should overlook it. And he goes, hippo questions only. Yeah.

And then, I mean, you know, the media was like, oh. This guy's a jerk. Yeah, well, let's get past the well. Yeah, people don't like him at all. Yeah. But he would only take hippo questions.

All right. We're jumping over to the other side of the board here. We've got an interesting matchup. I can't remember what type of snake we agreed this was. Anaconda? Yeah. Anaconda versus a Komodo dragon. I think Komodo dragon. Oh, yeah, you're right. You're right. I'm sorry. Okay. I'm going Komodo dragon. I got Anaconda. I think the Komodo dragon bites it, poison spreads throughout, can't grip, can't squeeze. I don't think they have that much poison, right? Very poisonous. Venomous? Venomous. What, Komodo dragons? Yeah.

Very venomous. I don't even think the venom is going to be the problem. It's the strength of the bite alone. I bet these have fought. But, I mean, dude, if it goes to bite it and that big old snake gets wrapped around it, it's done. It's over. I think if it wraps it, it can still bite it, fill it with poison. Look up and see if they fought because this could be a real fight. This is a real fight. Yeah. It's an anaconda. I think an anaconda is more of a...

water type. And it can go in water too. That's the thing. It kind of sits in the water and just waits, goes under. But maybe the Komodo dragon's waiting in the desert for the... He's got to drink though. Maybe not though. Wait a minute. The Kama has to drink. Oh, yeah. The whale had a disadvantage because he was in the water and now you flipped it. He's like, oh, that snake's in that water. Because the snake can come up out of the water. The whale is not going to be able to do it. And...

Yeah, listen to what that says. That's one video, though. Can you play it? Yeah, I'll unmute it for a minute. Yeah. Yeah. We'll look at it. All right, well, we found it in the Roman Coliseum. Yeah. Is there... How do you get to the end?

I just don't think they ever fought each other because one is more of a marshy type place and the other is a dry place. Yeah, I think they live in different parts. But there's no video of these two actually fighting it out. What did that person say? Did someone say something? No, these are just videos of people doing basically what we're doing right now. But at the end of it, do they go, and we think this would win? Not that last one.

I mean, the more I watch each of them, I gain confidence in each. I mean, the Python strangling the alligator was impressive. Or the anaconda, sorry. People are excited about this fight. Yeah, this is like, this is prime time. This is on prime time. You're like not looking at it. I don't like looking at it. Stuff getting eaten by animals. So you would not have a good time at this tournament. Oh, yeah, you would. I'm going Komodo dragon.

Yeah. I'm going Komodo dragon. Yeah, I just think it's too powerful. I don't think it lets the anaconda get around it. I don't think so. An alligator's got two mobility issues.

Komodo dragon, got some flexibility. I agree. All right, I'll go Komodo dragon too. All right, Komodo dragon. All right. Not happy about it. That feels good. Oh, I like a Komodo dragon versus a grizzly bear. That was a good fight. Yeah, that was a good one. Interesting one. I like when it's a flighted animal. Is that what you call it, flighted? It's called a bird. Well, I mean, as opposed to flightless. We've got a bald eagle, America's symbol, versus an anteater. Oh, I like how you phrased that. Yeah.

I think the Eagle, because the Eagle is just going to be just howling down. I'm going Eagle, too. This anteater got very fortunate with the matchup he got. He took down a platypus in the first round. He took down a platypus. Yep. And now the Eagle and the – yeah, it's just –

The eagle's just- I think the eagle grabs it, flies in the air, drops it. I don't think- Can it pick up something as big as an anteater? I don't know if it can pick it up, but it'll just come down. That anteater just doesn't know where to look. I've seen an eagle pick up a goat before. Not in real life, but on video. What life have you lived, Dustin?

We usually get five-star reviews for our podcast. We got one four-star because Dusty said a barn owl could beat an eagle in a fight. People take it serious. It really takes that serious. Yeah, it does. Sorry about that, guys. Yeah. I don't mean to drag the podcast down. Yeah. We're doing a ridiculous animal fight thing. Yeah. And it has four stars. Look at that tail. A barn owl may take an eagle, though. I don't.

I mean, this is an anteater unrelated to this particular matchup, but this is an anteater going toe-to-toe with a jaguar. Well, it's walking away from it. Well, it stood its ground and then just goes, I'm getting out of here, and I'm not even scared of you. Yeah. Did it? It's got its back to it the whole time.

I think it looked at it right there. It goes, I'm leaving and you're not going to do a thing about it. What's the twist at the end? These videos, the twist is nothing? That's the twist is that nothing happens. Yeah, the Jaguar is just like... The thing is the Jaguar would destroy it if it was smart enough to go. That tail's all fluff. Yeah. And eagles will just come down. Let's do eagle. All right, I'll give it to the eagle. You got the eagle dropping a goat video? Yeah.

No. It's out there. Okay, then I could get it. Yeah. I don't have it locked and loaded, no. Well, that would show you that it can pick up. It can pick up a lot. Oh, so you think it could just pick up the... Okay, what's polar bear? You got a polar bear versus a killer whale. Ooh, that's a tough one. And then this happens, right? This must be a matchup we've actually seen before. I feel like we say that every time, and then people say, they're 4,000 miles away. Yeah. I'm going to go killer whale.

I think the killer whale tricks the polar bear to get in the water. And the polar bear is not too afraid to get in the water and is a little confident because he's like, well, I do get in the water. I can get in the water. Yeah. And then so he kind of gets in the water and the killer whale is like, but this is where I live. Yeah, I agree. I think if we get rid of the whale here, we've gotten rid of all our sea creatures and we can move on to total landfights. I just don't think it's going to happen.

Wait, who would the polar bear be fighting? Oh, if it advanced? Yeah. It would be going against the bald eagle. So a bald eagle versus a whale is going to be a tough one. I think whale takes the eagle.

Yeah, well, hold on. We're on bear versus whale. Yeah, but I'm just saying. You're looking ahead here, Dustin. I think killer whale. I'm saying I think the killer whale talks the whale. I think the polar bear goes, I can get in the water. This fight is taking a long time, and the killer whale's like, you got to come in the water. And the polar bear just is a little confident and goes, all right, dude, I get in the water. Like, have you ever seen me swim? And he thinks he can do it, and the killer whale just dominates it underwater. Never comes back up. Yeah, all right. Never comes back up. I mean, it...

Defies our cassowary logic, but I will go for it. Dude, killer whales, they can go swim on land. They come up, boosh. Yeah, they're mammals, right? Like a boat. They're like a boat. I mean, absolutely. Well, you're right. It does defy our cassowary logic. But the killer whale does jump in the air a bunch. Shamu. Yeah. It's got killer in its name. Possibly. It could just jump and land on the bear. Yeah, the other whale, the blue whale or humpback whale, whatever, that whale doesn't even want to be there. He's like, boo, boo, boo.

A lot of blubber. Yeah, and the cassowary is vicious. It's like a velociraptor. His wife signed him up to lose weight. Yeah. Now he's in a fight to the death. There's a bit of a size difference here we need to be concerned about. A killer whale is 26 feet, which is much bigger than a polar bear. Yeah, you can't even find on the internet, you can't even find people talking about this fight. Yeah, because it's such an obvious...

Yeah, it's so big. One-sided. It's so big. And it's like the difference of the cassowary and the whale is the cassowary, again, is vicious. The other humpback whale or whatever just doesn't want to. That's true. It just doesn't eat whatever. Killer whale hunts. He hunts. This is what he does. So we're giving it to the killer whale, huh? Yeah. Interesting. You don't agree?

I think we'll go ahead and move that killer whale above that eagle, too, while we're at it. Well, we've got to come back. We'll talk about it a little bit. Let's give the eagle the courtesy of at least discussing it. It is America's animal. Exactly. Let's not be disrespectful here. We've got two here. We've got an emu, which no longer has a gun, versus a wolf. I've got to go wolf. Yeah. I think we're going wolf, too. I'm still upset the cheetah's not in there, but we'll go wolf. I will go wolf, but I will say the emu...

bought a switchblade in in the couch yeah and the wolf took some damage he did take some damage but he's got oh so he's he's handicapped he's got some thick skin though the emus are we would never invite the emus back yeah

to fight again especially now that we've discovered cassowary which is a similar but better animal yeah but then emus we just said that's enough we said no guns and they and they're like we didn't bring a gun you go you brought a switchblade which is the illegal knife not even a regular knife butterfly knife butterfly knife is what he bought butterfly knife and so the wolf took some damage and the wolf people are furious and i go it's already happened

They're not going to be allowed back. But, you know, the wolf is fighting damage now. And now it's going to have to fight the winner of this next fight, which is a moose and an elephant. I'm going elephant. Elephants are so much bigger. I think, yeah, the moose is huge, but yeah. Yeah, same kind of fighting style. The moose could get agile, though, and like kind of get to the side of it. And if it comes to the side with those horns, it's going to be a big fight.

Like, it's like the elephant is like, can the elephant move that much? I think the head can swing fast. And that trunk. Tusk. Tusk and the trunk can wrap you up. Yeah, but I don't think the moose is super agile either. It's not like it can swoop in at you. Like, we're giving this one to the elephant. It's easier. They're getting easier as we move through the bracket. Because all the tough rounds were the first round. Yeah, now we're down to the Elite Eight now. Yeah.

So let's get serious. So we can jump back. I don't know which one we want to do first. I say we do the cassowary versus the hippopotamus, which I think this one's obvious. You know where I stand here. What's that? Well, I stand with the hippo. I mean, I do stand with the hippo. Stand with the hippo. I stand with the hippo. I, too, stand with the hippo. Yeah. I'm going hippo, too, Nate. I'm sorry. I know cassowary was your dark horse. But let's hear your argument for the cassowary, though. All right. I think they all got involved.

I mean, they came out of the stands. Oh, the cassowaries? The cassowaries came out of the stands. Malice of the palace? Kind of a malice in the palace kind of thing. But I don't think we can kick cassowaries out like we have kicked emus out. Emus are bringing weapons. Illegal objects. Illegal options. And they've done it multiple times, so that's why they are officially out. And there's no evidence that the cassowary asked for the others to get involved. No, it's just... So he didn't do anything wrong. They just knew, like, you know, it's going to be tough.

The hippos are just the skin. But they went into it going, but he thought he could win. And, you know, I think he got his eyes, you know. I say, you know, he jabbed an eye. I think he got an eye. So he's now, the hippo's blind in one eye. Wow. Guess where he's the real deal. But he got destroyed. But, I mean, he went down. And when he went down, I mean, they roared as they got the eye. Uh-huh.

He's just a victim of bad seeding, I think. I think if it were in another place in this tournament, the Cassowary could advance a little further. Well, we think that the Cassowary got the eye of the Hippo, but the Hippo still wins. I mean, if he's half blind...

I mean, can he even... He's got his peripherals. We'll find out next round. Yeah, it's the next round. I'm saying the cassowary does that much damage that he's the next round. Because I'm saying... This round has been beat up because Emu brought that knife after we said no. Yeah. And then the cassowary got the eye of the hippo, which is not good for the hippo.

But the cassowary is legit. Okay. And it's like, cassowary is like, I'll die. It's an animal we all learned about in this tournament. So we like it. Yeah. It's going to be next year.

Next year, Casper. Next year is Anton Fager. We're going Hippo. We're going Hippo. Advances to the final four. Over here on the other side, we've got a grizzly bear versus a Komodo dragon. It's a grizzly bear. I'm going grizzly bear. I think it fights the same way a Komodo dragon does, and it's just bigger and more powerful. I think there's a real argument for the Komodo dragon here, but just based on the amount of bear talk that goes on on this podcast, there's no way the bear doesn't advance. I think you're probably right about that. Yeah.

that i'd love to hear your argument well you know the komodo dragon is venomous true so one bite will really affect it's too big but it's like one bite will really affect whatever whatever it bites say it's the arm so now the the drag the the bear's pretty injured so it might be injured in the next round like like almost all the other animals i think i think it's gotta it's gotta go in injured

If it goes to the next round, it's got to be down a limb. No, I don't think it's damaged. You don't think it's even that close? I don't think it can. The grizzly bear can't be. It's not damaged by a Komodo dragon. Komodo dragon bit off more than he can chew. I think it does a lot more damage. I don't think so.

I think that's being ridiculous. And I've had a switchblade and an eye poke out, and I think you're being the most ridiculous. Well, I mean, I hope this doesn't get us a four-star review. But we're all going grizzly bear. I think he's got to be a little injured. I mean, these guys are definitely beat up. Like, they've taken damage, like, over the course. But I don't think he's taken – he's the least damaged. I think he's lost the use of one of his arms. No, he's the least damaged. No.

I'll give you one of his nails fell off. He lost a claw. He lost one claw. All right, all right. One claw. Two claws. Two claws.

Two? Two claws. Let's do two claws. Two claws, not the same feet. How many does it have total? 16? Two claws, same feet? 10. Oh, one foot, yeah. One foot, two claws, back two claws. Yeah. Back two claws. Yeah. Dude, they have... You think it's four on each paw? I thought they only had three, like a Disney cartoon. They only had three fingers. Yeah, I think it's four. Yeah. I think it's four, and if it's not, I don't want to go look.

Get up the fuck up. So it's four. Ours has four. Yeah. And it's two on the left. Yeah. Okay, on the left. And it's not even a left-handed bear. It's a foot. Yeah, it's a foot. It's right. It's offhand. But it's annoying. Front paw or back paw? It's annoying. It's not going to climb trees as well. They mention it in the...

Yeah. It's talked about. It's part of the pre-fight narrative. Is it a front paw, though? It's a back paw. We've decided. Oh, back foot? Oh, if it's going to hurt standing up. If it hurts standing up. The balance. You still swiped, though. The balance. Okay. Well, either way, it's going to have to take on the winner of this just slugfest. A bald eagle versus a killer whale. I can't weigh in. I mean, I can't say that an eagle could be beat by anything without receiving a bad review. I'll say the eagle knows it cannot win because it's in the air and it's...

It's just America's bird. So what it does is it flies straight into the killer's mouth and just does some damage inside. Like just takes his own, like just goes, you know, sacrifice for the team. Yeah. I think he's sacrificing for the grizzly bear. America's bird, ironically, is a kamikaze. I think, well, but I think he's doing it for the grizzly bear. If the barn owl were still around. Because it's American. Because the grizzly bear is American.

Now, Dusty has a video of a bald eagle picking up a killer whale. A goat picking up a goat. Oh. Pretty substantial goat. Yeah. I think the- Refused to seek this evidence. I think the eagle goes through knowing that the grizzly bear, it's like, hey. You know, grizzly bear and eagles see each other a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're like- Classic Americana. Yeah. Yeah. And they talked before this fight. They talked before the fight. And the grizzly bear goes, look, you're not getting advanced. And the eagle goes, I know. I know. But I'm going to-

Make a sacrifice, and I'm going to go in hard. And he just goes in and just tears the inside. It gets pretty deep in there and just rips apart. Does some damage. So we've got one more fight to get into the final four. I think this is a quick one, too. We've got an elephant versus a severely damaged wolf.

Because it got hit with a switchblade. It got hit with a switchblade. It's got to go elephant. It's elephant. It's got internal bleeding. It's not good. The wolf family, we apologize to the wolf family. Yeah. We upgraded their seats. They're still howling. They're still, yeah. They're in the top. They're howling. We'll shut up about it. The wolf limps out there. It's got its arm in a thing, and it barely can walk. And they're like, oh.

And we all just cheer the wolf. Everybody just kind of, it's an award ceremony. We go, well done, wolf. It's not fair. And the elephant just, it bows and says, I'm sorry. And then just stomps it. And it's over. It's as honorable as it can be done. Right. It's the most honor we've had.

And it kind of brings into the final four to be like some respect. It's been sure to go like, all right, these animals are now, we got the riffraff out of the way. It's been chaotic. Now we're down to the four, four juggernauts here for blue chips. Hold on. Because I forgot we got one more ad sponsor. Yeah. Well, if you're looking, if you're in a fight, you're looking for some recovery, uh, athletic greens, you know what I mean? Cause thanks to our partner, athletic greens, all of us thought what it is. It's not a recovery drink.

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It wasn't even close. The elephant's so much bigger than a rhino. Oh, really? I had no idea it was that much bigger. Oh, wow. So I think it's basically untouched up until this point. Yeah, and so it just kind of beats the hippo. Taking on a damaged, a half-blind hippo. A half-blind hippo, but I think the hippo gets some... I mean, I think it has to get some big bites in. There are some highlights of this fight. There are some highlights of this fight because the hippo is just so strong. Nothing to lose. Yeah.

I mean, hippos can go land and water. So if there's still water there, you could lure that elephant in. That's true. Probably better in the water, too. Yeah, I think the hippo, it is. It only has one eye, so it's got to, you know, the elephant's kind of making it go to its left. And I mean, I do think the hippo does get some giant bite. I think it's a good fight. I think it's a fight that's like,

It was almost like when Floyd Mayweather fought Conor McGregor, where you're like, it was fun enough, and then Floyd just ended it. Because it's like he's just, as a boxer, he was just more skilled as a boxer. But the beginning was very fun. You're like, whoa, you get to watch some stuff. Floyd took some hits. Obviously, Conor's a fighter, so it was amazing. It's like that kind of fight.

Where it's like, oh, wow, that was actually pretty fun. And the hippo was like, you know, someone's like, I think the hippo could win. And another time you're like, I don't know, dude, they're just so much bigger. But have not been mauled by a pack of cassowaries. It doesn't, the eye thing hurt it. But even with the eye thing, you're like, because everybody's like, but the eye when you're like, I don't know if you even want to see this fight again. Like, I think you do. I think you want to see it, but...

It's... Yeah, that eye. That's just tough. Yeah, those hippo eyes. That was tough. See, it's got eyes on the side. That was sad to see that. So it's got no frontal view, I don't think. And people are like, I wish I would have seen them with two eyes. And you go, look, I hear you, but I still don't think it... I just don't think it really matters. But I wish... Yes, I do wish we would have had two eyes, but, you know, the elephant got some... I mean, the hippo got some big bites in there. I mean, you know, got a leg that was like... It's the most damaged elephant. The elephant...

It's the most damage it's seen. It's the first time it's really been close, I think. This went 15 rounds for sure, but I think the elephant takes it. But a hippo is an early favorite for next year, I think. Which starts next week. Fightland podcast. We've got a grizzly bear, which, let's recap, it got...

Oh, I think we agreed it's missing two claws. It's missing two claws. On its back foot. So not that damage. Not that damage. Yeah, it's been ripped apart. Versus a killer whale. The eagle. The eagle. Blew it up from the inside. Blew it up from the inside. The eagle and the grizzly bear have been kind of teamed up. Yeah. And so that's why it's the grizzly bear. I mean, obviously, this is a hay bear podcast, so I tend to favor bears and bears.

But I think the eagle just like the grizzly, it did not get let down. And I think the eagles and grizzly bear now in the wild live differently together. Yeah. I think there's a mutual respect, and that relationship is pretty special. You might even see them on a lot of shirts together. Yeah. Totally. Yeah, yeah. When you see an eagle and a bear –

In the wild, you just know that they know. That there's some country music playing in the background. There's some true love between them. Mutual respect. You hear Chris Stapleton in the background. There you go. That's what I hear. So now you've got a grizzly bear and elephant fight. And, I mean, you look up, has this, has they, this has probably been talked about. I mean, this side difference is going to be nuts. Does the killer whale do anything to the bear, though? Is it getting hurt at all? I don't think so. I think it's a...

I think the grizzly bear just comes in and makes some big swipes. The killer whale is kind of out of it and kind of tries to do one of those boat ramp things and maybe goes a little bit too far and he can't really get back and it's just, he gets it. Elephant, strength. Elephant, speed. Bear. IQ. Elephant. Bite force. Elephant. Experience. Grizzly bear. Tusk.

This is a terrible video I picked. I'm sorry. Well, it's going quick, though. I think the elephant. Winner, 7-0. It quickly went through the... It was like the grizzly bear versus the elephant. It's just the elephant is like...

Is there another little thing? Yeah. It's unfortunate they picked maybe the oldest elephant I've ever seen. I mean, this thing is struggling. I think I could beat that elephant. Shows how long that thing's lived. It's just going to be a grizzly bear. It's like I want it to be the grizzly bear. I'll be honest. I want to... I don't think anything beats the elephant. And I'm getting tired out of...

Making up stuff. Well, you said a few weeks ago a gun might come back into the picture, but I guess that was the switchblade.

That was the switchblade. I think. Look at that rhino and elephant. This is the video. Even with a gun, it's got to be. That's so crazy. It's got to be quite a gun. It's so much bigger. Yeah. And a grizzly bear is just not even close. I don't even think the rhino wants to fight here. It's like, just let me and my baby get away. I think maybe it was talking some smack. Yeah. And then the elephant got going. Yeah. I mean, is a grizzly bear as big as a small elephant?

No, I wouldn't think so. Is it smaller than a small rhino? Well, it's probably bigger than that baby rhino. Can you look at a grizzly bear size? Rhinos weigh between 1,300 and 2,000 pounds. Yeah. And a grizzly bear is going to weigh... 600 pounds? 400 to 600 pounds. So it's smaller than a rhino. And what is it, elephant weight? I mean, thousands, yeah. Multiple tons. Elephant weight is going to be...

I mean... 4,000 pounds. Yeah, yeah, 4,000 pounds. But it says it can't... Asian elephants can weigh up to 8,800 pounds. That's four tons. Largest ever is 15,400 pounds. I think it's Asian American elephants. That's inappropriate. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so I think the elephant wins. And then this is ending with – we've had not as much thunder. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. That's a good spin. Your thing did – hay bear did make it far, and we're proud of hay bear. Elephant is just so big. I love that this thing has a – the silhouette is a lion, which we had put out in the first round by an emu. Yet another national championship under its belt. Yeah. Yeah.

Elephant. Elephants are... I like elephants. I mean, it's crazy. If stuff would have got through, I don't think anything's beating the elephant, I guess, with the size. It is the biggest thing. Well, the humpback whale is the biggest, but it's... It's the biggest land animal. Biggest land animal. Yeah. Most active. I mean, I think the sea animals are... They got to get them in there, and that's hard. It's tough, for sure. And they got to do a little more coming out and be like... I think they said the killer whale got the polar bear in.

Whoever created this bracket for us really did a lot. They did really a lot. They had no idea it would turn into this. It was really a fun ride. A lot of surprises, a lot of ups and downs, a lot of corruption. I mean, this is like the World Cup. Yeah, I don't know that Nate will be invited back next year as commissioner. I mean... I let stuff get out of hand. Let me tell you something, ratings were... Ratings were through the roof. Yeah, you might be back because the ratings... Yeah, the ratings were good.

And maybe I allowed some of it. I'd like to see the hippo tarantula fight. What if video comes out and... You're taking money under the table? You see me give a switchblade to the emu. Maybe a video comes out. Oh, yeah. Maybe there was something. Maybe it was your brother Trevor. Your brother Trevor slipped it to him. I keep career struggling, so... Yeah. Maybe Trevor did it. All right.

All right. We finished that for you guys. I'm sure some adults are happy that it's over, and I'm sure kids are sad it's over. Don't worry. Next week, we'll start comedian fights. Yeah. Oh, I like that. What is this? This week, I'm in Vegas. I'm in Vegas this week, and it's St. Paul, Minnesota.

So, yeah, come on out if you're in Vegas. Fun time. June 18th, I'm at Zany's Comedy Club in Chicago. Whoa. Please come. Father's Day. I keep saying that. Oh, nice. Bring your dad or your husband. Yeah, nice. July 7th and 8th, I'm in Bristol, Tennessee at the Blue Ridge Comedy Club. Come on out.

Well, you know, I'm still off for now. I'm waiting on a baby to come. But in the meantime, I got a lot of great YouTube videos. If you just want to go on there and go to my YouTube channel and just watch some of those videos. It could be working if you wanted to. Yeah, it could be working, but I'm waiting on a baby to come. And in July, once July comes back, it's ramping up. I mean, the second half of the year is...

Popping off. No one think he's sleeping. You're not quitting. No, I've been gardening and, you know, I got, I'm getting into it out here. I mean, by the time July rolls around, I'll be having some tomatoes and cucumbers in here for you guys to eat. Oh, nice. I don't like either one, but I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah. Laura loves tomatoes. Yeah. Yeah. She'll be excited. Yeah. So, yeah. So it's going to be great. All right. Well, we love you. Hope you have a great week and we will see you next week. Bye. Bye.

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